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| CABAL
(Panx Records) Release date: 1998   |
 Review: Fast electronic drums, razor
sharp guitar riffs, sickly nauseous, gargling,
splattering vocals, a perfect brutal sound production, 6
gore-encrusted grinding tracks including a cover version
of straightedge grindcore band Monster X... Cabal is from
France, and this first ep is released on Panx Records(great
french label)... This wonderful masterpiece of vinyll is
a MUST-HAVE, so check Panx mailorder.Tracks: 1)Severing teeth, nails & the scrotum 2)Haemogenic bronchial furonculosis 3)Worm infestaion of deliquescent human offal 4)Unaesthetic genital stump 5)The scalpal 6)The gift(Monster X) Sounds: "Haemogenic bronchial furonculosis" mp3 |
| Contact: PANX RECORDS http://www.panx.net BP 5058 31033 TOULOUSE CEDEX FRANCE |
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| CABAL/MUCUPURULENT
(Copro duction: Bizarre Leprous Productions/Cho-Jin Records/G.K.P. Records) Release date: 1998 |
 Cabal Review: Here is a fucking killer band
from my area(France; Toulouse)... Blasting, malignant
grindgore with the sickest and more splattering vocals
ever heard! (work & effects on vox are brilliant and
stomach turning!), very well played thrashing guitars(with
a little heavy metal touch), crazy drum machine which
gives a mechanical and inhuman(e) sound to the whole
thing... They are strongly influenced by violent and
insane mangas & use some samples from this type of
movies in their music... The cover is simply sick with a
two-headed deformed child on it! Some interesting, well-written
gory & pathological lyrics. So, this is an amazing,
fast, gory and fresh band... Moreover their sound's very
clear... and they give a vegetarian message(!!!) Tracks: 1)Necrosymphonic orchestration of a staphylococcic urogenic affection 2)Lymphogranulomatosis 3)Nasocomial nephritic colitis 4)Worm infestation of deliquescent human offal |
 Mucupurulent
"Remind
the bizarre"Review: All the songs are beginning with a traditional intro sample with screaming girls... And then, here are 4 already classic modern (porn)grind songs in the vein of GUT with much more groove and rythm! The songs on this ep are from MUCU's first demo("Bizarre tales from the abnormal"): the sound is rawer than the one on "Sicko babe" cd, and I like it(the rawer sound) far more! But it will not be your case if you prefer clean sound! Anyway, MUCU musical ingredients are there: the thrashy guitars, the groovy drums, the two crazy vocal types(gurgly growls & weirdo screams!)... I like MUCUPURULENT more now I listened to their side on this ep! and I look forward for their new releases!!! Check the artwork with a drawing of two SM women... Cool! Tracks: 1)Oral sex masturbation 2)Stainless spoon 3)Votzenkrebs 4)Pussy berserker |
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| CARCASS
GRINDER/AGATHOCLES (R.S. records - RSR 015) Release date: 1995 |
 Carcass Grinder "CGARCHY"Review: These 4 grinders are from Japan; they play harsh grindcore... there is an Agathocles cover ("Lay off me"). And the other tracks sound like Agathocles songs or even sometimes like early SxOxB... With a great noisy sound, demented vocals, fastness and lots of fun! Pretty cool and very extreme! Tracks: 1)Cgarchy 2)* 3)Lay off me(Agathocles cover) 4)True blue *can't type this title; language unknown to me |
 Agathocles "Screenfreak" Review: 5 ultra catchy Agathocles tracks. Grindcore at its best: 3 pulverizing studio songs of very inspired unreleased pieces of mincecore, and 2 classics of grindcore recorded live in Germany... Tracks: 1)Another need to be fed 2)Screenfreak 3)Bring down their throne 4)Hideous head chopping 5)Forced pollution |
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| CAUSE
FOR EFFECT/ONANIZER (Machismo Productions) Release date: 1998 |
 Cause For
Effect Review: Groovy grind-death, with a very good
powerful sound, tight, pounding drums, and a big rock n'
roll feel. The guitar riffs sound very joyful and speedy,
technically very well played. There's a perfect between
bass and guitar. Cause For Effect's originality reminds
me of SCRAWL, except they only use traditional
instruments here (drums/guitar/bass). Personally, I find
this music very attractive and catchy, it's maybe too
much structured (no delirious grind here). It's just
really nice grind/rock. Vocals are growls only. Lyrics
are always simple social messages. One of the finest
thing I heard from Finland for a while! Tracks: 1)Control mechanism no.1 2)Nuclear waste 3)Free opinion? 4)Shok 5)Activist 6)An insult to human intelligence |
 Onanizer "Final chaos evokation"
Review: Some more original and weird grind music. A mix of grind/death with quite fast rythms, and some strange parts, bizarre melodies... Vocals are sometimes very twisted, growls and putrid mid-high-pitched screams. It's good stuff with quite good sound. But grind parts are not really memorable... I think it's okay, sounds pretty good. Tracks: 1)Final chaos evokation 2)Indescribable pictures of presence 3)Please mother no!! 4)Commercial world 5)Restriction of hate 6)Malodorous sexism |
| Label Contact: MACHISMO P.O. BOX 3023 SOUTH BRISBANE B.C. 4101 QLD. AUSTRALIA |
| Band
Contact: CAUSE FOR EFFECT c/o Tuomo Hohtari Tammelan Puistok. 20a 14, 33100 Tampere FINLAND cause666@hotmail.com |
| ONANIZER c/o Roman Kollar Lostermannova 11 36201 As CZECH REPUBLIC |
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| CLOTTED
SYMMETRIC SEXUAL ORGANS/VIVISECTION (MMI records - MMI 022) (green vinyl/red and blue cover) Release date: 1994 |
 C.S.S.O.
Review: 3
tracks of grindcore... or may I say, 3 tracks of pure
killing psychotic grind! Sound is great, better than on
the "Naugro Lauxes VII"cd I think; Always with
2 types of sick vocals, including exceptional gory vocal
effects... funny intros and fantastic manga artwork- C.S.S.O.
at its best!!! Tracks: 1)Putrid cadaver pt.2 2)Zombie fuck 3)Nuclear karate man |
 Vivisection Review: Vivisection plays great fast and
catchy classic grindcore in early Napalm Death/S.O.B.
tradition with 2 types of vocals(no effects). We can hear
some crusty thrashing hardcore influences too without
turning it to soup of course! Vivisection comes from
Japan like C.S.S.O.... A great piece of wax!!! Tracks: 1)Span 2)Progressive remains 3)Grinddead 4)Attempt at murder |
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| CLOTTED
SYMMETRIC SEXUAL ORGANS/BLAST OF SILENCE (GULLI records) (white vinyl/black & white cover) Release date: 1994 |
 C.S.S.O. Review: 4 classic C.S.S.O. psychotic
songs. Funny and original concept on this release: this
is a fake live recording!!! Music & vocals are
recorded in a studio; and then they added an audience
ambience to make it sound like a live gig! funny don't
you think? anyway- musically it's a bit messy but still
good and grinding... Tracks: 1)Alkanoïd 2)Itche 3)Putrid cadaver pt.2 3)Zombie fuck |
 Blast Of Silence "Rebirth of sickness" Review: German grind- Loud as fuck!!! and fast as hell! well-constructed and beat blasting. With extreme growls and some screams for vocals... so a cool honest grindcore band... Tracks: 1)Mindbreak 2)Choice of fate 3)Rotting empire 4)Assholes 5)False government 6)Sick greed 7)World of grey |
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| CRIPPLE
BASTARDS "Massacrecore" (Denied A Custom Records) Release date: 1997  |
 Review: This is a live ep(and then it
only contains live recordings). You maybe know all the
songs already if you have heard some of old C.B. releases(especially
"Your lies in check" cd/lp), but here are
interesting live versions for really amazing songs like
"Polizia", "Images of war/images of pain",
"Italia di mierda" (among others)... You guess
their style is always harsh grind/hardcore. On first
side, sound is very good, powerful, and very enjoyable to
listen! The second side also worths the listening, but
the sound is little weaker and noisy! Anyway this ep
worths being checked out! Take a look at this great full
colour and blood soaking cover! Nice! CHECK THIS OUT!
Just because Cripple Bastards is the indeniably best
italian band! Tracks: 1)Prospective limitate 2)Sexist society 3)Mass media (Indigesti) 4)Polizia, une razza da estinguere 5)1974 6)Authority? 7)Asti punx 8)Images of war/Images of pain 9)September, 18th 1993 10)Spero venga la guerra(Wretched) 11)Italia di merda 12)Vital dreams |
| Contact: DENIED A
CUSTOM RECORDS c/o Yoshiyuki Takahashi 3-5-12-106, Hashigadai Narita-SHI, Chiba, 286, JAPAN |
| E.U.'91
PRODUZIONI c/o Giulio Baldizzone VIA MANZONI, 24 14100 - ASTI ITALIA Phone: 0141/214720 Fax: 0141/436327 Email: bldz@oasi.asti.it |
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| CSMD/GEROGERIGEGEGE
Split Ep (No Fucking Labels/Maxi Noise Sensation) Release date: 2001 |
 CSMD
Review: This
nice act from Holland has quite weird, violent and noisy
hardcore/grind to offer. You mostly get a totally raw
bass sound thrown all over the place, with well-felt
obstinate drums, and extremely pissed off and quite
absurd vocals. It's quite special, I kinda like it. I
don't have many references in the genre, but I'll go with
Man is the Bastard and old dirty grind & crust like
Asocial or Protes Benct (that I love). I don't know what
to add, nice bondage cover, and it's simply crazy noisy
'core... feel free to try it... there's a site there: www.globaldarkness.com/csmd Tracks: 1)Bzzz 2)Your band reminds me 3)You're a fuckn freak 4)Zombie-flesh cannibal 5)Fur cunt 6)Episch drama 7)Decompressie in je Zweernaad 8)Stoned 9)Everybody is a racist 10)Arseworm love call 11)Being straight edge (is fucking scary) 12)Godzilla freaks out (hoes) 13)Re-built the planet of the apes |
 Gerogerigegege
Review: Weird
weird weird. That's what I can say. I think I've seen
Gerogerigegege mentionned on flyers or websites a couple
times, figured it was noisecore. I'm not sure I'm the
best person to review their stuff. Anyway, this one sound
pretty conceptual. Basicly it's actual songs by a
japanese pop singer (Hiroshi Itsuki, that I didn't know
about...) except you don't get to it hear anything after
his Las Vegas show intro (funny as hell). The trick is an
endless repetition of a few seconds of the track, you
hear crowd noise and stuff endlessly repeated. It's trick
you can do with vinyls... Ends up being noise after all.
But well, I'm not sure I totally get it... Need to get
other Gerogerigegege stuffs to make my mind about 'em... Tracks: 1)Intro 2)Yokohama . Tasogare 3)Viva Summer |
| Label Contact: MAXI
NOISE SENSATION HEIKO KNAPPSTEIN F.-WILHELMSTRASSE 27 42655, SOLINGEN GERMANY |
| NO
FUCKING LABELS N. KATER, MARNIXSTR. 145 2316EX, LEIDEN HOLLAND |
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