Witch Vomit

Influences

• Autopsy — Chris Reifert's blueprint of dragging vicious death metal down into slow, sickening doom passages is all over the Portland band's entire DNA. You hear it every time Witch Vomit abruptly cuts a blast beat to drop into a foul, mid-tempo groove. It provides the pure slime foundation beneath their speed.
• Dismember — The Stockholm guitar tone achieved through a pinned Boss HM-2 pedal is the absolute sonic engine of their rhythm tracks. You hear that abrasive, buzzsaw midrange shredding through the center of every single riff on 'A Scream From the Tomb Below'. They took the Sunlight Studios playbook and dragged it through an American basement.
• Demigod — Early Finnish death metal's cavernous, reverb-soaked atmosphere heavily shaped the band's spatial production choices. You hear that specific brand of eerie, melodic death-doom dread echoing across 'Buried Deep in a Bottomless Grave'. It gives their breakdowns an ominous, subterranean depth instead of generic chugging.
• Dissection — Jon Nödtveidt's icy, dual-guitar melodic sensibility directly informed the broader writing shifts on later records like 'Funeral Sanctum'. You hear those melancholic, wind-swept black metal leads threading through the rhythmic blast sections. It adds genuine atmosphere to what could have been straightforward caveman riffs.
• Incantation — John McEntee's pioneering formula of murky, churning tremolo picking and subterranean tempo shifts is cited constantly across the modern cavernous death metal scene. You hear it in the suffocating weight of Witch Vomit's lower registers and their suffocating, room-filling guitar presence. They borrowed the murky chaos and tuned it for maximum impact.