RBOTD #192: Situs Inversus
Put my thang down situs and inversus
https://www.metal-archives.com/band/view/id/3540366027
Country: Mexico
Location: Tultitlan, State of Mexico
Genre: death metal
Formed in: 2008
Status: split-up
By the Numbers
Situs Inversus is the:
73rd band formed in the 2000s
Sixth band from Mexico
64th band that has split up at the time of querying
Its genre tags have been seen:
Death: 56 times
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Trifecta Tracker
Situs Inversus did not achieve the trifecta.
A band can achieve the trifecta by titling a song after the band on a self-titled release. Iron Maiden's "Iron Maiden" on 1980's Iron Maiden is an example of the trifecta.
That's Apeiron, Situs Inversus's second demo released in 2013. It sounds terrible. The blasts sound like a drum machine trying to jiggle itself off of a shelf in a valiant suicide attempt lest it is forced to hurt someone again. The guitars sound like a Zoom between three Guitar Centers after school lets out. Even at its best, Apeiron is a mess. "Psicoterror"'s intro sounds like Total Fucking Necro Anaal Nathrakh stubbing its toe. The scream is kind of sweet, but yeesh. And that's it. Nothing works. Nothing is redeemable. But Apeiron is drier than drinking dry gin in the back of a dry cleaner in the Atacama compared to Psicofonia.
The smartest thing Situs Inversus ever did was to preserve its music on Bandcamp. Otherwise, I imagine this Mexican trio would've been another metaller lost in the great MySpace wipe. Not that either Situs Inversus demo is worth hearing if you like good music. But, hey, at least they're available. To that end, if you enjoy bizarre choices and mercifully impassable dead ends, do I have the release for you.
Psicofonia, Situs Inversus's 2009 demo debut, opens with the five-minute goth weeper, "Love You After Death." Imagine if From Autumn to Ashes had its brain wiped in a horrible county fair hypnotist accident and convinced itself that it was Wildhoney Tiamat. The vocals are something to behold, a 1 AM karaoke bar rendition of a chopped and screwed Two Witches. At 3:26, it turns into Kataklysmic death metal for reasons known only to Situs Inversus and its god. This section is so shoddily recorded that you can hear the pops of terribly encoded MP3s layered on top of each other. It's a symphony of audio defects. Astounding. Then, boom, back to sub-Cemetary goth garbage. A marvel of awful. I'm genuinely impressed by it, one of the more memorable RBOTD selections by far. I feel more alive after listening to it, like how you feel more alive after recovering from food poisoning.
"Situs Inversus encompasses all those people who, despite looking normal on the outside, are completely opposite to what is normal on the inside," the band writes in its Bandcamp bio, translated here by Google Translate. "Therefore, going back to that same idea, we, who are in this project, have always had that concern, because despite because on the outside we look the same, on the inside we feel that we do not belong to them, that makes us be in a different place." After hearing "Love You After Death," all I can write is: you nailed it.
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