Excision is what you must call a one man industrial/experimental/noise project by Kekal guitarist Jeffray. On The Quality of Mankind a 8 song tape put out by THT Productions, Jeffray explores his musical boundaries and pours out about 2,000 pounds of his angst all in one fatal blow. Simply put I love this music. It's heavy, fast, extreme, and new. Yes you've pretty much got to call it experimental industrial, but that first song 'Morality in Question' is so stinking heavy and filled with typical Jeffray/Kekal guitar work it's not funny!
Making a return here is 'The Black Box' on drums and as with the Kekal albums the drum programming is very good, most of the time you don't even realize it's drum machine...except on those blast beats, which are used frequently. For me this is not a big deal at all, I don't blink twice at it.
The vocals are interchanged quite a bit on this album. Going from a very deep growl like I've never heard on any Kekal albums (I know Jeffray isn't the vocalist) to a very industrial influenced speaking/shouting style that has tons of different effects on it. I know some of you can't stand vocal effects so keep that in mind. Again as for myself I don't mind them at all as long as they are done well, to which they are definitely done well here.
Lyrically as I said Jeffray used this as a way to purge a lot of his deep rooted emotions. It's nothing if not angry. Still there was room for his beliefs as well. Take the ending of 'Absoluteness of Our Relativity State' a song in which he addresses how the world conforms to accept sin after sin as "normal" and "acceptable" activity when at the end is said:
we are lords of vanities, self worshipping god-players
in need of something absolute, in need of GOD
Not to mention the words to the closing track 'Release This World of Hate' which are:
love in flesh and spirit has come to release this world of hate
do we ever realize?
The title track really is nothing more than a spoken word track backed by white noise. He does again use some vocal effects but speaks out his frustrations with so many different political states throughout the world. Be warned tender ears he does indeed use a small piece of vulgarity in the form of "B*LL SH*T" during this speech. If you are easily offended (or if your mom and dad are) you may want to steer clear of this one. I didn't let this one part influence the rating here because I know in some parts of the world this is not really viewed as being vulgar, harsh yes but it's the equivalent of saying 'CRAP' here in America.
The production quality of this tape is really good, no it's not the absolute top notch you get from the secular world but it's better than a lot of albums that have come my way! Bottom line here is some great new music that will rip you to shreds one minute, create atmosphere the next, but above all make you think lyrically.
8.5/10
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