ALBUM REVIEW: Dying Messiah - "Heinous Spectacle Of Mutilation"

   Another day, another underground brutal death metal album with programmed drums and lots of cool samples. I really hate programmed drums and I don't get why so many death metal bands make releases using them. I mean, I guess I understand the desire to get your songs out there so assholes like myself can hear them but its so distractingly un-organic to hear the exact same cymbal and snare sounds for 40 minutes. It's especially grating when they're programmed to do (literally) inhuman grind speeds, like the chatter going on in "Gone Before The Bodies Drop." It's so fast that its actually kinda stupid and the click of the false snare is so loud as to drown out the guitars. It almost sounds like some late-90s techno buildup right before the lights go down. Moby still holds the world record for fastest BPM in a song and fake grind drums sound alot like that Moby song. Sorry.
   Otherwise, this is a pretty badass album with concepts sicker than alot of more metaphysical/metaphorical death metal bands out right now. This is straight up gore metal along the lines of Exhumed or (of course) Cannibal Corpse, with imaginative songs like "Skinned Alive And Crucified," "Bound Duct Taped And Drowned," and "Crushed Into Cranial Fragments." There's also the sexist element that again, only the most 'brutal' of death metal bands really embrace, as evidenced by songs like "Whoring Out The Innocent" and the ever-so-subtle "Motivated By Misogynistic Hatred." I wonder what that song is about. Other topics include "MethLab Mutilation"s and "The Bible Pimp" so if anything at least these sick bastards have some scope with their subject matter.
   Their disgusting subject matter.
   The guitars on this entire release are relentless and bring a vibe of very old school death metal, particularly the aforementioned Exhumed, and the vocals are low and unintelligible all the way as well. There's a slight reprieve for a spooky clean intro to "Hacksaw Slaughter" but soon enough that bludgeons its way as well. I just cannot get over the false sound of the programmed drums but at this point it seems like more than half the death metal releases I come across these days are filled with computer drums so I guess I'll just have to get over it.
   It would be alot cooler with real drums though.

http://dyingmessiah.bandcamp.com/album/heinous-spectacle-of-mutilation