6-Way Sin Decomposition is a split album between six Christian goregrind artists, released on August 23, 2007, jointly by Christ Core Records and Vomit Bucket Productions. The album contains tracks from the Ecuadorian band Flactorophia, the American bands Demonic Dismemberment and Eternal Mystery, the German band Vomitous Discharge, and the Australian bands Engravor and Vomitorial Corpulence.
Gag, the sole individual behind Vomitous Discharge, stated in a 2015 interview that initially the recording was planned as a four-way split between his band and Flactorophia, Demonic Dismemberment, and Eternal Mystery after those three projects invited him to join a split recording with them.[1] Gag created the title and an initial draft for the cover art, but work on the release stalled as the artists looked for someone to release it.[1] At about that time Chris Valentine of Vomitorial Corpulence contacted the four artists about joining the release with newly recorded material from the band from a planned album that had fallen through.[1][2] Valentine then helped with the planning of the album, suggested bringing in Engravor, and financed most of the CD pressing.[1] Gag of Vomitous Discharge and José Barragán of Flactorophia covered the remaining pressing costs.[1] The final product was released jointly on Christ Core Records and Gag's Vomit Bucket Productions.[3] The final release contained 83 songs,[a] ranging in length from only 4 seconds (from Vomitous Discharge) to 3:26 (from Flactorophia).[4]
Lloyd Harp of Heaven's Metal noted that while the majority of the recording is in the goregrind style, there still is more variety than expected for an exclusively grindcore compilation.[4] Jamie Lee Rake of The Phantom Tollbooth likewise felt that the half a dozen goregrind acts provide more variety than might be expected for a musical style on the outermost fringe of extremity.[6]
Harp, writing in 2025 for Indie Vision Music, described the style of Demonic Dismemberment as heavily influenced by experimental noise, a subgenre of grind known as "noisecore".[7] Rake found Eternal Mystery's vocals to be the deepest in pitch on the recording, likening them to an incomprehensible Darth Vader. Demonic Dismemberment's vocals Rake thought sound the least human, more comparable to a malfunctioning vacuum cleaner. Engravor use percussive sounds and little else, the after-effects of the noise functioning similar to bass. Vomitorial Corpulence, the only band with more than one member, perform heavy guitar tones, a range of percussion, and vocals ranging from screeched gargles to mumbles to death growls.[6]
The compilation was noted for the contributions from Vomitorial Corpulence, who were veterans in the Christian grindcore scene and, of the artists on the compilation, the closest to being a classic Christian metal act.[4][6] Lloyd Harp considered the release a great introduction to the Christian grindcore scene, although he warned that the lyrics and music "are not for the faint of heart."[4] In a 2025 article on Christian grindcore, Jason McLaren of Heaven's Metal opined that the recording is "ridiculously extreme" and would only be enjoyed by "those who like the most grotesque noise possible".[8]
Jamie Lee Rake questioned the utility of the incomprehensible vocals as a means to evangelize but felt that the music could work as a means of fun cacophonous exaltation of God.[6] Flactorophia they felt stood out not only for being from Ecuador, writing some songs in Spanish, and for the vocals, but also for the "most berserk drum machine of the lot."[6] Demonic Dismemberment they said deserve praise for its boldness in placing "Excremental Human Offal" right before "He Died For You And Me", as well as likely the only usage of "spewagly" in a gospel song title that the reader would hear that decade. Rake praised Eternal Mystery's guitar work and the theological intelligence of the band's lyrics. Regarding Vomitous Discharge, Rake expressed some skepticism given that the band had appeared on some pornogrind compilations but respected that band's use of found sounds and sampling. They gave the album an overall score of three-and-a-half out of five.[6]
^Heaven's Metal mentions 82 songs in its review,[4] and 82 songs are listed in the album liner notes.[3] However, the Vomit Bucket Production and Vomitorial Corpulence website both mention 83 songs;[5][2] Gag from Vomit Bucket Productions and Vomitous Discharge has explained the existence of a track hidden before the 82 songs listed in the liner notes.[3]
