Avulsed - Nullo (The Pleasure of Self-Mutilation) (2009)

    Avulsed is definitely one of the best examples how an undergound band could keep it's authenticity and style for long term, and to not become boring, repetitive, or too experimental meanwhile. 
   On each album they're trying to change something a bit, but that changed is mostly focused on the rawness of their themes. Some albums are more melodic, others including even some goregrind elements, and some are (like this one) simply brutal. The main musical features and the gore centered concept never changing. "Nullo" counts as a pretty raw album compared to the previous ones, but also kind of consolidated, cause it stays strictly inside the borders of death metal, and there are also some catchy returning melodies to find like on the older albums, but these are not having leading role. Morbid/black humor is also a returning feature in their music, though it's not the most common thing to come in mind if it's about Avulsed, and it couldn't be so evident for everyone either. The huge load of noisy, sick, gory brutality makes the borders of serious insanity and humorous intentions thinner, and at this point that's exactly the reason why this concept could serve as the musical epression of morbid reality. Horror is just fantasy but it's always based on reality, that could be far worse than any fantasy. And when it's about the most inhuman and extraodrinarily sick events, it's always like an overdose that's not really possible to bear. It also makes the border thinner between sanity and insanity, real and unreal. "Nullo" may be not the most brutal album of the band, but for similar reasons and it's very raw approach, the heaviest one for sure.