Brutal Art Records has announced the release of a split CD/LP between Fleshcrawl and Skinned Alive entitled Tales of Flesh and Skin to be released in January 2016. The limited release, which comes with custom guitar picks from each band, will occur in an issue of only 100 copies of the cassette, 50 of each in red and black. Afterwards, a digipak CD with 4-panel booklet will be issued in 300 copies.
The volatile mix of Fleshcrawl’s Swedish-influenced style of death metal and the one-man band Skinned Alive, which takes a more percussive approach, should provide interesting and may foreshadow longer releases from each of these bands. Brutal Art Records reveals the split will be out toward the middle or end of January, and will not be issued on vinyl.
Tags: brutal art records, death metal, fleshcrawl, skinned alive
I just had the pleasure of seeing They Live on the big screen. Surely you must enjoy this movie.
Whoops, I meant to post this under the isolation article, where the topic is actually relevant.
Who doesn’t enjoy They Live? Combine it with Prince of Darkness and you have a whole philosophy. Cross it with Apocalypse Now and Repo Man and there’s quite a bit of history in it.
Fuck yeah, Prince of Darkness! The gradual disintegration of that guy’s sanity when he’s locked in the broom closest always struck me as being very in line with the philosophy of this site and death metal in general.
One of many applicable themes from that film… I’d say High Noon, Apocalypse Now and Repo Man more capture the theme of Crowdism, but Prince of Darkness traces its origins to the evil — not naturalistic self-interest, but corrupt destructive forces — in the human soul and shows how tolerance of that evil is the root of our decline. Our society calls this evil “good.”
This is all nifty information. I think it would be better as an article than relegated to just comments.
I listened to “Descend Into The Absurd” again a few weeks ago and it was amazing! When the album came out I really liked it, but at that time I wasn’t able to recognize its true greatness. It deserves the title “best German death metal album”.
In my view, this band has never shipped a turd, even though more recent offerings are more accessible (sort of like later Sodom mixed with Entombed).
“Impurity” and “Bloodsoul” are both really good; “Bloodred Massacre” is more streamlined but still okay. The only thing I remember about the other albums is that they sounded like pure Swedish death metal worhip to me which I found quite disappointing. I haven’t listened to them for years, so maybe I will check them out again sometime.
I don’t think they have ever shipped a bad album. Descend Into the Absurd is like Morgoth doing a Tampa technical album with European melody, Impurity shows a wide range of textural influences, and from then on the band has focused on something like second-album Entombed with the energy of late-80s Sodom but more of the melodic touches that Dismember used, and the longer riffs. I like all of their work but tend to focus most on the second album.
I didn’t even think Fleshcrawl were still around. Good to hear that they’re still going.