Bodies Lay Broken - Execrable Excrescence Of Exsufflicate Exenterating Exertion

A friend of mine was raving about these guys this last week, so why not throw this demo up here now.

Bodies Lay Broken were a goregrind band from St. Paul, Minnesota. Musically, they were a totally serious project, but when it came to song titles and imagery they chose to go the less serious route, throwing together medical-sounding terms with no regard for whether or not they made sense and throwing as many hidden 'tributes' to their favorite gore/grind bands into their packaging as they could... and putting Hello Kitty images on their merch (which is great 'cause I wear their t-shirt to my kindergarten teaching job and the kids love it!). Despite a great in-depth 'biography' that has them forming in 1992 and releasing a large number of demos, EPs and an LP or two in the '90s, their first real release was this 2001 demo. After this demo, they changed vocalists and went on to release split EPs with Machetazo, Black Market Fetus and Head Hits Concrete, and a full-length CD/LP. The splits and this demo were collected on a second CD. All of it is top fucking notch goregrind with awesome riffs throughout, the LP especially is one of my favorite goregrind LPs of all time. They split up when one member, Hagamoto, returned to Japan around 2004~2005. Hagamoto has also been involved in Gevotais Borken and Brob, as well as the excellent Patisserie (which is in some ways kind of a continuation of BLB) and, I believe, Pantalones Abajo Marinero, where he pretends to be Hispanic. Other members of BLB have been involved in bands such as Hope You Choke and Pandamonium.

gruesomely goretastic glimpses of grinding goodness

...yeah, I'm not as good as BLB are at coming up with verbose alliterations...

Princess Army Wedding Combat / Cunts split tape

I uploaded this rip on Christmas Day, because of one particular sample on side A of the tape. You'll see what I mean if you download it and pay attention. So, I figure I might as well use it to start this blog off.

Princess Army Wedding Combat is a one-man project from, I think, Colorado. The guy responsible is (was?) also a member of the tardcore/noisecore band Lobster Assault. PAWC brings short burts of noise/noisecore/(cyber)grind interspersed with cutesy anime samples. On this occasion, even noisier than normal. Usually I like to split recordings up into individual tracks, especially when there are song titles, but on this one I found it impossible to get the right number of 'songs' out of the recording so it's just one 9-minute mp3.

Cunts is a two-man deal from Tokyo, Japan. They play noisecore, but with just drums and vocals; no guitars, no bass. I got to see them live when I was in Japan as a student back in 2004, and it was one of the most insane and awesome shows I've ever seen. Vocalist (and sometimes drummer) Ucchy is also the drummer/vocalist in the equally great Napalm Death Is Dead. Both of his bands are among my favorite noisecore bands of this century. Here, as usual with Cunts, we get a seemingly-improvised 8~9 minute noisecore session. Didn't seem to be much point splitting this into separate tracks either.

This tape was released in... maybe 2005? ...by Shit Eye Cassettes, the tape-label run by Ucchy from Cunts/NDID. Full cover scan included in folder. Link opens in new window.

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