This is the debut album from UK death metallers Mutagenic Host.
The Diseased Machine is a 41-minute death metal album that will smash you to the ground, stomp on your body, and cover you in sickness. Yep, it’s Mutagenic Host, and they’re here to deliver a gospel of disease.
The Diseased Machine is influenced by the shambling corpse of the old-school 90s Floridian era, but has then had stolen body parts from the hardcore and modern death metal scenes sewn onto its rotting carcass.
Mutagenic Host breed riffs that spread like disease vectors throughout the album, infecting everything. They twist, they turn, they crush, they maim; the riffs are everywhere, spawning and dissolving into pools of unhealthy gloop as the songs progress through their brutal playing times. These thick grooves are the bedrock into which the rest of the music seems to lie, although the granite-hard drums certainly carry their fair share of the weight too. I really like the vocals, as they’re dark and harsh, but not one-dimensional. I also really like the album’s production, as everything is clear, heavy, and crunchy.
This is an easy album to like if you’re a fan of mid-paced heaviness. Of course, there’s the seemingly obligatory pointless interlude, but ignoring that misstep, The Diseased Machine hits the spot. The songs have been shaped by esoteric genecrafters into efficient killing machines. They chug, slam, and destroy, rending those around them into bloody tatters. Mutagenic Host understand death metal, and across these ten songs they deliver a virulent feast of crushing metallic tastiness.
Very highly recommended for fans of bands such as 200 Stab Wounds, Coffin Mulch, Celestial Sanctuary, Fuming Mouth, Genocide Pact, Maul, Necrot, Outer Heaven, Sanguisugabogg, Slimelord, Terminal Nation, Undeath, etc.
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