Phyllomedusa / Toad Birth - Split CD

Phyllomedusa’s blasting, burping and croaking froquencies have quickly become a firm favourite here at camp Lines In Wax over the last few months. It’s kinda hard to define Phyllomedusa’s sounds but after listening to a lot of it I’ve noticed a pattern emerging - you can divide the majority of the sounds presented into four categories; ambient / field recordings, gorenoise and/or goregrind, more traditional harsh noise and finally, err, doom metal. 

Their part of this split though (entitled The Munz Grove Incident), after what seems like a never-ending intro dialogue, bursts into bubbling vats of screeching, hateful power electronics style noise, with plenty of grim, horrifying bestial vocals. I’m not entirely sure what happened at Munz Grove, but it sounds fucking terrifying, and I’m kinda glad that I wasn’t there.

Toad Birth is another project by the same frog (lol) that created Phyllomedusa. Honestly, this could be another Phyllo release, but Toad Birth’s stuff is a bit more lo-fi.

Spawn some tracks in the player below!

Let It Die - Let It Die

I first saw these guys by chance when I went up to Bristol to catch Weekend Nachos. Little did I know until a few days before that the show was an all dayer, filled to the brim with some of the best fuckin' grindcore bands the UK has to offer right now. Despite the fact that I had completed the Ultimate Burger challenge (I won't go into it) pre-gig and was in a state of too-much-protein-lethargy for the entire day, I had one hell of a blast and got turned on to so many new bands. I guess it got me right back into grind! It was the kick that I needed, the reminder that the underground was still alive somewhere and I was just too blind to see it.

 

So when I heard that this 7" was coming out on a collaboration featuring the excellent Dead Chemists Records I nearly shit a brick in excitement. Gutted for the band that this didn't end up coming out on Southern Lord, but it sure as hell made it easier (and cheaper) for me to get a copy right here in the UK! This spins at 45 so it doesn't last very long, but it doesn't need to; it's punchy and in your face and gets it's point across quickly. The production is great, echoing the band's extremely tight live sound a thousandfold on record. This totally doesn't sound like a 3 piece.

 

Out on Dead Chemists, Church of Fuck and Moshtache Records on pinky/purple waxxx.

Life is Easy - Falasmaryon

I can't exactly review this as it's my creation, but I got one in my collection so it'll have to wind up on here eventually, so I'll just do a brief run down to plug this fucker. I recorded this bastard of an EP back in 2007, simply by running a distorted B C Rich through a whole world of filters and then recording a cold, mechanical drum beat over the top of it before doing more or less the same to that too. 

 

I don't really know why but I've never really bothered to release music that I have made alone, so it took 6 years to get this out, which is ridiculous  You can download it for free here or if you read this around the original post date and actually like it you can get a copy on tape for cheap as chips. Limited to 20 copies on Lines In Wax's very own Pointless Records label.