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REVIEW: Devilcake - I Cant Believe Its Not Satan Self-financed, 2002
2/10
Devilcake - I Cant Believe Its Not Satan - cover art It's official! The "South Park" people just got into music, and they've named their band "Devilcake". Ok, so that's not really true, but the members of this band do have all the perverted ideas found in the movie, not to mention they invented a new style: crapcore. They have an entire life philosophy built around food, beer and anger. The record begins with the representation of birth in the song called "Marshmallow", where "sticky jism" is "melting in your hair", and after all the important milestones, like driving the "Wienermobile", having a "Pizza Party", being devoured by society in "Flesh Feast", not seeing the actual truth in "I Can't Believe it's Not Satan", being out of place in "Frankenstein's French Fries", violent death by "Reed Bloody Steak" and ends with the soul passing on in "Shit Down Your Neck". Right now I'm not sure if this band was totally stoned and drunk during May 2001 and January 2002 (in the time this album was being recorded), are they total idiots, big time pranksters, or do they just enjoy fucking us over while offering us crap to listen to. I really don't know what the actual purpose of all this food is, as much as I have no idea of why I should put this CD back in my player ever again (except maybe to laugh some more).

I think the entire album was born in a way kind of similar to jerking off... it just came. It could be a parody, but I really don't think it is. It sounds just too damn serious (it's even funnier this way - you just get to laugh at different things). Let's talk about the music itself: the vocalist can't sing, the producer is non-existent, and the technician doesn't know anything about mixing. In order to get away with a cheap studio session, and save a lot of time, they applied a principle known in all areas of art - exaggeratingly overdoing consciously introduced flaws in order to conceal everything they didn't have the capability or patience to correct. Starting from the voice, everything is overmixed, there's a kind of cable noise added in some tracks, and scratchy, hissy kind of sound goes along with several instruments a lot of times. This done deliberatly of course. The riffs are all borrowed from 80's heavy metal, sometimes they almost sound like Judas Priest, and the drums go along with them as well... if vocals would be different you could say that this is a band from the 80's metal. Observing the guitars (when not mixed with hiss, you can clearly see that the distortion is ugly and very poorly mixed with the rest of the instruments... the Hz-s just don't fit together). As the band mentions on the cover of the Cd, "Devilcake - I Can't Believe It's Not Satan - Sounds made by rubbing several slices of turkey pepperoni together..." - and not by sacrificing a lot of time and putting in a lot of effort on order to create something good and LISTENABLE.

written by Cseke Róbert

Tracklist
1. Marshmallow
2. Wienermobile
3. Sacrificial Leg Of Lamb
4. Cereal And Beer
5. Pizza Party
6. Flesh Feast
7. I Can't Believe It's Not Satan
8. Frankenstein's French Fries
9. Bloody Red Steak
10. Shit Down Your Neck

Playing time: 36.36

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