Low Threat Profile - Product Number 1 & 2

Sifting through my grindcore folder I remembered this little project and I wanna talk about it a little bit. Low Threat Profile consists of established names from different legendary bands (No Comment, Infest and Lack Of Interest) all collaborating on these short and sweet powerviolence songs. For a punk band these two 7'' are produced pretty good (at least for my standards). They're crisp as fuck and the vocals have no reverb at all. This style brings up a feeling of great closeness to the band which I really enjoy. The songs themselves are pretty short and simple but they're pretty catchy and the vocal delivery is honest and just right for the melodies. Product 2 feels like a better, more polished release but both were made in the same year and are really short so you can't really compare them that much. First one is more raw and angrier though but in combination they make a good round trip through powerviolence land of polish and hate.

Get them both.

Magrudergrind ‎- 2007 - Rehashed

Here's a controversial opinion that nobody asked and is at least five years late: I don't like new Magrudergrind. By new I mean II and Magrudegrind. They're fucking awful, it's everything I hate about modern grindcore and powerviolence. Despite my dumb opinion I still really appreciate their earlier more simple efforts. Like many similar bands they shat out splits and comps faster than you could get them but I personally think this little album (or whatever it is) is the best, most concise thing they did in their career. You might think 62 trax of thrash is better but I think it's a lot less focused and perhaps even bloated. The most captivating value that this band had was the vocals which were really in tune with the ferocity and tempo of the music. They sound like someone has a severe cold and is really angry at the system. The gnarly vocals are followed by a relatively simple but effective array of blast beats and fast paced punk power chords. Fun and simple for a sad and complex life.

Get it.

Lack Of Interest - Take Another Step

 

Never back down

Never back down

Journey through grindcore - Part 2

Here's something to spark your lack of interest.

FOOOZZZZZZZYYYYYYY BEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRR

So here we are at part two of the grindcore journey.

Here I'll mention a bit more bands that someone out there might enjoy them in a way that I do (or in some different way; pervert :P). They are all great bands so obviously I recommend to check them all out. Especially if you're into grindcore duh. :D


If you're reading this blog on a more constant basis you probably noticed I have a fetish for female vocalists in most areas of music but especially in more extreme genres. I'm not trying to sound chauvinistic or something like that. I just like when a woman screams. It warms my heart (sometimes pants). Bands with female singers usually get distinguished fairly quickly from the rest of the bunch simply because there's a female in it. That's a bit disgusting but hey, people are like that. Most singers in the scene are male so it's kinda natural for female fronted bands to get noticed because they are different in a way despite the fact that they play the same crap as other bands do.

Last female fronted band that made an impression is Lycanthrophy. They come from Czech Republic which is currently flourishing with great new bands. I saw these guys live a month or so ago and they ripped shit up. They don't have a lot of releases but I manged to grab their latest split while I was there. Sadly I'm unable to rip vinyls (yet) but I do have their somewhat older 7'' split with Kursk.

I can't really say anything about Kursk. They play Iron Lung~ish grindcore but a bit more faster I think. It's nothing special really. What does shine on this split is Lycanthrophy which is why I decided to share this release. Production is also far better on their side as opposed to Kursk who didn't do a lot to improve the sound of the recording but that's not really something to look for in grindcore anyway. I'm sure a lot of you out there will enjoy this, I certainly did, but it's too damn short. Longer run is actually the only thing I'm bothered with haha.

Eat children, shit holocaust.

Another band I'd like to mention is Punch. I already posted their EP not long ago so check it out a little bit down from this post. I'll still share their short but sweet self titled full length.

While Lycanthrophy is more of a face melting fast grindcore type of band Punch leans more to the punk side of things. Their riffs and style of playing is slower, there are those sudden pace changes and furious female vocals to back it all up. It's a thing called powerviolence. Some hate it and some love it. I personally disliked a lot these sudden pace changes but I grew to like them. And you will too; eventually. :P

You'll love it. Trust me, I'm from the internet. :D

While female vocalists and all that is great there's a vital part that I do not receive a lot from these bands. Perhaps I haven't found such band but I'm actively looking. What I'm talking about is ferocity. By ferocious I mean something that's so fast you can't scrobble on last.fm and so distorted that it rings in your ears hours after you listened to it. I honestly haven't found a female fronted band that could deliver me such feeling. Males do it better I guess. A prime example of a ferocious band is Threatener.

Look how happy he is! Can't you feel all the groovy energy coming out from this picture? This is how Threatener sounds for the most part. It's short, it's sweet and it melts your face with its speed. They slow down from time to time but that's just so that your ears can rest for a few seconds because they are nice people. There are also guitar solos sometimes inside this fun mess.

The Hammering, the Fastening and the Bending of Throats

But there are others like them but not quite the same. I'm talking about Spoonful Of Vicodin and their epic beards.

Bushy beards are known for making fast music. I have seen similar beards making fast grindcore and I was not disappointed. Beards also tend to scream like there's no tomorrow. They carry a message which is:

The 60's Changed The World I'm Sure You Will Too

Yet there is more! Another band decided to keep evolving things positively and that band is Exclaim! They sound like this:

They come from the land of the rising Sun.

They use distortion like there is no yesterday or today nor tomorrow. It's pure sloppy chaos we all like. Something worth living for indeed! It goes on for ten minutes because their throats and strings along with your head would explode if they lasted longer. Exclamation very much so!

We covered female fronted bands, ferocious bands so now let's get pissed off. :[

This is it. This is the moment of your death.

"Pissed off" grindcore is what I like to call bands that are generally atonal (no punkish riffing or melodic sound) with either growling or shouted vocals. They all pretty much vary in speed. My favorite of the bunch is Iron Lung and their album Life. Iron Lung. Death..

Iron Lung at first was something that foolishly overlooked. This was mostly because of the rapid pace change and somewhat radical riffs that I could not enjoy in the beginning. It very quickly grew on me so I started liking it more and more. Today I think it's pretty much my favorite pissed off band. It's a legendary band and it's fairly well known so I won't babble much about them. They sound like a broken down coal factory or you breathing through the iron long.

After I found out about Iron Lung others soon followed like The Endless Blockade which is definitely faster but somewhere near as brutal as is Iron Lung. They pack similar vocal styles (they both sound like they have some serious flu issues).

93 93/93

Shed no tears though for I have more! Here's Thousandswilldie and their short swift demo which is as br00tal as it can possibly be in its short 3:15 minute demo and it's so brutal that it makes you shower in menstruation blood.

Stillborn.

Another pissed off band that I'd like to mention is Swallowing shit, which is less similar to thousandswilldie but somewhere there between Iron Lung and some sort of humanoid machines that operate on raw oil. They come from Winnipeg and they don't like that. Just like Aaron Funk.

OIL WILL MAKE YOU EARN MONEY

And I almost forgot to upload Final Draft from Inglewood!

Their style is also "pissed off" but are probably the fastest from the bunch I mention. As we all know; who is the fastest is the bestest. Or something like that. It's one ripping little EP. It's actually that fast that I won't use any pictures.

Crucifying the Earth.

And so our journey comes fairly near the end. I covered most things and avoided the popular things, until now. Well somewhat popular I think. Perhaps I'll call this part: the part where I post things I forgot to post last time.

So besides all the things I mentioned there's still brutality to cover. Brutality is where things are very much relevant in the science of blast beats and growling, preferably screaming and a bit longer songs (minute or so).

Last year the scene was swept away by a little known band called Wormrot. They ate everything including your unborn children. It's what I call brutal when people ask me what's so brutal in grindcore. I adore them and so do a lot of people connected to the netsphere. Their album is Abuse.

Good times.

Personally I consider this band as what would Insect Warfare be if they became even better (because I like Insect Warfare so much that I fuck my pretentious vinyls with their music on it). Everyone already heard this so I won't bother much with talking about it.

Another brutality that deserves mention and praise is Kill The Client. They kill clients by request. They also have a video on youtube to summarize their sound. Sadly their other album is not that much of a success. Very generic. Cleptocracy on the other hand is pure gold and should not be missed. Even metalheads should enjoy it me thinks.

You'll like it, trust me. Tool of the state. :P

And here I'll partially stop. I say this because I don't want to let Magrudergrind sit alone in the last post. That's why I mention two similar bands! First one is Dropdead which has been around for a while and an interesting one man band (I think) called Ulcerrhoea. Dropdead I think is more superior from the two but they are both great fun. Screaming at its near best!

Enjoy them:

Dropdead and Ulcerrhoea!

This is the end I promise. All that's left is for you to get married and enjoy some German fast würst grindcore.

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Journey through grindcore - Part 1

Due to mediafire massacre all the link in part 1 and 2 are dead but all the links in the conclusion post (right after these two posts) are alive and well (reuploaded: April 20th 2012).

I've been planning to do this for a while now. Basically it's an attempt to avoid 20 or so grindcore posts in a row. I decided to just make a two part post where I talk shit and post some of my favorite grindcore releases along with its similar counterparts (murder me for saying this if you wish) like powerviolence and hardcore punk.

For those of you who might not know about what I'm talking about here's a quick course: grindcore is something like (death) metal but a lot faster with more screaming as opposed to growling (but not excluding it) and often followed by blast beats (jackhammer time!) and rather simpler guitar riffs more leaning towards punk. I can't explain any simpler than that.

Please take note that this is only my personal opinion and I don't really bother to distance hardcore, powerviolence and grindcore from one another. I consider them all equal (okay, maybe less intense hardcore a bit less from others) so don't get pissed off because I mistagged your favorite band.

I personally was avoiding this ~core genre (as I called it) because I was a metalhead purist and thought there's not much talent or point in genres such as grindcore. This is obviously wrong and childish to say but then again I was a child back then so fuck you. :D As I grew older (but not that much older hah) I kept looking for bands that went faster and faster. Black metal quickly became something that I considered to be the fastest and the extremest type of metal that I could find (all those tremolo riffs) so after that I kinda went into a complete opposite which I later on learned that it's called drone. At that point I felt that I discovered all the levels of possible speed and ferocity in music so I decided that it would be somewhat a good time to explore something out of the realm of metal and find something in between those two extremities. Lucky for me I had a (very good) friend (hi Zmaj!) who was far more fascinated with grindcore and hardcore than I was at the time. So I started attending gigs with him. At first I wasn't very impressed and didn't think much of it. On one particular gig I decided to buy something from some random band to have some kind of a starting point.

This release was Wolfbrigade In Darkness You Feel No Regrets on cassette tape from 2003.

Download it!

It's more of a crust punk thing but I consider it as a starting point for my journey of ~core things. Actually I bought it because I thought it will be something Endstille judging it by its covers. Nevertheless it did pique my interest to dig deeper so my initial plan worked. I still had no idea where to look and what to look for so I turned on the internet and decided to check stuff out. This was in a time when I had limited bandwidth so I didn't have much room to maneuver with downloads (perhaps 5 or 6 downloads a month or movie a month). I (sadly) stumbled upon goregrind/porngrind bastard children of grindcore.

Back then I enjoyed it quite a lot but this didn't really stick for me after a while. Everywhere I looked I found really awful bands that didn't appeal to me at all. From that period only two bands went along with me. One was Ballgag which I posted a long time ago and the other one was Splatter Whore with their album Kaviar Die-Hards. Cock And Ball Torture was here as well but all their songs just blend in with one another and it's the same deal all the time.

Splatter yourself with downloading.

This was the pinnacle of my adventure in goregrind. I practically listened to this album every day and it was so good at the time that the only reason I searched for more bands is to find bands that sounded like this album. I still find the album largely enjoyable. It has everything I need from goregrind. Gurgling vocals, awesome catchy riffs and totally idiotic track names and lyrics (if there are any). The title track is very cute. :3

But my hunger for speed and ferocity was not satisfied!

Lucky for me (again) my friend told me: "This goregrind crap you are listening is shit, don't listen to that, it's not real grindcore. Start listening to some real grind." Or something like that, I only partially remember that sentence. So I did; I was blown away. I can't remember exactly which band was my first but I think it was 62 trax of thrash by Magrudergrind.

YES! FINALLY SOMETHING FAST ENOUGH! WHOOOOSH

That's pretty much how I reacted. This album does something to me like nothing else. It makes me go jump around the room like an idiot and hitting my head into shelves and pictures (happened a few times). It's fast, it's noisy and it has one of the best vocalists around. Perfection which lasts through 62 tracks!

I can safely say that this album and band cemented my interest in the ~core scene. From there on it was pure pleasure and a pleasure that I could actually experience very near to my place of living. I found out that there are many bands in my beloved (actually not that beloved, but still) Balkans. I shared few releases like that AK47 split with Senata Fox which is really something but Panaceja is probably my most loved band from the entire scene. I don't know why but I just love it so much and I have no idea why I didn't post their releases sooner. They didn't last very long but I appreciate everything they did for me and for the scene. There's nothing but love that I can give to this band. I'll share you one out of two albums from them. The other one is similar to this one so there's not much of duality in choice.

Panaceja - Kad aveti proslosti razaraju mozak,strah i bijes postaju opsesija


I really don't want to translate the title but lets just say it's not the happiest title around. It's not that fast like, say, magrudergrind but it still has its own unique ferocity and intense riffs. Sadly since you don't understand my gibberish language you can't enjoy this album to the fullest but you can try hah.

Later on I was filled in with new bands and discoveries of old bands by my friend Zmaj on a regular basis.

I remember Swarrrm making a huge impression on us. Swarrrm is a Japanese grindcore that had, for a while, a complete nutjob of a vocalist. I don't refer to his behavior (although he was supposedly in a mental institution) but to his style of singing. It's, just, something, that, must, be, heard. It's total chaos. I don't think anyone can top his style. The album Thee Imitation Messiahs is where he shines the most. I strongly advise you check this out, because you won't be disappointed!

Go apeshit!

Musically as well this albums rips to shreds. Songs are fairly long for grindcore which surprisingly isn't much of a bother. Well at least not for me. It can get too much if you aren't in the mood for loving love thrash.

Another band that blew me and many others away was Insect Warfare. Pretty much everyone now knows about them and they should because they shook up the scene quite a bit. You can get their World Extermination anywhere so I won't bother uploading it my self.


I will share though their a bit less known release called Endless Execution Thru Violent Restitution. It's still the same Insect Warfare but with less production value so it sounds much more raw and fierce which is always good! And they cover Razor on this album and also Celtic Frost which is fucking awesome haha.

Smash ears from here!

Something similar that came along the way with Insect Warfare was Mumakil (which I mentioned a long time ago) and Pretty Little Flower.

Pretty Little Flower is something along the lines of Insect Warfare but far more raw in my opinion and more br00tal.

I have their some kind of compilation/discography of their early works which rips shit up. They later on turned to a more melodic sort of sound on Pulverizing Lethal Force which is also great but not that awesome as their early sound (kinda like Magrudergrinds self title story, OH SNAP). They slowed down after but on this record it's just hellish anger and fury. Like they said on the first sone, pose in hell!

Smash capitalism!

That's all for part one. As you probably noticed I covered bands that made some kind of bigger impact on me during my life but I missed out some bands like Phobia, Assuck and Discordance Axis because I can't really make this post 10 meters long. You can read all you want about them on Cephalochromoscope though along with shitload of other great grind bands.

Stay tuned for part two where I'll be naming some great recent discoveries and some underrated bands. Popular bands will be included as well (|IRON LUNG| |IRON LUNG| |IRON LUNG| |IRON LUNG|).

That will happen next week when I get back from Pag.

Funny how I did a grindcore post and didn't mention Napalm Death or Horrorfied. That's because they never made much of an impact on me. Sure Scum is great, I even have it legally but they never sparked my interest to look further into the genre.

Scholastic Deth

Scholastic Deth was once upon a time a fast and furious hardcore punk/powerviolence band from the US. I'm not sure if (and I'm not trying to sound sexist here) the vocalist is male or female. On the photos this person looks male but on the recording t either sounds like female voice or it's just some angry 9 year old kid telling you to fuck off. Either way works for me.

They had a sound which differed from many of their peers, which seemed to take a lot of qualities from old-school hardcore, creating fast, fun and positive music with a message. This message dealt with everything from skateboarding, the love of coffee and life as a nerd, to the lack of substance and political awareness in hardcore today, problems and calling people on their shit within DIY subculture and the hypocrisy surrounding punks bidding on a 2oz piece of vinyl on a corporate auction site.

I have three of their releases which are all EPs I guess. I left the source in the files from where I got the releases so go over there and check some more punk and smash capitalism.
Download.

Capitalist Casualties - Planned Community

Another one of my 7''s. Capitalist Casualties is one of the most popular hardcore/powerviolence bands out there. Well this is mostly due to the fact that they are also one of the first powerviolence bands and surprisingly they are still active.

This little vinyl is but a drop of their huge amount of songs. It's pretty much their trademark sound here.

I also scanned everything etc. and I decided to shamelessly tag this as my rip. Ahoy.



I wrote Casulties instead of Casualties. -_-

More Noise For Life - Thrash Mosh EP

More Noise For Life. Ah such an catchy name. They are (or were, I'm not sure if they split up) an fast thrashy powerviolence from Japan. They did not release a lot of things and this seems to be their only release that leaked through the net. Officially it got out in 1998. I always admire bands who put up so many songs on a small 7'' and they managed to squish 10 songs into this small vinyl.

Anyway in terms of sound this is dirty fuzzy powerviolence at its best.

Tracklist:

A1 Greed Of Gain
A2 Don't Do It In Your Way
A3 Unseen Fiction
A4 Exterminate Racism
A5 Vacant Head
B1 Here Comes The Noise
B2 Blinded Control
B3 That's My Life Style
B4 Oppression
B5 Can You Change The System?
Download.

CombatWoundedVeteran - This Is Not An Erect, All-Red Neon Body

Combatwoundedveteran is a powerviolence/grindcore band from Tampa, Florida. They played in a style differing from the first generation of power-violence bands, and were influenced by and sounded like bands such as Charles Bronson. Combatwoundedveteran took influence from a variety of different musicians and bands, ranging from early math-rock such as Drive Like Jehu, to Grind and Power-violence bands like Assuck and Man is the Bastard.

This Is Not An Erect, All-Red Neon Body is some sort of album/compilation. Has plenty of fast grindcore-ish songs and an totally awesome memorable cover. :D

Tracklist:

01. Eat More Blood Money
02. With Love, Your Mother
03. I Gotta Slingshot, Wanna Get Hurt?
04. Completed In Three Easy Steps
05. Six! Two! Two! Mayhem!
06. Put 'Em In A Bodybag, Johnny
07. The Brown Tie Is A Clip-On
08. Dead Parents, Yeah!
09. Kill L.I.N.C.O.L.N.
10. Some People Ask Too Many Questions
11. The Tri Lamb Shadow Kick Meltdown
12. God, Guns, And Guts
13. Put Your Weight On It
14. Ted, Me, And Al Green
15. Dance, Asshole
16. Say Yes To Cathode Ray Rock
17. Cumbersome Ant People
18. We Stick Butter
19. My Foot, The Catheter
20. ...And Other Sinister Motives
21. Ecomonic Downturn With The Kung Fu Grip
22. Hank Cut Out His Bowels Again
23. I Talk, You Listen (Version Lo-Fi)
24. Rocks In A Blender
25. Kill The Translator
26. Shit X 1,000
27. I'm Sweet, I'm Sexy, And I'm Oh So Chocolate
28. Plastic Bullets Are So '84
29. I Hope You Get Cancelled
30. I've Got A Slingshot, Want To Get Hurt? (Again, Faster)
31. The Rise Of A Thousand Prosthetic Limbs
32. What The Hell?
33. Shit 3:16
34. Also Comes In Red, Orange, And Fuck You
35. Disembowelment At Room Temperature
36. Black Hair Dye, Aisle Six
37. "Jane, You Ignorant Slut" / Power Failure In The Suburbs
38. Operation: Superimposed Head (Prelude)
39. And When I Swing Around, I Will Destroy You
40. Q: What Kind Of A Band Name Is Scrotum Gringder? A: A Terrible One
41. We Are Geniuses
42. Asshole Means I Am Better Than You

Download.

Capitalist Casualties - Man is the Bastard Split

It has been a while since I posted anything punk related and that's mostly because 90% of punk (mostly hardcore though) and girndcore I get is from Zmaj and I don't want to (ahem) steal his possible future posts. But exceptions can be made no? :P I made the exception because this is an quite awesome split. Both bands are fairly known among the people who listen to this kind of music so there's no really need for description of either. Man Is The Bastard plays here without any electronics or other experimental stuff this straightforward hardcore. CC play their trademark blend of 80's Euro-anarchocore and power violence; good tracks in the style of their Raised Ignorant EP.

Tracklist:

CC (not Cannibal Corpse D:) side:

01. Meat Market (0:39)
02. Jesus' Whore (0:39)
03. Murder Media (0:39)
04. Moron (0:07)
05. Self-Abuse (1:05)
06. Worker (0:45)
07. Fuck The Christians (0:31)
08. Pin Cushion (1:07)
09. You Explode (0:23)
10. Name Dropper (0:29)
11. Vomit (0:42)
12. Stairs (1:25)
13. Waste Life (0:44)

Man Is The Bastard side:

14. Foot Binding (1:45)
15. Feed The Octopus (4:37)
16. Eunich (1:14)
17. Gourmet Pez (2:27)
18. Blinds (1:42)

Download.

Magrudergrind / Shitstorm Split

Tasty little split. Magrudergrind is a totally fun and hip powerviolence with high pitched vocals and catchy guitar riffs. Shitstorm is a grindcore band but not the ordinary guttural vocals/insanely fast riffs/shit like that, it leans more to a punkish hardcore sound no?

Tracklist:

Magrudergrind side:

01. - (0:23)
02. Siphon Then Slit (1:00)
03. I Saw Jahova Sippin' A 40 At The Corner Of Georgia Ave (0:55)
04. Smash Micros Like It's 1999 (1:12)
05. Organized Cell Death (1:23)
06. Complete Deprivation (1:20)
07. Emo Holocaust (1:02)
08. Dahmered Again (2:05)
09. Scholastic Burnout (1:27)
10. Escalbo De Salario (1:42

Shitstorm side:

11. Desensitized (0:26)
12. Getting Heated (0:18)
13. Closed Minded (0:56)
14. Destroy Them All (0:51)
15. World Of Shit (0:26)
16. Rent A Cop (0:46)
17. Hurley Punks (0:35)
18. Crack Lady (0:40)
19. No Freedom (1:29)
20. Ignorant Extermination (0:20)
21. Hide Behind The Screen (0:55)
22. Ego Trip (0:59)
23. Anxiety (0:43)
24. Religious War (0:30)

Emo Holocaust.