OPENWOUND/ANTIGAMA Split Cd

(Antiself Productions - AS002CD)
Release date: 2004
Running time: 32:06

Openwound Review: Highly energic australian grindcore already from a few years back (1998/2000), this band used to have a future ex-The Kill member in it. It's just really awesome shit, hard-striking grind with aggressive, thrashing guitars, very screamy vocals, some backing growls... and song structures strictly designed to kick your ass. Though it's also mixed with a few clearer passages and great deal of groove too. Well, this cd actually contains all the tracks from the recently released full 7" Ep that I already reviewed here so just check it out for more details... There are also 4 bonus tracks taken from their split 7" Ep w/ Captain Cleanoff and those sound just as killer.
Antigama Review: This polish band gives us 5 rehearsal-style songs and 1 song recorded live. Sound is solid enough but obviously on the rawer and harsher side of things. I'm not really sure how to describe Antigama, they're definitely making their own brand of aggressive, extreme metal... Some of the riffs exude a thrashing industrial/progressive vibe at times but everything always comes back to grind territories eventually... Some spiteful midrange shrieking vocals... Also in there is a pretty neat Repulsion cover. Anyway, this is quite raw sounding material, perhaps more destined to people already acquainted with the band...

Tracks: Openwound: 1)More Than Entertainment 2)Terminal Response 3)Vision Impaired 4)Foolish Leech 5)Social rape 6)Granny/Yadda 7)Mr. Dirks 8)No Works 9)Internal Torture 10)A Minor Cancer 11)Strangle Hold 12)To Murder a Soul 13)Sunshine 14)Corrupt Destiny 15)Skinned Open 16)Your Fiction 17)Falling From the Peak of Sanity
Antigama: 1)Stupid Fuck 2)Flies (In My Head) 3)Who's My Enemy? 4)Radiation Sickness (Repulsion Cover) 5)Spare Some Change (alternate version) 6)Savoir-Vivre Mastas (Live)

OXIDISED RAZOR/AUTOPHAGIA Cd

(2004, Deus Mortus Productions - DMP-005)
Release date: 2004
Running time: 26:38

Oxidised Razor Review: Here's a very cool goregrind band out of Mexico! Some deliciously over the top tunes, mostly catchy midtempos, thrashing riffs, and a few messy grinding assaults kicking in every now and then. Vocals are totally distorted pitch-shifted growls, I just love this stuff! Oxidised Razor feels like a cross between old Last Days of Humanity and Gut but with a sharper thrashing edge to it... The sound is actually pretty clean, for a goregrind band and this stuff is just great fun. There are movie samples introducing every song, mostly horror movie dialogue in spanish language but occasionally some dirty audio excerpts off some porn flick too. The band also performs a Purulent Spermcanal cover version, which makes sense now that I think about it, definite similarities between the 2 of them... Overall pretty enjoyable stuff...
Autophagia Review: This is brutal straightforward goregrind from Greece and it slays and grinds too! As usual this is pure old-fashioned stuff in the early Regurgitate/Dead Infection/Malignant Tumour tradition, but I'm hearing more influences by Rot and Rotting Flesh on this one especially on the grotesque growling vocals, this vocal style is almost dominant on this one. Besides the vocals, you've got in-your-face grind riffs, nasty dual gurgling/growling vocals, crushing, assertive drum assaults, all of this spewed forth by one only man! The cover seems to be a nod to Regurgitate "Effortless Regurgitation..." original cover, it just looks so similar... Pretty nice and sick split release then... Goregrind addicts only...

MP3: Autophagia "Slow Down and Throw your Bowels Out"

Tracks: Oxidised Razor : 1)John Wayne Gacy 2)Craneal Crash 3)Shotting Mucous from Intestinal Haemorrhage 4)Incest Party (Purulent Spermcanal) 5)Estrangulada, violada y Mutilada 6)Sangre en tus Ojos
Autophagia: 7)Intro 8)Fear of Tumor 9)Slow Down and Throw your Bowels Out 10)Inside your Larynx... my Fingers 11)Never Vomit in my Mouth 12)Symptom of Anagula 13)Human Flesh Regurgitation 14)Anal Dread Stench (cover Gore Beyond Necropsy) 15)Phymatiosis Diagnosis 16)Enterorrhagia 17)Stomach full with Excrements 18)Members Cutted to Pieces 19)Enema Urethra 20)Trapped into the Depths of Scatology

www.grindgore.net/autophagia

OXIDISED RAZOR "...Carne ...Sangre" Cd

(Obliteration Records - ORCD 039)
Release date: 2004
Running time: 44:26 (a long period of silence during the last track though)

Review: A Zombi 2 sample as opening intro is always effective! Anyway, this is killer mexican goregrind, simple, direct... A lot of it is pretty groovy or thrashing midtempo stuff, kind of a tighter version of Gut, the rest is just sheer ferocity more in the lines of Last Days of Humanity... Blasting speed, shredding infamous pitch-shifted gurgling/squealing vocals, some really basic but at the same time quite sharp guitar riffing which further makes Oxidised Razor totally fitting as a band name! The song structures are a bit chaotic, all the parts don't always really mesh well together, but still, it doesn't make each individual part any less killer... Just ultra catchy and savage goregrind. You can really hear the band's mixed influences too, some of the songs even made me think of a goryfied Extreme Noise Terror! And you've also got some well executed Napalm Death & Necrony covers... Sound production is also pretty nice and clean for the genre... Cover art is a collage/juxtaposition of porn and real life carnage... To sum up, this is dirty, ugly, messy and thrashing goregrind and I think I like it quite a bit...

Tracks: 1)Pus excretor 2)F.H.I. 3)The Chainsaw 4)...Sangre... 5)Deceived (Napalm Death) 6)Human Decay 7)Hidrocefalo Esofagico 8)Night stalker (R.R.) 9)...Carne... 10)Masticator of Swollen Carcass (Necrony) 11)Anal Carnage

www.obliteration.jp/
www.geocities.com/oxidised_razor/