CYSTOBLASTOSIS / TAKE THAT VILE FIEND / NASTY FACE / REGULAR SIZED RUDY

Unlike other goregrind bands from Russia CYSTOBLASTOSIS on this recording is less about the LDOH rip off style but rooted more in old school goregrind, often even turning down the tempo. There’s a nice raw and crushing production to it though. The vocals however need some improvement as they somehow sound really weird compared to usual pitch shifted vocals.

If you thought CYSTOBLASTOSIS is raw then you haven’t heard TAKE THAT VILE FIEND. This is a devastating project from Brad Smith (Internal Rot, Super Fun Happy Slide, etc.) and while he still had another guy help him out on vox for his full length CD, he’s back to doing everything on his own again. You hear a couple riffs here and there, often just to start into a song, but most of the time he’s just blasting his drum kit into the ground with goregrind so vile it descends into total noisecore. The vocals sound really sick like a deformed filthy abomination from hell that is just about to barf over your smashed remains! That’s the way to do pitch shifted vocals properly by the way! So this could be easily the winner on this tape, but I won’t be too hasty with this opinion for now! Maybe there’s someone else too?

Next in line is NASTY FACE from Switzerland. Their side consists of only cover songs. I don’t really appreciate the selection of songs they are performing here. Even if they seem to know what they’re doing, but it sounds somewhat “at the wrong place” compared to the other bands on this tape. So skip this!

REGULAR SIZED RUDY is a project by a guy surprisingly called Rudy. It’s fast and chaotic grind, but still manages to sound different than most other bands, as he brings in different influences without sounding like a fuckin douchebag! Instead of just trying to copy the same bands all over he somewhat got his own thing going on here. I love the overdriven and broken guitar tone, spontaneous riffs, and the screaming and gory puking vocals which are all over the mix. Some songs remind me a bit of S.M.S.B. but without the techno-ish sounding drum kit. Great and entertaining stuff! This was really a surprise to hear, and together with the TAKE THAT VILE FIEND tracks it definitely rules this comp! Discogs doesn’t know about any other releases, so I hope this wasn’t just an one-off-thing because I already want to hear more!

Bandcamp:
https://choothartapes.bandcamp.com/album/obstreperous-mangling-botheration-4-way-split