Cavernicular / Violent Frustration (Rødel Records)

Rødel Records is a very old and honored German label. This name helped to a lot famous bands with their first steps; Mr. Keule, the owner and chief, is still out there looking for units that aren't well known, and vinyl factories still receive orders from Rødel Records; that's why I'm trying to get a copy of every new record from this ancient temple. So the new one is a split LP between Italian grinders Cavernicular and German machine Violent Frustration. These squads have a different style and sound, and that makes this split even better and spicier. There is one more curious thing - both sides have different play speeds (33 and 45RPM). Lets go in speed order, the turntable will be set to 33RPM on the Violent Frustration side. 

This is heavy, brutal, and absolutely murderous death grindcore with dual screaming and growling vocals. For the first few seconds, I thought, “Why is this music so slow?”; but then these guys punched me with a huge load of blasting (hehe), followed by strong riffs, and nice song structures with a good guitar tone that's not super low; and it sounds pretty tasty. I noticed some nice classic death metal elements here which is nice, and I would say it is about 70% grindcore and 30% death metal. This grindcore can crush you - it's really tremulous and I believe that in a live setting this machine sounds much more brutal. 

On the flip side we have Cavernicular; fresh blood in the Italian grind underground. On a previous recording, these guys show a big love to hardcore… but these 10 songs are something different. They have switched to some tight, punchy, riff-first grindcore; that cave grind has surprised me. Musically, there's nothing on here you haven't heard before or better, and while that applies to the whole genre, this “new” Cavernicular is really enjoyable! The visual part is freaking amazing with red and black colors and anti-Trump art, but most of all I like the background; all of the skulls and bones look so gloomy. The whole concept is kick-ass, but I don't think that Trump is enemy number one, because this dude is only the top of the problem. Anyway, if you haven't heard politically oriented grindcore in a while, than this LP is a good way to fix that! 

Rating: 8/10   Violent Frustration fb     Cavernicular fb 

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Cavernicular - Man's Place in Nature (Rødel Records)

The Italian grind scene sometimes reminds me of a mixed cocktail. Half of the bands are blanks, or even worse, while the other half are freaking amazing. A while ago, I wrote about mediocre bands from that region but now it's time for a good one.

 Cavernicular is from Palermo city, and play a heavy style of "rock n roll". The band had a great start with a self titled debut ep, and now they`re back with new material. "Man's Place in Nature" is the first full length album from this band... Well, I was really excited about this noise, and have been waiting anxiously for it, well... needless to say, its been worth all the wait. This is a nice mix of crushing bass assaults, furious grinding guitars, plus very fast and skillfull drumming, and crazy yells. Maybe it doesnt seem to be very interesting from first impressions, BUT … The cover art is pretty standard stuff (in the grindcore genre)... the remains of some german (?) soldiers. The most interesting part is inside. I didnt really get this album completely, at first listen, and i thought to myself, okay this is just another grindcore album, just like any other,"nothing special going on here", but then i realized there were a lot of small but catchy stuff: great riffs (at some points it reminded me of strangely mutated thrashcore), groovy hardcore structures and of course different types of vocals. There are not many of those moments on this album, but still, they are to be found here. I love that every song is chained together, that makes this album even more attractive, appealing and surely more aggressive. The biggest part of Cavernicular have experience in some hardcore/fastcore/powerviolence bands. I'm sure thats the main reason why this album has so huge influences of these genres. Songs like "Asshole's Sermon", "Secret War" and "Demon Gang " features plenty of swingin, jumping hardcore energy and fun.

Boys and girls, if you dig this kind of noise, then youre gonna LOVE these 20 annoying songs!

Rating: 8.5/10    Сavernicular bc    Cavernicular fb 

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Cavernicular and Violent Frustration on tour!

split Violent Frustration / Cavernicular will be out very soon at German Rodel records!

Cavernicular - Man`s Place In Nature! Out Now!

First full length from Italian grinders is out! 18 minutes of crazy and aggressive grindcore! Shoot your orders and questions to roedelrecords@web.de 

First album from Cavernicular is out!

"Man's Place in Nature" (LP version) is out now at Here And Now Records! 

First full album of Cavernicular is out!

This tape released by Hackebeil Records and Knochentapes

Cavernicular!

Сavernicular started in late 2015 by the hands of four wackos from Palermo, Italy. Already involved in bands like L.E.A.R.N., ANF, Haemophagus, Feccia Tricolore, Undead Creep etc.,
We - Totò (vocals) Sandro (vocals) Furious G. (guitar) and Piparino (drums) - are set to play and produce a bastard mix of grindcore and powerviolence. 
We have released one self-titled 7" EP through Rodel Records on vinyl and Hackebeil records and Knochen Tapes on, guess what? Tape! After a bunch of italian gigs we are almost ready to record our first fast and short full-length album, which we'll probably call Man's Place in Nature.

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News from Cavernicular!

New album will be out soon on vinyl by RØDEL Records and Here And Now Records and on tape by Hackebeil Records and Knochentapes 

Cavernicular - S/T (Rodel records)

Band - Cavernicular / Location - Italy / Release date - March 2017. Yes, yes, yes it`s another good debut release! This self titled EP was released last year in the end of the fall (in old and nice tape format) but only in the beginning of spring (2017) guys finally got a vinyl version (which was made by ancient german label Rodel rec). And now lets look closely on this black release... hm... a skull hm... nice picture, good artwork but it`s pretty usual cover for the grindcore bands, nothing realy spesial (but it still great) so lets check what we have inside... And we have heavy-fast 14 songs and more than 14 minutes of noise... First song, second one, then more... really good stuff. Despite the fact that is a new band and they are part of fresh wave of grind bands, I feel good punk spirit in these noises (and for a grindcore it's a main thing in my opinion). But also I feel here good balance between grindcore and powerviolence. From the first we have here smashing speed and blast beats from pv side we have a sound, yelling hardcore vocal and deep swing pieces which will make you run into mosh pit. So with this small EP Italians shows to us that they can make pretty strong and violent noises.

Rating: 8/10 Cavernicular bc Cavernicular fb

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