Consuming Impulse

Consuming Impulse (stylized as Consvming Impvlse) is the second album by Dutch death metal band Pestilence, released in 1989. It was their first release with then-new guitarist Patrick Uterwijk, and their last one to feature bassist and vocalist Martin van Drunen.

Consuming Impulse
Studio album by Pestilence
Released	25 December 1989 9 January 1990 (Europe)
Recorded	1989 at Music Lab Berlin
Genre	Death metal
Length	37:23
Label	Roadrunner
Producer	Harris Johns
Pestilence chronology
Malleus Maleficarum (1988) Consuming Impulse (1989) Testimony of the Ancients (1991)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]

The album was reissued along with Testimony of the Ancients on Roadrunner Records' Two from the Vault series. Decibel gave positive reviews to it as a cult classic.^[2]

Music

While retaining some of the thrash metal elements from its predecessor Malleus Maleficarum (1988), Consuming Impulse saw the band progress further towards a pure death metal style.^[3][4][5][6]

The album's instrumentation draws influence from Slayer, and contains what is described as "frantic, atonal, and noisy soloing." The album's "doomy" sections have drawn comparisons to Celtic Frost.^[7]

Reception and legacy

John Serba of AllMusic gave the album 4 and a half stars out of five. He wrote: "Consuming Impulse stands firmly next to Death's Leprosy, Sepultura's Beneath the Remains, Obituary's Slowly We Rot, and Morbid Angel's Altars of Madness as key evolutionary albums in the legitimization of death metal in the late '80s. [...] Consuming Impulse is the guts of Pestilence's career, the group confidently leaping from the gutter with teeth bared, ready to stand toe-to-toe with the other truly great -- and more appreciated -- acts in the death metal genre."^[7]

Track listing

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
1.	"Dehydrated"	Martin van Drunen	Patrick Mameli	3:08
2.	"The Process of Suffocation"	van Drunen	Mameli, Patrick Uterwijk	2:41
3.	"Suspended Animation"	van Drunen	Mameli, Uterwijk	3:28
4.	"The Trauma"	Marco Foddis	Mameli	3:20
5.	"Chronic Infection"	Foddis	Mameli	3:57
6.	"Out of the Body"	Foddis	Mameli	4:39
7.	"Echoes of Death"	Foddis	Mameli	4:16
8.	"Deify Thy Master"	Foddis	Mameli, Uterwijk	4:53
9.	"Proliferous Souls" (instrumental)		Mameli	2:08
10.	"Reduced to Ashes"	van Drunen	Mameli	4:53
Total length:				37:23

Credits

• Patrick Mameli - guitar, bass
• Patrick Uterwijk - guitar
• Martin van Drunen - vocals^[8]
• Marco Foddis - drums