DELÌRIVM CÒRDIA

This album is unlike anything else. While it falls just short of being a masterpiece ( I'll explain later in this review) It still should be heard by prog fans. It is a SINGLE 74 min orchestrated by Mike Patton himself (Mr. Bungle, Faith No More, Tomahawk, other things) with help from Dave Lombardo (Slayer) on drums, Trevor Dunn (Mr.Bungle) on bass and Buzz Osbourne on guitar. But on this album, the members are less like musicians and more like tools used by Mike Patton to create an extremely terrifying album. This entire album is a musical interpretation of a patient undergoing surgery while still awake. Mike Patton really wants you to understand that as the inside booklet sets the tone with pictures of real surgery that are just disgusting. This album takes the listener through different stages. It takes you through the beginning of the surgery to each part of the surgery, represented by heartbeats, talking doctors, and surgical noises, among other things. There are also sudden bursts of different types of music, metal being the type that I remember best. The album would've been perfect if the last 20 mins weren't just the sound of a skipping record, though this still evokes a kind of tense and paranoid emotion because you never know when something is going to burst onto the scene. I recommend this to anyone with an open mind that want music that is dark and full of emotion. Great Stuff!