VOMITOMA - A liquid Harvest of Putrified Stomach CD

Goregrind can never get gross enough. Just when it seemed like the gore scene had hit the most disgusting limits of Carcass-worship and scatological imagery, along comes a relatively new offshoot that seeks to get even stickier, the repulsive "gorenoise" scene. Loosely based around the combination of noise and goregrind (duh), and labels like Splatterfuck Tapes, Klysma Records, Fecal-Matter Discorporated, and Last House On The Right, I've been following a lot of this stuff for years, especially bands like Basket of Death and the newer Last Days Of Humanity. In the same way that noisecore took grind into the furthest reaches of sonic violence, so to does the aesthetic of grindnoise, except it's much more disgusting. Vomitoma are my latest gorenoise find. I came across their atrociously-titled album A Liquid Harvest Of Putrefied Stomach Contents on the Mexican label Alarma recently, and honestly fell in love with them as soon as I saw the spectacular Lovecraft-meets-sphincter-horror of their logo. The album is no cakewalk either, with 53 tracks of putrescent industrial goreblast stretching out for almost an hour; going a few steps further beyond the extremes of the most vile Carcass/Gut/Impetigo worship, Vomitoma wallow in vats of shapeless detuned bass-noise, and splatter hyperspeed drum machine blasts across their minute-long eruptions. Constructed into inhuman, often angular arrangements, the drum programming is so fast and chaotic that it becomes another layer of noise, except for those rare moments when the beats seem to form into something vaguely resembling a breakbeats. The septic, pitchshifted belch-grunts are so low and liquefied that they become burbling washes of adipocere and bizarre gastrointestinal effects that ooze over the throbbing, sludgy grind-noise. It's like ultra-heavy, chaotic drum-machine goregrind mixed with a heavy dose of industrial filth, and quite possibly the most ridiculously disgusting squidbeast puke/growl/belches I've ever heard, rivaling even those of Last Days Of Humanity. The requisite splatter movie samples are combined with even grosser sound bites taken from documentaries on intestinal parasites, and some of the tracks slip into some truly monstrous industrial splatter-sludge grooves, like on "Maggot-ridden Brainclog" and "She Gave Birth To A Pile Of Hookworms".
If you still need a reference point, think Anal Birth and Basket Of Death, or the harshest goregrind band being remixed by Merzbow, or early Carcass crossed with Seven Minutes Of Nausea. It's as extreme as it gets in the realm of death metal/grind, beautifully vile and crushing for us mutants who revel in this kind of aural putrefaction, but everyone else will want to give this a wide berth. Limited edition of 500 copies.

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