Vocal/Guitar: Kakuzaki Seiji
Guitar: Ito Jiro
Guitar: Nonaka Kenji
Bass: Minagawa Kenji
Drums: Hashimoto Hisao

Intestine Baalism is quite interesting to describe. Think brutal death metal, but with melody. That is how the band sound like. A combination of three sub-genres under death metal—brutal, melodic, and technical. As a result, the sound is just wonderful. It sounds beautiful, yet retains the aggressive sound. A fair balance of both. Intestine Baalism is a representation of how melodic death metal should be. Furthermore in the case of a track lacking (brutal, but) catchy riffs like in Principle of Causality, you can always count on them to bring in a melodic guitar solo to draw you back in. Again, this is nothing like the brutal music people tend to imagine. No boring, long minutes of down-tuned guitars. Intestine Baalism plays what the general population can properly term as music. Give them a try, especially if you already listen to any extreme metal. It is your only opportunity to listen to melodic music lead by deep, gurgling vocals characteristic of brutal death, grindcore, and etc.

However, such a wonderful band comes with its own misfortune too. For one, their official website is totally gone now. No news to date. According to an interview, they should have released an album during the previous year too. Guesses on the band’s state is numerous. I have read that the band’s equipment got stolen two times before (not a reliant information). Although inappropriate to say, that might not leave out a third time. Who knows. They can be having trouble finding a label to support them. If you did not bother to read the interview I linked, I will also say this here. Both albums produced by Intestine Baalism are all actually songs created during the 90’s. That is part of the problems they run into (and not to mention, frequent member changes). The band is constantly active, but is really behind with the releases.

Below are all tracks found on the second album, Banquet in the Darkness. It is one of my top albums, and it also contains an instrumental/acoustic track called A Keen. Unfortunately I had no room to include it. Even without it though, I ended up uploading more samples than I normally do—me and my urge to also upload Curse of Baal for the sake of providing a guitar solos example. Also, The Planet is possibly their most melodic track from the album. It is the least extreme track with the exclusion of A Keen, but who’s complaining?

PS. Here is a link to what I assume to be a fan-made Myspace page. Just so for people interested in how they look like, or wanting to hear full-length songs. I was not able to use actual photograph of the band since all images I could find were small.

Banquet in the Darkness

A Knight Appears from the Lake of Blood