
24/07/2025
Band: Embryonic Devourment
Location: Willist, California
Genre: Technical/Brutal Death Metal
Album: Prime Specimens
Themes: Anunnaki, Reptilians, Aliens, David Icke, Secret societies, Other realities, N.W.O
Release date: Dicember 30th, 2023
Label: Desidarius Recordings
Recording, Mixing and Mastering: Hunter Peterson
Artwork: Jon Zig.
Prime Specimens is the fifth full-length album by American band Embryonic Devourment, which employs a mix of Technical Death Metal and Brutal Death Metal that is very visceral, powerful, devastating, and of a high compositional level in its musical structures and that denote the virtuosity of each of the members with their instruments, as well as the ingenuity to adapt to their own environment in terms of lyrical themes, since they undoubtedly have a wide selection of themes on which they focus to brainstorm and shape their own amorphous imagination.
This latest release in their discography is more of a detailed compilation of certain musical themes they've released over more than 20 years in the metal scene in their country and around the world, bringing back some songs from their first three full-length albums: Fear of Reality Exceeds Fantasy, Vivid Interpretations of the Void, and Reptilian Agenda. These songs total 10 and are divided as follows:
1. Darken Thy Fluids - from their second album, Vivid Interpretations of the Void
2. Reptiliphiliac - from their third album, Reptilian Agenda
3. Blood Gift - (Reptilian Agenda)
4. Eating the Flesh of Gods - from their first album, Fear of Reality Exceeds Fantasy
5. Fear of Reality Exceeds Fantasy - (self-titled album)
6. Challenging All Forma of Hope - (Reptilian Agenda)
7. Eye of the Horomatangi - (Vivid Interpretations of the Void)
8. Cleasing The Infinite - (Vivid Interpretations Of The Void)
9. Militarized Reptoids - (Vivid Interpretations Of The Void)
10. Sealed With Resin - (Reptilian Agenda)
Obviously, they restructured the musical format in some songs to make them more compact or also adding more duration to accommodate certain new ideas, also taking into account the remastering in its quality to sound better or more visceral. This being a remastered compilation that weighs heavily in terms of their discography, since they have a certain peculiarity of creating very technical and difficult songs in their construction but that sound like pure forceful blows of auditory brutality, whether due to their overly technical or heavy guitar riffs that give a somewhat strange approach to the structure of their songs, a very punctual bass in their sound that dismembers your sense of hearing, a crushing drum that does not stop only in certain rhythmic passages that sterilize the feeling of their incessant tapping and what we can say about the guttural vocals that in a certain way speaking of these, they have known how to arrange them in an abnormal way so that they sound more stuck and in a more voluminous way.
I honestly enjoyed this material because in one way or another I had to apply myself to the complete discography of the band to get a clearer idea of who the members that make up Embryonic Devourment really are, although perhaps the fact that they have had changes in their lineup may have changed the compositional scheme over the years, but that does not detract from the great career they have had for more than 20 years in the extreme music scene called Metal and more from the location where these guys come from, taking them to the label Unique Leader Records with their fourth studio album Heresy Of The Highest Order, which also had a great reception from the band's fans and the new ones that joined thanks to it. But anyway, this latest material Prime Specimens is a very enjoyable album that sounds so brutal and technical that it hooks you from beginning to end throughout 35 minutes, giving you the perfect dose of good high-end Technical Brutal Death Metal.
Without further ado, I'll sign off by simply advising you to go listen to it. If you want to know more about them, check out their social media and the music platforms where their albums are available so you'll be as surprised as I was when I discovered them. I'm eagerly awaiting new material from them and what new brutality they offer us in the near future.
Featuring songs: Eating The Flesh Of Gods, Fear Of Reality Exceeds Fantasy, Challenging All Forms Of Hope, Cleansing The Infinite, Militarized Reptoids.
Embryonic Devourment Line-up:
Austin Spencer - Bass, Vocals
Luke Boutiette - Drums
Adam Weber - Guitars (lead) (tracks 2, 5, 9, 10)
Hunter Petersen - Vocals, Guitars.
FFO: Deeds of Flesh, Severed Savior (Official), DESECRAVITY, Visceral Bleeding.
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