Archive for May 2013

Now this is what I’m talking about! Trading pays off when you get gems like this! Starting off sounding like demo-quality Converge with Iron Monkey’s Johnny Morrow on vocals, it doesn’t take long for To Die to burst into mental grindcore and body-slamming breakdowns. Most of the songs are notoriously short, but they are mental as fuck and really really rabid. The guitar has a really mournful undertone to it, almost like black metal riffing…

Jig-Ai play goregrind; pulsating, menacing, phat as fuck, groovy goregrind. Oh boy! The overall production is heavy and fairly downtuned but sprightly enough to not get bogged down. The vocals are an endless mix of styles, defaulting unusually on pig squeals (not entirely typical of goregrind, one must point out) but also throwing in a whole spectrum of weird noises in too. It’s like farmyard grindcore here! This album was out for four years on…

In my many years of D12 / Eminem fandom it never occurred to me that other members of the group might have solo projects. After giving myself the ultimate facepalm, I began hunting down those records. I started with Bizarre, who is by far my favourite member of D12. He’s like the Frankie Boyle of rap music. A lot of rappers say shit that gets them shot; Bizarre is so offensive he goes beyond that and just…

Burzum is a tricky subject, but I am not going to try and navigate it here. As I’m sure I mentioned in my last Burzum post many moons ago, I try to keep politics out of music. If politics happen to be the driving force behind music, then that is fine by me, but I don’t let it get in the way of my enjoyment of it. I’m no more a racist for wanting to…

I bet you’ve all always wondered what happens when you apply the noisecore ethic to bedroom black metal? Well, if you have or not, Ostie are here to either brighten or ruin your day, depending on your outlook on life.  Combining the production values and attitude associated with noisecore into the elitist and grimm as fvck black metal sound, Ostie create one hell of a disorientated, erm…racket. The major let down for me is the…

It’s that time again; another Godflesh post! How long will this one be? How far up Justin Broadrick’s arse can I get this time? Ha ha! All jokes aside, my love for Godflesh is seemingly never-ending, although I do have lapses in listening time these days as there is so much other stuff out there I’m currently wrapping my lugholes around. At the moment I’ve been on a tremendous (and possibly worrying) hip hop /…

An instant porngrind classic. 2006’s debut from Italian noisecore-cum-grinders 2 Minuta Dreka really made it’s mark in a time where pure groovy grind had gone a bit stagnant (GUT’s Cumback, anyone?). For me it holds the perfect production; that excellent fine line between studio quality and rehearsal room feel. I guess it is the very organic drum sound (count-ins and all) that helps keep this record’s garage vibe locked down. Let’s Start A Porn… was…

This is solo hip hop effort by Mushroomhead’s drummer Skinny and ex-vocalist J Mann. Being a fan of all things Mushroomhead in my early teens, I naturally began hunting down physical copies of side-project albums when I found out about the existence of Discogs a few years back. I started with 10,000 Cadillacs because I love J Mann and also have quite the penchant for rap music, as I’m sure some of you are aware….

I absolutely love Splatter Whore. It’s a bit sad they have gone rather quiet these days, but their first album remains one of my favourite goregrind (or grind’n’roll!) releases ever. I wasn’t as fussed on the second album (with an almost completely different line up, I believe) but this split 7″ with Bowel Stew showcases material that displays openly the transition between records. The sound is fantastic and extremely well produced. The band are tighter…

Soundtracks for the Blind is often hailed as something incredibly special in the original Swans catalogue. After spending the majority of the 90s focusing on much more softer material, Swans’ issued a perplexing final death rattle with this double album. Listening to it, even from the first few opening seconds, evokes deep feelings of sadness for me, even though I never got into the band until they reformed three years ago. This record was literally…

I got this nice little EP when HMV still sold vinyl at decent, affordable prices. I think it was fiver, so you can’t argue with that (April 2013 Edit: I actually got this from Spillers Records on my birthday last year. Sometimes it’s hard keeping track of where I get all this crap). As far as Venetian Snares goes this record is pretty tame, there is a lot more ambient and nice synth sounds than…