(Relapse Records)
Release date: 2003
Running time: 26:54

Review: This new album is all about raw, heavy, abrasive and aggressive hardcore, not unexpected from Benümb... Stuff here is same as always... Pretty damn fast, with a grinding guitar sound and some effective scary thrashing riffs, speed-crazed/pounding drumming, and some kind of very angry yelling-type vocals, clear but pissed off and intense. They're like a mix of of Righteous Pigs & Dropdead. Sometimes the drums do not sound that powerful, you can't hear the bass drum too well, but overall the stuff here is really tight and dense with top notch heavy sound production. It can be chaotic, turbulent at times or more focused/tight/metal-sounding at other moments. If you liked their other albums, you won't be disappointed. Lyrics are included for just a couple of tracks, the art is a really lush Relapse-style apocalyptic collage. Cool stuff really.

Tracks: 1)Cesspool of Human Sewage 2)Rise from Squander 3)That Which is Set in Stone 4)Programming the Cranial Void 5)Decimation to All that Which Resembles Compromise 6)Mesmerized by the Insignificant 7)Regurgitation of the Bacteria Which Threatens the Present State of Self Preservation 8)Judicial Failure 9)Clouding the Source of Salvation 10)Devour, Discard, Advance 11)Swallow Conviction/Defecate Guilt 12)Breathing Life Into Predestined Failure 13)S.A.N.D.E.R.S. 14)Seeping Into the Blood System 15)Oppressing Binds of Silence 16)Medicated Into Submission 17)Hierarchal Gluttony 18)Guilty of Which You Accuse 19)Free Trade, Global Slavery 20)Engraved Into the Psyche 21)Gutted Out/Spit On 22)Fixation of Complacent Self-Loathing

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(Relapse Records)
Release date: 2000
Running time: 24:28

Review: Well well. Nothing's better than a good powerviolence record right in your face. Here we have extremely pissed off grinding hardcore by a renowned band in the genre. It's fast... and frantic. And well, sometimes I must admit I find the vocals bit loosy and the drums kinda sloppy, I prefer straight grind in old Napalm Death's style. But that's cool. This band's really awesome, they have great riffs and some really violently catchy parts. Plus, the sound production is flawless (maybe not raw enough for that kind of stuff though); Well, I feel sometimes songs end too fast, or that they go in too many different ways too quickly for me to concentrate on the good stuff. But anyway, Benümb is a very big band, very talented and unique. I like the nihilistic themes of the songs, and the cover. It's honestly really great stuff.

Tracks: 1)Synopsis Of Ignorance Within The Society At Large 2)Once and Never Again 3)Underbelly 4)Minimum Wage Intellectual 5)Pass The Buck 6)Suffer 7)Epileptic 8)Intergration 9)Realization Of Fact 10)Oxygen Thief 11)Just Short Of The Line 12)Serenity Within Chaos 13)WTO: Disintegration Of The Working Class 14)Three Down, One To Go 15)Laceration Of Belief 16)Survival Between Maggots 17)Amongst The Fallen 18)Articulation Of Hypocrisy 19)Abundant Knowledge, Infinite Stupidity 20)Father To The Fatherless 21)Imminent Departure 22)Flesh For Flesh 23)Dissection Of Grace 24)Embodyment Of Despair 25)Ascend From Persecution 26)Years Of Unjust 27)Cause And Reject 28)Genocide 29)Statistics 30)Division Within Division 31)Successful Failure 32)Closing Argument

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(Relapse Records)
Release date: 1998

Review: Yeah! I never had the chance to hear this band before but this is Grind to the fucking CORE! This debut cd from Relapse contains their previous releases (3 Ep + bonus live tracks) and 21 new tracks...so about 46 minutes of pure HC/GRIND rage! Vocals are in the hardcore/crust violent style (close to some vocals in the lasts Brutal Truth). Most of the tracks are pure fast grind, one is a sludge doom song in the vein of the mighty EYEHATEGOD! So expect an album filled with intense Hatred against society stupidity! As usual the packaging & production are fucking great with Relapse. So Grind freaks buy or die!
note: 4/5 (the fist in your face!)
Reviewed by Bruno Kan the_genocider@yahoo.fr

Tracks: 1)Driven Out 2)No Regret 3)L.N.F. 4)Nothing Personal 5)Sick 6)Monetary Gain 7)Oblivious 8)Stood Up and Sold Out 9)C.T.O.A. 10)I.H.M.U.S.T. 11)Blind 12)Struggle On 13)Purpose 14)Crawl, Stagger, Fall 15)Self-Righteous 16)Stuck Pig 17)Self-Inflicted 18)T.P.U. 19)T.Y.G.20. Agony 1 21)Agony 2 22)Consumed 23)No Hope 24)A.A.D. 25)Of My Own 26)Deprivation 27)Beyond Fucked 28)Reoccurrence 29)Lost Perception 30)Perseverance 31)Overwhelmed, Overcome* 32)Nothing From Nothing 33)A.D.S. 34)Choke 35)Live At Fiesta Grande '97