...AND THEN COMES LIVIDITY

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"...and Then Comes Lividity" is the debut demo tape by Canadian death metal act Gorguts. The demo led to a record deal with Roadrunner Records. There are five tracks on the demo of which the first is a short intro. The playing time is 15:07 minutes. The demo is of course long out of print but it´s available on the Galy Records "Demo Anthology (2003)" compilation album.

I read about this demo in a Danish metal magazine I was reading at the time the demo was released (1990). I remember the reviewer praised the demo very highly and listening to "...and Then Comes Lividity" today I do understand his enthusiasm. Lots of water has run under the bridge since though and my experience with the demo today is a bit different than it might have been back then. The music is pretty old school US influenced death metal. The playing is on a pretty high technical level. References to Death are inevitable, both because Luc Lemay has a similar high pitched growling style to Chuck Schuldiner (Death), but also because the riffing style on "...and Then Comes Lividity" is comparable to the riffing style on "Leprosy (1988)" and especially to the riffing style on "Spiritual Healing (1990)". Both classic early death metal albums by Death.

Out of the five songs on the demo only the short intro "...And Then Comes Lividity" and "Haematological Allergy" made it unto Gorguts debut album "Considered Dead (1991)". The music on the demo is generally on a pretty high level but I´ve always felt that the early releases by Gorguts lacked memorability and that includes the songs on "...and Then Comes Lividity".

The sound quality is allright but not really good. Don´t expect a professional sounding production.

"...and Then Comes Lividity" is a testimony to how technical death metal sounded in 1990. Only a few years later the genre had progressed considerably and if you compare this demo to the output by some of the most prolific acts in the technical death metal genre like Atheist, Cynic, Pestilence and Death it doesn´t really come off as a high quality product. The comparison might not be all that fair but it´s meant to give you a picture of the quality level of the music on the demo. This is of course a demo and that should be taken into consideration before hard judgements are made. Gorguts do show some promising signs of future greatness but to me as a casual listener and not so much a fan, I consider this a fan release only. 2.5 - 3 stars are deserved.