Meathook Seed was conceived as a side project featuring Napalm Death guitarist Mitch Harris along with Donald Tardy and Trevor Peres from Obituary. Harris is the main man behind the group's first album, 1993's Embedded, with Peres (a guitarist in Obituary) taking the vocal lead. In the interim between that album and their second release six years later, the Obituary boys were gone, with a new lineup in place featuring (among others) another Napalm Death man in Shane Embury. Embedded is a somewhat quirky release, sometimes described as industrial death metal though it frequently isn't quite traditional death metal and the industrial influences are faint at best. Harsh, driving, faintly hardcore-influenced metal might be a better description, especially given Peres' hoarse singing. The one oddball track is the 13+ minutes of "Sea Of Tranquility", an ambient, sampling affair that has practically nothing in common with the rest of the album -- interesting at times, a bit long though. Since there's been no recording since 1999 and at least the Napalm Death guys have their own band to give their time to, it's not clear what, if any, long-term plans are in the works for this project.