as i mentioned in my last cattle decapitation post featuring their second metal blade output 'humanure', i would return confidently with number three for metal blade. so here we are. karma.bloody.karma. what a name for a record! i'm surprised that no new band has chosen to adopt this name. anyway, as soon as 'humanure' was up on the nuclear blast web shop, 'karma' was also there. two versions but with no further explanations. what colour and numbers and so forth.
when 'humanure' dropped, nuclear got more specific. now all the information i needed was there. a splatter version limited to 200 copies and a colour in colour version limited to 300 copies. again i thought the colour merge version would be more attractive visually but this time the collector's heart was pumping stronger. i went for the red/orange splatter. as you can see, something went wrong. at first i was pissed. man, that sucks. holding the record in hands you waited a long pre-order process to arrive and then it's the wrong bloody version.
now i would have to send it back, probably pay extra bucks for shipping and wait another week or two or so for the right thing. plus i was really eager to listen to it. i avoided to listen to the download in whole because i wanted to drop the needle on it like a new release. when the first grudge was swallowed i thought, fuck it! i keep it. so i removed the shrink wrap and for the first time took a look at the vinyl colour. wait a second, that ain't bad. in fact, it's really good. the a-side looks pretty much like blood running down the drain. fantastic! satisfaction at last.
musically this is their best material to that point. way better than the horrible 'to serve man' and a real step forward to the good 'humanure'. they got a little bit more complex and even a bit noisy, but everything in the right dosage. they also included some grim melodies and the sound is for the first time really good, comes with a handy portion of pressure. the artwork is just classy. the indian goddess of death and destruction, kali, with a cattle head. so, very very good record all around. metal blade records. 2006/2014.
