grindcore

Butcher MD are the greatest so it is always awesome to hear more gore from these guys. Distrophy, on the other hand, who I am not too familiar with, offer a much more rustic approach to proceedings. Soupy, Mortician-grade riffed mud and ants-in-your-pants drumming is the order of the day.  Tape now long sold out on Cadaveric Dissolution Records.

Maybe this kinda production style on late 2000s / early 2010s powerviolence and hardcore hasn’t aged all that well, but the music of Weekend Nachos surely has. The group have been quiet for a while now, but 2011’s Worthless stands the test of time, as far as heavy music goes. 

When people think of Dutch exports they think of cheese, clogs and maybe Heineken. In the groovy goregrind world however, Rompeprop puts NL on the map. This gore and watery poo-soaked metallic blast of ridiculousness really needs no introduction. However, if you are new to this kind of thing, I implore you to zip up your wet suit, and put a peg on your nose. It’s going to get messy! 

Not the best RRR release, but hardly the worst either. Bitch Infection play in the style of Anal Whore, Sperm Swamp etc., where Anus Tumor is a bit more messy. Awful bedroom grindcore all round though. If you’re down you’re down, if you’re not you’re not.

Where there is gore, surely grind is not far away. Enter stage right the goregrind / downtuned demo-tape quality death metal masters, Impetigo. The grinding slab that we have here is an EP from 1991, that has been re-released a whole bunch of times, most notably on murky blue/purple vinyl and on a picture disk. This is some pretty savage old school shit, so if you like your metal recorded on a shoestring budget, with…

The vibe and theme of this record pretty much sums up the whole knuckle-dragging tupa tupa bullshit of the last two decades or so. Nevertheless, the production is smooth and the riffs are massive, which make for a fun if not entirely and completely unoriginal listen.

This is a sonic whirlwind of ripping grindcore savagery, to be honest. One of the early purveyors of the powerviolence tag, Dropdead manage to retain that unhinged edge that a lot of later, more polished powerviolence productions miss completely. Pissed off, venomous grind for the thinking man. 

I’m a cynical bastard so its easy for me to see why people complain that ENT isn’t really ENT these days, but the real talk should be about the records that they are releasing and the shows that they are performing. Both of which, I’m glad to confirm (give or take a Dean mishap or six), are still fucking outstanding. This is absolutely savage, like.

Drive Me To Kill You is a fun hardcore punk tinged journey through the sloppy pits of grindcore, brought to you by the guy who runs agzdaredz.blogspot.com, which I got a shitload of noise / grind stuff from back in the day, so kudos to you, my friend. The best part is that I have no fucking clue where I got this CD from, no doubt in one of my trips north, but I’m usually…

(June 2019 edit: this should have been posted years ago, so please excuse the promotional tone in which it is written!) Okay, so here it is, the first release on the new Lines In Wax “label”, the glorious split EP between thrashing Newport grinders and Hereford powerviolence trio Fetus Christ. We’ve been toying with the idea of doing a split for quite some time, so it fit perfectly with the intention to start my label,…

The filthiest, blasting gore. Sounds more like two sessions back to back (could easily be a split or something) than a gen-up album, but both sessions are highly enjoyable. For fans of disgusting, bloated goregrind. Get it down ‘ew feckin’ gullet, son!

Take it from Agathocles, my friends; grind is indeed protest. Well, not all of it is, maybe just some of it. The protest against over-produced, tired, non-DIY methods seems to come from the punk / crust side of the coin, and that is, perhaps not at all coincidentally, the side of the “Grind Coin” (I might Trademark that) from which the revered Agathocles hail. This is more of what is to be expected of our…

I remember seeing these play in Abertillery (?) to like, 5 people, which was an interesting experience. I find stuff like this always translates better in a live setting, but Gambling For Gore has a solid sound. There is an interesting edge to the drumming, which adds another dimension to the usual saucepans ‘n’ triggers approach. Make what you will of the pig squeal / grunt kinda vocals (they have both draw backs and entertaining…

Ahh, tupa tupa death-tinged goregrind, done in the Czech style! There really is nothing else quite like it, for better or worse. It has an interesting tone as it is led entirely by bass a la Necrocannibalistic Vomitorium or Spasm, but don’t expect anything original from Slup’s Mimo Mísu, but if you are here to party, then you are indeed on the right track, traveller.

Blind River is a release going back a few years from the absolutely savage grindcore band Cloud Rat. This release is a compilation of sorts, and I’ve heard parts of it before on the split 7″ with Orgullo Primitivo. I don’t want to water down Cloud Rat’s entire thing into one descriptive passage (edit: I have wrote about Cloud Rat in more detail before), but imagine a female-fronted Pig Destroyer and you wouldn’t be a…

Surely this is the benchmark by which all gorenoise is measured? In our bizarre and unfair world, I remember this thing getting some heat when it first came out. “Since when were LDOH a noisecore band?” etc. etc. – true, the ‘groove’ which permeated earlier slabs of noise is well and truly buried in the ground, but like… who gives a shit? There is plenty of moronic groovy gore out there (not that I would…

Once you’ve heard Necrocannabilistic Vomitorium once, you’ve heard them a thousand times. Their noise is consistent. Sure, some sessions are tighter than others and some sessions are studio-clear whilst others are just abysmal. On this tape, more bowel-churning bass-driven porno groove is the order of the day. The OG vocalist for this band was 10/10. Damage Digital on the other hand… well I can’t make head nor tail of this, I’ll be honest. Their side…

One of the last recordings we did. This was originally supposed to be a split with Gorgonized Dorks on an 8″ lathe, but it fell through, mainly due to our ineptitude. I love the artwork, as terrible as it is. Above is the original 8″ version, below is the tape version. Neither came out, so its on Bandcamp now. Endless failure! I love the twin guitar sound on this, even though it is (purposefully) horrendously…

Heinous return with more slimy goregrind / mince for you to get yourself all wrapped up in. This throws me off a bit actually, because of the title and the fact that there are five tracks on the EP, not four. All in all, subterranean muddy goodness at its very best.

Reek is really a turgid bowl of ulcerated offal. Plotting Carcass’ trajectory from this all the way through to Swansong is absolutely bonkers when you stop to think about it. In celebration of finding out that the 12″ vinyl I own of this is actually a fucking bootleg, I decided to spin it up and give it  the Lines In Wax treatment. In a modern era of fucking endless tupa tupa garbage (although I am…

I caught these guys live at OEF a few years ago, and found that they were really great; brutal, chunky grindcore, with flairs of inspiration from both the death metal and hardcore worlds (or in the case of some riffs, even black metal). 908 is pretty obscure name, but thanks to the wonders of the internet, I was able to track these down.

Where the hell has this been all my life? This sounds like Agathocles on steroids. Imagine mincing goregrind with Morbid Angel riffs and you are in the right ballpark. Not much to say about such a short old demo tape but definitely listen to this! My eyes are truly peeled for more Germen stuff (of which, admittedly, this is not much).

Ultra heavy grinding metallic noise from Ireland (apparently they are very pessimistic). To be fair to these guys (and girl these days) they have a solid back catalog. Thick, decent production for rabid, fast paced tunes. <a href=”http://candlelightrecordsuk.bandcamp.com/album/pessimist”>Pessimist by Abaddon Incarnate</a>

Hyperemesis has got to be one of the best things to ever exist in the history of the world. Furious Scent Of Dumped Rotten Offals treads the line between blasting rancid putrefaction and stomping mince groove in such a way that the balance of the two itself almost becomes an art-form in itself. There’s a lot of stompy mincegore out there now but Hyperemesis easily remains one of the best. Cassette version is still available…

This is the third offering from a more matured and developed Jig-Ai. It is still the same blasting goregrind at heart, but with an additional level and nuance and flare that was not present on previous efforts. I think to call goregrind progressive would be a bit daft on my part, but over the three full length records to this point, you can genuinely see the plotted path that Jig-Ai has taken in growing their…

Active Stenosis is genuinely my new favourite thing. I was turned onto them last year by Carlos of CxBxFxExTxCxExTxCx. Channeling the vibe of Lymphatic Phlegm and the watery, disgusting goodness and heaviness of say, Regurgitate, and presenting it for the new generation of goregrind sickos. Final Histopathology Report, and the band’s follow up album are essential listening for this genre. I am seriously late to the party! Tapes were out on Cadaveric Dissolution Records but…

The 2 Minuta Dreka stuff here seems to stand out from the rest of their discography, taking a super-downtuned, 8 string approach to proceedings. Frankly, it is rather jarring, even more so than the difference between their pornogrind and their noisecore. It isn’t bad per se, but I’m glad to see that they did not continue in this direction for very long. Lymphatic Phlegm I’ve never been a massive fan of, but I have come…

Ok, so Smashing Dumplings sound a whole lot more death metal than when I saw them live four or five years ago. I mean, either they’ve given their sound a bit of a more ‘brutal’ overhaul in lieu of spazzy, fast grind, or my memory is terrible and I’m just an idiot. Either way, Side Effects is pretty fuckin’ great. Chunky, nasty death metal that doesn’t take itself too seriously.

I love goregrind, and I love Autophagia. Unearthing ancient tomes of dusty demos is part of the fun when it comes to this particular sub genre, but unfortunately, Anatomical Septicemia fails to offer anything of any value, to absolutely anyone. Sure, you’ve gotta have a ear for badly recorded demos, but the quality on this cassette demo sounds like your listening to a band rehearse in another room, recorded on a mobile phone. It doesn’t…

Antigama are a very special grindcore band, in that I don’t really believe that they play grindcore at all. I mean sure, their music has roots of chaotic grind elements, and the vocalist’s roar is reminiscent of Napalm Death’s Barney Greenway, but Antigama draw from all over the musical spectrum. You can probably tell from the record sleeves that this isn’t just another grindcore band, and to the un-initiated, I would describe Meteor as a…

This is a digitally released EP between two pornogrind bands, one from Thailand and one from Mexico. Pornorama are the latest addition to the Bedroom Pornogrind Club, offering a plodding, somewhat tedious approach to proceedings. It is, honestly, not that good. The riffs are pretty interesting but the vocals are crap and the drumming is thin. Lord Piggy have a slightly more filled out sound, but fall into the Cemetery Rapist school of crickets-meets-chugga-chugga death…

Well I’ll be a monkey’s uncle, I forgot that I owned this. I dug it out for a trade recently and realised I hadn’t covered this for the site. Bobby M sent me this back in 2012 when my girlfriend was in New York, so I had a week long goregrind and pizza binge, really getting to grips with the depths of the genre. RSWC incorporates spooky, echoic production into the gorenoise style, bringing all…

Everything Anal Whore puts out has this somewhat endearing (lol) analogue quality, as if it has been recorded onto tape or using an old school drum machine. It adds a warm edge to the project’s insane pornogrind approach, taking the maniacal, noisecore-direct path rather than the groovy, plodding variant. Sexual Perversion is the first EP under the moniker and was released way back in 2001, cramming 22 nonsensical tracks into 17 minutes of mush. The…

Tu Carne play boisterous goregrind in a groovy style. Despite this, there is nothing groovy about their pitchshifted vocals – that shit is, how can I put it – evil as absolute fuck, yo. There is also something of a hardcore punk sensibility, particularly in the production sound of Culto… and especially in the riffs, which at first results in an awkward mesh of styles. One of course, which works rather well once you have…

Orifice play sloppy, burpy, bottom-flapping pornogrind, which, refreshingly, does not get stuck into the endless tupa-tupa snoozefest. Better Than Sex comes across as almost identical to early Anal Whore, but with more, er, melody in the mix. It all sounds a bit lo-fi at first, but the guitars are churning out some interesting riffs, and the drum programming is fucking spot on. Lazy drum programming is the downfall of many a bedroom grindcore outfit, but…

Its no small joke how long the world (well, the goregrind world) has been waiting for a new 2 Minuta Dreka record to drop, and now that it actually has, it has seemingly taken me a whole age to get around to reviewing it. The first thing I notice about Porno Bizzarro is its fairly polished production job, which gives the whole thing a massive fucking gut-punch. The sampling has become more obscure, and lends…

Ba ba doo de da doop. What’s more insane than Mike Patton smoking crack in a jazz club? Why, John Zorn’s Naked City, of course! Meet the album that spawned the band of the same name. Bizarre grindcore elements meet experimental jazz music, resulting in pompous explosions of glorious noise in bed next to smooth, swinging numbers and interpretations of famous TV/movie themes. I’ll never think of the James Bond theme in the same way…

Parazitózis play the sort of goregrind that makes me all warm and fuzzy inside. Sludgy, toned-to-almost-human-inaudibility guitar mush meets arsehole-for-a-face swamp vocals and drumming that is swifter than instant decapitation. The Taste Of Medical Waste is billed as a one man old school goregrind attack, which kinda undersells it, as there are hundreds of projects fitting that description. Parazitózis is much more adept at invoking intumescent tunage from the suppurating, bubbling vats of putrefying filth….

This is perfect, considering the current political climate. It dropped at just the right time; days before the election farce of 2016 this came like a wet fart out of nowhere into the face of the world (I wrote this a loooong time ago, the world hasn’t ended just yet – Ed). Anal Trump have gone on to release several short blasts of petulant goregrind wetness, having at the socio-political issues of the day through…

The Day Everything Became Nothing play in a dry, sterile, heaving approach to goregrind; the type that can suffocate you beneath its weight, like dying slowly trapped under rubble, or having your fucking head smashed off in one go by an anvil or some such grotesquery. Harking from the school of the CBT vein of gore, TDEBN expand on this template to take the groovy gore into a more solid, straight-up metal direction. The song-writing…

A Chapter Of Accidents is surely the pinnacle of classic Dead Infection? Fuck it, even in the history and development of the goregrind sound itself. Yeah, I’m going with that! A Chapter Of Accidents manages to stand out in an infernal sea of disgusting goregrind, even by today’s standards. The subterranean production of earlier Dead Infection records is replaced by a crispy – yet still repugnant – sound that is far more suited to the…

They do say that the devil has all the best tunes, and that is mos-def the situation here with Neuropathia’s 5th album (I could be wrong as the band have a long and varied discography and I just took a cursory glance at Discogs lol). Prepare yon lugholes for a bombastic explosion of somewhat rock-n-roll tinged grindcore madness. Imagine Regurgitate meeting Blood Duster at a Malignant Tumour gig and distill all of that through a…

This is (now) a fairly old split released by Rotten Roll, putting US goregrinders Queef Huffer up against Aussie equivalent Nothin’ Suss. The whole thing kicks off with Nothin’ Suss’ tracks, and whilst there isn’t anything particularly that much at fault with the band, the overall production is pretty shabby to be honest. Queef Huffer on the other hand, have their shit together. The production is much more on point; everything is clear and concise….

Haggus are easily one of my favourite bands right now, simply for having the perfect blend of dank mincegore nailed down to a fucking tee. I love goregrind that you can dance to that also doesn’t have songs about penises and bondage. Each to their own, and I do like a lot of groovy goregrind stuff, but it is currently over-saturated to fuck with a legion of shit bands. Haggus is brutal, yet with that…

You can always count on porno/goregrind to keep things classy and hi-brow; to touch on society’s most pressing issues and philosophical dilemmas. In the case of Gutulax’s Shit Beast record, the maesters of flatulence ask the lifelong question: to dance or not to dance? With this many fart samples and songs about poo, the dilemma is a short lived one, as the answer is of course, yes. Shit Beast has enough tupa rhythms to get…

Whoever thought that goregrind that sounds like it has been composed entirely on an early 90s game console chipset would be a good idea? I mean, I’m not even sure if it is actually a good idea, but fuck it, I think it is pretty awesome, so who cares, eh? S.M.E.S., if you don’t know, is the baby of once Last Days Of Humanity vocalist Erwin De Groot (who is also doing vocals more recently…

Can we at least get a round of applause in for that album title? And then a standing ovation for the album sleeve? Haha! Anyways, RazorRape play a bludgeoning, thick’n’creamy variety of goregrind that is more akin to shades of death metal than the primordial ooze of say, Last Days Of Humanity. This particular “cross-over” style is very popular at the moment, as it blends the lines with pornogrind, which all the metal kids seem…

Oh man this is some sick shit! Welcome to the world of dental-based Hungarian mincing goregrind, friends. Imagine the drill has slipped, and now it is just boring into your gums at full pelt, all the while the dentist is blasting some Agathocles on the stereo in the background; hopefully that will give you some idea of what we are dealing with here. We played/caught two shows with these guys on the Dzhumagaliev tour; once…

Groove masters from Germany meet  French goregrind legends on this excellent split CD. SxRxOxMx take it slow and steady as per usual; churning out their snail-paced gore with menacing aplomb. “Wandering Flesh” stands out, with unusually catchy riffage, and terrifying pitchshifter gurgles. Pulmonary Fibrosis open things up sounding like Odour Of Torture-era GUT meeting Creeping! Crawling!-era Plasma, which is a tasty feast for any goregrind nerd. It isn’t the longest split in the world, but…

This CDr is a split between prolific gorenoise lads Catastrophic Blunt Force Intercranial Haemhorrhage Fluid Leaking From Ruptured Eardrums and my gorenoise (read: “weednoise”) project, Tetrahydrocannibal. It’s the first time I have released something under this name in quite some time, so it was fun to get back to and work on some ridiculous song titles. I swore I wouldn’t do another record until I’d shifted all the copies of the first, but this is…

10/10 split 7″ from Olso fastcore/PV maniacs Higgs Boson (who perhaps have one of the sickest bass tones ever), going head to head with British kings of start/stop savagery, Nothing Clean. Both bands churn out rapid-fire bursts of aggression, as, of course, you would expect, but with Higgs Boson not being afraid to slow things to a crawl pace for a few seconds to highlight the speed of the quick bits even more, or to…

This has to be the benchmark to which all drum machine grindcore is judged. ANb’s first full length record is far cry from anything that has followed it (even the lightening fast pharmaceutical headfuck of Frozen Corpse… is a million miles away from this); the production is bassy, fat and bludgeoning, the guitars almost sludgy, and the shrieked, yelped vocals are almost drowned out by the cacophony of the strings and machine. And that harsh…

Sleaze Servant is the new EP from long-time techno-gore-grind filth mongers, Libido Airbag; a “band” so balls deep in scum and vulgar sounds that even your gran loves a dance to some of their older tunes. They’ve hardly pumped out volumes of material in their long existence, but the fact that they can still develop and spew out fresh sounds in such a restrictive genre is a testament to gore and porno grind, especially the…

I’ve had this for so long but the sodding thing is so small I keep losing it amongst my CDs! The Agathocles stuff here seems to be original tracks, which is refreshing in itself, but the greatest surprise is that they are also somewhat strangely melodic; it is the same lo-fi high quantity of shredding mincecore, but with strange, almost ethereal guitar leads over a few of the tracks. Just when I’d thought I’d heard…

(I implore you to forgive me the ridiculously low quality of today’s upload. This is literally impossible to track down online, and I unfortunately do not own a copy of the super-limited lathe cut 7″. That being said, if anyone has any hi-res scans of the cover art that would do this post more justice, then please, by all means, feel free to get in contact with me, and of course upload the pictures to…

Phyllomedusa has been sneaking doom metal tracks into his (?) gory repertoire for quite some time now, but Fijian Holiday marks the point where the stark lines of contrast have blurred so much that the multitude of perplexing styles this project perpetuates have finally come crashing together into one big sticky disgusting bog of beautiful, nauseating mess. Almost sounding like slam in parts; this record crawls and grooves with absolute menace. Phyllomedusa can do no…

Oblivionized are a grindcore / tech death answer to the distillation of sounds purveyed by those such as early Dillenger Escape Plan, Fuck The Facts, and even to a degree, Antigama. The shredding guitar / intense drum work is reminiscent of fellow British grinders Evisorax, but Oblivionized have a much more – how should I put it – “progressive” edge that sees a lot of interesting elements brought into the firing line (like the singing…

This is an absolutely mental little EP featuring members of Water Torture and Thedowngoing (who I am currently not too familiar with, I’ll be honest). It only clocks in at around 5 minutes, but with this kinda hyper-intense level of energy I’ll forgive the tiny run time. Bordering somewhere between a rehearsal room recording and a decent recording sesh for like, a split 7″ or something, Sects meld different corners of the grind world together…

Holy fuck! This is fucking amazing! Bass-driven, hardcore-tinged powerviolence madness from the Americas! If I keep using exclamation marks does it look like I’m shouting!? I hope so! Easy comparisons out of the way first: Man Is The Bastard, Water Torture, Prisoner 639 (or anything that grinds like a fucking beast at a low rumbling frequency). To quote a YouTube commentator: “Non stop harsh grinding savagery from start to finish”. I could not have put…

So, so, so stoked for the return (yet again lol) of Last Days Of Humanity, and the return to the gurgling madness we all know and love. This return is somewhat low key, but I guess it fits with dropping new shit on a split. I believe the music on here was recorded some time ago, and that the vokills have been provided recently. It is good shit though, glad to have ’em back! FUBAR…

Planet Of The Pigs is the final (2020 edit: nope!) album from long-running Czech grindcore band, Pigsty. I think to still call Pigsty a grindcore band by this point is pushing it a bit; Planet Of The Pigs has a whole world of other influences building on the grinding template, from thrash to death metal, to the kooky ongoing concept (“Inspection Report” kicks this thing off with GWAR-grade sci-fi storytelling) and even the insane djent…

Wadge is a long-running grindcore project from Canada, which has fallen into its very own self-styled “surf” grind. It sounds like a ridiculous gimmick, and I guess, to be honest, it probably is. What separates this however, from “bands” like Caninus or the fucking Grindmother is that this shit is actually fucking decent, and not just a stupid fucking meme set up to make money from people who don’t actually listen to grindcore anyway (okay,…

Heinous are a goregrind band from Arizona, and when I say goregrind, I mean the blasting, frenetic style, not the slow, polka style. Imagine if Last Days Of Humanity recorded Reek Of Putrefaction but on the west coast of America, after spending the summer listening to Archagathus and drinking cheap beer. There may be a million bands out there called Heinous, but the name is truly deserved this time around. Wicked stuff!

Pyophagia is a Red Stripe fueled goregrind project that is based out of both Nicosia in Cypress and Bristol in the UK. The title is a combination of the names of the three quick tracks; the run time on this thing being less than 2 minutes (that’s what I’m talking about!). Expect pummeling, sloppy old school goregrind with distorted, frantic blasts, downtuned guitars and vomit inducing shifted vocals. All in all, a vile concoction that…

Corpseater is a one man grindcore project from Germany, and Unholy Massacre is the second EP release, following 2015’s Start To Mutilate. On first impressions I get a mix of Regurgitate meets the dirgy tones of Hymen Holocaust (without the pornogrind vibe, of course); Unholy Massacre is an undead-inspired, old school gory mess, with blasting drum machine work, filthy guitars and possibly pitchshifted, Mortician-style guttural vocals. Stand out tracks on this short EP include “Seven…

Landfill are a grindcore / powerviolence band from Lima, Ohio and asides from a three minute demo in 2016 and a 30-second track on a compilation, this self-titled EP is the world’s first proper taste of the filth that they have to offer. The longest song (by far) is the opening track “Zen And The Art Of Shitting Teeth”, with its sludgy beginning and descent into grinding chaos. The majority of the remaining tracks are…

City Of The Sleazehounds is the second and final studio album to date by American groovy goregrind band Splatter Whore. It marks a departure from the riff-focused gory groove of the first album / EP into a more lo-fi rock and roll with goregrind vocals kinda deal. This is pretty unusual in itself, but I find that the debut was also pretty accessible for a goregrind record. City Of The Sleazehounds, despite (I think) not…

CxBxFxIxHxFxLxFxRxE are a gorenoise band from the south west of England, emerging from the foggy West Country marshes with a sound that is drowning in bog water and nastier than a putrefying amputation wound. Unlike most “bands” of this nature, CxBxFxIxHxFxLxFxRxE contain more than one member and function as a touring band, deafening audiences on what is soon to be a worldwide scale. The band are currently playing frequently in the UK and are set…

Man, this shit is dank – it sounds just like Paucities smashed into early Regurgitate; dirgy, muddy, demo-quality grinding mush with bottomfeeder sludgy shifted vokills. I love all this “new” American-wave goregrind shit that has all this mincecore edge to it – it’s fucking class, and Couple Skate is easily one of the best of the bunch (gotta give props to Haggus and Hyperemesis for coming joint first too). The demo / EP is only…

Spermanys Most Wanted (surely there should be an apostrophe on Spermany’s?) is the first 7″ EP / demo from now-legendary groovy grindcore band Gut. Technically, Drowning In Female Excrements came first as a hand-made cassette released by the band, but this 1992 EP was the first from the band on a label. Gut are credited with inventing the pornogrind sound, which is in its most primitive and infantile form here. Due to the production on…

Clitorape are a groovy goregrind band from France. Gynaecological Apocalypse is the group’s very sexy debut release, boasting a super-downtuned sound and dual-headed pitchshifted vocal approach, because y’know, one pitchshifter is never enough. Expect styles perfected by Rompeprop, GUT et al plunged to new depths; new lows, new brutality and most importantly, new grooves. Stand out tracks include the smooth jazz and nu-metal tomfoolery of the hilariously-titled “Bubble Butt Blues”, the blast happy “Natural Porn…

(2021 edit: there have been some very sketchy accusations that have come out against the guy in this project. Instead of deleting my review because of someone else’s actions, please find the original 2016 piece below unedited. Consider it a historical document, or whatever. To be absolutely clear: LIW unequivocally condemns any acts of sexual abuse, violence or manipulation.) Anal Floss Is Boss is an hilariously-titled goregrind project from Carmarthen of all places (although currently…

Voices is the really, really, reaaalllly long-awaited return of Malaysian grindcore machine, Wormrot. When you think that the last thing we heard from these guys was the Noise EP, that is surely a crime against extreme music in itself. This hiatus has spanned for longer than most grindcore band’s careers, but nevertheless, they are finally back, and most people would probably agree that it has been worth the wait. Voices marks a massive departure from the usual…

Holy shit this is intense! Whoever imagined the murky worlds of goregrind and “dark hardcore” meeting? This is the closest thing to mixing powerviolence savagery with nasty, nasty goregrind since I heard the excellent UxDxSx a few years ago. I mean, this isn’t to say that Vermin Womb are a goregrind band, but you need to press play on this beast and get your head around those vocals. There is something Lovecraftian about the sheer…

(I found this review after salvaging a HDD from an old laptop. It was originally written in 2013) Ahh, the simpler things in life…the laptop open browsing the world wide web, a beer next to my right hand (and several more chilling in a washing up bowl full of ice), and my latest Agathocles LP purchase spinning on the platter. I’ve said it before, but you really don’t need to fix what is broken. Agathocles…

Excellent noisecore-meets-harsh noise project (I’m sorry if you are unaware of these subgenres, that sentence must look ridiculous) from the USA. Definitely something that will push the boundaries of my listening patience if all mushed together into one big cube, simply due to the frequency of the distortions used, however once broken up into grinding chunks of noisecore I find it much more humanly consumable, which is just great, folks. This is one of those…

Nuclear Vomit proclaim themselves as “Anal Fisting Scum Grind Core”, which to be honest does a pretty good job of describing the band’s dirgy, sluggish metal-with-porno-grind-vocals approach. Bludgeoning, mid-paced death is the order of the day, complemented by mainly piggy vocals and back ‘n’ forth dancey dancey bits that are so prominent with shit from this part of the world. Hey kids, death metal can be fun! The Czech Republic is almost like a breeding…

Shackles play chunky, crusty powerviolence with energetic flair and manic vocal displays dripping in palpable rabidity. Maunder re-animates the bloated, festering corpse of punk with the spastic electricity of grindcore and the meaty (yet vegan friendly!) deliverance of modern metal. Imagine Nails meets Repulsion, only on a limited 7″, rather than 5000 copies on Relapse in a variety of fucking colours. Bleak, miserable and powerfully heavy stuff. Maunder was the band’s debut release, back in…

Holy shit! What a grinding explosion of noise! Intense hardcore meets the savagery of grind on this 5-track / 4-minute EP from American female-fronted mentalists Death Vacation. This really is short and sweet, hitting the “grind” button right on the spot; a no-nonsense approach of getting in, fucking you up, having a little mosh too, and then getting the fuck out. Everything is on point here, and the production is totally solid, but what really…

Vulvulator are (or were) a pornogrind band from the incredibly-metal-as-f sounding Uzhgorod, which is in Ukraine. One of the greatest tragedies of the 21st century is that they only ever released one album and a couple of splits. Obscenario is a bizarre blast through the usual pastures fermenting in these particular genres (slam / pornogrind / brutal death metal), but the production style chosen by the band (or maybe the studio producer?) really adds an…

Pothead are a bunch of a masked crusaders from Prague (Praha!), Czech Republic, who play down-tuned death metal / goregrind infused with the wondrous sounds of hip hop and also a bit of techno. It all seems a bit ridiculous, and quite frankly it is. On the first initial listen it sounds a bit like GUT jamming with Ahumado Granujo at a Cypress Hill gig (I know, right). I caught these guys live recently, and…

Gets Worse’s latest EP literally gets worse (I’m so sorry). Nah, I’m kidding – every single time I hear something from these guys they raise the bar. The sound here is absolutely fucking spot on; so crunchy and heavy but with clarity and definition. And the music? Well, it’s Gets Worse, but a little bit more grown up and defined. The fast bits are there; the powerviolence vocals, the cheesegrinder bass, and that interesting snare…

Something tells me that the members of Haggus may possibly be vegetarians, or even vegans. I’m not sure what it is; I really can’t put my finger on it… Anyways, sarcasm aside, this is some top notch mincecore. Like, seriously good shit. Like, better than 95% of the shit out there. Better than 95% of Agathocles splits. I love the new wave of gory mincecore/grind/whatever coming from America and Canada, and this fits perfectly into…

Holy Shit! The French are coming! Armed with turbo goregrind! Fukk! It might be daftly grandiose to label Gronibard as legendary, but these guys were stalwarts of the 90s/00s silly goregrind scene. A lot of party grind to follow simply does not possess the speed and carnage that these guys pack, especially on this particular album – the fantastically-titled Satanic Tuning Club Turbo! I mean, think about it, tupa tupa shit is becoming the death…

Pár Teček A Otazník, almost always abbreviated to PTAO, were a noisecore band that were initially active through the nineties up to the early 2000s (although there has been a full length released last year, and a series of CDrs a few years back). On this release they mix bizarre classical background music with very high studio-quality noisecore blur attacks, topped with goregrind style pitched vocals, which is a nice change for this type of…

This is classic Dead Infection shit right here. I’ve heard this before on one of the collection / compilation CDs, and I absolutely love the mix of growls and pitchshifters – usually when vocals contrast to shifted stuff it’s gonna be yelled, screeched, shouted or screamed, but not here. Growls not brutal enough? Well, top that off with some pitchshifted gurgles! Lo-Fi blasting grinding madness, but with enough finger-wagging classic riffs for the crusties to…

Nowhere is one of the latest releases from long running Brazilian grindcore mentalists Rot. Released 25 years after their formation, it shows that the band have absolutely no intention of slowing down their pace – blasting your face with 12 grinding hymns, which isn’t exactly bad going for a 7″ release. Rot take elements of mincecore and hardcore punk and mash it head on into the classic style of blasting grindcore. There’s honestly not a…

This is my first experience with Umigliazione – who play hardcore punk style stuff mashed up with super noisy freak-outs. They play 3 songs here, in 4 minutes or so, and it’s definitely not what I expect to hear. I’ll have to check these guys out more, as this is very brief. On the flipside, 2 Minuta Dreka offer up a massive contrast. This is far from the band’s later, groovy material. On this 7″…

I love this 7″, simply because it is so far removed from what Cattle Decapitation would become, and also because most people have absolutely no idea that it exists. I saw Cattle Decap recently and the thought of them breaking into anything off of this amused me greatly, although I would be super stoked to see how Travis would handle doing vocals on this material. This is a relic from the past, and a super…

I’ve been listening to Holocausto Canibal on and off for quite some time now, as well as that, Judas Cradle share a split with them and have played live with them, but one thing I’ve never done is looked backwards at the bands older stuff, until now, and I literally could not be happier that I did so. This shit leans more towards the late 80s / early 90s dirgy goregrind sound rather than the…

Grunt (the Portugese gore/porn/whatever/grind band, not the power electronics project of the same name) have been causing quite a stir lately for various reasons, and the main response among “haters” online is that the music made by Grunt is for neanderthals. So I listened. Ha! I’m not exactly a stranger to the seedier sub-genres of grind (shhh though, don’t tell the real trve grinders I called this grind) but I was very much blown away…

Gore Beyond Necropsy are nothing short of legendary on the noise/grind underground for a multitude of reasons (the hilariously titled split/collab with Merzbow springs to mind). They have long since changed their name and disappeared into total obscurity, but for a short while they kinda flew the flag for this kinda noisy shit, and this 12 minute EP showcases a slightly different side to the band’s infamous noisy grindcore. It all starts off with horror…

(2016 edit: this review was written about 7 years ago for my old blog Even Shakespeare Fed The Worms. I’ve rejigged it so I don’t sound like so much of an immature ass, but please keep this in mind whilst reading. Enjoy!) As I start this compact disc I am unaware entirely of what to expect, but I am met with a fairly typical sample, but it is followed by a very interesting and refreshing…

Enema Shower are a groovy goregrind/porngrind (yadda yadda) band from Slovakia, playing in a slow but funky style of danceable filth. The vocals are low, thick ‘n’ heavy (see what I did there, y’know, because it’s porno grind!), the guitar work is like razorwire despite the slow speed and the drums possess the satisfying piccolo ping that one expects from musical circles such as this. These three guys (and one girl) seem to have a…

Considering how much I listen to goregrind I always seem to let to the big ‘uns slide right on by….*sigh*. Anyway, this fucking amazing goregrind record was released last year by Bizarre Leprous and is a new project of Ex-LODH/SMES vokill puke bucket Erwin De Groot and one Kirill Maestro, who – according to Discogs – played guitars and programming in a band called Jaga-Jaga Massacre (who I’ll definitely be keeping an eye open for…

Very, very spicy goregrind, my friends. Lo-fi blast fest featuring members of Super Fun Happy Slide. Unsure exactly what is going on in that album art and I don’t really want to know, either. Oh, the clogged drain, how she gurgles so eloquently… 

Being an absolute pinnacle of modern grindcore, it is almost impossible to fault this Magrudergrind record. With that in mind, I will start with my only gripe. Where’s the bass? I fucking love bass. That’s literally all I can criticise. I remember making some unsavoury comments about Pig Destroyer getting a bass player and having seen them live several times since the change I can only long hopefully for Magrudergrind to one day pack that…

Gorrendous Whoreplasmia is a goregrind/gorenoise project I started in 2013 simply because I’d thought up what I considered to be a really cool fucking name (LOL). I even had a proper logo drawn up (by the late Sludgesicle Records owner Mike Stock, who sadly passed away last year) because I thought the name was just that golden. I can be a total idiot sometimes when it comes to stupid musical ideas, so now that I…

Vomitoma have been around for a while, and whilst their sound varies a bit from time to time, their material on this split sounds like a mix between Libido Airbag and something altogether more traditional-drum-machine-goregrind (lol), like, I dunno, Dehydrated Tissues? Either way this is boss as fuck and should fill all of your lo-fi dirgy goregrind needs. Hyperemesis just get better and better and every single thing I hear by them just cements them…

Urine Festival is one of those things that exist to challenge you on how you feel about a particular genre, sound, theme or subject. A ridiculous form of music at the best of times, goregrind (or porngrind) is known for it’s reams of dodgy content and greasy subject matter. Often, it takes somebody or something pushing the elements making up your favourite genre to the absolute maximum extreme before you can begin to reflect and…