For anyone who feels that this kind of extreme metal reached its peak somwehere between Napalm Deaths seminal “Scum” and “From Enslavement To Obliteration” back in 1987-88 then See You Next Tuesday are here to change your mind. Formed as something of a joke project a couple of years ago a quick look at the song titles shows that this is a band with a sense of humour to go with their uncompromising aural assault, not necessarily a good thing in this context however. 

Weighing in with fourteen tracks in a mere eighteen minutes means that it's definitely a case of blink and you've missed it in some places here. This album mixes together hyperspeed riffing with some extreme doom-dirge grooves and could even, shock horror, be classed as having melody here and there - the latter part of “Paraphilia”  wouldn't be out of place on a Dark Tranquility Album for example. 

For the most part though atonal guitar and vomiting through a sieve vocals are the order of the day on Parasite and clearly won't be to everybody's taste. Its a shame that the overwhelming feeling you get from this disc is that the band are taking the piss as, when they slow things down a bit, they have all the right elements to give us a “proper” death metal album and I for one would like to see them explore this side of their talents a bit more. 

I could be wrong about See You Next Tuesday's intent and they may well be very serious about what they're doing, I suspect not though, and that means that what you're left with is a strange mix of supposed humour that you can't get from the lyrics due to the intense nature of the musical vehicle that's being used to deliver them.

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Track Listing

Baby You Make Me Wish i Had Three Hands
Good Christians Don't Get Jiggy With It 'Til After Marriage
Honey I've Never Had Sex That Wasn't Awkward
Before I Die I'm Gonna Fuck Me A Fish
Here Take This Pill
How To Survive A Vicious Cock Fight
Paraphilia
Just Out Of Curiosity Are Your Parents Siblings?
8 Dead, 9 If you Count The Fetus
Man-Dude vs Dude-Brah
Lets Go Halvsies On A Bastard
A Portable Death Ray And A Sterile Claw Hammer
Pogonatrophy Part 1
Pogonatrophy Part 2

Line Up

Chris Fox - vocals
Andy Dalton - drums
Drew Slavik - guitar
Travis Martin - bass