M.D.U. "Les Saigneurs des Anus - Le Retour du Doigt" Cd

MENTAL DEGENERATION UNIT/SALE HOPE Split Cd

(Trouduc Records)
Release date: 2001

M.D.U. "The Blaireau Project" Review: Wacky grind-noise... and it's french. They didn't wise up since their last stuff, but it was predictable. The what's the hell factor is still there. It consists in quite regular grind-noise à la Anal Cunt with more death metal style song constructions. Song titles are mostly porn concerns, everything that's tasteless and piss poor jokes only frenchies can get. You gotta love the lyrics though... and the band picture, black metal spirit, with oversized medieval weapons, swords and cardboard axes... OK. It's stupid, I guess you got that, but it grinds quite hard and it's a fun listen. Noise freaks everywhere can try it, but only french guys are inclined to appreciate the humour.
SALE HOPE "J'ai les Kros" Review: Right away, Sale Hope manages to be even more tasteless than M.D.U. with the cover photo. No Well-spirited band was gonna share a split with M.D.U. just yet. So, well, this band's grind-death is pretty close to their split mate's... It also reminded me Hideous Mangleus and Intense Hammer Rage just to give away some references... Hum. It's a fun listen also, but it doesn't really have a huge re-listen value. So, don't expect a musical revolution, but their stuff is quite potent when played loud enough, it has some groove, good riffing, rolling drums and some quite effective grind power.

MENTAL DEGENERATION UNIT "Trous du cul"

(Trouduc Records)
Release date: 1999

Review: Mental Degeneration Unit is a tasteless, anti-technical, cheap, non-professional, careless & annihilating grind/noise band. They are from France... if you know bands like Infected Pussy or Gronibard, I think you can already figure out how this sounds like... one particular thing, they have a more trashy/metal approach of grind-noise. But all tracks are quite fast/grinding/noisy, vocals are totally insane growls/screams... and the lyrics are kinda original and funny little things... mostly in french language(lucky you are if you dont speak french!)... They're making fun of anything, the best text in my mind is the one from "Chérie! ou t'as rangé mon épée..." mocking black metal with some brio! There're also some simply sick sick lyrics about necrophilia("Douce odeur..."), porn and sickness ("Viva ebola")... With this extremely vulgar & stupid french touch, & a mighty carelessness! Well, Musick is quite good stenchy grinding shit, but their home-made sound production weakens a little the compositions. Anyway this is very good work, a masterpiece of crap & bad taste. Also with interesting cover versions of Anal Cunt & Village People(check the cover art)!!! Many funny little jokes... This rocks!

Tracks: 1)Carmageddon 2)Come here 3)Chérie! où t'as rangé mon épée? Faut que j'aille courir dans la forêt 4)Poivrorotti 5)Anal M.D.U. Cunt 6)HU-LA-UP!... 7)I am a cannibal 8)J'ai noté une influence Steve Vaï dans le solo du milieu 9)Stop complaining 10)Love story 11)La Tounga 12)Viva Ebola 13)Obao San (Live at the Woodstock) 14)357 Danone 15)European community 16)Se branler sur un toit 17)Oh! Zarma 18)In the navy 19)Anus Dilatus 20)Reconstitution sonore de la naissance de Troudball King 21)Douce odeur d'une chatte morte 22)M.D.U. man 23)Impaled Jerusalem 24)Entretien d'hédoniste aux pensée permissive 25)I think about your lord 26)Frozen anus mix