Necrophagist takes its name from an Ancient Greek phrase meaning “eater of the dead.” In itself, that’s not so bad, because anyone who’s not a lifelong vegetarian has dined on something deceased, but song titles such as “Fermented Offal Discharge” and lyrics like “body parts served on a plate/prepared by sick culinary” clarify the grotesque nature of this German death-metal band’s appetites. Necrophagist seems to have a particular taste for stillborns, which might be alarming news for opening act Dying Fetus. Despite all the ugly talk about consuming putrefied flesh, Necrophagist crafts some startlingly gorgeous passages, like when singer/guitarist Muhammed Suiçmez’s sweeping, crystalline solo lends incongruous beauty to the otherwise barbarous “Advanced Corpse Tumor.” Suiçmez never instills any of this technical prettiness into his vocals, which sound like the type of violent regurgitation one might expect from someone with his professed diet.

Tue., Aug. 26, 6 p.m., 2008