Review Summary: Slam For the Modern Political Climate
Devouring Humanity are back, and they've taken notes from some of the best minds music has to offer.
Possibly, but probably not inspired by the works of great activists like Public Enemy and Mos Def, Devouring Humanity have stepped their game up and laid down the thematical gauntlet for all slam to come after them.
That's right, Brian Mohler is coming at you with that conscious slam.
With the release of Devouring Humanity's latest record, Brian Mohler has brought lowbrow slam to new intellectual heights. As always, the snare sounds like spoons in a bucket, the vocals are totally incomprehensible, and the guitars alternate between tight grooves and haphazard cacophony, so if you're just looking for a good time, you can find it here.
But if you're a true connoisseur of slam, that is, if you're down for the cause and down to have Down's, then this is the album for you. Presumably fed up with the perversion of modern man, Brian Mohler has composed a conceptual slam album revolving exclusively around the gruesome annihilation of pedophiles. Never before has headbanging to ultra raw, minimalist slam felt like such a morally correct act.
Truly, Brian Mohler is arguably slam's first social justice warrior and he's made a bold statement by making his views known to the world. Not only does he find pedophilia morally repugnant, but clearly he is an advocate of the death penalty, which is a controversial opinion in 21st century America. Of course, you wouldn't know it just by listening to the record, but with a lyric sheet in hand you'd definitely know. Probably.
It's a bold, yet exciting turn for a man who previously excelled in making music that sounded like the mind of a serial killer, although perhaps that's the beauty in it. Perhaps nothing's changed at all, as his music now captures the mentality of a new breed of serial killer, the serial pedophile killer.
As the atonal slams wash over the listener at a funeral crawl, it becomes apparent the degree of anguish that the horrendous crimes committed by pedophiles have inflicted upon Brian Mohler, and the brutish nature of the music reflects his urges to introduce them to wasteland justice. Slam has never been so personal or emotional.
Regardless of the new artistic ground covered here, what matters is that this album is undeniably the most important work of art to come out this year as far as metal goes, and you'd be a fool to let it pass you by.
