" Surrender Your Soul " CD Reviews
Rating: 94/100, Near Flawless
Yes, I would think that liquidation is going to be fatal, more often than not. Some death metal albums grab your ear with their clean production, not clean as in the band spent $110,000 on it but instead clean as in the instruments are very audible for a purely underground death metal sound. Fatal Liquidation has an impressive arsenal for a band who has been together barely 3 years. Right off the bat, the lower than low bass-y guitar sound commands me into a headbanging fury. A lot of SIGNED bands don't instigate such a reaction much less as soon as the play button is pushed. "Prisoner of Gore" is hypnotic and catchy much in the same way as Broken Hope's debut
Swamped In Gore, full of guttural roars and crisp double bass clicks and pounds. Fatal Liquidation shifts through varying tempos effortlessly, from fast blasting segments to heavy groove medium speed riffs and all the way down to a surreal drone.
Surrender Your Soul is instantly memorable and will warp you right into the heart of the glorious early 90's when solid death metal demos were spawning like radioactive horseflies. The fact that this band doesn't need to hide behind muddy sound quality speaks for their skills as musicians. There is room for improvement in some areas but as I was saying, the transitions between different riffs are well executed 9 times out of 10. Fatal Liquidation's eerie harmonies and pure death metal ethics could lead to some great things in the future. VERY impressive for a debut. The only bad thing I have to say about this has little to do with the music. The cover art has now been used 500 times by black and death metal bands alike. C'mon, can we bury this one now guys?
Hellfrost Webzine
(2000)
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Based out of Orange County, Fatal Liquidation is well on their way to becoming one of the United States' death metal elite. Their demo CD entitled
Surrender Your Soul consist of four punishing brutal songs filled with gore and mayhem. Highlights include
Bits and Pieces dealing with the horrors of war, and
Body of Knowledge which is a tale of alien abduction. Horror movie samples cleverly precede each song, lending to the overall mood to this vile landscape of noise and death. The talented musicians involved include Jason Dissinger on guitars and vocals, Steve Thomas on bass and Jose Veyna on drums. Its only a matter of time before these guys are signed.
Highwire Daze Magazine
(April 2000)
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The only setback which is strongly noticeable on this hellish trio's four song ep is the Six Feet Under musical and vocal influences. Influences are a plus when not substituted as being your own work. Fatal Liquidation is surely a promising unit, as their musicianship and overall performance is quite flawless, however much work is needed in creating their own sound and style of groove oriented death metal. Lastly, the guys should be given credit for an excellent produced, mixed and sounding first time affair.
Sarjoo Devani - Explicitly Intense Magazine
(April/May 2000)
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This band is a total knock-off of "Butchered at Birth" era Cannibal Corpse. But you know, they're really not all that bad! The lurching riffs are pretty damn catchy and the production is great too. The distortion on the guitars is a little higher than normal, making them really stand out. Jason Dissinger has that old style death metal vocal down cold...he probably idolizes Chris Barnes though. If these four songs had a few solos in them (along the line of old SLAYER, perhaps), Fatal Liquidation might be a serious contender.
Tom Wren - Metal Nightmare Magazine
(April 2000)