BALL – SELF TITLED LP + HORNY HIGHLIGHTS FROM ‘DEBAUCHED’ FLEXI

Ball is three pervs from Sweden. Ball plays occult Rock from hades, infernally swinging sex funk and balls-out exuberant boogie, erect psychedelia, Gonzo orgy pinball, pussy & fireball whiskey. It’s sexy, slimy and sleazy. Ball rules. They sound like everything the PMRC feared, Mary Whitehouse’s uptight cadaver is absolutely rocketing about in it’s uptight coffin. Rock’n’Roll fury, languid fuck music for the depraved. I’ve included the Flexi in this review, because it plays like a track from their self titled LP, and it’s equally flaming-walls-on-your-tortured-balls rockin’ satanic madness – LaVey or bust! The Flexi can be purchased with a gorgeously greasy hardcover book full of dusty occult porno and hairy bushed harlots – if you have the credits spare, buy yourself one. It’s quite pricey, but it’s just what your black library needs festering amongst it’s volumes. Dig ’em, night creatures!

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ALBERT TROSS, LEADER OF THE DEMONS – ‘IT’S GOING TO BE OKAY’

Moribund dissapointment, boredom necrotic liquefaction. A dire and thoughtless dirge into the accidentally cataclysmic. Loops of total confusion and annoyance. Manipulated tapes, Noise for no-one. Part 3 of a Trilogy completely unsuitable for enjoyment or pleasure. Albert Tross’ uniquely demented and upsetting rolling brownout sound collage torment will crush you in ways you didn’t think possible. “Hammering the nails into the Rock N Roll Destroyer trilogy’s coffin”. Consider it finished.

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CAPTAIN THREE LEG / GURO SPLIT – ‘A SAFE DISTANCE FROM SICKNESS / NECROPOLIS’

Captain Three Leg takes a knowing swipe at Goregrind, and it’s a whole heap of grumpy fun. Andy surgically un-mans the Goregrind genre with kid-friendly scissors with his sweeping statements on clean posing gore fanatics who brush their teeth. It’s very funny and feels pretty well targeted. You’ve got to be able to laugh at yourself, otherwise it’s more distasteful when you start laughing at your peers across the genre micro-definitions. Andy is a very metatextual (ha!) Grindcore observer, and he’ll often slam the fucking door in the face of a recent trend or old trope in a way only he could think of. This is what makes Captain Three Leg one of the best bands in the Grindcore scene at large, to me. I mean, that album cover-within-a-cover is just perfection. Musically it matches it’s lyrical intent, with low tuned blasting Goregrind being the order of the day; some excellent riffing in an old-school Carcass style, pitch shifted vocal and some gastric samples. Guro from Brazil then make themselves known, with very riffy, deathly thrashing and blasting Grindcore. They remind me a lot of Population Reduction or Gate; lots of thrash as fukk riffs, dynamic drumming, throaty vocal growls/yells and killer samples. Headbang inducing, fast as fuck bassless Grindcore. I hadn’t heard Guro before this split, and I love their tracks here. An overall excellent split!

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HALITOSIS – ‘DECLINE OF NEURAL DEVELOPMENT’

Gingervitis riddled Goregrind from Hungary. I’m not sure if these guys are affiliated with those Happy Happy Noise Noise freaks (Parazitozis, Tetem, Chappa’ Ai, Drogded and other abominations), or whether my geographic associative prejudice has caught me with my proverbial pants down. It wouldn’t surprise me if members of Halitosis have worked with the above bands, though, as they deal in a similar brand of pungent noisy Goregrind. Foul breathed, foul tempered Gore/Grind for drooling gorehounds, stomping, blasting and noisy. There’s blastbeats, but with lots of mid paced Mincer parts and D-Beats too, sewage drenched bloated strings and foetid shifted vocal exhalation death! Horrible shit. Reminds me of Violent Gorge, Misanthropic Noise and a noisier Plasma. Recommended.

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