Plague Rages & Mindboil (Digital Yourself)

Split release of Plague Rages & Mindboil is a great example of small acoustic bomb. A sort of a sound terrorist act which happened on the both continents at one time and all the clues lead to Digital Yourself (which made those bombs). Frankly, I love this small and funny format of 3 inch CD (doesn't take much place and also looks great) I cannot say that this split has cool art, but evaluating release only by the cover (as I have said many times) is stupid... The first explosive device is activated by my good friends Plague Rages! First what can I say after I heard first few seconds - "it`s powerful!". I've always loved these Brazilian guys for their straightforward and sincere grindcore without any frills. Destroy, crash and grind it again! So in short the Plague Rages is similar to the deconstruction team, which takes down walls with jackhammers, haha!) Yes it`s only few songs here, but they are full of energetic and good sound. At that time these guys have proven themselves worthy to stand in the ranks of the top grind teams of their country. But with American bombers Mindboil I meet for the first time. The first thing you notice is the sound, in Mindboil it`s a little bit dirty... While on the other hand the guys compensate it with powerful sound pressure. In addition to hurricane drum parts (as far as I know Frank Gold (PLF/ Insect Warfare) is sitting behind the drums) and very sharp cutting guitars, we can also hear really nice vocals.. Part of them are clean harsh screams and growl and part with using distortion (aka goregrind style) and it adds density to the sound. In conclusion, I want to say that the guys got a good debut release. PS: I want to dedicate this review for my brazilian amigos Plague Rages, this year they celebrated 20th anniversary!)
Rating: 8/10 Plague Rages