REVIEW FOR...WELL, NOT JANUARY 23, 2004 BUT YOU KNEW THAT

PROJECT: FAILING FLESH
A BEAUTIFUL SICKNESS
SELF-RELEASED, 2003
 
First off, this band has already been signed to Karmageddon Media (which you all knew as Hammerheart Records at one time), so I'm not going there.  They've been signed, their plan worked, they're getting a push.  Fucked, sucked and put to bed.
 
Project: Failing Flesh is a death/thrash/industrial band from Virginia with a fair bit of history to the band's name.  Eric Forrest used to be in Voivod for a time, and that's apparent upon listening to A Beautiful Sickness as there are a lot of different elements (some metal, some non-metal) thrown into this album.  Personally, I'm amazed the band could pull an album like A Beautiful Sickness off as well as it could, because the album sounds modern and yet aggressive at the same time.  There's a real thrash rooting to the Project: Failing Flesh sound, but the band manages to throw in jazz and other musical elements without ruining its sound or sounding too distanced from the material.  The keyboards also seem to add an important element to A Beautiful Sickness, which is rare as keyboards usually detract from extreme metal as a whole.  Really, there isn't a weak link in the package in my mind.  The musicianship is tight, and Eric Forrest's vocals are great and screamy without being forced.  Even the concept the band hangs its hat on, something about comas and the money from selling cadavers from what I glanced of the "liner notes" (I'm sorry, I can't follow all that small text, it being in Franklin Gothic and all) is relevant without being forced.  Mind you, the album isn't perfect (that whole distancing thing, I'm not fond of it) but A Beautiful Sickness is a more than credible effort and I love P:FF for it.
 
Aside: the guy from Aversionline gave Project: Failing Flesh's album a 5/10 for niggling things like the album cover and the feeling that the music was "unfocused."  I love when overrated reviewers have their shithole caked up.  It brings a warm feeling to my peepee.  Wait, that's urine.  Nevermind.
 
PROJECT: FAILING FLESH
9222 Brian Drive
Vienna, VA 22180
USA
http://www.projectfailingflesh.com/
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