grindcore

MMmmmhhhmmmmmmmmmmm that sounds like complete and utter shit, brah brah! Just what the doctor ordered! Expect non-stop blasting carnage (drums sound fukken amazing, but beware they are buried in grime and bodily fluids). Vokills are eXXXtra disgusting on this one. 10/10 would recommend this to my gran, if she were still alive.

Mad as fuckin’ beef noisecore from the US with a pornogrind tilt to it. Expect nonsensical barrages of idiotic noise, with all sorts of interesting vibes and sleazy additions. From blurs of digigrind madness, to slabs of impenetrable noise, Gruesome Toilet does it with a smile and a slingshotted condom filled with piss right to the face. Tidy.

Very patchy stuff, especially considering how great the next demo is (Discrimination against the Vagina). Seems to be culled together from various different sessions.

Sound quality? Who Cares? Do You? A stormer of a set, with a good mixture of the regular stuff along with some, uhh, less common numbers, such as the excellently-titled “Financial Cris-Ass”.

Is this a set of original songs? Holy fuckski, brah brah! Production isn’t TOO shittified either, so fuck a duck, you’d best get on this one! It’s a rare one!  Stupid comments aside, this is a tidy fucking slice of head grinding mincecore, so enjoy that shit!

Time for some more extremely well produced pornogrind! Anal Penetration is silly as fuck (of course) but really can blast ‘n’ rattle away with the best of ‘em. The sound really packs a punch for a one man project (which are often a bit shit tbh). This is a perfect 15 minute or so EP of grinding chaos. Recommended for sleazy pervs and grinders alike! 

Heavy as all fucking shit blasting drum machine gore and or porno grindcore. Yeah! The first session is great, with unfathomable watery vokills, but Pt. 2 has a fatter, nastier sound.

Fucking oustanding early EP from the mincegore legends that are Agathocles. I’ve heard this set of songs about 4000 times by now, but honestly, when they come across this well, it doesn’t really matter all that much. Production-wise, things are pretty raw but the sound is very warm and it really packs a punch. The session is clear enough that you can hear everything that is going on, whilst also not treading absolutely anywhere near…

Lo-fi but rather listenable demo / early EP from the Belgian legends of mince. You can expect all the regular Agathohits, and the regular disgusting sound quality! This one is of particular historical note however because it comes at the very start of their long and illustrious career. PS – I love the old Agathocles logo, I wish they used it more.

Dense, heavy, sleaze goregrind from Portugal. 28 traXXX of unstoppable goredozer madness, with old school sexploitation movie themes (generally). Depsite the imagery and themes I would say that this stays firmly in the goregrind camp of sound, so for those of you who think pornogrind is cringe as fuck then please do not let that put you off from checking out this record. Production is mad solid. Do not expect the wheel to be reinvented,…

The first 25 tracks on this thing are absolutely top-tier grinding mince. This era of Agathocles is vital for grindcore listeners and it can often be buried in a sea of prolific releases that aren’t all that good. This album, however, is fantastic. Deep, dark, crusty grind with the mandatory political / left-wing undertones (which go hand in hand like a Biscoff with a black coffee, to keep the reference somewhat Belgian haha). As others…

Solid, chunky goregrind from two excellent bands in the Portugese scene. Namek and Pussyvibes share members if I recall, so it’s really cool that they ended up doing a split together, on Chase (MAC)’s label, of all things. I didn’t know about this split until recently, which sucks because of all who are involved. Musically, this is excellent. The production is fantastic; out of the gate, Namek’s gut-churning distorted bass really pumps out of the…

A blistering session of rough-around-the-edges mince. Can you really fault it though when you’ve got 20 songs in 8 minutes? That’s absolutely tango and cash to me, brah brah. Get into the pit!

(Interesting that this has the nu metal tag lol) Chunky, groovy grindcore from Russia. I first heard of these guys when Seth from AxCx did some shows with them (it was written on his website). I checked this album out not long after. Condom Of Hate is perhaps unsurprisngly a bit silly, but is worth checking out for those who don’t mind some playful riffs in their grind (I say “grind” but it’s not very…

Sicko Baby is a lesson in the school of Gut, let’s just put it plainly. It’s funny to me; these guys either knew Gut or were very heavily influenced by Gut’s early stuff. Then, in turn, for their 2006 Cumback album, it’s like Gut decided to do the exact same by taking Mucupurulent’s intepretation of that sound (and mix it with some terrible rapping). Expect silly song titles, farmyard vocals, fairly tidy production and overt…

Non-stop, pummeling goregrind which is right up my shit-smeared, corpse-littered alley (lmao). Vomi Noir, as I’ve established in other reviews, as a force to be reckoned with and are really helping to put France back on the map in the goregrind world. Neurovisceral Exhumation are a new experience for me, but they hold their own on a split with one of the best gore bands around right now, so they are decent as fuck in…

Suppository play a chunky blend of groovy grindcore; commendably I must say in a rather serious manner (lol), before this entire subgenre became a bad fucking meme. Regurgitate stuff here should be great, but the production sucks ass. I don’t expect big production from Regurgitate, but even their older, stank and disgusting shit had a gelatinous heft to it. This session is thin and brittle, and lacks punch, which is a shame, because the songs…

RGTE stuff here is fast and loose but fuck me does it half hit hard. Sessions like this remind me why I fucking love this band so much. Absolutely peak goregrind. Gore Beyond Necropsy are a bit more of a wildcard, but as is their style. The compass is a bit more all over the place, but the overall sound is fantastic. A highly recommended gore split!

A mixed bag of material spanning the entire world of Goner grind. Usually, I’ve noticed after many years of listening to comps like this, unless going chronologically they seem to start off with the strong stuff at the beginning and the quality lessens as the disc goes on. Not here. This is all over the place; solid studio shit is shuffled in with all sorts of hideous live / rehearsal room recordings, giving the whole…

Killer fucking grind that really hits the spot. Non-stop blasts and punk grooves, with a thicker production and death metal influence despite the clear punk roots. Truly, I suppose, this embodies the crossover genre that grindcore really is between hardcore punk and metal. This shit is pure carnage.

As someone who “came up” (in grindcore terms) through the late 00’s MySpace explosion of DIY gore and/or pornogrind projects, Brazil’s Lymphatic Phlegm felt like weird outliers; purveyors of the kind of music that would inform and inspire that entire wave of bands, yet standing out as weird and original in their own right. I’ve said it before, but at times, Lymphatic Phlegm sounded more like a super strange black metal project than a tried-and-true…

What a split! An absolute classic of porno/digi-grind sickness. Libido Airbag do not need an introduction at this point. This EP contains more of that super consistent sleazy electronic gore vocal shit (pretty sure the first track also appears on a later EP/Mini-album). Intestinal Slaughter sound like a mix of Libido Airbag and old Anal Whore stuff. Super sketchy electronics pitched up and down. Proper bargain basement programming sound but fuck, it’s genius. Really good,…

I might have heard that intro sample a bazillion times, but who gives a fuck when the mincing gore is THIS fucking good? The stomps are real good on this thang, but let that not detract away from the grinding gore. Sometimes in this kinda punk-influenced mince stuff the dance-y bit can dominate, but not on the Necrotic Liquefaction debut. There’s plenty of headspinning blast sections and sick fucking riffs. The vocals are 10/10 toilet…

Facking absurd gorenoise shit. A headcrashing of 6-pack-o-tinnies drum programming, bubbling vats of slimy shite vocals, and a power sander attached to a distortion pedal “guitar work”. Throw in a peppering of hideous samples and you’ve got the cherry on the cake.

Grind Your Fucking Head In is one of my favourite Phobia releases. This thing is fucking bonkers. Grindcore and “well produced” are not usually phrases that go hand-in-hand (even though there is like a sub-genre of grind bands that indeed do have very good production). The drums on Grind… are just incredible; lightning fast, just like the blurs of absurd riffs and hardcore/pv-inspired beastmode vocals. Songs like “Shit Housed” and “Fuck What You Think” should…

This shit fuckin’ kills, man. Tubular, dude. Like, how is it possible to make a sound as disgusting yet so exciting? Honestly, mince(g)ore just appeals to the based fucking instinct in me to move around and throw faeces at my cunt of a neighbour. This shit is so good. And – after a tidal wave of splits – it’s nice to see a band of this nature that can actually stick the fucking landing when…

A very long and varied selection of “just about everything left off an album” from more recent Napalm Death recording sessions. Not gonna lie, despite being fairly long, it could be a full length in of itself. There is no lack of quality here considering these are essentially just bonus tracks and “left overs”. This shit goes as hard as any of the more recent records. For once, a compilation worth checking out!

Messy, muddy grind of the gory variety – the same is the case for both bands. Neuropathia are here in their pre-rock’n’roll forms, with subterranean demo-tape quality gore being the order of the day. Mixomatosis has a bit more variety, at least in the sonic palette, but is far messier than their split mates.

Based and mince-pilled.  MxMxMx got the fatter sound, but Ziplock got that tight groove. Winner winner, (vegan) chickan dinner.

Ahhh my life! Stamp on my nuts and throw me in front of a train. This shit is fucking CLASS. The mince stomps on this fucking thing are RIDICULOUS. The drums sound like homemade bullets made from melted down bin lids. The guitars sound like they are made by poor sap wearing a hat with a Hyperemesis patch, who was pushed – along with a crate full of Agathocles vinyl – into the machine from…

Bubbling analog gorenoise to melt the skin off your face and the eyes out of your sockets.

Nice tidy session from Agathocles. Has this recording been released elsewhere? Possibly, but in the words of the band themselves, “Who Cares?” – production is decent yet still fairly primal and disgusting. Nice mix of blasting madness and stompy mince riffs. Looking For An Answer here are in their “hey, we are a new grindcore band, what’s the first thing we should do? Oh, a split with Agathocles, of course!” phase. Which is absolutely above…

When I first got into Napalm, this was teh compilation that I bought. I was a bit disappointed that it was not all just raging grindcore, but that’s what I get for doing my research first, huh. Anyway, nowadays with everything being online and available instantly at the click of a button, this isn’t all that useful, but it was a nice intro to all the Earache years stuff from Napalm Death. It also had…

Does exactly what it says on the tin. What we got here is the Electro Hippies side of the 1986 split with Generic (top band name) reissued with phresh Jeff Walker art a la scum and spread to the far corners of this disgusting world by Jeff and Bill’s Earache records imprint / sublabel, Necrotic Records. As for the music, Electro Hippies are pure crust punk chaos; far past the realm of d-beat and into…

Production? Don’t make me laugh! Where does grindcore end and noisecore begin? Sete Star Sept are probably somewhere right on the cusp with their super prolific blasts of absurd grinding noise. The absence of guitar is felt not so much in the sonic force of the record (which is enough to blow you off your chair) but in the dynamic range of the sound: expect low end, and lots of it. She’s a noisy one,…

Heralded as one of the best war metal / grindcore crossovers in existence, and for good reason, I guess. I tell you what though, it’s weird having spent a life time listening to shit like this to just find some random project one day that is praised to all manner of high fuck for doing exactly what a bazillion goregrind/noise/digigrind bands already do, but hey, it doesn’t matter really, Konflikt is fucking great. Proper hard…

I’ve developed quite a taste for NV’s grinding bass attack over the last decade or so. Their material here is some of their good shit; decent groove and progression in the underlying bass melodies (not sure if melody is the best way of putting it! Ha!) ensures that the songs are more memorable than the usual noisecore fare. Speaking of which, Sloth are an incredibly unique band for one that peddle such utter nonsense as…

LDOH stuff is a treatise on how to perform blasting, stomach churning goregrind in the live environment. Featuring the lineup from the Putrefaction In Progress era (I believe), some LDOH classics are here turned to an indecipherable smear of gory grinding goodness. Lovely! Warscars have less of the gore and more of the grind, if one could be so bold as to break it down in such simple terms. Sometimes though, life really is that…

There’s like this wailing feedback effect that happens every time the sampling stops and the music kicks in, which totally overpowers the rest of the music. For as cool as this release looks, it’s purely unlistenable, even for goregrind / gorenoise.

Heard all (most?) of these Insect Warfare tracks before but that’s absolutely fucking fine with me. Holy shit this band were the fucking goddamn shit. Dobber is an absolute ANIMAL. Super happy to have caught these guys live twice. This shit is seriously, seriously fucking good grindcore. Carcass Grinder appears in my collection several times by proxy of being on splits with bands that I love. They are a fucking great band in their own…

This is probably one of the coolest Lymphatic Phlegm things that I’ve come across. This gorgeous transparent red 7” (like blood, innit) features 11 tracks (yes!) from Limpy Flem on one side. It is a compilation of sorts; all their shortest songs together in one place. However, the songs here that have already appeared elsewhere are completely re recorded for this split. The other tracks are unreleased ones. Fucking cool as shit, brah brah. I…

Another seriously fucking killer early release from Fukpig. The vocals are a lot different than the later stuff, and the guitar has more of a Misery Index / early Brutal Truth kind of feel rather than a HM2 pedal in a beehive sound that came later. Also the drums here are spot on. Ticketyboo, you could say.

The name and the art tells me that this is leftovers or additional tracks from the Bastard sessions. Whether or not that’s true, the songs are a little rougher around the edges both in production and also in delivery. Still, there’s a handful of fucking great tunes here.

Bastards is the 4th album from UK crust/grind project Fukpig (5th if you count 3 and The World Is Weakening as individual records). The first noticeable thing about Bastards is that the production is fucking huuuuuuge. As for the tunes, the rabid, hate-filled bile is still in full effect, but there’s more crust here than grind, with those elements pared right back. It still kicks hard as fuck, though.

Hummingbird Of Death (such a brilliant name) absolutely do not fuck around. This record is a stunning example of how to perform lightning fast grind/powerviolence with a DECENT production and still blow people’s fucking heads off. Yes, there are moments of sludgy, head-nodding riffery, but for the most part this is complete sonic destruction at break-neck speeds. Totally fucking awesome.

As many have noted before me, the legendary status of such a composition makes it rather difficult to talk about. Each name in the running order – a mere footnote in the playlist here, is instead a whole epoch of extreme metal history (yes, even the not-so-well-known ones towards the back). I would recommend this compilation to anyone who is new to underground metal and grindcore; the glory days of Earache are truly difficult to…

Both bands are a variation on the same theme here. Thankfully, that theme is uncompromising trashcan-beating gorenoise concocted of thunder claps of nonsensical guitar blurs and intestine vomiting vokills. Play it for your gran.

Imagine my suprise after realising I had gotten all the way to 2024 without writing about Frozen Corpse Stuffed With Dope. Sometimes, I take for granted how easy it is to write about new music where there is no attachment to it other than the experiences you have with listening to it that first couple of times. With something like Frozen Corpse, a formative grindcore album for me which I have heard hundreds of times,…

Some great riffs and some excellent drumming, but for the most part Marasmus unfortunately fails to ignite any real excitement during the entire listen. It isn’t a bad album by any stretch of the imagination; but I’m not sure if it is the production or perhaps it is because the dreaded 00s Nasum-inspired deathgrind bubble burst long ago.

Heavy shit, savage shit. There’s a perfect production on this; the balance between raw and well made. It really helps the loaded powerviolence hit home. The whole EP is loaded with this infectious energy that just makes you want to move. Great 7″.

Interesting set of covers from Warsore, of varying quality. Starts off awesome and devolves into live shit by the end (but still OK). Soil Of Ignorance stuff is incredibly well produced. Super vicious grind with precise stop/start bits that really get the blood going. Hard hitting shit that makes you wanna get up and mosh (but not too much, or you’ll make the needle skip).

Honky Reduction era (so bare bones Hull and Randall) ANb hits like a steel girder to the side of the head. You ain’t getting up from this one, homie. 7 tracks in 4 minutes: classic ANb in top form (and the sample here is amazing, I use it IRL too often tbh). Gob are an interesting one. They have the energy of “looser” powerviolence outfits like Spazz or Man Is The Bastard but there’s another…

Think, heavy, disgusting Carcass worship mixed with that old school Agathocles-style mincecore stomp. Yeah, it’s like Reek and Razor Sharp Daggers in a blender, but Malignant Tumour have their own vibe and their own super brutal and sick take on the goregrind genre, that I would consider their demos, whilst not the most original, as super important to the gestation of the genre.

Starting a grindcore comp with a band of the “slow and heavy” variety is a bold move. Irritate come across like the slower, chunkier moments of 90s Agathocles material (which may or may not be a coincidence since the two bands have split with each other). Murder Company sound like a death metal band on crack cocaine. There’s a fathomless heaviness to proceedings, helped along nicely by the overpowering drumming and low guitar tuning, not…

One of the most uncompromisingly heavy things ever recorded. Truly, madly, unrelenting goregrind(noise) is the order of the day. Everything about it is just so absolutely perfect. I first heard this when I was 16 years old and I really struggled to find something in the grindcore world that could beat it for flat out, straight up extremity. Everyone should hear this at least once.

As with all of these kinds of things, once you get deep into the mire of “underground” (as in, “bedroom”) goregrind and or pornogrind, things can get messy very quickly. Thankfully, this fate does not befall the Tribute to Gut compilation, which manages to maintain a pretty solid and consistent level of quality throughout it’s run time. Yes, there are some absolute fucking stinkers here – primarly the “electro” infused cheap digigrind shite that clogged…

ENT stuff is a roaring tide of aggression, which is exactly what you would expect, and the material is around the same kind of quality you get on the original Holocaust… record. Great shit. Filthkick are a variation on a theme. Leaning more towards the crust punk end of the spectrum, they kick you in the face (filthily, no doubt) with their rabid, grind-tinged punk attack. A venomous little split, and a classic of the…

It may have been rerecorded 5000 times but this, the original, you cannot argue with it. Comparisons to Napalm Death are of course apt, but ENT have their own raw punk energy that is propelled along with flashes of absurdly fast d-beat from drummer (here, at least) Stick. The record has surprisingly good production too, excellent levels of clarity for something so filthy and soaked in piss and cider.

I didn’t think it would be possible to “mature” a sound like that which is played by SROM, but Supreme Malicious Necro Terror is proof that it is totally possible. Like hanging meats for drying, or cheese for aging, SMNT is a brilliant extension of the sickess found on Goreblast. The production, whilst still raw, is just, well, disgusting to be honest. It reminds me of old Impetigo or LDOH, but with the trademark “dinner…

Interesting split, from two bands I never thought I would see together on one release. Fistula stuff seems culled together from various sessions, but what the fuck do I know. For downtuned, sludge-loving sleazeballs exclusively.

Absolute fuggen carnage is afoot on Blood’s debut album. They have not quite perfected their death metal / grindcore blend yet but the template is surely there. Expect messy, nasty grindcore with sick downtuned riffs and absurd vocal experimentations. Even in this “proto” form Blood sound fucking fantastic.

A really cool split LP. Carcass stuff is very early, no pitchshifter FX on the vocals. Very primitive, proto-Carcass stuff. A good window into the early days. Napalm Death stuff here is really cool to me because it’s recording in Cardiff here in Wales, back in 1988. The between-song banter (from Mick Harris, if I’m not mistaken?) references the Rhondda Valleys and the boys from Caerphilly, which is pretty funny to hear on a Napalm…

Lives up to the copious carnage proposed by the sleeve art. At six minutes you’d best be paying attention to this shit otherwise it’s gonna sail you by. Expect guitars reminisce of brutal death metal, with the most excellent expected staple of pots and pans drumming, as well as vocals that sound like some sort of demented toilet monster. Fabulous.

Let me preface this review of this legendary split by saying that this is not the best material on offer from either of these bands. Why then, do I still suggest you check it out? Well, When it comes to the original run of LDOH in particular, I feel that the many styles / sounds that they went through had such an important impact on the various offshoots / approaches to goregrind that we still…

Love or hate J-Dawg, he’s 100% right about one thing: Haemorrhage are one of the greatest goregrind bands of all time. This shit fucking slaaaaaays, brah brah (or is that “flays”?). 3 traxxx of stunning medical sickness for you to ram down your gullet. At first it doesn’t even sound like Rompeprop are even trying but some decent grooves and riffs do emerge, as well as that legendary pitchshifter vocal attack. What a beauty! I…

A cool compilation that I used to own, rendered entirely fucking pointless by the fact that the band reformed a few years after it dropped. Another downside is that disc 1 just took a few songs from each album, if I recall.

Forgive me if I’m way off here but at the time this release kinda felt like there was some sort of “passing of the torch” ceremony, what with Rompeprop winding down and GP looking like one of the up and coming heavyweights in the groovy goregrind scene. CBT haven’t done anything in years, TDEBN are very hit and miss, so the genre needed a new face. I don’t think that all quite went to plan…

Smooth, well-produced, effortless violence from legendary hardcore/pv-tinged grindcore maniacs Phobia. 22 Random Acts Of Violence has enough mosh riffs and blasting drums facing off against each other to create what are no doubt the most incendiary of pits. The band have rather nicely contained all said carnage here onto one little CD for you to enjoy at home, and for that we can only thank them for their efforts. Yeah I dunno what the fuck…

Compilation CD of both EPs which I’ve already reviewed so pointless publishing this review to RYM. Comes with a shitty bonus live track as an extra fuck you.

First of all, this EP comes on an awful lot like the later Angels Save Us, but the differences are there for the eagle-eared grindcore consumer. Also, what in the actual fuck is that artwork?

This is crackers. The call and response opening of “B-A-T-H-T-U-B… Shitter!” was not something that I knew I needed to hear in my lifetime, but I feel like my entire existence on this earth is richer and more meaningful for having heard it. On top of that you’ve got a fairly long 7” EP, chock full of bonkers grindcore, with prominent bass, weird angular guitars, and gruesome vocal attacks. Tidy!

LOL the cover image to this one gets me all the time. Back in the “mincegore” boom of the late 2010s, I was always on the hunt for more shit like Hyperemesis and Haggus, and Weedeous Mincer’s Brain Devoured By Mincegore was always a fun listen. Asburd, of course – but fun nonetheless. If you’d rather your goregrind to be about the sticky icky rather than someone’s head exploded across a freeway, then look no…

I’ve had this CD for like 17 years now so I should probably review it. The Cunt Grinder stuff takes a while to get off the ground, taking Gut-inspired procrastination tactics (ie Atmosphere lol) but we’re all secretly hoping they’ll just get to the point. When they do, intros and samples aside, this is some chunky, riff-heavy stuff. Offensive and abrasive, but with a well-rounded and sharp production, there is genuine heft to their material…

AGx stuff is more lo-fi than you’re average lo-fi stuff but fuck if early 90s AGx doesn’t blow your fucking sandals off – proper muffled, treble-heavy blow to the face. Like a brick is a sock. But there’s like, bits of fuckin glass in the fibers of the sock. If you like barely audible, grimy tape recordings, look no further! Blood has a clearer production but instead draws you down into bogs of heaviness and…

Maggot-infested, swarming gore from Czechia with an insane pedigree (in the form of members of Malignant Tumour and the excellent Pathologist). Expect blasting drums, sinister riffs, watery vocals, oh and lots of cool cover songs such as Regurtitate’s “Vulva Fermentation” or Carcass’ “Oxidised Razor Masticator”. Either way, solid fucking production reigns supreme, allowing the sick display to be fully consumed in all of its glory.

I guess this is what the inside of a slaughterhouse sounds like if you speed it up like a 100 times? There is no compromise, only blastbeats on bin lids, meat grinder bass and a torrential current of liquescent gore (the vocals, in case you’re wondering what the fuck I’m talking about). Truly a band after mine own heart!

Surprisingly cognisant and well put together pornogrind, which is yknow, not something you can say very often, I’ll be honest with you. If you’re here reading a review about a band called Sperm Gurgling Necro Fetus then I hope you know exactly what you are in for and yes, this release does deliver the goods, if I can call it that. Definitely and exclusively for sleazy grinders too far down the rabbit hole to even…

What is the Mincecore Agenda you could ask? Cheap beer, weed, vegan food? Black caps with saggy patches stitched on for all? Who gives a fuck, just wag a finger in the air and roll down your balaclavas, this shit fucking rules.

Oooooooooooooooooooooooh (mince commences). It’s really cool looking back now to see just how fucking great early Haggus was. This shit has the mega groove, the mega fucking mincegore STOMP. Combine those irresistible mosh parts with blasting, grinding carnage in a loose goregrind style, and you’re on to a winner. Some of the strongest Haggus tracks are stacked back to back on this EP, making it well worth your time. It’s only a few minutes long…

Far from the best material from either band, but still a fun little split. You’ve got gory early daze Exhumed and three cuts from the super under rated Nyctophobic. It’s hard to argue with that!

An unfortunately very uneventful later effort from the legendary Dead Infection. In isolation, the drums, downtuned guitars and crazy shifted vokills are fantastic, but the end product is kinda mid, with none of the songs popping out at me and the general theme being rather ridiculous and plain stupid. Dead Infection can do no wrong, in reality, but this was one of the weaker releases they ever did. RIP Cyan.

Wild shit across the board. Crossed Out sound raw as hell on this. Blasting, uncompromisng powerviolence of legendary status. What more can I say? Fuck, what more do you want? MITB on side B is always a treat because you never know exactly what you are going to get. The patented blend of bass/drums PV and skull-hollowing electronics never gets old for me (there’s some guitar here too for good measure).

Lo-fi, raw, uncompromising grindcore with tinges of death metal, but of course in the early 90s sometimes these styles were not so easy to separate. High points are subterranean vocals, analogue production with natural drum sound, and excellent songwriting. Lower points include bizarre guitar effects like on “Careless Attitude” which aren’t so great but otherwise this is a cracking little EP from a now legendary band.

gargling gravy goregrind with an excellent razor sharp edge of freshness and ripping riffage. As you can probably tell from the bizarre cover art, there is much more going on here than just the usual blast’n’gurgle goregrind. Nasty Face have expanded their bludgeoning sound with this full length in ways that it is difficult to accurately describe.

Have you ever seen one of those Japanese pornos where a guy is lying under like a glass coffeetable or something, and then this absolutely gorgeous lassie wanders in, sits on the table, and then takes a huge wet shit all over it? The man underneath the table can admire this once beautiful behind like a modern day De Sade; this perfected work of nature becomes a disgusting, shit-smeared mass of flesh and fecal matter…

Chonky, disgusting goregrind with that unique Nasty Face twist. Expect scooped to hell and back guitars chugging out fat riffs that fill the entire space, with trashcan snares being the only sound that can penetrate the thick bog. Bubbling over the top like a frothing maniac is the pitchshifter vokills. The icing on the cake is all sorts of disturbing sound collage work and sampling, which really makes this stand out from other goregrind releases.

Disgusting blasting goregrind with an interesting modern edge. Think Jig-Ai meets Pharmacist, or something like that. The drums are clear as day, so you can feel every blast and double bass kick, the guitars dominate but sound natural and organic, without undue levels of compression or modification. The vokills remind me of Cryptopsy’s Lord Worm, but if he had his mouth stitched shut in some sort of hideous medical experiment. Tidy!

Raging, dense, cataclysmic grindcore of the most savage magnitude. The songs are short, sharp blasts of chaos interspliced with mosh parts and short cool-off periods in between the madness. The main downside here is the same for a lot of “bigger” grind bands, and that is the super compressed and artificial production; drums aren’t too bad but the HM-2 guitar at that loudness / compression is enough to enduce ear fatigue in a matter of…

Squeezing FOUR bands on a 7″ at 45 RPM is a bold move but fuck it this is powerviolence. Let’s run this down: Sidetracked coming at me like some mad preacher screaming down a megaphone in the middle of the street, backed with a powerviolence three piece, of course. A refreshing approach, I’ll say that! The interestingly-named Surfer James have a much fatter sound. Really blows your fucking neck out, with huge pit-widening riffs and…

I can’t remember where I picked up this 7″, but it was probably one of the stalls at OEF – pretty sure Skullhog played one year and I got it then. I have no idea! Haha! Anyway, Regurgitate stuff here is great, 3 traxxx ov waxxx on their side. Fast, d-beat led gurgling gore is the order of the day with a fat sound and enough mosh parts to keep the pit wide fucking open….

Noisy, hideous “death metal” tinged grindcore from back in’t the old daze. Grim blasts of unintelligible noise is the main course for your delectation, although the record does descend into a longer track where there’s repetitive spoken word / clean section of vocals, just in case you really wanted to know what kind of disgusting shit this lot were shouting about. I kinda lose interest here, even on repeat listens the pace is lost when…

I know this is clearly a spoof of sorts but fuck me is this actually really good goregrind music hahaha – my only complaint is that this isn’t long enough! Could have easily gone for a full 7” worth of material here, would buy the absolute fuck out of that.

More gargling gore excellence from the forever putrid caves that Mr. M calls a “studio”. Gangrene Discharge is top drawer blasting lo-fi gurgling for the discerning goregrind degenerate. Spewtum is much the same but a bit looser around the edges, like a splattering of blood filled diarrhoea after passing a solid log the size of a Pringles can. Yeah.

Seriously good shit! For those into the world of messy, disgusting goregrind, then this is the creme de la creme of sick, twisted, splattered metal. Germen and Tu Carne are like spiritual successors (the latter of the former), so having them both on one CD makes a ton of sense. The new find for me here is AxTxS who are just downright fucking sinister. Musically they are also not too dissimilar to Germen, but the…

Not many bands bounce back after a personal tragedy and such a gap between records, but Blasted Pancreas are here to show everyone that they are stronger than ever. Gone is the overarching theme of worshipping Lymphatic Phlegm (though no doubt they are still a massive influence), instead we get a much more chunky and robust style of goregrind. The vocals fit more a brutal death / “tupa tupa” style of goregrind, but the percussion…

Serviceable offerings from Lymphatic Phlegm, who come to us here with chunky, clear production (unless I’m out of the loop on the ongoings of the ‘Phlegm then that’s news to me brah brah). Tracks are solid goregrind but I’ll be honest, they’ve done far, far better elsewhere in their long and crazy discography. Morgue Breath kill it here. Muddy, heavy death metal for the whole family to enjoy. Has that gory edge to proceedings which…

Sick, manic, pitch shifter vocals lead this hybrid mince / grind attack. Featuring a more varied production and level of instrumentation than you’d usually get from gory mincecore, this EP by Toughguy is well worth your time.

Good initial AGx session, padded out significantly with unnecessary live tracks but the intial studio session (very rough quality) is great. Just what I come to Agathocles for. CxTxDx on the other hand are maybe not so great, low quality “mincecore” that is basically just noisecore. Very frantic / hectic / chaotic, but blurs together into one big session save for some punctuation marks in the form of samples (which I think are taken from…

Haemorrhage are – as per usual – on top form here. Grisly, gnarly, slightly sloppy (but it’s OK) goregrind from the masters. Riffs for days, sickness for a few days more, from the opening chainsaw sample to the finale note played. Dead on the other hand are a bit chonkier. Their “sexy” goregrind / death metal hybrid hits like a slab of roast beef to the back of the head (eyyy!), more in the vein…

Taking the early days Cat Decap platters of splatter in a tighter, more precise and streamlined a direction. To Serve Man is like one of those injections that makes you throw up all over yourself, shit yourself, and then pass out. But only after hearing this whole album first. Some of the directions can be nauseating, with neck snapping changes in ideas / riffs but the delivery is so totes brutes that I’m all for…