Artist: Beyond The Flesh
Title: “What The Mind Perceives”
Label: Escapi Music
Release Date: March 25. 2005
Genre: Death Metal
Rating: 2/5

As a metal appreciator for nearly three decades, I think I’m qualified to offer the following advice to any would-be metal performers: enough with the shredded wheat vocals, already! Unless done with an intentional aim toward comedy, such stylings aren’t scary, more often than not end up sounding silly, and do not serve to mask your front man’s crooning deficiencies. This offering from Beyond The Flesh is not a bad album by any means, although admittedly a tad generic, but it’s almost sunk by the ludicrously laughable vocals that sound like what would ensue if your housecats stood up and made with a metal duet (listen to the track entitled “Fleshwound” and tell me I’m wrong).
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