YOU KNOW DYING FETUS… BUT DO YOU REALLY KNOW DYING FETUS?

Starting this past January, Relapse Records began reissuing albums from Dying Fetus’ back catalogue, re-mastered, re-packaged, and bonus-trackified. First came 1995’s Infatuation With Malevolence early demo compilation and 1996’s Purification Through Violence; next up on the docket are 1998’s Killing on Adrenaline and 1999’s Grotesque Impalement EP, set to be re-issued next Tuesday, March 1st. Both of the latter are currently streaming at DyingFetus.info.

Whether you’re an old-school death metal lover or newcomer to the scene who’s a fan of modern DM of any kind — tech-death / Sumeriancore / deathcore / bree / whatever — you owe it yourself to check out these reissues. Truth be told, I didn’t really get into death metal until later on in my metal evolution (metalvolution?), and this is my first time hearing these older Fetus records. These guys were doing it at kind of a weird time for the genre, after the early ’90s explosion but before death metal became cool again. Much respect to any band who soldiers through an era when their brand of music isn’t popular at all. Listening to these records now, it’s obvious how much influence Fetus had on today’s death metal scene some 15 years later. We’ll forgive them for using the Papyrus font on the cover of Grotesque Impalement; it was only 1999, after all.

Stream both records here, and pre-order them here (Killing…) and here (Grotesque…).

-VN