### Massive Slavery: Global enslavement

#### 24/11/10 || Altmer

This band was pitched as death metal. Are they death metal? Well, they sure sound like Behemoth. If you like Behemoth, this is guaranteed to give you a hard on – they’ve got the good riffs, they’ve got the special touch of melody, and they have got their groove going on. In fact, it’s like Behemoth if Nergal was a bit more sucky. And as a death metal band, aiming for that sort of shit is never bad.

The production is fucken weird, sounds very quantized and mechanical… a bit lifeless. I hate the kick drum sound with its awful clicks. In fact, the overly Year 2010™ production sound is the most glaring flaw with this album. I just wish the drums sounded like drums and not like someone playing an electro kit for kids. The guitar tone can be a bit weak too, I find – but it’s not as important, the drum kicks bring this down.

There are some good instrumental bits strewn here and there across the album as well, the band showing off clear technical proficiency and the like. Some of the material reminds me of a shittier Blotted Science production-wise. The guitar playing sounds excellent tight, it’s just weird some of the riffs remind me of things Dream Theater or some prog death metal band would write. It’s not as evident when the blasting goes on, but there’s definitely a techier side to the death metal found on this album.

The last thing is that the growls are actually pretty neat and for once merit inclusion on an album. That is always nice to know.

So congratulation fuckos, you have made an enjoyable death metal album with a bunch of production flaws that you can fix on the next album. I am sure this album will grow on me a bit with time even, as some of the material is not instantly catchy, but it’s pretty decent either way.

Recommendation: Stop the “alien metal” sound. You don’t sound cool because you sound recent. In fact, this production is positively terrible. The rest, keep on truckin’, motherfuckers. GLOBAL ENSLAVEMENT! It’s almost like Global Domination. Fuckit.

- Information
- Released: 2010
- Label: Maple Metal Records
- Website: Massive Slavery MySpace
- Band
- Jon St. Pierrie: vocals
- Joel St. Amant : guitars
- Marc-André Barrette: bass
- Pierre-Alexandre Mercier: drums

- Tracklist
- 01. Madiassassination
- 02. Shade Of Corruption
- 03. Global Enslavement
- 04. The Denial Of Man’s Regression
- 05. Destroy, Rebuild, Repeat
- 06. A Cold Interlude
- 07. Wider We Open Your Eyes
- 08. Pull The Plug Of Modern Civilization
- 09. Humanity’s Last Hope
- 10. Generalized Cyberphobia