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1 - Playing with Life 2 - Organic Weapons 3 - The Chaos Engine 4 - Unviolated Truth 5 - Invasion 6 - Death of my Life

I have little tolerance for these kind of bands. Here in Italy

1 - Engorged 2 - House of the Dead 3 - In Support of Multinational 
                Corporations 4 - F.A.N.G.S. 5 - Cobras H.I.S.S. 6 - XYY Triad 
                7 - Genital Finder 8 - Chemically Castrated 9 - Carpet Sharkin' 
                10 - Sealed with a Klip ( Kipland P. Kinkel ) 11 - Daeth Metal 
                Attack 2 12 - Engorged 13 - Huge Gaping Hole 14 - XYY Triad 15 
                - Death Metal Attack 16 - Kings of Beer 17 - Legalize Child Porn 
                18 - Raping the Full House Twins 19 - Vomiting Butchera 20 - Fangs 
                21 - Encore

That ENGORGED have their own clear cut identity is undeniable

(ahah, I am laughing already). All of the concepts and much of

the lyric content basically centers around the G.I.Joe action

figures, I was a pretty interested in that stuff when I was a

kid … even the inner sleeve features a cobra (which is the symbol

of an enemy organization opposed to the velorous G.I.Joes). Coming

from the rather obscure Oregon, ENGORGED are at the same time

great to listen becouse they’re rather simple in their approach,

grinding and fast, but at the same time rather difficult to accurately

and smoothly square in a box. The screams and the guitar frenzies

have a deal more of savagery than a good percentile of the other

ASSUCK/NASUM-related grindies, so much that sometimes the two

(vocals and instrument areas) seem to get out of synchrony becouse

they are both so fucking pissed off about everything they would

just like to spontaneously scream their anger instead of merely

“singing a fast song”. This anger that gets out of control

helps the music stay on a genuine level, free of useless technical

evolutions or so called professionality. Anyway don’t get me wrong,

this isn’t a bunch of drunkyards spitting their throats out in

a mush of senseless noise either. There are intros dotting the

tracks, from sample zombie movies to rebellious firefights ( I

remember having seen a movie regarding the XYY triad when I was

a kid), and the tracks sometimes slide down of tune to a more

gore/grind madness, yet maintaining that savory anarchist energy

of bands like DISMEMBERED FETUS, UNDERTAKER and the like. One

point that make all this negativity clear is the frenzied use

of alternate vocals, which sometimes reach peaks of almost punkish,

uneffected, shouting. I especially like their humorous disregard

against serious sociopoliticized topics, such as in their brilliant

“In Support of Multinational Corporations”. Even labels

seem to stick small to ENGORGED. Some of the guitar solos sound

almost hard rock, some vocal patterns almost old school Hard Core,

sometimes they get grunting and abrasive like old MASTER… All

in all, and yet sometimes the riffs accelerate to combine into

(i’d dare) thrash metal a la EXODUS/PILEDRIVER/older RAZOR…

ENGORGED don’t give a fuck, play as fast and chaotic as their

cock want, enjoy themselves, and package for us a brillaint brand

of refreshing grind/hardcore/thrash/goregrind stuff.

1 - Jism adipose carbonization 2 - Spasmobliterance filtrates scabs 3 - Scid 4 - Urethrive decortico - xanthomatose 5 - Jaundice of Hookworm 6 - Haemorph endarteriectomized punzed ezoinophille 7 - Purpuric cytoskeletal glucid oxidase 8 - Crevice flux warts 9 - Depths carmesi 10 - Silk sphincter anal lumen

DISGORGE is the most

incredible thing that has happened in Gore Grind in the last couple

o’ years… their artwork is ever so disgusting and drenched in

surgical waste it’s almost beyond words. Where other bands stop

for decency, DSGORGE begin, in every aspect, This time they have

a fetus ripped out of a mother’r cunt, with broken bones and ripped

flesh (it’s a wax sculpture anyway). The drumming is relentless,

precise and blasting, it really gets unbelievably fast when grinding

through hyperblast speeds… like a buzzsaw through a living chest.

The songs are an impossibily intricate, contorted versions of

“Symphonies of Sickness” era CARCASS, yet even more

heavy, if possible at all, with double vocals (the second one

has a whispery, malign feel which adds a terribly dark mood throughout

the songs) . The vocals have the phlegmy/gargling tune which suits

this kind of pathological “upheaval of human entrails”

like a latex glove. Sometimes they could be paralled to the latest

REGURGITATE although the imagery is only one: GORE, and Gore beyond

anything else I have seen so far. Compared to their previous album,

the songs have gained a more definite structure, but the cleaner

sound just adds impact and brutality to the music, as you can

clearly isolate every instrument and follow this tornado of meat

and studded steel. George of CANNIBAL CORPSE makes his appearance

in “Crevice flux warts” which starts with some sort

of medieval intro. Brilliant, dammit, brilliant.One last thing:

alive, they’re an unique siight, don’t miss them if you get the

chance, they’re one of the ten best active band around to this

day bot musically and attitudinally.

1 - The Vile Sores in Urticariothrocisism Goulashed Decrepitance 2 - Stygmatodermuropyanephrosism on Impetiginose Urogenism 3 - Faecalized 4 - Rancid Bowel Sarcome 5 - In The Acro Cyanotic Post Clonning Ectopysm 6 - Lymphatic Orgy in a Ulcerated Incubation 7 - Viscose Oseal Fibroma 8 - Gribbled Maggotized Pregnant Inside Into a Fetid renal Sarna 9 - Pedophilemorphia of Excreachollemical Endolapse

Almost all of the tracks begin

with an intro from some Splatter/Gore movie… in particular the

one that precedes “Haemorph endarteriectomized punzed ezoinophille”

was also used by IMPETIGO in Horror of the Zombies, before the

song “Defiling the Grave”. All of them, however have

a thrilling, breath taking, eerie atmosphere which introduces

with fitting tension all of the songs. I have not read anything about this, but

the last 3 songs sound like unmastered or live, as the soun d

gets more muddy… there’s nowehere a note about this in the CD

so I assume it’s a sort of bonus thing….

1 - Rectal Punishment 2 - Receive My Golden Shower 3 - Penicide 4 - You'll Never Know Pleasure... 5 - Slaves to Abysmal Perversity 6 - 
            XXL Cunt 7 - Body Fluids are my Favorite Fetish 8 - Delicious Taste 
            of Vaginal Excrements 9 - Highest Power 10 - Thrusted to the Limit 
            of all Delights 11 - Journey to Extasy 12 - Die When You Die 13 - 
            Hey baby Why Don't You Love me? 14 - Skin Deep Between Her Tighs 15/20 
            - Recognize: Spread your Legs Whore (pt. I..)

uck what you hear around, THIS is the best Porn/Gore/Death Cd

of all time. Gut might have been sicker on stage, but this is

THE music of perversion and the sound of rancid sexually obsessed

gore/death like none has ever dared again, not even DEAD in their

more recent “VIP”. This album is plain perfect, the

incarnation of sickness and pornography, vaguely rock’n’roll in

groove, like the worst GG ALLIN turned Gore Grind. The sound is

vulgarly putrid, almost a cross between GRAVE and AUTOPSY, the

music catchy while still utterly perverse, if you think NECRONY

“Pathological Performances” is masterpiece, well DEAD

did the same, and 10 times heavier, with bursts of raging goregrind

at which NECRONY always stepped back one second before the unleashing.

The vocals sometimes gets harmonized, although much of the vocals

is a double CARCASS like gore, liquid spittling gargles, and GUT

like grunts… frenetic chaotic solos, and the perfect equilibrium

of groove (with this kind of sound, even the rocking riffs sound

brutal) and blood drenched savagery. When I say this album is

masterpiece, I am not telling bullshit, it contains a tiny film

of delicate art, the art of filth and perversion, the same art

of AUTOPSY and IMPETIGO, and this is a CD which stands on par

with “Horror of the Zombies” and “Retribution for

the Dead” without blinking. I love it all, from the inner

artwork to the fetish lyrics. A milestone. (last 13:03 from track 15 to 20 are just the same “Spread your legs, Whore” loop repeated again and again…)