Death Toll 80k / Sete Star Sept - Split 7"

This is my first (and loooong overdue) experience with Death Toll 80k, the noisy grindcore machine that has eluded my ears for so long! What an unstoppable mess! This is the grindcore that I fell in love with; dingy, flat-out, unstoppable blastbeat carnage with a cheeky smattering of riffs thrown in for good measure. The order of the day though is mind-boggling grinding carnage. Get it down your Gregory Peck, son!

Sete Star Sept have a surprisingly consistent output of awful noise (lol) considering they are on so many splits these days. They’ve always been prolific, don’t get me wrong, but we are reaching Agathocles / Unholy Grave levels of splitting. Sete Star Sept have been shitting out splits faster than a Valleys girl shitting out babies. Noisecore? Noisegrind? Who knows, who cares? 777 blast and rattle through some abysmal grindcore and that’s all you need to know.

Sete Star Sept / Violent Gorge - Split 5.5"

Holy Mother, now this is some abrasive shit! Sete Star Sept are currently my go-to band for extra-nasty noisecore skullduggery, and they do not disappoint with this particular slice of shitgrind vulgarity. Violent Gorge takes things a little bit further. Things start off in the noisecore ballpark, and then subtly migrate into harsh noise territory, as it appears the original "band" recordings are cut, spliced, diced and manipulated to create all manner of auditory discomfort. Imagine Suppression meets AxCx in King Tubby's studio. Ha ha!

 

Uber-DIY and well worth a look-in, you can get this unusually sized 5.5" slab of tinnitus from Grindfather Productions, Mass Deadening, Aggressive Valley, Death, Agony & Screams and Pan Del Muerte Records.

 

No Youtube links for this, sorry!

Sete Star Sept / Rotgut - Split 7"

I remember Rotgut from years ago (ah, the Myspace days!) and back then they played this really ugly, sludgy and noisy shit. Now, things are a bit more refined; Rotgut have become this absolute grinding Malaysian menace. The sound is fatter than the bloated corpse of a beached great white, and the vocals are totally insane; wicked rasps and shouts that hark back to something altogether more 38 Counts...era Pig Destroyer. Ones to watch, I would think!

Sete Star Sept are making a name for themselves. They've been going for a good few years now but 2013 seems to be the year of Sete Star Sept, what with a lot of worldwide touring and I keep seeing their name pop up absolutely fucking everywhere. Which is good news, of course. But Christ, what a mess this band is! Nasty, sloppy, horrendous noisecore is the order of the day. It's completely vicious as fuck and I absolutely love it.

 

This split of "turbo tornado power grindcore" (their words, not mine) was put out on December 25h 2012 by the great people at Dogma Artistic Guerrilla Records in Malaysia. I have number 152 out of 300 copies.