Lines In Wax

TWELVE YEARS OF UNWANTED OPINION

Day: January 9, 2023

Trap Them – Blissfucker (2014)
metal punk & hardcore

Trap Them – Blissfucker (2014)

This was never really my thing but I caught Trap Them live at Roadburn festival many many moons ago and that cemented them in my head as a formidable musical force. Bliss Fucker, I guess, is a good example as any of the band’s dense, buzzsaw-worship sound. Sure, it’s not completely derivative Entombed-core, but the inclusion of the HM2 pedal always sets a tone (pun intended) about how a release will be received by me. Technically brilliant and very well made stuff, but not an album that scratches every itch (maybe I should see a doctor about that).

Autophagia – Postmortem Human Offal (2003)
grindcore

Autophagia – Postmortem Human Offal (2003)

Some of the earlier Autophagia stuff can leave you wanting, what with a production that is so clogged with dust it’s impossible to really make anything out. On Postmortem Human Offal however, there is no such problem. The gruesome grindcore is bared for all to see in all of it’s sickening detail: guitar blurs and sharp riffs, shambling corpse drums, and my Brother in Christ, these are some of the most insane pitch shifter gurgles ever put to tape. This shit is unseemly.

Cryptworm – Spewing Mephitic Putridity (2022)
death metal

Cryptworm – Spewing Mephitic Putridity (2022)

What an abominable down-tuned soup of hideous death metal! It took me a few goes to get used to the sordid display of metal oozing out of my stereo. The drums… wow. It’s like a corpse has risen from the grave. They shamble and shift, sometimes staggering. But for some reason, that works really well. The vocals fart and bubble out of the speakers. Some nefarious shit, y’all.

Charles Mingus – Ah Um (1959)
jazz

Charles Mingus – Ah Um (1959)

Busy, infectious jazz that still has a bit of that big band vibe, even with what sounds like a smaller group perhaps. I’ve listened to Ah Um a few times, but none of the songs really jump out at me. I’ve always enjoyed it as a suite, as a whole, and often to be honest as background music whilst doing something else. I find it heavily over rated, but that doesn’t mean I don’t enjoy it.