NECROGORE - Ectoplasmic Rape Phenomena [CD]

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Ectoplasmic Rape Phenomena is NECROGORE eagerly expected debut album, after two well-received EP in 2023 and 2024 respectively and their inclusion on the quickly sold-out first ever DISMEMBER tribute album. And if your stomach isn’t furiously twisted by such provocative lyrics as “Vomit and bile you’ll spit out in disgust/You will swallow that too/Forced to eat shit” (Forced To Eat Shit) or “Open the jar and drop the leeches on my dick/Phalanx after phalanx/I removed seven of my fingers/I left the first three of my right hand/ So I could still use the scalpel” (Leeches On My Dick), that (in)famous guitar tone will. Yes, here the HM-2 is in full gory mode ladies and gentlemen.

Having chosen to heavily rely on one of classic SweDeath most recognizable weapon, Italian warmongers NECROGORE aren’t shying away from their influences, the chainsaw sound being described as “the sound of the records we grew up with, and one that primarily defines the Swedish death metal scene. The HM-2 has always been the beating heart of our previous bands, but we never intended to label our genre as Swedish death metal, precisely because we are not Swedish. Moreover, to be completely honest, we don't even use that specific pedal. Instead, the distortion comes from a unit built by a friend of ours who works in the effects world. That is the sound you can hear on our recordings and in our live performances.”

NECROGORE was formed in 2022 as a power-trio whose purpose was to create death metal in its most vicious, violent and putrid form. Truly passionate about “the cult of death and the gore film genre”, they opted to fuse the words ‘necro’ and ‘gore’ together for their moniker. Drummer Chris and then guitar player had already played in the past together, besides being friends for over two decades. After the addition of Alex, the three soon set out to create “quite straight-forwards songs with a focus on energetic, fast and brutal riffs leaving very little time or space to think”.

This being said, while most material on Ectoplasmic Rape Phenomena is indeed quite to the point, the song ‘Sulphereal Morbid Corpse’ (the first written for the record) is a perfect epilogue. With its over six minutes running time, doomy and epic nature and guest solo part by GOREMENT’s Patrik Femlund, it proves with a bang that NECROGORE excels at being truly disgusting, no matter what the tempo is. And if this wasn’t enough, the final track on the album is an instrumental cover of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre part 2 main theme: “There are very few horror movie soundtracks that have been rearranged in a death metal key, you can actually count them on one hand. But the few bands who have done it have always achieved great results. On a personal level, we have always wanted to pay tribute to the great horror soundtrack composers we’ve loved since we were kids. The TCM2 soundtrack was chosen because, beyond being genuinely beautiful, it naturally fit our style. The film itself, while not on the same level as the first one, is extremely well constructed, with outstanding characters, fantastic irony, and an overwhelming sense of violence and filth that will always make it the best sequel in the entire saga.”

With an album whose title serves as a prompt to reflect on the idea that “even though we can be the worst monsters ourselves, there can always be out there something intangible and ethereal ready to raise the limits of horror even more”, NECROGORE aren’t here to innovate nor experiment but to drag back OSDM into its natural habitat – somewhere damp, dark and where no life dwells.

— Olivier Zoltar Badin

AWA 133 CD
NECROGORE
Ectoplasmic Rape Phenomena

1. Intro
2. Raptured, Tortured and Chained
3. Offered to the Dead
4. Forced to Eat Shit
5. Leeches on My Dick
6. Ectoplasmic Rape Phenomena
7. Mediumistic Intercession
8. One Foot in the Grave
9. Sulphureal Morbid Corpse
10. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 Main Theme

■ 12-PAGE BOOKLET
■ JEWEL CASE
■ LIMITED TO 1000 COPIES

Out on March 20, 2026