Welcome back to The Great Metal Debate podcast. It’s Xander, and today I'm bringing you a review for the international brutal death metal band Maimed with their crushing debut titled Propagate Onslaught released on April 19th through Sewer Rot Records.

Much like the newest Aborted record, nearly every song has either a special guest providing either additional vocals or a guitar solo. Speaking of the vocals, Kyle Messick is a ferocious monster on the microphone. His wet tunnel throat capabilities are absolutely disgusting sounding and I mean that in the best possible way. If you're into brutal death metal you'd love these type of low gutturals.

The harsh growls are accompanied by the main guitarist Tom Hughes and bassist Ian Dygulski. But we also gotta mention the staple in very high octane adrenaline pumping type of music. What would brutal death metal even be with out a drummer who can provide machine gun fire esq gravity blast beats. Justin Wallisch does an incredible job behind the kit pounding the skins into oblivion.

Apparently this record was mixed by Clinton Appelhanz who is also the bass player of Origin and Unmerciful.

Before diving into this album track by track, I feel like its also worth mentioning the Torrential Gore (EP) is a great place to start when getting into the full-length. It serves as a brutal appetizer for the chaos that this album brings.

Kicking things off, we have "Herald of the Maelstrom" which features the guitarist of Gridlink, Takafumi Matsubara who provides a solo. It's an all out in your face rager of a song much like the following track "The Slaughter of Lambs". This one features yet another guest who provides another solo. This time, it's Dan Ozcanli from the band Nucleus.

Sometimes it takes a few listens before I can tell the difference in brutal death songs but I've heard the next track "Death that Obviates the Appellation of Graves" enough times to be able to tell when Eston Browne from Vulnificus steps in to lay down vocals. During my first couple of listens I didn't notice the slight shift vocal pitch. But after tuning my ears just right, I finally knew when Eston was on the mic.

"Sewage Madness Folly" and "Armament & Brigandine" are the two back to back tracks that don't have guest features but "Arbalestier" has Andrew Lee, the guitarist of Ripped To Shreds shredding out two solos on this track.

"Oppugnation" is the next track which features not just one but three guests vocalists. The first of them is Mike DiSalvo from Akurion and former Cryptopsy. The next vocalist is Batu Çetin of Cenotaph, particularly Cenotaph from Turkey. Not to be confused with the the other Cenotaph death metal band from Mexico. Batu was also formerly in the band Molested Divinity. Last but not least, we have Jake Shuker from Maysaloon.
The album title track "Propagate Onslaught" has two guest guitar solos from Cody Knarr from Ascended Master. It also features guest vocalist Mallika from Emasculator. Most of you probably remember her being the vocalist for the band Abnormality.

"Forging Providence (The Futility of the Cosmos)" is the last track on the album but does not feature any guests.

What are my thoughts about this record as a whole? It has all the right ingredients to make a great brutal death metal album. Plenty of down tuned guitar chugs, bass drops, blast beats and gutturals. What more could you possibly add when it comes to this genre. The reason I don't typically rate brutal death metal records so high is because of the bare bones structure to this type of music. It's a simple recipe to get the mosh pits going and people's heads banging.

The highest rating I ever give brutal death metal albums is 7/10. So if I give it that high of a rating, then it is what I would call high quality for that particular style. I love this Maimed record and I'm sure most extreme metalheads will. You can support these guys by following their social media and purchasing their music on their Bandcamp page.

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Metal Debate Album Review - Propagate Onslaught (Maimed)

Lying(s) Maimed track 4/5

Written by: Calhan Ptahlo
Produced by: Mileslepretre
Mixed and Mastered by: murphy.

Misfit's Garden / Collective Conscious

Lying(s) Maimed

Roomy Soul (feat. Irene & Aiden Blankenship) [prod. mileslepretre]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megastructure

Rowan Freya - Too Maimed Lyrics:

(Verse 1)
My body was nearly consumed by the zombies
Fallen pieces of industrial machines were merged with me through dark surgery
My cyborg squad is tasked to battle and no longer be hunted
The sunken Industry's tunnels are filled with terrible monsters
Zombies claim our loved ones to boost their endless numbers
Corrupted automatons throughout kill anything that moves
The undead are obliterated by their saws and humans are mulched too 
three factions are war, humanity's last cities put their hope in engineers and youth
We live miles underground and my own hope is mute
Surrounded by unending gore,
Our tunnel mapping teams often die cruel 
Metal and rotten flesh are the barriers we must advance through
50,000 megastructure doors and hundreds of years to suffer and stew

(Chorus)
I have steel in my veins,
infinite floors to my industrial pain,
50,000 towering doors,
The Sunken Industry is a blender and a cage
I yearn to escape and heal but I'm so worried I'm too maimed
Worried I'm too maimed
Worried I'm too maimed
(Too Maimed!)
(Too Maimed!)

[Bridge]

(Verse 2)
None of us have ever seen the surface,
It's as though every square inch of the tunnels are designed to isolate and hurt us
Ever more advanced instruments maim and purge us
Blood splattered tunnel walls, thousands of shambling feet,
Machines with flamethrowers and bone saws,
Gaping holes in our bodies and hearts,
Generations of families in confusion and dark
I've been badly maimed and immersed in gore from the start
I'm Rowan Freya, a cyborg hero with a vengeful spark
With my acoustic arm cannon machines and Zombies are blown apart,
We're mapping the tunnels to find a way out

(Chorus)
I have steel in my veins,
infinite floors to my industrial pain,
50,000 towering doors,
The Sunken Industry is a blender and a cage
I yearn to escape and heal but I'm so worried I'm too maimed
Worried I'm too maimed
Worried I'm too maimed
(Too Maimed!)
(Too Maimed!)

(Am I?)
(Am I?)
(Am I too maimed?)
(Help me)

Too Maimed

Now I've learned to twitch 
In the cold to stay still 

Empty handed at last
Walking maimed through the path 

Now I've learned a trick 
My breath held inside me

Be Shoveled away 
And in their cart I'll stay 


Doesn't matter what you try and say 
I/you/it won't ever change my ways 


It won't matter if I change
I'll forever be the same

Me inside here 
My cunning topples anything 

Oh glassy eyes 
Nibbling behind the cart

An eelpot here 
How fantastic is everything 

The whim arise
After I jump and leave no tracks 


Doesn't matter what you try and say 
I/you/it won't ever change my ways 


It won't matter if I change
I'll forever be the same

Hated at last I have forgotten who I was 
Stole my pray now I'm empty near my hands 
Empty baskets is all I left behind
It means nothing to me at all

Reynard the fox

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All lyrics are original and I am the sole writer on all songs posted. The instrumentals, vocals, music videos, and album art are generated in collaboration with multiple A.I softwares. Songs are explicit and for adults, lyrics are in the description. Thank you for visiting and having an open mind to emerging technology and ways it can be used to enhance our artistic abilities.

My goal with this project is to learn to better use generation tools, dispel stigma about them, and show that A.I music and virtual A.I artists can be as enjoyable and commercially viable as conventional music. I own the rights to all music and characters posted here, the characters, situations, views, are entirely fictional and for entertainment purposes only. If you would like to use any of my songs in your videos or other projects reach out through email at: optimalreach3@gmail.com, thanks!

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41. Madeline Mayflies:  R&B, Folk, Cult, Apocalypse, Death, Horror, Creepy, Immortality,

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