Flesh Consumed "Mutilate, Eviscerate, Decapitate"

Tracklist: 01. Schizophrenic Slaughter Frenzy 02. Disinterment 03. Cast Into The Pit 04. Human Abattor 05. Flesh Consumed 06. Lynched With Entrails 07. Sadistic Incineration 08. Locked In The Crosshairs 09. Harvesting Humans Release: 2008 Genre: Brutal Death Metal URL: www.fleshconsumed.com Label: www.sevared.com

Everything looked like a normal work effort: a gory cover artwork, a common album title, a band logo which is hard to read. No reason for having a high blood pressure in the forefront at all. So CD thrown in the CD-player; a scary intro followed by human screams and inhuman grunts is breaking the first ground. I was almost ready to furnish Flesh Consumed with the average 08/15 stamp but then the music initiates. During the first moments the band shows an astonishingly vitality, enthusiasm and aggressiveness so that it is a pure delight. Expertly these guys combine great grooving slam parts with unpredictable guitar techniques on the following next 30 minutes. The guitars create a huge pressure and on top of that the vocals are guttural and varied. This may be due to the large number of guest appearances (for example Blue Jensen of Guttural Secrete) which, if you believe in the credits were recorded in a hotel room. However, you even can't hear some special voice out of all the brutal vocals and its fine like that. All songs could be assigned to the genre of technical slam Death Metal but the songs own enough independence and recognition value. And that's the cause why the attention is kept up high during the albums full runtime and that there is no unity mash. Masterly the slam-riffs are forged with mad string sorcery to beauty of varied Death Metal. It has been a while since I have been animated bobbing up and down and listen with such an attention. One is really curious about what these guys from USA will do in the following moment. There isn't much blast beat drumming going on and if it happens it's just for a very short time. And so we got the one critical point on this release. Flesh Consumed indicate a real drummer but in the past they got only session drummers altogether. And even on this CD the drumming does sound very artificial too. That isn't further a problem because the drums are relatively pushed in the rear by the guitars and one can just recognize this problem during the very few blast beat parts. But all in all the drumming does its part and in the view on the vocals and groove-riffs just some kind of ornamental art. The title track is a great example for how the band can piece together an abstract rhythm with speed variety to a bestial groove monster. You could say that they are the "McGyvers" of the Death Metal scene. Therefore it is good to know that these guys don't exaggerate it until unconsciousness like Guttural Secrete on their latest release which was so fed up with techniques and breaks but didn't contained any really memorable tracks. Anyhow I can't assume any boredom to Flesh Consumed till this day. Flesh Consumed or should I say "Cephalotripsy on ecstasy" are offering us a maximum contingent of ideas and variety in a Brutal Death Metal scenery missing excessive supply of innovations. I take my hat off and am looking forward to their upcoming releases. Maybe then they'll have a fixed drummer in the line-up. Well at least on "Mutilate, Eviscerate, Decapitate" you don't have to abandon on a real drummer. Anyhow it is an idea of improvement. Also I hope that this band will never run out of ideas for groovy guitar riffs. The cover artwork is well drawn by the way, but the artwork inside the booklet is quite ridiculous (or have you ever seen a skeleton with muscles before?). I would like to recommend you the song "Disinterment" at this point as it's my favorite song and I am hopeless in love with it. Mission "Mutilate, Eviscerate, Decapitate" definitely accomplished!

Rating: 96 % | from Grimo | Date: 05.12.2008 | Time: 17:05	shut down