Band:	Circle Of Dead Children
Album:	Human Harvest
Style:	Grindcore
Release date:	2003
A review by:	Herzebeth

01. A Family Tree To Hang From
02. We Wear The Gimp Mask
03. Salt Rock Eyes
04. Bring Her A Mushroom Cloud Pt. 1
05. No Tolerance For Silence
06. Destiny Of The Slug
07. Sleepwalker
08. Harvest At Dawn (Enter Fertility)
09. Corsage Of Fresh Meat And Rotted Pride
10. Oak And Iron
11. Mother Pig
12. Rocket
13. King Cobra Vs Queen Bee
14. Buzzard Blizzard
15. White Trash Headache
16. Shadow Of The Narcissist
17. Bring Her A Mushroom Cloud Pt. 2
18. My Supernatural (Bell Ring Slowly)
19. Alkaline

Grindcore is a Metal genre that most times is related to Gore, Rotting corpses, virulent diseases and such stuff that early carcass and related bands are or used to sing about. Well here it is a band that has a lot of Grindcore elements in it's music, but, there is practically 0 gore in it's lyrical content, the lyrics are incredibly well thought and have a great conceptual structure.

Ok don't get too excited, if you are one of those "Mommy can you please buy me that care bear ?" dudes you'll despise this album, yes the lyrics are quite different but well it's still a Grindcore band so don't expect to understand the vocals, you have to read it to know what the song is about, which I think is great by the way (Those vocals are to this day the best vocalizations in Grindcore history). This is an example of what the lyrics are of, this is a fragment of "destiny of the slug" "Assume supreme control of the mind, The smallest parts of existence, can become the fallen curtains for us all.." well you get the idea right? The lyrics are mostly about philosophy, beauty, and society.

The album is very fucking entertaining, not only if you are into Grindcore, there are songs (Mother Pig, the longest song in the album) that are actually?well? Mellow (in a Grindcore kind of way of course) the instruments are very well executed, incredible riffs and a tempo that goes from ultra violent fast riffs to "Slow" drum beats that can equal any Death Metal Band, Human Harvest has that weird something that makes the songs different from each other (although it's a little hard to hear this album two times in a row).

The peak of the album comes in the 6th track "Destiny Of The Slug" a song that combines all the Circle Of Dead Children elements in just one minute; This song has incredible riffs, after the first 23 seconds of ultra violent fast bleeding ears music the song turns into a Great Piece of musical art work, The vocal effects in the end are infamous, nothing I have ever heard in this particular genre(a weird high-pitched effect, it's shown in the entire album, very cool actually), "Destiny Of The Slug" really saves this album from every minor flaw it could have; Another song that is worth to highlight is "Oak And Iron" a song that talks mostly about society, with again insanely drums and great guitar riffs, The bass-lines are good, but I couldn't appreciate them well, because the drums kept bluring the sound of the bass, pity.

As I was saying at the beginning, this album is great, but well if you are into melodic metal, and the sound of extremely fast riffs scares you, avoid this album and don't pay attention to what I wrote here, now if you aren't into Grindcore but you love Death, Black, Thrash or any extreme Metal Genre you will love and respect this album for it's content, I won't promise you anything, but if you want to check one of the most interesting bands on the planent DO NOT skip this one, in time you'll see that "Human Harvest" has more to offer than just blasting riffs and ultra fast killer drums.