Band:   The Terminal Generation
Album:  Our Monstrosity
Label:  World Hate Media
Tracks: 20

If i didn't know any better, i would have expected a failed attempt at wrinting half-decent music after reading the title. But i have been following these guys for a couple of years now and i know that it's just their way of saying "we like how this album turned out".

First a bit of background info: The Terminal Generation describes their own music as "post-industrial death funk". There are plenty of bands that describe their music by combining several genres, but in most cases, you can't hear it. TTG is not "most cases" because they come though on that description.

On some tracks the industrial overtones are most dominant (Japanese Hit Gurl, What I Know), on others the funkyness is the most defining feature of the track (Duh Knuckle Song, Auctioneer), but in almost all tracks, a distorted metal-ish guitar is present that reminds you of what "death" stands for in "post-industrial death funk".

Singer Hugo Mustafo constantly uses a lot of distortion in his voice, which makes it terribily hard to understand what he sings, erm, screams. But my overall impression is a favorable one, in fact, i like it and i like it lots. All elements are nicely balanced and even the metal-ish guitars (which i usually don't care for too much) add to the experience which is TTG. TTG put a lot of variation into their songs where many other bands just want to keep the tempo as high as they can.

Even though TTG isn't a strictly industrial band, their approach is definitely of an old school industrial nature, anything goes and they do it with a lot of style,

As for the title: "Monstrosity" is only an adequate description of this disc if you like monsters. Otherwise, forget the title and go get this album! It should be out by November 1st.

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