Album Review: Compulsed – “Amalgamated Anguish”

“Wound dehiscence” meaning: is a serious surgical complication where a previously closed incision separates and reopens, sometimes partially and sometimes completely. This often occurs within days of surgery, exposing the underlying tissue and potentially leading to infections or the protrusion of organs. Symptoms include increased pain, bleeding, swelling, fever, and broken stitches, and it requires immediate medical attention to prevent complications like evisceration.

Now as follows:

“What i see is the seething surface of torment, a chaos of textures where flesh, stone, and shadow blur into one another. Hatred looks abstract, a storm of black and white strokes, but the longer you stare, the more faces, jaws and twisted forms begin to crawl out of the background. The title “Amalgamated Anguish” feels literal here: pain compressed, layer upon layer, until it fossilizes into a wall of screaming matter.

The left side seems to churn, as if entrails and bone fragments are caught in a grinder, smeared into the canvas. On the right, the darkness thickens, but within it you catch glimpses of teeth, sockets, and gaping mouths, like corpses pressing from behind a membrane. The textures recall eroded stone, but also rotting flesh: a geology of suffering.

What makes it unsettling is the lack of central focus. Your eyes dart, hunting for a single figure to hold onto, but every shape dissolves into another. It mirrors the effect of dissonant, cavernous death metal riffs: a refusal to give you clarity, instead swallowing you whole in indistinct violence.

This is a cover that doesn’t show anguish as a moment, it shows anguish as a substance. Anguish as something you drown in, that coats you, that binds all bodies into a single grotesque continuity. It is as if the very texture of existence has been scraped raw and pressed into monochrome.”

This is what you should feel when “Wound Dehiscence” starts punishing the air around you. The words above aren’t even close to an even description to what this album is. It’s like if torment was condensed in a box and delivered into your mail, like a nailbomb.

This band is fairly new, their first demo dates from last year. And i can’t thank them enough for “Amalgamated Anguish”. Holy Fuck, it’s been weeks already and i can’t get rid of this album, day after day i have been blasting it. It was able to replace Mortal Wound’s “The Anus of the World” that had been reigning supreme since last year.

This album has no skippers, track after track, you just play it and play it. When you realize, it’s playing again. That’s blast witchery, bro. Life without blastbeats would be a huge mistake, i feel sorry for people who aren’t into it. So, this is my AOTY. It was a fair fight with Chaos Inception “Vengeance Evangel”, another HUGE banger of the genre, but this one has an extra sauce of DEATH, i can’t explain, words wouldn’t make justice to the misanthropic onslaught this album carries. 10/10