Exhumed Review: Exhumed is excellent too. Faster and more obscure than Hemdale. Everything I expect from a good gore band... Fastness, gory vocals (really refined growls and manic screams), tortured song structures and total grindcore spirit (alot of humour). They inherited alot from early Carcass. They have the same sound and intensity. And the witty fun-filled pathological lyrics as well (with more necrophilia and depravity through it though). This split cd is something you have to hear.
Tracks: 14)Horrendous Member Dismemberment 15)Septicemia (Festering Sphinctral Malignancy Part 2) 16)Masochistic Copramania 17)Necrovores: Decomposing the Inanimate 18)Disinterred, Digested, and Debauched 19)Bone Fucker 20)The Naked and the Dead 21)Necro-Transvestite 22)Torso 23)Dissecting the Caseated Omentum 24)Death Metal (Possessed cover)

Review: The band claims to be playing some kind of "American Horror-Core"... But obviously, Hideous Mangleus is just into plain and simple grind-death. This album happens to comprise 60 minutes of downright beatblastings, relentless guitar riffs, roaring growls, everything with a cool rock n' roll touch... The heaviness of this record can be a very hard strike to cranial contents; literally pounding down cerebral matter, turning it to sticky, gooey soup. This isn't really ultrafast in early Napalm Death way, but they manage to keep beating the crap out of their drum kit throughout the whole record... in a truly percussive and heavy way. The band has been playing this kind of extreme metal in the late 80's/early 90's, they released a few demo(s) and eps... They have now given it up, but I guess they were some kind of pioneers at that time huh? This album is some kind of testament, it contains all the band's material with a new powerful studio treatment. Lyrics are about sick topics, but with a big dose of humour, and an interesting witty writing style, not the habitual boring gore stuff. Plus they made a great effort for cover ideas, design and all... I know this album have been delayed for about one year... It's been really well-worked on all points. It has 30 songs, about 60 minutes running time (with only studio material!): it's really dense and heavy. I truly think this band is very unique and talented. This cd is filled to the brim of excellent death-grind goodness. Hope you all wanna discover them. Get this album ASAP.

Tracks: 1)Play dumb 2)Gnawing at your guts 3)Experiments(in the morgue) 4)Self devourment 5)Body bag 6)Degeneration 7)Mutated 8)Deadtime 9)Burning children 10)Malignant ignorance 11)Allergic 12)Cranial disrupture 13)Nutra-death 14)Technological abortion 15)Mutiny 16)Sickening 17)Support the core 18)Reforming(cold limbs) 19)Child funeral 20)Eldraphobic 21)Retarded 22)Teenage leper 23)Infravision 24)Naive world 25)Question your motives 26)Divine intervention 27)Skullfuck 28)Too fast for love 29)Season of the dead 

Label Contact: Ecocentric Records: ecocentric-records@t-online.de fax: 0(0 49) 26 01-95 09 02 ; Matthias Weigland - P.O. Box 572 - D.56005 Koblenz - GERMANY

Other Labels Distributing This Cd: VACUUM RECORDS(USA): http://www.vacuumsf.com
PANX RECORDS(France): http://www.panx.net

Review: I thoroughly enjoyed this record. It has grind & death elements mixed with the use of a fat, growling type of vocals, and occasionally twisted backing screamy goodness. Guitar parts are quite well-performed, but would maybe recquire a more powerful/thrashy treatment. Same for the drums, which are although quite sharp and swift... The whole thing has a clear sound, but finally, it's not so powerful... Maybe more rawness would make it better! Well, some songs have great grindcore structures, but some others also remind me more of Cannibal Corpse or Morbid Angel works... (unfortunately). It's not perfect, but I'm far from disappointed. It's not bad at all. These sick guys shamelessly use sickening gory intros, or even a "girl during orgasm" interlude. Too many intros for such a short running time in my mind, but in the other hand, the very long sampe from Braindead (fucking lawnmower massacre!!!) really overjoyed me! The cd cover is kinda pro-printed in full colours (blood-red for the major part), with gross collages of snuff corpses, bloodsoaked naked girls and horror movie pix (mostly picked on sites like goregallery.com, I knew 80% of the shit). The problem is that their selection and collage of images is definitely artless, not original... I think it's something gore bands should definitely work out! If not, who the fuck is gonna take it seriously? And the same real corpse pix material used so many times by many bands definitely start to get on my nerves. Anyway, that's it for this review, I guess most of the blind GoreCore worshippers among you should dig it. Note that the name of this portugese band is a reference to Ruggero Deodato's masterpiece. (See band contact below)

Tracks: 1)Vagina convulsa 2)Holocauqto canibal 3)Empalamento 4)Septicémia vaginal 6)Carnificina psicopata 7)Gorgasmos... ...Orgasmicos espasmos gore 8)Faixa oito

Sounds: "Holocausto Canibal" mp3

Band Contact: HOLOCAUSTO CANIBAL
c/o Zé Pedro
P.O. Box 85
4439 909 Rio Tinto
PORTUGAL
Tel (Portugal): 93 64 123 08
Tel (other countries): +351 93 64 123 08
Official Website: http://www.holocaustocanibal.com/
E-mail: holocausto_canibal@hotmail.com

Label Contact: SO DIE MUSIC
P.O. Box 246 - 4536 909 Lourosae
PORTUGAL
E-mail: so.die@mail.pt

HUTT "Sessão Descarrego" Cd

(2+2=5 - 2+2=16)
Release date: 2004
Running time: 30:51

Review: Hutt comes from Brazil and plays nifty grind with a violent and modern edge to it, it pretty much reminds me of Abstain or Nasum, totally fast-paced and blasting but not without its fair share of groove... Compositions are mostly based around blazing speed, with lots of breakdowns and a kind of restless, unrelenting, nervous vibe... Vocals really take the foremost place here with tons and tons of roaring dual raspy grunting/high shrieking assaults... Just angry shouting matches all over the place... Surging, grinding guitar riffs, furious drumming... This is very intense stuff for sure, it really kills... Sound production is quite nice and clear, but with a slightly abrasive penchant, in a treble-heavy way... Lyrics are in portugese so I can't really comment on those... But the cd booklet is filled with cool horror comic style graphics and the front cover is also quite lovely (featuring the unmistakable machete zombie from Dawn of the Dead!) Overall, I'd say this is a very well-crated cd and some mighty fine, highly energetic grindcore, definitely worthy of attention!

Tracks: 1)Intro (0:04) 2)Diante Do Trono (1:13) 3)Golden Shower (0:28) 4)Só Pessoas (0:18) 5)Pra Que Paz, Se Tenho A Guerra? (0:34) 6)Sala 6.. (0:53) 7)Dia Normal (1:23) 8)Parasita (0:27) 9)Burduga (1:02) 10)Harakiri (0:32) 11)Cabelo De Jabú (Nem Deus Nem Belzebu) (0:38) 12)Smells Like Teen Shit (1:23) 13)13 (2:35) 14)KKK (0:13) 15)Nova (2:00) 16)João Cutelo (1:29) 17)Gang Das Bonecas (0:38) 18)Quem Ama Espanca (1:26) 19)Asco (1:14) 20)Nair (0:11) 21)Morto (1:46) 22)Bub 2 (A Revolta Dos Miseráveis) (2:37) 23)Mirtão (0:34) 24)Bronson (1:28) 25)Venom (0:15) 26)Extermínio (1:27) 27)A Ultima Esperança É A Que Morre (0:53) 28)Pai, Filho, Estuprou O Santo Amém (1:30) 29)Tóxico É Lógico (1:40)

Band E-mail/Website: hutt1@hotmail.com - http://www.hutt.hpg.ig.com.br/
Label E-mail/Website: info@2plus2equal5.com - www.2plus2equal5.com
Contact: 2+2=5 Records
C/o Douglas Alves Junior
Caixa Postal 1668
Sao Paulo / SP
CEP:01059-970
Brazil

Tape format re-issue available from: Gabsk@wanadoo.fr - http://site.voila.fr/NIHILISTIC