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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