| Hailing from the backhills of Vermont, these
four orange prison suit clad ninja psychos
were ready to tear your face off! Brutal
metal like you've never heard, NCM was ready
to take heaviness into the millennium. They
broke up in 1999 but still... Thank you and
die slowly.
Don't forget to pick up the band's new disc "The Rats Know Him" out on Tortuga Records! Check the catalog page!
NON COMPOS MENTIS - "Smile When You Hate" - 1997 CD$8 Produced and Engineered by Glen Robinson. These nine tracks on the debut release from Burlington, VT's NON COMPOS MENTIS have defined the future of Heavy Metal. Produced by Glen Robinson (Gwar, Voivod), the sound is as intense as one would expect from this master knob twiddler. The band's live insanity has been splattered all over this disc with nothing left to the imagination. If you are into Converge, Brutal Truth and any and all over the top new metal, you need this. "When Non Compos Mentis (translated as "not of sound mind") commandeers the stage, it wears bright orange works suits and identity-obscuring masks to work out the mental instability implied by this moniker. This mysterious Vermont four-piece (led by Jeff Howlett of 5 Seconds Expired) produces a collage of schizophrenic guitars, psychotic rhythms and wacked-out lyrics (for example, at one point during "Beauty Queen", vocal slaughterer Butch implores "Someone peel back her face") that segue into mosh-inducing, bass heavy melodies. Props to the cool album title, and let's hope these guys stay away from Prozac- it just might stifle the sparks of unstable creativity found on this debut. Dance to the bouncy riffage of "Any Takers" and "Basement Floor."- CMJ BUY ME |
| BUTCH - vocals HORACE - bass CHESTER - guitar WILLIS - drums |
