Sexperiment

Ah. A sexual experiment. That's clever.

As much as I would like to say the funk-influenced keyboard lines add a lot, or the sporadic clean vocals add a certain King Diamond vibe to the proceedings, no, this is pretty much exactly what you would expect. Fast death/grind with high/low vocals, lots of tremolo riffing and sudden rhythmic changes, and an emphasis on speed and brutality above all other things. About par for the course for Italian death/grind. Imagine a more varied, technically clean version of Bestial Devastation and you're pretty close.

The tracks are short, one-idea bursts of blast beats and chainsaw riffing; none of the riffs are particularly memorable, generally being the same recycled grind tropes you've heard about a million times before, but it doesn't strike me that originality in high on the list of priorities of a band called Funeral Rape. The slower, groovier moments are actually the weaker parts of the album; Funeral Rape is a lot better when just doing straightforward blasting; the very heavy production gives it a nice, chaotic sound and essentially gives one the fix they're looking for from this sort of music.

I enjoy this, but I enjoy it because I like death/grind, not because Funeral Rape is any more adept than average at this style. The mild porngrind influences might be a point of interest with the gore-polka drumming (the drumming, by the way, is pretty remarkable just because it's so precise and machinelike), but overall you have heard this before if you own any Italian grind material. Another release that if you can find for $5 is worth picking up, but overall brings nothing new to the table. There's worse things than that but really there's also better.