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DYING FETUS
1996 - Purification Through Violence.
1998 - Killing On Adrenaline.
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August 6, 1996 - 2026: 30 years of: Purification Through Violence.

Get ready for a massive blunt force: Slam Death-Metal.

After the aural massacre of NYDM Gods SUFFOCATION and PYREXIA, you gotta head a little more South, to the tiny town of Upper Marlboro Maryland. Following the Tampa tornados and the chainsaws of Stockholm, mid 90s deathmetal was cornering the scene with hardcore street-attitude. Butchered at birth, here's DYING FETUS.

The moshpit is instant as "Blunt Force Trauma" wipes the floor with vile hate in mind. This is new-school deathmetal. Sadomasochism stompiness is imminent on the violent "Beaten Into Submission" and the Tyrannosaurus-heavy "Nothing Left To Pray For". The crisp guitar-tone and hammering deathgrind drums never leaves room for second-thoughts.

More love-songs are explicitly portrayed on "Raped On The Altar" and the adorable in-out in-out "Skull Fucked". The reprise of NAPALM DEATH's classick "Scum" is also a welcomed bonus. The duo vocal grunt-assault of John Gallagher + Jason Netherton is the new standard in deathmetal sickness. No escape, just pure domination.

Puting the scene deep into catatonia.

Classic grindcore influenced collage-artwork ala TERRORIZER and CARCASS, so you know this will be good. Initially issued under tiny label Pulverized Records, the record has since been re-issued numerous times, to please new generations of sick-death aficionados. Unannounced leaders of America's Second Wave Of Death-Metal, these young FETUSes ruled the mid-decade.

DYING FETUS stops at nothing and shall destroy the opposition with 1998's Killing On Adrenaline CD.

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Purification Through Violence = full CD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZtiHuGhrK4&list=PLN_G7yTx9SXe7ksXN3MPxgglEq61QQ8-E
Live in Québec in 1996
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YY2KAYvQRuQ

July 20, 1998 - 2023: 25 years of: Killing On Adrenaline.

The new grisly brutal school is here.

East-Coast and Death-Metal ...a deadly family-affair. Successive to the NYDM-craze, this dominating groove would be in the form of a declining foetus: DYING FETUS's slam-deathmetal.

The death-tone grips on the title-track "Killing On Adrenaline", while "Procreate The Malformed" is another metal-mosh. The blunt force riffing of "Absolute Defiance" pummels the scene into oblivion, while the AK-47 blast of the lovely "We Are Your Enemy" is a new genre on it's own.

The boys keep it bloody, and funny, as displayed on the appropriately titled "Kill You Mother / Rape Your Dog" ...and welcome into the metal ring of hard-hitters: Kevin Talley.

Might not be as fashionable as 1996-97-98's Euro-blackmetal takedown, but these Americans kept it real and fucking sick. If you STILL haven't heard 1996's Purification Through Violence CD ...you WILL get a taste of these adrenalized killings. The onslaught would come back with 2000's Destroy The Opposition CD.

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Killing On Adrenaline = full CD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5sRzGLKkJo&list=PLsT9douBcx98BmI4CJpzmSThmVuLs_AdB
Live in Germany in 1998
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmOCnVtXl3Y