This is (now) a fairly old split released by Rotten Roll, putting US goregrinders Queef Huffer up against Aussie equivalent Nothin' Suss. The whole thing kicks off with Nothin' Suss' tracks, and whilst there isn't anything particularly that much at fault with the band, the overall production is pretty shabby to be honest.
Queef Huffer on the other hand, have their shit together. The production is much more on point; everything is clear and concise. It is quite interesting to see the band thanking a studio that has never recorded goregrind before in the linear notes. This is a gory, groovy, watery mess.
This split is something like 10 years old now, which is fucking terrifying, as it reminds me of how many years of my life I've wasted been enjoying listening to stuff like this! Check out this beauty of a track:
Sleaze Servant is the new EP from long-time techno-gore-grind filth mongers, Libido Airbag; a "band" so balls deep in scum and vulgar sounds that even your gran loves a dance to some of their older tunes. They've hardly pumped out volumes of material in their long existence, but the fact that they can still develop and spew out fresh sounds in such a restrictive genre is a testament to gore and porno grind, especially the latter, which often gets bogged down with oceans of crap digi-bedroom projects. Please ladies and gentlemen, just because you've found out how to work a drum machine, it doesn't mean you can't start a fuckin' grindcore band.
But I digress. Sleaze Servant is exactly what the title promises it will be. Whilst a layer of filth has definitely been peeled away from The Airbag as they have progressed into the HD world; those old, minging recordings from the past were a lot sketchier than the pristine techno instrumentation on this record. Don't get me wrong though, it's still mankin' as absolute fuck; the title track and "Black Mark Of The Iron Phallus" are examples of Libido Airbag at their titty-clamping best (edit: what?), whilst "Rectum Ritual" and "Praise The Placentagram" are filthy, delicious, and I guess in a really twisted way, just pure fucking genius. 10/10 for nastiness!
(I implore you to forgive me the ridiculously low quality of today's upload. This is literally impossible to track down online, and I unfortunately do not own a copy of the super-limited lathe cut 7". That being said, if anyone has any hi-res scans of the cover art that would do this post more justice, then please, by all means, feel free to get in contact with me, and of course upload the pictures to Discogs too).
Almost matching the lo fi sleeve is the nasty lo fi goodness from everyone's favourite obscure gore/porngrind couple. The bass tone on this thing is unreal; it's like, I can't decide if it is fucking abysmal or absolutely amazing - it is hovering in between in an endless duality. I'd be lying if I said there was anything new here for Necrocannibalistic Vomitorium fans, but if you are into this shit then you are gonna love this EP (or just this YouTube link, because finding one is probably gonna be a fuckin' task). There is just a certain charm to this band; it almost sounds like everything is recorded using analogue equipment. It sounds old, and nasty as fuck, and that's absolutely fine by me.
Spermanys Most Wanted (surely there should be an apostrophe on Spermany's?) is the first 7" EP / demo from now-legendary groovy grindcore band GUT. Technically, Drowing In Female Excrements came first as a hand-made cassette released by the band, but this 1992 EP was the first from the band on a label. GUT are credited with inventing the pornogrind sound, which is in its most primitive and infantile form here.
Due to the production on this thing, it almost sounds like a black metal record. If not for, of course, the trademark GUT gurgles and the sampling work holding it firmly in the dodgy world of grindcore. A few of the songs here would eventually go on to appear on the band's debut album Odour Of Torture, including a GUT favourite of mine, "Consequence".
Once upon a time I had this gem on vinyl, but alas I sold it (along with almost everything else) to live a less materialistic lifestyle. If I recall, the GUT EPs I had were some of the first things to be snapped up by collectors.
Clitorape are a groovy goregrind band from France. Gynaecological Apocalypse is the group's very sexy debut release, boasting a super-downtuned sound and dual-headed pitchshifted vocal approach, because y'know, one pitchshifter is never enough. Expect styles perfected by Rompeprop, GUT et al plunged to new depths; new lows, new brutality and most importantly, new grooves.
Stand out tracks include the smooth jazz and nu-metal tomfoolery of the hilariously-titled "Bubble Butt Blues", the blast happy "Natural Porn Killers" and the gooey, gargling "Smegmageddon". In addition, at the end of the record there is a bunch of tracks featuring collaborations with fellow goregrinders 5 Stabbed 4 Corpses and Ass Deep Tongued (come on, what a band name hahaha). The whole thing is rounded off nicely with covers of Ultimo Mondo Cannibale and Satan's Revenge On Mankind (the SROM cover being particularly tasty, no pun intended).
It was also a pleasure to catch the band at the 2016 edition of Forced System Festival. Check the album out below.
Vulvulator are (or were) a pornogrind band from the incredibly-metal-as-f sounding Uzhgorod, which is in Ukraine. One of the greatest tragedies of the 21st century is that they only ever released one album and a couple of splits. Obscenario is a bizarre blast through the usual pastures fermenting in these particular genres (slam / pornogrind / brutal death metal), but the production style chosen by the band (or maybe the studio producer?) really adds an interesting twist to proceedings. The songs are led by the bass, which strong and prominent in the mix, followed up by the guitars and held together by the odd drum sound; an unique twist on the ol' tighter-than-your-average snare sound.
If I had to sum up Vulvulator in one song I believe I could easily do this with track two on this heffer; "Oestrum Ecstasy". It perfectly sums up what I mean when this band ride the slam/BDM sound but also incorporate an odd, bass-driven sound. Other highlights include "Boy In A Boat", "Horror Of P.M.T." and the quite-excellent cover of GUT's "Dead Girls Don't Say No". It frightens me that this album is nearly ten years old. Hopefully I will still be listening to pornogrind from beyond the grave, but we'll see.
Enema Shower are a groovy goregrind/porngrind (yadda yadda) band from Slovakia, playing in a slow but funky style of danceable filth. The vocals are low, thick 'n' heavy (see what I did there, y'know, because it's porno grind!), the guitar work is like razorwire despite the slow speed and the drums possess the satisfying piccolo ping that one expects from musical circles such as this.
These three guys (and one girl) seem to have a thing for Sasha Grey, who crops up once or twice over the whole record (there's even a track named after her), but generally the song subject matter ranges from the obscene to the rather clever ("Your Safeword Is Harder"). It's hard to stay original in such an inward-thinking sub-genre, and whilst She Asked For It doesn't offer anything particularly new to the pornogrind template it does a really good fucking job of spreading it wide and lubing it up.
Grind doesn't get much slower than this. Stream below. Butt plug optional.
Cemetery Rapist is perhaps the wiggerest of all slam
projects. I guess if you’re gonna listen to this type of stuff, go straight to
the most ridiculous, insane project of the lot. He might not have gansta grills
like members of more recent slam bands, but Cemetery Rapist is also probably
one of the longest running projects too, and according to my I-used-to-spend-too-much-time-on-Myspace
radar, he’s probably been going for about a decade. When your game is super
chuggy pornogrind-tinged slam, you gotta give the guy props for still managing
to churn out fresh and relevant music.
Asides from a brief foray with
superstardom (lol) by releasing a record on Rotten Roll Rex, Cemetery Rapist
has been releasing and supporting his own filth in a true DIY style ever since
the project’s inception. In that respect, Plundering Into Vaginal Demolition is no
different; it is a self-recorded, self-released CD that is an absolute fucker
to get a hold of at a decent price outside of the USA. The pros and cons of the self-funded underground, folks!
Plundering... offers up another slice of what Cememtery Rapist is all about; sludgy slams over ticking drum machines and str8-from-da-cornfieldz cricket vokills. Skreeeeeeeeeee, motherfuckers, skreeeeeee. Top off the whole circus with some frankly disturbing artwork and hey presto, another fuckin' slamming porno groove gem in the bag. That's how he do.
Like any doctor worth his salt will tell you, at least several weekly listens of guttural groovy gore and/or porn grind is vital to maintaining a.) a happy soul and b.) the ability to dance like a total spastic and get away with it. And Analkholic are just what the doctor ordered. That doctor might be dancing around a muddy field in Trutnov with a dildo strapped to his head, but he's still a doctor, dammit. Anyways, Analkholic are fucking awesome. Damp, dirty and dingy groove is the order of the day, with stomachable drum machine beats, rumbling strings and Cthulhu-after-two-blunts vokills.
This type of shit seems to get a lot of stick these days simply for being what it is - it's like there's a new breed of ultra-PC mongoloids infiltrating grindcore (or perhaps just infinite more numbers of mongoloids have access to the internet and are able to freely voice their opinion like it's actually important or something, amirite? ;D). But fuck it, Analkholic bring the totally sick party vibe with hilarious samples and the perfect dingy goregrind to brighten up your week.
So do yourself a solid and crank up this band's self-styled "coconut porngore". If you're not dancing by track three then I'm sorry but you are officially an idiot.
C.A.R.N.E. are a porno-influenced groovy grindcore band from the lubed-up lower bowels of Mexico. The Taste Of Latex, despite splits with Oxidised Razor and Fucksaw, is the band's only full length release to date. Although dirgy as fuck, it is a really groovy album loaded with tupa tupa rhythyms and slow, sludgy pornogrind. The vocals are the only let down; when not croaking and spluttering through the genre-defining pitchshifter muck, they are replaced by a slightly lacklustre farmyard of sound effects, which is a bit of a shame but a given in this genre!
But who could deny such classics as "Monster Dicks" and "Command Garcez 6ick 6ick 6ick" (whatever the hell that means)? I know I can't deny them their ridiculous porno groove. It just is what it is; you either love it or hate it. I for one, love it. Just don't take it so seriously - not the like the slam dudes of the s00per br00tal death metal elite, at least porngrind or pornogrind (whatever) pretty much begs you not to take it seriously.
Get your daily injection of sleaze (without internet pornography)!
When I got this through the door the other day it took me right back to the thick of the good ol' trading days! Gotta love these insane underground goregrind compilations and splits, there really is nothing like them anywhere else in the music world. As with most Dehydrated Tissues releases, this has been put out on the band's own label Regurgitated Stoma Stew Productions, who deal in a plethora of absolutely fucking filthy goregrind, porngrind and noisecore. Well worth a look in!
Dehydrated Tissues take their Rompeprop-worship to a whole new level here, even mimmicking Romperop's hilarious intro tracks with the song "IntroIntroLOL". Tracks like "Colon Pogo" and "I Am The Vaginal Cheese Inspector!!!" absolutely reek of Dutch polka goodness, and this can only be a good thing - there really is nothing quite like shaking your tail feather to some groovy-porno-gore-grind! It is the only music I can legitimately dance to (I'm not joking - you should have seen me at a Venetian Snares gig. Can anyone say "square"?).
Latexxx Command are just as great, but bring more of that dirty South American porno vibe, rather than wading through gore. Sure, it sounds virtually the same as Dehydrated Tissues give or take some production values, guitar tone and degree of phaser effect on the pitchshifter, but for me the definition between porngrind and goregrind is entirely the vibe you get from the music. It is easy to go ahead and catagorize bands into each genre, but so many sucessfully cross over so seamlessly that to an outsider it could look like there is no difference at all. Menstrual Fistfuck is a project by the same mind behind Latexxx Command and for this reason I think it sounds very similar to the latter, although it does shake it up a bit here and there.
Because I linked to Dehydrated Tissues in another blog post, today I will present to you instead the delights of the fantastic Latexxx Command. Get ready to dance, bitches.
