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.
