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VHS - We're Gonna Need Some Bigger Riffs
Horror Pain Gore Death Records
I said some nice things in a review of this Canadian band's last full length, 2018's The New Batch. They're a campy death metal / death grind act who push the offensive horror shtick element to the hilt. Extreme metal is offensive enough to the majority of modern music listeners but there are certain bands within particular genres who just push buttons. To me, I love it and laugh along as I bang my head. VHS are one of those bands.
On this latest release VHS come across as a throwback to Midwest American brutal death metal from years ago. Think something akin to the offspring of IMPETIGO with horror movie fandom and sarcasm. All of which makes We're Gonna Need Some Bigger Riffs into actually a fun concept album. Along with the death metal aesthetics there's plenty of thrash, hardcore and grind touches.
Song wise they employ some meaty riffs which, although familiar sounding, do feel like kicks to the head. Vocals bounce back and forth from harsh sicking screams to basic deep gruff singing. Like before the band has invited guests appearing on some songs. This time around there's fuckin Matt Harvey of EXHUMED. Yeah I'm a huge EXHUMED fan. Also there's Trevor Strnad from BLACK DAHLIA MURDER, a band I'm not a fan of. Horror Movie death metal fans should eat this one alive.
http://www.horrorpaingoredeath.com/
https://hpgd.bandcamp.com/album/were-gonna-need-some-bigger-riffs
https://www.facebook.com/vhsthunderbay
VESICATION - Total Fecall
Horror Pain Gore Death
I was in the mood for something else tonight but this gem of a release came my way so what the hell. Earlier this year I said some good things about a compilation of older material put out by these Canadian filth mongers who are in total worship of IMPETIGO.
Total Fecall, this band's second full length makes me wanna vomit. The pig squealed vocals by new singer (?) Matt Hilden, killer fuckin bass lines and groove by Kimio Hatashita, trudging riffs by original guitarist Eddie Pharoah and the rock n roll plus pure metal drumming by Geoff Hodsman make this one pure puke ready.
Seriously I'm vomit ready by a band who are in total death grind mode to invoke an eruption of my stomach. Seriously (now there's a joke) the songs relating to tits were rocking. But my biggest laugh comes when the thought of the face of some loser listens to "Crouching Pink Hidden Stink". After than it's slam pit central with this old fucker giving you the fore-arm sandwich in the pit. Hell Fuckin Yeah!
http://www.horrorpaingoredeath.com/
https://hpgd.bandcamp.com/album/total-fecall
LORD GORE - The Resickened Orgy
Horror Pain Gore Death Productions
So no shit there I was in bed after fucking this chick. She's up going through my CD stacks looking for some other music to play. She sees one and says; "Oh my god you like IMPETIGO? They're really fucking offensive." So I tell her, "(name withheld) you're half naked in my bedroom wearing a CANNIBAL CORPSE shirt you got tonight (for free by the way) at the show and you wanna judge? Pick a damm CD and get back into bed!"
I mention IMPETIGO because LORD GORE are one of a small sick horde of acts who I refer to as The Children of IMPETIGO. For those of you who are out of the loop. LORD GORE are the sickest thing to ever come out of Portland, Oregon and that was the late 1990's. They did put out a couple of cool full lengths in the early 2000's much to many people's disgust. This release here is a double CD compilation of those first two albums (The Autophagous Orgy from 2002 and Resickened from 2004). Personally I believe this really needed to be put out.
I've always liked LORD GORE's second album better because there's some cool thrashy / hardcore cuts that mix in with their gore-grind approach. Their first album was total IMPETIGO homage which is not a bad thing at all. The first album has more soundbites in-between songs where as the second album is the band coming into their own set of filth. To me it's great music. If you're listening to this release and do not have a sick grin on your face then YOU HAVE A PROBLEM and you're probably lonely.
http://www.horrorpaingoredeath.com/
https://hpgd.bandcamp.com/album/the-resickened-orgy
https://www.facebook.com/RESICKENED/
VHS - The New Batch
Horror Pain Gore Death Productions
Ya know in the 70's I grew up listening to a great three piece act from Canada. Bought all their albums and eventually saw em in concert three times. That band if you haven't figured it out yet was RUSH. Now VHS are also a three piece act who hail from Canada but are not like RUSH at all. In fact VHS sound like a punk version of IMPETIGO.
Not so strange is that Stevo from IMPETIGO adds some guest vocals on here. Actually there's a couple of guest vocalists on here as well like Dave Ingram of BENEDICTION/BOLT THROWER and HAIL OF BULLETS fame. OK that's impressive but they've also got Maniac Neil from the band BLOOD FREAK and Bob Shaw of EXISTENTIAL DISSIPATION. One would wonder how they can play live when they're missing all of these guests?
The first time I played this, it's only thirty minutes long, I stepped out back on the deck to have a smoke and think. I heard someone's kids screaming off in the distance. I'm sorry was I playing this too loud? So VHS make babies cry and hipsters puke (that latter idea is an educated guess.) Basically the band play gore obsessed punk/grind with some death metal influence.
Basically it's fourteen tracks sandwiched between a vocal intro and outro by someone imitating the Cryptkeeper from Tales from the Crypt. I never liked the TV show. The old comics were much better. But anyway comical relief runs wild on this gore-lite full length release which is their second since starting out in 2015. Here's a fun band to blast during a keg party, baptism or grandma's 90th birthday celebration which will be her last. But hey the song "Wrestlemassacre" rules.
http://www.horrorpaingoredeath.com/indexmain.html
https://hpgd.bandcamp.com/album/the-new-batch
https://www.facebook.com/vhsthunderbay
