death metal

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…

I absolutely love Splatter Whore. It’s a bit sad they have gone rather quiet these days, but their first album remains one of my favourite goregrind (or grind’n’roll!) releases ever. I wasn’t as fussed on the second album (with an almost completely different line up, I believe) but this split 7″ with Bowel Stew showcases material that displays openly the transition between records. The sound is fantastic and extremely well produced. The band are tighter…

I’ve lusted after this collectable for a good while, and I finally saw it on Discogs at a decent price so I nabbed the bastard! I gotta be honest though, after all that waiting, I was a bit disappointed to find out that this Accident Prone-released 7″ is fecking one-sided record (don’t get me started on one-sided records!). What also surprised me is that there are no original songs here, just three early Cattle Decap cuts re-recorded in Spanish. Go me for researching! Although,…

This, along with the other Akercocke records, is something I have always wished to be released on vinyl. It’s fuckin’ death metal! Death metal belongs on vinyl! Ya hear me Earache / Peaceville? Re-press this shit on wax or I might blow a gasket. Ha. (2020 Edit: I believe this has now been pressed on vinyl? – Ed) Anyway, The Goat of Mendes is probably Akercocke’s most black metal of records, although they somehow retain…

Imagine how stupid I felt after shelling out for the super-ultra-mega-wicked-limited edition of this record that was ONLY available at day one of Roadburn 2012 when I found out there was actually less to it than the normal Relapse package and a few quid more expensive! Bitch please! In a European world where records cost an average of 20 Euros each I was not impressed. Never mind, I guess it is the same record regardless,…

Despite the constant hate towards this band from the “real” and “true” corners of the death metal community, Annotations of an Autopsy seem to have, over the years, done quite well for themselves in outliving the deathcore trend and showing that they are more than just a flash in the pan. This album might have been out on the fairly trendy-underground Siege Of Amida but they have gone on to have stuff released on Nuclear Blast; a big…

An absolute classic record in every shape and form and propelled me full on into the world of grindcore and death metal. Could easily be a contender for one of my favourite albums of all time, but I think in my mid-teens I played this record to death. Unfortunately it was never pressed on vinyl (fecking sort it out Earache!), but the CD version will suffice. It’s simple, and digital as fuck (in both sound…

I absolutely loved the first Waking The Cadaver record but I could never truly get my chops around Beyond Cops, Beyond God. I feel that everything I love about the WTC sound is missing here; the razor-wire guitar work, the out of time gravity blasts and THAT piccolo snare drum! Here WTC take their Devourment-by-numbers slam death sound and bash it head on into the more traditional brutal death studio sound. The quality is a massive improvement, but…

Nothing screams “redneck death metal” more than having a CD out on Sevared Records and not being able to correctly spell your own band name. The label too, it seems, has issues with spelling. One shitty photoshop smear of a logo and boring cover painting later, we have Chronic Disembowelment, which despite all my sarcasm is actually fucking excellent. The intro sample is a fucking bore but as soon as this bastard kicks in you won’t be…

(2021 Edit: thanks to Photobucket for fucking my only picture of this release with a whopping sopping wet cunt of a watermark. There are 2 other versions of this release, the artwork on mine is posted at the bottom of this post. Fuck you Photobucket!) Welcome to Lines In Wax’s first CD post! Holy mother, I’ve sold the fuck out. It had to happen eventually; it is a dark world where every single piece of…

This is one of the albums that changed my life, as far as music is concerned. By far superior to anything else the Carcass discography, Symphonies of Sickness is the ultimate expression in downtuned guitars, scatterfuck dual vocals and blasting drums. The crisp and warm guitar tone can only be described as grinding. This is the definate grindcore guitar sound; fuzzy, yet grating enough to create a suitable amount of audible chaos. Symphonies can sound…

This is Relapse’s 2006 pressing of Criminal Element’s short EP on single-sided 7″ wax. Besides the usual 100 Relapse clear copies, 400 exist on blue and 500 on green. It’s surprising how bands like this fall under the radar. You’d think that a “supergroup” style band with members from Dying Fetus, Suffocation and Misery Index would be big news, but this, along with all other Criminal Element releases, just seems to fall into obscurity not…

As far as I can tell from quick searches around the net, Covenance seemed to be a short lived project involving members of Dying Fetus and Misery Index. Whether this is true or not, I am not entirely sure. I got this 7″ back in the day when the dollar was weak as piss compared to the British pound, and I would get tons of records off Relapse imported at a fraction of the price…

Another one of my first ever 7″ purchases. This time, horrible, disgusting goregrind, of course! This is the Bowel Stew split 7″ with Tu Carne, released in 2004 on the no longer active American label Murder The World. The cover is a bit fucked up, if your not a gore-hound be prepared to be a bit shocked. Both bands offer up noisy passages of goregrind, Tu Carne are probably a bit more organised than the…

6 Lessons Of Hate 7″ Compilation featuring Subduxtion, Urophagia, Deterioration, Nippercreep, Fecal Bacteria & Mixomatosis. Released on the now defunct Valley Of Death Records (which was run by myself, of all people). 250 were pressed on black, 250 on blue/green splatter. This particular record is number 111 out of 500. I learned all about the ups and downs of running an indy label whilst working on this 7″ record. It’s a lot harder than you…