Band:	Bound In Human Flesh
Album:	The Music Of Artisanship & War: Volume 1
Style:	Black metal, Death metal
Release date:	2007
A review by:	Herzebeth

01. Terratomb - Windtears
02. Gallactus - Iron Bridge
03. The Orchid's Curse - Goodbye Is When The Casket Closes
04. Chara -Woman Is A Danger Cat
05. Good Lookin Out - Taking It Back
06. Hellacaust - Forsaken Rapture
07. Pariah - We Will Remember
08. Athymia - Needle N' Thread
09. Dischord - Nuke Face
10. War Pony - I Wanna Love Death Forever
11. Bound In Human Flesh - Again I Kill
12. Legions Of Chaos - One Thousand Kills
13. Laid To Waste - The Severed
14. In Purgatory - Eater Of Nightmares
15. Huge - Pity Parade
16. Strong Hollow - Bullshit
17. Rusted Dawn - Waking Streets

I'm not too fond of compilations to tell you the truth; someone inducing you to hear approximately 20 bands with closely the same sound is always tiresome in many levels. Then there's the actual turn-off; it's hard enough for listeners to buy a "legal" full-length, and internet is offering an "easy way out" for this matter as we all know, now imagine how hard it will be for people to actually go out and buy a sampler?pretty damn hard to be precise.

Fortunately for Diminished Fifth Records they added 17 of the most unknown bands in the whole world, I said fortunately yes, because their underground level is so high that nobody will ever find those bands in "torrents", "P2P's" or any other place where people download their music from. In the end, this sampler per-se, it's actually a great showcase for the bands as people will get to (at least) know their names.

But what will people think? Well, the whole compilation is lined towards Metalcore, so the guys with cute haircuts and God Forbid T-Shirts will surely see this compilation as an underground heaven, the bands might not play virtuously and they might not be the most original acts in the scene?but they attack your ears with solid Metalcore and oh yeah, they're more underground than a kult Black Metal band.

In the end the entire set of bands doesn't offer anything totally crushing or new; this compilation will only be a cool title in your Metalcore packed shelves, nothing really groundbreaking here just a lot of unknown names that will mess with your friend's hairstyle ala Converge.