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 (Lofty Storm)
Release date: 1999
Total running time: 34:51
Review: Brasilian Label, Lofty Storm Records once again soaked its name with blood, releasing the second Flesh Grinder full-length album! This is called "S.P.L.A.T.T.E.R."(initials for "Symptoms of Pathological Laceration in Anastomosis Thru Traumatic Endogamic Relation"). Well, I think the word Splatter defines this album perfectly, but I certainly have a little more to say about it! First, they always have their own particular style from the previous material, carefull listeners should recognize them without problems. But this time, the sound production is really better, and brilliant. You can hear all the instruments so clearly. Guitars riffs are detached from bass parts, and it's a real good things to also hear the raw and twisted bass sound, it gives more depths to the songs. All the ways, guitars are on the first place, and are really handled with brio! Mixing grinding, thrashing brutality, to more emotional riffs and melodic solos, but sick melodies in the vein of Bill Steer's work on "Symphonies of sickness". So, an impressive technical guitar work, also reminiscent of Cannibal Corpse guitars on "The Bleeding". But besides more technicity and emotion, they also evolved towards something darker, they found a more violent and natural grind feeling to express their churning, boiling aggressivity... Always ready to burst! Because grind explosions are the main purpose here! They're always really effective, because the insane grind violence always emerge from a technical burden, in the spirit of second Carcass album again. But Flesh Grinder differs from Carcass because their music is more streaming, flowing, something like that... they do not have the same grindy aim I think. Drums sometimes lacks of natural continuity on the blasting grind moments, it's because the song structures are complex and rythms are always changing... Although the drumming is really skilful and grindy, groovy and thrashy parts are honestly missing here. They also often turn not being catchy enough... Guitars are not always sharp. Vocals is not always giving a raw enough touch either! This isn't changing alot from Flesh Grinder's past works: like early Carcass, mid-high-pitched aggressive ripping screams share the vocal space with wonderful octaved-harmonized growls. Personally I think they used too many screamy vox, and not enough gruntroars! But the result is still really repulsive & splattery! Gore-grind-death maniacs can't miss it! If you liked the previous album I think you should love this brand new masterpiece of sickness, gore, vomit and epic pathology! Huh, more gory intros-movie samples have also been used, but it always perfectly fit to the compositions! (First one is one minute from Bad Taste barf-swilling scene, a must-hear!) Everything mixes together for optimal sickness! Packaging pictures are really sickening and shocking... Definitely not for faint-hearted persons! This is really disgusting and painful! Lyrics are now totally pathological, with loads of bizarre medical terms & that kind of things you know... More gory details would have been welcome, but anyway it's very interesting, many words i didn't know about! And yeah there's also an acoustic guitar song, "The adagio of pathologist" by Chacal... Really Beautiful haha! Anyway in the whole we have about 12 grind-gore-death tracks... it will satisfy your gorelust for days...
Tracks: 1)Intro (Stomachal emanation) 2)Chronic mucocutaneous candiasis 3)S.P.L.A.T.T.E.R. 4)Technics to extract the female reproductive sustem thru anal canal 5)Cutaneous anaphilaxis 6)Cavernous sinus thrombosis 7)Granulomatous inflammation with elliptical macrophages 8)Acute syndrome resembling infectious monucleosis 9)The amorphous (nongibrous) 10)Chronic and recurrent regurgitant lung disease 11)Adverse effects seen in immunologically compromised hosts 12)The adagio of pathologist 13)Developing malignant cancerous tissue in the 8th inch of the large intestine |
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