XXX Maniak
Harvesting The Cunt Nectar
4.3
Chances are, that if you can work a computer, navigate your way through the big scary Internet and land on a webzine that requires you to read at a fifth grade level, then you have no use for a band like XXX Maniak. While well produced, and occasionally well performed ... this is seriously music for retards by fucking retards.
Remember that band Killwhitneydead that people for some baffling reason cared about a few years ago? Y'know, the one with all the samples! They were br00tal! Well, XXX Maniak are doing (or did, seeing as how this pile came out in 2004) the same thing, and it's just as tired and unimportant as ever. The riffs are mostly simple, but bolstered by huge fucking production and programmed blast-beats. When the band hits high gear they sound like a less ambitious Prowler in the Yard era Pig Destroyer, but mostly they sound like any other porn obsessed gore-grind outfit. Massive, ultra-produced pit riffs are also a centerpiece of Harvesting the Cunt Nectar, but they're so overused that the listener is numb and accustomed to them halfway though the 19 minute EP. That's really the whole problem. Even though this band can do a few things well, any metal fan with the correct number of chromosomes is more likely to be bored than shocked and offended by recursive blast-beats, audio samples of little girls sucking dick, and women being coerced into anal sex by frat dudes.
Regardless of the the lyrical content, the music is really what matters. And the music is really what drags HTCN down. While helped by a mean production that I'm sure many many modern metal fans could get off on, the dime store riffs and relentless blasting won't do anything for discerning fans of extreme music.
