TOLERANCES OF THE HUMAN FACE IN CRASH IMPACTS – ‘OCCUPATION’

A work of low rent bulldozing passionate Gore brutality from solo project Tolerances of the Human Face In Crash Impacts, as ballardian as their name may (or may not) suggest. Massive, disgusting, moronic DI electronic Goregrind shot through with a horrid Crust influence and a loud, earscraping mix, exuding the raw stench of anti-human hatred and paradoxical low effort creative compulsion. Catchy groove soaked Bass-less crust riffs pockmark the gore drenched noise wall, crispy burned Drum sounds clatter, crash and boom, bubbling roaring tarman vocal consecrates a vile experience of underground alienation. TxOxTxHxFxIxCxI also experiments with tempo, souring into midpace sturm und drang with minimalist banger ‘Fed Their Own Brains’ and their impressive cover of D-Beat warriors Disclose’s ‘Conquest’. Bearing a striking, sickening resemblance to the various projects of A. Ringdahl or the mighty Dysmenorrheic Hemorrhage,  TxOxTxHxFxIxCxI reminds the intrepid, exhausted seeker of a valuable lesson: never stop plumbing the murky depths. Unheralded excellence.

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EFFLUENCE – ‘PSYCHOCEPHALIC SPAWNING’

The first full length offering from one-man monstroddity Effluence, a sacrificial mutating slaughter in the name of Death Metal’s boundless, fractal tomorrow. Fusion jazz ‘Free Death’ slam brutality and truculence melts down and spews cosmic space death tech metal abstraction through intense instrumentation and atypical grinding pounding percussive flagellation and battery, amid a nuclear fallout of mind-flaying absurdity. ‘Song’ structures unfurl inconceivably, guitars and bass wrench and vomit atonal chord wall collapse with skronking macro dissonance, immutably deft pinch harms and genetically warped shredder pealing prog death solos, lockjaw intense dexterous drumming veers and careens through exceptionally tight patterns impossible to discern, leading each track through vortex and vacuum with absolute disregard for form, synths, keys, sax and winds loom beneath in abstract deliquescence, appearing within the maelstrom as piques of perfect absurdism, seams bursting with moments of insanely longhaired thousand-eyed progressive tech death expulsion, super low intonated bdm vocalwall and cosmic death warcry vocal battle for host supremacy, piles of writhing blasting grinding viscera toxify and strangulate in surrealist ecstasy. Totality Star Death and horrendous unimaginable rebirth. Megametal.

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GROSS LOAD – ‘EXPOSED TO FORBIDDEN KNOWLEDGE’

A fat gelatinous wad of gore soaked Death/Gore/Grindcore from drum machinegunner Gross Load. Delirious with mongo-grooves and surging soupy gore riffs gushing bubbling liquid ichor, shockingly fluid and dynamic, sinew bound to the steaming drum machine beneath, hammering banging and slamming with rictus tight programmed blasts and tupa-tupa mince/thrash beat breakdowns, unwieldy and clattering, slathered with ultra brutal hamsandwich deth vocal. Deadly and megafast, groovy and girthy. ‘Exposed To Forbidden Knowledge’ reminds me of ANb’s ‘The Glue That Binds Us’ 7″, those tracks featuring a deathly flavour to the riffing and with that absurd and bizarre mondo vocal, an atmosphere of antisocial insanity and insalubrity that Gross Load shovels out here in sloppy, chuggy, gooey bucketfuls. Killer shit! I’ll be investigating their full length offerings next.

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CALCINATED – ‘MORGUE SERENITY’

Calcinated is a pathological Goregrind/Deathgrind project from Mexico, featuring members of a host of reprehensible Goregrind and Gorenoise bands including Putrefuck, Septic Autopsy and the reprehensibly disgusting Fetal Deformity to name just three.  Anatomical old school as fuck Goregrind pungent with the influence of very old death metal and early grindcore, replete with razor sharp metallic guitar elements and rife with ping snare and raw 00’s production, a diabolical combination of goregrind symptoms resultant in a truly cadaverous and memorable record. Rhythms veer from mid paced punk gore stomp to very fast and detailed deathgrinding blasting abandon, bizarre breakdowns and deathly double bass grooves abound, with complex lithe riffing besmirched by noisy production, howling pitch-shifted bleghs and creepy retching Carcass worshipping vocal, and flesh ripping sonorous lead guitars, littered with overwrought sampling (as dogma demands). Calcinated is at least a severed head above the competition here. Wretched!

Rectal Purulence

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THANATOPSIS – ‘DEFLESHED IN EXCREMENTS’

Thanatopsis’ 2010 demo/EP ‘Defleshed In Excrements’, an all-too-short gorging of ecstatically, hideously decayed Goregrind excellence. I first became aware of this international project reading through A. Ringdahl/Hyperemesis’s interview on the now deceased Braindead Zine, and seeking out their excellent split together. Properly putrefied and shambolic, caste of dread deadly Death and Grind riffing and brief blasting noisy song structure, clotted rictus drumming ridden with filth and stench, vocal of the decomposed roars and wretches with agonising pitch shifted putrefaction, each odious sound captured in obscure, gutterbloated 4 track-sounding tape. Exceptionally raw, filthy, punk as fuck Goregrind from corporeal degeneration and morbid biological disgust.  Aside from their massively overlooked full-length ‘Stages Of Decomposition’, this is my favourite Thanatopsis material. Exhume and consume, ghouls.

No Physical Productions

EFFLUENCE / BLOWTORCH SPLIT

Sick outsider Gore/Death split from the now-ceased Sickening Shit operation, peddlers of only the most intensely hostile Gore, recently resurfaced renamed as Slaughtered Records like a corpse full of putrid gas in an industrial refuse marsh. Effluence plays a brand of extra-choppy free death brutality nearly unmatched in it’s sclerotic insanity, nauseating and alienating permablasting death, a brick wall of Brutal Death Metal torment with atypical percussion elements, violent freeform ‘riff’ structures boiling and seizing, putrid superlow vocal, a free-flowing improvisational language undecipherable even to the most blast-hardened intellects. Blowtorch operates in a similar field but with half of the artistry and twice the narcotics, self harming outsider art Gorenoise Brutal Death drooling with incorrigible aggression and psychosis. Irrepressible vocal lunacies, demented half riffs grind and scour, rictus blast drums, low tech ‘production’ with the overwhelming whiff of occupational therapy set deep in the seams. Lo-fi as Avant Garde.

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STENCHED – ‘GORGING ON MEPHITIC ROT’

Mexican one-man Death Metal project Stenched’s first demo, a putrid, sordid affair mired in salacious swampy groove, relying largely on burly mid pace tempos to batter and stupefy. Slimy death metal from deep in the sewers, surging shit-tide d-beats launch the cadaverous, morbid deadly chord structures into an uptempo toilet bowl swirlie and then down the u-bend into slow lurching deathly slop with minimum note leads rolling across the corpulent rockin’ grooves, leaking corpse juices as the guitars work over burbling bacterial Bass, topped with filthy burping low vocal halitosia, beautifully simple and sophomoric, stupefying morbid sludgy Death Metal for dumbells and sewer dwellers. If you dig on that moron, no fancy-pants shit like Undergang, Cerebral Rot, Convulse or Transgressor, hesitate no further! Gruesome.

Blood Harvest

Templum Obscenum Records

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TRICHOMONIASIS – ‘HARVEST OF THE KILLING FIELDS’

Trichomoniasis’ second album released this year, the follow up to the preposterously dense full length ‘Makeshift Crematoria’, which somehow slightly supersedes that formidable effrontery in scope, scale and deformity, if not in length. An abstruse putrefaction of non-linear extra-terrestrial esoteric Brutal Death Metal power, a perplexing grinding riddle of gore soaked ‘free death’ akin to supereon acts such as Encenathrakh, Enmity and Effluence, which abstracts Slamming Death Metal beyond the event horizon of the logical into something entirely volatilely o t h e r, closer to Gorenoise in its impenetrability. Pulsating waves of impossible DETH crash irregularly upon the shores of shattered objectivity, grinding diagonal slamming ‘riff’ spires coil, lurch, drag and burst in impossibly severe oblique patterns, drumming an imperceivable terminal velocity vortex of complex virtuosic brutality, impetuous low(er) vocal tempest like fractal disembodied primal scream, dotted with absurdist samples depicting politically managed biological/ecological malfunction and resultant death, a theme continued from their previous album. My limits of expression are truly tested here – I’m unable to understand what is going on and I can’t help but listen repeatedly. The annihilation of cognition by means of pinch harmonics and hyper ping snare, a practically fucking extra-sensory experience. Terrifyingly stressful, sweat-soaked, face-tripping ego extermination.

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METRORRHAGIA SELF TITLED

Metrorrhagia is a now-ceased project from Gore&Noise purveyor Zach Fogle, also of Morgue Tar, Shotgun Cock, Basic Torture Procedure and I’m sure others. Pustulated, sub grooving, hostile Goregrind with a perfect execution of snare ping blast, wall of tar bass and guitars and roaring subhuman terror gore vocal – it slams and fucking blasts in derisive gory insanity, each D Beat transition to blast part and desecrated, mangled chord crafted to just smash you to gurgling pulp. it’s absolutely fucking diabolically noisy, repugnant and nasty. Gore for true freaks only, zero subtly or digestible riffs, just sicko outsider art raw Goregrind, Autophagia or Last Days Of Humanity style, hand crafted to salivary head crushing perfection. A cultural nadir of prurience and brutal audial niche savagery. Rotten beyond recognition! Get one from the awesome Breathing Problem Productions or contact Metrorrhagia on their Facebook page for a CD copy (Update – reissued on CD by Reality Fade in Ukraine).

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Horrendous Manifestation

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HYDROCELE DISCOGRAPHY

Heretic Impalement Records presents the complete (and completely painfully brief) discography of Russian Watergrind freaks Hydrocele, with both member’s priors a dizzying list of gory grinding noise atrocity, including the indominable Inopexia and the massively overlooked G/T virus abomination Menometrorrhagia. Soaked, drowned, hand-hewn Gorenoise insanity, taking the ‘Putrefaction in Progress’ formula to a disgusting devotional nadir. Hydrocele grinds with insane aplomb, maximalist blasting Drums providing relentlessly dense power and eyeball-drying velocity, slooshing nuclear bleachtide Guitars conceal mean grind riffs beneath a slime of ear infected digital distortion, dripping with utterly festering pitch shift vocal vomit. Each session has a slightly different density of production, with the 2017 and 2020 EP tracks providing my favourite fukked up sounds in the collection. No Slam, no groove – grisly, grotesque, grinding Gorenoise perfection.

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NAEGLERIA FOWLERI – ‘DISSOLVED IN SUBSTANCE’

Excellently executed Gorenoise meatgrinder, bulldozing body-shaking Gore of terrifying heft and abstracted Brutal Death Metal stature and bludgeon. Ultra-blasting drums form the ‘structure’ of Noisecore/Gorenoise within, surprisingly complex and dexterous, hellacious super heavy bass drum in particular hammering dents in your chest plate with pinging snare insanity to balance, grinding mush of mechanically separated Bass distortion noise enmangled beneath the chopping blasts, gurgling corpse vocal sloshing about atop the surface like some sort of plasmic scum. There’s enough production dynamics here to match the intensity of the noise within, giving the Bass frequencies a swinging axehead bottom-end that it’s worth accounting for in playback for super hefty and weighty results. Abstract as fukk but still totally headbanging. Trenchantly heavy, starkly intense and dynamic, deeply unmusical. Gruesome shit.

Pathologically Explicit

Bednoiseroom Records

Heretic Impalement Records

ELEPHANT MAN BEHIND THE SUN – ‘COLLECTED TRACKS’

EMBTS was James F. Tarr, a legendary lo fi Gore/Noisecore project which may be known to you if you, like me, spent much of the late 00’s and the 10’s seeking out Grind, Gore and Noise across a plethora of blogspot caches and soulseek profiles. Iconoclastic Noisecore from beyond taste or decency, living contaminant pre-genre Gorenoise formed in radioactive poverty, low tek aqueous shitnoise bubbling with misanthropic rage and psychotic confusions, industrial trash, lo fi smash and grumble, groaning screaming vocal nauseatingly mashed with effects, super raw lo fi savant blasting drums, a massaker of Bass noise crackles and fizzes amidst a deleterious din of unidentifiable source, seemingly recorded on a boombox or 4-track. Mechanically separated gorenoisecore, cultural and social refuse made sonic mass, absolutely crude and resolutely berserk in it’s outsiderness. Along with bands like Anal Birth and Decomposing Serenity, EMBTS forged a new low in acceptability and hostility, a rebuke to civility and consensus wrought in blast beats and home made opprobrium. A singular vision. Be sure to check out this retrospective w/ New Noise and also, take a look at Tarr’s blog Tapes and Poverty. RIP James F. Tarr.

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MORGUE TAR – ‘IMMERSED IN MORTIFEROUS ENMITIES’

Morgue Tar is a pathological Goregrind project from the States featuring Travis Bickle , D Beat Goregind peddler, and Zach Fogle, fiendish character behind the ultimate filth worshipping GK favourite Metrorrhagia. Total sophomoric misanthropy, Gorenoise adjacent Goregrind filth stuffed full of maniacal, infectiously groovy E-Kit roller blasts and D Beats with thumping Bass drum, swimming beneath swollen girthy mid sound detuned-to-fukk Bass meat and gurgling roaring shifted blood bubbling vocal, a shower of bacterial goregrind pus and ichor, low minded lo-fi excellence. 18 short tracks with 3 tracks clocking in past the 5 minute mark, (Chapters 5, 11 and 21)  in which Morgue Tar grind their gore down to a noisewave no-rock death dynamic dirge, riding singular D Beats and rolling fills into sonic oblivion, careening to terminus in monotonous decompositional delirium. I hope Morgue Tar further explores this on future works (I’ll be checking out their most recent release next, a split with Gorenoise Capo Adam Rotella’s Low Budget Splatter Gore project). A gruesome, prurient pummeling from the deep Goregrind subterranea.

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HEMATOMA – ‘RELENTLESS BARBARISM’

Impious cataclysmic Black Death War Gore Metal from fukk knows where (I’m pretty sure one of these freaks lurks in Flint, Michigan…) glowering with overwhelming outsider hostility. Anti-dogmatic rhythms blast and groove with near-Industrial elements grinding in mid-pace with an anvil-strike snare; mean, ugly, accursed Guitars casting grind, gore and DETH riffs, damned in leaden fires of booming lo-fi production, a raking torment of remorselessly heavy corpse-bloated Bass, adorned with hazardous, hissing, cackling vocal of the fukked up and perverse, tainted with ghastly effects. Heaving, seizured, molten Death Black Metal of violent persecution, dangerous and fukking ravenous. Like Catasexual Urge Motivation, Black Mass of Absu or Bestial Putrefaction, Hematoma operates in a sound that’s difficult to pin down to extant genre tropes, as it pulls every extremity into it’s carbonised black hole vortex to create absolutely VILE, truly impetuous Black Death Metal for the end tymes (hopefully). Pestilential and sordid, prison Satanism, homeless urban occultism, malformed victims crucified upside down… verminous. Be afraid.

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G.O.D. / PANCREATECTOMIE SPLIT – ‘WRETCHED RONDOS REGARDING MILDLY IRRITATING TO DOWNRIGHT BOTHERSOME MEDICAL MALADIES / SUCCESSFULLY RE-EMBOWELED’

Purulent Goregrind split from two of yesterday’s gory darlings. Both bands were absolutely killing the game when this was released, albeit with different volumes of output. Pancreatectomie is a criminally overlooked Goregrind band from the States , dealing out pulverising punk-as-fukk toilet Goregrind from beyond taste and decency. Sawing crusty Grindriffs, turbocharged blasts and D-Beats, pitch-shifted gurgling vocal spewing Gore with a connoisseurs soupçon of drooling Death Metal influence amidst the punk drumming and sloppy Bass slime. Canadian punks G.O.D hew slightly closer to classic Grindcore ala FETO Napalm and Repulsion, their Goregrind hums along with terrible heft and pace, glowering with humanist outrage. Aggression amped to fuck, they steam through 10 withering tracks with deadly sharp Guitar whipping out obtuse deathly grind excellence, maniacally fast drumming and deranged aggro low end vocal both pitched down and un-effected. Both sides are recorded extra loud, with clarity of audio and little atmosphere or mastering. A glorious fucken blaster.

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TUNKIO – ‘HYPERTROPHIC EXCRESCENCE’ EP

Super short EP from Finnish grindfuckers Tunkio, two man crusty Grindcore crammed to the brim with crust chord gore and zealous blast beats! Combines ideas from Finnish Hardcore, Gore and Crust to create a disgusting homunculi of foetid underground Grindcore, in the tradition of Parazitozis or Hyperemesis. Short songs stuffed with superfast warped blur crust chord rippers, bass-less and barbed to brutal perfection, pinned down with hyperfast crude drumming adorned with trashcan snare, mincing and blasting with some Hardcore parts too, topped with pitched down pukefeast vocal slime and burned into loud tape demo recording quality. Ablaze with deliriant energy and roaring with disillusioned outrage. Killer anime samples too. Dankness. Snag a 7″ from Iron Corpse!

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NEKRO DRUNKZ – ‘TERMINAL PERVERSION’

Nekro Drunkz, Oregon’s filthiest sons, here summon a horrific amalgam of Thrashing dummy Death Metal and punk as fukk toilet burbling Goregrind. Deathly, insanely maniacal head banging pervert trash Thrash and absolutely decimating wall-of-shit Gore/Grindcore – Chaotic and intense, erect, violent and steaming fucken drunk. Necrotized and insane sounding, callous and perverse. In taking sound cues from all the squelchiest, stinkiest elements of Deathgrind, Death Metal, Grindcore, Goregrind, Thrash and maybe even a bit of Crusty Punk, Nekro Drunkz have conjured an avalanche of septik deth straight from the bowels of fukken hades. Mad catchy headbang (handbang?) summoning riffing, stomping thrashed out drumming with lots of blast beats, and furious gurgling perv vocal upchuck and roaring poser decimation. This album is a seriously good time. And that cover art is obviously sikk as fukk. Completely essential.

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NO BREAD! Records

FAKE MEAT – ‘食中毒’

Deathly Goregrind and sleazy Death Metal from Derek & Haga Chan, conjured in “the smelly basement” in 2018. Broad foreheaded drooling necro Death Metal and E-Coli riddled Goregrind sewn up into a filthy stinking Autopsy simulacra laden with leaden one foot blast beats. Virulent disgusting Guitars cranked up into complex Haga-riff overdrive, all deadly and vile with degenerate lethal metallic noodle riffs matched with punk putrid drumming, very heavy and heaving with groove and concrete footed blasts, and bilious vocal retch and spew besides. Hefty, hoary production with plenty of clarity and volume. A putrid pungent breath of Goregrind, deathly serious riff feast and metalpunking puke violent fun for all!

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PUTRESCENT FOG – ‘LURKING UNSEEN EVILS’

Putrescent Fog was/is a project of the Insect Hermit, they of a great many bizarre, unique and influential underground Gore projects. I recall searching on soulseek for the first two cassette releases, both excellently ominous, their gruesome covers and promise of a quixotic Gore sound holding a morbid glare of fascination within me. I was unaware this particular project was still operational in any capacity, so it’s a treat to get this collection of unreleased tracks. A sound like death fog creeps out of the speakers, slow lurching Guitar chugs in a haze of odorless mortician’s fog with floating rudimentary beats, slow rolling low fidelity occultism, phantasms approach moaning and weeping in super low vocal horror… chamber music for the poltergeists! Reminds of the excellent and inscrutable Black Mayonnaise, but has an unsettling, lo-fi creepiness all it’s own, and also bears some similarity to projects like Lysergic Rites of Sadopriest, their perverted euro grooves and giallo satanic obsessions here also in spiritus mortis and erect with the same prurient yearnings. Ghastly.

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MAGGOT VOMIT AFTERBIRTH / ACTIVE STENOSIS SPLIT – ‘SKINLESS LIMBS, WEEPING PUS’

Recent split from US Goregrind degenerates Maggot Vomit Afterbirth and reanimated Gore/Grindcore unit Active Stenosis, released on Breathing Problem Productions in the States and Cadaveric Dissolution Records in Russia. MVA crank out 6 tracks of steaming, foetid blasting Goregrind with mangled mostly-pitched insane vocal, grinding Guitars on super low augmented with Bass bludgeon, hyperblasting drumming with snappy d beats and ping snare, a thing of putrefying excellence! AS pull two halves of a rotten cat out of the bag and throw down dome very old school Goregrind/Grindcore ala Dead Infection or Ulcerous Phlegm, stepping further left into Grindcore traditionalism than on previous surgically precise, more machined Goregrind efforts – low &super low vocal trading purring snarls, corpulent Guitar and Bass sound form riff rudiments drenched in deathly atmosphere, very groovy blasting drums with tasteful(?) snare sound. This has an organic heft and hue, heaving with pus and rotten organ matter as it grinds away in a forgotten practice space, drunk on haste in toothless abandon. Killer split.

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