Rating: 7.7
Country: Russia
Release Date: 2008
Record Label: Xtreem Music
Track list:
1. Intro
2. Condom Of Hate
3. Experiment With Excrement
4. Krov Ne Voda
5. Carpathian Swine Herb Who Found An Effective Remedy Against Alopecia
6. Mandavoshka
7. Legalize Shit
8. Antichrist Superstar
9. Backdoor To The God
10. Gothic Girl Cannibal
11. Moohomore Gore
12. Nuclear Winter In Nicaragua
13. Fuck The USA (Exploited cover)
14. Rectal Spit Into The Soul
15. Are You Ready?
16. Feeding A Child With A Knife
17. Vegetable Massacre
18. Two-person Coffin
19. Turbobulldozer
20. The First Victim Of Lipasaction
21. Fuck Yeah (live in St. Petersburg with Seth Putnam)
22. Carpathian Swine-Herb Who Found An Effective Remedy Against Alopecia (Live)
23. Are You Ready (Live)
24. Experiment With Excrement (old version)
25. Nuclear Winter in Nicaragua (DJ 665 mix)
Total playing time 46:05
Band Website: Anal Nosorog |
Anal Nosorog - Condom of Hate
Mitya - vocals
Nekis - guitar
Alex - bass
Amar - drums
Anal Nosorog are yet another Anal Something band to hit the scene and like most of them they too happen to sound rather good. There are no surprises for you this time, for like their name suggests, Anal Nosorog play groovy porno/goregrind or as they prefer to say “Bulldozer Fuckin' Grind Core Scum band.” Right, and it is with utmost relief that I note that this Russian grind band doesn't sound like a cheap imitation of CBT like many others from that region.
So what do they sound like then? Well, as a matter of fact, Anal Nosorog have developed a peculiar sound for themselves. First their music has a dapper nu-grind feel to it, which mind you is pardonable in this sub-genre provided it is sufficiently smeared with gore or has enough grindiness to it, similar to Pigsty on the 'Quadamage' section of their Pigs are Back album and the latter works of the grinding South Africore band Groinchurn. Then it is lavishly treated with groove emollients in the form of Blood Duster or Pungent Stench and a bit of Dead and CBT. And later, as one would style their hair after applying palm-loads of gel, it is spiked up with some spunkiness in the manner of Cuntgrinder. Finally, the band carries off this music quite well having an air of stylishly casual attitude about it, so anyone with even the littlest sense of fashion and gore should fall for this Anal band immediately.
What about their songs? Gorgeous. Just when you think that is all their music has to offer, there is something more, something unexpected, something fun. Like female drivers, they give a right signal only to go left and drive us crazy; at their live shows it would leave us stage diving at the wrong section of the crowd at the wrong time. It is amazing how they are able to do so much each time within their short songs - constantly fluctuating the tempo, unleashing paralysing grooves both catchy and drunken, infusing rappy brutal parts, shouting gaily in unison, adopting body-loosening goofcore parts, having inter-genre flirtations, etc., clearly Anal Nosorog are not a one-trick pony. It is also nice that they do not have to rely on silly or tedious intros to make their music interesting – there is actually just one on this whole album.
Mitya grunts exemplarily like a sporty male boar and possesses good enough range and style to not make you want to cook up him for dinner. Drumming by Amar is very agreeable, on dope no doubt as per the requirements of the groovy music, but agile and adroit all the same. Condom of Hate has a slightly safe production which doesn't make it impotent but it doesn't allow the grind music to be as gritty and teeth-gnashing as you would like it to be sometimes either. Then there is what seems like bonus material tacked at the end that includes live songs, different version of a song, but they serve no great purpose and only prolong the album's running time. Usually a release of this nature is fun only for half an hour after which it starts losing its appeal.
Anal Nosorog have created a groovy porno/gore grind album that is spunky enough to not render it soporific and are able to sidestep the smugness that goes hand in hand with this form of music. Condom of Hate therefore is highly recommended to the fans of this subgenre.
August 5th, 2008
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