IT'S ONLY FLESH!

Industrial goth-rock groups always seem to get a bad rap. The only way to experience industrial goth music is to be there to see it, smell it, and feel it working its way under your skin. Part of the undeniable charm of Only Flesh is that their love for the painful pleasure of self-mutilation inhabits each song. Their latest seven-song disc, Dissecting the Skin Box, all but begs you to see them live. The show is what you need to get the band’s full effect. The sounds are creepy and heavy on the synthetic blood sauce, leaving the listener ready for a bath or ripe for a piercing. Prince’s “When Doves Cry” was always a song that left me numb. Not because it hit me emotionally, but because I just didn’t dig it. But the Prince tune is covered to great effect here, and left me feeling just plain dirty, with flecks of blood clotting on my skin. To fully experience Only Flesh look for forthcoming tourdates here.