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Artist: PROJECT:
FAILING FLESH
Album: The Conjoined
Year: 2007
Project: Failing Flesh is a trio hailing from the States.
Some of you might remember this band because of their
first album ‘A Beautiful Sickness’, which was released
in 2004 by Karmageddon Media. I am not one of them, and
since the biography that was included is filled with
vague terms in stead of information about their music
style, influences, etc. I did some research. According
to their MySpace profile, this band has many different
influences from Joy Division to Dismember and from Iggy
and the Stooges to Venom (just to name a few bands out
of the impressive list). This brought quite some
curiousity in my mind. ‘The Conjoined’ is the 2nd album
of Project: Failing Flesh (P:FF) and is released in 2007
by the Greek label Burning Star Records.
‘Final Act of Treachery’ is the first track of the album.
It includes hyperactive double bass drumming, heavy
guitarlines and wellplaced keyparts. The surprisingly
cool vocals (a little raw but still sensitive at times)
fit well to the track. ‘Through The Broken Lens’
consists of HC likely distorted guitarwork, a variative
bassline and powerful drums. The diversity of the vocals
are well used on this track. ‘Regenerate’ comes next.
Its a cool midtempo industrial metal track, with some
wicked guitar- and drumparts. Some wellplaced keyparts
give the “intermezzo” a nice atmosphere. Next up is the
title track of the album. It starts with some marching
drums and a loud bassline, but when the song goes on it
gives me one surprise after another. Some trumpets and
horns (!) are to be found here and there, and with the
lower clean vocal parts it almost looks like I’m
listening to Burton C. Bell. ‘Motionless’ comes next,
which is more uptempo than the preverious song. It
consists of straight to the point drumparts, modern
guitarwork and different styles of vocal parts. ‘Unsight
Unseen’ is an instrumental track (with a little
theatrical sounding), and ‘Eve of Demise’ follows. This
is a cool, fast track with black and thrash metal
guitarwork mixed with modern and wicked drumming.
‘Synesthesia’ is a track that confirms the old school
influences of this band. Stuff like Black Sabbath,
Serpentcult and maybe even a little Type O Negative come
in mind, but its all a bit modernized with some killer
vocal works. ‘Second Impact Syndrome’ is again more HC
and thrash metal based, with fast double bass drumming
and the typical guitarwork. Eric Forrest (the vocalist)
proves with this track that he is well able to do
different metal styles, which gets confirmed with some
surprisingly cool clean vocal parts. ‘Surface Noise’
brings us the return of the trumpets. Furthermore, this
is more of an old school track with heavy guitars and
typical old school drumming. ‘The Hand That You've Been
Dealt’ is the final track of the release. Its a mix of
modern metalcore with industrial death metal, with some
surprisingly fresh guitarparts here and there.
As you have read in the review, there’s clearly no
variation missing on this album. P:FF manages to bring
different worlds all together like it’s a common thing,
and has the power to make it sound more than decent.
Fans of bands like Malmonde, Hypnosis, Violent Work of
Art and maybe even fans of bands like Disturbed and
Hatebreed might really find a more than positive
surprise on this release. As some final words, I’d love
to quote some words mentioned on the promo. “This CD is
for promotional use only. None can sold this to you. If
someone tries to do such a thing, then shove it up his
@!@#$%.” Although it’s never a bad thing to get promo
CDs shoved in my ass, I’m not even considering of
selling this one to you, so if you really want this one
(which you do!) then go and rob your favourite CD store!
Vote: 88 / 100
Review by: Gerardo |
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01. Final Act of
Treachery
02. Through The Broken
Lens
03. Regenerate
04. The Conjoined
05. Motionless
06. Unsight Unseen
07. Eve of Demise
08. Synesthesia
09. Second Impact
Syndrome
10. Surface Noise
11. The Hand That You've
Been Dealt |
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