Devourment

Unleash the Carnivore

Food fight | Brutal Bands

For those who aren’t familiar, Devourment are largely credited with creating the subgenre of death metal known as slam metal. They’re totally the All-American Rejects of the genre—they don’t really bring anything new to the table, but their songs are so poppy and catchy that they are head and shoulders above the rest of a crowded field. They penned slam metal’s first hit single, “Babykiller,” and continue to refine their craft with Unleash the Carnivores, eight tracks that are as danceable as they are cock-smashingly brutal.

The band does little to vary the formula that got them here, alternating between crushing slamz and wall-of-noise grind parts, but much like fellow slammers Cephalotripsy’s most recent songs, they have a newly found sense of songwriting that makes this their finest effort since Molesting the Decapitated. Tracks like “Fed to the Pigs” and “Field of the Impaled” feature the kind of giant, slamming hooks that made “Babykiller” so catchy, but not at the expense of brutality. “Over Her Dead Body” and “Incitement to Mass Murder” are more in line with their previous album, Butcher the Weak, but still as catchy as Lady Gaga or Flo Rida. Don’t worry, though—they haven’t gone soft. You can still jump around your room and break things to this record. And if you’re like me and you miss moshing your balls off in the ’90s, you’ll be happy to know that there are enough china cymbal hits on this album to make Chokehold jealous.

There’s a new dance craze that’s sweeping the nation. It’s called slam metal, and it’s causing devastation. If you haven’t joined the party yet, Devourment’s latest is a great place to start. It’s their strongest release in a decade, and contains 110 percent of your recommended daily allowance of pit riffment.

—Finn McKenty

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