FAILING FLESH PROJECT
"A Beautiful Sickness"
Independent release

By Jonathan Mariante

This trio plays aggressive, hard as nails Pantera style metal, but a little faster on some songs, with some death metal style blast beats and speedy riffs. They also use keyboards on most of their songs in the background, which is a bit unusual for a band of this style, but it gives their music a different touch. Some of the keyboard playing even reminded me a bit of Zeppelin's "Kashmir". A couple of songs were a little different, like "9MM Movie", a crushing steamroller of a tune that sounded like a mega heavy Sabbath clashing head on with Pantera, and even features the use of a viola, courtesy of Clayton Ingerson. Another song that stood out a bit was "Taste Of The Lie", which has some industrial flavorings (a la Rammstein), and has some serious sound distortion thrown in at the end. The last track is a cover of the Venom classic, "Warhead". Cronos and the boys were obviously a big influence on the Project, and they're doing Venom proud, I'm sure! These guys take no prisoners! They just thrash it out from start to finish, and do a pretty damn good job of it too! http://www.projectfailingflesh.com

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