Archive for August 2013

Totally and randomly got a bunch of reggae records for Christmas 2012, which is great because I love reggae but spend so much time on other types of music that I never get around to buying any. Talisman are from Bristol and play nice dubby reggae, with lots of original groove. The songs aren’t dubbed as such (as far as I can tell), they just have a lot of characteristics of the dub reggae sound,…

NxSx play sprightly, punky grindcore with a crazed vocal attack. The songs are short blasts that resemble something between the lines of the fastest garage grindcore and the heaviest powerviolence. A recurring theme is that between songs, the humming of bees, or swarms of insects, fades in and out. This ties in with the cover art, which has a whole bunch of wasps and bees and shit swarming all over the place. If you’re wondering…

Time for some more sickening goregrind folks! The cover art to this Goatgrind release might be fairly tame but the music is fucking nuts, as you would expect. Faeces Eruption play fairly straightforward, dank and heavy electronic goregrind with low pitchshifted gurgles. The whole thing sails by rather quickly, but it’s an enjoyable four songs that has got me on the look out for more Faeces Eruption shit (pun slightly intended). Urine Festival on the…

I recently missed the Looking For An Answer UK tour which really bummed me the fuck out, but it made me realize that I literally owned next to nothing that the band has put out! I wanted to listen to a couple of 7″s to ease the pain of missing the gigs, but I found out that I only had the one…I could have sworn I had one or two more. What an idiot! Anyway,…

The VRV / AGx UK tour was one of the most entertaining live shows I’ve had the pleasure of witnessing. Catching the legendary Agathocles in an upstairs room in a pub in Leeds was the perfect atmosphere; a whole bunch of sweaty grinders moshing about comfortably on a carpet! When the two bands got together to release this 7″ after the tour had ended, I knew I had to own it, no matter how shitty…

Since my first Schnauzer post on here a short while ago I have realized that I don’t own anything else by the band and I have gone about picking up some more of their stuff. This here is their split with Punching Moses, which I got off the guy from Last Days of Humanity’s distro stall on the Cemetery Rapist UK tour last year (I forget his name – D’oh!). This split is a collaboration…

Semtex 10 is a blast-happy, bombastic, fairly recent 3 song EP by unstoppable Belgian grindcore (sorry, mincecore) brigade Agathocles. As it contains more than just 4 different versions of “Trust? Not Me” it is totally worth picking up! As far as I can tell the songs seem to be original, which is what I’m all about. My only gripe is that there is no tracklisting or info whatsoever anywhere on the release. If you bought…

Tourettes of the Genitals is a short-lived noisecore/grindcore project featuring members of Drogheda, but with Paul Phipps of Rectal Twat infamy on vocals. Basically what you have here is 18 untitled blasts of noise on a one-sided 6″ lathe cut flexi. I’m not really sure what material this is cut onto but it is ridiculously thin. If bent too much it will probably crease and become unplayable. This is extremely collectable, with only 15 copies in existence…

I’ve never really considered myself a proper Devourment fan although I am quite partial to their heavier-than-the-mass-of-9-planets mix of slam and brutal death metal. When I saw this absolutely stunning Goatgrind picture disc version of Unleash… at Obscene Extreme I knew it had to be mine. Just look at it! Damn! That’s metal as fuck! Ha ha. Unleash… boasts quite a polished and clinical approach to things, and is a far cry from the band’s cult classic sound on…

Hate sound absolutely nothing like what I expected. Being totally unfamiliar with them, I should really have looked them up before buying this record, but Bongripper’s name alone carried enough weight to seal the deal for me. This split spins at 45rpm, so it is unfortunately very short, but hey – give me quality over quantity any day of the week. So like I said, Hate sound nothing like I anticipated. Splitting with Bongripper made…

Playing With Nuns is an absolute pleasure – pun definitely intended. After a while a lot of experimental and harsh noise projects all tend to sound the same to me, so when a noise record comes along and stands out for me it really must be a good one! Schizo Spectrum starts like many other harsh noise albums before it; the first track is nothing to write home about, but it’s interesting enough for me…

This is one of my favourite Anathema albums – if not my favourite out of them all (that I have heard). It was also the first “soft” Anathema record I got hold of after discovering the band didn’t play doom metal anymore. I spent a while worshipping the Serenades album, which was probably one of my first introductions to the ultra-slow and miserable side of doom metal. I was so excited to see the band…

This is a nifty little split 10″ that I keep forgetting I own. It’s in a plain white sleeve with a stamp like a club 12″ and recently until I separated my 10″ and 12″s onto different shelves I would keep losing it in the pile of vinyl that I have. The choice of artists appearing alongside each other here is pretty varied, but there isn’t a shit song on the entire thing. It spins…

I suppose it was only a matter of time before Hymen Holocaust did an album for Rotten Roll; nasty European goregrind and that label go hand in hand! Hymen Holocaust is my favourite type of goregrind. Sure, it doesn’t blast a thousand times a minute, but it’s slow, heavy, nasty, watery as fuck and absolutely hanging. It’s what GUT should have “cumback” sounding like, give or take a nudge on the groove and porn factors….

When Mushroomhead dragged themselves out of the Ohio backwaters onto the international “nu-metal” stage back in 2001, they presented metal fans around the world with a fresh and somewhat confusing sound. Mushroomhead’s diversity is what made them so exciting; the infamous live shows, the crazy costumes, the “metal/is it metal?” thing they had going on – not to mention they had managed to sell over 80,000 copies of their first three albums entirely by word…

This little remix EP accompanied the release of the Love of Life album by Swans back in 1992. It makes things a touch confusing whilst researching online as both 12″s have the same title. It takes two tracks from that record, and pairs them alongside “long versions”, which are essentially drawn-out, more atmospheric takes on the classic original tracks. This “single” isn’t particularly rare, but at the same time it isn’t very easy to find…

Carnival of Carnage appears to be a pre-Tumour project of Rogore (ex-LDOH). As far as I can tell it was a fairly short lived affair, with one album, one EP and one live 7″ (this) (2021 edit: the band have a lot more releases than this, I suspect Discogs just hadn’t been updated). It’s pretty cool to listen to, it’s like Tumour with a full band and a bit more of a groove. I don’t…

How else can a band cash in on what was supposed to be their final album? Remember, the story went that after the sixth joker card fell…….well nobody fuckin’ knew what was going to happen, so they needed to milk that shit, let’s be fair. The Wraith itself was split into two separate albums and released two years apart, and then this remix album came trailing behind a few years later. It is no secret that anything…

This was one of the first goregrind splits I ever got hold of, so therefore it holds a very special place in my heart (ha ha). Both bands seem to have fallen into obscurity these days, but this is still worth talking about. It’s maybe not the longest CD in the world, but it’s still worth getting if you see it around. If you are interested in groovy, nasty goregrind in any way I strongly…