Where walks patrons of the forgotten realm, those who still sing in disquiet harmony the hymns and psalms of the scripture known to the world as Metal; and now, re-released in remastered clarity, stands CORPSIA, a trio from Brazil whose inception is marked now at 8 years. No Dust Records has managed a revisited and re-released compilation which combines the band's debut album, "Genocides In The Name Of God," with their EP who found its release last year dubbed, "My Murder Mind."

The album commences with the track listing from the EP, starting with the song "Legalized Murder" a Thrashing piece composed of even alternating rhythms, pounding drums, and vocals which are accentuated in tandem with the elements of the rhythm. The title piece of the album, "My Murder Mind" is the next track, a jarring and fervent piece which saturates the soundscape with polyphonic grandeur as each instrument manages some level of harmony with one another. The rampant and unabated instruments decorate each track with exacting sensations of drive and enthusiasm, such as found within "Prophecy," "Violence," "Blood Body And Disgrace," and "The Rite." Having within its collection strings of media from two separate iterations, both distinct in quality, direction, and writing it becomes difficult in a plain sense to identity the capacitance of fidelity as a whole for the collection as the beginning tracks were recorded in great quality and bear a richness and fullness that is often never achieved within the genre; on the reverse, however, with tracks 6-15 we are given less-than-ideal recordings which each contain discrete instances of clipping and stuttering due to the lack of quality in either recording or mixing. Compare, if you would, "Viciado" to "Returns" where such tracks are similar in performance and composition each has a world of difference within the halls of quality as the former is more forward and balanced and the latter is more reflexive, quieter, and jarring. Ignoring the crackling and such present within the album portion of the collection, the vocals are of great interest as previously the only other application I've heard of the technique were through Peter Steele within the album "Carnivore." Those desecrated and reaching vocals come through the speakers at either side and violate your perception in the greatest way possible, creating a stereoscopic and jarring sensation which weaves in an out throughout the album portion of the compilation.

An odd bunch of songs now released for greater distribution, "My Murder Mind," does not do anything new, nor does it hint at anything to come for the band, however it does do a greater job to attract attention for CORPSIA and what they strive towards, and in practice this should grant the band a greater reach. Hopefully more listeners will find themselves now fans of the band, I know I am.