Here's a 27-track collection of Carcass worshipping mayhem from these Minnesota gore grinders culled from splits and compilations and such over the time period specified in the ridiculously long album title. I haven't been much into this particular style in the last few years, though there was a time when I was a big fan of it, so... I can say that despite the absence of variety and lacking anything that really blows me out of the water, this is decent stuff for what it does offer, and fans of fast, blasting, brutal gore grind should appreciate this. Expect lots of minute-long songs with dense, churning guitars, vicious and totally indistinguishable sneering/growling vocals and generally blazing speeds with a few slower breaks on occasion. Included are split 7"s with Head Hits Concrete, Black Market Fetus, and Machetazo along with the band's "Execrable Execration of Exsufflicate Exenterating Exertion" demo, as well as a couple of live and compilation songs - among them their contribution to the "Requiems of Revulsion" Carcass tribute. I think there are a couple of duplicate tracks on here too, but you'd never know it from listening to 'em, and you'd probably have just as hard a time figuring it out by looking at all of the gibberish song titles since so many of 'em look and sound similar to one another. I'm gonna level with you, at this point I'm too lazy (and too busy) to type up many of these marathon song titles full of medical jargon both legitimate and fabricated, so I've gotta kind of gloss over this one with a blanket description since there's not that much variation here at all. On rare occasion you'll be greeted with a few old school Bolt Thrower riffs amidst all of the tremolo picking and dingy Carcass ripoff riffs, but... you know the drill. They seem to like old Earache bands, because they also cover "Worlds Apart" by Napalm Death (Hey, the only easy to read song title on the entire disc!), so go figure. The first half of the disc sounds pretty decent for gore grind. Thick, fairly balanced, etc. As with most of this style the extremity of the vocals is a little overpowering and they'd have been better served trying to bring the vocals deeper in against the music, but... I can definitely live with the tones they have in place, rugged or not. The sessions for the Carcass tribute and the split 7" with Machetazo sound at times thinner and much less intense, so I find some of that stuff a little harder to sit through, but then again... most people who listen to a lot of this stuff just love completely raw and dirty recordings. The demo's the real chore though, as it's distant and a lot noisier across the board, having been recorded in a practice space by some crust punk dude or whatever. Ironically the live tracks sound more competent than the demo, but the last 13 tracks on the disc are definitely a little much for me to take. The layout's pretty dull and includes a few random images amidst minimal recording notes and such, but obviously no lyrics are included, so... that's about it. If you're a gore grind fanatic you should be into this, and I was always surprised that this band never did a record with Razorback as they're dead on with that whole niche of the scene.
[One Percent]
Running time - 31:43, Tracks: 27
[Notable tracks: Anaplasiastic Fulguration, Depredating Esurient Cordylobial Neologism, Egesting Colonic Helmenthiasis 2/Disconsolate Inguinal Acarine Perflation, and a few others with those types of titles...]
One Percent Records - http://www.onepercentrecords.com
