I have accumulated many personal reviews while listening to albums. My reviewing style is non-conventional and was only intended for myself. Sometimes I will only use one sentence to describe an album if I feel that is all that's required. Other times I will review an album while I'm still listening to it, leading to a song-by-song review of the album (bringing the size of the review to nearly dissertation-level). There are times when I will even come back to a review to add information that I didn't know when originally writing the review. The point is that I won't edit my reviews to make them more readable or conventional. My reviews are always a direct result of what I was feeling when I wrote them and I want to let that feeling come through.



Showing posts with label Goregrind. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Goregrind. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Regurgitate - Sickening Bliss [2006]

Continuing on from Deviant with clearer production.

Rating: 8

http://www.regurgitate.net/

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Regurgitate - Deviant [2003]

Fuck yeah. Good production, heavy, fucking brutal, and loud. There's even some creative riffs for the Grindcore/Goregrind genre. Definitely their best one yet.

Rating: 8

http://www.regurgitate.net/

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Regurgitate - Hatefilled Vengeance [2002]

Production is stepped up a notch. The volume isn't soft and the heaviness is still there.

Rating: 7.5

http://www.regurgitate.net/

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Regurgitate - Carnivorous Erection [2000]

The heaviness is ramped up. The vox are more gurgle style. My one complaint is that the album is a bit quiet. Much better production overall.

Rating: 7.5

http://www.regurgitate.net/

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Regurgitate - Concrete Human Torture [1994]

Sounds very much like ERoBRR.

Rating: 7

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Regurgitate - Effortless Regurgitation of Bright Red Blood [1994]

FUCKING DISGUSTING intro track. The rest of the cd is exactly what you'd expect from a grindcore/goregrind band. However, this sort of shit never really gets old for me. More importantly, it's pretty obvious that these guys were on the cutting edge of the genre's creation back in '94. I can hear a lot of influence for Inhume. There's also quite a bit of catchy riffs in the mix. I'm not even sure it's worth talking about the production quality for a Grindcore band, but here it is anyway. It's not good, but it's actually damn fucking impressive given the time period and the production quality of other similar artists. Definitely has a more natural and unrefined sound to it.

Rating: 7

http://www.regurgitate.net/

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Friday, July 23, 2010

Last Days of Humanity - Putrefaction in Progress [2006]

Fuckin' amazing. The most brutal shit ever. Fast as fuck. The energy is enormous. The quality of the production is shitty, but it's just barely enough to make out, it's still heavy as fuck, and definitely serves the brutality of the music. The vocals are insane. The album isn't very long (26min), but that's a good length for it; it doesn't overstay it's welcome. I would normally complain about the production quality and the lack of variation between the songs, but those issues are completely insignificant when looking at how brutal the music is. In fact, those cons may actually be necessary for the brutal experience.

Rating: 9

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Last Days of Humanity - In Advanced Haemorrhaging Condition [2004]

Now we really get to the LDoH that I know and love. Absolutely brutal. Blisteringly fast. Fucking disgusting. Entirely beautiful.

Rating: 9

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Last Days of Humanity - Hymns Of Indigestible Suppuration [2000]

Best production quality so far. However, I'm noticing that, as the quality increases, the brutality seems to decrease. Certainly not as exciting as PiP.

Rating: 7

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Last Days of Humanity - The Sounds Of Rancid Juices Sloshing Around Your Coffin [1998]

Wow, probably has the best production quality of all of the albums. I can actually hear what the guitars are doing. Unfortunately, the blasting/grinding is mostly buried by the guitars.

Rating: 7.5

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Last Days of Humanity - Human Atrocity [1993]

I was expecting horrible quality, but not this horrible.

Rating: 4

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