Underground reviews
ABORTION
APPALING SPAWN
AGORAPHOBIC NOSEBLEED
CRYPTOPSY
MONSTROSITY
CANNIBAL CORPSE
NAPALM DEATH

ABORTION (SK)
-Murdered culture-
-Rock Extremum rec./Immortal Souls prod.
Cartoon Network!!! ...Yeah! This guys really like it! Me either!!! This cool optimistic album is opened by an intro from some Bugs Bunny, or stuff like that, cartoon. Than we have 12 really cool Crusty/Grindy songs...cool! Quite fast music, with no blasts. But that's not bad, the music is cool. Vocals: growls & some screams + pissed off roars... Lyrics: social & political problems... Booklet: quite nice, with photos of members, from the pre-Abortion age & from present. The lyrics are inside of the booklet. Some spelling mistakes, but nevermind... Hey, who the fuck is the guy on the cover?! OK...that's it...but wait, there is 9 song bonus on the CD...the EP Sense of humour. The old stuff is more crusty, but still cool & funny/optimistic! That's all folks!
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APPALING SPAWN (CZ)
-Freedom, hope & fury-
-??? (probably self-financed)-
I got this CD as a present from my brother on Christmas....but this CD is not containing some carols like Silent night, etc... , but a brutal Hyperblast in the vein of old Kataklysm!!! Yes!!! This is something for me & I must say that this is even brutal then the Kataklysm stuff....full of blasts (the drummer is very noisy & his blasts are really powerful!) & brutal riffs! But as you probably know Hyperblast is not only about brutality...there are many nice melodies here + one intro Azure waters of inthera. There are 10 songs on the CD & everything is 1st-rate stuff. 7 songs are new, 2 are old from their prevoius demo + that intro I have already mentioned. I'm really happy that this stuff is on a CD & not just on a demo, because a band from eastern Europe can break through only with a CD...& I'm really sure that these guys have all the attributes to do it!!! Although I have compared the band with Kataklysm many times don't await any copying or any other bullshit...this stuff is extremely original (altough some stupid critics would say that it is nothing new - I hate this opinion) !!!
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AGORAPHOBIC NOSEBLEED (USA)
-Honky Reduction-
-Relapse Records-
Altough this stuff is quite old, I'd like to make an review on it... OK, what have we here....an insane Grind core with a drum-machine. But this stuff is really extreme!!! ...and I still haven't awaken, after I've been insulted by the sound of this recording. Especially the sound of the drum-machine is really brutal...& is it fast...I don't think that a normal human could do that. The singer is using two kinds of vocals...some kind of "pissed off" nearly HC vocal & classical Grindy screams. This CD is containing 26 songs in the classical (very insane & little psycho) Grind core vein. The only exception is the song no.25. It is some kind of industrial/psycho/noisy stuff. This CD is just great!!! The only bad thing about it, is that it has only 18.08 minutes. But on the Relapse website at www.relapse.com I read that these guys are preparing new stuff! So watch out for it! It will be probably some very interesting Grind core experience!!!
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CRYPTOPSY (CAN)
-Whisper Supremacy-
-Century Media-
This CD is not mine...I have borrowed it from my friend (I don't have money to buy all the great stuff) & it was so good that I just wanted to make a review on it. OK...I don't have the None So Vile CD, so I'll compare the new stuff with the Blasphemy Made Flesh CD. So, the new stuff is still so insane as on the debut CD...full of disharmonic & brutal riffs & full of fast passages & blasts. Yeah it is very cool! But the new stuff also contains some melodies & that I can't say about the Blasphemy...CD (maybe in solos). The line-up has been changed. They have, I think, a new guitarist & a new singer. The singer is good, but he just isn't Lord Worm. Lord Worm was a personality (I read that the guy used to eat maggots on their shows!!!). I hope that the new singer won't lost his self-confidence, if he'll read this (hmmm...I don't think so), because he's really good. ...& I must say that the new stuff is really good  too (but I think that afterall Blasphemy... is better). OK that's it...& I think that I won't give this CD back to my friend...hehehe....;-)
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NEXT: Ingrowing - Cyberspace, Hermaphrodit - Fekal Party

My favourites:

MONSTROSITY (USA)
-Imperial Doom '91-
-Nuclear Blast America-
This band is a typical Tech/Brutal Death metal from Florida. It's really cool! This album was released in the times, when this style was really popular, but I think that Monstrosity was never so popular as other Death metal bands from this area, altough it is probably the best group from there. Monstrosity is a group of brilliant musicians gathered around a great drummer Lee Harrison. Lee is the main composer & he also writes the lyrics. On this album (...& also on Millenium '96) also sings George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher, who is today singin' in Cannibal Corpse. I have this album on a tape & also on a vinyl. There are 8 songs on the album, but on the tape there is one another. Monstrosity had many problems & line-up changes during their career, but they haven't broken-up...No,no...they are still alive! In 1996 they have finally released their second album Millenium with a totally different line-up. The only guys who have remained were Lee Harrison & Corpsegrinder, but after that recording also Corpsegrinder has left the band...& now only Lee is the only one from the Imperial Doom line-up. ...& Monstrosity still lives on! ...& I read thar they are working on a new album, with a new singer...
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CANNIBAL CORPSE (USA)
-Tomb of the mutilated '92-
-Metal Blade Records-
This is a classical Brutal Ami-Death metal band, with gory & perverted lyrics (like Entrails ripped from a virgin's cunt) + very sick artworks. The line-up on this album was with Chris Barnes on vocals, Alex Webster on bass, Paul Mazurkiewitz on drums, Jack Owen on guitar & Rob Rusay on guitar. This is probably the most brutal album of this band, 'cause on Butchered at birth they haven't reached the top of brutality yet & on The Bleeding their music started to be little technical & with Vile it started to be deviant & vile... OK...how to describe this one: it is full of razor-sharp riffs, fast passages & of course, as ussual in Ami-Death, full of blasts. There are also some very cool passages, like the beginning of Hammer smashed face (that one is very cool) , the main riff in Necropedophile & the whole song + that sick intro on Addicted to vaginal skin. This is one of the best & most brutal (altough today some bands produce music even brutal) albums in the Ami-Death production... & I think it's their best!!! Before this album the band has released two albums - Eatenback to life & Butchered at birth (the cover rules!!!) . After the Tomb... album Rob Rusay has been kicked out of the band & The Bleeding was released. Then also the vocalist Chris Barnes has been kicked & has joined an old-school Death metal band Six feet under. His place was taken by George Corpsegrinder (ex-Monstrosity) & Vile was released. ...and finally the Gallery of suicide was released in 1998... There is one thing that I like 'bout C.C. very much...they have never denied their roots & are still playing the same kind of music...& I prize that!
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NAPALM DEATH
-From enslavement to obliteration '88-
-Earache-
Grind core!!!! This album just fuckin' kicks ass!!! Do you like fast music with plenty of blats? Do you like double vocals including screams & growls? Yes? Damn it, then this album is for you!!! The legendary line-up Lee Dorrian/vocals, Mick Harris/drums, Bill Steer/guitar & Shane Embury/bass will blow up your fuckin' head! There are 23 songs on this album in the classical old-school Grind core vein! Everything is fast stuff & it's still brutal after 11 years. Lyrics are 'bout some social/political problems all over this filthy world. Before I start to talk 'bout their other releases I must say something 'bout the photos in the back of this album. The photo of Shane is totally funny...he just looks adorable...hahahaha...check that photo out! OK than...this band is totally legendary & I'm sure that at least 70% of Grind/Noise bands are influenced with it. Before this album N.D. has released their even more legendary album, their debut Scum. Scum is very interesting too, also because on it, 2 line-ups have changed. Then, after From enslavement... the band has released the Harmony Corruption album & has shown that they can also play a 1st-rate Death metal. They've been following this style with these releases: Utopia Banished (this one also includes some Grindy passages) & Fear, emtiness, despair. After these 2 releases they haven't changed their style, but they started to use also some other elements.
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