Brazilian Posthumous chose to take a safe road with their debut album, so unoriginal is this 57 minutes. In this melting pot, thrash metal, death metal, black metal and good ol' heavy metal have been mixed with both aggressive and also very melodic way. And let's not forget the acoustic guitar utilized sometimes.

Partly the album is okay listen, eg. Mercyful Fate-esque 'Kill the Son of Bait-le-hem' and thrashy attacks of 'Fuckhrist' and 'Crowley Hordes Attack' and of course ballsy Sarcófago cover 'Christ's Death'. The music was written during 1994-1998, so this is probably the reason of all this meandering. One really annoying thing throughout the album is solo guitar work in all its pointlessness. Plus, many of the songs are way too long. Even though the music is melodic, real hooks are scattered and few. However, I can't blame the songs for being too predictable. Lyricswise things are predictable, though: black magick, anti-christianity, war, you name it.

Sound lacks of power, missing the bassy frequencies, but the instruments are audible. Okay, the band might come from poorer standard of living, so I take that into consideration when scoring the album. It's at least unpretentious, not forcedly artsy. Vocals are much, much worse than the other production job, because it feels that vocalist didn't want to do his job. He's breathing more or less towards microphone all the time with deep yet powerless growl. English pronunciation is really bad, so maybe he wanted to keep it a bit off the front. Minus the solo guitar and vocals, the band's performance isn't bad at all. Booklet's printed on glossy paper which seems to last well (unlike certain Satyricon platter's cover).

'My Eyes, They Bleed' is just too safe, unoriginal and quite poorly produced piece of extreme metal. This would grab a few metal music newcomers' ears, I believe, but for seasoned metallers there's nothing new or thrilling to be heard.

Rating: 4 (out of 10) ratings explained

Reviewed by Lane
01/02/2006 20:24