| CD REVIEW Fleshwrought |
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Band : Fleshwrought Sometimes, you hear a band for the very first time and you immediately link the band to another band. Well, I had the same thing with this album. When I heard the vocals for the first time, only one band came to my mind: Job For A Cowboy. Guess what? It’s the same singer! If you can say who the vocalist is by just listening to the songs (and this especially counts for a Death Metal band), you can conclude that he has a very distinctive throat. Therefore, it’s not a big surprise that this debut album was released by the same label, which is Metal Blade Records. Because of the busy schedules of both the singer, Jonny Davy, and the master brain, Navene Koperweis(also known as drummer of Animals As Leaders), it’s almost impossible to perform at this moment. Therefore, they want to keep it as a studio project, just for now of course. When listening to the album a first time, it seems quite hard to comprehend, but if you take a closer look at the meaning of the title, the song titles and the lyrics, you can quickly deduce that the album actually deals with a serious topic: dementia and its consequences. “Mental Illness” deals with depression, “Inner Thoughts” deals with anger and frustration, “Self-Destructive Loathing” deals with self destruction, “Relevant Intoxication” deals with alcoholism,… so actually we can almost say that we are dealing with some sort of concept album here. If we take a closer look at the second song on the album, “Inner Thoughts”, we see the genius of musician Navene Koperweis. The riffs are shredding your ears off, the drumming is just blasting you off of your socks and he isn’t even afraid to use instruments that aren’t really ‘Death Metal related’, such as a saxophone. In the fourth song, “Weeping Hallucinations”, he proves his shredding skills again. Not in the middle of the song, but in the very beginning. The interlude after six songs is really welcome to just digest all of that energy, speed and anger. 90/100 Nick Tronckoe. |