Expulsion is the womb-pest of Matt Olivio, guitarist of grindcore legends Repulsion. It sounds like it too! Mean, ugly, thrashy, and well... repulsive! Although, Expulsion sounds a little more like a blistering, blood-thirsty hardcore band than a grindcore gremlin to my ears, and this I think is confirmed to the degree that they cleaved sustenance and influence from heavily punk-infected death metal acts like Gruesome and Necrot, pairing turgid tremolos, acidic bass parts, and savage tempo changes with undulating thrash riffs and cleaving arpeggios, replete with croaking shout vocals supplied by grindcore and death metal vet Matt Harvey (of Exhumed, and yeah... Gruesome! [Hell yeah brother!]). Think Gorguts meets Power Trip, minus the darkly festive sense of bombast that tends to soften the blow of either of those acts. With all these gory details to dye your expectations, you couldn't be faulted for anticipating that their 2017 LP
Nightmare Future would have to be a hell of a ripper—in fact, it is! Strap in for the grinding, untrammeled fury of "Total Human Genocide" with its sub-tonal, somersaulting bass, roller-coaster riffs, and apocalyptic lyrical themes; the overdrive excess of "Nightmare Future" with its double-time tempo, prowling guttural vocals, and acrobatic thrash-infused riffs that rise and fall like an air-raid siren; and lastly, the heedless headbanger "Funeral Bells" with its alternating dynamic of souped-up riff-grinds which give way to sudden tempo downshifts and morbid, dragging guitar dirges. The real nightmare begins when the growling feedback and howling subsides, and you find yourself shaking, distraught, and too weak to hold back from hitting that play button again, finding yourself addicted to their savagery, and impetuously eager to crawl back into the belly of Expulsion's brazen bull of cyclonic sound, begging to lay your body down as fuel for their bellowing conflagration.
Getting back to my dumb metal guy phase. You could even say that I'm Relaps[e](ing).
