"So Is Death" (Demo ’93)
01. So is Death
02. Cranial
03. The Men and Their Lives
04. The Almighty Protozoan
05. Pool of Tears
"Existential Nausea" (Demo ‘92)
06. Sacro Sanctum Semen
07. The Hegemony of Reality
08. Pseudo-Disharmonic Excrescence of Noiseous Micro-Kaos
09. Inert Bodies Distillation
10. The Silence
11. Existential Nausea
12. When Gravity Acts
"The Miracle of Death" (Demo ’91)
13. Beauty Also Rots
14. Nonsense Time
15. Human Waste
16. Reaffirmation of Repression
17. The Miracle of Death
18. Pool of Tears
19. Psychic Fear
20. Circle of the Tyrants (Celtic Frost)
Comment:
Re-issue of the thre first demos (their best stuff) from '91/'92/'93 by this legendary spanish band of intense, corrosive and twisted Death Metal. Includes liner notes, lyrics, covers, photos, flyers... For lovers of bands like GORGUTS, MORBID ANGEL, PESTILENCE, SUFFOCATION, MASSACRA, VOIVOD, OBITUARY...
'Harvest Remnants' is a compilation of three demos released in the early 90s by Spanish death metal band Human Waste. So, it's not a complete overview by this band. The CD contains 20 songs in total and kicks off with the five tracks of the 'Promo '93'. This promo was never officially released and it will be the first time for many people to hear these songs. Next to that you'll get the tracks of the demos 'Existential Nausea' from 1992 and 'The Miracle Of Death' from 1991. Last but not least you'll find a cover of the Celtic Frost classic 'Circle Of The Tyrants'. The two demos from 1991 and 1992 were officially released by Drowned Productions back in the day and that label can largely be seen as a forerunner of Xtreem Music. Musically this is quite a decent disc but you should take note that the quality of the recordings isn't up to today's standards. Human Waste's style is a bit in the vein of Suffocation and Death. To be honest I don't think you need to have this CD. This is something for the die-hard collectors amongst the death metal fans.
It took a few minutes until clarity prevailed. So many bands using the same name. Of course the label Xtreem Music should have given me a hint, but I did not recognize the label at first sight. HUMAN WASTE are from Spain and the album "Brothel Of Souls" was the only full-length the band ever released during their career from 1990 to 2000. This CD features the following releases: the two demo tapes "The Miracle of Death" (1991) and "Existential Nausea" (1992) plus a promo tape simply entitled "Promo Tape '93" and a cover tune of CELTIC FROST's 'Circle Of The Tyrants'. Quite interestingly the band was labeled as technical or progressive. If you listen to "Harvest Remnants" it seems an audible bass plus some breaks and a drummer also handling the keyboard in the line-up (responsible for some intro / outro noise) was sufficient to be considered as technical and progressive. Please do not get those words in its present meaning. It is simply Death Metal the way it was played by so many bands in the early 1990s. Of course not on the same level like the albums published in 1991, but do not forget, these are demo recordings. Although some songs during the 70 minutes playing-time are premature, the whole release is a tasty tidbit for all Death Metal fans who do not mind demo sound and rather classic songwriting.
A los más jóvenes es probable que esta banda no les suene de nada, pero para los que llevamos en esto unos cuantos añitos ya, es muy probable que recordemos con bastante cariño y cierta nostalgia según como, una escena de metal extremo recién nacida y poblada de bandas nacionales como APOSENTO, AVULSED, MORTAL MUTILATION, MAELSTROM, UNBOUNDED TERROR … y los que hoy ocupan mis líneas, HUMAN WASTE.
Hablar de HUMAN WASTE es hablar de historia de la escena musical extrema de este país y “Harvest Remnants” es otro relato de historia, aunque esta vez de la propia banda. El cuarteto procedente de Tortosa (Tarragona) editó en su momento tres maquetas en los años 1991, 92 y 93 consecutivamente, además de una promo en el 94 y un recopilatorio en el que aparecían una serie de temas pertenecientes a éstas. No fue hasta 1999 cuando la banda editó su primer y único álbum además de otro recopilatorio y un Split compartido con OBSCURA posteriores. “Harvest Remnants” recopila todos los temas contenidos en sus primeras tres demos “The Miracle Of Death”, “Existential Nausea” y la promo del 93 “So Is Death”.HUMAN WASTE siempre fue una banda diferente al resto de grupos de metal extremo nacional. Cuando en la escena nacional tiraba en mayor o menor medida por la brutalidad HUMAN WASTE fue orientándose cada vez más en derroteros técnicos para acabar llegando al campo progresivo con su larga duración.
Es realmente curioso ver esa evolución musical a través de los diecinueve cortes que forman “Harvest Remnants” (veinte si contamos la versión de “Circle Of The Tyrants” de CELTIC FROST). Los temas correspondientes a “The Miracle Of Death” tienen ese sonido sucio y primitivo de las maquetas en formato casete de antaño con un estilo más influenciado por bandas como OBITUARY o MORBID ANGEL y donde su Death Metal era más directo y básico, aun y así hablamos temas muy bien construidos con una pegada brutal, ejemplo de ello el tema “Human Waste”, sencillamente magistral. Un nivel sobresaliente para ser su primera maqueta. En “Existential Nausea” mantenían esa caña pero su estilo ya se tornaba algo más técnico con un sonido más limpio y depurado y donde ya empezaban a introducir algún que otro elemento disonante y tempos menos convencionales, escuchad “Inert Bodies Distillation” y sabréis a qué me refiero. En su etapa de “So Is Death” ya se nota una gran madurez no solo en el sonido sino también en sus temas que ,pese a no contar con riffs imposibles y paranoias sonoras varias, se tornan más complejos con continuos cambios de ritmo y riffs algo más experimentales orientados más en una onda de bandas como GORGUTS o los últimos PESTILENCE. Todo este elenco de temas viene con un sonido perfectamente re masterizado en formato CD y presentado de lujo.
No es un nuevo disco de HUMAN WASTE, de hecho llevan años separados, pero es un documento histórico que todo amante de la banda y del Death Metal nacional debería tener. Es una prueba más que evidente que el metal extremo en este país ha contado con muy buenas bandas desde siempre y no solo ahora. Recomendado, como todo buen clásico que se precie.
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