Lord Gore – The Autophagous Orgy (2002)

October 22, 2020

I knew about Lord Gore’s debut for a long time before I actually heard it. That shocking cover art, even as a cartoon, was often splattered across death metal MySpace pages and internet forums, so when I finally got a hold of this during a trade with Razorback Records, it felt like I had reached some sort of holy grail of underground death metal.

Lord Gore are a fantastic band. On the surface of it, they play a plodding, heavily Impetigo influenced strain of dirty death metal – something I feel would lend itself to the grubby confines of a demo tape over the studio quality production on LG’s albums – but keep things fresh and interesting with a cacoadaemonic vocal delivery of what sounds like a thousand devils drowning in a septic tank. For the sickest, untreated vocal performances, look no further than the first two Lord Gore records (actually, did they do any other albums? I’ll have to look that up).