THIRTEEN YEARS OF UNWANTED OPINION
I’m sure there’s a decent set of Hate Forest tracks here but they are buried beneath a super modern, slick, overcompressed production job. Don’t get me wrong, the drums sound fantastic, but that’s about it. This thing would be much better if it was just allowed to breathe.
I’ve had this CD for like 17 years now so I should probably review it. The Cunt Grinder stuff takes a while to get off the ground, taking Gut-inspired procrastination tactics (ie Atmosphere lol) but we’re all secretly hoping they’ll just get to the point. When they do, intros and samples aside, this is some chunky, riff-heavy stuff. Offensive and abrasive, but with a well-rounded and sharp production, there is genuine heft to their material (the snare drum kinda sounds like Obsolete era Fear Factory though). Satan’s Revenge On Mankind are the undisputed kings of slo-mo fuzzed out groovy gore. I will happily take recommendations for bands that sound like these guys. This shit is tight – almost as tight as that fukken snare drum! A true lesson in (unholy) groovy gore and / or pornogrind. In regards to Hymen Holocaust, this is what it must sound like to be trapped inside one of those machines at a sewage processing plant. The sound is looser, sloppier even, compared to the other bands here, but if anything it just makes everything sound all the more organic. HH gives us a session of horror-movie inspired gory slop to round out this split.
An interesting (re)creation. For this EP the band have chucked an extra 2 letters into the title, and rerecorded their older songs in a thrasher style, rather than a death metal one. For the most part, to be honest, this works better than I would have thought. The songs have more “go” in them, probably helped by an increase in speed as well as a slightly clearer production. However, unfortunately, the vocals aren’t as good here in the thrash metal version as they were in the death metal version. They had real heft and weight to them there. Nevertheless, this is still a super cool listen, and is marginally better than the previous version, but both are worth checking out.
No frills early daze death metal (in the days where thrash became death) not too dissimilar from others at the time. The most interesting thing here is how heavy this is for 1986. It almost sounds as if the guys in Autopsy listened to too much Slayer before recording any songs.
It’s hard to see why this thing gets such a pasting. Yes, it’s not Altars Of Madness, but it’s a well made, well composed slice of lightning fast death metal. The album loses its way towards the end, descending into a series of pointless and distracting tracks, but the core “metal” songs are absolutely fantastic. Tucker sounds rabid as hell and Pete “the Feet” is a machine on the drums. Riffs. For. Days!