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The big question with which one should open, as soon as the 'Play' button is hit upon Decapitated's forth release, is 'why'? Why would anybody still create music such as this? Weren't the million other bands that play similar style enough? Is there any new statement here? Any novelty what so ever? A new approach to music or to (Brutal) Death Metal in particular? The unfortunate, immediate answer to these almost existential questions is a big fucking 'NO'.
Between the walls of the Brutal Death Metal style, incorporating some ex-territorial elements is near to impossible. The rigor and the strict outlines of the Brutal Death metal / Death-Grind aesthetics leave little for the imagination or for invention. Brutal Death can be a bigot in attitude towards executing the music created under its wings, thus there are so few good albums coming this way, and as far as I'm concerned, the last statement had been said a long time ago, when Suffocation recorded its Brutal Death Metal masterpiece and debut full-length "Effigy of the forgotten" which had been the final frontier in heaviness coupled with extremely "technical" execution, good dark lyricism and atmosphere, all co-existing perfectly in an album recorded 15 or 16 years ago, that has failed to become stale, old or overshadowed by anything recorded since, let alone by a bunch of Polish snot-nosed kids who think they are the fucking kings of Brutal Death Metal just because they own a phallic, homo-erotic fascination with blast beats or whatever…
I mean, wouldn't anyone stop producing this kind of music after the epitome of the genre had been created? Why bother if the outcome is not even near surpassing Suffocation's above mentioned debut, and into it, why not doing something worth listening to, instead of a second-rate, faceless Brutal Death Metal which is neither innovative, nor outstanding, and one that poorly fails to explain its purpose and reason for it to have been created in the first place? Heaviness alone is far from enough in satisfying nowadays, blasts and maximum guitar distortion are far from being unique, some time changes and drumming virtuosity and semi-monster cookie growling a-la Benediction's vocalist is far from exciting as well, and is sure not enough to glue together even a half decent album.
This album gives me a heard-that-done-that-been-there sort of a feeling, and the production does not help either, for it sounds as if it was produced by Scott Barnes from Florida's Sunlight Studio fame (or was it Unisound, or maybe Morisound? Something with 'Sound' I'm sure...), an era – in the early through mid nineties – in which every band produced there, sounds same as the next one (Again, Suffocation's debut was an exception even then and there). Even if Decapitated's debut had been half-decent and quarter-original, with "Organic Hallucinosis" the band becomes a super-cliché, faceless and colorless outfit that walks on safe, trodden paths and adds nothing new to the (sub) genre nor to music in general. If you add to the above mentioned also the lame and corny cover artwork, you get a perfect sleeping pill here… If you are out for a good, heavy, although non-challenging dose of Death Metal, go for Benediction's "Organized chaos", I know I would… …And what's that bullshit with the announcer upon the soundtrack of the album, reminding me every couple of minutes to which album I'm listening, as if I might forget? A sure serious and respectful attitude from the Earache label towards the music critics, what can I say?...
| Tracklist |
| 1. A Poem About An Old Prison Man |
| 2. Day 69 |
| 3. Revelation Of Existence (The Trip) |
| 4. Post(?) Organic |
| 5. Visual Delusion |
| 6. Flash-B(l)ack |
| 7. Invisible Control |
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