The only major shift from the original "Gore Metal" is its sound quality. "A Necrospective" has the same production and sound balance similar to "Necrocracy" and other Exhumed records touched by a mix of decent quality that doesn't jeopardize the intensity of death metal. Little differences exist in these songs, but you'd have to know "Gore Metal" from bloody head to missing foot to pick them out-the drill sample in "Open the Abscess," for instance, has been amputated. Otherwise, the change in sound quality notwithstanding, "Gore Metal" is still "Gore Metal." It's not like "Limb from Limb" now has a breakdown, and you'll be awfully disappointed if you expect Matt Harvey to stop "Blazing Corpse" and throw down his sick beatboxing skills.

But the remake of "Gore Metal" runs into a familiar problem, one which mostly avoids the slaughterhouse but is often caught poking its head in from the hallway. As much as I hate to say it, the philosophy as to whether this rerecording of "Gore Metal" can even justify its existence ends up getting in the way. Yeah, I know, it's their album and they can do what they want; I'm not saying Exhumed needs to follow orders from a jackass with a keyboard. What I am saying is that there was no huge, lumbering issue weighing down on the original "Gore Metal" to begin with. It was a beast of a record; sounded like ass, but that was part of the fun! I very much enjoy the filthy, incomprehensible grind of the guitar tone hammering over those sloppy drums while the two vocal approaches trade off over Exhumed's wonderful style of Carcass-driven death metal. Flawed and deformed, but in a way that makes me wish the pile of noise would sweep me off my feet and make me its putrid princess.