Mass Burial – Vomitory, Opus Mortis VIII

The last hurrah for Swedish death metal other guys Vomitory, Opus Mortis VIII, their eighth album if you didn’t know, was released in 2011. Apparently, the band had known ahead of time that this would be their last work, so a fair question winds up being whether or not they were going to leave anything undone in their careers: would this album be more of their standard, or would we see some new ideas since, with the band ending, the risk of alienating listeners would be pretty low.

Mass Burial – Vomitory, Carnage Euphoria

The penultimate Vomitory album feels like, in some ways, a return to the early Vomitory albums: Carnage Euphoria takes a few songs to get going, as the fourth track “Ripe Cadavers” is the first one that really gets my attention. “A Lesson in Virulence” is a good third song, a usual Vomitory trait, but this time, it’s a slower tune that appears in that slot and that for whatever reason keeps the album from taking off. “Rage of Honor,” “Deadlock” and closer “Great Deceiver” are also quality tunes.

Mass Burial – Vomitory, Terrorize Brutalize Sodomize

Five albums in, I think it’s safe to make some general statements on the career of the band. Vomitory plays death metal. Vomitory plays death metal very, very well. They have the brutality of the American scene and the melody and guitar work of their native Sweden. Lyrically, they cover a lot of the standard death metal bases of gore, violence and murder, and killing and demons, and war, not content to stick to one content approach like many other bands do. Truly, Vomitory is a smorgasbord of death metal, with something for everyone because everyone likes something.

Mass Burial –Vomitory, Primal Massacre

Album number five for the Swedish death metal machine that was Vomitory. Back in the old days of the early 2000s, I would stop at a local record store every single payday. I would get out of work, deposit my check (in the dark ages before we all had Direct Deposit, miracle that that is….) and head to the same store, regardless of where I was working. Maybe I’d put off my trip until I was on my way out for the evening, but regardless: like clockwork, every other Friday took me record shopping. I would walk around this store and look at practically any and every release that even appeared to be metal related. And every single trip would culminate with me buying a stack of new CDs, often times about one hundred dollars’ worth of new music at a time.

Mass Burial – Vomitory, Blood Rapture

Long, long ago, I owned two Vomitory records: this, from 2002, and its 2004 follow up Primal Massacre. I knew them both as quality death metal records, but was not at all familiar with the band as a unit.

Mass Burial – Vomitory, Revelation Nausea

Oh, 2001. A new millennium was upon us, but we had the same old Vomitory. Whatever that may mean to you, understand that I mean it in a positive way.

Revelation Nausea would feature another new vocalist, this time Erik Rundqvist, who would deliver the growls for the remaining Vomitory albums. His is a good, strong, satisfying death metal growl, closer to the style of Raped in Their Own Blood than Redemption.

Mass Burial –Vomitory, Redemption

The second record by Sweden’s Vomitory, “Redemption” was released in 1999.

Differences from Raped in Their Own Blood are noticeable immediately: the cover art has shifted over to the painted skeleton-in-a-crypt motif, away from the actual picture used for the first album. The music is a bit thrashier than the previous album, and oh, man, a new vocalist. Jussi Linna handles the vocal duties here, and I can’t find out much about him. It actually seems like a brief stint with Vomitory was his only real contribution to the metal scene.

Mass Burial – Vomitory, Raped in Their Own Blood

The first ever Child Sized Coffin discography project is dedicated to Swedish death metal band Vomitory. I have a little bit of familiarity with the band, having heard two of their albums a number of years ago,

Vomitory’s first album, 1996’s Raped in Their Own Blood, is a solid piece of mid-90s death metal. Everything about this album says ‘solid death metal’: the cover art is some fairly generic murder scene photo, the kind of thing that in 1996 would have been extreme and all, but looks pretty cheesy today. Ten songs of brutal, straightforward death metal, with the standard titles as well.