Human Waste is the debut EP by death metal band Suffocation. It was released in May 1991 through Relapse Records.
Background and release
Effigy was the first ever CD to be released by Relapse.
"Infecting The Crypts", "Mass Obliteration",
and "Jesus Wept" were re-recorded on the following album, Effigy of the Forgotten. "Synthetically Revived" was also re-recorded on Pierced from Within and "Catatonia" was re-recorded for the Despise the Sun EP. The only track that has not been re-recorded is the title track, which was originally recorded for the demo Reincremated.
Human Waste was reissued in 2005 with two bonus tracks taken from the 1990 demo Reincremated (which are "Involuntary Slaughter" and "Reincremation").
Music
The styles on
Human Waste have been categorized as
death metal and
thrash metal. Subverting what were considered "traditional
song structures even in thrash metal circles", the EP's tracks are built around sequences of
Riff, and are performed at what have been described as "blitzkrieg" tempos.
bassist Fernanda Lira says the
string skipping required on "Infecting the Crypts" makes it the "at least in the top five hardest
Bass guitar riffs".
Critical reception
Eduardo Rivadavia of
AllMusic called the EP "formative but still pretty respectable."
Track listing
Personnel
Production
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Conrad Ziarnink- engineer on reissue (tracks: 6 to 8)
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Paul Bagin - engineer on first press (tracks: 1 to 6), reissue (tracks: 1 to 7)
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Matthew F. Jacobson - executive producer
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Suffocation - producer
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Ron Spencer - artwork
