Genre: Black Thrash/Speed Metal
Length: 12:18
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Ghoulish Grotesqueries is another EP I listened to this week and will be reviewing today. First, let me introduce the band behind this release: The NecroVomits. According to the information available on Metal Archives, the band hails from New York and plays blackened thrash/speed metal. Ghoulish Grotesqueries is, for now, the band's only release. The EP was released independently in March 2025 in digital format, and via the Sotser Grinder label on CD and 7" vinyl.
Ghoulish Grotesqueries is an EP with a total running time of 12 minutes and 18 seconds, consisting of six tracks. Musically, the duo The NecroVomits offer aggressive black/thrash/speed metal, embellished with touches of death metal and short hardcore/grind incursions on certain passages. The guitars are fast and merciless, the drums are relentlessly anchored in the style championed by the band, and the vocals are raging and horrific, alternating between growls and screams. At times, the influences of bands such as Bathory and Hellhammer are very clearly felt. In terms of production, it is also perfectly in line with the band's identity: dirty, raw and deliberately grimy.
Rotting Head Is Here establishes immediate violence from the very first seconds, with a sustained thrash/black speed rhythm and muffled growls. The track Vapors of the Tombed then takes over with a fast tempo, carried by rapid guitars; I particularly enjoyed the little guitar demonstration at 1:11. The band maintains this black/speed image on Hooked on Video, where Bathory's influences are easily recognisable. After a well-performed drum at 1:39, a guitar solo further ignites the already frenetic rhythm imposed since the beginning of the song.
On Vomito Macabro, death metal influences are clearly evident, and at 1:31, a new solo emerges, leaving me literally headbanging while taking my notes. Congratulations, You're Cheese continues at the same pace, but at 1:19, the composition takes on a more menacing tone. Mocking laughter is added, before a particularly effective solo sets the track alight at 1:55 (one of my favourite moments on the EP). Finally, El Cementerio en la Cocina concludes the EP with a track carried entirely by the keyboard. Its notes immediately evoked the atmosphere of a horror movies, reminiscent of 1970s Spaghetti Horror.
