Ours is a country in turmoil. We are divided as never before in our history, trust in the government is at an all-time low and naturally, the conspiracy theories are whizzing by like… bullets that don’t necessarily hit their marks. But lurking below the heat-baked streets are the CrusHumans, bent on destroying everything in their paths, birthed by the Gabriel album courtesy of Snipers of Babel in 2022.

In 2023 we got two singles from CrusHuman, “A Schizophrenic’s Nightmare” and “There was Blood Everywhere” a couple of quick lashes to the face, whetting the appetite for whatever was going to come.

Dateline July 2024: I received the promo for the self-titled album and the threat is real. They’re coming, in August as a matter of fact, to wreak havoc on the eardrums of an unsuspecting world; in what is becoming a scorching summer.

“The Prophet” tells us that we should’ve listened to him the whole time… which yeah; hindsight. But whatever, if you didn’t hear Gabriel by Mike Bossier’s other band Snipers of Babel. You need to, like do that now, I’ll wait.

It’s all connected man! It’s all fucking connected!

CrusHuman features one of the best voices in Death Metal: Frank Rini (ex-Internal Bleeding and fellow scribe) whose roars are peppered throughout, particularly on opening track “Galvanized”, the biggest Slamming Death Metal track this side of Slamming Death Metal tracks.

CrusHuman has 17 tracks and yet it doesn’t feel like an oppressive listen. It’s enjoyable as fuck, there’s so much going on within the notes of the songs that each one breaths with it’s own fire.

“Code Grey”, “Champions of Ruin”, and “Jill the Ripper” are powerful Fear Factory injected, annihilating bangers, you literally get a Drum and Bass solo, furious blasts and each riff is like scalpels just hacking and slashing and drawing blood each time. It’s brutally delivered and clear that CrusHuman is here to break the bones in your body and your friends too.

“Syko”, “Slock” and “Assassins Special” form the nihilistic center of the album Hardcore, Punk, and merciless Grindcore spar like ugly warriors for dominance. There are some huge Napalm Death influences going on in there, Diatribes and Fear, Emptiness, Despair; mostly, but there’s also some Terrorizer peppered in the mix for good measure.

Also included are the singles from last year “There was Blood Everywhere” and “A Schizophrenic’s Nightmare” locked squarely after “Lose Face” and “Death Is Watching” which are both ragers in their own rights. Current single “Cradle of Judas” is a blistering Death Metal monster, venomous vocals and scathing riffs that all coalesce into those final tracks, the last body blows, if you will, “Hatchet Team”, “Genesis Theory”, “Crossed Out” and “Deep End”.

By the end of the record you will be suffering from the neck-snapping head-banging you’ve been doing for the whole fucking album. This is a brutal album well deserving of your attention, constant reader. Awesome production makes sure you get the full crushing power of what CrusHuman is all about.

Check out Snipers of Babel to get the full first part of the story of the Gabriel Project, and find out what the CrusHumans in the album are bent on. Total destruction.

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