{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Slaughtercult | type = studio | artist = Exhumed | cover = Slaughtercult cover.jpg | alt = | released = {{Start date|2000|8|15}} | recorded = Trident Studios, Concord, California from May 2–9, 2000, and Soundlab Studios, Örebro, Sweden from May 12–14, 2000 | venue = | studio = | genre = Deathgrind | length = {{Duration|m=34|s=56}} | label = Relapse | producer = | prev_title = Gore Metal | prev_year = 1998 | next_title = Anatomy Is Destiny | next_year = 2003 }} {{Music ratings | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1score = {{Rating|4.0|5}}<ref>{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r493154}}</ref> }}
'''''Slaughtercult''''' is the second full-length studio album by American death metal band Exhumed. It contained backup vocals from Henke Forss from Dawn and guest lead guitars on one song by Mieszko Talarczyk of Nasum.
==Overview== Founding member Matt Harvey said that ''Slaughtercult'' was "the album where we came closest to achieving our goal – just a brutal, simple, direct group of songs that were very up-front and live sounding."<ref name="Metal Maniacs">{{cite web|last=Abominator|first=Mike|title=Interview With Matt Harvey of Exhumed|url=http://www.metalmaniacs.com/2010/interview-with-matt-harvey-of-exhumed/|publisher=Metal Maniacs|accessdate=May 4, 2013|date=August 23, 2010|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100831052553/http://www.metalmaniacs.com/2010/interview-with-matt-harvey-of-exhumed/|archivedate=August 31, 2010}}</ref> He further noted the band's pride over the lack of double bass on the album, in contrast to contemporary death metal trends.<ref name="Metal Maniacs" /> ''Slaughtercult'' also reduced the quantity of sound effects and samples in comparison to ''Gore Metal''; Harvey attributed this to the departure of Ross Sewage, who had taken a leading role in the implementation of these sound elements in the past.<ref name=Braindead>{{cite web|last=Nocera|first=Billy|title=Interviews: Exhumed|url=http://www.grindgore.net/interview-exhumed.htm|work=Braindead Zine|publisher=Grindgrore.net|accessdate=May 7, 2013}}</ref> Harvey said, "We didn't feel like they [the sound effects and samples] fit in with the overall direction of the material and the feel of the album and we just wanted to make something 100% over-the-top and in-your-face."<ref name=Braindead />
In support of ''Slaughtercult'', the band toured the US three times, and embarked on their first proper European tour, including co-headlining festivals like Fuck the Commerce and Obscene Extreme. The band also appeared at the Wacken Open Air festival.
==Track listing== All songs written by Matt Harvey, except where noted. {{Track listing |title1 = Decrepit Crescendo |length1 = 2:26 |title2 = Forged in Fire (Formed in Flame) |writer2 = Harvey, Mike Beams |length2 = 2:57 |title3 = A Lesson in Pathology |length3 = 3:25 |title4 = This Axe Was Made to Grind |writer4 = Harvey, Bud Burke |length4 = 2:24 |title5 = Carnal Epitaph |length5 = 3:00 |title6 = Dinnertime in the Morgue |length6 = 2:05 |title7 = Fester Forever |writer7 = Harvey, Beams |length7 = 3:39 |title8 = Deep Red |length8 = 3:09 |title9 = Infester |writer9 = Harvey, Col Jones |length9 = 1:21 |title10 = Slave to the Casket |length10 = 3:18 |title11 = Slaughtercult |length11 = 1:36 |title12 = Funeral Fuck |writer12 = Harvey, Beams |length12 = 3:03 |title13 = Vacant Grave |length13 = 2:35 }}
==Personnel== ===Exhumed=== *Matt Harvey – guitars, bass, vocals *Col Jones – drums *Mike Beams – guitars, vocals
===Guest musicians=== *Mieszko Talarczyk – lead guitar ("Fester Forever"), engineering, mixing, mastering *Juan Urteaga – additional vocals *Leon del Müerte – additional vocals *Sean McGrath – additional vocals *Henke Forss – additional vocals *Jason Balsells – additional vocals
===Production=== *Jonathan Canady – design *Julio Sánchez – photography *Juan Urteaga – assistant engineering *Matthew F. Jacobson – executive production
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Category:Exhumed (band) albums Category:2000 albums Category:Relapse Records albums