SQUASH BOWELS "No Mercy " Cd

(Obscene Productions - OBP 057)
Release date: 2004
Running time: 30:30

Review: "No Mercy" is yet another impressive Squash Bowels effort, with its bone-crushing combination of heavy gore-grind savagery and more rigorous brutal death metal-type song structuring... It kills. It goes without saying, but you'll find songs made of alot of assertive, grinding and blasting assaults... Still, songs are not without some flashes of groove too... The grind parts are quite often broken down by undeniably catchy riffs and hooks, among various other cool things that'll make your blood boil. In terms of sound, guitars are way downtuned, drumming sounds nice and thick, vocals are strictly of the guttural kind, part growls, part out-of-this-earth effected gut-wrenching roars (I really like the fact that the band still opts for a distorted approach to vocals)... Sound production is quite powerful too! The opening title song is especially awesome I must say, truly memorable and exhilarating with a really bad-ass riff kicking in right in the middle of things! I'm not sure if there's such a thing as a polish sound, but Dead Infection most definitely springs to mind while listening to some of the guitar and drumming patterns... The execution and downtuned sound is also quite similar to a more grinding Neuropathia... which is only natural with 2 of the 3 current Squash Bowels members actually being from Neuropathia! Some of the songs also have a feel close to Extreme Noise Terror, perhaps with an additional, very particular and weird, gored up vibe... Even though this stuff is miles away from the wild Squash Bowels early period in terms of style, I think this is just about equally great, only in a different way... The album really feels complete and whole and all in all this is assuredly one of the major grind releases this year to me. Oh and I haven't checked it out yet but the cd is also supposedly packed with alot of video bonus material... In conclusion: absolutely not something to miss!

Tracks: 1)No Mercy 2)Garrotte 3)Vulture Ritual 4)Guillotine in Lunapark 5)Squabble 6)Flesh Grinder 7)Dead Stumble 8)Human Extinction 9)Splinter Off Blood 10)Saint Father Paedophile 11)Inclement Instructor 12)Blood Supply 13)Face in Cowpox 14)Ufo-rder

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MALIGNANT TUMOUR/SQUASH BOWELS Split Cd

(Obscene Productions - OBP 022)
Release date: 2003
Running time: 55:59

Review: This one is something of a goregrind classic... It's actually the third re-edition of this split cd, it's got new packaging artwork; I'm the one responsible for the front collage art by the way, except the Squash Bowels logo which was added later... I'm not sure it's such a great cover, but heh, here you go... The cover pictures from the 2 previous editions of the cd are also available inside, they weren't that great anyway, so I don't feel too bad for making this new one... Music-wise we first have Malignant Tumour at the peak of their goregrind career, awesome basic grind songs with a slight crust vibe, some really repulsive gurgling growls... All the songs are really memorable and catchy, just some of the most infectious goregrind ever written. I remember listening to this all the time back when it was first released. The crust aspect, reinforced with covers of some of the most crusty Agathocles songs clearly indicated the things to come from this band (their conversation to mincecore!)
Squash Bowels on their side plays some of the best, most visceral goregrind ever... Harshly gurgled growls, primal shrieking, mean, boisterous guitar riffs and fast smashing drumming all collide together, creating some of the most breath-taking, stormy slabs of goregrind ever recorded! So, yeah if it wasn't already clear, this split cd rules my world!
Now, sorry to say this but I find the bonus tracks on this new split cd unnecessary and unwelcome because they clash with the rest of the material... These are new tracks by present day Malignant Tumour & Squash Bowels which have both gone through drastic line-up/style changes! I appreciate the effort to provide something new but I'd rather have liked to see this split release remain unchanged. Still, this is an absolute must-have especially for those who don't even have the original versions...

Tracks: Malignant Tumour: 1)Maggots in your flesh(D.I. cover) 2)Epiphlitis 3)Acute haemorrhhagical necrosis of pancreas 4)Subacute endocarditis 5)Decubitus 6)Mors praenatalis 7)Pephigus vulgaris 8)Disease of oral cavities 9)No use.. hatred(AG cover) 10)Pertussis 11)Diphteria 12)Idiopathic colitis ulcerosa 13)Mucormycosis of gastrointestinal tract 14)Parasitical cysts 15)Dysenteria bacillaris 16)Embryopathia 17)Purulent attack 18)Reason to hate 19)Necrotic urocystitis with ammoniacal fermentation 20)Putrefaction decomposition 21)Impetigo contagiosa 22)Intravascular diseminated coagulate 23)Ingrowing of the alien things in the body 24)Pulmonary collapse 25)Go fucking nihilist(AG cover) 26)Waterhouse - Friderichsen syndrome
Squash Bowels:  27)Lustmord 28)Tested creatures 29)Regulation people's fear 30)Human acceleration 31)Holy lies 32)A suspect 33)Infanticide 34)Pseudo faces 35)Victims... 36)Right to live 37)Life like a dream 38)More our colours 39)Deadly sick 40)The mass sickening 41)Old things 42)Dash of life 43)Outro
Bonus tracks:Malignant Tumour: 44)Low Life 45)Behind The Mirror 46)Brigade Of Whores 47)Another Trap
quash Bowels: 48)Splinter Off Blood

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