If you’re a frequent reader of our magazine, you’re definitely familiar with the name Project: Failing Flesh: yes, yes, this is the band working with the former vocalist of Voivod, Eric Forrest. Since I’ve recently made a thorough interview with Tim, once again I’ll ignore the biography. Last year’s album is the second in line, but what does it conceal?
40 minutes of experimental throbbing, The Conjoined perfectly reflects what the have started in 2003 with A Beautiful Sickness. However, a slight difference can be that this time the guys were more daring in unusual ideas and the ambivalent instrumental concepts, which at the end gives us the whole picture again. It is obvious that The Conjoined is not only daring with the samplers but in the heaviness itself. For example the intro part of Eye of demise (that easily could fit in as death-black) or the soul-crushing thudding of Surface notice, complete with trumpets….or even Synesthesea, which seems to have been knocked off a Voivod record. There is no lack of ideas, the uniqueness and strength of Project: Failing Flesh are both fed by the same thing: experimenting. And indeed, besides the tight post-trash, tinted with an astounding variety of instruments, shifts, their music never slips into boredom, as if pouring green and red searing, sizzling fluids from one vial to the other. Despite the laboratory – like sterility, they never create something artificial, although at certain points it is obvious that – at least this way – it can not be realized live. But maybe that’s the beauty of it, that these musical geniuses have the talent and courage to mix water with electricity, blood with pitch, the industrial-break-noise-d’n’b bases with raging metals. The effect reaches confusion, like in Regenerate, starting off with hard d’n’b guitars and ending in trashy pulsing. Still, some aspects resemble the early noises of NIN as well as the high musical standards of Therion. The intro of Unsight unseen might even be used for a strategy game, with the end resembling the cold war era of the 60s. The hand that you’ve been dealt spring up with jazz- and r’n’r-like grinding, so does the title track rebel with its jazzy trumpets….and so on….not to mention the yet again extraordinary Celtic Frost cover!
I can only repeat myself when saying the music of Project: Failing Flesh uses most kinds of musical genre or influence: as for the ones it doesn’t, they devour them soon. And the result is so unusual, that I don’t even dare to use ‘crossover’ to describe it: astonishing ideas, profession recording, great sound, beautiful classical elements ranging from trumpets, through organs all the way to hammer blows. In other words, a great and stunning concoction, released by Burning Star Records, in a neat digi-pack.
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