HUMANOID FLESH

The best parts of this album are the first 11 seconds of "Crazy Rock'N'Roll". This album is simply baffling, such an abysmal failure on every front that it's hard to say anything about it. It's hard to believe that the same band which created Holocausto followed it with such a downgrade.

It almost feels like a parody of progressive rock bands turning to pop music to survive. Unlike those pop bands though, there's not even the quality of being fun to mock, this is simply insulting. If a soundtrack had to be made to accompany the words "Wasted potential", it would be this album.

The songs sound so uninteresting and alike that it's tiring even thinking of reviewing them one by one. The most obvious, and egregious part, is the boring structure. The songs get tiring after 30 seconds, and then they turn into a painful slug to get through. The composition isn't good either. Even while trying my hardest, having listened to this album two times (I had to resist a lot to not quit during the first song), front to back, I cannot remember a single melody or riff from it. And when it comes to the mixing, it sounds muddy, all over the place, it doesn't give any ounce of energy to the already cold desert that is the composition. Some problems that seem minor at first will become more and more irritating as time goes on, the snare drum sounding like a tom for example.

This is a mind-boggling album, in the worst way possible. This is truly one of the worst things I've ever heard. And having it coming from a fairly beloved, and influential progressive rock band is even more disappointing. Dare I say, embarrassing. If I could rate lower than 1 star, I would do it.