CRIPPLE BASTARDS "Desperately Insensitive" Cd

(Obscene Productions - OBP 064)
Release date: 2005
Running time: 54:44

Review: Here's Obscene Productions re-release of this controversial italian band's latest full length album... The first differences compared to the original Necropolis release can be seen with the cd layout, which still presents itself as a huge unfolding poster but with pictures adjusted in different way... Some meaty extras can also be found in the end with tracks from a recording of the band's performance during Obscene Extreme 2003. The sound quality on these live tracks is excellent and the band is as raging as they've ever been... As for my review of the album itself, allow me to recycle the old write-up I had made about it... "Desperately Insensitive" sound like a new level for the band, and I also know the line-up has changed since the early years, but getting a little further into it, this is actually not that far away from the rest of Cripple Bastards discography. They still play the same, aggressive, furious grind/hardcore, but it all sounds tighter and more coherent than ever, with perhaps more arrangements and a refined sound production. If you don't know them, the Cripple Bastards play a schizophrenic mix of enraged hardcore and violent grindcore. Shouted vocals and typical hardcore/punk riffs are balanced with a speed-crazed approach and uncompromised musical brutality, growled and shrieked vocals, thrashing and grinding riffs... Nervous, turbulent songs with constant changes of pace but always a determined anger. I assume most of the material is new, though I also noticed a few new reprise of older/classic tunes like "Being ripped off" or "I hate her" (probably my 2 favorite Cripple Bastards songs ever)... The lyrics are quite opiniated, and with straightforward messages, but don't expect strictly politically correct topics, they often talk about touchy subject matter and the whole thing really reeks of nihilism and negativity! The album itself is a masterful excercise in unrestrained rage and violence all the same. It's a slicker presentation of Cripple Bastards but like I said, they're still totally faithful to their old self, this album is the most cohesive and well-defined release they ever did.

Tracks: 1)Fear In The Squats Of The Dead (2:24) 2)When Immunities Fall (1:31) 3)Cardboard (1:03) 4)Intravenous Love-Drip (0:37) 5)Odio A Prima Vista (2:20) 6)Bomb ABC No Rio (1:04) 7)The Mushroom Diarrhoea (0:48) 8)Rak Ne Prestaje (0:43) 9)Get Out And Bite Them (0:43) 10)Desperately Insensitive (4:17) 11)Me & Her In A Microcosm Of Torture (0:53) 12)Jurisdictions (0:45) 13)Time Of The Vultures (1:27) 14)Idiots Think Slower (0:30) 15)I Hate Her (0:50) 16)Inside Out (1:21) 17)Being Ripped Off In 2002 (1:34) 18)Respect Or Death (0:34) 19)Partner Della Convenienza (4:25)
Live at Obscene Extreme 2003: 20)Fear In The Squats Of Death (Live Oe03) (2:18) 21)Cardboard (Live Oe03) (1:03) 22)Prospettive Limitate (Live Oe03) (1:39) 23)Odio A Prima Vista (Live Oe03) (2:20) 24)When Imunities Fall (Live Oe03) (1:26) 25)Get Out And Bite Them (Live Oe03) (0:46) 26)Images Of War/ Images Of Pain (Live Oe03) (1:22) 27)Respect Of Death (Live Oe03) (0:43) 28)Misantropo A Senso Unico (Live Oe03) (2:18) 29)I Hate Her (Live Oe03) (1:03) 30)A Dispetto Della Discrezione (Live Oe03) (0:07) 31)Radije Volim ... (Live Oe03) (1:10) 32)Italia Di Merda (Live Oe03) (1:09) 33)Il Tuo Amico Morto (Live Oe03) (1:53) 34)Stimmung (Live Oe03) (2:03) 35)Desperately Insensitive (Live Oe03) (3:27) 36)S.L.U.T.S. (Live Oe03) (0:53) 37)1974 (Live Oe03) (1:15)

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CRIPPLE BASTARDS "Live to Hate People"

5" cd (Applequince Records)
Release date: 1999

Review: One of the very latest Cripple Bastards new releases... Out on a charming, unusual, tiny, very small CD format and a cover with nice visual; If I'm not wrong, a collage of pictures taken from sick italian gore flick, Anthropophagous, by trash director Joe d'Amato (who recently passed away)... Well, musically we once again have the very unique, own nasty & noisy grind/hardcore Cripple Bastards style, with this special feeling of extremely aggressive revolt and rage. This is some live material, but no time is left to get bored, your brain is bashed every second by the unbelievably catchy, fast, tight rythmic drums, the totally noisy guitars/bass and seriously hateful shouts & screams by Giulio (a madman). Sound is raw but also incredibly powerful. A grindcore with many fresh punk/crust influences. But not a fucking common band. they are the Cripple Bastards! The stuff here is from 4 different live gigs from 97/96. All the tracks already featured on side A of their recent "Negativity..." promo tape.

Tracks: 1)Intro/Being ripped off 2)Paranoiac 3)Ragman 4)I hate her 5)Radije volim... 6)Lotta per il potere (kollettivo) 7)What I thought 8)Get out and bite them 9)1974 10)Watchin' through my chaos 11)A dispetto della discrezione 12)Invito alla risevatezza/ Come è falso dio 13)Pastete (buka) 14)Intro + Fuck politics (The scroungers) 15)Mass media (Indigesti) 16)Sexist society... must destroy it! 17)Stimmung 18)Padania di merda 19)Authority? 20)Asti punx 21)Necrospore 22)Too late

CRIPPLE BASTARDS "Your Lies in Check"

(Extremisti Unita Produzioni)
Release date: 1996

Review: You probably already heard about these italian savages!!! This cd comes with 69 studio tracks, but not only new songs, alot of re-recorded old ones... It's mainly wild and noisy grindcore but with alot of hc/punk/crust influences... my favorite "songs" are the very short ones with insane and typically grind-noise vocals shouted right in the microphone, sounds like "bluuaaarrrrrggghhhh!!!!!". Sometimes I would have preferred a dirtier sound... with noisy amps sound and all that stuff! like a good old crusty noise vibe! Because everything is truly clear sounding and the guitars seem to be distant from the drums too... There's like an echoe or something... Anyway this is really a great release filled with violence and intensity! It comes with a large booklet with cool artwork, band pics and highly interesting quite pessimistic, hateful lyrics... released by E. U. production, the own Cripple Bastards label...

Tracks: 1)Being ripped off 2)Without a shadow of justice 3)Prejudice & walls 4)Images of war/images of pain 5)Imposed mortifcation 6)Prospettice limitate 7)Intelligence means... 8)Disagreeable selections 9)Caught in silence 10)Caight in your silence 11)Irenic 12)September, 18th 1993 13)A dispetto della discrezione 14)Watching through my chaos 15)Newscast slave 16)Round table 17)Italia di merda 18)The outside world 19)My mind invades 20)Danas je dan za lijencine 21)More frustrations 22)Stimmung 23)Ghiccacaio 24)What I thought 25)Negative fractures: -peasants -authority -my last hours -falling wish -Asti punks -Preach and let die -Misunderstanding of equalty 26)Ratings 27)Paranoiac 28)Frightened/neglected 29)1974 30)Milicija die!!! 31)Walk away 32)Nichilismo ampliato 33)Vital dreams 34)Blue penguins 35)Bonds of enmity 36)Ragman 37)Windows 38)Rending aphtous fevers 39)Bane 40)Living monuments 40)War spoils 41)We can work it out 42)Self-justice Punks 43)Incorporated grave 44)D.S.S. (Double Scented Shit) 45)Sexist society... must destroy it! 46)The last shipwrecked 47)Intransigent simpathy 48)Polizia, una razza da estinguere 49)Cormorant 50)Life in general 51)Hydrophobic web 52)Padroni 53)Useful/Useless 54)More restrictions. Why? 55)Miniaturized Eden 56)Something wrong 57)21st Century schizoid man 58)Devozioni? 59)Nothing on Earth 60)Invito alla riservatezza 61)Come é falso dio 62)Radije volim... 63)S.L.U.T.S. 64)Grimcorpses 65)Offensive death 66)My serenity/ 67)Dealing with a pressing problem 68)Necrospore