mankind review from splendid:

Detroit's Factory 81 is the latest incarnation of angry funk metal bands. The fury of Mankind is visceral. From the opening time bomb, "Nanu", to the closing hip hop remix of the band's single, "Peace Officer", the tracks on this record are relentlessly agressive. "Beligerence" is the most confrontational, with lyrics like "It's not that you're ugly with your shaved head, it's just I can't stand you and your racist friends." Musically, the song consists of heavy waves of guitar breaking on furious, funky beats, with a vocal delivery that can only be described as feral. Oh, I know there's no shortage of pissed young hip-hop-aware metalheads out there these days, but somehow the genre continues to entertain. On the viability curve of such acts, Factory 81 is somewhere above the middle. Fred Durst, watch your back!

-nw

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