Archive for October 2013

Oh, how I have longed for a new Jesu release! I snoozed on the previous new material (the Duchess 7″) and it sold out before I had even the slightest chance of even considering buying it, and now it is added to my never-ending list of expensive shit to buy off Discogs. Trouble is, it’s hard to find the money to keep up with all the new releases in the first place, doubly hard when…

I remember Rotgut from years ago (ah, the Myspace days!) and back then they played this really ugly, sludgy and noisy shit. Now, things are a bit more refined; Rotgut have become this absolute grinding Malaysian menace. The sound is fatter than the bloated corpse of a beached great white, and the vocals are totally insane; wicked rasps and shouts that hark back to something altogether more 38 Counts…era Pig Destroyer. Ones to watch, I…

One really has to questions ones motives when one ends up buying a split that lasts 48 fucking seconds. This nefarious little split tape (limited to some abysmal quantity) was one of things stopping me collecting all of the Insect Warfare stuff, but the good (or bad? Ha ha!) people at Regurgitated Semen Records have taken it upon themselves to re-release the tapes contents on a single-sided flexi. Bastards! Looks like I’ll have to get all the…

I fucking love Cloud Rat, who are I think one of the first bands to reap the rewards of being on Jay Randall’s Grindcore Karaoke net label. If you’re into grind and haven’t heard their self-titled record then you must have been living under some sort of grind-resistant-coated rock or something. To me, Cloud Rat invoke imaginings of Converge crossed with Magrudergrind, but with Agoraphobic Nosebleed’s Katherine Katz on vocals. Is that a bit fancy?…

I’ll be honest and admit that I only bought this 7″ because Cephalotripsy were on it; they are one of my favourite “slamming” brutal death metal bands and are a total guilty pleasure of mine. Man, this shit is so sick! I’m a total sucker for this stuff when it’s done right, and Cephalotripsy have yet to fail to deliver the gore-drenched slams. “Ulcerated Mass Of Pestilent Engorgement” is a fucking amazing song name. Membro…

I have been warned in advance of how nasty these picture lathes sound, but I am pleasantly surprised by how clear everything is…I have heard some absolutely fucking shocking lathe cuts, and this is far, far from the worst. From what I can tell this is two one-sided lathes glued back to back, with a picture trapped between them…that’s a pretty ingenious way of making DIY picture discs, I gotta say. I dunno who cut…

When I heard that Fukpig were returning with another 7″ I welcomed the news with open arms. Bad Fucking Dickhead looks absolutely fucking amazing…shit…just look at it! And thankfully, after the slightly off-key release of 3, Fukpig are back on track; Bad Fucking Dickhead sounds as fucking amazing as it looks. I can’t really understand what is being said but there is a lot of swearing and a lot of screaming, which is always a…

Gah, don’t you just hate it when 2 x 12″s are rammed into one non-gatefold jacket? Something about this just gets right on my fucking wick, son. If you’re gonna fork out for a double album repress on heavy-as-shit vinyl then you might as well go the full hog and be good enough to include a gatefold jacket. This poor bastard is loaded to the gills with discs! Blinkin’ heck Warp, it’s not like you…

In another post recently (this one, proper old school Blogger link!) I suggested off the cuff that somebody should make some mega fucking compilation of the sickest goregrind and porngrind projects related to Last Days Of Humanity. When I stumbled across this sick little fuck at the Rotten Roll stall in OEF I thought for a second that some celestial being might share some love for the sick shit! Granted, Anal Whore isn’t related to LDOH (as far as…

Two grindcore titans going head to head on a ridiculously novelty-sized record? What more do you fucking want from this genre, I ask? Phobia rip into something very fucking impressive, which is great news for me as I’ve not been too impressed with their output as of late (it’s not bad, it’s just they used to be so good!). “Grind Bleed Your Soul”, the only song here, is fast and tight as fuck, and the…

SMG play super shady-sounding rehearsal room grind. At least, on this 7″ they play that type of stuff. To be fair, the sound here is terrible. I dunno if the copy I have is warped or something but the guitar sounds absolutely hideous. It’s hard to listen beyond that once you’ve noticed it, so I don’t think I can fairly form an opinion on SMG from this 7″ alone. I bought it because I want…

I’ve been on a Six Brew Bantha kick recently, after finally crawling out from underneath my rock and realizing just how fucking awesome they are. Their sound here is a bit lo-fi, but that’s never stopped anyone before and Six Brew Bantha blast and thrash through some fucking livid grindcore! Man, what I would do to see these guys! Someone with a lot of money fly them to the UK already and take my fucking…

Suppression are quickly becoming one of my favourite grindcore acts. I mean, how long have this band been around? And I only heard of them a few months ago! What an idiot! Despite this fact, I’ve had the mp3s of this split on my computer for ages thanks to Grindcore Karaoke, but listening to it always got pushed back because I have so much stuff to get through…which is a curse as well as a…

Ahhh how I long for the days of a more grind-orientated Cattle Decapitation! The band have always peddled their own ever-evolving brand of disgusting death metal, but the song lengths / titles here are much more in sync with something all together more goregrind. And, if you read this blog frequently, you should know that’s what I’m all about! Couple that with the factor that this album is basically The Locust with Travis Ryan on…

After the incredible journey that was Requiem, I was terribly disappointed with the first Audiofilm instalment. When I finally got over the fact that this 3″ CD wasn’t going to be more of the same of what was displayed on Scott’s debut, I gave it another chance and now I really like it. I can’t really say much about it as it’s fairly short and entirely atmospheric, so you’ll have to hear it for yourself…

Holy shit, Corrupt Moral Altar are heavy! Like, proper heavy! I love the mix of styles going on here; one minute I’m getting doomy vibes, the next it’s all about the crazy flat-out grind type of shit! Wrap all that into a modern “dark hardcore” ball (think Black Breath, Nails and all the recent shit Southern Lord has been peddling) and you’ve got one hell of a 7″. Neither side is better than the other;…

Old 7MON live stuff compiled here in a split with prolific noise mongers Gorgonized Dorks. On black, and strictly limited to 338 copies on Bringer Of Gore Records. I have number 57. I got this from Katz in Gorgonized Dorks when we were mailing each other about the Fart Wank / Gorgonized Dorks lathe cut split square 8″ that never materialized (but now with the existence of Pointless Records, could maybe see the light of…