Genre: Death Metal
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© 1997 Metal Blade Records
Reviewed by Sea of Tranquility.org
There are death metal albums that strike you at first
but eventually collect dust in your CD rack; there are also death metal
albums that strike you at first and continue to lash out powerful songs
long after its initial release. Broken Hope have, at times, produced
all of the above. Their 1990 demo turned heads and raised the dead with
unchallenged brutality(at the time), and the debut album on the defunct
Grindcore International label fared well with gore-grind legions
worldwide. The 1993 masterpiece The Bowels of Repugnance came up aces by
expertly creating a void where ultra-brutality met sheer melancholy, a
voyage of pure sickness through 13 fine-crafted songs. It's follow-up
(1995's Repulsive Conception) didn't stray too far from Bowels' plan of
attack, but wasn't nearly as memorable.
Broken Hope returns with Loathing, which should be titled
Repulsive Conception Part II. The original formula is still intact, but
treads water instead of blazing past in a bolt of gory glory. After
several listens, only one song stands out as a whole(the opener "Siamese
Screams"), and the rest is remembered only by bits and pieces rather
than by solid songs. The guitar solos still shine, but seem out-of-place
at times and fail to set a mood the way they used to. Lyrically you get another batch of Jeremy Wagner's twisted literature, topics spanning from the A.I.D.S. virus ("Skin Is In") to Government cloning experiments gone awry ("The Cloning") to the completely laughable "Auction of the Dead" (an ode to buying and selling decomposed body parts).
Loathing also makes Broken Hope the 947th band to sample the film Hellraiser, and one more to dish out another mediocre death metal album.
tags: broken hope, loathing, 1997, flac,
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