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ENEMY SOIL "Casualties of progress"
(1994) Relapse records
Crushing blast beat drum machine, crazy thrashing guitars and hateful hardcore screaming vocals(in a Drop Dead vein). Powerviolence at its highest pic of aggressivity; Interesting, quite anarchist lyrics and great sound production; Yes... Enemy Soil is from U.S.A... This ep is pretty enjoyable...

1)Group think 2)Sentencing 3)Common ground 4)Fall of empire 5)Trapped in a routine 

ENEMY SOIL/WADGE
(1993) (red vinyl/ limited to 300)
ENEMY SOIL side:
How Enemy Soil sounds like? On this ep, drums(a drum machine is used) are ultra fast blast beats, guitars are making speed trashing noize and vocals are... huh... vocals are like; hardcore vocals filled with raging unhappy anger; Maybe you can describe E.S. as brutal hardcore/grind... I don't know; Anyway I like it very much... A real posisitive grinding band; making me shivering everytime I listen to it! lyrics will surely stimulate your punx brains too... this ep is true hard to find stuff I think, and I get it(hehehe)

1)Hypocrisy 2)Expensable 3)The weathermen 4)Ignorance manifest 5)Solemn witness(version) 6)Conditioned
WADGE side: 
Basicly, Wadge is grind... but this ep is very varied; with crust, hardcore and melodic punk(?) influences... always with a special filthy & noisy sound; The lyrics fit so well to the hateful vocals; rythms varies but are catchy in all the ways; finally, I like it very much... but the first song, "Perpetuate the stereotype" is really above the others...

1)Perpetuate the stereotype 2)Pass the blame 3)Building a case 4)Ride (in the game of love) 5)East timor

EXHUMED/RETALIATION
(1998) Headfucker Records
EXHUMED "Tales of the exhumed" side:
After their wonderful masterpiece album "Gore metal" out of Relapse records, the american goriest band returns to vinyl release with this great split 7"ep with swedish Retaliation released by italian label, Headfucker Records... The sound is powerful, intense and heavy(but still not perfect, it sounds a little too noisy!)... Vocals are deep gory growls and moderately high-pitched raging screams, the brutally pounding and rolling drums are grinding and fast... But I hope you already know Exhumed! Well, this sick death metal with blasting grind parts, and a huge Carcass influence. Exhumed is always getting better and sicker with the time... First song seems to be a tribute to now defunct band called Gory Melanoma(?) and the cover is a parody of "Tales from the crypt"... Funny! Lyrics are gory and sick matter... Pretty well-made!

1)Gory melanoma 2)Necro-voyeur
RETALIATION side: 
Maybe you heard Retaliation on the GRINDWORK 4 way split mcd(with NASUM, VIVSECTION and C.S.S.O.)? They were into really great goregrind with ultrasick vocal effects... Unfortunately they changed thir style! Well, they are still into grindcore, but with a rawer vibe, and no harmonizer for the vox! It still sound wonderfully intense, fast and incredibly grinding! Some kind of pulverizing noisy brutal grindcore. Vocals are rather high-pitched... The sound production is heavy and powerful... all the tracks are short, speeding and catchy... Finally, it's great! (even if I prefer their previous goregrind style!) A MCD is planned to be released on Headfucker Records too, so watch out!

1)Retribution 2)Like cancer on society 3)Strife 4)Born of chaos 5)Distrust 6)Pray for war 7)Fierce 8)Path of the derelict 9)The anti-filanthrope 10)9 mm 11)Killing the world

EXHUMED/RETALIATION split 7"ep available from Heafucker Records: headfucker@intelligenza.it

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