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Project: Failing Flesh - A Beautiful Sickness


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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
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Release 06 Oct. 2004
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Country USA
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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.

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Vocals
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Summary



3 chalices of 10 - David

Related links:

www.projectfailingflesh.com