2025 marks the grand return of Dysentery.
After nearly ten years of absence, Eric Taranto (drums), Peter “Blue” Spinazola (guitar, Fit for an Autopsy, Scattered Remnants…), Scott Savaria (vocals, Tentacles) and John Cook (bass, Tentacles) sign with Comatose Music and announce Dejection Chrysalis, their fourth album.
Well known on the international brutal death scene, the band announces its first riffs with Transference, a fairly progressive intro that eventually explodes, offering blast beats and heavy mosh parts before giving way to Enslavement for the Obedient, Agony for the Wayward, where the screams return. The rhythm is also a little more sustained at first, but eventually slows down to allow a massive break to knock us out before continuing with Indignation Unravels, where the regular strikes continue to assault us, including very short pauses to better resume afterwards. This is followed by Exhausted Bliss of Self Loathing, which allows the band to emphasize their technical side with numerous accelerations, but also by welcoming Josh Welshman (Defeated Sanity) to accompany Scott, creating an overpowering duo of screamers. A Bestial Omen follows with a few touches of Grind and screeching harmonics to an already thick rhythm, then, accompanied by Jared Weed (Organ Harvest, Futility) on guitar, the band attacks Shackled by Idolatry, which doesn’t hold back in teaching us its own definition of violence. The track is fairly short, unlike Transposed Benevolence, which stretches over four minutes and combines heaviness with savagery under a mix specially prepared to accentuate its power, then slowly fades away. Fratricidium follows, welcoming JT Knight (Episiotomectomy, Hochaffot Illi, Invoke Thy Wrath) on vocals for a second duet that will go down in history for fans of gratuitous bestiality. The album continues with Old School patterns on Obsidian Womb, offering wave after wave, barely stopping to let us catch our breath before moving on to Ascend This Harrowing Dream, the longest composition, which in turn strings together mosh parts and makes us want to tear up the pit before the album comes to an end.
In just half an hour, Dysentery has proven that the band deserves its stripes, effortlessly elevating Dejection Chrysalis to the ranks of the most virulent brutal death metal albums of the year. A testament to violence.
95/100
