Ebola - Demo #2

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I'm taking a bit of a break from the blog, maybe you've already noticed. I'm pleased with the way I've managed to post regularly for the first time ever these past few months, but I've been feeling a little worn out with it lately. My plan is to be back by November. Until then, allow me to give you Ebola as a parting gift.

Another Fucking Noise Comp vol. 1

Here's another thing that I've had forever, ripped months ago, and kept forgetting to post. I ought to keep a list or something.
All right, this was released in early 2016 and GCP shut down pretty soon after if I remember correctly. It seems like there's some kind of curse going around where if a label puts together a comp or split with volume one in the name, they're doomed to never make a second one. Anyway, we have 45 minutes of shit from nine projects here, and it's a nice mix of artists that are prominent in the US harsh noise scene and ones that are more unknown. I'm not going to give a rundown of everyone on here, you can find most of the artists on bandcamp if you hear anything you like. But for what it's worth, my favorites were Pharsh and Romeo & Rebecca (Patrick Harsh is a fucking master as we all know, and the latter continues the trend of my favorite band on comps always being the one that apparently recorded just the one song and then ceased to exist). Also, Paraplegic Erection gets honorable mention for the bizarre tortured rubber duckie sound that the track opens with.

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Hydropneumothorax / Bradymenorrhoea

I kind of forgot about this split for a while, as well as the last one I posted. Are you noticing a recurring theme in my posts?
Hydropneumothorax is another project from the dude responsible for Pyemesis. It looks like Hydropneumothorax releases stopped around the Pyemesis started, so I think the latter was basically a continuation of the same shit under a new name. I can't see much difference between the two anyway, except that this project seems somewhat more pathological in theme.
I don't have anything in particular to say about the Bradymenorrhoea side, except that Bradymenorrhoea was one of my favorite old Bobby Maggard projects. Also, I almost didn't notice that this is the second release I've posted in two weeks that concludes with a cover of In Advanced Haemorrhaging Conditions. I can't deny that it makes a good closer.

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Osteocondrodisplasia / Harmonious Tones of Shattered Bones

Happy 9-11. This split is over in no time but it's good as fuck. Both of these bands are on the harsher side of gorenoise, something that I kind of wish I could find more of.
I'm pretty sure The Love Doctor has abandoned all of his older projects. I think Osteocondrodisplasia is still active but I can't say for sure. If anyone knows something I don't, I'd be glad to find out.

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Surgical Infection / Wrong Illegal Abortion Procedure With Alarming Consequences / Trabecular Hepatocellular Carcinoma

I've been procrastinating on posting this for literally years because I have a lot of thoughts and feelings about this split, a bunch of irrelevant reminiscing basically. So I've wasted all this time debating with myself whether it was really necessary to put the whole story on here, and I've finally decided that the answer is fuck you, this is my blog and I do what I want. I'll put the stuff that's not specifically about the music on this release below the download link though, so it's easy to skip if you don't care.
So, about this split. Surgical Infection is probably the least recognizable name here and also probably my favorite. I want to say that it feels similar in atmosphere to Lymphatic Phlegm while at the same time having a unique sound and not coming across as a straight up copy.
From what I've heard, WIAPWAC ventured farther and farther into weird cybergrind territory over the course of its existence (take the release I posted a couple years ago for example), but it plays pretty typical underground goregrind on this release aside from the ridiculously fast programmed drums. In all honesty, the first time I heard WIAPWAC I found it kind of unremarkable, but the songs here are solid.
It feels weird to think of calling a goregrind band a supergroup, but I mean, Trabecular Hepatocellular Carcinoma is made up of several significant people from Italian grind. We have Jaron Olocausto (WIAPWAC, Neurotic Anger Prods), Andrea Laurenti (Ecclesia Records, some projects with Bobby Maggard), and I'm pretty sure Ivan is Ivan Loi of Cannibe. I don't recognize the name Lorenzo from anything, maybe I'd know more about him if I was more well versed in European grind. Anyway, THC plays sloppy, noisy goregrind, fun stuff.

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Surgical Infection was actually one of the first goregrind bands I really liked and Stinking Up the Morgue was one of my favorite releases in the genre for a while (download it here if you wish). Surgical Infection's style varied a bit between releases, but Stinking Up the Morgue is in the same style as the material on this split. The vocals are a bit weird, but I found them easier to handle than more typical gurgles when I was new to the genre. I think Surgical Infection must have been the first thing I heard with such a strong atmosphere, which would explain why it made more of an impression on me than other goregrind albums I listened to at the time (although I have no idea how I even found Surgical Infection when I'd barely even checked out the biggest goregrind bands yet). I don't listen to Surgical Infection much anymore since it's sadly been kind of overshadowed by better things, but I haven't forgotten Stinking Up the Morgue's significance to me.
When this split was announced on Surgical Infection's Facebook page I wasn't familiar with either of the other two bands or Neurotic Anger, but I was immediately curious about Wrong Illegal Abortion Procedure With Alarming Consequences because of the project's ridiculous name. Despite my best efforts, it took me at least a year to find anything by WIAPWAC to listen to. It's funny, five years later that doesn't seem so bad, but at the time it felt like forever and I feared I would never find anything.
Surgical Infection more or less vanished from the face of the earth in late 2013 and at this point I don't have much hope that that's ever going to change. The dude did release something new with his main project Gore Obsessed in 2015, but after that he went silent once more. Trabecular Hepatocellular Carcinoma is the only band on this split that I can guess is still active with reasonable confidence, having put out a split tape with Ulcerotomy on Lysergic Meltdown earlier this year. WIAPWAC hasn't released anything in a few years now, and I think I remember Jaron expressing intent to quit the project at some point, I can't remember for sure though.

Liquidised / Serotonin Leakage

Liquidised is all nonstop hammering, riffs so low frequency that they're barely audible, and extra bubbly vocals. I really wasn't sure at first if it was a human voice or if it was just the sound of blowing bubbles in water. Just imagine that Shitter is gargling with a throat full of whatever fluid you would find grossest. Honestly I wish the overall sound was a little dirtier, but it's enjoyable regardless.
I think Dr. Dank, who is credited for Serotonin Leakage, is the new name The Love Doctor is using. He's been keeping more of a low profile the last few years and I've wondered if his interest in goregrind had faded, but it seems likely that life has just gotten in the way of recording shit as much as he used to. At any rate, he seems to have stepped up his game with Serotonin Leakage. The ultra-primitive, noisy stuff he was doing before was interesting and I definitely see value in it, but there's more immediate enjoyment to Serotonin Leakage and I potentially see myself revisiting it more often than his past projects.
Solid shit from two of the best.

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Dissolved - Fervorlously Decapitated With Instant Precision

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Sarcoma Fermentation - Dysfunction of Tumours

Sarcoma Fermentation's first demo. Only late 2000s/early 2010s gorenoise is real.

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PSA: no one is allowed to use this picture as an album cover ever again

thank you for coming to my ted talk

(P.S. also honorable mention to that other picture that's been used by CuntPump, Maggots in the Dead Skin, the Acid Feast / Glob split, and probably a bunch of others)

Gravewax / Gonococcus

This is one of my favorite splits in terms of packaging. I thought printing on cloth was a cool, unique idea and I'd love if it caught on with more labels. My one complaint is I felt like the art turned out kind of murky, which led to me procrastinating on posting this since I would have preferred to find digital copies of the art online. It just wasn't happening with the Gravewax side, so I finally gave in and scanned it recently, and now I feel like it's probably just meant to look that way. 

Gravewax is an obscure black noise project by Jen Lazarus. This side of the split features heavy sample usage, to the point where I almost want to say it's not so much black noise with some samples so much as it's samples with bits of black noise. It's interesting though, and with the chanting and church music it does a great job of creating a somber atmosphere.

I think I read somewhere that Goredick makes Gonococcus songs with nothing but layering his vocals. It sounds like there's something more than that going on here, but it's hard to tell. Either way, it doesn't sound quite like conventional gorenoise, and I mean that in a good way. Goredick recently posted everything by Gonococcus on Bandcamp, so check that out too.

I think this is sold out everywhere. I can't say for sure if Lysergic Meltdown still has copies or not because their store has been down for a while now (I was actually afraid the label was done until they posted recently that they've been on hiatus and will be back in October), but I doubt it.

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Cadaver Waste / Carcinomas of Unknown Primary Origin

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Hyalinobatrachium Colymbiphyllum / Urinary Tract Infection From Severe Pus Clots

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Suh Minutes of Dude - Suh Dude Demo 2016

BRUTAL NOISECORE. BUY THIS OR AT LEAST DOWNLOAD IT. PUT IT ON AND DESTROY YOUR ENTIRE ROOM. VISIT THE POST ABOUT THIS TAPE ON BUILT TO BLAST IF YOU WANT A MORE IN DEPTH REVIEW.

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Vomitoma / 16-武装翼の女神

I have a bunch of Vomitoma splits that I've been neglecting to post so I'm going to work on correcting that. As always I'm not going to post it all at once, but look forward to more Vomitoma shit in the coming weeks. Other than that, I don't have a whole lot to say about that project's material on this split. You know what it is.
I'm not the biggest fan of cybergrind, but there's definitely some good stuff out there. It seems like 30XX inspired a whole wave of "anime influenced cybergoregrind with a number in the name" bands and 16-武装翼の女神 is about the best one I've heard. Shit, I'd argue that they're one of the best things that's come out in the whole underground grind scene in the past few years. You're definitely fucking up if you're not making an effort to get everything they put out. 16awg has a knack for creating hyperactive grind that never lets up in intensity but never gets tiresome. I'd say if anything the songs are mainly driven by the drums, but the focus isn't really on any one element so much as it's creating a constantly shifting wall of noise to bludgeon you with. There hasn't been anything new from 16awg since their first full length about a year ago (which will hopefully finally be getting a physical release before too much longer), but both members have several other projects that I can barely keep track of. They post about those other projects on the 16awg facebook page whenever one has a new release, so you can find them all there if you're interested.
I believe this tape is sold out from both labels that released it, but Uterus Productions has a copy for sale.

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16-武装翼の女神 Bandcamp

3XA / Agonizing Death

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Pusdrainer - Drowned in Amniotic Putrescence

Here's the Pusdrainer post as promised. This seven inch (my second time ever posting a seven inch, yay) couldn't be much farther from the Sunken Cheek split in style while sticking to the same genre. Ocular Mutilation is very rhythmic and percussive, it sounds like the dude just miced up a big piece of metal and then beat the living fuck out of it. The vocals are highly distorted and they sort of sound like they've been slowed down, no idea if that's actually the case though. Ripped Open and Fed Upon abandons any pretense of competition and goes straight up harsh noise. It's totally solid shit. Obviously I always recommend buying the physical releases of things you like if you can, but I just want to say that I recommend it especially highly in this case if you like these songs.This rip is pretty good, but listening to the actual record is a whole different experience. It's readily available on discogs, but it won't be forever.

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Punctured Esophagus / Hydrocephalus

The Punctured Esophagus side of this split comes from the project's Bandcamp page and the Hydrocephalus side is my own rip.

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Ebola / Sewer Chewer

I can't actually remember for sure if I ripped this myself or if I just found it on soulseek. At any rate, I hope it sounds good.

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Aqua-Eroticum - I Think It's Fine

I've been meaning to do another Pusdrainer post, but I'm going to put it off a bit longer in favor of sharing an artist that hasn't appeared here yet. In my mind at least, Aqua-Eroticum was one of the most prominent artists in sketchy, scummy US power electronics just a few years ago. One of the most striking features of the project for me is Tom's unique vocals. I don't know if it has to do with the effects he uses or if it's just the way his voice is, but it always sounds uncomfortable, even pained, like filth, sickness, and shame personified. Tom has been done with the project for two or three years now, but there's still a final tape due to come out on Uninvited Records this year.
The first three tracks on here are studio recordings (well, more like bedroom recordings no doubt but you know what I mean) and the last track is two songs from a live performance in Tennessee. Since they're so different in sound and about equal in length, I think of this release as coming in two parts. It's kind of surprising that (as far as I know) this wasn't released on tape, honestly.
The first three songs are creeping death industrial bordering on dark ambient. This is the most subdued material I've heard from Aqua-Eroticum but also arguably the creepiest sounding. I think it actually works best when you don't give it your full attention. Focus on something else while this plays and let it get inside your head and leave you feeling vaguely uneasy.
The live songs on here are a whole different experience. In this setting I feel more anger and disgust in Tom's voice as opposed to the feelings I talked about before. The noise sounds raw in the way that live electronics does, but it's a good recording. I find myself listening to these songs more than the first three, but I wouldn't say that the live material is better necessarily. It's just that there's more immediacy to this half, whereas the first half requires a certain mood and setting in order to be effective.
This was self-released three years ago and I highly doubt that a lot were made, so copies randomly turning up for sale on discogs are probably about your best bet and/or only hope if you want one.

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Septic Autopsy / Gangrene Discharge

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Urachus / CuntPump

I think I talked about this split in a previous CuntPump post (shit, that must have been like two years ago). So yeah, it's way past time to get this out there. Urachus has a more standard sound than Jordan Dyment's main gore project Punctured Esophagus, but I like this one better. Check out the Bandcamp pages for both, links are in the names. Jordan is a good guy and is worth supporting.
This was the last of the previously unreleased material for Bobby's best and most brutal gorenoise project and it holds up with the other releases I've heard. There was also a re-release of the Severely Mangled Cunt demo (which most of us probably didn't know existed in the first place, let's be honest) in early 2017, featuring some new material recorded in late 2016. I don't think it was meant as a comeback though, and as far as I know it's finally really been over for CuntPump since then.
There's one copy of this for sale on discogs, don't sleep.

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Dissolved - Morgue Perversions

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Cunts - Live at Studio Dom

I think I learned of Cunts around four or five years ago when they did a show with another Japanese band I was following. What little I could learn of them fascinated me (a noisecore band consisting of vocals and drums and vocals only? If that doesn't sound like the best thing ever to you, I don't know why you're here), but I made multiple attempts to find their music and never found anything to download. I think they've become a little more known since then, which is cool, although it's a hard thing to judge since they're not exactly easy to google. At any rate, I was able to get this tape in 2015 or 2016 and finally satisfy my curiosity. To put bluntly, it sounds exactly the way you would expect a vocals-drums noisecore band to sound, but in the best way possible.
CHECK THIS OUT IF YOU LIKE FUN.

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Jan Frederickx retire bitch

Ten Thousand Corpse Ditch - A Stretch of Rotten Corpses as Far as the Eye Can See

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Carcinomas of Unknown Primary Origin - Detailed Coverage on the Different Types & Procedures of Orthopedic Hand Surgery

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Violent Inhalant - Black Acid Temple

The dude behind this project was a friend of mine who died five years ago. I didn't know him for a long time, but I still think about him often. I got this about a year ago after wishing I had some of his music for a long time. Out of all the things I own, this is one of the most special because it's like having a part of him with me again.
This album has elements of a few different styles within the noise umbrella, but they never make it feel the album lacks a cohesive identity. Every part makes perfect sense where it is. Toddler Hunting is death industrial bordering on dark ambient and is one of the most genuinely creepy and foreboding songs I've heard (not even because of the name). It builds substantial tension leading up to the explosive release of A Shadow in the Skull, the only song here with vocals. This one is brutal power electronics and harsh noise, absolute anguish. Complacent Refinery essentially serves as a bridge between A Shadow in the Skull and the closer Beatrice Dalle and both are more on the industrial side. Beatrice Dalle retains some of the intensity of the previous two tracks, but makes it clear that it's
all over and everything is fading away.
Check out the Amputape bandcamp. Most of the releases only have a single track up to listen to, but it would be worth your time regardless. Jimmy played and released some of the darkest shit I've ever seen, both aesthetically and musically.

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Cadaveric Incubator of Endoparasites / Detruncated Corpse / Hyperuricemia

Detruncated Corpse: Bobby Maggard and The Love Doctor
Hyperuricemia: Bobby Maggard and Andrea Laurenti
I figured maybe Cadaveric Incubator of Endoparasites was one of Bobby's too, but it's not on this handy list of every project he's ever done so I guess it's a mystery. A Google search turns up nothing but results related to the Carcass song of the same name.

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Autopsy Festival / Liquified Organ Catheter / Infected Bloated Lung / Vomiting Through an Infected Tracheotomy

Two Love Doctor projects (Autopsy Festival and the Tracheotomy one), one Bobby Maggard project (Liquified Organ Catheter), and one project by some dude named Frank (Infected Bloated Lung. I didn't previously know anything about him but turns out he's responsible for Neobatrachia, Bowel Eatery, and some others and he has a Bandcamp page collecting some of his stuff).

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3XA - Una Cesta de Gatitos

The fact that Bobby Maggard did a goregrind album that's unironically dedicated entirely to cats gives me life. It's basically the best thing that's ever happened in the genre.

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Cystic - The Last Days

I've been at a loss for what to post next, so I want to do something a little different and talk about/promote a band I got to see recently. I went in knowing basically nothing about the band except that they were from Seattle and described as deathgrind on the flyer, but that was enough to interest me since Seattle has been responsible for some solid grind recently. Cystic plays a seriously old school style, definitely very death metal, but I hear a heavy thrash metal influence as well. I'm talking the extreme, proto-death metal shit like Sepultura and Morbid Saint. I mean, I was thinking they sounded like early Sepultura reincarnated as a grind band even before they played the Anticop cover. To be honest, I kind of want to say they're essentially playing death/thrash metal with the intensity turned up to 11 and that's where the grind feel comes from more so than the use of grindcore riffs or anything. It's in the vocals as well, while they're harsher than what you'd generally hear on a thrash metal album (with the exception of Paranoid), there's often a thrash metal feel to the delivery of the lines.
In short, Cystic is a sick deathgrind band (or something like that) that puts on a killer live show, and also channels the spirit of 80s thrash metal better than any actual thrash revival band I've heard. They also get points for having a song named after a Jim Van Bebber short. I'm going to be looking forward to seeing what they do next.

I'm not going to post a download for this since the tracks are all up for listening on Bandcamp already. If you really want to get the songs without paying you can find a guide on how to do it somewhere, it's not hard.

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Hydrocephalus - Extirpation of Necrotizing Rectal Enterocolitis

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Womb Raiders - The Purge

Sci-fi themed experimental (gore?)noise, reminiscent of Eye Gouging Mayhem or Black Putrefaction.

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Streptococcus Pyogenes / Grogor

I have a few Streptococcus Pyogenes splits that I've been neglecting to post for a while now, no idea why. So, I'd been under the impression that Strepto was a solo project for the entirety of its existence but it turns out Nick is sometimes joined by Vag / Septic Aroma of Reeking Stench and someone named Paul who I know nothing about. It's fascinating what you can learn when you bother to read the information on the inserts. I think I like the solo version of Strepto better (weird bouncy drum programming an all), but both are good.
Grogor is Nick and Vag again doing like grindcore/mincecore. It's pretty good, although it's odd that Strepto had real drums while this doesn't. It seems like the other way around would have fit better. According to their blog, Grogor had some more splits and stuff planned, but it looks like none of them ever happened.
I wish I knew what Nick was up to these days. If I remember correctly, the last I heard was that he had relocated to Scotland and intended to keep going with SP but didn't have any gear with him. That was a few years ago and the Strepto facebook page has disappeared since then, so that doesn't seem like a good sign.

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Pulmonary Infections in the Cancerous Lung - Angiolymphoid Hyperplasia With Eosinophilia

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Agonizing Sepsis / Gangrene Discharge

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Agonizing Sepsis Bandcamp

Hyperemesis / Birth

I kind of assumed a split by bands as big as Hyperemesis and Birth would already be up for download somewhere but nah, I have to do everything myself. To be fair though, since this split is a few years old it probably has been posted previously on blogs that no longer exist.
This is from Birth's raw, noisy goregrind days, before they turned to a more Lymphatic Phlegm-influenced sound. Their side can also be found on Bandcamp with the original cover art. Birth isn't really active anymore, but Chris has a new band called Jugular Embolism. (edit 7-12 I finally listened to it and it's totally sick, nothing less than I'd expect from the dude)

I don't keep up with Hyperemesis so much, but I presume they're still doing stuff since I still see new things popping up in distros every so often.

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What ever happened to Herukrat
I had totally forgotten about that project until just now

Compulsive Vomit Sex - Supersexy Pukeparty Funtime

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Dissolved - Revel in Excrements

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6-Way Slaughterparty split

Three Steve Embryo projects versus three Jen Lazarus projects. You know what Gruesome Toilet sounds like, but let me give quick descriptions for the other five. 

I think Lepersex is the only project here that features two people, with someone named Phil joining Embryo. Maybe Phil Tarr? I'm not sure how to describe their sound, I guess like noisy blackened punk, all with Embryo's signature weirdness.

Uncle Homunculus may or may not feature guitar or bass and drums, but the sound is so degraded and monotonous that it kind of sounds like Embryo is just groaning and making random sounds over straight up hnw. It could be either really. I think it works best if you play it as background noise, like the weirdest ambient ever. 

As I've said about Jen's gore side projects before, the ones here mostly sound like different takes on the Vomitoma sound. Dumpster Water Enema sounds like a noisecore incarnation of the aforementioned project, with the songs being short, structureless bursts of noise. It sounds like the drums are real too, which is pretty unusual for her stuff. 

Jen's distinctive rumbling bass tone is absent from Gonorrheal Labia Mullusk, replaced by a set of synthetic beats (maybe it's programmed guitar? I can't tell). It's honestly pretty great. I wish I knew more projects that did this kind of weird cyber gorenoise, the only other one that comes to mind is Embryo's Gynophagia.

Acid Offal is like Vomitoma with everything cranked to fucking blast. This one is arguably the closest to the latter project in sound, but that only serves to demonstrate how different something can become when you change one element. I'm always taken off guard by the intensity of it. Vomitoma is the sound of slowly dissolving in stomach acid, while Acid Offal ironically sounds more like being furiously devoured by insects.

This split is one of my favorites for the way it shows off a variety of sick and interesting styles from two of the best in the gorenoise scene. I'm sad that Lepersex and Uncle Homunculus don't seem to have recorded anything else. Campaign For Musical Destruction had some copies of this when they acquired all the old Splatterfuck, Mental Abuse, etc stuff a little under two years ago, but I think they're out of them now so good fucking luck finding one.

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Mutilated Infant / Disposal of Human Corpses

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Conscious During a Craniectomy - Promo 2015

I genuinely wasn't sure if my CD was fucked up or if the drums on this are just programmed at like speedcore tempo. Enjoy.

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Wake The Machines ‎– The Leppard Sessions III + IV

If you don't fuck with Wake the Machines you're not welcome here. This tape compiles the WTM material for splits with Agathocles, SMG, Ocksen, Gorgonized Dorks, and Morose. I actually got most of the songs for this from the WTM Bandcamp. I think Wake the Machines had a bunch of splits planned that never ended up happening, including most of the ones on this tape. I have no idea if the other bands' sides ended up getting released elsewhere or if they ever got recorded at all.
I found this layout on the Hash Crimes fb page. It's a little different from the final version (the limitation got upped to 100, the Lovecraft on the right got the MITB skull shopped over his head, and obviously the title was amended in remembrance of Jef Leppard), but I was too lazy to scan mine.

Wake the Machines has been done since 2013 or 2014. Scott Kindberg is still making noise with She Walks Crooked as I've mentioned before, and I'm not sure if any of the other former members are making music anymore.

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Enterococcal Infection of the Urinary Tract Causes Severe Urinary Incontinence - An Abnormal Condition Characterized By Hypertrophy Of The Interventricular Spetum And Left Ventricular Free Wall Of The Heart

every person with a pathological goregrind/gorenoise project is a fucking nerd and someday I will shove every last one of them into a locker for making me type all these stupid long song and album titles

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