DISTRUST

 

Greater than the sum of its parts, Greatest Very Fuvkin' Shit$ gives you everything that you might be (should be) expecting from the promises made by the cover, but DISTRUST gives you something else. DISTRUST gives you more. Wild studded jacket dis-crust mixed with stench and a healthy dose of Detestation, this collection of tracks smothers you like an avalanche from the unhinged Scan-DBeat of "Nuclear Tomorrow" to the hollow metalcrust of "Doomed To Oblivion," these Singaporean veterans do absolutely nothing half-assed even when it's painfully simple two riff offerings like "Protect And Save" (okay, four riffs if you count the breakdown and the second solo). Plenty of bands hump the corpse of G.I.S.M. and there's a touch of that here to be sure, but DISTRUST just harness that sonic energy and fuckkn own it in the most diabolical way imaginable. Just filthy, desperate and essential metallic hardcore. Listen to "Nightmares Of War." You're welcome. 

GREATEST VERY FUVKIN' SHIT$

SERVICE

 

Someone wanna tell me how I missed this shit? I know NO STATIK and STERILE MIND both played Santa Rosa around 2016 and I swear I never heard of these foos in real time.....thank fukk I'm hearing them now though. Dark, urgent punk with a keyboard that provides texture and mystery instead of being over-present. It's very much a sound "of the time" that sounds absolutely essential with these 52yo 2025 ears. Maybe I never heard them then because I need SERVICE now - if that's the case, then gratitude to the universe that made me wait. 

MK II

INHUMAN DISSILIENCY

 

Just when I was about to make some "old and out of touch" comment about how I just don't understand "kids these days" I realized that some of these tracks were recorded more than two decades ago. I guess that just means I was never meant to understand the wonder of PENNSYLVANIA GRINDING SLAMMAGE and that INHUMAN DISSILIENCY was simply never meant for me. And yet I keep listening - it's like a damn car crash and my neck is breaking while I keep trying to catch a glance. I remember when Kevin from RITUAL CONTROL told me what "slam" was while we were watching a "slam" band in Mexico in 2014 and....well, I thought I was just getting a handle on crab-core and then this thing happened and I simply accepted that I didn't understand. Still don't. Vocals on "Vomiting Decaying Fecal Matter" actually sound like someone is grunting "piggy, piggy, piggy" and it's about the most suitable moment of the entire tape. Tracks here form their 2004 demo, the split with DIGESTED FLESH, the Festering Fuckhole Slop split with ARTERY ERUPTION and the much sought after VOMITOUS split entitled Engorgement Of Exquisite Disembowelment. Erratic grind/sludge/slam with swamp monster vocals and....well, enjoy?

EXHUMATION OF ROTTEN ENTRAILS

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CONTEXT: I swung by Ragin' Records a few days ago to pick up a deadly grip of oldies and funk comps (including the Lowrider tape I posted yesterday) and naturally did some digging while I was there. Got a dead stock MUDWIMMIN EP and a single by a band I had never heard of and can't remember the name of but there was a song called "Straight Outta Tehachapi" so you know I'm gonna bite. There was a box in the back with a shitheap of JIMI HENMDRIX tapes, a SPETSNAZ demo and unknown (to me) metal tapes from DEHUMANIZER, COLONIZE THE ROTTING, ATAUDES, VOIMATON and this gem from INHUMAN DISSILIENCY. Shit was cheap and I had already broken the seal, so I acted appropriately about bought everything. 

LOWRIDER

 

I could go into the story about how this tape (and the next three volumes, and the Barrio Music comps and some face melting tech/grind tapes and some wild ass DIY LA party mixes) landed in my lap, but my recommendation is simple listening. Let me tell you what you'll hear: JOHN CHINGAS with one of the coolest love songs ever, RALFI PAGAN with one of the other coolest love songs ever, a couple of BABY G & ROCK BOX tracks, a killer from TIERRA that you have hopefully heard a thousand times, and oh my fukkn stars can we please get into the history of "Two Of Hearts" because I didn't know I could love this track more and apparently JON ST. JAMES is a thing I need to dig into. Fifteen tracks - Hi-NRG '80s meets classic cruisin' tunes.....even the most casual pop observers recognize that Lowrider culture is just fukkn cool, but this shit seals the deal. I can't wait to feed you more of this shit, it's amazing. 

LOWRIDER SOUNDTRACK VOLUME 1

MURDERAT

 

Clenched fist hard banging stadium crust from Depok City. MURDERAT had a stint in the 2000s but their return in the 2020s has born a few jaw dropping releases, culminating with this absolute fukkn masterpiece in 2023. Heavier, faster, tighter....Rival Tirani is just more. Scandi-worship with sweeping leads and a gruff intensity to the vocals that keeps everything on edge. Man I would love to see this band in the flesh. 

RIVAL TIRANI

MARÍA MARTHA SERRA LIMA

 

Don't ask too many questions, okay? Just.....don't. Keep those questions to yourself, even though the answers are right here. MMSL is (was) an absolute vocal powerhouse and the opener "Soy Como Toda Mujer" is a perfect '80s pop ballad on a tape packed with perfect '80s pop ballads. "Amor Secreto" is like a telenovela put to song, and Plenamente will transport you to another world if you simply allow yourself to be transported. A world for lovers indeed. Un Mundo Para Amantes. See? I told you not to ask. 

PLENAMENTE

TRAP THEM

 

Sometimes you need something different. Something heavy and commercial. Something ugly. I was blasting and enjoying the first side of Filth Rations and thinking about how completely outside of my realm these sounds actually are (even though the sounds themselves are completely within my realm), and then I flipped the tape and the second side wouldn't play at all and I tried and still nothing so I thought....yeah, tine for some more shitty poorly produced punk. So thanks to TRAP THEM for the respite. I was nice to nestle in the lap of brutality for seven minutes. 

FILTH RATIONS