Track Listing

1. Necrotizing
2. Somatic Defilement
3. Devirgination Studies
4. Prostatic Fluid Asphyxiation
5. Fairy Fay
6. Ear to Ear
7. Alone in the Morgue
8. Festering Fiesta
9. Vicer Exciser
10. Articulo Mortis

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #42046 in Music
• Released on: 2007-07-31
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

BRUTAL DeathCORE
it isn't hard to imagine the members of the band Whitechapel doing a "Jack the Ripper" tour of the East End during a visit to London. Whitechapel are not a British band; the death metallers are actually from Knoxville, TN, but they chose their name because of Jack the Ripper. Never let it be said that death metal bands don't have a fascination with gruesome subject matter, which is quite plentiful on their debut album, Somatic Defilement. This 32-minute CD is full of references to death, murder, and mutilation, but tunes like "Alone in the Morgue," "Devirgination Studies," and "Vicer Exciser" come across as ironic rather than genuinely disturbing. Whitechapel's approach is best described as death metal with elements of technical metalcore; lead singer Phil Bozeman usually favors death metal's stereotypical "cookie monster" growl, but he sometimes detours into metalcore-ish screaming. The influences on this disc range from Carcass (the song titles "Prostatic Fluid Asphyxiation" and "Articulo Mortis" are certainly Carcass-like) to the Black Dahlia Murder (another metal band whose name was inspired by a senseless killing of long ago). Somatic Defilement isn't remarkable, but it offers a decent dose of bombast to those who like their death metal with some acknowledgement of technical metalcore.the perfect desert after watching the film FROM HELL...

Disregard negative comments -- This is a great album.
This album is easily one of the heaviest in the deathcore genre.

The songs are well-crafted, the breakdowns punishing, and Jack The Ripper inspired lyrics are truly disturbing. The vocals sound great on here as well, while not as varied as All Shall Perish or Despised Icon, comparable to Suicide Silence, but better.

I'm all for brutality when it comes to music, and this truly delivers the entire way through. It steers away from wankier moments like the ones on Price Of Existence, and not as scatterbrained like Ills Of Modern Man. In fact, it's quite focused in scope, and while calling it a concept album is somewhat of a stretch, it definitely plays that way.

In a genre where similar sounds are commonplace, this is one album that I haven't gotten sick of after a week. It holds up to repeated listens, and remains one of my favorites.

don't listen to the negative reviewers
Whitechapel is a very talented death/grind band. they are a bit more brutal than most of the other bands in the deathcore scene but also more origional. pick this up along with suicide silence, oblige, and all shall perish.