Archive for February 2013

Holy shit this is some of the grooviest goregrind stuff I’ve heard in a long while! I just wanna get up and dance around the house, or more preferably a muddy field in the Czech Republic. I’m glad to be set to release a 4″ record of this guy later this year – that is something I am greatly looking forward to. Pairing the nasty sounds of early LDOH with the “vibe” that I can…

To celebrate the recent “fixing” of my record player so that it now plays records smaller than 6″, here is another 5″ review! Where can one possibly go wrong with a 5″ full of Gang Green covers? ANb’s cover of “Alcohol” is punchy and bouncy, and is virtually flawless with Randall back on the mic. That’ll do Hull, that’ll do. I am unfamiliar at this point with Armageddon Nuclear System (more commonly known as ANS)…

Now this IS interesting. I suppose just like me you have always wondered what happens when you mix Anal Cunt’s offensive comedy / hate grind with pitchshifted goregrind from hell? Ha ha! Well, the end result turns out sounding a lot like Bowel Rot, who have managed to surprise me with some originality regarding the mixing up of sub-genres. I can safely say I had never thought of this type of mix before. The guitar…

Nearly a year in the works, Ohio’s one man harsh noise and power electronics magician Arseterror finally meets the ongoing experiment Life is Easy on the format of split tape. featuring roughly 20 minutes of music from each artist; Arseterror first with the 20 minute maddening contribution, “Camptown Racist”. Life is Easy contributes two unreleased drones from 2007 that have been festering away in the vaults for years. Strictly limited to 15 physical copies, all…

For me, Endtyme stands apart from anything else in the Cathedral discography. They have done dark before, sure, one needs not look further than the debut album to realise that, but that record is a whole other sack of decapitated witch heads. Here, Cathedral are chuggy and enormously groovy-heavy; and in a certain way take their groovy doom and smash it head on with the styles on display in the debut. Once I read somewhere…

I’ve never been a big Linkin Park fan, even though Hybrid Theory was the first album I ever bought with my own money when I was 11 years old. I’d lost all interest by the time the second record came out, but when the third album came out around 2007 the band (or more likely the label) came up with the idea to release the singles off that album on mini 7″ picture discs, which…

It’s been absolutely yonks since I last reviewed a 5″ and upon receiving this I was horrified to find that my current record player doesn’t player the little fuckers because of the auto-return function. Now, my old deck is a mixing deck and plays them fine, but it doesn’t have a pre-amp, and therefore lacks volume when connected to my current, all-digital stereo set up. I wasn’t exactly in the position to rush out and…

If the name of this record and the artwork above screams out to you – “Porngrind!” then guess what? You’re fucking wrong, bitches! What we have here is an ear-melting cacophony of rancid fucking gorenoise. Ok, maybe not flat out noise but noise-core. Don’t forget the core! It reminds me of VRV, the way the drum machine is pushed out to the max and just left to blast away unhindered, when all the wasps in…

I’ve lusted after this collectable for a good while, and I finally saw it on Discogs at a decent price so I nabbed the bastard! I gotta be honest though, after all that waiting, I was a bit disappointed to find out that this Accident Prone-released 7″ is fecking one-sided record (don’t get me started on one-sided records!). What also surprised me is that there are no original songs here, just three early Cattle Decap cuts re-recorded in Spanish. Go me for researching! Although,…

I first saw these guys by chance when I went up to Bristol to catch Weekend Nachos. Little did I know until a few days before that the show was an all dayer, filled to the brim with some of the best fuckin’ grindcore bands the UK has to offer right now. Despite the fact that I had completed the Ultimate Burger challenge (I won’t go into it) pre-gig and was in a state of…

I got these two when they were around (I think) 70p each on the Earache store. An utter bargain! Every now and then they put the shit that I assume wasn’t selling down to some retarded low price. Once I went on there and they had Adema 7″s for 10p each. I was almost tempted to make a large purchase and then build a fire out of Adema singles. That would have been a good day! Too…

Crossface aren’t particularly bad for your average hardcore band. I don’t understand hardcore at all so I’ll skirt over this before I say something to embarrass myself and bring down a sea of X-marked fists upon my head. Schnauzer on the other hand is one of my favourite things ever. Why is it then, that it has taken me so long to finally write a post for this, one of my all time favourite 7″s?…

This EP has a mega-random story behind it. When I was around 13/14, our gang would always chill / play fuck in this one street in upper-Abercanaid. The wannabe-middle class fucks up there hated us, but we had a few friends who lived there so we always hung around there. Not everyone there was bad, but there was the usual crowd of grouchy middle-aged meatbags who despised children. Not to mention, we did play fuck quite a…

This is Volume 4 in the ongoing and extremely extensive noise series entitled “Redlight District” by German record label Shit Noise Records, who really do have a does-what-it-says-on-the-tin attitude. Each release is identifiable by a new colour, and number 4 (or is that IV) is purple. Limited, as always with this series, to 50 hand numbered copies. Painburn open the disc with what seems like a harsh noise-meets-instrument experimentation. Underneath the garbled layers of hell…

Mad props to Mike from Vaginal Necrosis / Dead Chemists Records for sending me this CD for free, you’re a legend! This has been out for a few years now on Parkinson Wankfist and Alarma Records. To be honest, I expected a compilation CD with 100 Myspace bedroom goregrind bands, but this CD seems to contain about 50% Myspace bedroom goregrind bands, 25% crappy digigrind/gabba/noise artists and 25% actual death metal and goregrind bands. Those…

“Slateman” is one of my favourite ‘Flesh songs, and is a prime example of what excellence can be achieved by simply using a drum machine right. This isn’t particularly heavy or drawn out or even harrowing in any way, but it is the perfect example of Godflesh’s sound. The drum sound is absolutely spot on, I don’t really know what does it here for me but it’s just so right. The bass is clanky and…

I can’t exactly review this as it’s my creation, but I got one in my collection so it’ll have to wind up on here eventually, so I’ll just do a brief run down to plug this fucker. I recorded this bastard of an EP back in 2007, simply by running a distorted B C Rich through a whole world of filters and then recording a cold, mechanical drum beat over the top of it before…

I remember back in the day when I first heard of this album. I remember how ridiculously excited I was to hear something so musically challenging. 100 songs? Less than 20 minutes? Bitch please, you must be trippin’! And trippin’ I was when I first got this record in it’s original 3″ CD package from some crazy-mainstream outlet like Virgin Megastore or Zavvi (I forget which). I now own this testament to insanity three times; on the…