Imprecation, Necro Blade, and Mephitic Corpse in Houston April 26, 2025

The record release celebration for Vomitum Tempestas, a collection of songs featuring drummer Ruben Elizondo pieced together after his untimely death, showed Houston death metal band Imprecation in its most refined and vicious form.

Necro Blade performed a tight set of material influenced by Morbosidad, Sarcofago, Covenant, and Under a Funeral Moon, slashing out a solid grouping of frenetic songs which tended to build toward a clash of themes resolved in manic violence.

Mephitic Corpse followed with their hybrid of deathcore and classic Carcass style grindcore, gurgling and churning through pounding chromatic riffs that avoid pretenses of harmony in order to drag us into a subterranean immersion of colliding walls of sound.

Imprecation — reconstituted with half of the lineup of Trenchant as well as ex-Blaspherian drummer Matt Hefner and Adumus shredder Milton Luna — took to the stage under the vocal guidance of original member David Herrera, who was also responsible for much of their Luciferian branding, and delivered a guttural invocation of dark forces to match.

The band nailed a precise set while rolling with the vicissitudes of live production in a small club, with guitarist NRS capturing the amorphous yet exacting nature of guitar solos that heavily involve tremolo and bends to sculpt ethereal echoes into harmonic guidance.

Unlike most bands of their era, Imprecation understood how to space out their intensely rhythmic riffs with harmonic distance and set up triplicate themes to build evolution over the course of each song, creating a sensation of deepening experience.

Delivered live, these anthems to blasphemy, heresy, and apostasy against the easy answers of Christ and human self-worship seared the ears of those present and suspended disbelief in the power of death metal as the mood intensified. When they finished in the depths of night, the decidely sinister atmosphere followed the dispersing fans into the humid concrete deathstar of the Houston landscape.

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18 thoughts on “Imprecation, Necro Blade, and Mephitic Corpse in Houston April 26, 2025”

  1. Chinese water torture says:

    It’s time to pick your poison again… handcuffed in a dungeon and can’t close ears or eyes, you were forced to watch one of the three for 8 hours straight, which would it be?

    a) Anime
    b) Non-stop Irish folk music/dancing
    c) Interracial Gay Porn

    1. That one’s easy: the Anime. No hope for the other two!

      1. Cynical says:

        I dunno, that third one could be exciting if they break out the 1 liter soda bottles.

        1. It is best I stay innocent of this knowledge. Maybe interracial gay Irish anime?

      2. med resistant AIDS says:

        Watching screechy cat-eared nekos for 8 hours can result in some serious brain damage too, so I wouldn’t underestimate that shit either…

        1. This is true, and it seems to have driven the people at Poast insane, so…

          1. Anal Rapist says:

            Is rape a form of sodomy, and does sodomy make you a genius?

            1. True Ubermensch says:

              It does.

              Because at 44 years of manhood, after having lived a proper normal life by raising a family with a succesful real estate business and all that stuff… I then suddenly decided to turn my life around and become a little baby girl that shits in adult diapers.

              1. Anal Rapist says:

                A true noble undertaking, sodomy is life!

  2. Batman is a furry says:

    Imprecation is one of those no-bullshit top legend tier bands.

    – Death/black metal that is varied enough not to devolve into monotonous war metal.
    – Cool as fuck sounding band name and metal all the way, way better than some stupid sounding shit like “Mastodon”
    – Cool as fuck artwork on the albums
    – Epic horror intervals utilized properly, and not annoyingly
    – The band photo on metal-archives looks like they took it in a reallife place out of Diablo 2: Resurrected
    – Mostly latin-only album titles (gotta stay trve to your religion)

    Yeah they know their shit.

    1. The band photo on metal-archives looks like they took it in a reallife place out of Diablo 2: Resurrected

      That’s just Houston.

      1. Batman is a furry says:

        Don’t ruin the fun, unless Houston really is reallife Diablo, then I’m all for it.

        Haven’t been to USA so I can’t say much (European fucker here)

        1. Houston really is reallife Diablo

          Never played Diablo or forgot it, so can only say it looks like the background, but it is an open-carry area populated by demons.

  3. Anal Rapist says:

    When the “Madonna of the middle east” Ofra Haza died of the almighty AIDS (just like Chuck), by her infected husband, Doron Ashkenazi, it struck me that the word “Nazi” is in that modern tribal name… truly God has a wonderfully psychotic sense of humour.

    Bless the Jews, they are the best worst people ever.

    1. 90% of what Jews are blamed for is in reality the results of Christianity and liberalism.

      They do a lot of good too, but you have to keep in mind “mixed-race population from the middle east.”

      And with Christianity, “dualistic religion from the middle east.” Same with pants-on-head Islam.

      We did better with the ancient gods than this Abrahamist nonsense.

      1. Anal Rapist says:

        The Abrahamist Nonsense is designed on purpose by The Great Cosmic Troll.

        1. Did you catch that woman who shat all over a car in Philadelphia? Northeast be crazy yo

          1. Anal Rapist says:

            De mysteriis of sodomy…

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