Project: Failing Flesh - A Beautiful Sickness

*=Staff's pick	A Beautiful Sickness Planet Dead 9mm Movie Scene Of The Crime Entrance Wound Long Silent Voices Dementia Pugilistica Taste Of The Lie Highwire Act Warhead*

Genre	Modern Extreme Metal	Eric Forrest	Vocals
Tracks	10	Tim Gutierrez	Instruments
Runningtime	41 Min.	Kevin 131	Instruments
Label	Karmageddon Media	-	-
Release	06 Oct. 2004	-	-
Country	USA	-	-
Similar artists	---

Project: Failing Flesh are basically two guys, Tim Gutierrez and Kevin 131 (?), playing around in a too expensive studio. There is absolutely nothing beautiful about this. Sick fits more accurate. The songs do not hold together, but disappear into strange, unrelated parts of synths and samplings. As the psycho-orchestra at the end of 9mm Movie… The drum machine is really annoying on top of that. This is simply painful to listen to from time to time…

I'm not really into industrial metal, I confess that, but I cannot even try to understand how someone could enjoy the most extreme or weird parts of this. Other parts are more like a dramatic soundtrack to a budget movie. In the middle of for example Highwire Act, the synth imitates traffic jam in Italy (I guess). At its best moments, this album is just boring industrial/death metal.

Singer Eric Forrest's (E-Force, ex. Voivod) screams are neither unique in the extreme scene nor extraordinary horrible in some way. But in this context they just add to the total catastrophy that is the sound. Best is, not surprisingly, the cover of Venom's Warhead. I guess that Venom fans will consider it a shameful slaughter of the original though… Oh, by the way, I think it is supposed to be some kind of concept album, but I actually didn't bother to learn the story.

Production	Vocals	Compositions
2	4	3

Summary
3 chalices of 10 - David