FORMLESS MASTER / BAYHT LAHM - No Chords Barred split
Horror Pain Gore Death Productions
Ladies and Gentlemen (and to you confused ones) I do not have the "rona". But I do have a huge case of the out of work and going fucking nuts blues because of this damm lockdown. A friend told me well I'll have plenty of time to write about releases. Seriously you wanna go there? Let me tell ya something. Unless it's extreme to the point where the music conveys more anger and disgust then what's in me now. I take a pass on it. Thankfully this came in from a guaranteed source of insane sounding releases. What we have here are two bands unknown to me but have made my time in lock up today better after I played this than before.
The first act, FORMLESS MASTER (which could be a reference to the gov't), hail from Minnesota but have Takafumi Matsubara of GRIDLINK (from my birthplace Hoboken, New Jersey) on guitar and bass. They also boast three vocalists but hey it's basically shrieking and growling. Also there's two members of INVIDIOSUS, another HPDG roster act, here so it's a side project of sorts. Something I've learned over the years is that if Matsubara is involved then you've got insane experimental grind in your face. Their four cuts on here are Bruce Lee inspired.
The second act in this grind bout are BAYHT LAHM, a two piece band (guitar, drums and vocals) who hail from Perth Amboy, New Jersey. No offense but back in the 70's when I was still living in Jersey, we looked at that town as an armpit. But in all fairness any place south of Fairview was an armpit back then. To their credit nowadays the place is an amazing Hispanic majority community. I still have family in New Jersey so they tell me everything. Anyways this duo's four cuts are more primitive grind in style and lyrically political. Hmmm, maybe their town is still an armpit.
Well as always I treat split releases as bouts kinda like wrestling, the former sport of kings. Give me early ECW (flying metal chairs and all) or give me death. So for this one it's FORMLESS MASTER as the clear winner. I say that simply because with a tag team partner like Takafumi Matsubara in your corner the baby-faces from NJ didn't have a chance. Now if I could only put a figure four leg lock on my State governor and get him to tap out.
http://www.horrorpaingoredeath.com/
https://hpgd.bandcamp.com/album/no-chords-barred
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