Lines In Wax

TWELVE YEARS OF UNWANTED OPINION

Day: January 2, 2023

Pulmonary Fibrosis / Haggus / Inopexia – Split Tape (2017)
grindcore

Pulmonary Fibrosis / Haggus / Inopexia – Split Tape (2017)

Awesome three way split with some amazing goregrind bands. Pulmonary Fibrosis kick things off with the most well produced session on this entire thing. Intense, blasting gore is the name of the game, with bludgeoning down-tuned riffs and sick gore vocals. There’s a live session too that extends the band’s runtime, but it’s fairly redundant. Haggus are up second, with that razor-sharp guitar tone and unique spin on the gore shifter vokills. In a (radioactive) sea of hundreds of pitch shifters, Haggus’ sound stands almost immediately recognisable. Sick, stomping shit as usual. Inopexia sound a lot better than they did since I heard them on their split with Malad. LDOH-worship is afoot, but don’t write these lot off as mere copycats. Pulsating, dripping, ultra-blasting putrescent gore is your reward for seeing this session though.

Footjob – Demo ‘07 (2007)
grindcore

Footjob – Demo ‘07 (2007)

Nonsensical, pointless, ridiculous noisecore – just as the genre should be. Footjob kick this 19 minute demo off with nearly 5 minutes of the same redundant porn sample, before hitting some early days 2 Minuta Dreka style noisecore bursts (basically like 7MON with gore vocals). Listening to this demo felt like the longest 19 minutes of my life. You could have halved the run time, left the porno sample in, and it would still feel too long. That pretty much proves that Footjob’s racket succeeds in what it set out to do, if you ask me.

The Locust – Well I’ll Be A Monkey’s Uncle (2000)
grindcore noise & power electronics

The Locust – Well I’ll Be A Monkey’s Uncle (2000)

This little remix EP proved a rather difficult task to hunt down online, so I bought a physical copy. Yes, this idiot is buying CDs in 2022! Roll up roll up! Anyways, this is a completists item most definitely, featuring six remixes – and the original – of the title track. And that’s it. The art is cool as fuck, and the remixes from Kid 606, I Am Spoonbender and Bastard Noise are worthy of note.

Revenant Marquis / Lamp Of Murmuur – Split LP (2020)
black metal

Revenant Marquis / Lamp Of Murmuur – Split LP (2020)

I’ve been on a bit of a Lamp Of Murmuur kick recently, so checking out their split with everyone’s favourite black metal project that they can’t actually hear was definitely on the cards. Das Revenant once again bring some of the worst production in the black metal world (no small feat) but coming with it is that endearing melodic carnage beneath all of the grime. Lamp Of Murmuur are a similar beast, perhaps if RM is playing from a damp cellar, then Lamp Of Murmuur is a haunting channeling it’s way through a 60s stereo system. Very well composed stuff. Spooky shit all round, and I heavily recommend.

Feastem – Graveyard Earth (2020)
grindcore

Feastem – Graveyard Earth (2020)

Feastem continue to be a massively under-rated grindcore band outside of Europe, which is shocking to me considering just how fucking fast these guys are. Like, this is some serious Insect Warfare level territory here, so I don’t understand why the USA grinders aren’t lapping this up. Maybe they are, and I’m just not privy to the conversations. Anyway, this falls into the well-produced end of grindcore populated by bands such as the previously mentioned, as well as Nasum, Pig Destroyer, Wormrot etc. – it’s just very very savage.