Artist: NECROPHAGIST
Album: EPITAPH (CD)

Release date: 2004
EAN/UPS: 781676662821
Media type: CD

Uniting head-spinning musicianship, elaborate arrangements and an acute sense of dynamics within composition, Necrophagist have reset the bar for complexity and technique in modern-day death metal. Their powerful riffs, mind-blowing sweeps and arpeggios, crushing percussion and intricately designed songs are unequalled and uncompromising, unveiling an invincible technicality so sharp and precise, it threatens to bore a hole directly through the heart of the existing progressive death playbook.

The outro guitar solo on "Only Ash Remains" is derived from a piece from Sergei Prokofiev's Romeo & Juliet Suite (Montagues & Capulets).
There is a section in "The Stillborn One" that is taken directly from the introduction of Ludvig van Beethoven's "Fur Elise."

All songs written by Muhammed Suiзmez except where noted.

TRACKLIST:

1."Stabwound" – 2:48
2."The Stillborn One" – 4:24
3."Ignominious and Pale" – 4:01
4."Diminished to B" – 4:59
5."Epitaph" – 4:15
6."Only Ash Remains" – 4:11
7."Seven" – 3:44
8."Symbiotic in Theory" (Muenzner, Suiзmez) – 4:35

LINE-UP:

Muhammed Suicmez - Guitar, Vocals
Christian Muenzner - Guitar
Stephan Fimmers - Bass guitar
Hannes Grossmann - Drums