Cut Up - Forensic Nightmares

When Sweden’s Vomitory called it quits in 2013, fans didn’t have to wait long for a follow-up. Cut Up was formed the very next year, featuring several musicians from the same lineup. Their debut album, Forensic Nightmares, was released in 2015.

Stylistically, the debut largely continued where Vomitory had left off: fast-paced death metal with a solid groove. Cut Up differs from many other Swedish extreme metal acts through its sheer brutality, leaning more towards the territory of Cannibal Corpse.

Although Cut Up’s final second album is a notch more vicious, Forensic Nightmares is still a solid effort. The heavy production, savage riffing and brisk pace do exactly what they need to do in violent death metal. The package is rounded off with some excellent growled vocals.

There is also a suitable amount of variation between the crushing passages and the faster-paced material. At no point does Cut Up stray from its style, but neither does the band overuse one particular approach.

Cut Up didn’t create anything particularly memorable, but both albums can easily hold their own against — or at the very least challenge — many classics of the genre. When the band was finally laid to rest after just a few years, Vomitory rose from the grave once again, stronger than ever. Still, it’s perfectly reasonable to think of Cut Up as essentially the same band under a different name.

1. Enter Hell
2. Burial Time
3. Remember the Flesh
4. A Butchery Improved
5. Brain Cell Holocaust
6. Forensic Nightmare
7. Camouflesh
8. Order of the Chainsaw
9. Stab and Stab Again
10. Bunker Z16
11. Dead and Impaled

Links:
https://www.cutupofficial.com/
https://www.facebook.com/cutupofficial
https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Cut_Up/3540398219