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Metal Assault in association with CWG Magazine presents

Track Listing: Excisions of Exorcisms Hellish World Entombed Venomous Habitations Evil in Disguise Bloodwashed False Belief Fragmented Kreations

A review in complete dedication to a dead man, and one of the greatest friends anyone could ever have; Dusty. He would not have dug Diabolic at all but would rather have put on some NOFX or Pennywise. But he would have raised that bottle of Jack, followed by a bottle of Coke, and we'd have got mega stoned and blasted the shit together anyway in a haze of brotherhood. It was on this day exactly three years ago that Dusty was murdered on a dusty road somewhere on the other side of the world. Drink up fuckers or get the Hell out of the way!

From whence the nine track searing blasted menace we call Excisions Of Exorcisms came from is of no importance because the goddamn thing is already here. Of what demons and ghouls its music conjures is of no matter because the time of sliding back into the shadows has long since passed. The babes and innocents in the vast forests of Dominion plagued by this brand of chaos will surely succumb to the sounds and run naked through the wood... covered in the blood of their sacrificed young and begging for bestiality and fornication with the steadfast monsters of Diabolic. From the despair fueled screams of Hell that births the record on the album's title track all the way thru until the all too eerie Infernal Darkness that bleeds out the end while closing the lips of the Devil, it is nearly too much to bare in one sitting. Excisions Of Exorcisms is not for the weak or those not yet bathed in the blackness. Instead, it's for the tar in your lungs...the clot inching its way to your heart...the ulcer bleeding delightfully in your gut...the tumor falling on inevitability in your brain. Be warned.

The album is a blast beat speed metal phenomenon. The abundance of sound that comes in massive waves of insanely quick and sharp double bass machine gun blasts and guitar leads that scar the flesh on the back of one's neck is exhausting. It's a pure onslaught that borders the realm of speed and black metal. The death concept of the whole sound is obvious and with a fury, the dealings of an unbeknownst math metal takes shape. Diabolic is surely from some other time and place living in our day and age by some cosmic mistake. They are without a single doubt, conceptual machines in the bodies of men and able to construct a type of brutal speed metal that if converted to energy, would undoubtedly destroy our series of planets at a minimum.

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