Review by JD on November 25, 2012.

With a name like Last Beautiful June on an album I was going to be reviewing I was expecting some sort of Prog Rock/Metal band with some very strange ambiance going on in its musical shell. Fuck was I wrong!! This German band I think picked the wrong moniker for its act.

Post Punk meets Screamo/Mathcore with shadings of Metal tagged into the whole thing. LBJ seems to be a hastily conceived patchwork of different extremes of music that just never come together. Horrid guitar work that a first year student could do without a second thought, very predictable and dull songwriting, questionable recording practices and a singer that sounds like a chainsaw cutting through a pig. I have found a band that is pretty bad.

I listened to every last second of this album - doing it three times like I do with all albums I review - and I came up with the same thing. I wondered how this band got this far, offering up music that has no real direction, structure or sense of musicality to it, with members that seem to have no clue what they are doing. It is clusterfuck of nonsense and very badly played music.

I would rather choose to listen to ABBA for ten hours (this being my number one most hated band in the universe) than have to listen to this album one more time. Last Beautiful June needs to get into a better line of work here before real Punks and Metalheads kick their asses. Picking fly shit out of Pepper would be their best bet as a career choice, since no amount of music lessons would help.

This is my opinion... deal with it.

Categorical Rating Breakdown

Musicianship: 2
Atmosphere: 1
Production: 1
Originality: 0
Overall: 1

Rating: 1.0 out of 10

Review by JD on November 25, 2012.

With a name like Last Beautiful June on an album I was going to be reviewing I was expecting some sort of Prog Rock/Metal band with some very strange ambiance going on in its musical shell. Fuck was I wrong!! This German band I think picked the wrong moniker for its act.

Post Punk meets Screamo/Mathcore with shadings of Metal tagged into the whole thing. LBJ seems to be a hastily conceived patchwork of different extremes of music that just never come together. Horrid guitar work that a first year student could do without a second thought, very predictable and dull songwriting, questionable recording practices and a singer that sounds like a chainsaw cutting through a pig. I have found a band that is pretty bad.

I listened to every last second of this album - doing it three times like I do with all albums I review - and I came up with the same thing. I wondered how this band got this far, offering up music that has no real direction, structure or sense of musicality to it, with members that seem to have no clue what they are doing. It is clusterfuck of nonsense and very badly played music.

I would rather choose to listen to ABBA for ten hours (this being my number one most hated band in the universe) than have to listen to this album one more time. Last Beautiful June needs to get into a better line of work here before real Punks and Metalheads kick their asses. Picking fly shit out of Pepper would be their best bet as a career choice, since no amount of music lessons would help.

This is my opinion... deal with it.

Categorical Rating Breakdown

Musicianship: 2
Atmosphere: 1
Production: 1
Originality: 0
Overall: 1

Rating: 1.0 out of 10

Review by JD on November 25, 2012.

With a name like Last Beautiful June on an album I was going to be reviewing I was expecting some sort of Prog Rock/Metal band with some very strange ambiance going on in its musical shell. Fuck was I wrong!! This German band I think picked the wrong moniker for its act.

Post Punk meets Screamo/Mathcore with shadings of Metal tagged into the whole thing. LBJ seems to be a hastily conceived patchwork of different extremes of music that just never come together. Horrid guitar work that a first year student could do without a second thought, very predictable and dull songwriting, questionable recording practices and a singer that sounds like a chainsaw cutting through a pig. I have found a band that is pretty bad.

I listened to every last second of this album - doing it three times like I do with all albums I review - and I came up with the same thing. I wondered how this band got this far, offering up music that has no real direction, structure or sense of musicality to it, with members that seem to have no clue what they are doing. It is clusterfuck of nonsense and very badly played music.

I would rather choose to listen to ABBA for ten hours (this being my number one most hated band in the universe) than have to listen to this album one more time. Last Beautiful June needs to get into a better line of work here before real Punks and Metalheads kick their asses. Picking fly shit out of Pepper would be their best bet as a career choice, since no amount of music lessons would help.

This is my opinion... deal with it.

Categorical Rating Breakdown

Musicianship: 2
Atmosphere: 1
Production: 1
Originality: 0
Overall: 1

Rating: 1.0 out of 10

Review by JD on November 25, 2012.

With a name like Last Beautiful June on an album I was going to be reviewing I was expecting some sort of Prog Rock/Metal band with some very strange ambiance going on in its musical shell. Fuck was I wrong!! This German band I think picked the wrong moniker for its act.

Post Punk meets Screamo/Mathcore with shadings of Metal tagged into the whole thing. LBJ seems to be a hastily conceived patchwork of different extremes of music that just never come together. Horrid guitar work that a first year student could do without a second thought, very predictable and dull songwriting, questionable recording practices and a singer that sounds like a chainsaw cutting through a pig. I have found a band that is pretty bad.

I listened to every last second of this album - doing it three times like I do with all albums I review - and I came up with the same thing. I wondered how this band got this far, offering up music that has no real direction, structure or sense of musicality to it, with members that seem to have no clue what they are doing. It is clusterfuck of nonsense and very badly played music.

I would rather choose to listen to ABBA for ten hours (this being my number one most hated band in the universe) than have to listen to this album one more time. Last Beautiful June needs to get into a better line of work here before real Punks and Metalheads kick their asses. Picking fly shit out of Pepper would be their best bet as a career choice, since no amount of music lessons would help.

This is my opinion... deal with it.

Categorical Rating Breakdown

Musicianship: 2
Atmosphere: 1
Production: 1
Originality: 0
Overall: 1

Rating: 1.0 out of 10

Review by Felix on January 16, 2021.

Unmistakable death metal. The cover? Not my cup of tea. The lyrics? Gore, splatter, horror, do not waste your time with studying. Focus yourself on the music and feel satisfied, that even a group who offers absolutely nothing new can demand your whole concentration.

Not every song on this album has the potential to stand the test of time. But the massive sound, powered by the wall of guitars in combination with the forceful voice, gives a good frame to each tune. So how do Facebreaker vary their pieces of flesh? They use every pace - and that's it. From the rapid 'Carving for Brains' to the bubbling 'Zombie Flesh Cult' you can find every classical death metal tempo. Blastbeats? No access.

Facebreaker did not make the wide spread mistake to start this album with the best track and end it with the worst. 'Tomb of the Hungry Dead', the final flesh attack, is very near to Bolt Thrower, especially at the beginning, where they generate a tension you may know from the typical Bolt Thrower song structures. But it is no rip-off, on the contrary, it is a homage. Memorable riffing, double-bass and mid-tempo. In conclusion, there will be no need for Facebreaker to take place in the second or third row, if they are able to create more songs like this one.

There are more tracks to mention due to their high entertainment factor. You will not be able to forget the sluggish opener 'Meat Freak' after listening to it for the first time. The stressed riffing and the predominant chorus will leave you no choice. The riffing on 'Dedicated to the Flesh' is excellent too, before the brute 'Catacomb' explodes, being the first speed orgy on this album. Afterwards 'Zombie Flesh Cult' retards the album with a fantastic morbid melody. Of course, melody is relative...

Maybe Facebreaker should not have recorded eleven but only eight or nine songs. If they would have passed on the "right" songs, those that sound a little bit idealess and convertible like 'Mutilator' or 'Hellmaster', this album could have reached about 90%. Nonetheless, this recording entertains in the typical way of death metal. And that is the main thing, because we still need Swedish death metal bands - especially after the sad split-up of Vomitory.

Rating: 7.5 out of 10