RELAPSE RECORDS
www.relapse.com

CONTAMINATED 5.0
This is a great 2 disc package. Lots of kick ass bands including Burnt By the Sun, Nile, Pig Destroyer, Today is the Day, Suffocation, Dying Fetus, Solient Green and I could go on and on. It’s safe to say, all Relapse bands are on here and then some. Just about 50 songs and just by glancing, it’s doesn’t look like there are two of the same band. My favorite…Hemdale!

BURNT BY THE SUN- Soundtrack to the Personal Revolution
Woo hoo, finally a full length from these guys. I hear so many different influences from this, I can't name them all. You don't need a review from me, just go out and get this.

GORELORD- Force Fed on Human Flesh
I saw printed on the front of the CD inlay, 18+, may be too intense for certain listeners. I knew I had a good CD at that point. This features members from Necrophagia, Wurdulak and Bloodthorn. Killjoy and Maniac from Mayhem also have guest vocals. Old school death metal mixed with modern day death. Great CD!

MASTODON- Lifesblood
The first song has a really cool guitar riff. How would I describe these guys? They just have a mix of everything. They have the total death metal feel with the music, the vocals though have a more of a death, but a touch of hardcore to them. They are just all over the fucking place with this one!

MORTICIAN- Domain of Death
This is a band I have been trying to see live for I don't know how many years. Every time going to the small little room where they are playing at some big metal fest, you can't even get a spot outside the door. The vocals are the lowest death metal vocals I have ever heard. For being a drum machine, (I'm assuming), I'm surprised the thing doesn't overheat, it is blasting so fast.

ORIGIN- Informis Infinitas Inhumanitas
I never heard these guys before. They sound pretty fucking good! The drummer is flying unlike I have ever heard before. They have the old school Dying Fetus vocal sounds, like from Purification. I can't believe how fast these guys are, they are flying. Absolute great album!

SOLIENT GREEN- A Deleted Symphony for the Beaten Down
These poor guys have had the worse luck. Whenever I talk to anyone, something bad has always happened to them. Their bad luck surely does not effect their playing, that's for sure. This is a great album. They have many different feels, hardcore, sludge and metallic blues. I like the break down hardcore parts. But when they start blasting and going off, it's great.

WURDULAK- Ceremony in Flames
This CD features KillJoy, Maniac, with others from Immortal, Necrophagia, Bloodthorn, Perisheed and Soul Foresaken. This has the whole Norwegian black metal sound. Extremely fast. Not really my thing, but If you are into death metal, I'm sure you'll be a fan.

BURNT BY THE SUN
This is good, I dig this a lot. The vocals remind me of something I would hear from a hard core band. But these guys are not hard core, they are a metal band. Some of the guitar work is real technical. The drummer is real fast.

REGUGITATE- Carnivorus Erection
The cover is probably one of the funniest things I have seen in a long time. This is some grindcore from Sweden. Pretty sick shit. There are 38 tracks on this CD, and you could count on one hand the amount of songs that are longer than one minute.

SKINLESS- Foreshadowing our Demise
These guys are as brutal as they come. We have in this one, blast beat beyond anything I have ever heard before, super low growling vocals, killer riffs and lots of fun samples of course. If you don't own at least one of their albums, you are living in a cave.