History Music / Devourment

* SpecialGuest: Majewski serves as this here and there, most notably with Music/{{Benighted}} and Music/CattleDecapitation. Travis Ryan of the latter band returned the favor on ''Conceived in Sewage''. [[Music/DefeatedSanity Lille Gruber]] was also a one-time live fill-in in 2022, while their spring 2023 North American tour is slated to feature [[Music/{{Disgorge}} Angel Ochoa]] and John Hull (Gorgasm, Desecrate the Faith) as fill-ins.

* FrankensteinsMonster[=/=]FleshGolem: The end result of "Cognitive Sedation Butchery" courtesy of a MadScientist.

* [[DeathMetal Slam Death Metal]]: Most definitely the TropeMaker and TropeCodifier for slam, but it is highly debatable whether they were the UrExample or not, as numerous bands were releasing slammy demos before them, and Music/{{Suffocation}}, Music/DyingFetus, Music/{{Skinless}}, Music/BrokenHope, Internal Bleeding (who coined the term "slam" to refer to their style), Pyrexia, and Mortal Decay are all at least viewed as proto-slam.

* SpecialGuest: Majewski serves as this here and there, most notably with Music/{{Benighted}} and Music/CattleDecapitation. Travis Ryan of the latter band returned the favor on ''Conceived in Sewage''. [[Music/DefeatedSanity Lille Gruber]] was also a one-time live fill-in in 2022.

* SpecialGuest: Majewski serves as this here and there, most notably with Music/{{Benighted}} and Music/CattleDecapitation. Travis Ryan of the latter band returned the favor on ''Conceived in Sewage''.

* {{Gorn}}: What else would you expect? ''Obscene Majesty'' goes back to this after spending two albums dealing with WarIsHell, but toning down on the the Sexual violence.

* ContemptibleCover: ''Molesting the Decapitated'' and ''Conceived in Sewage'' both qualify.

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: Solid 11 for their entire career for the most part, though they can dip down to a hard 10.

* WarIsHell: The lyrical themes of ''Unleash the Carnivore'' and ''Conceived in Sewage''.

+ Music/{{Suffocation}}, Music/{{Cryptopsy}}, Music/DyingFetus, Music/BrokenHope, Music/{{Pantera}}, Internal Bleeding, Pyrexia, Music/CannibalCorpse, Music/{{Skinless}}, Music/{{Disgorge}}, Music/{{Deicide}}, Music/{{Slipknot}}, Music/{{Korn}}, Music/MachineHead, Static X, Music/{{Sepultura}}

* TheAlcoholic: Wayne Knupp. It's what killed him, too.

* LaserGuidedKarma: "Truculent Antipathy" has the female victim come back and give her male abuser a taste of his own medicine.

* MisogynySong: This is slam. You kind of have to expect it. Significantly downplayed starting with ''Unleash'', focusing on warfare, as well as some of the gorn lyrics being less sexual and more straight-up violent. [[WordOfGod According to Brad Fincher]], they were attempting to be as dirty and filthy as possible both musically and lyrically on ''Molesting the Decapitated'', which led to the band going out of their way to come up with the most vile lyrics that they could muster. He's totally aware of the implications of the lyrics (especially since he, Ruben Rosas, and Kevin Clark all have daughters) and has gone on record as being sick of misogyny in slam, and his current stance on his band's own lyrics seems to be something along the lines of "it was the best that we could do to accomplish our goals at the time".

After Rosas was released, the band went through multiple lineup shifts that ultimately resulted in failure and the band folding until 2005, when Rosas, Majewski, and Knupp decided to start over, with Eric Park (drums) completing the lineup. They quickly recorded and self-released ''Butcher the Weak'' later that year before inking a record deal with Brutal Bands the following year, subsequently re-recording and releasing ''Butcher'' on the label. Tragedy struck when Knupp died of multiple organ failure in 2007, but the band kept going, releasing ''Unleash the Carnivore'' in 2009 before signing with Relapse the following year. After several years of touring and other assorted odds and ends, they released ''Conceived in Sewage'' in February of 2013. Numerous personal troubles resulted in the band dropping off of a tour with Dying Fetus later that year and resulted in Rosas and Park leaving; nonetheless, Majewski stated that it was not over and that they were merely reassessing things. After rumors that they were going to reform with most of the ''Molesting'' lineup and play the Summer Slaughter started floating around in early 2014, the band finally announced on May 19, 2014 that they would be continuing on with Rosas on vocals, Andrews on guitar, and Fincher on drums, along with newcomer Dave Spencer (Fincher's bandmate in Meshiha) on bass. Various scattered shows have followed since then along with some vague talk of a new album, and as of 2016, Clark has returned yet again to make it a two-guitar lineup.

* StartMyOwn: Brian Wynn and Brad Fincher started Meshiha in 2009, though Wynn left that band as well in 2013. Majewski himself went on to start Kill Everything in 2016, which is largely in the same spirit as Meshiha.

* [[DeathMetal Slam Death Metal]]

* {{Gorn}}: What else would you expect?

* WarIsHell: ''Unleash the Carnivore'' and ''Conceived in Sewage''.

* RevisitingTheRoots: ''Obscene Majesty'' is a return to the ''Molesting the Decapitated'' era stylistically with better production values, tighter and more technically advanced performances, and a different lyrical approach (nixing the rampant {{Misogyny Song}}s of their earlier material); in short, it is ''Molesting'' if they had made it now instead of back in 1999.

Devourment is an American slam death metal band, and quite possibly THE slam band at that. Categorized by their ultra-low vocals, heavily mosh-oriented riffing that focuses less on technicality and more on sheer, unrelenting heaviness, and highly complex and technical drumming that focuses less on blasting and more on winding grooves, Devourment is generally the first band that people think of when they think of slam, and for good reason.

* MisogynySong: This is slam. You kind of have to expect it. Significantly downplayed starting with ''Unleash'', focusing on warfare, as well as some of the gorn lyrics being less sexual and more straight up violent.

* {{Jerkass}}: Unsurprisingly. When you promote misogyny in your music, you're bound to be this.

* MisogynySong: This is slam. You kind of have to expect it.

* TropeMaker: For slam. While often treated as the UrExample, this is ''highly'' debatable due to there being multiple bands around that time releasing demos with similar sounds. Uncertainty notwithstanding, however, Devourment definitely served as the first prominent example of the sound.