Paramaecium

Item: Exhumed of the Earth
Author: sesspool

Exhumed of the Earth

(1993)

Reviewed by sesspool

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Label independentDead Zine2002

death metal doom metal progressive metal symphonic metal

Well, the first thing I noticed, picking this up off of a friend and beginning to listen to it... was the EXTREMELY heavy guitars. I do believe this was the first album truly recorded in B tuning. This does emit some very heavy material here.

Lyrically, this album's first 5 songs are the tale of Christ, from womb, to the world, to the grave, to rise again. This is done in a very intense musical and lyrical production. This album was indeed made with the preconception of being a themed album. It has the, story feel to it, without sacrificing a second of intense heaviness. If this album were any deeper, it'd be Daemonion Anario (heh, oh wait, shameless plug, sorry). But really, this album just is filled with great music. If you're into doom metal, and are wanting something darker, deeper, gutsier than My Dying Bride and other doom groups, check this album out.

Musically, there are times this album is slower than molasses, and there are times it speeds up to death-like pace and pummels the eardrums with earth shatteringly low intense riffs. The first two songs can take some getting used to... but are very artistic and very well-done. The first point this album wants to make... is that Christ was a person, a real baby. "The embryo implants the uterine lining, folding within its amniotic abode" This egg is Christ, a boy, a child... not some majestic being, a human. I know I will upset many people with this... but it's important to understand the reasoning behind such albums... when it was written, it was written to give the tale of a man... from birth, to death... and into rebirth. Its original subject was Christ... but to understand the full implications, we must understand that we relive this tale day to day... while the first man to perform this task was divine and God in flesh, he was still man. Jesus was not an 'it', but was a man... a child, a baby, an embryo, an egg.

The last part of the first song ends with a great line, "The Word became flesh and blood through the unnatural conception. Thus the Christ of prophecy was born"

Injudicial is the tale of the garden, and the trial. Overall, this song, lyrically, is more of a poem and summary of that which occurred on the trial and garden... and the vocals betray the flow of the lyrics. fairly frustratingly at that... the killing is obviously... the killing of Christ. Sort of still betraying the flow, this more just makes it prolonged. In my opinion, this is the most boring song on the album... I usually skip it.

Anyway... without making you suffer a song-by song review of this long cd, I'll just say, this album has hits and misses. The hits are big hits, the misses are big misses. If you find yourself without patience, this album is not for you. But if you can stand the slow moving music, and get to the fast music... this is a treasure indeed. Downsides are the lack of flowing lyrics, and the massive abundance of slow parts in some songs (all of the killing).

8/10