Malevolent Creation

Stillborn

It's The Way Of All Flesh

Review Score:

(10/10)
This is one of my favorite Malevolent Creation albums in my collection. I bought it in late 1993 along with Sepultura's Beneath The Remains and Napalm Death's Harmonay Corruption and Death By Manipulation. I bought all the albums on cassette. Before this album came out, the band was going through a rough time which almost caused the band to break up. They were having personal problems as well as problems with their labal Roadrunner Records. So this is actually the band's last album on Roadrunner. The band also looses thier legendary lead vocalist Brett Hoffmann. So this is the band's last album with Brett for a while. However, he will rejoin the band again for The Fine Art Of Murder and Envenomed but will be kicked out of the band again but for the final time. This will be before The Will To Kill. Anyway, the band was going through some tough times and when this album came out, a lot of people thought it was a piece of garbage even the band itself. Me personally, I didn't know that all of this was going on at the time. I was just a dedicated Malevolent Creation fan who just went on buying any album that the band puts out. So that's what I kept doing. I bought this album along with the other items that I mentioned and when I got around to playing this album, I was blown away by the first song Dominated Resurgency. I was so happy that I rewinded the tape back and listened to it again. The rest of the album ripped.

Now before my review, let me say this. Like I said before, many people and even the band itself thought that this album was a piece garbage but there were others who thought quite the opposite. Any person who get this album now might have the first opinion or the other. So I'm just going to let the listener be the judge. As for myself, I will review the album based on what I think.

Now for my review. Despite the bad critsism that this album gets, I personally think that its just as good as any Malevolent Creation album. The basic elements of the band are still here. You still have lots of agression, intensity, intimidation, fierceness, heaviness, brutality, speed, mid-paced and slow songs, harsh vocals, solos and evil tones. So you pretty much get the total package just like with every other album in the band's catalog. So give this album a chance. Some of my favorite songs here are Dominated Resurgency, The Way Of All Flesh, Dominion Of Terror, Stillborn, Ethnic Cleansing and Disciple Of Abhorrence. Get this album and become stillborn.

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