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Eyes of a Madman 3:24 2. The Gift of Hate 2:32 3. Mercitron 2:43 4. In Sickness 3:19 5. Spill Your Guts 6:33 6. As the Dead Pile High 3:10 7. Inquisition of the Guilty 3:43 8. Force Fed Lies 2:59 9. Buried Alive (Venom cover) 4:27 ------ 32:50 Num Skull has changed drastically over the eight years between this album and the excellent Ritually Abused released in 1988. Have they put out another thrash masterpiece this time around? Well not really, this album bears no resemblance to their thrash roots .The only original member returning on this album is Tom Brandner which explains why this sounds like a completely different band. Also in the span of 8 years metal has drastically changed for the better or worse, it all depends.This album is good for occasional head banging but that's it though it's not really good for anything else. The riffs played here are really not memorable at all. Num Skull's earlier works are clearly rooted in thrash and speed metal but this sounds like they listened to a bunch of Cannibal Corpse and Deicide and tried their best at copying it without any of the technicality of originality of those bands. Now the guitars play rather bland and uninteresting riffs throughout the entire album. They really don't grab the listener's attention or do anything worth noting. They barely utilize any tremolo picking, soloing (only 6-7 solos on the entire album), or scale based/rhythmically challenging riffs. I don't mind the little use of solos, but for that to be effective the riffs have to be good, on this album though they are not good, bands with great riffs that didn't really utilize solos that often were Deeds of Flesh and Incantation. They could get away with it though here not really. On this album it's mostly just bottom string chugs. Also the riffs coupled with the muffled production on the album make most of the riffs sound exactly the same throughout the entire album. The guitar solos and riffs on Ritually Abused are far superior technically, musically, and energetically than the guitar playing here. It's quite a shame considering Num Skull released Ritually Abused 8 years prior to this. The drumming on this album is also incredibly bland and generic. I mean it gets the job done but there is not much variety in the drumming. What you'll hear in the drumming department is occasional blasts, very small use of double bass, and no fills. Really there are no fills at all. This guy's drumming is like an early version of Paul from Cannibal Corpse very bland and not very creative drumming. I don't think there were any toms used on this album, or even the china cymbal. The bass is somewhat audible but it doesn't have the same presence that it had in Ritually Abused. Ritually Abused bassist Rob Charrier threw in very creative solos and added a lot to the music while here Mike Eisenhauer just plays along with the guitars and that's that. He's audible in the mix but there are no cool sounding bass solos and nothing really to add to the music. The vocalist sounds like a poor man's version of George "Corpsegrinder" Fischer. He can go pretty low but he doesn't have any crazy high pitched screams, nor is he very rhythmical. George Fischer can growl/sing incredibly fast and he is clear in his delivery, this guy doesn't. Plus vocally he doesn't come close to Skips (original vocalist) demented sound. Skip sounded unique, when he growled his vocals sounded like he swallowed razor blades and then tried to sing with blood pouring out of his mouth. This guy on this album sounds like a stereotypical death metal vocalist you would find on craigslist. Finally the production is the last thing that needs to be discussed. I mean how does a demo from 1986 (Num's the Word) sound better than this by a mile? The production on Num Skull's demo and Ritually Abused LP everything is crystal clear from the drum hits, guitar riffs, and bass tone while here everything is very muffled and muddy sounding. That is unacceptable that a record from 1988 could sound so much better from the same band than one released in 1996. I mean it's not like we are comparing Metallica to Darkthrone because obviously Metallica could afford better production and studio equipment. But here it's the same band and one record sounds completely unbalanced while another sounds great. I would skip over this record if you're looking to get into Num Skull and instead listen to Ritually Abused. The only thing that this album has over Ritually Abused is brutality but that is because of the much lower guitar tuning and more growl based vocals. Other than that Ritually Abused dominates over this album in every way. Yes, this is more brutal but Ritually Abused has better song writing, better riffs, better drumming and is far more frenzied and violent than this album is. Ritually Abused just oozes violence and malevolence from it, this just reminds me of a Cannibal Corpse cover band. Num Sull should've changed their name for this album I mean seriously none of the original members except Tom played on this record and it sure didn't improve Num Skull's playing or songwriting at all. Final Verdict, get Ritually Abused instead the only highlight track on this album is the opener, really everything else isn't worth your time. Also that venom cover at the very end is laughably bad. Overall, this album falls flat and is very boring for a death metal album.                                                                                                     ▀▀░                                                                                                                ░▄▀                                  ▄█▀                                             ░▄           ░▐███░               ▀█░▄▄▄                    ▄░       ▀█░░                      ░           ▀▀░                                         ▄  ░                                          ▄     █          ▀                 ▄              ▄█▄ ▄ ██▄         ▀░▀     ▄         ▀                ▀░▀   ▀         ▀▀████████▀░                   ▀ ▄      ░                      ░░       ░▀██▀                    ▀██▄                ▄               ▐     ░      ░  █▀▄    ▐▓▓▌   █                    ▄   ▄▄       ░                    ▄▄▌█  ▄▄▓▓▓▀  ▄                      ▄ ▀   ████      ░                   ▐███▌  ░ ░                  ▄██▀     ▄▄██▄▄           ░           ▄▄███▄▄ ▄  ▓                         ▐▓▓▌  ░   ▓████▄        ▀          ▀    ▓█████▓  ▀ ▄                           ▀▓▓▓▄▄   ▐▓███ ▌                       ▌█████      ▀██▄   ▄                ░▄  ▀▀██▄▐████ ▌▐ ▌▓                ▓▐ ▌█▓███       ▐▓▓▌ ▀░▀           █    █  ░ ░▓▐████▄▌▐ ▌▌ ▌▌▐ ▌▐▄ ▐▐·▌▌▐▐ ▐ ▄█████    ▄▄▓▓▓▀                            ▓ ▓▐████ ▌▐ ▌▌ ▌▌▐ ▌▐▐▓▐▐ ▌▌▐▐ ▐ ▌█████ ▄█▓▀▀  ▄░ ░            ▄▄▄░      ▓     ░▐████▄▌▐▄▌▌▄▌▌▐ ▌▐▐▄▐▐▄▌▄▐▐▓▐▄▌█████ ▓     █               █████      ▐▄░   ▓▐████ ▌▐ ▌▌ ▌▌▐ ▌▐▐ ▐▐ ▌▌▐▐▓▐ ▌█████   ▓░   ▄         ▐▓    █▓███░    ▓▐█░▄▄  ▐████ ▌▐ ▌▌ ▌▌▐ ▌▐█ ▐▐ ▌▌▐▐ ▐ ▌█████    ▄██▄ ▀ ▄      █▌    █████▓   ██▀█▀▀   ▐█▓██ ▌▐ ▌▌ ▌▌▐ ▌▐▐ ▐▐ ▌▌▐▐ ▐ ▌███▓█   ▐█▓██▓   ▀██▄ ▀██▀   █████▓░    ▓█▌    ▐████▓▌▐▄▌▌▄▌▌▄ ▌▐▐▄▐▐▓▌▌▐▐▄▐▄▌█████   ▐████▌    ▐▓▓▌▓█▌   ▄█▓███▄░     ▐█▄▓  ▐████ ▌▐ ▌▌ ▌▌▐ ▌▐▐ ▐▐ ▌▌▐▐ ▐ ▀█▓███   ▐████▌ ▄▄▓▓▓▀  █▓  ████████▄▄▓ ▄█████▌ ▐████ ▌▐ ▌▌ ▌▌▐ ▌▐▐ ▐▐ ▌▌▐▐▓▐ ▌█████   ▓████▌░ ▄▄   ▄▄█▄▄ ██████████████████████████████▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄     █████  ░██▓████▓██▓▓██████ █░█████▄▀█▄░████████▄▄▄▄▄██████▓████████░██████▄▄▄▄▄███████░▄██░█░█████████ ▓██▀█████▓░░ ░ ░ ░ ░ ░ ░░░▓███▓█████ ████████▓ ▓██▓▐████▓ ▓██ █░███ █░██████▓ ███▓▄▀█▓ ▓ ▓█████▓███████ ▓███ ░▄▄▄▓████▓ ▓████████▓ ▓██████▓ ▓████▓