My Funeral
Carnal Obduction

November 2010
Released: 2010, Violent Journey Records
Rating: 2.0/5
Reviewer: Luxi Lahtinen

New metal bands are popping up like mushrooms up from the ground after a heavy rain. My Funeral that was formed in 2005, comes from Finland - and they play some sort of hybrid of both Thrash and Death Metal.



CARNAL ABDUCTION, which is the band´s debut album on a small independent Finnish underground label Violent Journey Records, is unfortunately a pretty bland release all in all. I mean, there´s really nothing on this album that might make you ultimately return to this album – despite some occasional, cleverly played and elaborate (Slayer-ish) solos here and there that the band´s 2nd guitarist Joonas has most likely spat around the songs using his 6-string shredder (saw Slayer´s R.I.B. on his personal top 5 albums list, so my wild guess came from there). The songs are sort of okay-ish – loaded with lots of energy and aggression and a minimum amount of worthy ideas, but those elements just don´t carry them too far because they all tend to lack in that department when they should stand out and make a decent impact at least, but take a very general, often travelled road music-wise instead. It does not help much them either, but vocalist Ilkka is also kinda one-dimensional with his raspy vocals. He does throw some deep death grunts out from his lungs as well but sadly ain´t good enough at doing them that properly either.



In fact, it´s very hard to find anything positive to say about their debut full-length studio album as it falls into the kind of trap of unoriginality and tediousness that will leave the album unnoticed eventually after a couple of the first spins even. What else can I say but better luck next time, guys (even if I happen to know already they cannot get much comfort from this either).