The Beast - Fixed by the Devil
Somebody sank a lot of money into the packaging of this MCD and considering the quality of the music on Fixed by the Devil, they should have spent some of that cash on either a really good hooker or some quality drugs. To be totally honest, The Beast just doesn’t have the musical talent to merit having a product look this good because these guys suck. They make Von, Beherit, Bestial Summoning and Blasphemy look like Wagner, Bach, Mozart and Beethoven. When you can make a Von cover sound worse than the original, you really fucking suck ass. The best tracks are the intro (“Enter”) and the outro (“Leave”). The rest are barely listenable. The guitars sound like a muffled chainsaw, the drumming sounded like a robotic arm flicking a light switch on and off really fast and the lyrics on this MCD are on par with a rambling homeless lunatic who thinks he’s Satan. The drums mostly drown out the guitars and while the vocals are acceptable, the whole package (in terms of music) should have been a rough mix demo tape at best. The Beast may appeal to die-hard fans of “Grim” or “Necro” Black Metal bands like Necrofrost (another barely listenable lo-fi Black Metal band) but the rest of us will want to avoid this band like the plague. Don’t let the cool Chris Moyen art and slick packaging fool you. You can dress up absolute shit but the stink eventually makes its way out.
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