When executed properly, Slam Metal can be a big ball of fun.

Animalistic vocals that sound inhuman; random yet recognizable memes and clips; and an overarching mood which breeds feelings of categoric annihilation. 

Visions Of Disfigurement capture all of that and then some. Their Self-released longplayer Vile Mutation brings the precision of major label production. It’s Slam with consumable instrumentations played surgically and in sync. 

If the vocals were omitted for stretches of the record, it might even come off as tame (in a good way). There is a methodology and guiding, uh, vision to what the band is out to do. 

You get C.J. from GTA: San Andreas opening the record with, “Aw shit, here we go again.” You get The Rock’s electrifying “If you smelllllll” line. If that doesn’t keep you wanting more, it’s your loss.

The drumming (both production and technique) is exquisite. “Secreted And Eated” is a prime example, albeit one that painfully sacrifices grammar to rhyme. The percussion has girth and symmetry.

“Encrackified Dysfucketomy Of Putrid Gash” has ruggedly strummed riffs for an overall weighty, dense affair. The strings might as well be the ropes surrounding a wrestling ring. “Absence Of Remorse” is notable for its gutturals at times being implemented as a rhythm instrument. There are also silky smooth harmonies hidden underneath. On a Slam track. Imagine that. 

Add to that projectile “blegh”s and a very … curiously titled “Mo-Lestation Mo Problems” and Vile Mutation is quite the experience.

Visions Of Disfigurement stick the landing here. It’s Slam but for fans of music as well as the grotesquery that comes with the sub genre.

Bon appetit, weirdos.

Buy the album here:
https://realityfade.bandcamp.com/album/vile-mutation-2

8 / 10
MATT COOK
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