Review by Elijah on February 20, 2020.

Here again we have people overly criticizing an underground grindcore band. Do y'all not understand this is how grindcore is supposed to be? This is purposely supposed to sound stupid, humorous, idiotic, crazy, talentless, and etc. Giving this a 0% is just retarded. The way the people on here were describing this album, I was expecting this to be much much worse. This isn't even as shitty as people were saying it was. Everybody is overreacting.

Yeah, this is meant to suck and Chainsaw Penis themselves say that they're the "worst band on Earth", but the truth is that this is a pretty decent record. I personally don't think this is "bad enough" to have it purposely considered as "terrible" and all that. This entire review is just gonna be a confusing oxymoron but I’m gonna make this work, lol. This is a good album, guaranteed. Not AMAZING but definitely not terrible at all. It starts out with an ocarina intro which sounds insanely stupid (which is intended lol) but the first musical tracks starts off with a few drumbeats. I was actually pretty shocked, I was expecting the drums to sound worse, like a total shit show, but it’s pretty much the opposite. The drums are actually pretty great sounding, these drums make sense in grind core, since the genre is lengthy and repetitive. The guitars come in and they go along with the drums pretty greatly, I don't really see the issue here. The vocals appear after a small bit, and they don't sound bad at all. The way that all the instruments sound is good and go great together. The songs are very short, pretty stupid, and all the instruments sound good. This is what grindcore is supposed to be, so I’m confused as to why it’s getting literal 0%'s on here.

Also, this sounds pretty influenced by other bands too. A fusion album if you ask me. I'm very positive this isn't meant to sound like any other artist/band, but to me this seriously sounds like Anal Cunt if they were played in the style of the punk band descendants with Immolation and Napalm Death vocals mixed together. This album in a nutshell is basically just crust/hardcore punk mixed with grindcore, with death metal vocals. This honestly doesn't sound bad at all. Pretty interesting mixture, intended or not. As I've said before, 0%? Really? Come on, how can this album be THAT bad? This is some pretty solid stuff. The drums have a tight sound that doesn't even sound bad at all, the guitars are great, they back up the sound of the drums greatly, and the vocals are pretty self-defiant. Death metal/grindcore type thing with slight sleaze. If this isn't some (decent) prime grindcore, then what is? Think about it, you're giving negative feedback to something that's exactly how it’s meant to be. How does that make any sense?

Short song tracks with dumbass retarded titles and lyrics, and the music sounds dumb; but isnt even terrible? Why all the hate? AGAIN, this is what grindcore is. This album and band is a contradiction in of itself, so this review was kinda hard to write. This'll for sure leave you with some mixed opinions and thoughts. Fuck just listen to this thing for your goddamn self and you'll see what I mean. I just couldn't bear to leave this album at a 0%, because it’s absolutely not a zero and people are just being ridiculous.

So again, what’s even the issue here? Are y'all really complaining that grindcore sounds and is just like grindcore? Pretty stupid lol, there's beyond so many albums out there that are way worse than this one, give Chainsaw Penis a break, no matter how retarded and pointless they may seem.

My main point is that this album is not a zero. When I say this album is absolutely worthless and not amazing in the slightest, I mean it, but at the end of the day, this record does not deserve a god damn zero. I wouldn't recommend this album to anyone, it’s not really important at all and there's pretty much no reason for it to exist; it’s pointless. But if you're into the underground side of grindcore that's relentless and unpredictable, I say you should give this a try.

Phew.

Rating: 7 out of 10

Review by Elijah on February 20, 2020.

Here again we have people overly criticizing an underground grindcore band. Do y'all not understand this is how grindcore is supposed to be? This is purposely supposed to sound stupid, humorous, idiotic, crazy, talentless, and etc. Giving this a 0% is just retarded. The way the people on here were describing this album, I was expecting this to be much much worse. This isn't even as shitty as people were saying it was. Everybody is overreacting.

Yeah, this is meant to suck and Chainsaw Penis themselves say that they're the "worst band on Earth", but the truth is that this is a pretty decent record. I personally don't think this is "bad enough" to have it purposely considered as "terrible" and all that. This entire review is just gonna be a confusing oxymoron but I’m gonna make this work, lol. This is a good album, guaranteed. Not AMAZING but definitely not terrible at all. It starts out with an ocarina intro which sounds insanely stupid (which is intended lol) but the first musical tracks starts off with a few drumbeats. I was actually pretty shocked, I was expecting the drums to sound worse, like a total shit show, but it’s pretty much the opposite. The drums are actually pretty great sounding, these drums make sense in grind core, since the genre is lengthy and repetitive. The guitars come in and they go along with the drums pretty greatly, I don't really see the issue here. The vocals appear after a small bit, and they don't sound bad at all. The way that all the instruments sound is good and go great together. The songs are very short, pretty stupid, and all the instruments sound good. This is what grindcore is supposed to be, so I’m confused as to why it’s getting literal 0%'s on here.

Also, this sounds pretty influenced by other bands too. A fusion album if you ask me. I'm very positive this isn't meant to sound like any other artist/band, but to me this seriously sounds like Anal Cunt if they were played in the style of the punk band descendants with Immolation and Napalm Death vocals mixed together. This album in a nutshell is basically just crust/hardcore punk mixed with grindcore, with death metal vocals. This honestly doesn't sound bad at all. Pretty interesting mixture, intended or not. As I've said before, 0%? Really? Come on, how can this album be THAT bad? This is some pretty solid stuff. The drums have a tight sound that doesn't even sound bad at all, the guitars are great, they back up the sound of the drums greatly, and the vocals are pretty self-defiant. Death metal/grindcore type thing with slight sleaze. If this isn't some (decent) prime grindcore, then what is? Think about it, you're giving negative feedback to something that's exactly how it’s meant to be. How does that make any sense?

Short song tracks with dumbass retarded titles and lyrics, and the music sounds dumb; but isnt even terrible? Why all the hate? AGAIN, this is what grindcore is. This album and band is a contradiction in of itself, so this review was kinda hard to write. This'll for sure leave you with some mixed opinions and thoughts. Fuck just listen to this thing for your goddamn self and you'll see what I mean. I just couldn't bear to leave this album at a 0%, because it’s absolutely not a zero and people are just being ridiculous.

So again, what’s even the issue here? Are y'all really complaining that grindcore sounds and is just like grindcore? Pretty stupid lol, there's beyond so many albums out there that are way worse than this one, give Chainsaw Penis a break, no matter how retarded and pointless they may seem.

My main point is that this album is not a zero. When I say this album is absolutely worthless and not amazing in the slightest, I mean it, but at the end of the day, this record does not deserve a god damn zero. I wouldn't recommend this album to anyone, it’s not really important at all and there's pretty much no reason for it to exist; it’s pointless. But if you're into the underground side of grindcore that's relentless and unpredictable, I say you should give this a try.

Phew.

Rating: 7 out of 10

Review by Death8699 on June 23, 2019.

Chicago's Cardiac Arrest has come out with their 3rd full-length album entitled Haven for the Insane, which is on their current label, Ibex Moon Records. The band was founded in 1997 and they released their first EP back in 2004. Their current lineup features Adam Scott on lead vocals/guitar, Tom Knizner on lead vocals/guitar, Dave Holland on bass/backing vocals, Jim Deabenderfer on drums/backing vocals and Adam Conrad on guest backing vocals.

This band's genre is vintage death metal with guitars tuned to B-flat and leads displaying Adam Scott's talented mix of arpeggios/tremolo picking/tapping. The songs are energy filled with mostly fast tempos, but also with milder parts, which are few and far between. The music displays riffs that are chunky/heavy with a huge load of distortion. There are some instances of melodic sounds, but mostly a deep blend of tremolo picked parts and chord progressions. Tracks such as "Insanity's Grip", "Rage on...Fuck Off" and "Affliction of the Beast" are good songs to hear for a bit of what this album is like. I enjoyed all of the tracks, but there were some songs that were more memorable than others. I like the heavy sounds which resemble a great deal like that of Dismember, Napalm Death and Morbid Angel influenced style of death metal.

The production is a little flat sounding, but overall, it's solid. I still think that the band's debut full-length release entitled Morgue Mutilations has a better production sound to it. Nevertheless, Haven for the Insane sound wise contains a good mixture of all of the instruments, especially the main guitars. The vocals altogether are a blend of mainly burly spewed outputs with other backup high end screaming which is heard on a few songs. Lyrical content contains themes such as horror worship, gore and zombies. However, on the insert to this album, there are no lyrics that were published. On the band's older website, there were a few songs from their debut EP that the band made the public known what their topics chose to be on. The lyrics go hand in hand with the music because it backs up their overly heavy amounts of raging death metal. There are no cover songs on this release, but the track entitled "Haunted Remnants" was re-recorded on this full-length. 

Overall, Haven for the Insane is probably my second favorite album by the band. At present, Morgue Mutilations is undoubtedly a classic and Cadaverous Presence also is a strong output by the band. The vocals, guitars and drums were all highlights displayed here. My only complaint was the production, which was a bit flat sounding, as I previously mentioned. If you want to hear some gruesomely heavy and unrelenting death metal, this release is a must by all undying extreme music fans.

Rating: 8 out of 10