UMUR "Crawling in Vomits" is the first demo release by Swedish death/black metal act Treblinka. The demo was independently released in November 1988. It´s noteworthy that the demo was recorded at Sunlight Studio and to my knowledge it´s the first death metal release recorded at the studio (the early Nihilist and Dismember demos were recorded at Studio Z). Treblinka formed in 1987, released two demos, and the "Severe Abominations" EP (released in July 1989 through the band´s own label Mould in Hell Records), before changing their name to Tiamat in 1989.

Stylistically the material on "Crawling in Vomits" is a death/thrash/black metal hybrid. The term black metal meant something else in 1988 than it would just a few years down the line, so this is just blackened death/thrash and not really what most people would perceive as black metal. "Crawling in Vomits" generally sound quite different from contemporary releases by fellow countrymen like Nihilist, Dismember, and Grave, as Treblinka appear more influenced by artists like Bathory, Venom, and Hellhammer (not completely unlike an artist like the Swiss in Samael), than by the US and the UK death metal and grindcore scenes, which were the scenes their contemporaries were mostly influenced by.

"Crawling in Vomits" doesn´t feature the trademark Sunlight Studio production either. Instead the sound production on the demo is relatively thin sounding with a guitar tone which isn´t highly distorted and not particularly heavy sounding. So Treblinka may have been part of the same scene as the other upcoming Swedish death metal acts, but their music style and their image (they wore corpse paint and spouted a Satanic image) were quite different from that scene.

As a first demo release "Crawling in Vomits" is quite decent and shows a young band with reasonable playing skills, and some effective songwriting ideas. It´s not the most groundbreaking Swedish extreme metal demo from those days, but the overall quality is alright and a 3 star (60%) rating is warranted.