Human Artifacts "The Principles Of Sickness"

Tracklist: 01. Dismembered For Pleasure 02. Lust For The Dead... Sex In A Shallow Grave 03. Beat With A Bat 04. The Principles Of Sickness 05. Backroom Facial 06. Head In A Ziploc Bag 07. Maimed And Disfigured 08. Haunted 09. Graveyard Delicacy 10. Dismembered For Pleasure (Live) 11. Head In A Ziploc Bag (Live) Release: 2007 Genre: Brutal Death Metal URL: www.humanartifacts.net Label: www.comatosemusic.com

So here we got it finally, the first album from of the very fresh band Human Artifacts. Announced by the label Comatose Music already quite a while, it lasted nevertheless some time, until one was able to get into the benefit of a track from this band consisting of the former Lividity member Matt Bishop, Robert Brodie, Aaron Harper as well as Jake Lahniers of Deaden. Now anno 2007 it's finally done and "The Principles Of Sickness" available for the purchase. Clearly that one can be please then also not for a long time to examine a little more exactly, what we can finally expect from this full length. Roughly in summary for the style of Human Artifacts I would say the following: it will definitely not be fast here at all. The eleven tracks are offered in an almost sluggish mid-tempo style and do not develop much place for great changes. Only the two live tracks can show a smaller speed increase here. If you know "Hymns For The Sick" from Deaden then I'm sure you'll be able to imagine how Human Artifacts will act. The Deaden style dominates completely clearly opposite of Lividity. Which connects Human Artifacts with Lividity is actually only the deep gargle vocals brought by Matt Bishop, which you could already hear on " .'Til Only The Sick Remain". His vocals particularly didn't change that much compared with the almost five years older album. Bishop is still gargling like an animal and makes thereby the impression that a rabid dog has performed his work here on the micro. Ok let's come to another point that will clarify the music on "The Principles Of Sickness": the drum sound. This is played suitably to the rather sluggish and also sometimes grooving sound of the guitars, which can be heard very well. An enormous bass-wall is underlining the whole still very good, but is mixing itself a little bit too much into the foreground here and there so that in connection with the vocals a part of the sound is only hearable with some difficulties. Especially the double base is frequently affected by it, also because it turned out relatively quietly. Here and there also screams and sometimes dual vocal attacks are offered beneath all the deep guttural vocals, which makes the vocals at all a little bit more varied. Unfortunately it does not behave in such a way with the rest. The drum sound actually always remains the same, and also from the riffs that are offered here you should not expect some new pieces of cream. For me it seems that they wanted to old everything on this album on a solid standard level just to see if anyone would find any favour on this sound. That these people are there you can clearly see through the nevertheless quite big fan base of Deaden and also Lividity. We summarize briefly once: on their first full length Human Artifacts is offering some solid sluggish as well as grooving brutal death metal, whose clear deficiency is the missing alternation of the tracks because they do not differ much apart from the appearing short samples and an intro in "Dismembered For Pleasure" that is opening the album. Positively to mark is the guest appearance of Mr. Putrid Pile Shaun Lacanne, who is showing short but extremely clearly that he has not forgotten anything since his 2 nd album "The Pleasure In Suffering". The two live tracks at the end of this album can be seen as some kind of bonus stuff because nobody would have missed them if they would have not been added to this release as the sound is a little bit rushing and therefore not really enjoyable. I think they also are added to this disc to stretch the pretty short runtime of only 24 minutes to 32 minutes. What's left in the end is the outside feature. As it is very often the case one of the most very well known artist was working on the cover here again. Unfortunately the ideas haven't been that huge here in my opinion as the final cover artwork is very much looking like the cover that has been done for the latest Disgorge (US) album that has also been adorned by Jon Zig (is he running out of ideas?). The remaining design of the booklet and the back and also inlay cover artworks is pretty unspectacular, one could also say it's pretty typical, whereby there is to mark that on the back cover the track titles are not really good and clearly readable as they are printed very small. Altogether Human Artifacts didn't released an real hammer of an album with "The Principles Of Sickness" but it is also not the barrel burst everyone was assuming at first due to missing preview tracks. Fans of Deaden can get this calmed down, because they'll be well entertained with this in any case, while fans of Lividity apart from Matt Bishops guttural vocals will only find a less big recognizing value here.

Rating: 67 % | from ScYthe | Date: 05.05.07 | Time: 17:50	shut down