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.

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.

P.L.F. / Nashgul - Split 7"

While most grind leans towards hardcore and hardcore punk, some of it leans more into the death metal and thrash territory. P.L.F., on this release at least (to date, the only thing I've heard by them), play some chuggy, metal-heavy grindcore. The production is huge, the drums sound amazing, and the vocals are low and rumbly like the good ol' death metal stock. The riffs though, are much more thrashy, yet retain that nasty, venomous edge that is required for the grindcore style.

There are like a hundred bands called Nashgul, or some variety of that spelling. I remember seeing some crappy black metal band with this name up in Leeds a few years ago, but that's another story. I prefer Nashgul's stuff here over P.L.F. (that's not a diss at them, though, their shit is great too!); I just prefer the over-all sound here, although it is a close one. Thrown into the vicious grind mix, Nashgul also bring some moments that aren't a million miles away from some d-beat vibes, and this mixes things up greatly. It sounds fucking amazing.

 

Limited to 100 on green, with the rest out on black, thanks to Bones Brigade Records.

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.