Made of Flesh is the seventh studio album

Studio album

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 by the German

Germany

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 death metal

Death metal

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 band Fleshcrawl

Fleshcrawl

Fleshcrawl is a death metal band formed in 1987 in Illertissen, Bavaria, Germany. Their most recent album, Structures Of Death, was released in 2007, under Metal Blade Records.-1987-1997:...

. It is considered the sequel to Soulskinner

Soulskinner

Soulskinner is the sixth studio album by the German death metal band Fleshcrawl.-Track listing:# "Soulskinner"# "Dying Blood"# "Carved In Flesh"# "Breeding The Dead"# "The Forthcoming End"# "Deathvastation"# "Legions Of Hatred"# "Forced To Kill"...

http://www.fleshcrawl.net/fc_content.php?option=bio_en, and is the first of their albums to feature their current guitarist Oliver Grbavac, who joined the band to replace founding member Stefan Hanus.http://www.fleshcrawl.de

Being widely considered a de facto sequel to Soulskinner, the two albums share a highly similar sound, which is general of Fleshcrawl's work since the late 1990s. Both albums feature prominent Swedish death metal

Scandinavian death metal

Swedish death metal is a death metal music scene developed in Sweden. Many Swedish death metal bands are associated with the melodic death metal movement, thus giving Swedish death metal a different sound from other variations of death metal. Unlike American death metal groups, the first Swedish...

-style guitar work, composed of eminently rhythm

Rhythm

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ic riff

RIFF

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ing and short, moderately technical

Technical death metal

Technical death metal is a musical subgenre of death metal that focuses on complex rhythms, riffs and song structures. Technical experimentation in death metal began in the late '80s and early '90s by bands such as Death, Atheist and Cynic...

 guitar solo

Guitar solo

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s, not unlike many contemporary bands of the melodic death metal

Melodic death metal

Melodic death metal is a heavy metal music style that combines elements from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal with elements of death metal. The style was developed during the early and mid-1990s, primarily in England and Scandinavia...

 genre, particularly Dismember

Dismember (band)

Dismember was a Swedish death metal band that formed in 1988. They are well known in the death metal underground. They split up in October 2011.-History:...

, Grave

Grave (band)

Grave is a Swedish death metal band that formed in 1986 by vocalist and guitarist Ola Lindgren, who is their only constant member. The band had particular success in the early 1990s, and their first four albums, Into the Grave, You'll Never See..., Soulless and Hating Life, cemented their...

, and to an extent, Arch Enemy. As is typical of Fleshcrawl's latest work, the melodic guitar rhythms are complimented with a familiar drum sound, consisting of blast beats incorporated into highly embossed, yet not obtrusive, rapid double-Bass drum

Bass drum

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-rolls, with semi-guttural death growl

Death growl

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s reminiscent of such Florida

Florida

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-based death metal

Death metal

Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It typically employs heavily distorted guitars, tremolo picking, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, minor keys or atonality, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes....

 bands as Cannibal Corpse

Cannibal Corpse

Cannibal Corpse is an American death metal band from Buffalo, New York. Formed in 1988, the band has released eleven studio albums, one box set, and one live album...

, Six Feet Under

Six Feet Under (band)

Six Feet Under is an American death metal band from Tampa, Florida, formed in 1993. The band was originally a side project by Cannibal Corpse vocalist Chris Barnes with guitarist Allen West of Obituary...

, and Suffocation

Suffocation (band)

Suffocation is an American death metal band that was formed in 1989 in Long Island, New York. The band comprises vocalist Frank Mullen, guitarists Terrance Hobbs and Guy Marchais, drummer Mike Smith and bassist Derek Boyer. Suffocation rose to prominence of death metal and created a blueprint for...

.http://www.metalblade.de/index.php?mod=releases&page=detail&id=78

Lyrical themes of this album remain consistent with those of previous Fleshcrawl Albums, and of death metal in general. Subjects cover gory

Graphic violence

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 themes and concepts of evil

Evil

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, including doomsday

Eschatology

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/the apocalypse

Apocalypse

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 (Beneath a Dying Sun; Damned in Fire), demon

Demon

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s/demonic possession (Flesh Bloody Flesh; Demons of the Dead), damnation

Damnation

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 (Forged in Blood), and necrophagy (Carnal Devourment), among others. The Japanese release included a cover of 'Rockin' is my Business,' by The Four Horsemen

The Four Horsemen (band)

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, a late 80s Metal band from California

California

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; this song is dissimilar to every other song on the album, in that it doesn't cover general death metal lyrical themes of death, gore, violence, etc., but rather is about both the glory and tribulations of the Music Industry.

Track listing

1. "Beneath A Dying Sun"
2. "Made Of Flesh"
3. "Scourge Of The Bleeding Haunted"
4. "Into The Depths Of No Return"
5. "Flesh Bloody Flesh"
6. "Forged In Blood"
7. "Damned In Fire"
8. "Demons Of The Dead"
9. "Carnal Devourment"
10. "When Life Surrenders"
11. "Rockin' Is My Business" (only included on the Japan Release)

Line Up

• Sven Gross – vocals
  Singing
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• Tobias Schick – Bass
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• Oliver Grbavac – Guitar
  Guitar
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• Mike Hanus - Guitar
  Guitar
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• Bastian Herzog – drums
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Credits

• Produced by Fleshcrawl
• Recorded and mixed at Studio Underground, Vasteras, Sweden, 03.November. - 21.November.2003
• Engineered by Pelle Saether and Lars Linden
• Mixed by Pelle Saether & Fleshcrawl
• Mastered by Achim Köhler at Indiscreet-Audio, Hohengehren, Germany
• All music and lyrics by Fleshcrawl, except "Rockin' Is My Business", originally by The Four Horsemen
  The Four Horsemen (band)
  The Four Horsemen were an American hard rock band, who enjoyed a brief popularity in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Their style was blues influenced heavy rock, but their fame was both fleeting and marred by tragedy.-History:...
  
  (Starr/Lizmi/Montgomery)
• Cover artwork by Uwe Jarling
• Photos by Alex Kuehr
• Layout by Stefan & Mike Hanus
• Graphic work by Stefan Hanus