ShadowX "Human Abattoir" [ALBUM]

Ten tracks, thirty-nine minutes, six dollars sixty-six. The guest list is the reason to pay attention: "Cannibals" features Insane Poetry, the Los Angeles group formed in 1988 that is generally counted among the first horrorcore acts Grim Reality came out on Nastymix in 1992 and moved more than seventy-five thousand units, and Cyco has kept the name running ever since, most recently on Killing The Mic this year. Keagan Grimm takes the other feature, on "Shear Madness." ShadowX describes himself in three lines: "Lyrical Horrorcore. Strictly For The Wicked. King Of Nothing." There is no credit block. No producer, no release date, no mix or master, no artwork the page is a tracklist, a price and, unusually, the complete lyrics to every song. That last part is the only real way in, and what the words do is more considered than the genre's reputation suggests. "Factory of Anguish," which opens the record at over five minutes, is constructed as a guided tour of an industrial slaughterhouse "let me be your guide in this industrial labyrinth / where the most unspeakable suffering happens" and it keeps that conceit running for four verses rather than burning it out in one. Bodies on conveyor belts, victims "lined up in single file and led to their doom," a closing couplet that turns the factory into a workplace joke: "keep your nose to the grindstone until no face is left." The titles carry the same register "Where Hope Goes To Die," "Rites of Marbas," "Hellscape," "Despair" and at thirty-nine minutes across ten tracks it is a long record for a genre that usually runs short. Whether the production holds up for that length is not something that can be assessed here; no audio and, again, no producer credited.

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