HUMAN CULL 'Revenant' Bundle (LP, CD, MC, T-Shirt)
Release Date 01 June 2018
limited LP edition
CD edition
limited Cassette
white T-Shirt, Gildan Heavy Cotton
comes with a bandcamp download code of the entire album
limited colored vinyl editions:
11 Testpress, for friends and family *
03 crystal clear, transparent green & black mixed, for friends and family *
06 more crystal, solid white, transparent green & black mixed, for friends and family *
08 solid white, transparent green & black mixed, for friends and family *
30 more crystal, solid white, green & black mixed, available from the band * (color 1)
85 milky transparent green & black mixed (color 2)
87 transparent green & black mixed (color 3)
09 plum, crystal clear, solid orange & solid purple mixed, for friends and family *
16 plum, more crystal, solid orange & solid purple mixed, for friends and family *
82 crystal clear, solid orange & solid purple mixed (color 4)
94 more crystal, solid orange & solid purple mixed (color 5)
35 grey, white and black mixed, available from the band * (color 6)
190 white and black mixed
325 doom black
* hand numbered
On 'Revenant' HUMAN CULL push their already frantic crust-tinged blast-heavy grind of the last release into overdrive, featuring a huge production from Will Blackmon (Gadget, The Arson Project) and furious instrumental performances running in the style of 'FETO' era Napalm Death or 'Human 2.0' Nasum.
Songs run between monstrous fleet-fingered trem picking blast-fests to open riffing frantic d-beats but rarely drop below FAST. Lyrics are primarily about totalitarianism, following the thematic setting of an imagined medieval cyber punk future. Think of the cover of Anticapital and imagine living there, feelings of monochrome horror and anxiety blend with commentary on modern stupidity, terrorism and propaganda.
Performances are tightly controlled throughout 'Revenant' , layered chainsaw guitars and growling bass underpinned by clean and audible drums could almost be called clinical if it weren't for the organic songwriting and gritty textures of call and response twin throat-wrenching vocals and crumbling valve-based distortion.
The band display clear death metal and crust influences here, and this is certainly the closest to death metal their sound has come. Strong tones from the likes of Unleashed, the ever present Swedeath classics like Entombed and Obituary are found rubbing shoulders with the angular notes of Discordance Axis and Doom, flowing together in one gribbly monstrosity of a release.
This album is the most polished example of contemporary grind from these veterans of the UK scene.
