The Split was released on the fifth of June and features a cool artwork that amalgamates the artworks from both groups latest releases, Exhumed’s 2019 slaughter-fest Horror and Gruesome’s 2018 release Twisted Prayers.
Twisted Horror features five brand new tracks, three from Exhumed and two by Gruesome. San Jose Exhumed opens the hostilities with Rot Your Brain with ferocious buzz-saw guitars alongside maniacal drums and possessed growls from front man Matt Harvey (who is the frontman of both bands btw). Killer hooks and deadly riffs in a four-minute assault. Exhumed’s side sounds like a hybrid between "Slaughter cult" and "All guts no glory" with a sprinkle of "Necrocracy".
Second track is a fast one Buried To Die, a veritable feast of blast beats and solos in a early Carcass esque feel to it. This shit is really violent and you'd better have a good healthcare insurance.
Dead, Deader, Deadest finishes off the Exhumed half of the split. All the influence coupled with Exhumed’s own mean sound come together to produce a really professional output.
Miami, California’s Gruesome were explicitly created to be a tribute to the legacy of Floridian death metal icons Death, whether it be in their artworks, logo or in their sound. As said earlier, the group also features Exhumed’s Matt Harvey pulling double duty on vocals and guitar as he does with the former.
The first track from Gruesome is A Mind Decayed, five and half minutes of down tuned old school death metal. Of course it reminds Death but there's also an Obituary esque feel (In the likes of Cause Of Death) and a bit of Possessed here and there. The riffs are that little bit slower and are coupled with these nasty ass slow low tempo drums that Obituary were famous for. It has that raspy edge making it sound like it’s been pulled straight out of the 90s. The track also has an incredible solo that sounds like it’s ripped from a Morbid Angel record.
Led Into The Dark. It’s more OSDM and you can hear Obituary again, this time in the vocals. They’ve got that elongated snarl that Obituary’s John Tardy is famous for. It sounds also like a homage to Death's Scream Bloody Gore and Leprosy
The only problem with splits, by their nature, are short, usually an EP’s length, These two should do more stuff together, they share members and they just go so well together. Two complimentary bands with a different approach of OSDM. Twisted Horror is a celebration of the old days when extreme metal was all about straight-ahead, unfussy brutality. Expect no mercy with this "Twisted Horror".
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