Red Ink

Item: Raw Meat
Author: Daniel Baillod

Raw Meat

(1989)

Reviewed by Daniel Baillod

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Label Maximum Speed RecordsAdonai Metal Rock #4May 1991

crossover thrash grindcore hardcore punk thrash metal

Translated from the original French

Ah!! What characters!! The musical kit their heavenly Boss parachuted in to them fits them like a glove... a boxing glove, given their in-your-face lyrics and their instrumental straight punches!! A good sound and thrashcore vocals that are technically well modulated assure them a flawless stage presence. Their repertoire would be a bit like a double-row cartridge belt: on the one, influences in the VENGEANCE RISING line (see their first platter "Human Sacrifice") while on the second, tonalities worthy of the hardcore merchants of THE LEAD. Their ballad-proof vest (!!) could well be woven from tasty classical foundations, hardening into heavy then into speed, to turn outright into grindcore of superfine quality ("Repent Or Else"). Onto their catchy riffs, fixing themselves like thousands of badges onto their breastplate-compositions, come special effects of the greatest relief there is, topstitched on. As for their speciality, it lies in their chorus-wise insistence on the key words, transforming each of the passages in question into steel patches, inlayable in the dura mater of the electrified listener!! Good presentation, what is more, for this thrasho-punk quartet, which may well go off at a tangent in the direction of their brothers in the excellent band BELIEVER. Blood brothers would doubtless be even more accurate, seeing that both have for their bloody banner the cross of the Saviour, on which hangs the raw meat of the Sacrificed One ("Raw Meat")... RED INK, a band to be marked in red ink... of the Sacred Blood.