In 1989 Torn Flesh made their second and final album, Crux of the Mosh. The material is just as bad as the first album despite improved production values.
The album begins with two fairly straightforward songs, the title track and "End the Fight". Right away the vocalist sounds even more Cookie Monster like than even the most stereotypical death metal vocalist. He even uses these random and totally unnessecary low pitched, "demonic" vocal effects whenever he feels like it. If your band is trying to save souls for Jesus then try to make your lyrics at least somewhat comprehensible!
Track 3, "World Pollution" is a mid tempo song with an overly long intro consisting of a lame three note bass riff being played over a recording of a news report. After this intro is finally over, the song contains some of my "favorite" lyrics on the album:
"We say we're God's children
But we need our diapers changed
Cheap perfume and incense
To cover up the pains."
"Dead to the World" is a rerecording of a song from Love Kills. From here the album starts losing steam but there are still "highlights" such as a minute long metal version of "Happy Birthday".
Such a decision was pointless and even another rerecording of a song from Love Kills would be preferable. More "highlights" include an unintentionally hilarious song about gay rights and the last two tracks, "Hollywood Heaven" (another rerecording) and "The Ultimate Finale" (it's not.) And of course there is also this article's "overuse of quotation marks."
Listen to Crux of the Mosh on YouTube:
the lead vocalist is himself now an out of the closet gay man. A bear, for that matter. Even funnier, the dude did protest too much!!!! :-)
ReplyDeleteI always thought the guy sounded more like "HAMBURGLER" than Cookie Monster. Listen to the title track, see if you don't hear "Robble robble robble robble"!!