As Batzner warns of the bees, we warn of this song: “If you do get stung, expect to be stung more than once. This is early death metal’s “Flight of the Valkyries” - a groundbreaking, rousing track that gives you wings and amps you up to employ them for ill-intent. This beefed up ode to dark late eighties thrash is an earworm - though not the eat-you-from-the-inside-type these lyrics suggest, thank-fucking-gawd.ħ. The search for the new place they will dwell How could we not assign it the pest responsible for the Black Death? Plus, it has a bridge with tolling bells. Oh, hey look: Here comes Foddis to drop some thousand-tons-of-bricks science on our motherfucking heads. Pick your poison - hot or cold?Īn unstoppable march of an opening gives way to a cascade of slithery hundred finger riffing, this track forces listeners to ponder the trauma of both war and carpal tunnel syndrome. The huge, chest-rattling chords Mameli and Uterwijk let loose throughout “Suspended Animation,” however, will, at high enough volumes, lay your ass out as effectively as either. Our friends at Batzner Pest Control tell us the Asian Giant Hornet is “the biggest hornet in the world at two-inches in length and a wing span of three inches.” Meanwhile, “the sting from its one-fourth inch long stinger has been explained as feeling ‘like a hot nail being driven into your skin.'” It’s one of the precious few creatures that seems like it could survive and thrive in the environmental dystopia imagined in “Process of Suffocation” and the buzz-buzz-sting of the riffs would be the perfect soundtrack to its deadly exploits.įorgotten humans immersed in cryogenic deep freeze might not be perfectly analogous to the “sleeping disease” the Saharan tsetse fly delivers, it’s true. “Process of Suffocation”/ Asian Giant Hornet (Though whether these are hallucinations from the thirst driving you insane or not is, of course, open to interpretation…)Ģ. Swarms of stinging siafu ants may not actually appear in this fantastically bleak re-imagining of America’s “Horse With No Name,” but the frantic/frenetic pace and twist-and-sting riffs here suggest a stinging swarm could easily appear at any moment. The shrinking of your skin, bursting lips So in lieu of the usual numerical song and dance, we decided to match Pestilence-the-band tracks to this list of pestilence-the-pestilences courtesy the fine folks at Batzner Pest Control.Ī gruesome affliction the heat of the sunĭon’t really know in what direction to go That said, a record that so fully and perfectly embodies a unified theory of brutality cannot be ranked in the standard way. Add to this the dark (and, yes, extremely extreme) musical vision and technical wizardry of Patricks Mameli and Uterwijk and it is easy to see how Consuming Impulse landed itself a sweet slot in our hallowed Hall of Fame. Those are some ghastly, evocative lyrics courtesy death metal drummer extraordinaire Marco Foddis, but bassist Martin van Drunen was hardly a slouch himself when it came to painting damnable portraits in the minds of listeners. Just open the abcess, will you please help me For “Pestilence By Beemahr” - my short story detailing the grotesque comeuppance a mad perfumer-cum-exterminator receives at the tiny, multitudinous feet of a surprisingly sentient army of flesh-eating gypsy moth caterpillars amidst an egg-web festooned apocalypse (available today in the Grey Matter Press rock n’ roll-themed horror anthology Savage Beasts) - I drew inspiration from the human-body-as-insect-incubator track “Out of the Body” from Pestilence’s towering sophomore album Consuming Impulse:
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