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"The Craneal Hunger Seed" is the first demo recording by Spanish, Sevilla based death metal act Mawkish Ingestion. The demo was independently released in 1995. Mawkish Ingestion formed in 1994 and disbanded in 1997. "The Craneal Hunger Seed" was their only output.
Stylistically the four tracks on the 19:19 minutes long demo are gore drenched old school death metal. It´s savage, raw, noisy, and brutal as hell. There is an energy level on the demo which is through the roof. The songwriting is effective and there is good variation in terms of tempo and different riffing styles. The vocals are pretty sick and alternate between juicy brutal growling and snarling screaming. All the traits of goregrind are here, but this is ultimately more in the death metal camp. Not everything works on the demo and when the band try to branch out too much applying acoustic guitars and guitar solos, they take things a bit too far as they simply don´t have the skills to pull it off.
When that is said "The Craneal Hunger Seed" is still a highly entertaining death metal demo, and it´s a shame that Mawkish Ingestion never got the chance to record and release an album´s worth of material. I would have been very interested to listen to such a release. A 3 star (60%) rating is warranted.
