Archive for August 2015

Urrrrrghhhh! 1349 returned from the misty fjords last year with the excellent Massive Cauldron Of Chaos. Personally, I would have called it Massive Cauldron Of Endless Blastbeats to more suitably match 1349’s sound, but that would just be silly. Despite the expected ticking of mental drumming speeds, MCOC gets fairly melodic now and then, something which admittedly caught me off guard at first (see the tinkling passages between brutality in “Slaves” as an easy example…

I’ve already declared my undying love for Cloud Rat, so with the risk of crawling too far up their arse set very high, I will keep the summary of their contribution to this split 7″ as brief as possible: Fucking. Perfect. Ha! I love everything about this band and their progressive / weird take on the grindcore template. If you’ve not already heard them, please please please check them out. Orgullo Primitivo are completely new…

Phyllomedusa’s blasting, burping and croaking froquencies have quickly become a firm favourite here at camp Lines In Wax over the last few months. It’s kinda hard to define Phyllomedusa’s sounds but after listening to a lot of it I’ve noticed a pattern emerging – you can divide the majority of the sounds presented into four categories; ambient / field recordings, gorenoise and/or goregrind, more traditional harsh noise and finally, err, doom metal. Their part of…