This Austrian five piece has been around since July 1997 and recorded and released a demo CD entitled "Revenge On Mankind" shortly after which sold approximately 200 copies until now. "Hopeless Age" is their first full-length album, which they also financed on their own in early 2000 and that’s already all I can really tell you about SEPTICEMIA, apart from the fact that they still play a very immature sounding mixture of Death and Thrash Metal, with a few additional, kinda Black Metal-ish sounding vocals here and there. Bands like this you will get to see on a regular base around the corner in your local youth club. They are all still lacking in identity, arrangement qualities and a real musical vision. There’s some really good ideas in the eleven songs (plus intro), but certainly not enough at this point to be released on a CD already and I certainly won’t play the disc again after this review is finished! All in all it just tends to bore me way too quickly. I mean, the market is definitely flooded enough with tons of average bands nowadays that even get their stuff out through a label (big or small), so I seriously doubt that you’re really interested in spending your money on a product which is hardly reaching those standards, unless you’re maybe more concerned about the visual side of a release, which in SEPTICEMIA’s case looks really good. But hey, who am I to complain?! Maybe "Hopeless Age" is just for promotional manner or to get gigs a little easier and not even meant for sale, so you better get all further information from the following address: Peter Knall, Brentenmaisstr. 56, A – 3012 Wolfsgraben, Austria, email: septicemia@gmx.at, www.septicemia.start.at