Search - Skinless :: Foreshadowing Our Demise

Brutal!!

Pete | The Glass Prison | 01/07/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Skinless, a New York grindcore band, is one of the heaviest bands ever! If you think Slipknot is brutal, than prepared to have the sh** get scarred out of you. This band, while not as heavy as Suffocation or Nile, is like 1000000000000 times heavier than Slipknot's heaviest. If you're a death metal/grindcore fan like myself, you'll like this band, but if you're more into nu-metal, stear clear of this band.



Song ratings:

1. Foreshadowing Our Demise-(3:57)-10/10

2. Smothered-(5:35)-10/10

3. Optimist-(5:42)-10/10

4. Salvage What's Left-(3:44)-9/10

5. Tug of War Intestines-(3:16)-10/10

6. Affirmation of Hatred-(5:17)-10/10

7. Enslavement-(5:50)-9/10

8. Merrie Melody-(3:37)-10/10

9. Pool of Stool-(3:50)-10/10 (Funny lyrics!!)



Oh! Before I forget, i'd like to point out that there was a different version of this album that had a song called "C**timated". The lyrics are so obscence it was removed from the album before it was released! Just wanted you to know.

Overall:

A must if you like death metal/grindcore."

Skinless - Foreshadowing Our Demise

Kevin Long | Frederick, MD USA | 08/29/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"If you are into good Death Metal, you will love this CD. The infamous band Skinless returns with their second album "Foreshadowing Our Demise". One of my favorite Skinless song's is on this CD, it's track #3 called "The Optimist". Overall it's a great Death Metal album, and I recommend it to anyone into metal."

Excellent Grind/Death Metal

Mono-Grind | Here | 05/02/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Skinless's sound can be compared to bands like Suffocation, Obituary and Cannibal Corpse. Their aim of making Death Metal isn't to be as fast as possible, but much like Obituary, it seems to be more about trying to make the most brutal, headbanging riffs around. And they don't disappoint.



Songs.. "Smothered", "The Optimist", "Enslavement" and "Merrie Melody" in particular, are all brutally heavy, headbangingly rifftastic tracks that are somewhat in the same vein as Obituary. That's not to say Skinless can't make good fast-paced Death Metal though. As on tracks "Foreshadowing Our Demise" (Which has an awesome mid-tempo riff towards the end..leading into an even cooler riff which starts the next song "Smothered"..), "Salvage What's Left", "Tug of War Intestines", "Affirmation Of Hatred" and "Pool of Stool", are all pretty fast-paced Death Metal songs.



There's alot of samples too, which start the songs. Every song, except "Affirmation of Hatred" and "Enslavement", begins with a sample taken from somewhere. Some are pretty amusing too. "The Optimist" begins with a sample, that i'm 95% sure is Vince McMahon from the WWE, that says "Life Sucks...and then you Die". Then there's the sample at the start of the song "Salvage What's Left", which is taken from the movie "The 'Burbs" that starred Tom Hanks in the early 90's. All of these samples do sound kind of cheap, and maybe they kinda are, but it's still kind of amusing to know where exactly they got them from.



I think Skinless would appeal to fans of Obituary, Cannibal Corpse and Suffocation mostly, but also to Deicide, Morbid Angel and Carcass. Skinless are a very talented band that create some brutal riffs, and great drumming. The vocals are also a great highlight, sounding like a mix of Glen Benton (Deicide) and Frank Mullen (Suffocation)."