(Black Hole Productions - BHP 005)
Release date: 2002

Review: So, that's a fantastic full length album by Lymphatic Phlegm. The stuff here seems to be a bit tighter than anything they've done before, the production is slightly clearer than usual, but it still comes with their trademark, raw sound; guitars with tons of reverb, bass with a great deal of distortion, fast, pounding and grinding drum machine blastbeats and gore-spewing pitch-shifted gurgling vocals... But yeah, the sound seems slightly better and full to me and the pitch-shifting vocal effects sound like they've been improved as well. All in all, a great score of 31 tightly composed tracks of the most basic and effective grind-gore; very much in the vein of Exulceration & old Agathocles... There's also a few fun-filled movie intros taken from "Nekromantik", "Flesh for Frankenstein" & "Zombie Holocaust", often with scenes that fit the medical concept of the band. The thing comes as a slick digipack with quite cool design (your run-of-the-mill autopsy pictures and stuff) - there's also a great-looking booklet that contains all the incomprehensible lyrics. Smashing grind, medical lyrics, nice sound with a raw edge, pretty layout... Overall, that's a must-have for any self-respecting patho-grind freak. Highly recommended!

Downloadable Mp3: "Proliferative Reaction of the Reticulo-endothelial System's Elements"

Tracks: 31 titles...

Label: Black Hole Productions
Caixa Postal 1181
Curitiba - PR
Cep 80.011-970
Brazil
E-mail: mail@blackholemag.com
Website: http://blackholemag.com/bhp

(Bizarre Leprous Productions)
Release date: 2002

Lymphatic Phlegm Review: Well, Lymphatic Phlegm is pretty well-known among goregrind afficionados I think. The big appeal for this bresilian band is mostly because of their purely pathological concept, and a music style that goes back to the roots of the genre, there's not that many bands still playing it that way anymore... Their sound quality is always a bit rough around the edge, but if you compare it to their early stuff, it's actually a huge improvement. So, here we have typical goregrind, of the most basic kind, with guitar riffs à la Exulceration/old Agathocles, always a whole lot of reverb on the guitars, blasting and rolling programmed drums and one hundred percent pitch-shifted gory vocals! Lymphatic Phlegm is damn enjoyable. Just because Pathological Goregrind in such a pure form is really rare these days. Lymphatic Phlegm does a really neat craftsman job, it's truly fun to listen to. Those endless, nonsensical patho song titles also crack me up... And how cool is that cover?

S.M.E.S. Review: Now to S.M.E.S... Basicly, it's the dutch answer to Libido Airbag. Definitely one of the finest Cyber Gore/Grind acts around, perhaps the finest, with Microphallus... This stuff is totally computerised, with pounding and grinding programmed drums, some kind of dissonant electronic bass sound and sickening, distorted, pitch-shifted gurgling vocals. It's highly effective, fast, heavy and just kicking ass! Alot of songs have a humorous tone with a video game kind of sound and other weird stuff... It's grinding and speed-crazed, with a pretty tasteless sense of humor (check out the cover!). People into demented cyber-grind should just love it.

Tracks: LYMPHATIC PHLEGM: 1)Necrosis of a rather Extensive Part of the Jejunum-Ileum 2)Inhalation of Vomitus (Subsequent Pneumo-Interstitial Emphysema) 3)Happy Sickness of Life (Exulceration) 4)Congenital Tumour Constituted by Embryonic Tissues and Foetal Residues 5)Multiple Induced Foetal Abnormalities in Embryopathia 6)Estimation of Creatine-Phosphokinase as an additional Method For Identification of Seminal Stains 7)Intramyorcadial Platelet Embolus Evidence 8)Growth of the Mucous Mebrane III Vein Tissue and Stomach Subjecent Fiber Tissue Layer 9)Inorganic variety of Chronic Tuberculous Peritonitis 10)Malignant Tumour Resultant from epithelial cells Proliferation
S.M.E.S.: 11)Trinocle 12)Dunn 13)Intercoursenet 14)Afleiding 15)Junglefever 16)Ageties 17)Munch-Crunch 18)Cificare 19)Torturarse 20)Miracles 21)Licky Verf 22)Uloock Goregious 23)Topbutter 24)Milk vampire 25)fartlig 26)Screwsome 27)In Eggony!

Mp3 in the Audio Section

(Deranged for Leftovers Productions/Rotten Foetus Productions)
Release date: 2002

Now that's a nice split release! Lymphatic Phlegm is first. Really neat, well-crafted goregrind. The songs are always pretty interesting, sometimes they're catchy as hell and sometimes not really, but I love the sound of it. Guitars with tons of reverb, pounding programmed drums and wacky pitch-shifted vocals... Unending, meaningless pathological song titles... I think the band sounds fresh and some of the tunes are just really catchy. Cool stuff.
Autophagia is more traditional grind/gore. It's got real drums for one thing; It's a bit like Exulceration, a bit like Dead Infection... The sound is pretty obscure, guitars have a rather high sound, and vocals are distorted and pitch shifted. It's direct and basic, very gory and effective. Interesting stuff.
Feculent Goretomb is some more cool as hell Grind/Gore/Death, their sound is pretty sharp but still raw, thrashing guitars, tight and fast drumming. Reminds me of Flesh Grinder and early Dead Infection.
Ulcerrhoea: This is kick-ass grindcore from Germany; Ulcerrhoea is actually a socio-political band with pretty direct and basic message songs à la Agathocles. Their stuff is fucking killer, my favorite on this split release. Great riffs, fast-paced and well-structured songs, a good, powerful but still raw sound, shouts and screams but also a neat use of pitch-shifting vocal effects. Mmmhh.. Ulcerrhoea kicks butt! That's all I had to say for this one. Awesome split release! The backcover with all the band logos and the open skull actually looks better than the front... They should have just used that for the front.

Lymphatic Phlegm Tracks: 1)Intro: Gruesomely Induced to regurgitate 2)Empysema cadaverosum (Fermented cadaveric dissolution) 3)Spontaneous and spasmodic contraction of the muscle membranous ligaments of the esophagus 4)Inflamatory pyoderma gangrenosum in acquired immuno-deficiency syndrome 5)Excavating the Iliac Fossa (Haemorrhage) 8)Congenital malformation of the heart involving pulmonic stenosis 7)Acute segmental mesenteric vascular occlusion 8)Active edema of the lieum-caecum vermiform appendix 9)Mephitic emanation of malignant omphalitis 10)Chronic recurrent exacerbation in peptic ulcerative pancreatitis 11)Nephrological problems by degenerative lesions of the renal tubules
Autophagia "Putrid Remains of Decomposition" Tracks: 12)Facial disgust into excrements 13)Visceral regurgitation... through stoma 14)Pathological homoamputation 15)Purulent pollution of exzema 16)Hospital necrobiosis 17)Horrible excruciation of the neck 18)Coprophagical Dysenteria 19)Syphilis 20)Cencerous tumour metastasis 21)An orgy of flying limbs and gore (General Surgery)
Feculent Goretomb Tracks: 22)An alive chyme 23)Traumatic rupture of the diaphragm / Acute staphylococcal enterocolitis 24)Ileal fistula opening to the surface and lower intestine 25)Pathologic metal 26)Serious complications in maxilary tubercity reduction 27)Fatal primary tuberculosis in the infancy 28)Hyperplasia of pulmonary smooth muscles 29)Conective tissues reactions in malignant desease 30)A heap of anatomical remains 31)Necrophagous crisis cesced by gastro-anatomical frustrations 32)Influence of chemical substances in secretion from the colon 33)Hyperparathryoidism showing the opacities of calculum deposited in medulary
Ulcerrhoea Tracks: 34)Righteous assholes 35)Human mass product 36)Amputated 37)Cicle of lunacy 38)Squeezed cephalous 39)Too dumb to shoot 40)Suspicious respect 41)Grinding commercial bastards 42)...And another system failed 44)Social casualties 45)Concrete world

Label Contacts: Deranged for Leftovers Productions
c/o Paulo César de castro
Caixa Postal 65146
Sao Paulo - S.P.
Cep 01318-970 - Brasil

Rotten Foetus Productions
c/o Diomar Souza
R. Sebastiao M. de Souza, 200
Bloco A6 Apto. 32
Santo Amaro - Sao Paulo - S.P.
Cep 05821 - 150 - Brasil

(Putrid Nausea Productions - PNP007)
Release date: 2000

Review: Lymphatic Phlegm first cd, out on Putrid Nausea... Cool grindgore, with extremely raw guitars and Mortician-like programmed drums. I love the dirty guitar sound and the drums are very well programmed and catchy. But I have a problem with the vocals. There are effect on them, but that's not what bothers me, I usually love effects. It's just that the vocal lines are not very well-mixed up with the music, they're not synchronised. I think they should use two or more additional kinds of vocals to gain more impact and power. I appreciated this Lymphatic Phlegm effort anyway. But you really gotta dig noise and rawness alot to get into it. Being fond of pathological topics may help too... The lyrics really seem to come from a medical book, maybe a little too much, but it's fun to read anyway. Expect minimal production, but cool brasilian gory raw noise, on CD!

Tracks: 1)Intro: The pathology begins... 2)Prostatic affection censequent to blenorrhagical urethritis 3)Congenital tumour constituted by embryonic tissues and foetal residues 4)Emphysema cadaverosum (Fermented cadaveric dissolution) 5)Suppurated inflamatory intumescentia of the ophtalmic conjunctive 6)C.H.S. Chronic hyperglicemy syndrome (Diabetes Melittus) 7)Vulva fermentation (Regurgitate) 8)Degenerative affection of the semitendious muscular tract 9)Surgical suppression of the extremities by abnormalities on the basic mechanisms of sanguine coagulation 10)Inflamatory fermentation of the gastric tissue 11)Pneumo-ingurgitation consequent to the embolism of a peripherial branch of the pulmonary arteries 12)Mephitic emenation of malignant omphalitis 13)Abnormal multiplication of the diaphragmatic tissue cells 14)Affection characterized by inflammation of the bronquioles and corresponding pulmonary lobules 16)Infectious pyelonephritis by pathogenic bacteriologic proliferation on the renal parenchyma 17)Sub-acute inguinal lymphogranulomatous ganglionar maceration