Plague Rages/Shitfun (Gozer Records)

How many grind albums & splits have been released through all those past years? But brazilians don't lose their interest in that style, it still burns so brightly! Every year this country gives a lot of good different releases for fans of grind. And now I hold in my hands this lathe сut split with two old well-known and respected bands. Must notice that this small release was dedicated to our friend Antonio Ambrozio, rest in peace brother...
Art on this split is pretty thematic (as for grindcore). Impersonation of chaos, destroyed town and the main character looking at its remains… Frankly, I've been thinking for some time on what to write about the musical content of this release. Because this split has about 50 seconds of sound... a little bit more than 20 second for each band (this is not enough to understand everything). Probably the main difference between both bands is in vocals and sound. Shitfun has more punk sound than Plague Rages. And Plague Rages has more heavy and a little bit more aggressive sound.
Also this lathe сut has an info card inside. It contains a lot of different info, personally for me was it very interesting to know that this vinyl was made on 70 (!) year old machine :)

Rating: 7.5 / 10       Plague Rages   Shitfun    Gozer rec

xDELOREANx - Hill Valley Powerviolence (Gozer records)

Today we're going to look at another representative of the new wave hardcore powerviolence genre. xDELOREANx is a very young team (was started in 2014), but it already has a whole bunch of releases. I want to review their first work called "Hill Valley Powerviolence". The first thing that caught my eye was this silly design of the logo, these crosses and all this Infest-like logo shit is really pissing me off, to be honest. But let's skip this point. The idea of front cover looks very cute. Marty McFly and those two transparent characters wearing Bronson and (above mentioned) Infest merch. This release has a very specific "thanks" list that mentions all the guys starting with Robert Zemeckis and ending with the DeLorean Motor Company. This list, and tracks that start with the coolest dialogues from the movie, will bring all the good old memories back. But it is time to figure out what the hell these Italian punks play. This one-side tape has their very first 6 tracks, a little more than 7 minutes in general. I can't say that the guys keep their powerviolence clean and classic. They use wild mixture of pv, hardcore punk and thrashcore... nothing special, but it sounds nice and very familiar. The good old pattern: two different vocals, buzzing guitar (without unnecessary overdrive), drummer doing a good job, and a pleasant sound of bass guitar. And that's what it is like, this young team called xDELOREANx ...


Rating: 7/10     xDELOREANx      Gozer rec

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Plague Rages – Greatest Tapes (Gozer Records)

I want to dedicate this review to our deceased comrade Antonio who reached the better world, sleep tight brother, you would stay in our hearts forever. 100 of pro-done tapes were released, Lemonade Joe from the cover proves us this one of a tape is a stone cold and would find it's place in your collection.
Greatest Tapes is a best gift to Plague Rages followers, they finally would check the old and not that old works of these brazilian veterans. This comp covers 1998 to 2009, starts from an unreleased song which is nice, and then you have got 9 tracks which were done for a split with Malasyan SMG which are filled with aggression that goes well with your adrenaline, wakes you up like a brazilian coffee. Nice recording quality makes us enjoy every instrument in the mix! The next ten songs are a rare ones, it is a 15-year-old recording for AGx split! Has a beard already so expect rawness like it's a jungle debris and enjoy it!We overturn the tape to side B and... I remind that this stuff from 98th, two first tunes are from comps, they sound real good and fast as hell, (especially "Que A Morte Venha") not that clean and produced which is great here, bass lines also can be heard surging from within. And then we have 5 tracks from the Desecration split, they reminds me every band's first steps when demo is done in an unprofessional way, sounds like musicians are doing whatever and it turns out like whatever. Production is too raw, you can decipher vocalists grunts from this whole mess. The tape is then finished with "Technologia A Servico Do Caos" tracks which are not my cup of brazilian coffee...

Rating: 7/10       Plague Rages        Gozer Records

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