Artist: Cadaveric Incubator / Hemorrhoid
Country: Finland / USA
Label: Extremely Rotten Productions / Headsplit Records
Formats: Split 7″ EP
Year: 2025
Split 7” EP’s are basically seen in every style of extreme music, but with their roots in Punk and Hardcore it is not a surprise that they made their entry in Extreme Metal through Grindcore. Especially in the early 1990s, there were many great split singles that helped launch the careers of many bands – after all, the fanbase of one band got to hear the other, and vice versa. Although the tradition seems to have faded somewhat due to the sky-high production costs of 7″ vinyl, fortunately there are still labels that are less concerned with commercial value. Extremely Rotten Productions is one such label and releases several great 7″ EPs every year, including this one on which Cadaveric Incubator and Hemorrhoid share their piece of wax.
Cadaveric Incubator is no stranger to Extremely Rotten Productions and previously shared a Christmas-themed EP with the label owner’s own Undergang, but besides with this Danish label the band has worked with a series of established labels like Iron Bonehead Productions, Hells Headbangers, Headsplit Records (also co-releasing this very split EP), Iron Corpse, Haunted Hotel Records and American Line. Putting it simply, you’d have to try really hard not to have come across the name at least once. It also says something about the band, they must be doing something good, aye? And yes, they did, basically everything out of their back catalogue is worth checking out and so is their contribution to this split EP. Again they deliver a mainly fast paced sort of Death Metal with a firm grinding edge to it. More than once it reminds of bands like Machetazo or debut-era Exhumed. Crunchy and punchy!
With two demos and a particularly solid debut album this is only Hemorrhoid’s fourth recording, but with past and present experience in such bands as Nekrofilth, Torture Rack, Cemetery Lust and one of my favourites: Eyegouger it is no surprise that these guys know what they’re doing. In three songs they again convince with some low-tuned and guttural Death/Grind in the good old General Surgery and Dead Infection tradition. In fact, having heard both sides of the EP a good couple of times, it is baffling how well these bands fit together. Not that they are merely a mirror image of each other, but they absolutely complement each other’s antics. This is how I love to hear Death Metal, no snoozing grooves but lots of dynamics and gallons of gore. Unfriendly violent fun!
