grindcore

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…

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…

Now this is what I’m talking about! Trading pays off when you get gems like this! Starting off sounding like demo-quality Converge with Iron Monkey’s Johnny Morrow on vocals, it doesn’t take long for To Die to burst into mental grindcore and body-slamming breakdowns. Most of the songs are notoriously short, but they are mental as fuck and really really rabid. The guitar has a really mournful undertone to it, almost like black metal riffing…

Jig-Ai play goregrind; pulsating, menacing, phat as fuck, groovy goregrind. Oh boy! The overall production is heavy and fairly downtuned but sprightly enough to not get bogged down. The vocals are an endless mix of styles, defaulting unusually on pig squeals (not entirely typical of goregrind, one must point out) but also throwing in a whole spectrum of weird noises in too. It’s like farmyard grindcore here! This album was out for four years on…

An instant porngrind classic. 2006’s debut from Italian noisecore-cum-grinders 2 Minuta Dreka really made it’s mark in a time where pure groovy grind had gone a bit stagnant (GUT’s Cumback, anyone?). For me it holds the perfect production; that excellent fine line between studio quality and rehearsal room feel. I guess it is the very organic drum sound (count-ins and all) that helps keep this record’s garage vibe locked down. Let’s Start A Porn… was…

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 had this EP (or mini-album?) for a while thanks to Grindcore Karaoke, and considering it is powerviolence to the core I really enjoy it. I can never seem to shake the comedy value behind the “low” powerviolence vocals (and this is coming from a guy who loves goregrind), but sometimes the music is so awesome that it all just fits together and I totally see where the sound is coming from. The record initially…

All these years I’ve been collecting records and I’ve never come across a flexi and all of a sudden I have three of them in a month. When it rains, it pours, eh? I don’t really know of that much stuff on flexi that I want; there’s a Swans “New Mind” promo flexi which I hope to end up owning and a live Enemy Soil flexi, but other than that, there isn’t much else. It…

This is one my favourite splits ever! Limited to 2000 copies thanks to Relapse Records. There is the usual Relapse 100 clear, 100 on orange, a bizarre 50 on white, and the remaining 1750 on black. I was lucky to get a black copy at a fairly decent price, but be wary that the white and orange pressings can fetch hefty price tags on record collector websites. Classic Pig Destroyer are on top form, covering the…

When I got this through the door the other day it took me right back to the thick of the good ol’ trading days! Gotta love these insane underground goregrind compilations and splits, there really is nothing like them anywhere else in the music world. As with most Dehydrated Tissues releases, this has been put out on the band’s own label Regurgitated Stoma Stew Productions, who deal in a plethora of absolutely fucking filthy goregrind,…

Welcome to quite possibly the most perfect goregrind sound. Last Days of Humanity are probably better known for their later, 9000bpm efforts, but Hymns of Indigestible Suppuration is more my bag of disfigured body parts. The whole thing starts off with a frankly odd sample, before kicking into some of the best down-tuned slop I’ve ever had the displeasure of hearing. Could that artwork be summed up in a more perfect sound? I doubt it. The guitars…

I’ll quickly start this post by asking if anyone reading has any idea what’s become of Tumour these days? Is the project still going? Any news at all? Drop me a comment below if you know. Thanks!!! This was the first Tumour record I heard, and I got it through a trade with the label in (I think) 2007, so it was a while ago now. I’m not sure if I fell in love with…

Gut sounds absolutely huge on vinyl, I just wish they’d stop fucking around and play some more grind! I love the fun element of modern Gut whereas a lot of goregrinders shun them now, but on this record for the most part it’s a template of “typical porn sample followed by uninspired five-to-ten second song with silly vocals”. I am glad that I didn’t shell out the earth for the original CD version of this,…

Okay. I’m confused with this Dead Infection side here. What the hell is the furniture obsession thing about? The artwork, instead of some putrefying gore, is a table and chairs. The songs, instead of your usual goregrind fodder, are all about furniture. What the hell have these guys been smoking / snorting / injecting? Nevertheless, the music here is top form and Dead Infection blast and chug through some dank grindcore for us all. Have…

Holy shit this is some of the grooviest goregrind stuff I’ve heard in a long while! I just wanna get up and dance around the house, or more preferably a muddy field in the Czech Republic. I’m glad to be set to release a 4″ record of this guy later this year – that is something I am greatly looking forward to. Pairing the nasty sounds of early LDOH with the “vibe” that I can…

To celebrate the recent “fixing” of my record player so that it now plays records smaller than 6″, here is another 5″ review! Where can one possibly go wrong with a 5″ full of Gang Green covers? ANb’s cover of “Alcohol” is punchy and bouncy, and is virtually flawless with Randall back on the mic. That’ll do Hull, that’ll do. I am unfamiliar at this point with Armageddon Nuclear System (more commonly known as ANS)…

Now this IS interesting. I suppose just like me you have always wondered what happens when you mix Anal Cunt’s offensive comedy / hate grind with pitchshifted goregrind from hell? Ha ha! Well, the end result turns out sounding a lot like Bowel Rot, who have managed to surprise me with some originality regarding the mixing up of sub-genres. I can safely say I had never thought of this type of mix before. The guitar…

It’s been absolutely yonks since I last reviewed a 5″ and upon receiving this I was horrified to find that my current record player doesn’t player the little fuckers because of the auto-return function. Now, my old deck is a mixing deck and plays them fine, but it doesn’t have a pre-amp, and therefore lacks volume when connected to my current, all-digital stereo set up. I wasn’t exactly in the position to rush out and…

If the name of this record and the artwork above screams out to you – “Porngrind!” then guess what? You’re fucking wrong, bitches! What we have here is an ear-melting cacophony of rancid fucking gorenoise. Ok, maybe not flat out noise but noise-core. Don’t forget the core! It reminds me of VRV, the way the drum machine is pushed out to the max and just left to blast away unhindered, when all the wasps in…

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,…

Mad props to Mike from Vaginal Necrosis / Dead Chemists Records for sending me this CD for free, you’re a legend! This has been out for a few years now on Parkinson Wankfist and Alarma Records. To be honest, I expected a compilation CD with 100 Myspace bedroom goregrind bands, but this CD seems to contain about 50% Myspace bedroom goregrind bands, 25% crappy digigrind/gabba/noise artists and 25% actual death metal and goregrind bands. Those…

I remember back in the day when I first heard of this album. I remember how ridiculously excited I was to hear something so musically challenging. 100 songs? Less than 20 minutes? Bitch please, you must be trippin’! And trippin’ I was when I first got this record in it’s original 3″ CD package from some crazy-mainstream outlet like Virgin Megastore or Zavvi (I forget which). I now own this testament to insanity three times; on the…

I put this out around Christmas time on my part-time label Pointless Records, and even managed to shift all ten copies. Holy shit, that’s a fucking first! Ha ha. These were cut for me by a lovely American chap by the name of Graham, who was exceptional in handling this project. Get at me for his contact info, if your looking for some cutting. Obviously I can’t review Clunge as it’s my creation but I will…

Another few months sail by, another Agathocles or Necrocannibalistic Vomitorium record falls into my claws! Ha ha! It’s good because I think that if I listened to Necro Vom on a regular basis I’d become a serial killer of skanky heroin-riddled hookers, but every now and then I need my fix of cold, Eastern bass-grind and this 7″ out on Escaravelho Records does not disappoint. The Necro Vom sound here is at it’s most typical, which is also…

I don’t know if I like Throatplunger because of their wigger-slam-cross-hypergrind nonsense, or because of their absolutely fucking excellent samples. Mingling both in disgusting pornographic unison, Throatplunger hit the fuckin’ spot with their sounding-suspiciously-like-XXX-Maniak grindcore. Pummeled by Cocks comes in DVD case with a photocopied cover featuring all the awful xeroxed porn you could ever want. What bugs me is that on the back, the tracklist is a couple of songs short! What’s up with…

Some of my most favourite ANb stuff ever! What a mess! There are like 28 songs on this 7″, all of them micro-blasts of pure grinding hell. For those of you that have Bestial Machinery, these tracks are on disc 2, so you’ve probably heard them before. I can waffle on about like I can with any other ANb release but this really just has to be heard. It’s been out since 1996 on Bovine…

Another Agx split with (apparent) original songs here, so I went ahead and got it from the Goatgrind Records distro. The Agx stuff is fairly good but the sound leaves a lot to be desired. As far as I can tell it isn’t live or anything, but it really is a nasty recording. Yes, yes, I am still fully aware of what genre I’m reviewing here but is it too much to want on some clarity every…

This is such an awesome looking tape! Just look at those colours! This is pure noisecore. I can’t tell who’s side is who’s as there is no information but one band plays in a slow, dirgy and nasty style whilst the flip-side counterpart seems to be smashing fuck out of an electric guitar in the name of noise. Very, very under the radar and for fans of true noisecore fuckery only. Limited to 20 pieces on the…

Another piece of goregrind history that is now mine! Hahahahaha! LDOH splits in the original forms are rather hard to find these days, so I am very lucky in the respect that the two I have (to date) I’ve gotten for fairy reasonable prices. What we have here is their split with Rakitis, which was, if I’m not mistaken, out a while before the Hymns…. album, so it’s fairly aged by today’s standards. In fact,…

The best thing about this tape is that I have no fucking idea how I ended up owning it. I cannot for the life of me remember where I got the thing from! Anyway, this is a transparent purple tape containing a live set of Birdflesh performing in Japan. The quality is fairly clear, and the band play all the hits, but it definitely remains at the level of being a completist item for Birdflesh fans; I…

Welcome to part 2 of my Christmas Day double post! Not sure how many of you will actually be reading this on Christmas but I hope the festivities have progressed satisfactorily for you all. I for one will be no doubt smashed off my face by now on my parent’s free beer. Can’t beat the Christmas visit! This year’s Decibel Christmas flexi is a follow up to last years cracking ANb EP, A Joyful Noise….

Ho ho ho! Merry fucking Christmas! Hope your having a good one and that plenty of turkey and grog is consumed. In line with the festivities, I have planned a double post for today, showcasing both the Agoraphobic Nosebleed flexis put out by Decibel magazine. I’ll start with my favourite – the former of the two; last year’s Make A Joyful Noise on square transparent red. These flexis are an absolute bastard to get in…

Every now and then, in all scenes of music, a band or artist will come along and snowball into something massive. Insect Warfare were an absolutely fantastic grindcore band, so at least in that case they weren’t shite as well as overrated. It’ll just be the latter then. Phew. I feel bad writing that because I believe and want decent bands to get the attention and exposure that they deserve, but I don’t think anyone can deny…

Pig Destroyer’s Prowler record is considered a modern classic in the world of American grind, and it doesn’t take a genius to see why. Adding a poetic, dark and downright creepy edge to the hyper-precision blasts helped Pig Destroyer stand apart from the legions of other grindcore acts clamoring for attention; and despite what your opinion is on what Pig Destroyer has become these days, it is very hard to deny that Prowler isn’t an absolute corker…

This here is the fantastic repress on Power It Up Records. Mine, unfortunately, is not the edition with the bonus 7″ (I didn’t know it existed when I bought this, which is a shame as I wouldn’t have minded paying a bit extra for the whole set). This set contains Effortless Regurgitation… on one slab of wax, and the Concrete Human Torture tape plastered onto a single side of another slab of wax. Adorning side…

(2021 Edit: You can thank Photobucket once again for shafting me out of the images of my record collection. Please enjoy this watermarked piece of shit! Ta!) I never thought that I’d end up with some of this band’s lesser available stuff, so I was chuft to see some excellent vinyl on sale really cheap on the recent Cemetery Rapist / Anal Penetration UK tour. This was the ridiculous price of £6, which is great because I never…

What I have here for review is the 1997 Morbid Records (RIP) LP release of Humarrogance. The sound is that of the usual Agathocles stock, if not a little crisper than most recordings. The tracks blast and grind away with impressive mincing fury until it comes to an abrupt halt at the start of track eight, “White Horse”. This song has a strange rock and roll vibe to it, and it is very refreshing to…

Gorgonized Dorks may be painfully noisy in their approach to grind, but at least they do it right. Odd keyboard tones accompany crusty drumming and a highly-punk-influenced guitar and bass performance. It’s highly infectious stuff, torn apart by vocalist Katz’ harsh laments. If you like this or not will depend entirely on your tolerance for the noisier, more distorted side of grind. Not so much can be said for Xanax Feast, unfortunately. You can barely…

This clusterfuck of a record is a collaboration effort by Agromosh and My Cheap Ass Life. Ok, let’s start with Sloth. I don’t know what happened here. This is some whacked out shit. Sample-laden minimalistic noises and quirky sound effects meets drum machine metal and second rate black metal vocals. Add a hint of noisecore, and probably a fuckton of drugs, and you’ve got Sloth. ‘Nuff said. Minch on the other hand, use a dryer as one of their instruments. They are…

Two bands, four songs – every last one of them covers. Yacopsae’s usual frenetic powerviolence noise attack has been dropped here for a more punk, almost progressive (ha ha) take on things. They cover two songs, by Gang Green and Verbal Abuse respectively and they are definitely more laid back on this 5″ than the flip-side which features Massgrav, who tear into shit with no fucking remorse! Noisy and very fast, Massgrav clearly are the dominating band on this…

And the award for best cover art ever goes to…Stoma! Ha ha. This band are becoming a long standing default in the goregrind world, and with good cause; their low-end, rumbling gurgle’n’scream sound projects them as a kind of scat and prolapse obsessed version of Regurgitate. In the vein of the sheer ridiculousness of this particular sub-genre, this can only be a good thing. Their side of this EP, entitled Rectal Cranium Inversion, is two mid-length tracks of Stoma-ery goodness. My…

Toecutter HC kick things off with a super-fast punky grind assault, and after all the non-grind I’ve been reviewing recently I find it rather difficult to keep up! It’s all kept rather simple here, there is a no-nonsense approach which seems to be missing on a lot of records these days. Straight to the point and over before I’ve written no more than a few sentences, Toecutter HC are ones to watch in the volatile world of…

There is no other band in the world that sounds like Dead Neanderthals (although 7000 Dying Rats and Rich Hoak’s solo experiments do come close in their own little ways). Jazzgrind? Or is it saxgrind? Who the fuck would have thought it? Not me, that’s for sure! Trust the Netherlands! Ha ha. This is one of the original Bat Shit Records pressings of the 7″ EP, limited to 105 copies (I have number 92). It…

The first thing you’ll likely notice about this EP is that the labels instruct you to rip this at 45rpm, when it clearly should be played at 33rpm. Typos aside, we have a seriously interesting mix here. Fascist Insect have a punky approach to grind, and throw a lot of different influences into the mix as well (there is even an acoustic guitar at one point). The sound is very metallic, and the vocals are very strained and impressive….

Hells bells I’ll say one thing; Bringer Of Gore Rex loves the dirtier underbelly of grindcore almost as much as he loves his badly pixelated cover artwork! No frills here once again, just Tumour belting out blast after blast of indecipherable watery cyber grind. almost sounding like your mother drowning in piss after stealing the original LDOH demo and adding a electronic drum track to it (before she drowned in piss). Yes, this is that…

I always forget how much I love BFOT until I spin this one-sided nightmare. The mix of power electronics and harsh (dare I say it) post-grind really is something to behold. The electronic and noise passages range from the downright horrid and nasty through to floral and sprawling; lush soundscapes of peace acting as intermissions between the balls-to-the-wall full band pieces, which are something to behold all on their own with their genre-bending groovyness. BFOT…

A quick note on looking back at this blog’s beginnings: I realise how harsh I was towards Agathocles in some posts. Whilst I do tire of them constantly re-hashing the same old stuff over and over in different shitty recordings, they are an excellent grindcore band (yes, grindcore!) and when they actually make original material it is usually very good. Not to mention they are fucking excellent live! I picked this 7″ up from Nic’s Bones…

The more I write about XXX Maniak the more I wish they would come back and make some more music, as a one piece or two piece; I’m easy. Just make more grind. Please! There are some XXX Maniak greats here, “I Must Fuck Everything” is just too catchy for it’s own good, as is “Slutty Vag, Tiny Tits” and “Unbridled Sex with Dead Animals”. It’s not their best sound ever though, it feels like…

As with the other Mixomatosis 7″ I have, I have come to the conclusion that they seem desperate to squeeze as little as they can onto a record and call it an EP. Saying that, this is by far my favourite Mixomatosis minute or two; obscene goregrind obviously digitally remixed (shifted drums) melds awkwardly with (probably copyrighted) full orchestra music, before falling away and returning with more flanger-drenched horribleness. This is more noisecore than I…

Alas Babylon! What we get here from the forever excellent and fantastico! crazy grinders TFD are demo versions / different recordings of songs that appear on the Hater record, mixed with a few others for good measure. The sound is big and biting as usual, the clusterfuck drums ahead of the winding guitars. It is a condensed version of some of their excellent tracks and a great place to start if you’ve never heard their mental-as-fuck grindcore…

How nice it is to look back on something you’ve created! I’ve been involved in my fair share of shitty projects, and Urinal Shit was my solo noisecore/goregrind crossover. In the myspace days it (somehow) garnered small levels of interest, and I was even offered a realise by a D.I.Y. label, which really rocked my shit. The now rather extinct Mental Abuse records released my first and only EP under this name in mid to…

At first glance this 7″ looks awesome, but take a closer look at the artwork and you’ll notice it is actually badly drawn. Nevermind! Epic studio quality shits from Mixomatosis with hilarious vocals. Terrible samples aside, this music is well recorded and well put together, but side B’s live track is a bit shit, if I’m honest. Also, at 45rpm it is over in such a short time.  I wouldn’t know where to start with Mixomatosis’ rather extensive back…

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 the TVG Global Thrashcore Dealer pressing of Abuse, which I picked up before it was re-released by Earache a short while later. I got this off Shane Embury’s FETO stall in Deathfest 2010 (or were Wormrot selling this next to Shane Embury’s stall? That would make much more sense, surely? I don’t know!) back when Wormrot were very much unknown in the UK. They have come a long way since, and two full UK tours later I feel they…

Where Scum put grindcore on the map for most people, From Enslavement to Obliteration took the whole genre to new depths of mental speed and heavyness. I read once, I think in Terrorizer magazine, FETO being described as the bastard of a younger brother to Scum. Scum may have started it all, but FETO perfected the blueprint. To be honest, it just rips your fucking head off. I got this picture disc as a gift…

This has to be one of my favourite records – just look at those colours! The way this album was packaged and marketed by Relapse was brilliant; alongside this excellently nauseating vinyl package, the CD version came with extravagant packaging and a formaldehyde scented disc for ultra-mortician vibes. That’s dedication! For me, I find that I love The County Medical Examiners because they fill the void that Carcass left when they fucked off to make…

I don’t think in the history of music that an album title has so correctly summed up it’s contents like this one. By the time Anal Cunt announced that they were working on a new album that wasn’t shitty attempts at rock music, most people had either forgotten or given up completely. Now you have to take what I’m saying here with a pinch of salt because it is Anal Cunt and it is hard…

“It’s really hard to tell which side is which!” These are my first thoughts upon playing this little brown rectangle of hell. Both sides feature noise maniac Katz Seki, and I’m not sure what is meant to be Gorgonized Dorks and what is meant to be his solo/side project Humanextermination Project. After inspecting the packaging it seems that drums are only credited to the G.Dorks side so what I am listening to now must be…

Sorry it’s been a while since I’ve done a post, I’ve been working on other things including behind the scenes work for this blog (writing a lot of posts in advance is a new tactic I’m going for). Today we have a post for Enemy Soil’s classic slice of drum machine grind; Casualties of Progress. The EP was put out on Relapse in April 1995 on a run of both black and grey marbled records. It has…

What we have here is the 2006 split release between 7″ masters Embalming Theatre and the excellent yet short lived gore/porn/cybergrind maniacs XXX Maniak. This, along with the Birdflesh / Hatebeak split and the Bowel Stew / Tu Carne split, constituted my first vinyl purchases ever. Those were the days! This was put out by the excellent Haunted Hotel Records on a run of 1000 copies; 300 on grey and 700 on black. According to…

What I like about getting another Embalming Theatre split is that you can see what weird and wonderful art Mr. Gemmet has come up with time. This under-rated Swiss genius seems to squeeze out any pretentiousness from his surrealism before bashing it headways in full colour into the morbid, the sick, and the downright unusual. This rather colourful 7″ sleeve features a very angry looking guy with wires in his mouth. These wires are subsequently,…

To say that The Cumback split Gut’s fanbase in half would be an understatement; 2006’s rap metal crossover fuckfest alienated more goregrind fans than you’d care to even think existed! Who then, I hear you cry, keeps pressing Gut records? And who the fuck still buys them? Well, the answer is labels like Supreme Chaos and idiots like me, it would seem. Pete Steele (may he rust in piece) in an interview about Type O…

This here post is about the fantastic Morbid Records classic split between goregrind legends Dead Infection and prolific noise/rock/goregrind/strange Japanese mentalists, CSSO. It was only ever pressed once in 1998 on black and is therefore obviously very much out of print. When I discovered the wonders of the Discogs website this was one of the very first things I bought, being big into goregrind as a teenager I dreamt one day of owning all the…

After Dead and Butcher ABC toured Japan together it wasn’t much of a surpise when a split came out a few years later. Japan’s excellent Obliteration Records co-released this (it would seem) with Autopsy Stench Records (who, being German, I assume have something to do with Dead). As far as my small mind is aware, all the copies are on black. What we get from the usually excellent goregrind legends Dead is actually a rather…

I’ve become very selective with my grind purchases these days (which is a real shame, but money is a factor), but this looked really interesting so I picked it up. I love the homage-style splits that come around every so often, and this one features two really awesome players in the grind scene so it would have been daft not to get it. I got it in June 2011 at some stall in Hellfest, three…

My copy of this record is the 2007 reissue by the fantastic Bones Brigade Records on clear vinyl. This noisy EP was originally released in 1998 on Deaf American Records (a label once run by ‘Truth’s own Rich Hoak) on a run of red records. There is also another Bones Brigade press of 300 on white. This is perplexing one for Brutal Truth. It is aeons away from their well assembled studio albums, having been…

This here version of this awesome little record is the 2010 repress by Deep Six Records. For those of you not in the know (like me when I bought this – Ha ha!) this split was originally released back in 1996 as a collaboration between fellow blogspotters Bovine Records and Rhetoric Records. I got this off the Bones Brigade stall in Hellfest 2010. Basically what we have here is more horrible spazzy 8 track foolishness from Brutal Truth! Exactly what the doctor ordered!…

(2021 edit: I’ve included the original shitty pictures/scans for this post because it was one of the first I ever did for Lines In Wax, over ten years ago!) This here is one of the very first 7″s I ever bought! Birdflesh split with the hilarious Hatebeak on Relapse Records. I have the repress edition of 500 on transparent purple / green splatter. The original press consisted of 400 yellow and 100 clear (currently for…

Your looking at the post for Blood Duster’s 2004 re-release of their 1992 demo tape, on a super cool picture disc. It was remastered from the original tape and released by Bizarre Leprous Productions. Musically, it’s a whole world away from Blood Duster’s bizarre mix of blasting grindcore and swanky rock’n’roll; a dirgy, muddy six tracks of horrible noisy goregrind. Where pitch-shifted vocals sneak into later Blood Duster every now and then, here they are the…

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…

So this is the biggest Lines In Wax blog post yet! The mighty grindcore compilation that is This Comp Kills Fascists in 7″ box set form: “This Box Kills Fascists (Always)”. It was originally released on CD by Relapse in 2008, and then on double 12″ LP as a co-release between Relapse and Deep Six Records. In early 2009, this monster version dropped on Relapse, imitating a series of split 7″s. As per usual with…

This is “Another” split EP between early Anal Cunt and the slightly infamous Meat Shits. The version I have was put out in black wax on Seth Putnam’s own label, Wicked Sick Records, back in 1991. As with the 88 Song EP, Fudgeworthy Records have re-released this rare AxCx 7″ in 1996 on blue and clear pressings. Musically, it’s a typical old school noisecore Anal Cunt up against the horrible noisecore/goregrind crossover mess that is…

This is Anal Cunt’s 7″ single for “Stayin’ Alive” (yes, a Bee Gee’s cover song!) that was put out on Earache Records just before the release of “Top 40 Hits” in 1994. All copies are a transparent, almost marbled orange colour. Musically this is a pointless 7″, making it totally a collector’s item only. All tracks are on the Top 40 Hits album, except “Schnauf”, which is a parody cover of “Shout” by Tears For…

This post is about Anal Cunt’s 2001 EP “Defenders Of The Hate”, which was released not too long before Seth fell into a coma. It was re-released on CD in 2007 by the same label (Menace To Sobriety records) bolstered by a bunch of other tracks from various compilations and splits. As far as I’m aware, all versions of this record are on black. Aesthetically, the record is pretty standard and boring. It has a…

This is the first ever EP by legendary noise fools Anal Cunt. It was originally self-released in 1989 by the band, and then re-released in 1997 by Fudgeworthy Records. The Fudgeworthy version (the version I own) was a 1000 pieces on grey wax. The originally 1989 release was on black, although I am unsure how many were made. The 1st original pressing is extremely collectable. If anything, this was a mere sampler of what was…

What a horrible, horrible record! This is Anal Cunt’s ridiculous 5643 Song EP, self-released by Seth and put out in Europe by TNT & Records and Stridecore Records. This is one of the European pressings, which is identifiable by it’s slightly odd and perplexing rude artwork. According to scarce info available, this release was pressed continuously in 10 different colours, causing insane overlapping effects on some extremely rare copies. One obscenely rare version of a…

Here we have Agoraphobic Nosebleed’s 2009 split with The Endless Blockade, which was released on a 1000 copy press by Relapse Records. 500 were made on blue, and 500 were made on black. Strangely enough, there doesn’t seem to be the usual 100 clear pressed on this Relapse release (2021 edit: the 100 clear run does exist for this one, like every Relapse release). Agoraphobic Nosebleed’s material sounds like a carry-on in the vein of…

Very interesting EP from Agoraphobic Nosebleed, out on Garden Of Exile in a plethora of different colours. In the first pressing of 800 copies, 350 were made on black, 250 yellow, 150 white and 50 super rare yellow / white “fucked up” versions that were offered as a pre-order. These 50 are hand numbered and fetch up to £40 on Discogs. The entire release was repressed the same year (2007) on a 100 red copies….

This is a special post for me, as this was my first ever Agoraphobic Nosebleed vinyl, and also one of the first 7″s I ever bought (2021 edit: I also now have a significant portion of this artwork tattooed on my arm). I am talking, of course, of the fucking livid split ANb did with Kill The Client on Relapse back in 2007. This is part of the original pressing of 1000, split into 500…

This here is the brilliant split between Agoraphobic Nosebleed and Total Fucking Destruction; two of modern grind’s finest acts coming together on one short record. It was originally released in 2007 by Bones Brigade Records on a press of 1500 copies, 1300 on blue and 200 rare ones on green. It was repressed in 2009 on another 1000 red copies. Not sure how many people realize this, but the record is actually marbled. You can’t see it…

My final Agathocles 7″ for the time being! Phew! This here is the cheap Agathocles split with Jan AG & The Gajna, which was not released on any label. Again, there is no pressing info online anywhere, and I am assuming that all copies are black. Considering both bands feature Jan as the frontman, the evidence points to self-release, but something about this tells me it might be a bootleg. Any clarification is welcome! Agathocles…

This is Agathocles’ short EP called “Gotcha”, which is a collection of tracks that originally appeared on their split CD with Comrades (and Ravage on the Malaysia version, by yet another label) that was released by SOA Records. There isn’t label or pressing info included in the release, or easily available online. It is unclear whether the band re-released these songs on this 7″ themselves, or it was done as a bootleg. Judging by the…

This is Agathocles’ split with Italian fastcore band Repulsione, released in 2008 as a co-release between the excellent Grind Block Records and ¡ZAS! Autoproduzioni. Limited to 500 copies on black wax. Another great Agathocles release, I’m not entirely sure if these songs are originals or not but they are not of the “what appears on 95% of splits” stock. Sound is raw as per usual, but great tunes. Repulsione, who feature members of 2 Minuta Dreka (also the…

Atomçk split with Paucities on black wax, release in March 2011 by a whole team of small labels working together, which is really cool. 7 Degrees Records, Selfish Satan Recordings, Killing Art Records, Rauha Turva & Ill Neglect all worked together to put out this release. All copies are black. Atomçk is the strongest band here by a country mile; their modern “nerdy” grind outshines Paucities’ usual noisy mush. That’s not to say that Paucities…

“Live And Noisy” is an Agathocles double 7″ set organised by Bad People Records and Riotous Assembly in 1997. This is the black “repress” version, it is unclear whether the alternate grey version on 500 pieces came before or at the same time as this version. This is one of my favourite Agathocles vinyl, probably because there isn’t an awful noise band hogging the flip side to each record. Sure, the sound is really raw…

This here is the crazy split between grind monsters Agoraphobic Nosebleed and the slightly ridiculous Crom. The fantastically named cult record label Regurgitated Semen Records is wholly responsible for this abomination of a record. This is one of the 500 copies released on black in 2009, along with 500 on red. Strange fact: in 2010 RSR let loose another 100 copies on black which came with a bonus 5″ that turned out to be “fake”….

This shitstorm of a noise/grind record was released in 2004 by Noise Annihilation Records, a sublabel of the parent label Festering Deathfuck Decomposition. All copies are red. I do not know how many were made. This is worth having for the song titles and band name alone. On the back of the sleeve it says “ASHIAIP play lofi as fuck hizbulla blastgrind”, and I don’t think I could have put it better myself. If you’re not into…

Another absolutely awesome release from Bones Brigade Records, pairing the craziness of France’s Gronibard and perverse, head-rattled drum machine tunes of Anal Penetration. Pressed in 2009 on a run of 500, with 300 on black and 200 on transparent green. Anal Penetration bring their usual watery, boxy porngrind to the mix, while on the other side of the disc Gronibard take the opportunity to crucify Anal Penetration at every given moment, with song titles such…

Released in 2008 on 500 copies of black vinyl by I Hate Humanity Records, Netherlands. I imagine that I picked this up in some trade or something. In fact, I explicitly remember having a few of them knocking about. I think they are all gone, but I kept one for my personal stash of vinyl.

Released in June 2009 on Bringer Of Gore Records in Belgium. Limited edition of 335 on black. Agathocles side is more re-recordings of classic tracks, but the recordings are great. VRV side is pointless noisecore, which is actually a bit grating on my patience (which is a shame as VRV is really cool). As with most split 7″s featuring Agathocles, this is most definitely a completist’s item only.

Released in 1992 on Rodel Records in Germany, although a different original version was released in Japan a year earlier by Fight Men Records (RIP), making this 7″ a reissue. I do not know any exact pressing information, other than the entire run was pressed on black wax. Agathocles spew up a few live recordings, which are surprisingly really good. Morbid Organs Mutilation are pretty cool too. A lot of sources credit M.O.M’s tracks as…

Agathocles split with Embalming Theatre, released in 2000 by the now seemingly defunct Paranoia Syndrome label. Pressing limited to 1000 copies on clear/red splatter. I have number 649. Another favourite of mine, with two masters of the 7″ split meeting on one piece of vinyl. Everything by Embalming Theatre is just great (don’t know why, it’s just something about them that makes them very listenable for me) and it’s an amazing that Agathocles seem to…

One of Agathocles’ many split 7″s, this time on black wax with Kadaverficker. Released as a joint venture between Power It Up and NCU Records. This is far from Agathocles’ best, but nowhere near their worst, repetitive, churned over material. Kadaverficker aren’t too bad, either. Definitely a completist’s item (if your daft enough to try and collect every Agathocles 7″ in the world!).

One of Agathocles’ first ever 7″ EPs, released on Flabby Records (RIP) back in 1991. All pressings are on black vinyl, although the artwork varies from shades of white to shades of green and red. I believe that there are equal numbers of each colour out there (there is no evidence to suggest otherwise). This is probably my favourite Agathocles release; it really shows a different sound to the political based noise approach that we…

This is Slimewave issue #2, featuring Cripple Bastards and Sublime Cadaveric Decomposition. As always with Relapse’s Slimewave Series, it’s strictly limited to 1000 pieces. This is number 379 of 900 on white/blue splatter; the other 100 being the usual clear pressing that Relapse always does. Cripple Bastards’ side isn’t entirely different from a lot of their later stuff, but that in no way implies that it isn’t any good; it’s relentless blasting grind at it’s…

Slimewave Series #6 featuring Mumakil & Inhume. Part 6 of 6 in Relapse’s infamous gore grind compilation series. This is number 778 out of a 1000 pressed, and out of 300 on yellow. There are an extra 300 on green, 300 more on green/red splatter and 100 on clear, as per always with Relapse. I must have been living under a rock in the gore grind scene when Relapse started putting out the Slimewave 7″s,…

Slimewave Series #5 featuring XXX Maniak & Throatplunger, limited to 1000 records on Relapse Records. 100 pressed on clear, 400 pressed on yellow/green and 500 pressed on red/yellow. I have number 420. This was the first Slimewave 7″ I got my hands on and it’s one of my favourite releases by both bands involved. XXX Maniak’s new cleaner sound was a teaser for what was to come on their split with Coffins, and Throatplunger are…

Slimewave #4 featuring Japanische Kampfhorspiele & Bathtub Shitter. Limited to 1000 copies on Relapse Records. 900 on white/orange haze and 100 on clear, as per Relapse tradition. This here copy is number 159 of 1000. Bathtub Shitter bring the chunky, Eastern gore grind to Relapse’s compilation. You just can’t help but love it. JxKx on the other hand, have a really meaty sound that belongs more in metal that it does in grind, but that…

Obscenity Cult Records presents Extreme Audio Gangbang 01 featuring Vaginal Necrosis, Bitchslicer, It Will End In Pure Horror & Wallygrinder. Limited to 500 copies on purple. The colour of the artwork varies from white, purple, orange to several other colours. I got this off Mike from Vaginal Necrosis when he had a few copies to sell off. It’s not bad; a strange mix of gore grind and cyber grind, if there ever was one! The…

7000 Dying Rats “Forced Boat” EP on transparent pink 7″ vinyl, out on Scenester Credentials records in 2002. I bought this from www.relapse.com This 7″ record has quite the story behind it, as the extensive notes provided with it depict. Basically, the label were screwed over by a massive corporate pressing plant, and lost all their money to them. It took nearly 5 years to produce and press this record. It comes with an insert…