Flesh Eating Foundation: Purging EP. Strictly limited to 300 copies.

This latest release from the group possesses all the industrial fury you’ve grown to expect of the group, last seen on the previous album Seethe. The 8 track EP does not disappoint, though coming off to a slow start with 3 versions of Godless taking up most of the playtime, though the digicore mix has grown to be a favorite of mine.

From the 4th track however things do start to take off, As the crawling bleeps and drum loops of Septic roll out, followed by the gutturally gasping vocals bleeding out a tale of betrayal and deceit, which along with Victims, provides some simpler ground in an EP filled with conceptual remixes, each portraying the prominent track, Godless in a different light.

Purging can be seen as an agnostic spilling out his heart over his feelings of abandonment by a god, a god purported to care. “We don’t need your lies”.

Perhaps I’m reading too much in to it, but these 8 tracks read like an audio epiphany for the band with Victims reeling out the details of the level society has crumbled to.

As soon as the opening bars of Victims start with death rock tinged guitar, the inspiration from industrial gods ministry is heavily apparent and in this day and age welcome, now that Al has hung up his stetson for the time being.

You Made Me Suffer, with its sweeping guitar distortion and swaying drumbeats slows the pace but keeps up a feeling of isolation and pain in keeping with the entire EP before building to an almighty crescendo, like a tide breaking throughout the track doing everything to support the atmosphere of the record.

Fucking Sick carries on in a similar fashion but is far more accessible as a lyrical track before wrapping up the entire release with the epic club style Ladder mix of Godless.

This EP was extremely limited upon release but shows Flesh Eating Foundation making grand strides in sound and scope with their ever satisfying sense of fury showing no signs of diminishing any time soon.