Funeral Rain Press Corps

Genre: Brutal Death Metal
Label: Candlelight Records

GORE! GORE! GORE! ALL HAIL GORE!
And by gore I mean slaughtering all that moves and then fucking the corpses after.
This album is just pure sickness, splattered on the walls, floors, ceilings and in your eyes. It’s nearing the point of da slamz or whatever they call it, being near pornogrind at times too. But nowhere near as talentless as 99% of slam/pornogrind bands, I should add.
In fact, Ingested are shooting out a very talent filled release, and that should be somewhat apparent from the label that signed them. They aren’t anywhere near tech death, but the drumming alone should raise eyebrows. Guitar and bass wise, the riffs are fast, and brutal, and satisfying for people who want an even faster Cannibal Corpse (blasts at 280bpm!), and the gutteral vocals are so fucking intense. The occasional breakdown hits too, with pinch harmonics stabbing the brain while the drums go off on a super fast blast.
So in other words: fans of Cannibal Corpse’s and Death’s gore imagery, slamming death, and grinding, blindingly fast blastbeats , you might like this.
FYI, Ingested has members of Annotation of an Autopsy in their midst, and the artwork for Surpassing the Boundaries of Human Suffering was done by Toshihiro Egawa, who’s also done work for Abigail Williams.
8 out of 10.

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Genres: Pornogrind
Label: Ukragh Productions

This is a split between two bands, both performing the same genre of music, but both have different styles. Epicrise have a more higher pitched sound in general, in vocals, guitar, all of it, while Ballgag are bass heavy and more violent sounding. If you’re a fan of pornogrind, check out this split. It’ll be a classic of the genre. Favorite Epicrise tracks are “With a Finger to the Mouth”, “A Girl With The Scrotum”, and “Extreme Noise Epicrise”. Favorite Ballgag tracks are “Slut Chunks”, “20 Inch Rimjobs”, and “Meat and Greet”.
7 out of 10 for both, thus the total is 7 out of 10.