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This album is my first for this band, and because of it I will begin collecting the bands entire discography in reverse order. The Harvest Floor is a great album with great production by Billy Anderson. The mix is good, you can turn it up loud and and it still sounds great. With that said let's dive in shall we? The lyrics, although mostly indecipherable are my cup of tea, however many will most likely find them extremely unsettling. The Product Alive and Into the Public Bath lyrics are some of the best I have ever heard. The vocals are simply unbelievable and Travis Ryan is the best in the business at incorporating two entirely different vocal sounds on every song. Sometimes sounding as if the cellar door demon from the Evil Dead cabin made it's way through those shaky woods and into the studio mic. From one track of shrieking witch in agony screams behind (or in some cases a call and response style to) the lowest dinosaur growls I have ever laid ears on, it makes for an amazing end result. The Ripe Beneath the Rind is one of my all time favorite songs, with some sections so insane they cannot be explained. Josh Elmore's guitar is the backbone of all of this, and he keeps it all together brilliantly throughout the entire album. He riffs, he solos, he clicks his channel switch up and down in time with a teeth shattering vocal track etc... etc.... This band has a new fan, I like my bands sick and the story they tell to be graphic and I like The Harvest Floor for these reasons. Repeated listening brings fruitful experiences and I have a feeling I will not be disappointed by the bands entire catalog. The album's sound and overall idea can quickly stick images in your head so vivid at times you may want to look away. What I mean by this is before I saw the official video for the last song on the album Regret and the Grave, I sat staring at the album cover imagining these human beings being led into the processing plant while the title track played. I could almost taste the dust rising from the ground with the thunderous pounding of the machines inside. Then I assumed once the actual song began we were now inside the horrible factory depicted in the cover art and the nightmare would begin, complete with victims stepping off edges of walking planks over swirling liquid meat vats and giant flies buzzing around swinging light fixtures. Of course our imagination has an unlimited budget and the official video was nothing close to what I had envisioned while listening along. The whole album is like this, it begins with the frightened animal and human sounds together, engraving a mental picture in your mind before the music even starts to tear the place apart, and then it does. The instruments are the machines and the band members play the part of the technicians smiling at you in gut spattered lab coats and goggles as they push the buttons and pull the levers to the hooked and bladed contraptions made to mechanically seperate you for approved tubing and retail consumption, goodnight. Album 10 out of 10 Favorite songs: Track 3 all the way through track 8 but it's all good! My personal -if I was stranded on an island and could only pick one or two song(s) to take with me - Into the Public Bath followed by Ripe Beneath the Rind.Read full review
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