█ Mixing & Mastering: Nobert Leitner / UDIO Media
█ Artwork / Photos: Written In Black / Jörg Varga
█ Photos: Julian Haas / Through The Haze
lyrics
You are what you are, you are what you eat
The circle closes, is complete
You are what you are, you are what you eat
Shit
Cheaper and cheaper, the situation gets worse
Cheaper and cheaper, end this curse
Welcome to the diner called world
Serving everything
Let the taste unfurl
Wolf down the piece of flesh
Become the murder
Become the suffering
Chimneys like claws, smoke shreds the sky
Malevolent stronghold, bleeding us dry
Drown in the feces, swallow that shit
Pollute mother earth, stuck in the pit
Speak up for those
Who can't speak for themselves
Down they go the assembly line
Seen as mere things, than living beings
Empathy's gone, feelings denied
You are what you are, you are what you eat
The circle closes, is complete
Hoarding the torture, covered by lies
Vacuum sealed plastic, exit disguised
You are what you are, You are what you eat
Shit
Symphonic stuff in metal doesn’t make its way into my collection aside from a couple of early Cradle albums. The orch here though just ads to how huge this band sounds. It makes elements in the songs more immersive. There are plenty of breaks from orchestration where its in deathcore/slamming brutality mode. While not ignorant, the songs never play with time or get mathy making it accessible and memorable. Came out 2015? Impressed. Mitch Mitcherson