If you’d said in 2001 that Last Days Of Humanity would start releasing boring material, I’d probably have taken a beer bottle to the side of your head and gut-fucked you with the broken shards, today it’s just common knowledge that the band have lost their edge. Since the release of the split with Cock And Ball Torture back in early 2001, Last Days Of Humanity have undergone a lot of change. Gone are vocalist Bart Bouwmans, who was replaced by Erwin de Grout of SMES and bassist Erwin de Wit, replaced by Rogier of Intumescence. The split with Stoma was the first effort I’d heard with Erwin at the helm, and it was a pretty major letdown, the catchiness in the music was gone, and that was the major hook that got me into the band to begin with. Following that was their appearance on the Relapse Records Dutch Assault, and while they had the same raw gritty production as on Hymns Of Indigestible Suppuration, the music was just lacking in anything that was really worthy of repeated listens. Even their live CD left me less than impressed. 2005 brings their first solo studio effort since Hymns… in the form of a 7 1/2 minute mCD entitled In Advanced Haemorrhaging Conditions. Honestly, this is more like a 4 minute mCD, as most of the album is taken over by samples, yea, okay, we get it; you like movies, get on with the fucking music already. The music itself is an unmemorable wall of blasting and gurgling, with no discernable riffs, literally, all you can hear is what sounds like static over blasting bongo drums with lots of burping. I loved Hymns… and Sounds Of Rancid Juices Sloshing Around Your Coffin, but this sounds like neither effort; there is nothing catchy, there are no slower moments, there’s just movie samples and burping, that’s it. I can’t honestly recommend buying this CD, because you’ll likely wind up spending at least $8 for little more than 3 minutes of samples and 4 minutes of music, and it’s just not worth it. Thankfully, Last Days Of Humanity aren’t going to soil their legacy much longer as they’ve announced the end of the band, they’re just recording one more full length and they’re done. I just hope they can turn things around by then, because if it’s a full album of this, I’m going to take a shit on it and mail it back to them.

Written By: Teufel