Good Guys Go Grind: Gruesome Stuff Relish

Saturday, July 28, 2018

Cropsy Maniac / Gruesome Stuff Relish

It's hard to imagine a split that is so deeply soaked with horror spirit; the guys in both bands are huge fans of old nasty movies, haha! When you hold this release (no matter if it's the CD, tape, or vinyl) in your hands, you're starting to realize just how well done is it; the artwork is done with high quality printing on good paper. Just look at it...I found a lot of familiar characters from old movies (The Burning, City of the Dead, Zombie Creeping Flesh, and others). The artist did a massively great job, I honestly like it. But, let's not forget about the music part and let's begin with the American psychos from Cropsy Maniac!

These bloodsuckers have prepared a nice punch of blistering deathgrind with old school rot for you. Stupefyingly vigorous and heavy riffing is paired with lightning fast and surprisingly variable drumming, making this one intense six minute epileptic fit, and the unholy growling of Kevin Reece puts a painful pressure on your skull. Besides a good low sound these three songs have nice atmospheric samples from few horror movies. As you may have noticed, we have all of the well known ingredients for a good, disgusting, and bloody pie, haha!

With Gruesome Stuff Relish on the second part of the split, their output is what I expect from death-infused goregrind. This side starts with mystically scary intro and continues with their brand of riffs. The music of these Spanish grinders is well recognizable, as over the years Gruesome Stuff Relish has stuck to one style. Moldy riffs, slimy solo, creepy vocals, punk-y bass and drums; that's all still here. This is the eternal formula of success from old grinders, hehe. It's also necessary to say that this music has the atmosphere of old iconic zombie movies, which is very important in this genre (at least to me)...

Rating: 8/10 Cropsy Maniac fb Gruesome Stuff Relish fb

Friday, June 1, 2018

Monday, April 2, 2018

Gruesome Stuff Relish - Cannibalized!

I dont know what humans tastes like, but I'm sure the guys from GSR knows! I believe thats the reason our friends dedicated a whole album, to this appetizing theme haha)). During their 18 years together, GSR has pleased us with high quality noise, and I was stoked to hear news about this new album, well when it finally arrived in the mail, I felt happy and exited as a small kid again. Needless to say, I opened it immediately, and there it was, a massive chunk of hard paper and plastic. The visual side of this CD just impressed me, the entire coverdesign is artistically drawings of cannibalistic images and themes… Looking at this bloody red color, nasty images from old movies, photos of wild tribes, with torment and agony printed into the faces of these victims. So incredible appealing, and just LOVELY! Its been about 17 years, since Gruesome Stuff Relish hit the underground scene running, with their debut split album, "Brothers in Gore" (luckily i have that album in my collection). This record has defined their own way, and their own style. All their subsequent records, has the same taste, very similar sound, and structures. You may think it gets boring, but that's not my perception. “Cannibalized” is not an exception of the golden standard. However, I noticed this record has a bit lower sound to it, but has the same atmosphere. This album includes everything we love… drilling and screaming riffs, ugly, vile and scary vocals… amazing drumming. These swinging/ groovy tempos are beautifully composed (in every way), and will inevitably force you to bang your head severely, or dance like a cannibal in a savage ritual, haha!) PS: I was surprised when i read these boys thankslist on the insert sleeve. It includes thanks, and appreciation to their favorite movie directors, from whom the most likely harvested a lot of inspiration from to create their gutsy tunes. You will f.x. see Umberto Lenzi, Ruggero Deodato, Mario Siciliano mentioned here,among many others as well.Thats a pretty nice, and thematic touch. Rating: 8.5/10 facebook page