Bile - Camp Blood

Rating: 8.5

Country: Netherlands

Release Date: 2005

Track list:
1. Camp Blood
2. Widespread Bloodshed
3. Resurrected
4. Boot Cracked Cranium
5. Axe Wielding Killer
6. Death Curse [mp3]
7. Bludgeoned and Beaten
8. Dredging the Lake
9. Crazed Stalker
10. Blood Rorschach
11. Bled Dry
12. Deranged Facial Stabbing
13. The Final Chapter

Band Website: Bile

Bile - Camp Blood

It's been 5 long years waiting for the sequel of 'The Shed', was it worth it? FUCK YES! There's so much groove on this album that even Shakira's ass would have carpal tunnel syndrome from the tasty brutal ass-shaking. Goddamn, this album is fucking dirty; its so dirty that it's certainly fucking GOREGRIND made to loosen your bowels! One of the coolest things about this album is that instead of having guitars on both the speakers, it has guitar on the right speaker and the heavenly dirgy distorted bass on the left instead of the traditional set-up. Usually that set up is pretty fucking annoying but since both the instruments are so distorted, it doesn't seem to matter. The recording is raw, stripped down, heavy, and I can't say enough that it's fucking dirty and still fucking audible even with the low tuning. If I could compare this album to a beer it would be Guinness Draught: thick, dark and heavy.

Not since Last Days of Humanity's 'Hymns of Indigestible Suppuration' have I heard such deliciously fucking wet, phlegmly and just downright nasty pitch-shifted vocals. Rompeprop totally has some competition with their native goregrind brethren for the throne of the groovy goregrind. Though not as funny, this band gets right down to it and goes straight to the jugular with the machete, the music sometimes sheds its cheesy campy feel and actually gets pretty dark. Jason never said a word, but if he did, he would probably sounded like maybe Ben Voorhees' sloppy pitch-shifted vocals (post-Mom Voorhees of course).

One of the reasons for such a delay was because originally this album was supposed to be released under Roger's (Mortician) label Primitive Brutality, but due to legal hassles things between the band and Roger went sour. The music was already recorded last year, but it didn't have the rest of the package yet (artwork/mastering/etc.). Lucky for No Escape Records that they picked up this album right away.

From the artwork (which is hand-painted not photoshopped), song titles and samples, the band uses Friday the 13th as their album theme. Like the entity of the movie: Jason, the music is a mindless unstoppable force that massacres your auditory senses that doesn't stop until your last breath has been hacked through. And like his grisly murders, the music is fucking brutal, merciless and sloppy to the core. So fucking sloppy that it's like all the bile, intestines, pancreas and the rest of your insides are flying everywhere as Jason hacks through your torso. The musicianship isn't tight or anything techy like Spiral Architect, because it's not suppose to be; Jason was a dumbass but you enjoyed seeing him taking a camper on her sleeping bag and slamming her against that tree over and over until the remains of that bag becomes “tuesday's sloppy joe special.” I'm not saying that the musicianship is bad, but for this kind of music, it has to be stupid, brutal, and gruesome.

Compared to their previous release 'The Shed', there's no real progression but staying true to the formula which this band loves. Basically everything in this album has been sloppified, instead of progressing, it's more of a regression - which is usually a bad thing, but in Bile's situation, it's the other way around. So if you like your stuff clean, slick, and tight, stay away from this. Though the 1st release was loosely based on Texas Chainsaw Massacre, 'Camp Blood' is all about Friday the 13th - even the original Jason Voorhees has been credited. Friday the 13th just passed...put if you don't pick this album up, I'm sure a machete will be headed your way very soon.

Friday 13th, 2006