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SUFFOCATION
1991 - Human Waste.
1991 - Effigy Of The Forgotten.
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May 1, 1991 - 2026: 35 years of: Human Waste.

The birth of NYDM.

Four letters that defines a sick new scene. Leave Tampa behind and head north, just before hitting Québec ...and you'll find rawness and brutality. Piercing from within, the scene must now welcome the mass obliteration of SUFFOCATION.

Crude and under produced, the onslaught kicks-off with the imminent classick "Infecting The Crypts". The punches pushes and the voice of death settles in. Grainy and guttural, singer Frank Mullen is now the new standard to be reckoned with. The mid-part bass-segment as also quickly become an instant death signature.

Aural violence reaches a higher level on "Synthetically Revived", starting with the massive intro-riff and toms thunder. Bleed profusely and end up in a forever "Catatonia" ...one of the era's finest piece of repulsive deathmetal.

The Human Waste MCD is the spark that sat the scene afire. The band also includes a new outlook on traditional metal-men: two African American members in their ranks, guitarist Terrance Hobbs and drum-destroyer Mike Smith. A melting-pot of brutality that even made "Jesus Wept".

SUFFOCATION will soon follow their blood oath, with October 1991's Scott Burns produced pristine Effigy Of The Forgotten CD.

Hail New-York Death-Metal !

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Human Waste = full MCD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00-_iSg_dA4&list=PLMwUMDCFTlwsZVFmYItz_22N7KmZZ9Ca8
Live in New Jersey in 1990
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7vQF795r1k

October 8, 1991 - 2026: 35 years of: Effigy Of The Forgotten.

NYDM now dominates.

Thicker, fuller and deadlier. After setting the pace with May 1991's Human Waste MCD, this reincremated killing-machine was set to grind more corpses in the big leagues. Back then, two main paths were ruling the genre: satanic-deathmetal and brutal-deathmetal. With a dim mak to the chest, one band made it perfectly clear brutal-death was now their own. Hail SUFFOCATION !

Brutal blunt force trauma bleeds wide open with "Liege Of Inveracity", one of deathmetal's most impressive opening-track. Chuggy riffing, intense jack-hammering drums and a voice from beyond. No mids, just deep low-ends on all accounts, straight through the board ...ready or not, the new-school is deathmetal.

Brutal slamming moshing on "Effigy Of The Forgotten" and total destruction, again, on "Mass Obliteration" which features buddy George Fisher of MONSTROSITY on extra growls. Holy brutal sickness is exposed of the re-recorded demo-cut "Jesus Wept", an updated version that kills on cue, just like the tidalwave riffology of "Infecting The Crypts" ...a pure morgue onslaught. Dig in.

1991: the year for Death-Metal.

With the impeccable Scott Burns production and Dan SeaGrave artwork, slow mid-breakdown moshes are now part of the equation. A new branch in the extremes: slam-deathmetal. Witnessing this madness live in early 1992 was a piece of sheer beauty, I was there and it felt really good in the front-row.

Butchered before birth, there's some new kids on the block as the zygote is finally hatched. SUFFOCATION cemented the NYDM (New-York Death-Metal) scene ...an extension of Tampa's reign and blood dominancy on the genre.

SUFFOCATION's next exhibition shall be an under-produced faux-pas. Sadly losing traction and setting the band back during deathmetal's last lap, the scene's reaction would be lukewarmed by 1993's Breeding The Spawn CD.

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Effigy Of The Forgotten = full CD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utwmnkw9Rf4&list=OLAK5uy_mCJgXu_HTKvwxPVZbSupxlPyMpP-WYv3o
Live in Montreal in 1992
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-TsHo2vGIs

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