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The Metal miners at Hammermill Records have Mucus Membrane's Shades Below up for bid as the new label's second release. What we've got here is close to an hour's worth of Death Metal that includes some Black Metal stylings, multi-faceted vocal deliveries -- rasps, bellows, and more, programmed drums, and riffing that goes anywhere from Thrash to Black to Grind and back. What you may not know about this debut album is that everything here was done by a single man: Tom Persons (also of Skulldozer). He even recorded, mixed, and mastered the sucker! This guy deserves an award for outdoing Galder of Old Man's Child and Dimmu Borgir fame. Oh, sure, the latter can't play drums and doesn't produce, but then again, Persons isn't playing drums either. Anyhow, this is more than competent Goregrind that kills. Old Morbid Angel is invoked readily time and again, as are some non-Symphonic Black Metal bands (think Immortal), and even Incantation. Having once boasted members who later went on to do time in Dying Fetus, Mucus Membrane does just fine with one man behind the wheel, never mind that the name is a bit ridiculous. It is Goregrind, after all. It is quite noteworthy that the drum programming is not severely distracting as is usually the case. Watch out for the very high in the mix bass solo in the penultimate track. It sounds out of place as the bass is almost invisible everywhere else, but what are you gonna do? What can you do? Persons saved the best for last: just listen to the guitar-o-rama on "Dethroned" as acoustic/clean guitars accompany a soulful lead. Fantastic!
| Tracklist |
| 1. Habitation Of Fallen Angels |
| 2. The Sickening |
| 3. Under Cloven Hoof |
| 4. Ritual Disembowelment |
| 5. Searching For The Truth |
| 6. Ovarian Pulverizer |
| 7. Dark Remnants |
| 8. Pentralia Mentis |
| 9. Shades Below |
| 10. Maximus Neurotica |
| 11. The Barge Of The Dead |
| 12. Dethroned |
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