Agathocles / Blood – Split 7″ (1991)

June 25, 2024

AGx stuff is more lo-fi than you’re average lo-fi stuff but fuck if early 90s AGx doesn’t blow your fucking sandals off – proper muffled, treble-heavy blow to the face. Like a brick is a sock. But there’s like, bits of fuckin glass in the fibers of the sock. If you like barely audible, grimy tape recordings, look no further!

Blood has a clearer production but instead draws you down into bogs of heaviness and despair with their sound. Here we get two tracks which are perfect examples of the bands grindcore / death metal crossover sound. Truly, I believe Blood are one of the few bands to properly make “deathgrind” (a term which I usually hate and find pretty fucking stupid).

Essential underground grindcore history is this!