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	MACABRE "Sinister slaughter" Cd
	(Nuclear Blast Records) Release date: 1992 Review: This band is awesome and "Sinister Slaughter" is a cult record to me. Totally crazy! A shitload of fucking tight heavy death/grind songs, played with their twisted personal touch. Great humour, and serial killer concept, each song is about a different mass murderer celebrity! The Beatles cover art is excellent. "Nighstalker", "The Ted Bundy song", "Zodiac", "Vampire of Dusseldorf" etc... All these songs are hits; Heavy and catchy all the way through, sometimes very grindy, although midpaced mostly. They have a clear and brutal metal sound, the drums have a crushing tight sound, and make an outrageous use of double bass, guitar riffing is shredding, partly fast and technical, with amazing solis, partly damn extreme, thrashing and heavy! Vocals are insane! with many variations, you'll find sick low pitched grunts and weirdo high pitched bitch screams (which probably inspired Gut or Mucupurulent, later on). There's an acoustic song called "Mary Bell", real funny, mostly because of the lyrics. It's just crazy stuff. Fantastic, kickass technical death/grind album and insane dark humour... A masterpiece to me! Tracks: 1)Night stalker 2)The Ted Bundy song 3)Sniper in the sky 4)Montreal massacre 5)Zodiac 6)What the hell did you do? 7)The Boston strangler 8)Mary Bell 9)Killing spree 10)Is it soup yet? 11)White Hen decapitator 12)Howard Unrah 13)Gacy's lot 14)There was a man who blew up a plane 15)Vampire of Dusseldorf 16)Shotgun Peterson 17)What's that smell 18)Edmond Kemper had a horrible temper 19)What the heck Rochard Speck; Eight nurses you wrecked! 20)Albert Fish was worse than any fish in the sea

MAN IS THE BASTARD "D.I.Y.C.D." Cd

(Slap a Ham)
Release date: 1993

Review: Here is a more than 70 minutes running cd... from the north american band, MAN IS THE BASTARD, (aka CHARRED REMAINS). This album is a compilation of many eps. MITB style is hard to explain, but I'd define it as tenacious, slow moving hardcore, with a few speedings from time to time; as it's often at a slow tempo, it probably can be connected to sludgecore, but I'm not sure of that, because I don't precisely know what sludgecore is. Vocals are ranging from low hardcore vocals to high pitched screams. Also, several tracks are not played with instruments; they are experimental computerized sound/noise... This album can be hard to listen for an untrained ear, but I think the result is interesting. There's a huge black & white booklet, with all the artwork of their eps, some lyrics etc... A characteristic of MITB, is their love for short, simple messages; like: "Read more books", "Support the re-introduction of hemp", "Vegetarian ethic for health and humanity", "Music... is not an industry! .....". Kinda funny! Worth checking out.

Tracks: 1)Eunuch 2)No concern for the inhuman 3)The arena 4)Refuse to thrive 5)Existence decay 6)Secret surgery 7)Attempt to damage 8)Smile trick 9)Telegram death threat 10)Once upon a... 11)Shoes of cement 12)(Tony Williams)Strifetime 13)H.S.M.P. 14)Ether rag 15)Stocks 16)Blood gutter 17)Heretics fork 18)Koro treatment 19)Justive is swift (Jack) 20)Poacher 21)Trapped within burning machinery/Pain of the iron 22)Steak eating boss 23)Lobotomize a cop 24)Fine feathered friend 25)Scavengers world 26)Regression to birth 27)Mocha rebirth 28)Semen in the eyesocket of Thomas Lenz 29)Slave to the bean 30)The iron room 31)Incoming 32)Volatile cocktail 33)Tumult being 34)Abundance of guns 35)Suttee 36)Grasp the bug 37)Human condition 38)Mary Jane(the ultimate girl) 39)Oil bomb 40)S.O.I.G. 41)Work to death 42)Instantly bent 43)Screwdriver in the urethra of Thomas Lenz 44)Snake aprtment 45)Walkers of the streets 46)Doll 47)Media prophet 48)Slay or slander 49)Squaw 50)Flying limbs 51)Tomb ride 52)Mr. Wilson 53)Lime doom


	MASTIC SCUM "Zero" Cd
	(Noise Variations) Running time: 39:45 Release date: 1999 Review: This is the new Mastic Scum full length album, and this is pretty damn good. They haven't change their sound very much, but you maybe can find more midpaced rock rythms and small experimental parts than before. Don't worry the entire record still baths in strong grindy groove and downright raw violence. With quite fast and catchy crusty drum work mixed with grind blasts. Their approach of grindcore remind me of bands like Groinchurn, Nasum and also Brutal Truth... The use of weird computerized noises on "L.O.W." or "Exhumed" especially reminds me of Brutal Truth for the noise tracks on "Need to control". Well, to come back to this records, Mastic Scum always compose fucking catchy songs there, well dosed between kickass fluid grind-death frenzy in Terroizer vein, with bigger groovy parts and breaks, crusty punch and a powerful death metal sound. Yeah the sound production is very good! And, midpaced or fast be sure each song is a painful kick in the ass! They always have total control of the songs. Lyrics are about social or personal subjects, and not necessarily the stereotypical grind-crust lyrics! Well, these texts are not unforgettable really... But I'll shut up about this, coz I personally have hard time writing down good lyrics for my musical projects... Anyway the vocals are really powerful, with leading mid-low-pitched roars helped by a few more screamy backing voices. To get the idea, lyrics & vocals also remind me the spirit of the bands I evoked in this review (Brutal Truth, Nasum, Groinchurn...). The cover design is okay, full colour, but I think they could manage to do better than that. Probably the best band I know from Austria, so check this out! Out on Noise Variation, available for DM 23 (Germany) and DM25/$17 (worldwide), the address is below... Tracks: 1)Inhume 2)Filthkick 3)I need a spliff 4)Demand the change 5)Overdose 6)L.O.W. 7)Deaf, dumb & blind 8)Emotive synergy 9)Blood effusion 10)Arouse suspicion 11)Kill the mute 12)What in the world!? 13)Lust for life 14)Deep shit 15)Fuck authority 16)Suckass 17)Exhume Website: http://members.xoom.com/masticscum Label Contact: NOISE VARIATIONS c/o Ralf Scheffzick P.O. Box 1169 D-29201 Celle GERMANY FAX: ++49-(0)5141-45657

MASTODON "Lifesblood" Mcd

(Relapse Records)
Release date: 2001

Review: Pretty new band, formed by ex-Today is the Day members. First time I listen to what they do, although they play the same violent metal/hardcore Relapse Records usually delivers. Something pretty similar to Coalesce, Dillinger Escape Plan, Burnt by the Sun & Luddite Clone... They're all high quality metal but personally, I feel it's hard to come up with something really fresh with that style anymore. Now, if you're the type of person who can never have enough of intricate, technical, overdone, churning, big sounding aggressive metal, Mastodon is as good as any of the other Relapse bands, if not better. In a way, they're nightmarish, relentless and incredibly intense. Their songs are pounding, wild and feverish; still catchy while extremely complicated and technical. They also have a late Brutal Truth side. It's all well-rounded excessive metal, but nothing unexpected from a band signed on Relapse. Alright. This Mastodon Ep will certainly rejoice most people into extreme metal... Relapse delivers yet another perfect production, but some may say too perfect. I still look for simpler things is all. www.relapse.com

Tracks: 1)Shadows That Move 2)Welcoming War 3)We Built This, Come Death 4)Hail To Fire 5)Battle At Sea

MOLEHILL "Comfort measured in razor lines..."

(Rage of Achilles)
Release date: 1999
Total running time: 36:21

Review: This record starts off with the joyful sample of a scene from "Last House on the Left" where a crazy Krug forces suicide upon his junky son... Guess this is quite an adequat introduction to Molehill's cruelly depressive heavy sludgecore. Right, these guys like to play their metal really really slow, and I guess they probably like to play with people's nerves too. The loud low-tuned dirty guitar riffs are pounding all along the record, as the vocalist continuously utters his abrasive, moaning screams and laments... And this is real violent to me, kinda never ending, slow torture. Because it's so extreme in a way I'm not used to. The fact is that rythmic speedings are really lacking. There are some, but only a few. (More groovy or fast parts would have been welcome) My feelings are that while listening Napalm Death smashes all my stress and frustration with total fastness, this band really depresses me alot with overwhelming heaviness. Guess they intended to affect listeners that way. For the rest, I can say the sound production is excellent, and the songs are well written, the use of the intros is quite clever and the artwork is ok. There are only 6 songs, but 6 really long songs; so you can consider this cd as long length album.

Tracks: 1)Dying like sisters 2)Balrac 3)Sleeping through my funeral 4)Graying whore 5)Eye on 6)24 hour mercy plea

Label Contact: RAGE OF ACHILLES
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PO Box 20508, London NW8 8WT, England
www.rageofachilles.clara.net
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Band Contact: MOLEHILL
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Birmingham AL 35220
www.xiola.org/molehill