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The Sound Of Razors Through Flesh
Failed Humanity
Candlelight Records, 2001
REVIEW BY: Christopher Thelen
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED: 05/09/2001
Telling someone these days that you listen to grindcore metal isalmost like admitting you enjoy French-kissing light sockets. (No,Doctor, I don't do that anymore; I'm married.) The look you get fromsome of the people you tell this to is kind of like the look yourdog gives you when you feed it peanut butter. How could anyone likemusic which sounds like the soundtrack for the slaughter of a goat,they may wonder.
Well, truth be told, I can't explain why I like grindcore. Imean, it's easier to decipher a financial briefing from AlanGreenspan after he's had a dozen banana daiquiris than trying tomake sense of the grunts, bellows and screams. But I can't helpmyself; I like grindcore. I like the energy that's poured into thesongs and the raw electricity of the instruments.
Take the group Failed Humanity, for instance. Unlike many oftheir fellow bands, this quintet isn't afraid to take a song andstretch it into the five or six-minute ranges - something onceunheard of for this style of music. Their debut effort The Sound Of Razors Through Flesh shows a group who arestill learning all the quirks of each individual in the band, buthave what it takes to be a major player in a very specialized fieldof music.
The group - vocalist Adam Catchpole, guitarists Matt Hoban andDan Beadle, bassist Al Todd and drummer Zac O'Neil - often lay downtempos that would give a metronome a heart attack. DecipheringCatchpole? Maybe in another lifetime. Trying to keep up with thedual guitar attack? You first, buddy. Yet, despite the complexitiesof the band, they are able to create music which is surprisinglyapproachable, and easy to get sucked into on just the firstlisten.
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