Despite their return, Cephalotripsy had remained silent.
After seven years, Angel Ochoa (vocals, Abominable Putridity, Disgorge, ex-Condemned), Andrés Guzman (guitar, Gortuary, Sobek), Diego Sanchez (bass, Disgorge, ex-Pathology) and Albert Rios (drums, Ossification, Hideous Rebirth) unveil Epigenetic Neurogenesis, their new album.
Well-known to followers of the Brutal/Slam Death scene of the late 2000s, the band took advantage of a five-year break between 2012 and 2017 to return at full strength on stage. The line-up has evolved, leaving only Angel and Andrés as long-standing members, but the band’s sound remains the same. Greasy riffs organized into devastating mospharts, towering drums and those inhuman guttural howls, all framed by eerie samples sometimes reminiscent of moments of terror in modern horror films, the band’s promise is fulfilled from the very first tracks.
The Americans are not alone on this new assault, calling on Clayton Meade (Condemned, Implements of Hell, Grieve, ex-Pathology) for the explosive Ulcerated Mass of Pestilent Engorgement, Ivan Tyulkin (Insect Inside, Nauseating) on the heavy Excision of Self, then Matti Way (Hydrocephalic, Liturgy, ex-Abominable Putridity, ex-Disgorge, ex-Pathology) to accompany them on Epigenetic Neurogenesis, the eponymous composition, blending these three recognizable voices to multiply the violence tenfold. The three collaborations once again confirm the band’s place among their peers, and they prove it with every track, combining a relatively clean mix with Old School influences thick until the very last moment.
Whether you like 90s Brutal/Slam or more recent mixes, you’ll be won over by Cephalotripsy. Epigenetic Neurogenesis takes the best of the influences and vomits it out without mercy, recreating all the greasy, merciless violence the band knows how to produce.
95/100
