www.redharvestplanet.com
Great title for a CD if there ever was one.
Taking off in their dust-encrusted Cybership and leaving on a mission were Fear factory
crash landed, (or passing by them at light speed), Red Harvest is one of the few bands that can actually combine the two elements of Thrash/death metal with the right amount of industrial to make the two work. That is a tough call. I borrowed their last CD Dark Gray Matter and was immediately floored with this wall of sound. Think of a giant black machine just grinding away on some distant, uncharted galaxy, waiting for someone to come along and discover it. STGM conjures images of Event Horizon. Where has this ship been and why is their no one on it? Does it has a life of its own? Most likely, it's been hanging with these guys. This is not the generic "I want to be ministry/NIN when I grow up, but I'm too busy concentrating on looking too cool in our press pics" type deal, where the music takes a backseat to the image. This machine kills! These guys hit you with dark, ominous, foreboding power, sharp jagged riffs, top notch production that explodes out of the speakers like a rabid half man /half pitbull created by a secret government experiment to replace man as their fighting machine, and voice box vocals that roar out at you rather than sounding tinny and whiny. like a lot of the metal/industiral crossover bands did in the mid 90's. It's nice to see a band that holds this gauntlet high after seeing how far Fear Factory fell after that last release, making a pit stop at good oil's planet earth to teach the apes how to use bones as weapons, giving us the knowledge that will finally destroy us all.
"I want you to open the airlock Hal!" ........"Fuck you Dave, I'm listening to Red Harvest you fucking bottom feeder and while your at it ,while your hands are free from that keyboard ,why don't you come over here and fondle my balls, why don't ya?"