Bong-Ra - Grindkrusher 12"
A love-song to the massive guitar noise of the Earache roster of his youth, the "Grindkrusher" 12" celebrates Bong-Ra's love for grindcore metal by sampling a wealth of furious guitar shreddery for textural material against Bong-Ra's blistering and abrupt breakbeats. "Bloody Cenotaph" uses samples from Ridley Scott's Legend as a statement of purpose ("black as midnight, black as pitch") before throwing a few thousand beats against a wall of speed metal guitar noise. "Jo Bench," named after the female bass player for Bolt Thrower, is the new anthem that will bring metal headbangers and spastic drill 'n' bass aficionados together -- pitting speed guitar against 200 BPM rhythms in a mosh pit battle to the death. "Ram Waster" pummels Emperor-style vocals and a bruising guitar line with a battery of pristine hand claps and a crushing maelstrom of bass beats.
Not to be outdone, Doormouse and Sickboy contribute remixes that manage to even further mangle and eviscerate the metal guitar parts into chattering, shrieking cut-ups that are ground into paste by beat frenzies that make your lower intestine constrict involuntarily. They're competing to out-program one another and make music that will simply cause you to break a bone by listening to it. "Grindkrusher" is as it sounds: massive and destructive. Bong-Ra celebrates the past by demolishing it with a jackhammer and a steamroller.
Bong-Ra
Ad Noiseam [2005]
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