Consuming Impulse

Consuming Impulse
Studio album by Pestilence
Released	December 25, 1989/January 9, 1990(Europe)
Recorded	1989 at Music Lab Berlin
Genre	Death metal
Length	35:23
Label	Roadrunner
Producer	Harris Johns
Pestilence chronology
Malleus Maleficarum (1988) Consuming Impulse (1989) Testimony of the Ancients (1991)

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Consuming Impulse is the second album by the Dutch death metal band Pestilence. It received high regards from death metal fans as soon as it was released. 'Consuming Impulse' is often cited as a high point of original death metal movement.^{[citation needed]}

It was reissued along with Testimony of the Ancients on Roadrunner Records' Two from the Vault series.

The song "Out of the Body" was covered by fellow Netherlands melodic death metal band Callenish Circle as a bonus track for their 2003 release My Passion // Your Pain.

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Dehydrated"	3:08
2.	"The Process of Suffocation"	2:41
3.	"Suspended Animation"	3:28
4.	"The Trauma"	3:20
5.	"Chronic Infection"	3:57
6.	"Out of the Body"	4:39
7.	"Echoes of Death"	4:16
8.	"Deify Thy Master"	4:53
9.	"Proliferous Souls"	2:08
10.	"Reduced to Ashes"	4:53
Total length:		35:23

Credits

• Patrick Mameli - guitar, bass
• Patrick Uterwijk - guitar
• Martin van Drunen - vocals
• Marco Foddis - drums