Viraemia
Pathologic Tech-Death Insanity
Autopsies Rule
As their myspace indicates, Viraemia (pronounced Vi-ray-me-ah) is the presence of a virus in the bloodstream. Which is appropriate, because these guys have some infectious music. This is some insane, complex and compelling stuff. The guitarist and bassist shred with immense precision, proficiency and intensity. It’s as if Eddie Van Halen and Necrophagist had a baby with 8 hands, 2 guitars, 1 bass and an insatiable urge to tap and sweep pick. Check this vid of the bassist tearing apart his 10-string for a taste.
The vocalist is also good, alternating between death growls, black-metally screeches and grind chirps and pig grunts. And the drummer is good enough to keep up and add to the cacophony.
Also, the influence of early Carcass is apparent, not only from the autopsy art album cover, but also with medical text song titles such as “Disseminated Intravascular Coagul” and “Necrotizing Fasciitis”.
They only have a self-titled EP out which only has 5 songs (3 of which are streaming on their myspace) but is good enough to warrant attention.
