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As soon as I put “Offering” in,
my head was nodding to the music. Human
Ritual takes the heaviest elements from Suffocation, Meshuggah,
Tool, Fear Factory, and Sepultura to make a wall of sound that will
chip the paint off your house. Simply put, they are super fucking
heavy. Their heaviness comes from how they have structured the band.
As many bands these days, they have two riff-drunken guitarists that
pound their guitars into submission. To go along with that, a drummer
and percussionist add the exclamation point to every riff. One thing
that doesn’t happen to often theses days is having more than
one bassist. Two bassist can have only one result in a metal band,
and that’s an unheard of cavernous, heaviness. At the helm,
the vocals are a hybrid of Fear Factory and Sepultura, a good violent
throat to bring this band together. Musically the band seems a little
immature. If they could get a little tighter or have this CD produced
a little better this could be great. Throughout this disc there a
parts that make you want to punch the person next to you, or put your
foot through your TV. It makes you want to break everything in site.
Opening up this disc, it starts with a song that has grown to be my
favorite. “Less Than Human” is a brutality masterpiece,
or as Human Ritual would put say, it’s “brutaful.”
All the other songs are average, except for the last track “This
So Called Life.” It’s a track that you could sink ocean
liners with, like the titanic. I hope to hear more from this band
in the future. They have a good start; lets see where they take it. Rating: 78 |
