Review: Bloody hell! This one took me by surprise. Freaking great stuff! It's swedish, and inevitably, it has THE sound, something in the vein of General Surgery and... therefore Carcass. I can't say it's exactly Goregrind but it definitely has a few parts in pure "Reek of Putrefaction" tradition. The rest is quite tight, raw and violent death metal à la early Grave/Entombed, mixed with a bit of genuine, savage grind, a few well placed nasty blasts and a hell of guttural growls and sickening mid-high screamy maligna vox. At one point, there's stuff that I thought was completely like a Protes Benct song, if you know that old crust band... that was cool. Anyway, here you go, 7 awesome songs kicking ass, between early Carcass and old swedish death metal. Can't get any better. The thing is that it's a one-man deal! I honestly didn't notice it wasn't an actual band until I've read it on the website. This kind of stuff drives me nuts. If you're still waiting for General Surgery to do their come back, I say pick this one up instead, you won't be disappointed. The sound is quite raw but personally, I think it's part of what gives the band more edge. Thanks for the cool samples from Fulci's City of the Living Dead & Zombi 2 too, that's a great plus.

Tracks: 1)Clostridium (Brown Pus) 2)Exsanguing the Innocent 3)Ritual suicide 4)Congenital deformity 5)Helmithemeal Regurgitation 6)Obscene Dissection 7)Severe Phagomania

Contact: Philip Gerlee
Gibraltargatan 86/507
412 79 Göteborg
Sweden

E-mail: luteous_grind@hotmail.com

Website: http://luteous.cjb.net

Review: New Lobster Assault tape, and last one since I hear this band has split up. Oh well... Anyway, this is hysterical raw grind-noise, wacky stuff in Pile of Eggs state of mind... Actually, the first part of the tape is heavily into thrash metal and stuff, more than grind: it has the rough rehearsal sound, the improvised feel, the larsens, the plethora of songs but most of it of thrashing stuff. Alot of it almost seems constructed. Some thrash and then really cool fast fast parts springing up. It's quite enjoyable stuff especially for the nice tight drumming, but sometimes it sounds like punk black metal. The rest of the tape has a more blurry sound and alot more straightforward brutal grind goodness; I think I like it better, it's alot more chaotic and absurd, with some big fat growls, the rest is piercing screaming and once more a few bits of old Metallica thrashing guitar. The stuff's really fun to listen, in a really mind-numbing delirium tremens kind of way... It definitely has really awesome deranged grind moments. I also like the occasional spoken intros, always great fun. And the cute cover art. The slow Cathedral song that turns to grind-noise... It's all great fun... The great Lobster is dead... All hail Lobster Assault! ... http://www.geocities.com/lobsterassault/

Tracks: 32 Tracks on side A, 38 on side B... Huh...

Review: Well well! A band that's pretty funny and totally raw. The sound is the rehearsal raw recording type. For improvised grind I thought it sounded pretty cool. It's not the larsen and headachy type of grind-noise, it's just pretty fun stuff a bit like Anal Cunt and Piles of Eggs. The drums have something quite tight going on and the guitars come with alot of thrashy goodness. Of course they could care less about writing songs that make sense. They just play their stuff the fun way. Obviously with alot of joking around, funyy spoken intros and stuff.. and the lobster on the cover is so cute. Mmhh.. ok, whatever. It's just hilarious stuff. The thing to do is visit the website: http://www.geocities.com/lobsterassault/, it's also alot of fun.

Tracks: 56 Tracks... I'll write that another time maybe.

LYMPHATIC PHLEGM "Malignant Cancerous Tumor in the Epitelial Tissue of the intestine" Demo Tape

Release date: 1997

Tracks: 1)Manifestation of Purulent Cystical Bacillosis In The Internal Ligaments Of The Bile Visicle 2)Grotesque Congenital Deformity Excretory System Causing Anatomical Irreversibility Of The Macerated Tissue 3)Premature Dettachment Of The Normally Inserted Placenta 4)Necrosis Of A Rather Extensive Part Of The Jejunum-ileum 5)Inflamatory Fermentation Of The Gastric Tissue

Band contact: C/O Rodrigo Alcântara
R.Mal Hermes,454
Centro Cívico
cep:80.530-010

Reviewed by Fabrício Reolon Terribile loganfab@loja.net