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As far as Björk albums go this has to be the most boring one I have heard so far, if you can even call it an album at only seven tracks in length. Selmasongs is the “OST” to the film Dancer In The Dark, which also stars Björk in the main role. I’ve never seen the film and don’t particularly plan on watching it, but I expected from Björk and all her super-creative weirdness a very challenging…

I think this is probably the hardest thing in the ANb discography to get a hold of. Sure, the Insect Warfare split and the Converge split can fetch rather hefty prices, and Tentacles of Destruction is fairly limited, but for sheer difficulty in regards to unoptainability (is that even a word? *edit – no, it’s not), the split EP with Halo currently holds the crown (seeing as I don’t have all the ANb shit yet,…

Ok…so Jesus Cröst do groovy gore grind now? Dunno when the change over happened exactly, but it happened. Don’t get me wrong, the cover art is pretty hilarious considering the usual subject matter of Jesus Cröst’s material…but other than that…shit….I really don’t want to say it, because I hate dissing bands….but this shit sucks ass. Compared to the insane precision and ruthless insanity of material like Töt, this 7″ comes across as a bit boring…

Holy Mother, now this is some abrasive shit! Sete Star Sept are currently my go-to band for extra-nasty noisecore skullduggery, and they do not disappoint with this particular slice of shitgrind vulgarity. Violent Gorge takes things a little bit further. Things start off in the noisecore ballpark, and then subtly migrate into harsh noise territory, as it appears the original “band” recordings are cut, spliced, diced and manipulated to create all manner of auditory discomfort….

Wowzers, what a noise! Ha ha! I got this split because I am slowly making my way through collecting the Total Fucking Destruction stuff. I’m not’ve really been that familiar with Skat Injector, up until now that is. Neil from Legs Akimbo was a legend in finding an unsold copy of this split for me, as this shit is pretty limited now. The TFD stuff here is just some live versions of well known tracks…

Ever since I decided to include CDs on Lines In Wax about a year and a half ago I have looked forward to reviewing this album. It’s purely one of the most unique things I have ever heard, and every time I scanned my shelf for something to listen to whilst at work, Snuffholic would catch my eye, but every single time I’d think to myself “hmmm, maybe next time”. Well, finally that “next time”…

Yes yes, I know you’re all probably thinking the same; “not another bleedin’ Anathema post!”, but tough shite! I’ve done a lot of listening to Anathema recently, and that’s how Lines In Wax works; I don’t randomly just pull reviews out of my arse, I generally try to write about what is fresh in my head to give a more accurate, in depth review. That’s why there isn’t any tangible order to the stuff I…

Before The Berzerker became a fully-fledged band with Dissimulate and the tour that came before it, the project was – if footage from the Principles and Practices.. DVD is anything to go by – basically one very angry Australian man shouting at his friends until they made a death metal record with hardcore gabba drumming. I don’t really know how or why Dig from Earache signed Luke Kenny on two mediocre, dancy Morbid Angel remixes,…

Joe Pesci play really blurry sounding fastcore, somewhere along the grind highway between sounding like Anal Cunt and (really) early Magrudergrind. At Our Expense! sounds like more of a demo than anything, but it is a great, yet sadly quite short, trip through a grinding world of total speed. Bones Brigade released this CD back in 2009 after some self-released splits/demos and a 12″ four-way which the band appeared on around 2007. After the release of this…

Insane Clown Posse are a band that get incredible amounts of ridicule the world over. Luckily for me, here in little ol’ Wales, ICP and their seemingly endless armies of redneck juggalo “fans” aren’t really a subject for ridicule, as they don’t really exist. When I was big into ICP as a teenager, I didn’t know a creeping shit about any of this juggalo crap. I’m not claiming ignorance as an excuse; I knew that…

Salute To The Sun are a death metal band that sent me their demo many moons ago, when I was trying (and failing) at running a record label full time. Out of the tons of shit I got sent to me, this is one of the very few things that stayed with me and didn’t get lost in moves, clear outs etc., probably because of it’s professional looking cover and not just some shitty xeroxed…

Welcome to another post about another album that I have put off buying for nearly a decade. You can thank the wondrous Amazon marketplace for these posts that should have rightly been made a long time ago; their CD prices are sometimes so goddamn obscene that I cannot resist buying a whole bunch of new CDs every week. This one cost me a little more than the usual 1p, but it was still a criminal sum for a…

Holy mother of fuck this is some fast fucking grindcore. This shit puts shame upon a whole world of bands claiming on “fast” and “brutal”; Töt is a short, sharp explosion of anger, distortion and all the blastbeats left in Holland. I guess it helps that the production is proper high-end and crystal clear, giving Jesus Cröst all the professional space they need to fully unfold their maelstrom of football-themed fastcore fuckery. Soccergrind? Maybe not,…

According to the ever-reliable source for information that is the internet, Top 40 Hits is considered a bit of a disappointment in the worldwide circles of AxCx fans (or at least it was upon it’s initial release date back in 1994). But, you know me, I don’t give a fuck about what the internet says (lawls, hardcore) because for me, Top 40 Hits shows AxCx at their messiest, blurriest best. Granted, this record is missing…

This was one of my first proper tastes of goregrind. I’d discovered the genre online, but this was one of the first records I actually owned, so it holds a special place in my heart (hahaha). Goreblast is an absolute festering mess of piccolo snares, shifted vokills and all the fuzz in Germany (or is that Goremany?). Imagine Putrefaction In Progress-era LDOH but slowed down to a doom metal pace and with actual song structure….

While most grind leans towards hardcore and hardcore punk, some of it leans more into the death metal and thrash territory. P.L.F., on this release at least (to date, the only thing I’ve heard by them), play some chuggy, metal-heavy grindcore. The production is huge, the drums sound amazing, and the vocals are low and rumbly like the good ol’ death metal stock. The riffs though, are much more thrashy, yet retain that nasty, venomous…

This is my first experience with Mesrine, although it’s been a long-time coming; another one of those bands that always escapes checking out! After seeing Entrails Massacre in OEF I decided to buy some of their shit and I got this split, which introduced me (finally) to the wonders of Mesrine. Boasting a no-nonsense approach to the world of grind, Mesrine seem to form some sort of heavy hitting bastard child of traditional grindcore and…

I think that Watchmaker are one of the most under-rated grindcore bands ever, which is weird considering this record was put out on Earache (through some deal that they had with Willowtip). In grind circles I never see people wearing a Watchmaker t-shirt, in fact I don’t think I’ve even ever seen one for sale. I never hear people talking about Watchmaker, or recommending Watchmaker; and this goes for online as well as in the flesh. It’s weird…

This simple little CD housed in a tray insert can sell for up to £140 on Discogs, which is, in all honestly, absolutely fucking retarded. I’d always had it marked down as another piece of Michael Gira discography that I could never get because of silly hipsters with too much time and money on/in their hands. I could have kissed the merch guy at the recent Jarboe gig in Bristol when I saw this little…

Sometimes I have to stop and remind myself of the growing pool of talent in my local area. Zonderhoof were another local band that I’d somehow spent my entire life avoiding; that was until Terrorizer magazine gave their album away for free with an issue of their magazine, and at their stall in Damnation Festival 2011 (which is where I kindly received my copy). Even then, I only gave it a quick listen, and I…

Back in the Myspace days, Splattered Entrails set the bar on how to sound if you were a bedroom death metal or grindcore producer. I’ve never been too keen on their, how should I put it…typical death metal vocal style, but music-wise Splattered Entrails is the shit. This guy blew most of the other bedroom musicians out of the water. I think Splattered Entrails is still active, but it isn’t really as “dank” as it…

This is the closest that Angels of Light ever came to Gira’s bare bones solo work; …Other People is a stripped down acoustic, folky romp that sees Gira and co. writing homages in song form to people that…well, deserve songs written about them, I guess. It’s all very artsy-fartsy, and whilst I don’t feel it’s the best Angels of Light album in any universe, there is still a fair dollop of good tunes here. The…

This is one of my favourite grind-related things of 2012. Everything about this thing is just perfect; the production, the balance and the over-all vibe is amazing. Shoot The Bastard are a fast, punky grindcore act that features members of boozing grind unit The Afternoon Gentlemen. STB are most definitely more “to the point” though, with a stripped-down affair of super-fast hardcore goodness. Imagine Crass on amphetamines crossed with, I dunno…Unseen Terror or something. That’s…

This album was the final recording that Mick did with any connections to Earache. The album itself was produced and “marketed” by Earache Records, but released by Mick’s own label, Scorn Recordings. Logghi Barhogghi is only the second Scorn album after the departure of Nik Bullen, and still sounds a bit bare and unsteady on it’s feet, just like it’s predecessor, Gyral. Although, unlike Gyral, LB is much more straight forward and was a definite…

Ah, noise tapes! Sex Funeral comes on sounding a bit like Dead Neanderthals crossed with the first LDOH demo; opener “Success in Battle, Crunch in Milk” is a dirging mess of (I assume) power electronics, saxophone sounds and crude percussion. It sounds like hell, which is absolutely OK in my book. I can’t really define when one “song” ends and another begins, but there comes some really light reed-sounding instrument after a while, that almost…

Ah, Rompeprop! Surely, listening to this band is one of the finer things in life. I don’t think there’s a song in the entire universe that can put me as quickly into party mode as “Quackquack” can (except maybe “Int(I)Ro(L)” from the previous record). Boasting one of the sickest and most amazing pitchshifted vocal styles in the history of life, Dutch goregrind groove masters return for their 3rd long player. A slight line up shift…

There comes a time in every musician’s life where they must stop and think “why do I do this? What is the point in my existence and in turn, my creative output?”. I’ve definitely asked myself that question many, many times. I assume then, that gore-legend and general all-round good egg Bobby Maggard never has, what with his seemingly never-ending repertoire of projects, bands and label releases. The amount of stuff this guy (and his…

Holy shit what the fuck is going on here!? Ha ha! This is some out-there shit! I’ve experienced gabba and speedcore before but this is a bit more on the edge of insanity; sometimes it goes so fast that there are just blurs of drum hits in a row that sound like a goddamn machine malfunctioning or something. When it slows down enough for some semblance of a beat to kick in, shit is fucking…

It took me a while but I finally got around to buying the second installment in the Audiofilm series. I don’t really know what has taken so long, considering it’s not particularly rare, difficult to obtain or even worth a lot. I got this off Discogs for £1.50, which for even a 3″ CD is criminal. The packaging and artwork is more of the same type of stuff that was introduced on the first Audiofilm…

I’m not the biggest black metal fan in the world, but to me, this album is an absolute classic of the genre, and one of the best (if not the best) from the symphonic side of the spectrum. Dimmu Borgir might not sound like this anymore, which is a shame, but that makes this extra special – for me it definitely stands out in the Dimmu back catalogue; not as twinkly as the other stuff…

Jesus fuck, how my head hurts! Now this little bastard is a hard listen! Haha! File under un-easy listening, mos-def. Bobby Maggard is back (again) with more blurring of the lines between goregrind and gorenoise. The drum machine sounds like nothing more than a relentless series of distorted sound blips. The guitars (well, assuming they are guitars) are nothing more than sheer, ear-destroying sheets of white noise hell. The vocals…well I don’t think I have…

Some of you might remember my enlightening conversion to the ways of Burial when I picked up the Traunt / Rough Sleeper 12″ not so long ago; what an uplifting yet sorrowful journey that 12″ was, and how it made me long for more Burial records! But, due to the overwhelming amount of shit that I’m into it’s taken me quite a while to get around to buying another Burial record, but I finally picked…

Oh wow, on first impressions this album sounds absolutely huge on vinyl. There is definitley a depth of tone that CDs just cannot hit, no matter how crystal clear digital production can get. I don’t dislike the CD format like some die-hard vinyl fans; I think that certain music is better suited to certain formats. It all depends on the nuisances and over-all sound the band is trying to achieve, I think. This is one…

Quagga is the solo-project of Goatgrind Records genius Nappy. This is his debut, and only, release under that name, playing lo-fi, gurgling goregrind. I think that this was a “test” release to sample the quality of the lathe cuts that Graham from 2208 Records produced, as it is only limited to 5 copies. I am lucky enough to be able to own one of these gems, by total chance! Remember kids, always tick shit you want on Discogs, you…

I fucking love Gets Worse, to be honest. What a cracking fucking band. This little 45rpm 7″ EP starts off sounding very metal indeed, but it does not take long for the powerviolence assault of the senses to fully begin raining down on your poor little ears. After the little intro “Too Much Talk” starts off with a mid-paced growly approach before heading into blasting territory and then into something resembling a hardcore breakdown…that’s pretty…

Aaah my life! I simply cannot fathom how fucking amazing this record sounds! Having heard this possibly a hundred thousand times since I was 11 years old, I finally bought this album when I saw it on the “home listening” rack in Cardiff’s Catapult Records. I know I waffle on about how fucking great vinyl is (that’s the original point of this website, really) but Jesus fuck…it really, really makes the difference to make sure…

Seeing Justin Broadrick performing live as JK Flesh in Roadburn 2012 really opened up my eyes; it was like a dream coming true, the dirgy rhythms, haunting vocals and nasty guitar sound of Godflesh mashed head on into dubstep-style heavy bass and programmed drums. I didn’t really know whether I should dance or punch somebody in the face. To be true, I did neither; I just stood there bobbing my head as the awesomeness washed…

This little 5″ is my first ever experience with the band Nunslaughter. Sure, I’ve seen the name around for years but it just ended up as one of those things that I never got around to checking out. So, when they split with one of my favourite noisy acts Necrocannibalistic Vomitorium, it was the perfect opportunity to check ’em out once and for all, and I gotta say, I like what I hear! The track…

Oh, how I have longed for a new Jesu release! I snoozed on the previous new material (the Duchess 7″) and it sold out before I had even the slightest chance of even considering buying it, and now it is added to my never-ending list of expensive shit to buy off Discogs. Trouble is, it’s hard to find the money to keep up with all the new releases in the first place, doubly hard when…

I remember Rotgut from years ago (ah, the Myspace days!) and back then they played this really ugly, sludgy and noisy shit. Now, things are a bit more refined; Rotgut have become this absolute grinding Malaysian menace. The sound is fatter than the bloated corpse of a beached great white, and the vocals are totally insane; wicked rasps and shouts that hark back to something altogether more 38 Counts…era Pig Destroyer. Ones to watch, I…

One really has to questions ones motives when one ends up buying a split that lasts 48 fucking seconds. This nefarious little split tape (limited to some abysmal quantity) was one of things stopping me collecting all of the Insect Warfare stuff, but the good (or bad? Ha ha!) people at Regurgitated Semen Records have taken it upon themselves to re-release the tapes contents on a single-sided flexi. Bastards! Looks like I’ll have to get all the…

I fucking love Cloud Rat, who are I think one of the first bands to reap the rewards of being on Jay Randall’s Grindcore Karaoke net label. If you’re into grind and haven’t heard their self-titled record then you must have been living under some sort of grind-resistant-coated rock or something. To me, Cloud Rat invoke imaginings of Converge crossed with Magrudergrind, but with Agoraphobic Nosebleed’s Katherine Katz on vocals. Is that a bit fancy?…

I’ll be honest and admit that I only bought this 7″ because Cephalotripsy were on it; they are one of my favourite “slamming” brutal death metal bands and are a total guilty pleasure of mine. Man, this shit is so sick! I’m a total sucker for this stuff when it’s done right, and Cephalotripsy have yet to fail to deliver the gore-drenched slams. “Ulcerated Mass Of Pestilent Engorgement” is a fucking amazing song name. Membro…

I have been warned in advance of how nasty these picture lathes sound, but I am pleasantly surprised by how clear everything is…I have heard some absolutely fucking shocking lathe cuts, and this is far, far from the worst. From what I can tell this is two one-sided lathes glued back to back, with a picture trapped between them…that’s a pretty ingenious way of making DIY picture discs, I gotta say. I dunno who cut…

When I heard that Fukpig were returning with another 7″ I welcomed the news with open arms. Bad Fucking Dickhead looks absolutely fucking amazing…shit…just look at it! And thankfully, after the slightly off-key release of 3, Fukpig are back on track; Bad Fucking Dickhead sounds as fucking amazing as it looks. I can’t really understand what is being said but there is a lot of swearing and a lot of screaming, which is always a…

Gah, don’t you just hate it when 2 x 12″s are rammed into one non-gatefold jacket? Something about this just gets right on my fucking wick, son. If you’re gonna fork out for a double album repress on heavy-as-shit vinyl then you might as well go the full hog and be good enough to include a gatefold jacket. This poor bastard is loaded to the gills with discs! Blinkin’ heck Warp, it’s not like you…

In another post recently (this one, proper old school Blogger link!) I suggested off the cuff that somebody should make some mega fucking compilation of the sickest goregrind and porngrind projects related to Last Days Of Humanity. When I stumbled across this sick little fuck at the Rotten Roll stall in OEF I thought for a second that some celestial being might share some love for the sick shit! Granted, Anal Whore isn’t related to LDOH (as far as…

Two grindcore titans going head to head on a ridiculously novelty-sized record? What more do you fucking want from this genre, I ask? Phobia rip into something very fucking impressive, which is great news for me as I’ve not been too impressed with their output as of late (it’s not bad, it’s just they used to be so good!). “Grind Bleed Your Soul”, the only song here, is fast and tight as fuck, and the…

SMG play super shady-sounding rehearsal room grind. At least, on this 7″ they play that type of stuff. To be fair, the sound here is terrible. I dunno if the copy I have is warped or something but the guitar sounds absolutely hideous. It’s hard to listen beyond that once you’ve noticed it, so I don’t think I can fairly form an opinion on SMG from this 7″ alone. I bought it because I want…

I’ve been on a Six Brew Bantha kick recently, after finally crawling out from underneath my rock and realizing just how fucking awesome they are. Their sound here is a bit lo-fi, but that’s never stopped anyone before and Six Brew Bantha blast and thrash through some fucking livid grindcore! Man, what I would do to see these guys! Someone with a lot of money fly them to the UK already and take my fucking…

Suppression are quickly becoming one of my favourite grindcore acts. I mean, how long have this band been around? And I only heard of them a few months ago! What an idiot! Despite this fact, I’ve had the mp3s of this split on my computer for ages thanks to Grindcore Karaoke, but listening to it always got pushed back because I have so much stuff to get through…which is a curse as well as a…

Ahhh how I long for the days of a more grind-orientated Cattle Decapitation! The band have always peddled their own ever-evolving brand of disgusting death metal, but the song lengths / titles here are much more in sync with something all together more goregrind. And, if you read this blog frequently, you should know that’s what I’m all about! Couple that with the factor that this album is basically The Locust with Travis Ryan on…

After the incredible journey that was Requiem, I was terribly disappointed with the first Audiofilm instalment. When I finally got over the fact that this 3″ CD wasn’t going to be more of the same of what was displayed on Scott’s debut, I gave it another chance and now I really like it. I can’t really say much about it as it’s fairly short and entirely atmospheric, so you’ll have to hear it for yourself…

Holy shit, Corrupt Moral Altar are heavy! Like, proper heavy! I love the mix of styles going on here; one minute I’m getting doomy vibes, the next it’s all about the crazy flat-out grind type of shit! Wrap all that into a modern “dark hardcore” ball (think Black Breath, Nails and all the recent shit Southern Lord has been peddling) and you’ve got one hell of a 7″. Neither side is better than the other;…

Old 7MON live stuff compiled here in a split with prolific noise mongers Gorgonized Dorks. On black, and strictly limited to 338 copies on Bringer Of Gore Records. I have number 57. I got this from Katz in Gorgonized Dorks when we were mailing each other about the Fart Wank / Gorgonized Dorks lathe cut split square 8″ that never materialized (but now with the existence of Pointless Records, could maybe see the light of…

“First Music”, “First Noise”…what fitting titles as this 7” is my first Charred Remains, Bastard Noise and Man is the Bastard purchase, and my first proper experience with any of these projects. The whole switching of the names confuses the living fuck out of me but I think I’ve actually got my head around it; MITB is the powerviolence group, Bastard Noise is the noise spin-off? Amirite? Well, I would think so until I open…

I Abhor are a weird mixture of sounds. Slow, dissonant riffs lead into unbelievably fast blasting grind; the drumming really is something you must all hear! The vocals are distorted and hellish a la the sound used on earlier Pig Destroyer records, only not as high; the singer utilizes mainly lows in his delivery. I Abhor are kinda similar to Wormrot in a way; they both peddle the same grinding mix of excellent riffing and…

You just can’t fault Lividity for delivering on the sick, twisted death metal front. As I’m sure I’ve mentioned many a time before, my death metal listening is very limited, but when it is done right, it just cannot be ignored. The sheer number of death metal acts out there never ceases to baffle me. Thankfully, Lividity are one of the best from the huge American scene. Tits, gore, hilarious samples, gruesome vokills and blasting…

I knew that Dead Infection had death metal influences (World Full Of Remains will testify that for you) but until playing Start Human Slaughter I was entirely unaware how far into the genre they actually went at one point. Don’t be fooled by the grotesque goregrind cover art, Start Human Slaughter is 100% old school death metal sickness; growly vocals, subterranean tunings, guitars solos and all! Fortunately, this type of music belongs on vinyl so…

Another record that I have been meaning to buy for years and years and years. I finally got it cheap at Obscene Extreme (like, Obscenely cheap ;D) and whilst I was chuffed to pieces to pick up a split 12″ for roundabouts the price of a split 7″ I was gutted as fuck to find out that the material here is all live! Maaaaan, why can’t I ever research these things properly? The amount of surprises I’ve…

It was recently the 20th anniversary of this record so I pulled it off the shelf, dusted it off and give it a spin for good measure. I’m a good way into collecting a bunch of Burzum vinyl, and Det Som Engang Var has to be one of the best in his release history. I feel this album lives up to the whole “spell” thing that Varg originally intended with Burzum and it has a…

We’ve all heard “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper”, possibly hundreds of times in bars, pubs and on shitty “best-of” 3 disc rock music compilations. I’m pretty sure that “THE BEST Driving Album In The World, EVER no. 198234” even has it on there twice for good measure. But despite my over-exposure to their biggest hit, I had absolutely no knowledge of Blue Öyster Cult at all. Well, when I was in sixth form my teacher used…

This CD is by far the best Mixomatosis stuff that I have heard so far! I’m not that familiar with them; everything I own by them has a different sound, but Neurofibroma Mixoide has a solid and well-rounded sound that is consistent from start to finish. Ladies and gentlemen, this is some good-ass grindcore! Typically it was released on the equally as awesome label, Rotten Roll Rex back in 2007. The whole thing kicks off with the…

I’ve been meaning to finish my 2 Minuta Dreka collection off for a while, so I was well happy when I caught this in Sete Star Sept’s distro at OEF. Now I’m one step further to my goal! 2 Minuta Dreka have some great songs here; “Fecal Raptus” is off the full length I know, but it’s cool to own it on 7″ as well as it’s such a good song. I’m not sure if…

This is one of my favourite things so far in my never-ending adventure into the discography of Belgium’s Agathocles. I’ve seen it about for years, probably since it’s release, but have just never got around to buying it. I finally picked it up (dirt cheap) at some stall at Obscene Extreme festival in the Czech Republic. I don’t think the stall had a name but it was a gazebo being shared by two guys selling different records….

I am a total sucker for a catchy pop song. I guess you can’t deny a well written song when you hear one, and Daft Punk, despite being awfully boring, have a rather large canon of well written songs. I think this might actually top “Aerodynamic” as my favourite Daft Punk tune, which has held the record for a very long time now; something like 13 years? Jesus fucking Christ I’m getting old (I really…

The first thing that I notice about this Warp repressing of Aphex Twin’s classic record is that it is not a double album. That’s not a problem, I just assumed that it would be on double wax. The vinyl is heavy, though! I don’t know how heavy exactly, but it weighs a fecking ton (slight over-statement) and is very difficult to get out of the sleeve. When the needle slides onto the wax though, the…

For me, I find that Judgement is the perfect sound for Anathema. If you’ve read a few of these posts, by now you should notice that I like to find a balancing point between the sound a band starts with and then eventually works their way towards. I like to lay out albums in my mind and try and see how groups get from one stage to the other; what changes and why. Judgement, in…

Hello and welcome to the Lines In Wax 250th post extravaganza! It’s taken just over two years (and just under 20k hits), but we got there in the end, eh? It only seems like yesterday that I was doing the 100th post special; I can’t believe how fast time goes. Anyway, here’s to the next 250 posts…it’s safe to say I already know what I’m gonna do for the big 500th – now that’s thinking…

Totally and randomly got a bunch of reggae records for Christmas 2012, which is great because I love reggae but spend so much time on other types of music that I never get around to buying any. Talisman are from Bristol and play nice dubby reggae, with lots of original groove. The songs aren’t dubbed as such (as far as I can tell), they just have a lot of characteristics of the dub reggae sound,…

NxSx play sprightly, punky grindcore with a crazed vocal attack. The songs are short blasts that resemble something between the lines of the fastest garage grindcore and the heaviest powerviolence. A recurring theme is that between songs, the humming of bees, or swarms of insects, fades in and out. This ties in with the cover art, which has a whole bunch of wasps and bees and shit swarming all over the place. If you’re wondering…

Time for some more sickening goregrind folks! The cover art to this Goatgrind release might be fairly tame but the music is fucking nuts, as you would expect. Faeces Eruption play fairly straightforward, dank and heavy electronic goregrind with low pitchshifted gurgles. The whole thing sails by rather quickly, but it’s an enjoyable four songs that has got me on the look out for more Faeces Eruption shit (pun slightly intended). Urine Festival on the…

I recently missed the Looking For An Answer UK tour which really bummed me the fuck out, but it made me realize that I literally owned next to nothing that the band has put out! I wanted to listen to a couple of 7″s to ease the pain of missing the gigs, but I found out that I only had the one…I could have sworn I had one or two more. What an idiot! Anyway,…

The VRV / AGx UK tour was one of the most entertaining live shows I’ve had the pleasure of witnessing. Catching the legendary Agathocles in an upstairs room in a pub in Leeds was the perfect atmosphere; a whole bunch of sweaty grinders moshing about comfortably on a carpet! When the two bands got together to release this 7″ after the tour had ended, I knew I had to own it, no matter how shitty…

Since my first Schnauzer post on here a short while ago I have realized that I don’t own anything else by the band and I have gone about picking up some more of their stuff. This here is their split with Punching Moses, which I got off the guy from Last Days of Humanity’s distro stall on the Cemetery Rapist UK tour last year (I forget his name – D’oh!). This split is a collaboration…

Semtex 10 is a blast-happy, bombastic, fairly recent 3 song EP by unstoppable Belgian grindcore (sorry, mincecore) brigade Agathocles. As it contains more than just 4 different versions of “Trust? Not Me” it is totally worth picking up! As far as I can tell the songs seem to be original, which is what I’m all about. My only gripe is that there is no tracklisting or info whatsoever anywhere on the release. If you bought…

Tourettes of the Genitals is a short-lived noisecore/grindcore project featuring members of Drogheda, but with Paul Phipps of Rectal Twat infamy on vocals. Basically what you have here is 18 untitled blasts of noise on a one-sided 6″ lathe cut flexi. I’m not really sure what material this is cut onto but it is ridiculously thin. If bent too much it will probably crease and become unplayable. This is extremely collectable, with only 15 copies in existence…

I’ve never really considered myself a proper Devourment fan although I am quite partial to their heavier-than-the-mass-of-9-planets mix of slam and brutal death metal. When I saw this absolutely stunning Goatgrind picture disc version of Unleash… at Obscene Extreme I knew it had to be mine. Just look at it! Damn! That’s metal as fuck! Ha ha. Unleash… boasts quite a polished and clinical approach to things, and is a far cry from the band’s cult classic sound on…

Hate sound absolutely nothing like what I expected. Being totally unfamiliar with them, I should really have looked them up before buying this record, but Bongripper’s name alone carried enough weight to seal the deal for me. This split spins at 45rpm, so it is unfortunately very short, but hey – give me quality over quantity any day of the week. So like I said, Hate sound nothing like I anticipated. Splitting with Bongripper made…

Playing With Nuns is an absolute pleasure – pun definitely intended. After a while a lot of experimental and harsh noise projects all tend to sound the same to me, so when a noise record comes along and stands out for me it really must be a good one! Schizo Spectrum starts like many other harsh noise albums before it; the first track is nothing to write home about, but it’s interesting enough for me…

This is one of my favourite Anathema albums – if not my favourite out of them all (that I have heard). It was also the first “soft” Anathema record I got hold of after discovering the band didn’t play doom metal anymore. I spent a while worshipping the Serenades album, which was probably one of my first introductions to the ultra-slow and miserable side of doom metal. I was so excited to see the band…

This is a nifty little split 10″ that I keep forgetting I own. It’s in a plain white sleeve with a stamp like a club 12″ and recently until I separated my 10″ and 12″s onto different shelves I would keep losing it in the pile of vinyl that I have. The choice of artists appearing alongside each other here is pretty varied, but there isn’t a shit song on the entire thing. It spins…

I suppose it was only a matter of time before Hymen Holocaust did an album for Rotten Roll; nasty European goregrind and that label go hand in hand! Hymen Holocaust is my favourite type of goregrind. Sure, it doesn’t blast a thousand times a minute, but it’s slow, heavy, nasty, watery as fuck and absolutely hanging. It’s what GUT should have “cumback” sounding like, give or take a nudge on the groove and porn factors….

When Mushroomhead dragged themselves out of the Ohio backwaters onto the international “nu-metal” stage back in 2001, they presented metal fans around the world with a fresh and somewhat confusing sound. Mushroomhead’s diversity is what made them so exciting; the infamous live shows, the crazy costumes, the “metal/is it metal?” thing they had going on – not to mention they had managed to sell over 80,000 copies of their first three albums entirely by word…

This little remix EP accompanied the release of the Love of Life album by Swans back in 1992. It makes things a touch confusing whilst researching online as both 12″s have the same title. It takes two tracks from that record, and pairs them alongside “long versions”, which are essentially drawn-out, more atmospheric takes on the classic original tracks. This “single” isn’t particularly rare, but at the same time it isn’t very easy to find…

Carnival of Carnage appears to be a pre-Tumour project of Rogore (ex-LDOH). As far as I can tell it was a fairly short lived affair, with one album, one EP and one live 7″ (this) (2021 edit: the band have a lot more releases than this, I suspect Discogs just hadn’t been updated). It’s pretty cool to listen to, it’s like Tumour with a full band and a bit more of a groove. I don’t…

How else can a band cash in on what was supposed to be their final album? Remember, the story went that after the sixth joker card fell…….well nobody fuckin’ knew what was going to happen, so they needed to milk that shit, let’s be fair. The Wraith itself was split into two separate albums and released two years apart, and then this remix album came trailing behind a few years later. It is no secret that anything…

This was one of the first goregrind splits I ever got hold of, so therefore it holds a very special place in my heart (ha ha). Both bands seem to have fallen into obscurity these days, but this is still worth talking about. It’s maybe not the longest CD in the world, but it’s still worth getting if you see it around. If you are interested in groovy, nasty goregrind in any way I strongly…

This split opens with a disappointing Deche-Charge recording of a live set. It takes forever to get started and when it does, it really doesn’t amount to much at all. Recorded grind/noisecore/whatever can go one of two ways (both of which sound awful) – the recording can really capture the energy and/or dirty sound in a nutshell, or just fall flat on it’s fucking face. Unfortunately for the legendary Deche-Charge, their contribution to this split…

Death metal has a limited appeal for me, but when it’s done right I just fucking love it. Maybe it’s coincidence that I love my “local” death metal band Desecration more than most other death acts, or maybe it’s not. I donno, I’m not a psychologist. All I know is that Desecration is fucking awesome. The sound (on any record) is spot on; the drums are dry and precise, the guitars clinical yet fuzzy and…

If Shitfun isn’t one of the greatest names for a band ever, then I don’t know what is. And if that cover picture isn’t one of the creepiest, nastiest sleeves for a band ever, then I don’t know what is! Shitfun are here to ruin everybody’s day with some “serial killer grindcore” from the deepest, darkest parts of Brazil. They have a growly death metal approach to the vocal side of things (this might explain…

Apartment 213 are fantastic, muddy as hell powerviolence-fused grindcore. This is all well and good, but they are annihilated here by the material on the ANb side. We all know splits aren’t competitions, but sometimes one band will just totally outweigh the other. Sorry guys! It is with a small irony then that Apartment 213’s vocalist guests on all the songs on the ANb side. The Agoraphobic stuff here is unlike anything else in their…

This song is part of my childhood! Quite a strange thing to say, considering I’m not from the streets of CPT, and that I never grew up to develop a taste for gin, khakis and mackin’ bitches. I’m partial to the chronic, however I doubt that has got anything to do with Nate Dogg’s g-funk serenading. This is a classic Dr. Dre track, and it’s a shame that he never made more solo albums; this…

I’ve not heard the source material for this remix, but I’m not entirely sure if I need to, if I’m honest. The thing with remixes of this nature is that the songs are usually so mutated from their original form that they have become brand new entities in their own right. Mixing gabba techno with awkward synths and nifty, sneaky little drum’n’bass passages, NUH really makes a fucking meal out of whatever source material Hideous…

I know this doesn’t exactly rank high amongst the playlists of many black metal enthusiasts, but I am a huge fan of the prison-Burzum era. I think we need to reflect on what the man was simply left to work with; any country that allows you make an album whilst serving prison time for murder is pretty unusual in my opinion, and to be fair, considering Varg was supposedly only allowed to use a synthesizer,…

Now this is a funny one. Meet STLS, an all-percussion group. This is their debut – and only – release to date, the Drumcore EP. Drumcore is basically four “songs” constructed out of the grooves and percussion of two very busy drummers. A bit dull at first, even a bit artsy-fartsy for some, but once you’ve played it for long enough you begin to appreciate the effort involved here. Gone are the days of my…

There are several reasons why I will miss going to Roadburn this year (May 2013 Edit: Roadburn has already happened – where does the time go?). I could spend a lot of time writing about them all, but I won’t do that. I’ll just get to the point. Missing Goat play live is pretty high up on the list of reasons why I want to cry about not going. I had this album on mp3…

Where Björk’s Debut record gets off to a confusing yet almost “cute” start, her follow-up record Post really starts to push the boat out. Holy mother of fuck what is going on here? One has to simply compare album covers to get an idea of the difference. Debut was different in so many ways, but seemed to have one guiding theme. Post, on the other hand, seems to have not been planned out in any…

This is probably the one release in Swans history that is looked down upon the most. As with The Burning World, Gira has retrospectively scorned this release, and insists that the cover was a mistake. Think what you will, but I think it’s pretty good. I’m not too fussed on the black version (sung by Jarboe) but the red version with Gira on vocals is a great cover of a fantastic song. I’m still gonna…

Can you imagine how excited I was knowing that the next Atomçk record was gonna drop as a physical copy thanks to Hygiene Records? No, probably not. But I was pretty fuckin’ happy, I’ll tell you that. As much as I love sites like Grindcore Karaoke (seriously far too much good shit for one website) I am a total sucker for physical copies. Grindcore Karaoke could have a download link to 320kb mp3s of every single album in the…