[August 2003]

(Mortville Records)
Release date: 2002

Retaliation "Suicidal Disease": Retaliation is delivering their usual Raw Grindcore Madness quota on this ep. Very intense, tight but chaotic, always effective. The sound seems rawer than usual on some of the songs, although the band's devastating grindcore/crust touch is still top notch. Nice Skitsystem (killer crust band) cover. Overall, great fucking band, great fucking Ep, and the other side by The Kill is no let -down...

The Kill: Blood-boiling Grindcore, freshly emerged from Australia... The essence of grindcore flows through this band's veins. They got The Grind Chemistry. Their stuff is just my fave kind of grind... It's feverish, take-no-prisoners grind, fucking tight and raw, played in a urge, never plodding, always going up. Great riffs, incredible drumming, furious shrieking madness... I love it! This ep contains songs from the demo, but that demo was limited to 100, so not everybody got it, here's your chance!

Retaliation Tracks: 1)Blindside 2)Slaves of Faith 3)Jar Vâgrar (Skitsystem cover) 4)Black malice (re-mix)

The Kill Tracks: 1)This one hurts 2)We want blood 3)The clash 4)Junkies records 5)Fasion victim 6)Lets be fast 7)Techno head

The Kill Contact:
The Kill / PO BOX 133 DEER PARK 3023 MELBOURNE AUSTRALIA
thekill@iprimus.com.au
www.geocities.com/blastasfuk

Retaliation Contact:
retaliation@spray.se http://come.to/rtln

Label Contact:
Mortville Records
c/o Andy Koettel
713 Grace St.
Ottumwa, IA 52501
U.S.A.

(Dry Retch)
Release date: 2002

Review: This review might be a little confusing, since I'm not 100% percent sure which bands were on what side... All I can say is that they all violently kick butt! I recognized The Kill's tracks though, since these are the remaining tracks off their demo (the ones they didn't use for their split ep with Retaliation), these 4 killer grind songs by The Kill alone are a good reason why you wanna hear that ep. But all the bands involved here all sound totally fucking awesome to me. They're are all damn effective and go straight to the point. Raw, fast, grinding noise relentless bashing on your brain. I assume Needful Things and Dahmer (rip) were the bands that were more old school grindcore, their stuff just kills. And the remaining band, I think it's Lucifer Larynx... use their drum machine to great effect. This stuff is just wonderful. Basic and grindy the way I like it. So, that's about it! Obviously, this ep is highly recommended!

Tracks: Lucifer Larynx and the Stanic Grinddogs of Death: - Shredded honary little bitch -Die!Die!Die!... -Sex, Drugs, Booze, Grind! - Beer - -Cock-hacking macabre frolic
The Kill: -Media loves misery -Stupid pants -Extreme wankers -Oh my god
Needful Things: -The Despair of Unemployment -Fear of Capitalism
Dahmer: -Last Call

Label Contact:
Dry Retch c/o daniel
GPO BOX 1200
Hobart TAS 7001
Australia

The Kill Contact:
The Kill / PO BOX 133 DEER PARK 3023 MELBOURNE AUSTRALIA
thekill@iprimus.com.au
www.geocities.com/blastasfuk

Release date: 2002

Hideous Fecal Splatter Session Review/Gored face: Both are excellent Grindcore/Gore bands from US. Gored Face is very basic, very primal, with excellent grind riffs, grotesque growls and chaotic fast drumming. I found that stuff to be sparking. Gorgeous savage grind in the vein of Rotting Flesh (Brazil) or Hideous Mangleus maybe.
Hideous Fecal Splatter Session is also really basic grind, real dirty and raw, complete with thrashing guitar, pounding drum blasts and guttural growls. All of this comes in not so good demo sound, but the stuff is highly enjoyable, cuz that's grind that comes from the guts and it's great! Keep an eye on these 2 bands.

Tracks: HFSS: 1. LA VENGNZA DE LOS INTREPIDOS PUNKS! 2. YES, WE ARE LUCHACORE! 3. VAZ A MORIR A PUTASOS 4. I LOVE FECES 5. MACHO PIG...I'M GONNA POWERDRIVE YOU!! 6. I'M GLAD YOU HATE ME!

Hideous Fecal Splatter Session Website: http://www.geocities.com/nuclearbbqpartyrecords/hideous.html
Gored Face Website: http://www.angelfire.com/ca7/goredface

(Nuclear Barbecue Party)
Release date: 2002

Agathocles "Mutilation" Review: It's been a while I haven't reviewed anything by Agathocles! And this ep is good Agathocles. Good grind, fast, tight and heavy. It's a studio recording from 1999. 3 kick-ass songs in the usual Agathocles vein, basic grind & crust riffs, bass with mucho distortion, tight and speedy drums, totally pissed off vocals... You probably know the deal! Social lyrics, no change there, aggressive and violent grind, still the same old, Agathocles that won't die! I love it.

Din-Addict "We Hate Hungarian Scene" Review: There's some more excellent grindcore here. Raw and intense, insane and fast... A great work on vocals, with different degreees of shrieks and distorting effects. This stuff is consistently fast, chaotic but always nice and catchy! All in all, very interesting, intense band. I didn't know them so that was a good surprise! Plus, puppy lovers should enjoy the ep cover. So... Definitely a great ep, both bands kick serious ass!

Agathocles Tracks: 1)Puppet 2)join the Fight 3)Mutilation
Din-Addict Tracks: Cannabis Joinplex/Off Shore/Go and Fuck Your Marketing Strategy/Sub-Ways/You're in Broadcasting, Please Lie in the Camera/Musc-Lee/Who Am I?/Necro-Punk/Prick Cops

Label Contact: NUCLEAR BBQ PARTY Records
C/O: GEORGE LOPEZ
3816 E. DOZIER ST.
LOS ANGELES, CA.
90063 USA

Website: www.angelfire.com/ca7/nuclearbbq/home.html
Email: nuclearbbq@aol.com

(Bledding' Hemorrhoids Records)
Release date: 2002

Review: Solid, thrashing death metal. Original compositions, diverse song structures in the lines of late Carcass and Kreator. Sharp, heavy, energic guitar riffs, tight and pretty skilful drumming, vocal-wise we have mid-high pitched roars (à la Jeff Walker), backing low grunts(à la Bill Steer) and even a welcome use of low, pitch-shifted vocal effects... Expect something more like fast thrash metal, very tightly performed and fast-paced. Blast beats can be found, but it's nothing blazing fast. The band works best with tight midtempos, mucho thrashing and quick changes of pace. I thought it was very effective and catchy all the way, and I never felt bored. The songs flow very well, part thrashing, part melodic and totally effective. I felt the band tried a few original things in their songs while always keeping their kick-ass approach. Overall, Desensitised is very fine consistent metal, so I totally recommend it.

Tracks: 1. Flock 2. Torchure 3. Miscloned 4. Masochistic masculinity 5. Cover up 6. Hidden in the ground 7. Sacred slaughter

Band Contact:
DESENTISISED
Randenborgweg 119
6118 GJ Nieuwstadt
The Netherland
desensitised@mail.com
http://listen.to/desensitised

(Nuclear Barbecue Party/Riot City Japan/Agitate)
Release date: 2002

Cunt'N Bananaaz & Hope Review: Both bands are Slam-bang Grinding Hardcore from Japan! Great great stuff! Thrashing, pretty sharp sounding. Violent core up your ass! I think Hope has a girl doing some screaming. Fresh and frenzied, always effective. That Ep is a hoot.

Hope Tracks: 1)Theme of Hope - Scatological Pregnant Woman 2)Bkefisher 3)Responsibility of the Words 4)Gian Go Home 5)Nikutai 6)Taigi

Label Contact: NUCLEAR BBQ PARTY Records
C/O: GEORGE LOPEZ
3816 E. DOZIER ST.
LOS ANGELES, CA.
90063 USA

Website: www.angelfire.com/ca7/nuclearbbq/home.html
Email: nuclearbbq@aol.com

(Nuclear Barbecue Party/Living Dead Records)
Release date: 2002

Review: Nice Ep with Unholy Grave songs from 1994, I think some are unreleased, some other I've already heard, anyway, it's all great stuff, by japanese grindcore legend. Demented and speed-crazed, raw Grind Power! I'm late in reviewing this, this ep is limited, get ahold of it before it's all gone. Out on Nuclear Barbecue Party!

Tracks: 1)Socialistic Pressure 2)Human Mummification 3)Mental Disease 4)Atrocity: War of Agression 5)Man men, Many minds

Label Contact: NUCLEAR BBQ PARTY Records
C/O: GEORGE LOPEZ
3816 E. DOZIER ST.
LOS ANGELES, CA.
90063 USA

Website: www.angelfire.com/ca7/nuclearbbq/home.html
Email: nuclearbbq@aol.com

(Nuclear Barbecue Party)
Release date: 2002

Final Exit "FxExNxGx" Review: I was expecting unbearable Noisecore, but that stuff is very tight and I thought the overall sound was really sharp. Basicly, that's kick-ass grindcore, with a lot of hysterical screaming and ultra-short songs. That stuff is really awesome, very effective. It's like old Anal Cunt only better. Great fun, and in-your-face grinding noise-core... I liked that stuff ALOT.

Embalming Theatre "Cardinal Pad O. Phile" Review: Here's something very different in style, Embalming Theatre is well constructed, fast, thrashing grind-death. I really got into this stuff. It's catchy and enticing, well-composed and refreshingly brutal. Great musicanship, good sound... Yet another great Ep put out by Nuclear Barbecue Party!

Embalming Theatre Tracks: 1)Cardinal Pad O. Phile 2)United Pest Control 3)Topless but mummified 4)Mine in the Voting Booth 5)Burn Body Burn

Label Contact: NUCLEAR BBQ PARTY Records
C/O: GEORGE LOPEZ
3816 E. DOZIER ST.
LOS ANGELES, CA.
90063 USA

Website: www.angelfire.com/ca7/nuclearbbq/home.html
Email: nuclearbbq@aol.com

(Relapse Records)
Release date: 2002

Review: Agoraphobic Nosebleed is constant in their drum-machine speedcory grind style, this album is more of the same typical, straightforward, schizophrenic, blazing-fast metal you should already know from the band, in theory... Part unnerving early Anal Cunt hysterical screaming fury, part take-no-prisoner Enemy Soil drum machine style grindcore... Track after track, the band bashes relentlessly on your brain like a head-splitting migraine. The album comes complete with feel-bad lyrics, delirium tremens, unrelenting fullspeed grinding, obnoxious attitude, drug-crazed hippie artwork and a neat S.O.D. cover version too. That's the better Relapse release in a while. Good grind, but a little pretentious in that they compare themselves to early Earache bands. (No way!)

Tracks: 1)(Intro) Engineering A Pill Frenzy 2)Bitch's Handbag Full Of Money 3)Unwashed Cock 4)Kill Theme For American Apeshit 5)Built To Grind 6)Crap Cannon 7)Razor Blades Under The Dashboard 8)Repercussions In The Life Of An Opportunistic, Psuedo Intellectual Jackass 9)Doctored Results 10)Ceremonial Gasmask 11)Hang The Pope 12)Bovine Caligula 13)Machine Gun 14)Protection From Enemies 15)Dead Battery 16)Manual Trauma 17)Time Vs)Necessity 18)Blind Hatred Finds A Tit 19)Grandmother With Aids 20)5 Band Genetic Equalizer 2 21)Hungry Homeless Handjob 22)Chalking The Temporal God Module 23)Narcissistic Stimulant 24)North American Corpse Desecration 25)Cryogenic Husk 26)Shit Slit 27)Sword Swallower 28)Ceramic God Product 29)Ambulance Burning 30)5 Band Equalizer 31)Drinking Games 32)Bullshit Gets Up And Walks Around 33)The Fatter You Fall Behind 34)Double Negative 35)Organ Donor 36)Someone's Daughter 37)Contaminated Drug Supply 38)FUCKMAKER

(Relapse Records)
Release date: 2002

Review: This new album is more of Nile's elaborate brutal death metal. It's hard to notice a true evolution from their past works; You still have complex song structures, a swift, down-tuned and thrashing guitar riffing, very technical and pretty melodic, solid drums, mostly fast and blasting, very energic, typical roaring vocals. The most obvious influence seems to be Morbid Angel. The egyptian concept is everpresent lyrically and musically. So, yeah we have impressive, intricate composition work here, with alot of arrangements, keyboard additions, but well, to be honest, I find this a little sleep-inducing. The band tends to be more atmospheric rather trying than really effective. Even though their death metal is very heavy and very fast most of the time, it's really too complex and in the end not catchy enough. It's still a very consistent and solid death metal album, well structured, well composed, etc... Of course I like things to be more basic, so I won't rate it very high. However if it's technical, well-performed death metal you're looking for, or if you liked the other Nile albums, pick this up by all means. Gorgeous unfolding cd booklet too!

Tracks: 1. The Blessed Dead 2. Execration Text 3. Sarcophagus 4. Kheftiu Asar Butchiu 5. Unas Slayer of the Gods 6. Churning the Maelstrom 7. I Whisper in the Ear of the Dead 8. Wind of Horus 9. In Their Darkened Shrines: I Hall of Saurian Entombment, II Invocation to Seditious Heresy , III Destruction of the Temple of the Enemies of Ra, IV Ruins

(Relapse Records)
Release date: 2002

Review: Basicly, Cephalic Carnage is progressive brutal death metal band that's often pretty messy but very well-produced. They indeed have a big sound, heavy, technical riffs, tight, fast drumming and furious growling and shrieking vocals. Song structures are all particularly original, going in every unpredictable direction possible. In the end, their stuff is very tough to swallow and the general lack focus prevents it to be a truly effective experience. i find this to be delirious, innovative brutal death metal, but I won't play this very often to be honest. The band's really unique though, this album is the exact same as their previous albums.

Tracks: 1. Scolopendra Cingulata 2. Fortuitous Oddity 3. Anthro Emesis 4. The Isle Of California 5. Pseudo 6. Friend Of Mine 7. Rebellion 8. Zuno Gyakusatsu 9. Black Metal Sabbath 10. Cannabism 11. Lucid Interval 12. Misguided 13. Redundant 14. Arsonist Savior

(Relapse Records)
Release date: 2002

Review: Argh! Painfully slow sludge-core here, nerve-racking uneventful metal! Nah, it's pretty fun. If you're in the mood for old Black Sabbath/Cathedral influenced stoner rock, this is pretty fun and effective. Rocking, totally down-tuned riffs, alot of distorted bass, groovy drums and whiny vocals. Drug-crazed metal at its finest really. Actually one of my fave Relapse release among the stuff they put out these days.

Tracks: 1. Weed Thumb 2. Stone A Pig 3. Sunnshine Green 4. Giggle Bush (Trinity) 5. 666 lb. Bong Session 6. Gateway 7. Keefmaster 8. Hash Dealer

(Relapse Records)
Release date: 2002

Review: Fast, technical brutal death metal. In the same vein as the previous album... you've heard it before, you'll hear it again.

Tracks: 1. Larvae Of The Lie 2. Inhuman 3. Awaken The Suffering 4. Perversion Of Hate 5. Portal 6. Meat For The Beast 7. Mental Torment 8. Insurrection 9. Implosion Of Eternity