"Sit back, slip on your absorbent undergarments
and let the mayhem begin." So proclaims the intro to the opening
title song. Well, I did just that, and very soon found myself wishing
I had brought along an extra pair of absorbent undergarments.
Skinless bludgeons your ass to death with some brutal
yet catchy death metal. The production is excellent and the guitars sound
so thick and meaty during the chugging parts that you actually feel an
invisible force clamp around your head, forcing you to bob your head up
and down in time with the music. Some may call this generic, but when
you are writing songs as good as this, who the hell cares?
Each song on this album is a masterpiece. The riffing
sometimes reminds me of Cryptopsy in the way it switches between high-speed
tremolo picking and the slower chugging sections. Perhaps the best example
of this is the song "Salvage What's Left." The drumming is really
fluid: slowing down at the right moments, resuming with the blasts at
the drop of a hat and always coming up with some interesting fills between
the riffs.
"Enslavement" is one of my favorite songs
on this album, and is in my opinion a great example of quality death metal
song writing. The way it builds up from a slow start to the ferocious
blasting at the latter stages, it just oozes class. Cannot recommend this
highly enough.
