Human Chaos EP [January 2005]

Publication: Lords Of Metal
Reviewer: Koen
Country: The Netherlands

"This band, emerging from Dubai (United Arab Emirates), performs like Dirty Harry's 44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world: they blew my head clean off! Formed in 1999, Rami Mustafa, Barney Ribeiro (guitars) and James Khazaal (bass and vocals) now release their first production entitled 'Human Chaos'. For drum duties, Nervecell uses session drummers. On this cd, sessionist Alan Madhavan performed the drums. Don't expect a bunch of amateurs, men in veils, oil sheiks, camel riders or a shitty production for the reason that these band members live in a death metal developing country!

This is a well-produced effort: 'Signs Of The End' is a mid-tempo song that invades your living room with different variations on the same riff, 'Vastlands Of Abomination' is a well structured song preceded by long musical parts, 'The Darkened' has the same elements. The title track is the most mature song on this cd with some fast sections and clincher song 'Demolition' forces me to recommend Nervecell to all of those who are into early nineties death metal. Some points of interest: more variations in riffing and speed and more creative drum parts. A nice death metal cd though."