DEAD "Les Stars du Rock Porno" Cd

(Obliteration Records - ORCD 051)
Release date: 2004
Running time: 71:55

Review: Here's a beautifully put together collection cd for this german Porn/Gore Death/Grind legend... This cd gathers everything the band ever put out on vinyl or tape... You can finally throw away your awful-sounding bootleg dubbed tapes and mp3's... Sound quality here is just awesome, most of this stuff is originally studio material (except for the live material from the split w/ Meatshits) and the band failed to put out any stinker in their early carreer... The "Far Beyond your Imagination" is a little rough-sounding but it's still great. All their songs are fucking classics of bloody heavy, raw, ugly and grinding death metal... A styling situated somewhere between early Pungent Stench, Necrony and Carcass "Symphonies of Sickness" era... Downtuned, groovy and nasty... Pure unadulterated bliss! As far as subject matter goes, their first ep seemed more into old fashioned gore, but the band rapidly degraded into what they're most notorious for: sleazy, no holds barred pornography, from run-of-the-mill perverse hijinks to hard-to-stomach things like scat (touched upon on their split w/ Gut, complete with gross farting sound effects)... Cd layout is absolutely gorgeous, especially the killer 4 panel collage of band pictures and show flyers inside... Some extra icing on the cake is also an interesting live jam with Gut. Simply a top notch collection cd. Honestly, I don't know what more you could ask for...

Tracks: 1)Extirpated (4:33) 2)Defeat Remains (3:37) 3)Far Beyond Your Imagination (2:57) 4)Slaves To Abysmal Perversity (4:37) 5)Thrusted To The Limit Of All Delights (3:02) 6)Delicious Taste Of Vaginal Excrements (5:26) 7)Gathering For Lust (3:36) 8)Strech (4:31) 9)Wanted For Kinky Sessions (3:26) 10)Hard Candy Cock (1:18) 11)Be My Toilet Paper (For My Stinking Ass) (3:22) 12)Suck My Ass (0:29) 13)Rectal Punishment / Recive My Golden Shower (5:02) 14)Highest Power (1:44) 15)Senite Decay (2:59) 16)Scab (3:22) 17)Far Beyound Your Imagination (2:55) 18)Defeat Remains (3:31) 19)Shriek From Infinity (2:33) 20)The Deep Of My Soul (3:25) 21)Praise (0:23) 22)Live Jam With Gut (3:55) 23)Radio Session (0:46) 24)Outro (0:26)

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DEAD "You'll Never Know Pleasure... Until You've Tasted Pain" 12" LP Picture Disc

(Autopsy Stench Records)
Release date: 2003 (Originally released in 1995)

Review: I never reviewed this album before so this picture disc version of it is a nice opportunity to rectify my terrible mistake. All I can say is that in my eyes "You'll Never Know... Until It You've Tasted Pain" is something of a masterpiece... Musically, this is grueling death metal with a real edge and slight touches of grind and splattery gore... Song writing is about perfect, I'd say it sounds like a rougher and groovier version of Carcass era "Symphonies of Sickness" mixed with some Pungent Stench perhaps. The band churns out some really compelling songs filled with neat inventive arrangements, really memorable riffs and catchy rhythms. The guitars are downtuned to a gut-wrenching level, and that's where lies the band's strength and specialness I think... drumming is also another really strong point; grinding, midpaced and heavy doublebass parts are nicely blended together and all solidly delivered making the songs slide along just great. You'll also find lots of slick vocal trade-offs from savage growls to Carcass-like raspy shrieking, midrange grunts and various other gurgling counterpoints... The band exudes an air of genuine perversity, some really putrid, negative vibes, as if Gut wasn't enough to prove german bands are undefeatable champions when it comes to nasty mean-spirited porn... The two G.G. Allin cover songs definitely feel right at home on this Lp although these are still cleaner and tighter renditions of the originals... Some really sick shit for sure and a real classic too in my opinion... The sole fact of watching this picture disc spinning is fascinating anyway...

Tracks: Pleasure Side: 1)Rectal Punishment 2)Receive my Golden Shower 3)Penicide 4)You'll Never Know Pleasure... 5)Highest Power (G. G. Allin) 6)XXL Cunt 7)Delicious Taste of Vaginal Excrements
Pain Side: 1)Body Fluids are my Favourite Fetish 2)Slaves to Abysmal Perversity 3)Thrusted to the Limit of all Delights 4)Journey to Extasy 5)Die when you Die (G.G. Allin) 6)Skin Deep Between her Tighs 7)Cheating Flesh (unreleased track, live in Leipzig '91)

(Poserslaughter Records)
Release date: 1994

Dead Review: Dead plays... very heavy death/grind, quite slow, but far from boring and in contrary really catchy and rocking! There are two types of vocals, not very extreme but sufficiently raw, grunting and plaguing. The songs are well-composed, and long(4/7 minutes). Note that a girl do some bitch pleasure screams on a couple of tracks, it can seem to be annoying, but I actually it fit very well to songs structure and to the perverse lyrics...

Tracks: 1)Intro/Bound to please 2)For lovers of the new bizarre 3)Far beyond your imagination 4)Mental erection 5)Sodomy my carnal abuse 6)Come & obey! 7)Indomitable lasciviosness 8)Woman from Sodom

Regurgitate Review: Regurgitate is not at its best on this split... What you can hear there is one kind of good grinding death metal... very listenable and enjoyable, but without vocal effects, and moreover without the loud, basic and groovy guitar riffs I like RGTE for... it lacks the grindcore fueled energy of most of their other releases. As bonus tracks there are 5 tracks from their split 7"ep with Vaginal massaker. These songs are much more grinding and basic! (then better!) Each of this 5 ones has a maximum running time of 50 seconds: grindy, fast, with crazy vocal effects, blasting drums etc... Final word: maybe not the best Regurgitate release; but it's a Regurgitate release nontheless, and therefore a must-have cult record to get by any cost!

Tracks: Cannibalistic miscarriage 13)Praedilectio for mennohagia 14)Organic convulsions 15)Expelling pyorrhoea 16)Purulent vulvectomy 17)Morbid reality 18)Terror Reign 19)Fear!? 20)Desensitized 21) Generic words