Archive for May 2012

Mortiis – The Smell Of Rain (2001)

Mortiis – The Smell Of Rain (2001)

May 30, 2012

Y’know what, I don’t know anyone who fucking likes Mortiis. Either he really isn’t appreciated at all, or I am just surrounded by people who do not understand his music. I’m pretty certain it is the latter. When I was in school a lot of the goth kids started liking Mortiis when The Grudge came out, and this pissed me off if anything, because I’d been chastised for listening to Mortiis for years, and now…

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Embalming Theatre / XXX Maniak – Split 7″ (2006)

Embalming Theatre / XXX Maniak – Split 7″ (2006)

May 28, 2012

What we have here is the 2006 split release between 7″ masters Embalming Theatre and the excellent yet short lived gore/porn/cybergrind maniacs XXX Maniak. This, along with the Birdflesh / Hatebeak split and the Bowel Stew / Tu Carne split, constituted my first vinyl purchases ever. Those were the days! This was put out by the excellent Haunted Hotel Records on a run of 1000 copies; 300 on grey and 700 on black. According to…

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Embalming Theatre / Intumescence – Split 7″ (2005)

Embalming Theatre / Intumescence – Split 7″ (2005)

May 22, 2012

What I like about getting another Embalming Theatre split is that you can see what weird and wonderful art Mr. Gemmet has come up with time. This under-rated Swiss genius seems to squeeze out any pretentiousness from his surrealism before bashing it headways in full colour into the morbid, the sick, and the downright unusual. This rather colourful 7″ sleeve features a very angry looking guy with wires in his mouth. These wires are subsequently,…

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Dub War – Mental (1994)

Dub War – Mental (1994)

May 18, 2012

Before there was Skindred there was Dub War. I was always attracted to this band because of their awesome name. A war of dub? Sounds like my kind of party. Unfortunately I found Dub War a bit wet, not too shabby but very disappointing considering what I built them up to be in my head. My love for them sadly does not extend any further than this cheeky little single pressed by Earache (when they…

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Dead Kennedys – Nazi Punks Fuck Off (1981)

Dead Kennedys – Nazi Punks Fuck Off (1981)

This is a classic in my book. Never considered myself a Kennedys fan but I love this song. I remember hearing it on some lame Kerrang! compilation CD when I was in Sixth form. That I would later go on to discover Napalm Death had covered this made it even better. There is a few different versions of this pressed by both Subterranean Records and Alternative Tentacles, and I was initially confused with which one…

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Godflesh – Godflesh (1988)

Godflesh – Godflesh (1988)

May 13, 2012

It is often easy whilst analyzing Godflesh’s contribution and effect upon heavy music to focus wholly on the groundbreaking Streetcleaner record and to overlook this crooked, snarling little gem of industrial terror. More claustrophobic than Streetcleaner’s sprawling inhuman soundscape, Godflesh pummels the listener with a mechanized drum machine attack and plodding, menacing bass. What I have here is the original, untouched Swordfish Records pressing of this EP. Some think that the clear Swordfish pressing is…

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Gut – Pimps Of Gore (2006)

Gut – Pimps Of Gore (2006)

To say that The Cumback split Gut’s fanbase in half would be an understatement; 2006’s rap metal crossover fuckfest alienated more goregrind fans than you’d care to even think existed! Who then, I hear you cry, keeps pressing Gut records? And who the fuck still buys them? Well, the answer is labels like Supreme Chaos and idiots like me, it would seem. Pete Steele (may he rust in piece) in an interview about Type O…

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Swans – Feel Good Now (1987)

Swans – Feel Good Now (1987)

This is an extremely collectable Swans “bootleg” of live performances recording during the supporting tour for the seminal album Children of God, pressed on double 12″. It was actually recorded for the band by Jack Balchin, the band’s sound engineer at the time, using just a Sony Walkman, and was originally marketed as a bootleg to save any hassle with record labels. Feel Good Now doesn’t quite live up to the total aural destruction of…

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Dead Infection / CSSO – Split 7″ (1998)

Dead Infection / CSSO – Split 7″ (1998)

May 12, 2012

This here post is about the fantastic Morbid Records classic split between goregrind legends Dead Infection and prolific noise/rock/goregrind/strange Japanese mentalists, CSSO. It was only ever pressed once in 1998 on black and is therefore obviously very much out of print. When I discovered the wonders of the Discogs website this was one of the very first things I bought, being big into goregrind as a teenager I dreamt one day of owning all the…

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Dead / Butcher ABC – Split 7″ (2007)

Dead / Butcher ABC – Split 7″ (2007)

May 10, 2012

After Dead and Butcher ABC toured Japan together it wasn’t much of a surpise when a split came out a few years later. Japan’s excellent Obliteration Records co-released this (it would seem) with Autopsy Stench Records (who, being German, I assume have something to do with Dead). As far as my small mind is aware, all the copies are on black. What we get from the usually excellent goregrind legends Dead is actually a rather…

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Criminal Element – Criminally Contaminated  (2006)

Criminal Element – Criminally Contaminated (2006)

This is Relapse’s 2006 pressing of Criminal Element’s short EP on single-sided 7″ wax. Besides the usual 100 Relapse clear copies, 400 exist on blue and 500 on green. It’s surprising how bands like this fall under the radar. You’d think that a “supergroup” style band with members from Dying Fetus, Suffocation and Misery Index would be big news, but this, along with all other Criminal Element releases, just seems to fall into obscurity not…

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