Band:	Protest
Album:	Have A Rest, Please
Style:	Brutal death metal, Grindcore
Release date:	2004
A review by:	Jeff

01. Dead Illusions
02. I Lay My Feet On The Grass
03. Information Collapse
04. Inapplicable Material
05. Amusing Advisor For Unexperienced Explorers
06. Death Knows No Sundays
07. I Have 7 Flowers
08. S.O.S.
09. Component Which Doesn't Fit To Any Machine
10. Sit Down, Please
11. Following The Path Of Wise
12. I Ask Myself Why I am Here
13. Endless
14. Do You Like To Die
15. Lapac Smrti
16. Ohi Ohi Ach Ka Ka

Protest was formed in 1989. These leaders of the Slovakian scene recorded their first demo "Inside Of Humanity" in 1992. Their first album "What For Name When Humanity Is Dying" was released in 1995. And after this album: nothing, nothing until last year and their big return with a new album [who was in fact recorded in 1998]. And now Protest comes back again with their new production "Have A Rest, Please". But since there last album, they've turned into a Grindcore band.

With this album, we have a big sound. Guitars riffs are stronger than ever and like all the death/grindcore bands, Protest used to do not particularly complex and technical music but with a fantastic aggressiveness. And yes this album can be considerate as a real good piece of the genre.
The musicians are very correct and a very good point with "Have A Rest, Please" is that this album is not only Grindcore. They have Death Metal influences and we can feel it in all the songs, same we can feel some Hard-core influences too. And it's good because this CD doesn't go only in a unique direction. This is not the kind of album that can be considerate closed to its own style.
Like all these Grindcore bands, the voice of Cervo is very heavy and hard, and well I'm not a fan of this style. I think it's a real bad point because in addition of that, its sound is not very audible and attenuated too much by instruments. Then, I know this is the music style but, well, with a better voice, this band could interest more people.
But we are in presence of a pure underground band and it will be very hard for them, to pierce across the frontiers of Slovakia. They are not bad, to the opposite, but there are good bands like them in the underground scene of a lot of countries. And no majors will be interested by them I think? Maybe it's a shame but maybe these bands are too hard of access to be recognized?
However "Have A Rest, Please" is a very good album in the style.

I can only recommend this CD to the fans of the brutal metal scene. If you're a fan of Grindcore, but if you are also a fan of Brutal Death or Hardcore you will be enchanted by this good production. The others, like me, [if you're also oriented to extreme music] could be interested in some of the songs. But I repeat again this is an underground band and, well, maybe it could be only recommended to all the fans of this music.