Intestinal Disgorge - Dripping In Quiet Places

I always welcome more Intestinal Disgorge. I should make a crappy Sean Bean meme with the text "One does not simply have enough Intestinal Disgorge". So, when I got the sexcellent Hyperemesis / Pulsating Cerebral Slime 7" lathe from Goatgrind Records I had to pick up their release of Dripping... at the same time; it would have been criminal not to! I have three Intestinal Disgorge records now (at the time of writing), so I might as well get serious and get locked into collecting the fucking lot.

Holy shit, Dripping... is one polished motherfucking record! The sound here is absolutely monumental. The production values just get better and better with each record, but ID have also tidied up their sound here. Gone are the funny/worrying samples, as are, for the most part, the trademark bitch squeals. The Depravity record showcased a much more stream-lined approach for the band, replacing silliness with outright fucking brutality, and Dripping... takes the band even further in that direction. There are 25 songs here instead of the usual 50/60 you'd expect from an ID full length. The trademark frenzied-shredding is still evident in many of the songs, but I find that the tracks overall are much longer and structured, resembling a very interesting brand of brutal death metal rather than anything more grind-related.

On the other hand though, things get really experimental with the inclusion of what sounds like a fucking saxophone popping up in the mix. The album credits "J" to "vocals, clarinet, violin, trombone", but all I hear is something sax-sounding, but I'm not really educated in classical instruments and the sounds that they make. At times it sounds like a death metal Dead Neanderthals, which is very unusual to say the least. All in all, this is a fucking epic and absolutely tight as a duck's arse record. The lack of samples / worryingly misogynistic content and crazy-weird goregrind may initially baffle some old ID fans, but the more-focused and heavier than heavy sound more than makes up for it.

Urine Festival / Faeces Eruption - Split 7"

 

 

Time for some more sickening goregrind folks! The cover art to this Goatgrind release might be fairly tame but the music is fucking nuts, as you would expect. Faeces Eruption play fairly straightforward, dank and heavy electronic goregrind with low pitchshifted gurgles. The whole thing sails by rather quickly, but it's an enjoyable four songs that has got me on the look out for more Faeces Eruption shit (pun slightly intended).

Urine Festival on the other hand absolutely take the fucking biscuit. Shit, I thought Tumour was insane - imagine that project but a thousand times faster, the bass is so low that it's almost inaudible and the vocals literally sound like water. Not watery, just pure fucking water. Shit. Replace the horror movie samples with porno ones, and you got Urine Festival. Coincidentally, this project is also by a member of Last Days of Humanity; the drummer for Hymns... era and vocalist on the recent reformation tour, Marc Palmen. It's like every member of LDOH has their own cybergrind project! Somebody should fucking compile them all on one super gross split, that would be awesome!

Nappy from Goatgrind has been so kind as to upload the entire split to Youtube, so wrap your lugholes around this crazy shit; Faeces Eruption first then Urine Festival after. 

Devourment - Unleash The Carnivore

I've never really considered myself a proper Devourment fan although I am quite partial to their heavier-than-the-mass-of-9-planets mix of slam and brutal death metal. When I saw this absolutely stunning Goatgrind picture disc version of Unleash... at Obscene Extreme I knew it had to be mine. Just look at it! Damn! That's metal as fuck! Ha ha. Unleash... boasts quite a polished and clinical approach to things, and is a far cry from the band's cult classic sound on 1.3.8.

I can't decide if the music needs more slams or more blast beats, as the songs tread the line carefully between the two choices. One minute it's all the bodyslamming, next minute it's all the waving of the fingers in the air at the blastbeats! I guess I don't really need to tell you how Devourment sound, but I just love this slamming mess so much. On that note, I'd like to quickly round off this review before I have to listen to any more Devourment. I am currently in no shape to be chair-dancing to this shit ha ha ha! Finally, massive kudos to Goatgrind for putting this on vinyl and making it much more appealing for me to buy. Legend!