Torn Flesh Records are giving away a free compilation (all their works are free respectively) of blistering audio terror and depravity. Featuring many a decent band from the far corners of the earth, each bringing their gruesome platter of cacophony to the table, akin to musical worship to the respective elements of defilement and anger. Be sure to get this monstrosity before it gets you!
01 - No Good Can Come From This (Intro)
02 - Paroxsihzem - Nausea
03 - Abriosis - As The Shepherd Spites
04 - elephantknuckle - This song SUCKS, a Ramones sample couldn't even make it better
05 - Robocop - Fed To The Wolves
06 - XII Boar - Train Wreck
07 - Disphere - Behind Red Eyes
08 - Kusari Gama Kill - Kabuki Jesus
09 - Nekropolis - Ground Zero
10 - Everfailed - Haunting Me Within
11 - ATOMÇK - Dark Prism Strategy
12 - Deadskin - kAtAsTrRrOfFf 0010 [Feat. -(rG13)-]
13 - Magenta Harvest - Spawn of Neglect
14 - BLOODINGTON - THE TRUE USE OF USERS
15 - PiGSHiT- Sweet Rats
16 - DEEP COMA - Under The Ground
17 - Dala Sun - Drunk
18 - Unhumanity -Through Hell
19 - KUNTPUNCHER - THE SPASTIC WHISPERER
20 - Igorrr - Putrefiunt
21 - Ending Quest - Body of Christ
22 - Carcharias - Büntetés és Bosszú
23 - ...and then, there were FROGZ! - I Am The Loris
24 - a beautiful lotus - oh! a breakdown
25 - Relikt - Master Of The Fools
26 - Cerebral Engorgement - Shit Fuck Garbage Truck
27 - SEDATIVE - CIRCLE PIG
28 - Macabre Demise - Full Of Hate
29 - Blasphemation - Immaculate Deception
30 - Cosmic Shock Absorber - Guiltrip
31 - Venomous Supremacy - Removal Of The Flesh
32 - Fallen Grace - Putrid Remains
33 - Wraith - Lacerated For Your Pride
34 - Surachai - Isolation
35 - Avoidant - Catatonic Force, The Disconnection Phase.
36 - Expendiency - Masturbation Lust
37 - Gore Obsessed - Dis-Organ-Ized (Impetigo Cover)
38 - Flatulated - Burn The Flames (Roky Erickson Cover)
One day I was on the train home, when my train somehow ended up taking me to Narnia, and whilst asking the locals of Narnia for directions back to reality, I spotted a man dressed up in a full suit of armour, thinking he also was a local I decided he may very well know the route home, as the other locals seemed intent on finding their way to Mordor for some reason, and knew not of the fair city of London, but said it may lye between the realms of Atlantis and New Vegas. Mustering up enough courage to ask the foreboding man I approached him and asked "Excuse me kind sir, noweth thee, the route one may take to reach the city of Londinium" To which he replied "Fuck knows! I was on my way their also, to go to an art convention, I was supposed to showcase my work in the Museum of fine arts (as us Londoners like to call it "the building which contains overpriced pieces of paper"). Having realised we were both looking for the same destination, we decided to trek together and hope to finally find a path to London. Along our arduous journey I learnt many a thing of this masked stranger, finding further that we shared many a thing in common, from our mutual disdain for dolphins and 8 sided shapes, to our shared passion of Grindcore and Haribo. As we proggressed he delved further telling me of his band Atomck, and he wished to create the greatest pokemon tribute band the western hemisphere had ever heard via the medium of Grindcore.
As it transpired the land we thought to be Narnia, turned out to be Bracknell, and as was southern Railway custom; all passengers are given suits of armour to protect themselves from the drug fiend locals, who have tendency to stab at anything that broadly reminds them of Jeremy Kyle.
Luke's own Artwork
The identity of this masked stranger, is non other than fellow grindcore zealot, and grindtodeathian Luke Oram. Who contrary to their self styled pokemon outlook on grind, play a blend of chop and change grindcore and psychedelic electronica with a pulsating vein of progressive guitar work. I feel I have best described Atomck via twitter, as a crow attacking a vinyl player. The crow being a metaphor for the unnaturally high heinous shrills screeched out at ear drum blistering proportions, who surprisingly hasn't wreaked his vocal chords enough, to allow him to juxtapose the highs with a bellowing booming of equal ear torturing proportions.
Having pestered Luke in many of a conversation, I am well aware of his love of progressive rock, which shines throughout offering a really fresh injection of new blood to the heaving mass that is grindcore. They have for the purposes of this split and future releases, brought a human drummer to their traditional drum machine operated percussion, bringing a human element to their abstract quasi-death/grind/electronica/prog which in all honesty is a mindfuck to even begin to unravel. Having just spent the better part of the last two weeks at uni stressing the importance of independent judicial review, I feel somewhat of a nepotist hypocrite stating on this site that I really do enjoy listening to Atomck. I feel by well and far you will have a hard time finding a band who are equally as idiosyncratic and enjoyable as Atomck
Taking the remaining 2 songs on the split, we have Chicago's self-styled Repulsion grinders Paucities. Starting off with the traditional gore ethic as established by Impetigo, of sampling b-list horror flicks, we then are introduced to lo-fi high reverb buzzing drumming and guitaring in a manner akin to early grind days cassette days mums basement recordings. Although I do admit I like the general direction the music goes in, I can't say its repulsionesque in any form, the recording quality really does make this half of the split irritable to listen to. Being a child of the 90's I may lack the appreciation of lofi basement grind, that I am sure many a reader here once partook in, but for me the audio quality resembles that of one cassette player recording the output from another cassette player which fails to bring any hope of hearing the finer points of their musicianship.
Another critique is that the vocals really are awful, half the time they sound like an angry Alsatian who demands his dinner, and at other times, sounds like the scenes from The Exorcist played on a dusty VCR through a 1950's television.
Committing to purchase splits on the basis of one half being amazing and the other not so credible, on the advice given by a stranger is a risky grindcore related investment, well luckily for you fair lads and lassess of the realm, this release is 100% free so fuck off and download it and make your own opinions for a change (Just Kidding please come back! You guys are my only friends!)
I am digging this release quite a bit, sort of reminds me of the Inalienable Dreamless crossed with Extreme Conditions Demand Extreme Responses, with a bit of an oriental twist and that should be a good sign in any ones books. Review will be up one day soon. Ohh btw not only is this stolen of Lambgoat, but also the last track is done by none other than our favourite new label head honcho J.Randall.
Eustachian are the transatlantic's co-ordinated answer to Japans destructive cyber grind act Deathstorm.Much like their counterparts they manipulate out of their helpless listener a sense of profound paranoia, through passages of uncertainty and digital madness, evoking a myriad of emotions; from fear, anger, bewilderment and torment. Moments of Grinding destruction and strongarm metal-core are strangled out by various electronic manifestations, only to re-emerge again more horrific and crass form than before, as if subjected to the horrific experiments of a deranged digitally adept scientist. The use of electronics is not as clean cut or perfect as one might expect, it has the human error factor to it, making the use of digital effects feel more like a natural progression of a descent into madness instead of an artificial forced one. I really like this release, there something wholly unnerving about it, a atmosphere it retains consistently throughout keeping you on edge, but if you look beyond this dark tainted aura, one will find a highly calculated, skillful and mesmerising allure to its experimental temperament. The tracks entitled Martinique, of which there are three parts to, are by far the most unsettling, any sense of music has been stripped out, leaving a collection of random noises and silence. My immediate comparison was to that of the Ring(I have only seen the Japanese version so it could very well be a sample), it manifests fear through a feeling of unknown coupled with a sense of impeding doom. Do not fall into faux pas of assuming this is a nintendo-core or sample overdose approach to Cyber/ Experimental Grind/Metal,this release is one of an atmospheric nature, where the use of digital effects are used for the sole purpose of being the corrupting element to the malay of sounds and noises.
I havent even reached the best bit about this all, this cacophonic collection of horrors is 100% free once again courtesy of J.Randall's record label Grindcore Karoake, at this rate with such quality first releases and unique ones at that, Mr.Randall is fast tracking his label to secure its title amongst the respected labels.
Who doesnt love Magrudergrind if you say me then I am going to have to take as a guess that you haven't heard them, and are just saying so to piss me off, although this is all irrelevant as I can't hear you say these things, but what is relevant is that their latest E.P Crusher is out for free yes you heard me for free! For those interested in the controversy surrounding it and my defensive rage over the subject matter, look no further than here.
Nothing More To Eat are a 5 piece extreme metal outfit from Helsinki, their 2010 release EAT''N is not only album about music, but a reflection on the metal youth, so those of you who were alive when the likes of Scum was around then please go back to your retirement community, or prepare to be baffled and perplexed.
With references to the infamous Crab People and Giant Octopuses and Zombies (and Crackwhore Zombies), this youthful and energetic music is meant for those of us where 6am is still party time. Generally this release has numerous Grindcore qualities, but cemented in are many borrowings from Deathcore and Thrash, so strictly speaking this is not a pure grind release but I cannot deny the elements are all well placed and give the release a nice sound.
Highly Recommended for those of you who wish to hear a fresh well rounded release, but not for those who a confined to musical purity. Even if you are of the latter side of the camp, it doesn't matter it is free right here, right now, who knows you may like it.
