MASSACRE — From Beyond (review)

MASSACRE — From Beyond album cover Album · 1991 · Death Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
3/5 ·
siLLy puPPy
If you want to hear the epitome of generic death metal I think we have a winner here! MASSACRE is one of a gazillion Florida based death metal bands that emerged at the time when the subgenre severed its ties with the thrash world from hence it came. The band is rightfully most famous for having three members (Rick Rozz / guitar, Terry Butler / bass, Bill Andrewss / drums) that were in early Death, the undisputed king of the entire subgenre. Well maybe it is disputed but they were one of the biggies nonetheless.

This album caught my eye knowing nothing about them simply because of the extraordinarily cool album cover by Ed Repka who has painted a gazillion metal covers over the years for various metal acts but most notably Death, Megadeath, Vio-lence and this one! I think this is one of the most eye-catching album covers of all time and total amusing! I mean how many of us have fears of myriad strange shaped aliens raining down from a pink vortex ready to do unspeakable things to the human race? Ha ha! The album cover alone guarantees that this will remain in my collection despite not really ever wanting to give this a spin.

I have the 2011 remastered version of this album and the cover art has been spruced up visually as well as the remastering bringing the sound quality to modern day standards. The problem with this album is that every song is played extremely well, yet every song sounds the freeking SAME! There is so little variation amongst songs it is like so a shame. I really want to like this album. It is kick ass death metal, albeit old school. Some of the intros are pretty cool and symphonic and all but it always ends up with a simple drum beat, the same growly vocals, same tempo, same... same... same!!! Oh well, for a generic album at least it's a good one. Expect a sound in the vein of “Leprosy” era Death. If you loved that album and want even more, nine tracks worth (four more on the remastered version) then check this out. Not a bad zone out album though. If there is such thing as elevator music for death metal fans then here we go.
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siLLy puPPy wrote:
more than 2 years ago
I like your review and your son's reaction to the cover :)
I also decided to try this out because it is listed as as 6 thousand some as the best albums on Rate Your Music. Sometimes boring albums attain classic status and i am puzzled about this one since almost any other death metal album out there is better
UMUR wrote:
more than 2 years ago
I agree. I´ve had this one since it came out, and I´ve always found it pretty generic. There are loads of better old school death metal albums out there. Yet this is the one that´s called a "Classic".

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