Cephalic Carnage - Conforming to Abnormality

\r\n   "Conforming To Abnormality" was the debut album from Cephalic Carnage released in 1998 on Headfucker featuring at the time a weird mixture of grindcore, sludge, hardcore and doom metal with technical guitars, insensate drum lines, electro and avant-garde elements, violent vocals and jazz harmonies Ten years later it is re-issued by Relapse in a remixed, remastered and repackaged version with 21 bonus tracks including the Split CD "Perversion...and the Guilt After/Version 5 Obese" with Anal Blast from 2002.
\r\n   The 28 tracks of the album is varying between five seconds to over four minutes and musically as I already said this is paranoic (!!!) technical death/grind filled with raw grindcore, sludge and death, jazzy grooves, strange techno beats and some random sounds all that with a little or none at all coherency or catchiness. The band is surely very technical and insanely fast at times but I can’t see how any of this stuff can make any sense. There are so many tempo changes here giving you the impression that the music is being played by a bunch of unbalanced guys confined to a mental institution. The songwriting and playing both possess such a total incoherent structure and an absolute chaotic philosophy that is getting really hard to continuously follow their abnormal musical disorder. Of course there are some good moments in this album but even if you happen to like a musical line, a groove or a driving moment it is so soon replaced by a strange and out of nowhere sonical sample or an almost logarithmic function that you end up with wondering eyes and puzzled ears.
\r\n   Overall this is too nonmeaningful, too illogical and too soulless for me and even for the fans of Cephalic Carnage who already own the original versions of "Conforming to Abnormality" and the split with Anal Blast, you don’t need this re-issue. Of course i’m not going to rate this since this is not new material. Fans of this kind of stuff in general or with big psychological issues may give it a try. \r\n

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\r\nVaso Prassa \r\n

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