AMG Review of Mechanics of Dysfunction

Stewart Mason
All Music Guide

You know those random phrase generators some websites have, where you press a button and a mad-lib phrase appears? The concept has been modified to create various styles of band names and album titles over the years. And now it's apparently been applied to the band name and album title of Mechanics of Dysfunction by Beneath the Massacre, which sound like they were generated by a death metal phrase generator. The ten songs themselves don't deviate from death metal expectations, from the Cookie Monster vocals to the double-time drumming to the faux-shocking song titles, although an untitled minute-long track at the album's midpoint features a crash-cymbal loop overlaid with a stuttering start-stop guitar line that was almost certainly played on a keyboard-controlled sampler.