Sick Transit Gloria Mundi [Enhanced]

Red Harvest | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 28, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Enhanced
• Label: Relapse
• ASIN: B000066HJ4
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #239,072 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. U.G.X.

2. AEP

3. Godtech

4. Humanoia

5. Dead

6. CyberNaut

7. Beyond The End

8. Desolation

9. Sick Transit Gloria Mundi

10. Dead Men Don't Rape

11. WeltSchmertz

12. (Dead End)

13. Final Scorn (bonus track)

14. Re-Hammer-Mix (bonus track)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Ministry + Fear Factory = Red Harvest, March 17, 2003

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Dave (Pa) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sick Transit Gloria Mundi (Audio CD)

Ok, maybe the title of my review is a little oversimplified, but that is the feeling I got when I listened to this for the first time, which was approx. 5 hours ago. I got turned on to it after hearing a track on Relapse's "Contaminated" compilation cd,and I just had to hear more. This is probably the best blend of metal and electronics I've heard since early Fear Factory. Neither element dominates over the other, and compliment each other nicely. It's got all of the "cyber-metal" elements (hence the Fear Factory reference), but the structure and experimentation give it a surreal element, like you would hear from Al Jourgensen. Inject a little of Relapse's trademark "hypergrind" feel and the result is one incredibly creative and brutal cd. I gave it 4 stars instead of 5 because there are some places where the songs start to drone on and get a little self-indulgent, and I feel as though I have a pretty good attention span, but don't push it. Some songs could use a little shortening to avoid that.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Corrosive and Maddening GENIUS!, September 21, 2005

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Nephren-Ka - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sick Transit Gloria Mundi (Audio CD)

Red Harvest is basically a mix of Ministry, Jesu, Coroner, Mayhem, Godflesh, and Skinny Puppy. If this sounds scattershot and lacking a sound of its own to you, well, you haven't listened to em yet. Red Harvest is punishing, brutal, efficient, and coldy beautiful, like with the intervals in the first song, AEP.

The songs all have lives of their own yet tie together well, as the best albums in any genre do. Crushing riffs combined with spacey techno/industrial beats and effects, overlaid with Ofu Kahn's relentless vocalizing: he may not have much variety in his somewhat one-note delivery, but I'll be damned if he doesn't fit the music's bleakness perfectly. Think of his vocals as an instrument, and you'll do fine.

The first four songs are a perfect start to the album. They sum it up, in its entirety. AEP is the juggernaut high-octane opener, with a wall of noise for riffs, some bass-driven interludes with female vocalizations, and a chain of riffs near the end that is damn near perfect. Godtech is slower, but still insanely brutal and riff-reliant, the Jesu side of the band (I know Jesu didn't show up till after this record was released, humor me) with some really awesome vocal hooks (strange, innit?) and strange electronic effects. Humanoia= Ministry song with different production. Not a bad thing, not at all, especially considering the catchy lyrics (for once.). Very good shout-along, thrash-around song.

Dead is the Godflesh side of the band, with more vocal effects on Ofu's whisper, and a reliance on industrial beats and sounds. It's very creepy, almost, and definitely disenheartening. Almost like Fear Factory, from their Fear Is the Mindkiller EP, but definitely more desolate and bleak-sounding.

The rest of the album is just as good as those songs, the one possible weak link being 'Dead Men Don't Rape,' but I like that song anyway.

Buy it.

Ta,

Nephren-Ka.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not for musical "wimps", December 21, 2002

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Shanus Jr. (Sun Valley, ID) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sick Transit Gloria Mundi (Audio CD)

I hate to sound like an elitist, but the guys who gave this album bad ratings were obviously not in tune with what extreme music is about. "Sick Transit Gloria Mundi" combines black & death metal with industrial & noise, with previously unheard of success. While Red Harvest's last album "Cold Dark Matter" was pretty good, I find this album to be more instantly likeable (possibly because it has more metal elements, which I prefer). I don't remember hearing much of these death-style growls on the last album, but I like them better than the black metal screech. For those of us who are sick of recycled ideas, Red Harvest comes through sounding very original and focused, while avoiding aimless experimenting.

If you have an understanding of aggressive or dissonant music, you might just enjoy this noisy yet intelligently musical disc.