Band:	Low Twelve
Album:	This Side Toward Enemy
Style:	Grindcore
Release date:	2006
A review by:	Herzebeth

01. Stay Of Execution
02. Within Lies
03. Kill Everything
04. A Killer With Twelve Faces
05. This Side Toward Enemy
06. Your God
07. Sickness
08. Not Alive
09. Low Crawl
10. Death Draws Near
11. A Private Hell
12. Low Twelve

This is the second full length of this Hardcore/Thrash/Groove metal band from USA, this album happens to be a concept dragged from their debut album called "Flesh of the weak" where we can find a song called "Twelve", tune about a serial killer who hears 12 different demonic voices in his head, each voice tells him to kill in a different way and that's about it. Maybe the concept sounds cheesy and overused, fortunately the music isn't.

The music is overall really fucking catchy, and I mean catchy as crazy glue or something, the beats have this constant groove which makes us head-bang over and over again and the riffs are structured in a meticulous way so we won't forget about them in a long time. The general feeling lines up in hardcore overtones, thrash beats here and there, a couple of samples (they overuse the "evil laughs" badly though) and a lot of groove, so yes this is a rough mix, but easy on the ear none the less. The truth is you'll be distracted with the cool beats and breakdowns and then you won't notice the simplicity of the general sound.

This CD has a bonus Video for "Kill Everything", not a good video of course, but somehow decent. Shot in digital video (probably miniDV) the video has a lot of flaws including the awful performance by the killed actresses, they actually seem rather happy than horrified but whatever. In the end, this album is decent, I won't say it's the best in its genre, but it's surely a good piece with a lot of good moments to enjoy; the fact that disturbs me the most is the unexciting execution, the instrumentation sounds rather forced when it should sounds more relaxed if you know what I mean.

This album didn't impress me but that does not mean it's bad, it's actually entertaining in some parts and I'm sure many people dig it no matter what, my recommendation to the band would be to relax a little bit, perfectionism is not the answer most times. That phrase "the audience feels what the artist felt while recording an album" speaks the truth.

Best Tracks: "Within Lies", "This Side Toward Enemy".

Note: you can download some mp3's in their website, check them and then judge yourself.