IN SLAUGHTER NATIVES RECOLLECTION ALBUM COLD MEAT INDUSTRY RELEASE: OCTOBER 22, 2001 REVIEW: DECEMBER 6, 2001

Yes, I'm an old fan of horror role playing games. Yes, I like scary movies. Yes, I really dig Skinny Puppy. Yes, in the early nineties I was into In Slaughter Natives.
So, the question arises: why doesn't my heart jump when I hear this - the limited edition (3000 copies) "sampler" from In Slaughter Natives' four albums? Now that the albums are going to be re-released, shouldn't I be crying with joy for the long hours with pure music of purgatorial agony?
Well, maybe, but I'm not. It might be the sands of time, or the fact that I'm older. But nowadays I find In Slaughter Natives to be less than I remember. This is good music à la some of Skinny Puppy's noiser moments. "Angel Meat" and "Scared Worms" really want to be the soundtrack to our hellish afterlife, or at least the movie, but they don't really make the cut to greatness.
Whereas Skinny Puppy weave rich tapestries of samplings and noise, In Slaughter Natives knit rugs and socks for devils. Maybe warming in it's own way. Surely fit to wear time and time again, but not your favourite sweater or rich medieval tapestry you can look at over and over again, if you catch my drift.

KALLE MALMSTEDT