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Gorefest - Mindloss

Excellent. But not as filthy as the demos - 90%

morbert, August 30th, 2007

One of the complaints about Mindloss when it came out was the fact that it only contained one newly written song. The other 8 were familiar demo songs. Still all their songs were present with a decent production and CD quality instead of our worn out tapes, so who were we to complain?

The new song ‘Mental Misery’ was decent but in fact less catchy and effective than the other up tempo tracks on Mindloss. Not a great opener for that matter (why not ‘Loss Of Flesh’ for instance or even ‘Decomposed’?). Jan-Chris later admitted a great deal of the up tempo part of ‘Mental Misery’ was based on the Death song ‘Mutilation’.

The other 8 tunes were familiar. The 4 songs from their first demo (‘Decomposed’, ‘Putrid Stench of Human Remains’, ‘Gorefest’ and ‘Tangled In Gore’) were a pleasure and the performance was equally good. Vocalist Jan Chris however had given these songs just his low grunting voice instead of the filthier vocals with moans and screams he used on the demo versions. This made these new recordings slightly less enjoyable and especially the choruses of ‘Tangled In Gore’ and ‘Decomposed’.

The other four songs came straight from their second demo ‘Horrors In A Retarded Mind’ and almost sounded similar except for the intro of ‘Confessions of A Serial Killer’ which was unfortunately shorter this time (why?). Other than that there wasn’t anything to complain about, All four of these songs are simply superb.

A great debut from what later would turn out be become one of Holland’s best death metal bands. Best songs: ‘Foetal Carnage’, ‘Confessions of A Serial Killer’, ‘Tangled In Gore’ and ‘Decomposed’