Nespithe is the only album recorded by Finnish

Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

 death metal

Death metal

Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It typically employs heavily distorted guitars, tremolo picking, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, minor keys or atonality, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes....

 band Demilich

Demilich (band)

Demilich was a death metal band from Finland which formed in the early 1990s and consisted of vocalist/guitarist Antti Boman, guitarist Aki Hytönen, bassist Ville Koistinen, and drummer Mikko Virnes....

. Originally issued by Necropolis Records in 1993, it was reissued in 1996 for the European market by Repulse Records and in 2003 by Century Media.

The reissued version includes "The Four Instructive Tales... of Decomposition" demo and new artwork.

A remastered edition of the album was released in 2009 on both CD and vinyl by Xtreem Music. This version, unlike the previous Necropolis Records and Century Media releases, is approved by the band.

The album title, "Nespithe", is the anagram

Anagram

An anagram is a type of word play, the result of rearranging the letters of a word or phrase to produce a new word or phrase, using all the original letters exactly once; e.g., orchestra = carthorse, A decimal point = I'm a dot in place, Tom Marvolo Riddle = I am Lord Voldemort. Someone who...

of "The Spine", constructed by reversing order of three-letter groups from the end of the word. The track title "Erecshyrinol", meaning "No Lyrics Here" was constructed using the same algorithm.

Original Track listing

1. "When the Sun Drank the Weight of Water" - 3:43
2. "The Sixteenth Six-Tooth Son of Fourteen Four-Regional Dimensions (Still Unnamed)" - 3:29
3. "Inherited Bowel Levitation - Reduced Without Any Effort" - 3:22
4. "The Echo (Replacement)" - 4:27
5. "The Putrefying Road in the Nineteenth Extremity (...Somewhere Inside the Bowels of Endlessness...)" - 2:40
6. "(Within) The Chamber of Whispering Eyes" - 4:12
7. "And You'll Remain... (In Pieces in Nothingness)" - 3:12
8. "Erecshyrinol" - 3:17
9. "The Planet That Once Used To Absorb Flesh In Order To Achieve Divinity and Immortality (Suffocated To The Flesh That It Desired...)" - 3:17
10. "The Cry" - 3:42
11. "Raped Embalmed Beauty Sleep" - 3:42

Reissued Track listing

1. "When the Sun Drank the Weight of Water"
2. "The Sixteenth Six Tooth Son of Fourteen Four Regional Dimensions..."
3. "Inherited Bowel Levitation-Reduced Without Any Effort"
4. "The Echo (Replacement)"
5. "The Putrefying Road in the Nineteenth Extremity (...Somewhere inside the Bowels of Endlessness...)"
6. "(Within) The Chamber of Whispering Eyes"
7. "And You'll Remain (In Pieces in Nothingness)"
8. "Erecshyrinol"
9. "The Planet That Once Used to Absorb Flesh in Order to Achieve Divinity and Immortality (Suffocated to the Flesh That It Desired...)"
10. "The Cry"
11. "Raped Embalmed Beauty Sleep"
12. "Introduction (Embalmed Beauty Sleep)"
13. "Two Independent Organisms → One Suppurating Deformity"
14. "And The Slimy Flying Creatures Reproduce In Your Brains"
15. "The Uncontrollable Regret of the Rotting Flesh"