Rating: 7.5

Country: France

Release Date: 2006

Record Label: Last House On The Right Records

Track list:
01. Intro
02. Turn Water to Pus
03. Aborting Choke
04. Craving The Malforming
05. Deviant in Your Bath (Pigsty cover)
06. Facial Mastication Cadaveric Sub Tumours
07. Festering Memories
08. Accident in The Nuclear Power-Station
09. Hacked The Human Flesh
10. Hacking in Pus
11. Filthy Shitbathing in Lupose Evacuations
12. Ripped in Half (Mortician cover)
13. Necrotic Consumption
14. Organ Maggots
15. Pathological Fracture (Malignant Tumour cover)
16. Predating Your Anatomy Start From Your Anal Tract
17. Psychotic Cremation (Jungle Rot cover)
18. Putrid Afterglow
19. Span Gurgling in Excrement
20. Stuff Anal Passage
21. Thorlan

Band Website: Pulmonary Fibrosis

Pulmonary Fibrosis - Organ Maggots

Pascal (RIP) - lumsy vox
Joaness - guitargh
Guyome - drums, vomiting growls

Pulmonary Fibrosis, the aural manifestation of French sickness that is responsible for infecting underground grindheads through their countless splits and EPs, have finally decided to maximise the magnitude of their operating scale. Debut full length Organ Maggots, released after almost a decade of existence therefore comes as a surprise that will very soon transmute into shock and suffering once your feeble ears are exposed to it. Pulmonary Fibrosis' caustic pathogrind sound that is melded with turbulent grind madness will ruthlessly scrape and ram against the sides of your ear canals as their music slides on your cerumen to ultimately tear through your eardrums and unfailingly create a memorable experience after it crosses over to the other side.

Organ Maggots kicks off with a nasty grind-crusted goregrind instrumental, setting a raucous mood for the other songs to come and strut their stuff. Erupting with a blood-curdling shout, “Turn Water To Pus” features powerful strangulating beats that sound similar to none other than the mighty Blood. “Aborting Choke” with its quirky riffs and vigorous blasting is reminiscent of Negligent Collateral Collapse on R.S.D.E. Listening to the wobbly fun-laded beats in “Craving the Malforming”, immediately the antics of the French fatties Ultra Vomit come to mind. These are just the first four songs of an album that has 21 of them. The point I'm trying to make here shouldn't be too elusive – the music on this album, though unoriginal, is exceptionally varied for a band playing this kind of gore/grind. And with their kind of scathing sound and strenuous execution, you will crouch on your floor and rock back and forth restlessly like a maggot on a heated frying pan.

Effectively, Pulmonary Fibrosis' music sounds like Castrado Cadaver covering early Malignant Tumour, its vitriolic potency captured in a fitting organic production that is refreshingly devoid of the slickness most bands of today are smeared with. To hear the multitude of influences in this sound is a sadistic treat in itself, what with the serrated grind riffs that are thrown at you with the intention of maiming, acidic vomits that seem to have no definite outlet and which splash out of your speakers perilously close to scalding parts of your body, and to top it off, dogged latter Last Days of Humanity-like drumming that drives into your brain the point all too hard that they rule. Even when they play brutal death metal parts (incorporated brilliantly in “Necrotic Consumption” for instance) the effectiveness of their music is not lost a bit; in fact, they radiate a vibrancy few brutal bands are able to create. Pulmonary Fibrosis also use the romping beats of Gut and Rompeprop to a good effect, defusing the Sublime Cadaveric Decomposition-like intensity when it gets difficult to bear. To make us feel overwhelmed with their foray into the full-length arena, they treat us with not one or two but four vicious covers, those of Pigsty, Mortician, Malignant Tumour and Jungle Rot.

Organ Maggots might not be one of the most instantly charming of albums, but it will surely infect you with their brand of grind/gore sickness, which depending on the receptiveness of your body, you will grow to adore for its practical unconventionality and the reassuring painful suffering that it afflicts.

November 2nd, 2007