Intestinal Disgorge – Drowning In Rectal Sluge (2000)

April 22, 2022

Intestinal Disgorge’s first album is as fuckin’ batshit crazy as you’d expect to be. By this point, the band have a long and surprisingly varied career (who saw that coming?), so its nice to go back and check out the very sordid beginnings. In fact, Intestinal Disgorge got seedier and more brutal as they progressed into the 2000s (Depravity is probably one of the sickest and most unrelenting things ever recorded, at 60 tracks long). Where Drowning In Rectal Sludge differs from the albums that followed it is in the production. Things are much noisier. The vocals more or less drown everything else out, the guitars are barely legible bogs of sludgy mayhem, and the drums are spastic MIDI freak-outs of the highest degree. If sick, goregrind-cross-noisecore with insane screeched vocals sounds like something you’d enjoy, give this a whirl. Otherwise I’d maybe give it a wide berth.