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Flesh Eating Foundation
Purging
Rebco Records
Posted: Thursday, December 10, 2009
By: Trubie Turner
By: Trubie Turner
The zombie boys are back; just as aggressive, but seemingly a bit less focused as they shamble through this latest EP.
Following the release of the full-length premiere, the U.K.'s Flesh Eating Foundation has risen from their graves once again to present their latest limited edition EP, Purging. Mixing elements of mid '90s styled industrial, rock and punk, Flesh Eating Foundation employs an aggressive and chaotic sound with rough vocals and sound work that is both jarring and primal, giving the music a distinctive unpolished edge much like one would find on a rusty meat cleaver.
Kicking off with the boisterous chaotic punk styled "Victims," Flesh Eating Foundation is sure to immediately intrigue or turn off the listener as the electronics, composition, and structure take a backseat to just raw violence, acting as a bit of a barometer for how likely the listener is to enjoy the rest of the album. The most effective tracks come closer to the end of Purging with "Septic" and "You Made Me Suffer." Each track is heavily infused with obvious horror influence as the eerie and grim sound pours from the speakers. "Septic"'s chorus is exceptionally effective as the vocals are delivered in a deep zombie-like moan. "You Made Me Suffer" has an almost progressive rock feel as it manically transitions back and forth from a mellow, minimal structure to a hard and terrifying wall of wails and guitar as if a gate to hell were opened for a brief moment. However, there are also tracks like "Fucking Sick," which simply don't pan out due to an unfortunate disconnect between the music and the vocals with the two simply not gelling and coming across as very awkwardly slapped together. Even though "Godless" does a much better job of meshing the vocals and music, it suffers from some unnecessary vocal distortion that robs the intensity from of the track. After hosting a remix contest for "Godless," Purging also features the top three results from that contest. The Ladder remix is an energetic EBM take on the track, while the Digicore remix sounds very much like a mix Cyanotic would be proud to call its own. The third Multi-Panel remix is an IDM styled remix that is a very large departure from the original track and unfortunately just sounds very out of place on the EP.
Purging is a logical continuation of Flesh Eating Foundation's sound, though in the shorter EP format, the ineffective songs and their faults become a bit more glaring. Also, even though the remixes do offer some very nice different takes on Flesh Eating Foundation's work, they somewhat get in the way of the overall mood. While the EP is not perfect, there is still some really wonderful work to be found and the flaws, though bothersome, do not hide that this is a unique and talented act that has a wonderful vision and sound; they just didn't completely live up to their potential with this release.
Kicking off with the boisterous chaotic punk styled "Victims," Flesh Eating Foundation is sure to immediately intrigue or turn off the listener as the electronics, composition, and structure take a backseat to just raw violence, acting as a bit of a barometer for how likely the listener is to enjoy the rest of the album. The most effective tracks come closer to the end of Purging with "Septic" and "You Made Me Suffer." Each track is heavily infused with obvious horror influence as the eerie and grim sound pours from the speakers. "Septic"'s chorus is exceptionally effective as the vocals are delivered in a deep zombie-like moan. "You Made Me Suffer" has an almost progressive rock feel as it manically transitions back and forth from a mellow, minimal structure to a hard and terrifying wall of wails and guitar as if a gate to hell were opened for a brief moment. However, there are also tracks like "Fucking Sick," which simply don't pan out due to an unfortunate disconnect between the music and the vocals with the two simply not gelling and coming across as very awkwardly slapped together. Even though "Godless" does a much better job of meshing the vocals and music, it suffers from some unnecessary vocal distortion that robs the intensity from of the track. After hosting a remix contest for "Godless," Purging also features the top three results from that contest. The Ladder remix is an energetic EBM take on the track, while the Digicore remix sounds very much like a mix Cyanotic would be proud to call its own. The third Multi-Panel remix is an IDM styled remix that is a very large departure from the original track and unfortunately just sounds very out of place on the EP.
Purging is a logical continuation of Flesh Eating Foundation's sound, though in the shorter EP format, the ineffective songs and their faults become a bit more glaring. Also, even though the remixes do offer some very nice different takes on Flesh Eating Foundation's work, they somewhat get in the way of the overall mood. While the EP is not perfect, there is still some really wonderful work to be found and the flaws, though bothersome, do not hide that this is a unique and talented act that has a wonderful vision and sound; they just didn't completely live up to their potential with this release.
