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Disembody: New Flesh

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Fans of Machine Head, Unjust, and Fear Factory will love this awsome CD by the new kings of the Bay Area metal sound (sorry Robb, but these guys shred!). I saw these guys live with Pissing Razors about a month ago, and they ruled! It isn't very often that a band lives up to their live show, but these guys managed to pull it off extremely well with the help of superproducer (at least in the world of metal) Andy Sneap (Machine Head, Pissing Razors, Exodus, Face of Anger, Stuck Mojo, and others). Not only can singer/bassist Steev Esquivel (I think that's how it's spelt) scream as well as Max Cavelara (Soulfly/Sepultura), but he can sing as well as Lane Stanley (Alice In Chains)! So if your hungry for some top-notch, very three-dimensional (not a single song on the album sounds the same, and I mean that in a good way) Bay Area style metal, Skinlab will more than satisfy! (oh, and by the way, this albums a big improvement on their debut, "Bound, Gagged, and Blindfolded", which is only O.K.)

If you like this CD, I'd strongly recommend the new Bad Brains tribute CD, on which Skinlab do an awsome versian of "The Messangers".

One of the best cd's I've heard in a long time!! Despite it only having 10 songs, this cd is one of my favorites. They have a video for KNOW YOUR ENEMIES on the cd. I bought this cd, with only hearing about 30 seconds of 5 songs, but I bought it. These recordings don't bring out the best of the music, but if you like Slipknot and Zombie, you'll love Skinlab. 10 stars!!!!

Now i'm a fan of all sorts of metal.But to me anything thats got heavines,attitude,and talent is metal.Skinlab has all that and more with ripping vocals(great range),punishing drums,and sick riffs.They are alot like theyre piers(Machine Head,Napalm Death)but both of those bands are great.If you like Skinlab check those two out Machine Head being the best of the three.Also check out Cannibal Corpse,Pro-Pain,Suffocation,Slayer,Heaven Shall Burn,and The Agony Scene.

skinlab along with pissing razors are the saviors of real metal. i'm not lying either, look at slayer they haven't put out anything good since seasons, and metallica and megadeth are good for a laugh now, metal is being over thrown by the new rap/metal fusion thing created by korn.and what you got here is good old straight up metal. i couldn't find a song i didn't like on this c.d..recoomended!

Hailing from the Bay Area as a thrash band means you have some pretty big shoes to fill. After all, the Frisco-Oakland scene spawned in part the semonal metal acts Metallica, Megadeth and Testament as well as second-generation thrash heros Machine Head. On ther sophmore effort however, Skinlab, bring to the table as much raw aggression and angst to rival any of their predecessors, while redefining thier own unique and intense sound. Disembody: the New Flesh represents a metamorphisis for its members, a rebirth of sorts, and an oppertunity fully express themselves fully. Building the the raw, unrefined concepts laid out on their debut Bound, Gagged and Blindfolded Skinlab embrace their new skin with an unbridled aggression and musical prowess. From the opening riff of "So Far From the Truth" to the closing fade of "Looks Can be Deceiving" the quartet graciously accept the torch passed to them from the previous titans of the Bay Area scene and begin to burm their own bonfiresque flame. Haunting vocal melodies are offset by gutteral screams over a technical groundwork laid by dual harmonized guitars, fledging bass line and thrashing double bass inspired drums. With production credits going to veteran of the metal scene, Andy Sneap (Machine Head, Earth Crisis), Skinlab's sound has matured well beyond powerful to exillerating. Add in the power that newcomers Scott Sargeant (Killing Culture) and Snake (Skrew) bring into both the songwriting and the overall sound and you understand why Skinlab are as solid as they are on Disembody... Shedding all past comparisons to their contemporaries as well as the genre's forfathers, Skinlab take on a new life compromising of unadulterated grit and Bay Area grind. They unleash catchy, driving hooks paired with ferocious rhythms and their own brutal and driving intensity with passages as quiet as a back alley on a summers night ballanced by blasts as noisy as the first nuclear tests. For all those who ever claimed, even in a whisper, metal was dead and thrash is part of the dinasaur legacy of the genre, Skinlab are the second-coming of the messiah that you will have to face naked and alone, while the rest of the extreme music cominity listens to your wimpers as you shed your commercial skin

This CD is, quite simply, amazing. There are some, however, that will cast a long, dark shadow on this work of art, some giving it up to the sophmoric syndrome we see in so many titles these days; others considering that their latest cd, ReVolting toom, is definately lacking, so why should this cd be any better? One only needs to listen to the first song to know what I'm saying. With super-smooth guitar riffs with the potency of high-octane gasoline, and a lyrical intensity that'll peel paint off the walls (yes, by just words alone), this cd remains one of my all-time favorites when it comes to metal in general.

I only purchased this CD because I heard they were a local band.
It's pretty good but nothing special. It sounds like rehashed
Machine Head. The trippy parts aren't very trippy and come across
as filler until the next heavy riff comes along. It'll collect
dust along with Systematic and Machine Head's latest joke of a CD. Pretty sad commentary on Bay Area music.

...you have no idea what you're missing. This CD is truly one of the best heavy metal CD's on the planet. It is fast, furious, and it will leave your neck sore for days on end once you've heard it. The front man's voice just fits the pounding guitars and drums very well. The first time I heard this CD, it encited a rage within me and I was a head-bangin' fool. The best head-banging tracks on the CD are "Know Your Enemies", "Breathe", "Excellerate", "Coward", and "Looks Can Be Deceiving". These certain tracks on the CD are where the guitars are at their heaviest, pushing the listener into a frenzy. Tracks like "Scapegoat" and "Second Skin: New Flesh" are a tad slower and play to the traditional metal style, with exception to the loud screaming voice of the lead singer.

All in all, this CD is deserving of any metal fan's great collection of CDs because it rules. Pick it up, NOW!!!

I think that Skinlab is one of best metal bands around today. I'm sick of everybody thinking that Korn and Limp Bizkit are metal cause they're not Skinlab is f'n awesome with their hard and heavy riffs and their hardcore lyrics makes this cd a one of the best in the metal industry.

Simply a great CD to add to your collection of heavy metal. Definitely worth buying. Rock out.