Total Fucking Destruction – Hater (2011)

April 22, 2022

Hater is now 11 years old. Damn, son. Anyways, this little fucker is probably my favourite TFD stuff, outside of the sessions that appeared on the Slimewave splits (I absolutely love the drum sound on those sessions). Here Rich Hoak and chums perfect their spastic, jazzy grind down to the very last blast or chug. The songs are just brilliant. From “Weaponization Of The Mega-Self”, “Everything You Need But Nothing You Want”, “It’s Only Attitude” or “Meat Without Feet” (will vegetarians eat it?), the prime uniting factor here is that this is catchy as all hell. Rarely is grindcore such a sing-a-long fest.

There’s some interesting tunes here too. “Sunrise Is A Lie” is a track which also appeared on XXX Maniak’s controversial Harvesting The Cunt Nectar album, which Hoak also appeared on doing guest vocals. So does that make this a XXX Maniak cover? Or does Hoak consider “Sunrise Is A Lie” to be a TFD song that he loaned to 3XM? Who knows. Also, is “Tony Hung Himself” (“What the fuck, man!” as the lyric goes) about Agathocles bass player?