DEVOURMENT: The Heaviest Band of All Time | Garza Podcast 67

DEVOURMENT is an American death metal band from Dallas, Texas. The heaviest band on the planet. devourmentofficial.com
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DEVOURMENT is: Ruben Rosas, Brad Fincher, Chris Andrews & Dave Spencer
TIME CODES:
0:00 - On Tour With Ingested
03:04 - Paving the way for Slam & Deathcore
05:56 - Devourment started in ‘95.
12:36 - Special Formula
14:32 - Being About That Groove
21:06 - How Did Brad and Ruben Meet?
23:04 - 1:38 on the clock
25:57 - Writing process for Molesting the Decapitated 1999
30:16 - The Infamous Album Cover
36:55 - Recording MTD in the 90s and its Effect on Heavy Music
39:40 - Cryptopsy
43:07 - Unique Blasting Techniques
45:45 - The Legendary Glen Benton/Deicide
48:00 - Having a Solid Lineup/Ruben Continuing Devourment After Brad Left
55:35 Texas Death metal Scene in the 90s/2000s
57:48 (2:13 on the clock - Slayer Reference)
59:34 Cannibal Corpse
01:01:24 Obscene Majesty 2019
01:05:32 Focusing on New Material and the Future
01:12:25 Non-Metal Influences and Song Structure
01:18:55 Devourment is the Heaviest Band on the Planet
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The Heaviest Podcast of All Time

[@KevinFrasard]

Hell yeah an Eternal Suffering shirt, Chris knows wtf is up🤘🤘

[@aloyzick]

Yeah their influence . Eternal Suffering Rules

[@lqmayock1]

I was in a high school band called Vaginal Discharge who became Inanimate Existence, but we had a Babykiller cover. We would open with that song which got the crowd moving! Great times

[@necrotic_taco8702]

Goddamn i love Inanimate Existence

[@dawa8151]

Inanimate Existence is dope

[@adrinpayso1736]

Wow Inanimate Existence!!!

[@darthjason7019]

Inanimate existence is pretty awesome band . I like their music 🎶

[@SophoklezTheodoru]

Got the chance to open for Inanimate Existence in Windsor 6 years ago I think for Black Market Fest! That was a wicked set that day

[@triplesixmafia]

Nobody will ever understand how much this band influenced your riffs on the 2005 SS EP. they'll always be my favorite band in all death metal

[@Rob_Cary]

I still have my original CD of the SS EP haha. I'll probably always hold onto it. I wish the family guy samples were on the album.

[@GarzaPodcast]

100%! -GaЯza

[@heartdisciple]

The sound of Obscene Majesty is crazy

[@stephencooper3920]

Devourment is amazing. Super underrated, but appreciated. Molesting the decapitated is the heaviest albums of all time.

[@marcofinco6959]

True!!!

[@yogiyahya35]

That album, Butcher the Weak ( original 2005 version ), and Unleash the Carnivore is just pure non-stop brutality 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@stephencooper3920]

@@yogiyahya35 I really enjoyed conceived in sewage as well. That is a good album front to back.

[@Nocturnal_Lunacy]

Underrated? You're insane. Overrated if anything. 1 amazing demo and 2 incredible albums, but most of their discog is forgettable, and doesn't even sound like devourment for thr most part.

[@stephencooper3920]

@@Nocturnal_Lunacy amazing, every word of what you just said... was wrong.

[@jackassthemovie]

GET STABBING ON HERE!!! 👏👏👏

[@velezmalatesta8864]

Simppp

[@dreno-]

Stabbing's snare is just orgasmic

[@codyzywicki3714]

@@velezmalatesta8864huh

[@Jerrid_8675]

SMH he's a simp because there is two chick's in that band?

[@BridgetL_]

@@velezmalatesta8864 he’s literally our friend but ok LMAO

[@9deadBand]

m.t.d / 1.3.8 changed everything, forever. long live DEVOURMENT.

[@WiredAnxiety]

HEAVIEST PODCAST OF ALL TIME.. yes that tagline definitely makes sense for Garza Podcast.

[@RowdyChocolateOfficial]

The TRUE SLAM OGs!

[@mynameislove1704]

​@@RowdyChocolateOfficialI love deathcore, I wanna try slam. Any sugest of what bands that i must listen to, to got into slam?

[@Hecatecrossways]

​@@RowdyChocolateOfficial 😂Not as Heavy as Mortician 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅 or Disgorge USA California 😂😂 but still Heavier than 😢 Death Core 😢

[@Dead_ham]

@@mynameislove1704Snuffed On Sight, Peeling Flesh

[@Samcomply]

@@mynameislove1704 Devourment Cephalotripsy Abominable Putridity- Anomalies of Artificial Origin These 3 sounds are so unique in slam. Other bands I recommend that are slam or have a lot of slammy bits: Defeated Sanity Cerebral Effusion Strangled Neurogenic

[@Peter-ik1nk]

Sepultura is definitely up there , no doubt and questions about it!!!

[@jackassthemovie]

Being a huge fan of both the cleansing and Molesting the Decapitated this made me so happy 😭

[@Chilloutandwatchanime]

Only in death metal you’ll here someone say Im a fan of molesting the decapitated 😂😂🤘🤘

[@Sergio-nb4hj]

@@Chilloutandwatchanime Not unless you know where to look ;) [PLEASE DON'T REPORT ME KZbin THIS IS JUST A JOKE]

[@noname-gm6es]

I'm 14 years old and suicide silence is one of my favorite bands ever. I've been listening to devourment the past few days since I saw this episode. Their music is honestly kinda intimidating for me but I'm really starting to love this band. Thanks for putting this cool band in front of me!

[@off6848]

I've been listening to extreme metal since 2001 and even I will say Obscene Majesty is one of the heaviest albums of all time so I can see why its intimidating.

[@noname-gm6es]

@@off6848 is that a devourment album?

[@off6848]

@@noname-gm6es yeah from 2019

[@noname-gm6es]

@@off6848 I only know mtd and butcher the weak but I'll check that out. Also, thank you for taking time to reply to my comments and for being so nice and not calling me a "poser" or whatever just because idk every album or song. Our scene needs more people like you 🤘🏻

[@off6848]

@@noname-gm6es right on! your gratitude will take you far i'm sure

[@Zdoterik]

I actually worked with Ruben in Texas. Dude is a solid dude.

[@DeathMetalDuelist666]

Give me the waking the cadaver episode. I know it would be 50% Mike explaining the intricacies of dual rectifiers and sick riffs and 50% Don explaining aliens.

[@davidthomas4958]

paul from corpse gristle was generous enough to reach out and release my band's music on tape just last year. he truly is an unsung hero of supporting heavy music to this day

[@yogiyahya35]

Corpse Gristle Ruless 💀🤘

[@ominousscriptures]

The fastest, the sickest, the heaviest Thanks for this amazing interview

[@lecturehc]

Necrocide is a fantastic txdm band that I still have on constant spin. It's by those original txdm bands like Necrocide, Crucifix, Prophecy, Disencumbrance, Detrimental, Imprecation and the likes that the true style and spirit was conceived and set forth. Corpse Gristle Recs was where it was at back in the glory days. I consider myself so lucky to have grown up with that stuff.

[@crackedbrainOG]

I played drums in Disencumbrance/Detrimental back in the day. Your comment is right on for the DFW death metal scene!

[@em1dr]

Check out Stabbing if you haven’t already 👌🏼

[@MikeCaputo]

Great podcast. Shoutout to my bandmate John Hull for filling in for Devourment. Very sick multi-instrumentalist

[@ManuSDP]

Killing it with Gorgasm

[@jackpw6593]

Aww, that's sweet Mike. Lol

[@LP-ec7hw]

The acknowledgment in the end was powerful and good to see in the genre. Much respect. 🤘🏼🔥

[@uraniumcranium2613]

These guys were and still are a massive inspiration. Postmortal Coprophagia is still my go to slam after 20 years.

[@anthgrind]

ALMIGHTY DEVOURMENT !

[@dakryptkeepa6968]

Hearing Brad talk in depth about all these topics is truly a treat. Best band of all time

[@GarzaPodcast]

It was a treat man. Crazy hearing the stories. -GaЯza

[@MacSmithvox]

Brad is the best. So much respect

[@Paralytikus]

Absolutely elated to have this episode. Devourment have influenced my own music more than any other and Ruben has remained one of my most respected vocalists of all-time.

[@stateofmind19379]

Finally getting around to watching this episode. I was at, not one, but two different stops on that tour. They played in Spokane then played in Boise. So worth the drive. I had the honor of chatting with Brad from Devourment & Sean from Ingested, along with most members of Extermination Dismemberment. Just giving them all the praise all the bands deserve for putting in the work and getting on tours. Touring is never easy but it can very rewarding.

[@crzxm]

I am stoked to have found this channel! Thanks for creating this for us!

[@MarioMario-my5ib]

I've been a fan of them since my teens. This interview feels like a gift, you guys are amazing!

[@cloudfraction2239]

thank for having them on

[@Monoxzidex]

This band is the reason I have TXDM tattoo'd on the back of my calf. Love Devourment. When they're on the lineup in Dallas - you know it's going to be absolutely brutal concert.

[@bryannguyen1260]

Wayne Knupp is smiling from up there. :)

[@WitchPilled]

Stumbled upon this late, but want to thank you greatly for this. MTD shaped what I looked for in heavy music as a teenager in the 2000's and is still the heaviest album ever made

[@twelvegaugeslug7840]

Absolutely love these dudes, and this interview is fantastic It's great to hear about the origins, motivations, processes The focus on MtD and also on OM is very appreciated Thank you!

[@haydengreen3677]

You a real one for this

[@salinaember9527]

ive been listening to Devourment since butcher the weak... and to this day i feel like unleash the carnivore is the heaviest brutal death metal album. and damn i wish peelingflesh was playing more dates, specifically in socal :(

[@Sam-yz5cq]

i always get happy hearing about what kind of non-metal music the people that play in ultra heavy bands are digging.

[@stevereallyevil]

I love hearing brad bring up disgorge, I never would've found disgorge without devourment

[@j.d.837]

Which one, the Mexican Disgorge or the US one? That E.P. Deriding his Creation is one of my fav albums of all time.

[@wesleycosta8697]

Talking about Heavy Bands: What about bringing Will Rahmer and Roger Beaujard of Mortician? That would be great too

[@KianF]

100% one of the most overlooked bands from BDM/slam guys. those mfs did not go above the 5th fret lol.

[@830audio6]

Love to put the Garza podcast on while I edit guitars/drums. The best!

[@wesburr]

Will see y’all in Orlando on the tour, can’t wait!

[@BlastBeatBreakdown]

Dallas Texas Death Metal legends!

[@DanPresland]

i cant believe you guys were inspired by embodyment, im from melbourne australia and NO ONE knows these guys. their album embrace the eternal was next level. I used to spin that daily.

[@justbecause7691]

This is too good. 🤘🏼

[@KL1ST1ER]

Going to see them in May in Anaheim! Been a fan for almost 20 years!

[@williamosirian4506]

Officially a new fan of this amazing podcast! Bravo Mr. Garza! Keep up the great work Eternal Suffering 🤘🤘🤘🤘

[@d4ndro1d3]

Great episode, thanks!

[@lumpenada977]

How awesome was it to hear friggin devourment say they were not just SS fans but deathcore fans from the beginning!?

[@thanatophuck]

so sick, would love to see mortician on the podcast at some point too!

[@ZDS1986]

Awesome interview Chris

[@puppetmastahs]

Awesome pod!!!! 💯

[@cptSirBeefs]

I own that shirt 😂😂 the looks people give me

[@blastbeatindustries3191]

Shout out to the Geto Boys

[@saltpeter7429]

Bushwick Bill. Still a hero.

[@blackhorizonz]

didn't even recognize Ruben lol

[@Jeffmetal42]

I know, dude looks so different now.

[@bryannguyen1260]

Rest in peace the long hair Ruben.

[@Mgla__]

And here i am thinking why Ruben is not here and why is there a guy from The County Medical Examiners 😅

[@Hecatecrossways]

Does anyone know the real story about what Rubin was on probation for, and why he went to the Big House?????

[@The6Eternal6Dark6Lord]

Hahaa yeah I thought they changed the vocalist

[@estebanorogel8750]

Thanks homie for the awesome content

[@pooleyred]

Legendary iconic band 🤘Great podcast really enjoyed this!

[@isaacjamesbaker]

Awesome! Confession: When I'm hiking and climbing out in the mountains, I keep Devourment's MTD ready to play on my phone cuz I figure if I'm gonna get attacked by a bear or cougar, maybe itll help me fight/scare it off 😆😆. Yet to be tested

[@MrTyrone6505]

I do the same! haha I pick the heaviest artist I got ready to go. haha 🤘🏽🥾

[@MarioMario-my5ib]

The final growl in Sroud Of Encryption should be enough to scare even a fucking t-rex. What an amazing vocalist Ruben is ♥

[@adriancole9681]

Love all the bdm love you’re giving

[@brunosayao4841]

BEST podcast EVER

[@sebastianrusso8808]

You guys need Dripping in your show. They came out right after Devourment. Big ups to Devourment. 🎉🎉

[@eternalslayer5674]

True slam legends🔨

[@reubenk7331]

Dang these guys have been around for a hot minute. Cool stuff. I'll have to listen to their stuff now. Constantly finding amazing bands through this content.

[@MassMultiplayer]

Chocking on Bile. heaviest song on planet

[@jboogedy]

This was such an amazing interview! Killer shout out to all the older TXDM bands, I was in Battered Soul w/ Joe Riojas who was later Meshiha's vocalist. The DM scene with Christian bands like Embodyment, & Benevolence used to play @ God's Place International in Arlington TX. My band Battered Soul used to play w/ Devourment, Dielzubro, Me-At-Us, Dead Industry, Puncture, Sintury & Prophecy over in Abracadabra all ages club in Ft Worth & Dirty Perch back in the day alongside Dying Fetus, Deeds of Flesh, Nile, Cephalic Carnage, Disgorge. We even had Mike Majewski do the cover art for Battered Soul album ' Victims of Casual Brutality' (1999). Also ,Heavy 89.9FM KNON shout out to Thrashin' Allen, Dave Chaos, Kerry Rockman & DJ Sterotype! DEVOURMENT RULEZ! 1.3.8. 817

[@bear484848]

My favorite band ever.

[@renatorodrigues1500]

"Babyyy Killeeeeeeer .... ooooooohhhhh" 🤘🤘🤘 I love their songs

[@user-sz5oj4ml5n]

Played with DEVORMENT in Chicago.. And Molesting The Decapitated was the album that got me into Brutal Death Metal and iv never looked back...

[@MacSmithvox]

Which band man? I was on that tour.

[@user-sz5oj4ml5n]

DEVORMENT...Delusional Parasitosis Gorgasm.. Unmerciful.. Human Bashing witch I was the drummer in..I can't remember the other one..

[@user-sz5oj4ml5n]

@@MacSmithvox I was in Human Bashing as the drummer guy

[@MacSmithvox]

@@user-sz5oj4ml5n Very cool man, cheers!

[@trendmassacre8423]

The Unholy Metal chatroom on AOL, I used to hang out in that chat, that awesome that Ruben mentioned that old room 😂

[@anthonysuski9248]

Awesome!!! 😎 👍

[@cmd_f5]

Awesome interview, and some really cool dudes. Obscene Majesty is such a MTD 2.0 it's incredible. Sounds insane cranked up on big speakers. All the blasts and gutturals hit me right in the feels. Adrenaline death metal haha. Stoked for some new material ⚒️🎸👹

[@Metalheadmike1211]

I was blasting their latest album obscene majesty on the way home last night from work. Can’t get enough of cognitive sedation butchery.

[@marcofinco6959]

Amazing song!!! Narcissistic paraphilia too

[@off6848]

The end of Sculpted in Tyranny has a drum fill that sounds like bones cracking

[@blackbeltjones2903]

The production on that album is ass.

[@Skorbutt]

LAst album is as good and innovative as Molesting imo

[@Hecatecrossways]

Molesting the Decapitated still blows away anything else that the Slam Brutal Death Metal bands try to accomplish

[@jordan76-zg7nb]

I thought that until I heard Cerebral Effusion.. it's heavier than devourment my friend, check em out

[@Hecatecrossways]

@@jordan76-zg7nb 😂 Cerebral Effusion 😂 Both Mortician and Disgorge US make both Devourment and Cerebral Effusion sound like Lymp Byzkyt 😂 Go put on your Baggy drawers and Hop yo Whigga Homeboy on yo stuffed cotton Jack ass and ride on back to da crib brah brah!!!!!! There's more to being Heavy than sounding like Pantera - Walk On Steroids 😂 Cerebral Effusion 😂 Y'all like NWA 2 brah brah 😂 😂 😂 Y'all better just Walk Homeboy.......WALK On ......HOMEBOY . It's a long way back to da hood n sheeeeeeit Brah Brah Gotz t get some St Ides n chill wit dem fat booty sistas back at da crib n sheeeeeeit

[@Hecatecrossways]

@@jordan76-zg7nb In English translation Cerebral Effusion sound like Hip Hop Gangsta Rap with Distorted Guitars. Mortician is way Heavier

[@jordan76-zg7nb]

@40 Y Old Virgin In a Flat brimmed Hat cerebral effusion is 3/4 blast beats and asymmetrical riffs + 1/4 heaviest slam riffs ever written 🤘 mortician is 6 strings tuned a octave down sounding like literal diarrhea, and is 3/4 weird ass horror movie samples. They factually sound like ass. Severed Savior, Odious Mortem, 90's Cryptopsy, Disgorge, Disentomb, Hypocrisy, Vader, Kreator, Deeds of Fles, Sodom, Hate Eternal etc., all better bands, mortician sucks

[@off6848]

@@Hecatecrossways Dienthylchlororasine and Ungraceful are legit heavy for new school

[@berndbandit7739]

damn i love devourment! awesome!

[@max646_]

I love Devourment, I'm from Argentina and honestly I never listened a heaviest band ever

[@ArturLupsan-sr5er]

Try last days of humanity...

[@jontrev2096]

This interview was killer man! Please try and get Suffocation on here!

[@DemonWhisper1]

Holy shit this podcast is amazing. I've been a fan of devourment for some time but I've never gotten to know what they're actually like. I'm checking out the defeated sanity interview next.

[@kellybogues]

Hail the Texas Sewer Metal Kings!!! Rest in Peace WAYNE KNUPP. #GutturalTexage

[@bisys2]

Chris that is one badass shirt, long live Eternal Suffering, one of the best bands of the genre.

[@gaminos]

Saw them at Motocultor, they were heavy as fuck ! But the Festival used a picture where Ruben still had long hair and Chris had short hair so I didn't even recognize them lol !

[@godlesstimes5303]

Legendary!

[@assrammington7961]

Lol. Slam heads and modern death metal kids finally realizing what us old heads had to go through trying to convince kids how good and influential the OG death metal and death/thrash bands from the late 80s and early 90s were. When there’s 1000 slam/deathcore bands a minute for 15 years it’s easy for kids to have no context of where it came from.

[@jessestrobel2]

Ruben looking like Dale Earnhardt Sr.

[@antoniolinares962]

"The heaviest band in the universe". - MORTICIAN

[@pyreprocession]

Great episode.never imagined devourment are such nice people 😂.also true craftsmen of death metal

[@theoppositeistrue]

Awesome to hear them talk about pop music influencing the strategy for structuring their songs. I’ve always thought that unleash the carnivore is one of the catchiest brutal death metal albums ever made. It really does feel “poppy” in that way. Same with abominable putridity’s anomalies of artificial origin.

[@pradiptogitokusumo616]

LET'S FUCKING GOOOO

[@ridleysomeliana-lauer5814]

Brad’s Resident Evil shirt is sick!

[@codyeakinsbradley]

Fun fact. That club in fort worth is owned by the man my wife works for. Abboud's son still owns the building. And they still have old shit, like panteras first demo and the old green room still has all the old Band names still on it.

[@MortalTorment]

Sick intee!

[@rheaandnicdaw4356]

I love Ruben's nice neat hair! HAHAHA so father like awesome.

[@okaight7248]

Love how open minded they were

[@FishininFunkyTown]

Just saw them but I unfortunately had to leave early so I didn't get to hear baby killer live again. Next time.😢

[@giorgialavidze2390]

PLz next BRODEQUIN

[@giorgialavidze2390]

or Disgorge

[@CrookedTooth616]

Ruben’s new look is wild to me. Back in the day, he was intimidating AF. Nowadays, he looks like he’s about to pick his grandkids up from soccer practice. No shade, of course. Regardless of looks, Ruben’s vocals and his band Devourment are fucking legends. Edit: Shout out to Devourment for shouting out Embodyment! I found out about Devourment because Embodyment thanked them in their “thank you” section of the album “Embrace the Eternal”. Also, speaking of gnarly ass vocalists from FWT, Sect of Execration is another band with brutal vokills.

[@neighborhoodmusicsnob5517]

I think he look a better now. Accepting the age and just going for it. Especially with the death metal shirts.

[@THETHIRDYEAROFNINES]

I think that at least makes the vocals more intimidating and his vocals on Obscene Majesty were more vicious than ever before.

[@DemonWhisper1]

I almost didn't realize that was him lol

[@mickz1829]

@@THETHIRDYEAROFNINES still MTD gutturals was the toughest gutturals ever!

[@mickz1829]

i agree Sect Of Execration Gurgle Gutturals was inhuman too! hope there some live performance video so we can here those inhuman gutturals in live.

[@Sludgemonkey1550]

Didn’t know Shannon Hoon was in Devourment lmao

[@Luke-kx5mf]

Rip Wayne ❤️

[@andrewvirrueta6767]

Fucking loved this episode THANK YOU

[@denisx7015]

Chris, please invite Dave Suzuki

[@calculatedxbarbarity]

This is a great idea. It would be extremely cool if it actually ended up happening. 👌

[@ridleysomeliana-lauer5814]

The idea of the dudes from Devourment listening to an album like Embrace the Eternal is fucking me up i l love it hahaha

[@lowenbad]

Crazy to hear them talk about Embodyment. I remember when solid state signed them. I was on Tooth & Nail at one point. I won’t say which band.

[@saltpeter7429]

How come? What band were you in dude? Lol. I'm just goofing, you obviously dont have to disclose anything you dont want to. I liked Tooth & Nail back in the day. I was not/ am not connected to society from living very far out in a rural areA. Pre internet. I would find cool bands on a label and buy more bands from that label in the Hope's that the music would be good and I would find things I didnt know about. Tooth & Nail had some good and interesting bands.

[@lowenbad]

@@saltpeter7429 I was in Pep Squad… definitely a far cry from the Solid State side of things. I joined the band when they got the record deal. It was an interesting experience to be in that world for a couple years.

[@saltpeter7429]

@@lowenbad sounds really cool, like something to be proud of. I was in a band a long time ago. We only played the VFW and town hall's for free, lol. It was fun though...

[@ghostgoblin1220]

I got that shirt from back in the day. Don’t wear it anymore unless I go to a show

[@DaleEarnhardt_]

These are my peoples

[@lecturehc]

I agree, the original slam comes from those early 90's nydm legends. One band that doesnt't get much mention though is Dehumanized. Prophecies Foretold is fuckin' proper man, I love that album.

[@off6848]

Disgorge out of Rochester too.

[@repthobo]

There's Dave Spencer! He's been "punching large teeth" since back in Ridley High school!

[@greatemeraldgoat5029]

Got my face cut open by sucker punching a scenester's ring at a DevourmentCattle Decap show. Still had a great time. Shit blew my mind.