Gutrot Hogfrenzy

Wow, has it really been a decade since Regurgitate released their last full-length? Sad times indeed. Once assiduous kingpins of Relapse Records' goregrind catalog, the Swedish three-piece ostensibly dropped off the map after 2006’s Sickening Bliss, releasing only a handful of 7" splits over the next few years. A satisfying blend between the more ridiculous groovy gurgle-core of their early days and the more technical, straightforward grindcore of 2004's Deviant, Sickening Bliss rarely gets tiring. Pitch-shifting through the two subgenres in both vocals and guitars, it is full of enough manic blastbeats, stop-start riffage and bile-gargling vocal modifiers to keep most fans interested. Personal highlights include the absolutely sick breakdown bridge in "Cavernous Sores" and definite throwback to their old school days with "Excremental Ingestment". And finally a RGTE song you can sing along to... "(We Are) Sadistic Hateful Scum" – the title of which they just repeat over and over. For what it's worth, most websites still regard the band as "Active" so hopefully there will be some new material in the future… until then the 25 minute-or-so goregrind blasts of Sickening Bliss have stayed as fucking sick and refreshing as they did so long ago. Enjoy.

Defile

Contemplating Death

Wow, it's been a while since I've posted anything "heavy" on the ol' blog (much less posted anything at all but that's a different story) so a big welcome to the creepy month of October with a 38-track slab of good ol' pathological goregrind to ruin your day. I gotta admit I was pretty excited when I heard the opening "Symphony For A Casket Full Of Nematodes" - a brutal lo-fi goregrind neo-classic with a solid riff and great blasts of noise and gurgles. Unfortunately the rest of the record doesn't hold up quite as strongly. Imagine really early cassette-deck Regurgitate (a la Concrete Human Torture) and you'll get the idea. Occasionally a RGTE-esque riff will really stand out ("Anatomophysiological Deterioration" for one) but there is a lot of slogging through the swamp until you hit the satisfactory closer "Enter The Realm Of Cadaver... Dissection." I really prefer the slower grooves over the blast beat nonsense (which ultimately becomes terribly tiring) and there's enough variation between the nearly forty 1-minute tracks to keep Stages Of Decomposition listenable. The duo behind Thanatopsis includes Neto from the forgettable Brazilian gorenoise outfit HxAxSx and Pelle  from the equally obscure (and I'm sure just as unpleasant) Swedish one-man grindshow Shitfaced. I'm actually curious as to whether the two guys made the trans-global flights to record together or if this was a collaborative email/snail mail effort. Either way it absolutely blows away anything either of them have done in the past and there are some other splits and comps featuring the band out there waiting for you to check out...

Play Possum

Tomato Babies

A few of you may remember Insomnia Isterica from the hard drive deadbeat posts a few years ago - while I successfully exorcised my back-up drives of anything to do with them, some of the B-side bands from their random splits escaped my mass cleansing. Introducing the aptly-named Compost from Rome, Italy. Absolutely banal lo-fi goregrind (my rips are supposedly at 320kbps - yeah, right - they sound like they were initially torn at a much much lower bitrate) but almost desperate enough to sleaze into the so-bad-it's-good category. First off, any band champions a GUT cover - set your expectations to low. That slight hiccup notwithstanding, it's a pretty painless seven minutes of grind - there are actually a few moments of enlightenment, especially the pretty rocking "Inferior Angiosperm". Too bad it just sounds so absolutely shitty.

Cinoist

Regurfecontocoremintocegues

Ironically, I discovered Brazilian goregrind legends Expurgo by selling my record collection of another band. A cassette copy of Regurgitate's Concrete Human Torture '94 demo I had up for bid on ebay was purchased by the drummer of this band. Through some post-sale correspondence I learned he was a huge RGTE fan and his band Expurgo reflected as much. I promptly picked up their second LP and was pleasantly surprised - manic, blistering goregrind played in perfect homage to their Swedish brethren. And produced to a fucking tee as well. Sick fucking vocals and great breakdown grooves make this one essential. Enjoy.

Sense Power, Be Dead!

Stupid Sunday

Jesus, where to begin with this one. Fucking retarded two-song demo that I just stumbled upon and felt it necessary to share with the world. Introducing Chile's answer to Abominable Putrudity, the poorly-monikered Alien Parasite. Playing their brand of unsurprisingly generic "slamming suicidal death", the demo offers one quasi-listenable original entitled "Autopsy Rotten And Fermented The Reproductive Organs Of The Invasors" (I mean, really guys? C'mon...) and an Alien-esque cover of Mexican grinders C.A.R.N.E.'s "Use Your Cock." As expected, the opening movie samples (both lifted from Frank Henenlotter's classic Brain Damage) are as long as the broken-English song/album titles but the tired platitude of it all does give it some unintentional charm. Kinda like watching the Special Olympics. Enjoy.

Infested By Putrefaction And Virulent Alien Female Genitals

Deathlike Incest

Amazing mini-LP from Swedish extreme music purveyors Regurgitate. Wicked, blistering goregrind from the band who created the genre and was the first to champion the gurgling vocals every token brutal death metal band out there today relies on. Scott Hull of Agoraphobic Nosebleed/Anal Cunt infamy mastered this slab of sickness, adding yet another layer of intensity to a band that was already acutely brutal. In addition to eight new tunes, the band slickly re-recorded some choice cuts from their epic Effortless Regurgitation Of Bright Red Blood LP and Concrete Human Torture '94 demo. Fantastic stuff from a personal favorite of mine, enjoy.

Choke That Piggy

Gruesome Perversities

From their split CD with Brazil's goregrind lords Expurgo, here comes M.D.K. (Murder Death Kill), a more-than-ample three-piece shitting out a schizophrenic mix of gore, brutal death and grindcore. It unfortunately comes off a little complex (like you were playing Regurgitate and an Exit-13 album at exactly the same time) but it's well-produced and shit, it's only 17 minutes long. So bone up, pussy, and enjoy.

Nesga Moagem

Hard Drive Deadbeats: GOREGRIND

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Prepare To Lower Your Expectations...

I don't know why I feel like getting on this rant again, it's my typical porngrind bitching about delicious song titles/band names that trick you into 20 seconds of a crappy VHS horror-movie sample followed by an over-amplified minute of under-produced drum machine "grind" punctuated by over-processed gurgles and oinks. So with that being said, what's left to add about Honker Heaven? As far as samplers go (hell it was only $5) it's not too bad; evidently showcasing some of the better bands in the genre which ain't saying much but is at least a start. Obese's two tracks are nicely slamming, Tumour seem pretty competent as cybergrind legends, Methadone Abortion Clinic appear well-produced (just lose the fucking drum machine!) and good ol' Anal Penetration rocks out pretty well for a one-man show. I even kinda dug the Uterus tracks. As for the other "bands," Necrofuckinglicious is a rather worthless entrant and Pregnant Fetus' unoriginal tunes just go on waaaay too long (at over two minutes you're asking a LOT guys). MDK and Carnival Of Carnage both emerge as dull, low-rent filler while Succulent Torso and Mucopurulence Excretor are exactly the bands I whined about earlier; completely indistinguishable from nearly everything else in the genre. Yet again I ask myself what else was I supposed to anticipate on a sampler from Fart Out The Cum Productions? I guess not much - just hoping someone will someday put together some porno-cyber-gore-whatever-grind that really lives up to the name.

Scrape Scrape Scrape

 
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Currently listening to: Too Legit For The Pit: Hardcore Takes The Rap

Whatever happened to Vaginal Massaker?

I'll admit it, I ordered this 7" from Ax/ction Records back in 1993 solely for the name of the band on the front cover - Vaginal Massaker. A big sucker for an absolutely forgettable band with a somewhat sleazy name. Who would have thought it was the B-side band I would become a huge fan of - still to this day! I speak of Sweden's legendary Regurgitate whose 4 minutes of grindcore nonsense had me instantly hooked. Groundbreaking purveyors of the now all-to-common "gurgle" lyrics, Regurgitate blast through their six tracks with speed, venom and lots of tape hiss. One of the more unusual things about this recording are the somewhat standard song titles Regurgitate uses, unlike nearly all of their other recordings which seem to come from an infectious disease dictionary, these are much more tame and possibly political(?) tracks. Maybe they were testing the waters, after all this was their first non-demo release. Regardless, it's still the sick Regurgitate sound we have all grown to know, love and rip off. Sadly, until I get my records back we'll have to make due with a pretty good 160 kbps rip I made some years ago... until then Cheers fellas and Yyyaaaaaah!!!!

Terror Reign

InFuckingWhat?

Dude, I don't know what to say about this nonsense. Is it a demo, an album, or just a bunch of retards trying to play instruments they just bought? The little info I can find on this band calls InFuckingCunt a demo and boy that's giving the band a lot of credit (and forgiveness). In Cunt is a "brutal death metal" (yeah... right) band from Vila Franca de Xira (Portugal) and this is their gift to the world. Amazingly, the last track is recorded live, wow. I would have loved to see the six confused Portuguese watching this mess unfold on stage. Enjoy these eleven minutes of vapidity.

Merda Terrível

The Arguable Origin Of Pornogrind

When it comes down to it, is there a more influential album than the Meat Shits' gorecore classic Ecstasy Of Death? Sure there is some competition (Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Straight Outta Compton, Tommy, Nevermind, etc.) depending on your fave genre of music, but for grindcore, pornogrind, cybergrind and their noisome ilk, Ecstasy takes the rotten cake hands down. The Meat Shits were far ahead of their time back in the day with their slew of cassette and 7-inch releases throughout the early 90's. Lots of fun movie clips, sleazy X-rated album covers and hilarious, unending lists of song titles made the Modesto brown metal masters a rare bird. But, honestly, when it came down to it the music was really lacking. I know that's the joke in the whole thing but they were really terrible. Simple blast beats of noise recorded on a tape deck interspersed with annoying prank phone calls, porno samples and other assorted nonsense. Ecstasy Of Death changed all that. Founder/singer Robert Deathrage headed out on his own, hired a new bunch of musicians and recorded over the full year of 1993 the tightest goregrind album ever, easily holding up to today's purulent standards. Solid, well-recorded grindcore (with lyrics even!), real songs in between the more traditional sample+blast beat formula and even some freaky instrumental house music hatecore! What an accomplishment. For better or worse (arguably worse), music has never been the same since.

There Is No God

Rotting Joke

 

Gee, I should have known I had a stinker when I saw this one. Great "ultra brutal death" band name with a witty album title. Sweet Photoshopped cover with token porn star tit queen. Funny song titles. Why wasn't I surprised at the sudden ennui I felt playing each indistinguishable track? Enjoy this exercise in Estonian gorecore banality.

Disappoint Me

More Gore(grind)

 

Had to throw this up here. The new demo from Mexxxicunt PornGrinders Clit Amputation. See my blog a few days ago for my thoughts on DIY goregrind - I'm putting this up since vocalist Squirting Pus has a great blog that I've lifted TONS of stuff from... seems only fair I give a little promo. Supposedly the vocals have no effects put on them... uhhhh.... yeah. Right.

Gurgle

BulldozerFuckinGrind

I love how some of these DIY cybergore albums advertise themselves: Brutal Death Grind vs. Insane Goregrind Holocaust. Wow, that's saying something there. Unfortunately, like lots of 70's grindhouse horror movies that rarely lived up to the garish posters and taglines, cybergrind is definitely an acquired taste which requires a LOT of patience. Not only because you'll have to sit through endless movie samples before the 6 seconds of drum machine noise making up the "song", but such juicy band names as Hideous Discharge Of Anal Fungi, Mutilated By A Kangaroo and Putrid Cock Purulence (really?) are going to leave you feeling a little gypped once you actually listen to them. Regardless, I do like some of the cybergrind out there - this split CD from 2004 showcases Switzerland's Embalming Theatre (solid yet typical blastbeat deathgrind by guys who have been doing it over a decade) and Netherlands' Intumescence (splatterey goregrind noise somewhat in the Regurgitate style but a lot more rough). Not nearly the best, probably not the worst, but worth a listen just to understand what I'm babbling about above. Cheers!

Splat!

Polish Grind

 

Hailing from Białystok, Poland comes the long-lived Dead Infection. Chastised as Carcass clones back in the early 90's (c'mon be fair... Carcass had waaaay better production and avoided DI's weird broken English song titles) Dead Infection's debut full-length still holds its own in a sea of GarageBand "ree-ree" goregrind clones. I never would have thought when I got this CD from Relapse Records back in 1993 I'd still be listening to their new stuff almost 20 years later. I'm sure the band's line-up has changed as many times as they've had releases, and Surgical Disembowelment isn't going to impress everyone but it's obvious the guys from Białystok were into what they were doing and it shows. Of course it sounds like it was recorded in a wind tunnel with mics wrapped in cheese cloth but that's another story...

Check out it

C.U.M.

Definite fathers of today's waaaaay-to-oversaturated goregrind genre, Catasexual Urge Motivation was formed in late 1992 by brothers Yuzin "Sadochist Spermata" Kanai (lyrics/concept) and Tomoaki "Sadochist Ejaculata" Kanai (guitar/composition), with Cyber E.M.F. as drum programmer. The Encyclopedia Of Serial Murders was the band's first (and only) legit full-length, released in 1996. Blasting drum beats, gurgling vocals and thundering, sludgy, black fuzz guitar make this a real classic. Or, as an original flyer for the CD puts it: "22 trax in 63 minutes of extremely brutal ultra sick grinding death gore metal with murder in philosophical view. A must!!!"

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