Band:	Embalming Theatre
Album:	The World Is A Stage For Murder
Style:	Goregrind, Death metal
Website:	http://www.embalmingtheatre.ch
Release date:	December 19, 2005
A review by:	Undercraft

01. Buried Alive VI: Stabbed, Beaten And Pregnant
02. Amputation Of The Wrong Leg Pt. II
03. Punched, Burned, Strangled And Decapitated
04. Living With The Mummy
05. Dead Garbage II: Strangled Babies Shoved In Bags
06. Skull Soccer Pt. II
07. Get High On A Dead Dog
08. Registered Sex Offender Lives Here
09. Foetal Remains In A Trash Compactor
10. The World Is A Stage... For Murder!
11. Sex Slaves
12. Self Devourment [Hideous Mangleus cover]
13. He Ate His Own Penis
14. He Attacked Her With A Chainsaw
15. Babe The Baby
16. Severed Head In My Hand
17. Hot Wedding And Burning Hearts
18. Bulldozer Blues

And we're the actors?

September 2004 / Boston: 2 men butchered a 14-year-old girl and her unborn daughter. The girl had been stabbed, beaten and buried alive in a shallow grave.

This headline (which, is actually real) is the starting point for Embalming Theatre new venture, "The World Is A Stage? For Murder!" , these Swiss metalheads play a mixture of Grindcore and Death Metal, both styles fuse to give birth to short songs with horror/tragic themes that actually happened in the real world, ergo, the album title.

18 songs, 18 headlines of horrific (and sometimes plain funny) events that happened around the world, behind the lyrics of each song there's a small headline with the actual recollection of the success. You have it all, from your chopped down kid in London to 34 girls in Congo used as sex slaves by ethnic militiamen.

Don't expect much brutality here, not all the time at least, the band is very riff based, with melodic breaks and a throaty deep growl, luckily for me, totally understandable, although I can't imagine the poor throat of the singer, seems quite pernicious to sing that way.

Anyway, not much to say here really, not your standard Grindcore release, but if you enjoy brutal music with a touch of reality, this might fit your tastes. I leave you to enjoy my personal favorites headlines of the album:

June 2004 / Malaysia: A man (who had taken hallucinogenic drugs) cut off his penis and then fried and ate it.

June 2003 / Essex: Thieves tried to snort a bag of powder they found. The bag contained the cremated remains of a dog named Charlie.

2001 / USA: The new way to deal with the past in Texas? Brilliant idea of a judge in Corpus Christi!! (a door-plate put to any sex offender that says "Registered Sex Offender Lives Here")

Sick world we live in, right?