Archive for March 2018

This is just pure analogue noise heaven; bleeping, blooping, leaping, looping fun for all of the family, or something like that. Dancing along the line that zig zags haphazardly between a harsh noise auditory palate cleanser and the type of soundtrack you’d get in a b-movie about aliens invading the earth, Disregard Your Life is a refreshing and almost relaxing trip through the world of electronic noise. The first track, at just shy of nineteen…

This is a digitally released EP between two pornogrind bands, one from Thailand and one from Mexico. Pornorama are the latest addition to the Bedroom Pornogrind Club, offering a plodding, somewhat tedious approach to proceedings. It is, honestly, not that good. The riffs are pretty interesting but the vocals are crap and the drumming is thin. Lord Piggy have a slightly more filled out sound, but fall into the Cemetery Rapist school of crickets-meets-chugga-chugga death…

Well I’ll be a monkey’s uncle, I forgot that I owned this. I dug it out for a trade recently and realised I hadn’t covered this for the site. Bobby M sent me this back in 2012 when my girlfriend was in New York, so I had a week long goregrind and pizza binge, really getting to grips with the depths of the genre. RSWC incorporates spooky, echoic production into the gorenoise style, bringing all…

After returning to this after some time, the first thing that strikes me is how fucking massive those drums sound. Yeah, the kit is triggered out the wazoo, but this is symphonic metal my dudes, not acid jazz. Nicolas Barker plus triggers equals percussive armageddon. Piledriving blastbeats and mind-warping double bass is the order of the day, leading Dimmu’s razor sharp twinkly goth heaviness from the rear. The band got a bit “poppy” on this…

Everything Anal Whore puts out has this somewhat endearing (lol) analogue quality, as if it has been recorded onto tape or using an old school drum machine. It adds a warm edge to the project’s insane pornogrind approach, taking the maniacal, noisecore-direct path rather than the groovy, plodding variant. Sexual Perversion is the first EP under the moniker and was released way back in 2001, cramming 22 nonsensical tracks into 17 minutes of mush. The…

This looks like something of a classic, but unfortunately fails upon delivery due to excruciating pacing issues. The plot follows a series of characters as they squabble over the estate of the late John Carradine (who plays yet another useless mad scientist / professor type). Basically, Carradine’s character was about to sell out to an American, and have the contents of his wax museum shipped to New York. The wax creatures of his museum are…

Tu Carne play boisterous goregrind in a groovy style. Despite this, there is nothing groovy about their pitchshifted vocals – that shit is, how can I put it – evil as absolute fuck, yo. There is also something of a hardcore punk sensibility, particularly in the production sound of Culto… and especially in the riffs, which at first results in an awkward mesh of styles. One of course, which works rather well once you have…

Party Cannon are a somewhat legendary band on the British underground. They wallow mainly in the slam sub-genre of death metal and hail from misty Scotland. It is refreshing to see a band bringing some colour and humour to the drab and excessively gory bogs of the death metal world (without, of course, losing anything in ferocity or musical dexterity). Clean and precise production has allowed Party Cannon a clear canvas to err, be able…

This was one of those little gems that I accidentally discovered via Spotify. Maceo Plex’s Conjure Infinity EP/single seems to tread the line between deep house the more hypnotic stylings of the pystrance genre. Throw over some dark electronic passages and you’ve got yourself a recipe for success. The two tracks almost meld as one (the second may even be a re-working or a remix? What do I know…) and have a chilled, subliminal feel…

Welcome to a world of dark, dense, atmospheric horror. The title of the split, for both acts, is Domestic Goddess, and coupled with some The Rita-esque artwork, delivers a seedy yet subliminally disturbing romp through the, dare I say, usual tropes of the power electronics genre. That is not to tar the artists here as “usual fare”, but [Gone Dark]Bleach offers a much more variant and interesting approach to the subject matter at hand. Survivalist…

This band’s discography varies in quality for me, especially as time goes on. Perhaps amazingly, there are no massive, bulging stinkers, which is pretty impressive considering the length of their career and the apparent “simplicity” of the ingredients that make up their music. I feel that a dirgy, analogue sound lends itself to Cramps records much better than the clear, professional production jobs on their later albums. Stay Sick strikes a good balance between the…

We played a show with these guys in Bruges (ha, geddit?) earlier this year (edit: nearly a whole year ago! I need to get through my posting schedule quicker, jeez) and I thought it would be a pretty clever idea (always full of ’em) to check these guys out before we went over. As with all things that I touch, Lines In Wax temporarily fell to shit and it took me a gazillion years to…

Orifice play sloppy, burpy, bottom-flapping pornogrind, which, refreshingly, does not get stuck into the endless tupa-tupa snoozefest. Better Than Sex comes across as almost identical to early Anal Whore, but with more, er, melody in the mix. It all sounds a bit lo-fi at first, but the guitars are churning out some interesting riffs, and the drum programming is fucking spot on. Lazy drum programming is the downfall of many a bedroom grindcore outfit, but…

Welcome to a world of cornier-than-corny rock and/or roll. Sacred Few few play metal in the metaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaal sense of the word – metal so metal that it is basically bad hard rock. You know what I’m talking about right? Songs about riding bikes and coming and playing your town and all of that shit. But, there is something about this that is so deliciously more-ish, like a crap children’s cereal. If female fronted rrrrawk is…

Its no small joke how long the world (well, the goregrind world) has been waiting for a new 2 Minuta Dreka record to drop, and now that it actually has, it has seemingly taken me a whole age to get around to reviewing it. The first thing I notice about Porno Bizzarro is its fairly polished production job, which gives the whole thing a massive fucking gut-punch. The sampling has become more obscure, and lends…

Gothic, oddly melodic death metal from Sweden, played in the style of say, Disembowelment meets Vital Remains or some such ridiculous statement. The Ending Quest seems to have that welcoming analogue quality, which is accompanied by that production sound that kinda falls into a wall of hiss (y’know, like how a vinyl record sounds when you reach the tracks pressed closer to the label in the middle). This gives the riffs a wasp-like quality, but…

There’s something just downright cheery about this record. Blag Dahlia seems to have this twisted way of making songs about being a violent, jailbait chasing punk seem all sunshine and roses. I mean, the album cover is kinda a give away to the true nature of this upbeat, poppy punk record, but there we go. The first seven tracks of this thing are pure unstoppable, sleazy, violent punk sang through gritted teeth and an insane…

(Hats off to the artist of this record sleeve – 5/7 would commission art) Paediatrician offer us medical sloppiness portrayed through the brutal death metal medium. Deformed Premature offers bludgeoning riffage, meeting ants-in-your-pants drumming and the usual scatological farmyard range of vocal rituals. It draws a little blood (virally infected, no doubt) from the slam genre, specifically in more of the choppier guitar playing and the higher vocal sounds. All in all, it is solid,…

Quite possibly the worst (best?) film I have seen thus far. I mean, wow, this is bad. This is about a bunch of rival gangs vying for control of the beach now that the police are off the scene due to a massive earthquake or some shit. I don’t really know where to begin. Honestly. I need a moment… Shocking acting on all fronts, except Dawn Wildsmith as Eva, who is probably the most enigmatic…