Since the band's foundation, Devourment released a demo, Impaled, and an album, Molesting the Decapitated, before disbanding due to the jailing of vocalist Ruben Rosas.

The band reformed for a third time in 2005, and has since released two reissues of 1.3.8., two DVDs, and four full-length albums: Butcher the Weak, Unleash the Carnivore, Conceived in Sewage and Obscene Majesty.

[3] Necrocide's drummer, Brad Fincher, and guitarist, Braxton Henry, met up with former Meatus vocalist Wayne Knupp to play brutal death metal.

[4][5] The band then developed its first promo, featuring two songs, "Shroud of Encryption" and "Festering Vomitous Mass",[3] which was produced by former and future guitarist Braxton Henry.

In 1999, Devourment signed a record deal with United Guttural and started developing its first album, Molesting the Decapitated, again produced by Braxton.

[5] Reviews were positive, with Blas, of Global Domination, who praised the album for being so brutal, claiming that "if you look up the word 'Brutal' in the dictionary right now, you'd see Devourment's logo right next to the definition".

[7] Dan Staige, of Metal Review, said that the instruments were "remarkably balanced and crisp", and his only criticism was that the "ultra heavy breakdowns" "may sound a little monotonous", but that "you will still bang your head".

[3] Shortly afterwards, Rosas was arrested and jailed for two and a half years, meaning the members of the band went their separate ways.

[13] Upon Rosas's release in 2002, he reformed the band with new members, featuring himself on vocals, guitarists Robert Moore and Kevin Clark, Jeremy Peterson on drums and Joseph Fontenot (later of Jacknife) on bass.

[3] The band entered the studio in August 2005 to begin recording Butcher the Weak, and the completed album was released in November 2005.

[3][14] According to Josh Thorne of fourteen g, the "production is a lot better" than it was on Molesting the Decapitated, but Majewski explained that both albums had been recorded in the same studio.

"[16] In 2005, former Kill the Client drummer Chris Andrews joined the band on bass to round out the lineup for live shows.

He was a good person and definitely deserves to be remembered.Since Butcher the Weak, Devourment recorded new material for compilation albums and continued to tour.

[3] The band appeared at various festivals,[3] including Central Illinois Metalfest,[21] The Goregrowler's Ball[22] and Germany's Fuck the Commerce.

[25][non-primary source needed] Devourment began writing new material in 2011, and traveled to St. Petersburg, Florida in June 2012 to record its fourth album.

[29] This caused speculation that the band had broken up or would be breaking up due to it being Devourment's second planned line of concert appearances that year that went abandoned.