Anal Cunt – 40 More Reasons To Hate Us (1996)

April 20, 2023

After the two noisecore/blurcore smears that were Everyone Should Be Killed and Top 40 Hits (the blurs on this are insane), Anal Cunt shocked the musical world (lol) by coming armed for their third full length album with…. actual songs. Well, the term can be used loosely, but there is more musical structure here than on anything that they had released up until this point. This is also where the song titles and content really started to become a focal point of the band.

Outside of “You Live In A Houseboat” off a later album, “You Fucking Freak” was the first AxCx song I ever heard, and I instantly fell in love with the insane vocals and the ridiculous sick guitar tone. I’m not sure who’s playing guitar here – Scott Hull (of Agoraphobic Nosebleed / Pig Destroyer) was the band’s guitarist at the time, but Seth has stated that his contributions to the band were minimal, and that Seth himself played most of the guitar parts for this record. Hey, I’m not gonna lie, but those guitar solos on songs like “You’re A Fucking Cunt” have Scott Hull written all over them. There’s something just so perverse about such intricate, ripping guitar solo’ing being done over music as absurd, blunt and simplistic as Anal Cunt’s.

The production on this is thick and muddy (oo er) although we do lose sight of the drums during the fast parts (everything seems to drop out except the snare). Phil Anselmo is on about half of these tracks too, providing backup vocals. Good shit.