Dead Infection / Malignant Tumour - Split 7"

This is classic Dead Infection shit right here. I've heard this before on one of the collection / compilation CDs, and I absolutely love the mix of growls and pitchshifters - usually when vocals contrast to shifted stuff it's gonna be yelled, screeched, shouted or screamed, but not here. Growls not brutal enough? Well, top that off with some pitchshifted gurgles! Lo-Fi blasting grinding madness, but with enough finger-wagging classic riffs for the crusties to mosh to. A genre staple!

Malignant Tumour have such a strange back catalogue of stuff; tracing their development as a band is extremely entertaining, although I must confess to enjoying the older incarnation of the band more than the rock'n'roll style stuff (however they are always great fun live). Catching them on this 7" marks their transition from goregrind out into a more politically motivated, almost mincecore approach. There is an Agathocles cover, which says it all, to be honest. This stuff is class, but Dead Infection's material on this takes the win for me.

Some saint amongst men (and women, and everything in between) kindly uploaded the whole thing to YouTube for our listening pleasure.

Malignant Tumour - Burninhell

I've had this album for years, and I can't remember where I got it from. Anyways, I got it and was expecting some nasty goregrind but instead was met with some metallic punk sound so I fucked it off and forgot that I had it. It wasn't until I saw Malignant Tumour live in Obscene Extreme Festival 2013 that I remembered I had this 12"; Gumpy said something about really enjoying them and wanting to get some albums and I just clicked that I already had one somewhere. Sure, Burninhell isn't as polished or as rock'n'roll as later, more accessable material by the band but it's still a pretty cool d-beat influenced metal record. To me it sounds like Motorhead, Discharge and Agathocles crossed over in a modern studio. I can get behind that!

Opener, "Clearance of Century" has a huge punk feel to it, whilst second track "Here We Are" brings the grind that I love so much. The ferocity here is totally non-stop; the vocals are super savage and really match the hybrid sound perfectly. "Commands from the Oval Throne" on side B is another favourite of mine. The whole thing closes out with "Oseriost som fan", which is crusty as absolute fucking fuck, before ending with some epic chanting shit. This has been out for some time now on CD and vinyl thanks to Insane Society Records. Czech it out in the link below!