That closer ABSOLUTELY won me over because (1) Heat is one of my favorite movies of all time, and (2) holy shit is this influenced by Serotonin Leakage?? They're one of my favorite underground metal bands, and their style seemed too unique to NOT be influential... this is the first time I've heard one of the bigger players in the genre come out with anything that sounds like it could be inspired by them, and that's really cool to me.

Extremity

Goregrind is still a pretty unfamiliar genre to me. I’ve been pretty uncomfortable with genre for a while because of its EXTREMITY (HYUCK) mixed with the awful album covers but I’ve been coming around to it recently. This is a pretty good album to listen to early on, I’d say. The vocals (as far as I can tell) aren’t pitched down and the album cover, while kind of creepy, isn’t a mangled corpse. I’m excited to check out more of the genre in the ... read more

7mo

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