Archives: Reviews

1 - Revel In Misanthropia 2 - Unholy Desecration 3 - Feeding The Armageddon 4 - Leipzig 1945

I admit that war is not my favorite theme in terms of aesthetics and lyrics in Death Metal, but when things are done

properly, it works indeed. It’s a bit weird becouse there is no real common theme judging by the song titles, and since there is no lyricsheet here either, I cannot tell if the next release will follow this concept. I got this promo of Dreamtide Music records directly from Martin/Centinex a few weeks ago and I have listened to it quite often since, it’s killer Death Fucking Metal with a LOT of energy and the right sound and real no weak riffs. It is not striclty Swedish Death as in Left Hand Path if you know what I mean, but it succeeeds in sounding advanced without being polished. The distortion is low and powerful with lots of fast and chuggish riffs, choruses and trademark Swedish vocals that sound deep but also distinct. Compared to latest Centinex here we have some way heavier, more coherent and compact Swedish Death. No real weak spots here to exploit, they sound a bit like latest Dismember without the boring melodies, with an added war metal touch a la Exmortem. A full length like this will be very impressive. Dreamtide music website does not seem to exist but it may just be down at the moment. More of this, please.

1 - Bitch Killer 2 - Three Headless Corpses 3 - Smear Me With Bitch Fat 4 - Stop Screaming 5 - Crawling With Maggots 6 - 
Boiled Bitch Boobies 7 - I Can't Stop 8 - Let Me In Bitch 9 - Shit Smeared Panties 10 - Help Me 11 - A Handgun And A Handful 
Of Sleeping Pills 12 - Bloated Bitch Corpse 13 - Snuff Film 14 - Your Kids Shouldn't See This 15 - Guess Who's Back 16 - 
Rotting Slut Carcass 17 - Answer The Phone 18 - Vomited Shit Platter 19 - Piss Drenched Grandma Whore 20 - Orgasmic 
Strangulation 21 - Daycare Restraining Order 22 - Worm Infested 23 - Buried In The Backyard 24 - Crotch 25 - Shut Up Bitch 26 
- Little Orphan Tranny 27 - You Can't Get Away 28 - I Found A Body 29 - There Was Blood Everywhere 30 - More Sleeping Pills 
31 - Battered 32 - Several Suffocated Sluts 33 - Please Catch Me 34 - Something Is Happening To Me That I Can't Explain 35 - 
I Found Another Body 36 - Piss Fetish 37 - Streaker Of The House 38 - Decapitater Tots 39  Molesting Maggot Infested Infant 
Corpses 40 - Ounce 41 - Ball Fuck My Ass

I am telling this very sincerely: I remembered Intestinal Disgorge to be way heavier than this. When I was about to put this

album in the player I was expecting hugely sick sewage scatological goregrind shit noise, but sincerely this stuff didn’t

turn out to be as heavy as I hoped. The sound is quite clear all the time and the guitar distortion would fit better a modern

Death Metal band. Lots of riffs are balanced between crusty modern grindcore a la Bolesno Grinje and some power chords a la

Internal Bleeding and harmonics and stuff of clear Brutal Death origin, but I just don’t dig this mickey mouse vocals that

seem like a timid attempt at playing the grindcore noise game. Even if sometimes some sick twisted savagery emerges, Japanese

are able to condense all this and more in one quarter the songs contained in this “Clockwork Whore Binge”. There are also no

lyrics inside, just a short story of a guy killing girls and masturbating on the strangled cadavers. And the cover is a very

cheap piece of computer graphics, which to me suit a goregrind/noise release as well as a photo of a field of red flowers. No

really, there is some deviation in here but it seriously need an extra dose of filth, if it was on vinyl, i would rub it on a

dirty floor to add some craclking and dirt to this sound. Go back to the Rectal Sludge era, it was much better. Do not

misunderstand me, this is not wimpy stuff, but it’s just they turned all the attention to noisy side leaks instead of making

the whole songs a work of noise.

1 - Intro 2 - Storm Winds Of Ancient Evil 3 - Dark Messiah 4 - Murder Of The Deity 5 - Withered 6 - Obsidian Lake 7 - Demons Within

Reviewing a band after seeing Grotesque in concert is something quite painful to stand, especially when a band is so full to the brim of clichès and devoid of personality as this one. This is the kind of sad ballad Black Metal a la Burzum out of ideas. Musically this is nothing but of shit. One million kilos of reverb, which might as well hide Dream Theater beneath this veil of filth. Nothing wrong with it, so far so good if they leave the moaning continuously vibrating all the time. What kills everything here is that couple of happy, sing along rock and roll riffs which just fit the distant vocals like a dick in the pea soup. There is little to pity in this shit. If Black Metal is surely more about misanthropy and atmospheres, this fails tragically. There is a thin veil between dismal simplicity and being incompetent. This shit band stands right in the second field. The cover is standard greyscale with gothic fonts and stuff but well, this might as well be the case with this genre.

1 - Where Are You Now? 2 - Until I Met You 3 - Disappointment 4 - Cold Rooms

Well first of all I wonder how the fuck this thing got among my promo heaps. This kind of emo-goth shit is so mellow I wonder if I could stand it as a whole. Seeing this was a Finnish band I was pretty sure the singer was at least a hotbody of the turbo-pussy brand, so I started looking frantically for band pics on the Internet but I am afraid this chick came up even being not that hot as I hoped. Seriously speaking I hate this shit music and this is just a matter of integrity to cut this thing short. The production is fine but this kind of Lacuna Coil/69 Eyes etc sad and melodic (not to mention pretentuous) movement has really come to saturation years ago. The production is fine, and the structures are simple but they work. Hell, how can you do wrong whan you have 2 riffs per songs and they’re also copied them from another million bands before, just watch MTV for 2 or 3 hours and make a patchwork. This is a genre that’s going nowhere really, but I am afraid I am going to listen to this band someday in a metal pub… Decent packaging of the post-McKean era, with Photoshop gringe duotones and guys desperating. At least we don’t have an angel on the cover this time.

18 - Digging For More 19 - Tasteful Delight 20 - Filthy Cunt 21 - Scream From Hell 22 - Eye-Removal With Blender 23 - What Goes Down Must Come Up 24 - Sick SOB 25 - Hard-Rock! 26 - Bestial Lust 27 - Temple of Sex 28/34 - Recorded Live In Belgium 17-08-03

Tumour are here again with a couple of new short killer tracks of their characteristically hyper-heavy, distorted one man goregrind. The vocals are still similar to the sound of water drained down a sinkhole, with a sound so heavily distorted it creaks and strains the recording equipment to red herring levels. A couple of short studio tracks bring us to an insane live Beligian show. I was listening to these tracks with professional headphones and I must say besides the strong chattering in the background everything sounds amazingly clear. You won’t believe me but I was able to recognize a few songs from the other Tumour Cds I already reviewed: this shit is mesmerizing sick and darn lovely. I find the label “pornogore” a bit narrow for Tumour, but they surely fit this split nonetheless. In the end the Cd also looks quite good, with a folding poster with Pierre from Braindead’s classic, blood soaked, stylish artwork holding the four covers together.