Loaded For Bear & Bizarre X - Split CD (2007)

Loaded For Bear is from Chicago, USA and Bizarre X from somewhere in Germany. Both bands play a goofy and quirky mixture of grindcore, powerviolence and fastcore; maybe comparable to a more grindcore version of the sillier early Slap-A-Ham or 625 Thrashcore bands. Loaded For Bear have a bit of a heavier grinding sound and have a bit more speed, while Bizarre X is slightly more mellow sounding although still fantastic and very catchy. Neither of two are really 'political' at all, but I noticed that Loaded For Bear appears to be quite involved in the social justice activism and Bizarre X adamantly makes a point of opposing sexism, racism, homophobia, etc. The split was release on both 12" LP and CD (this is the CD version) by a bunch of labels that discogs can tell you about.

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Dissected & Hyperemesis - Split CD-R (2012)

Dissected is a pathological goregrind band from Peristeri, Greece and Hyperemesis is one-man pathological goregrind project from Campbell River, B.C., Canada. On this split, Dissected delivers an extremely noisy and raw live presentation of the genre and are, without a doubt, highly influenced by the old-school days of the genre; Carcass, Dead Infection, Last Days Of Humanity, Regurgitate, Pathologist, etc. and laden with themes pulled from medical pathological textbooks. Hyperemesis could be described in about the exact same way but they may be even be as disgustingly pathological, crusty and noisy as it gets. Their sound is also considerably more reminiscent of newer bands, like Autophagia, Lymphatic Phlegm and even almighty Warsore but certainly do not skimp on the influence of early bands either. The split was released on CD-R by the Greek, Deathforce Records - who is presumably run by members of Dissected.

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Various Artists - Where's Your Beard? (1999)

Where's Your Beard? was a compilation tape released in 1999 by the fabulous, Mortville Records. It has 32 tracks and almost equals to about a song per band. Hopefully you will get into some grindcore from it, but despite the whole unbelievably amazing beard theme of this comp, I'm sad to say that none of the songs are about beards :(.

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Miserable Absence Of Harmony - Diabolical Milking Mysticism (2012)

Miserable Absence Of Harmony is a one-man gorenoise band from Arad, Romania. Unlike most gorenoise - which typically sounds like someone recorded a toilet flushing with loads of distortion - M.A.O.H. sounds more like what one should expect from the literal meaning of gorenoise; old-school goregrind and noisecore blended together with plenty of disgusting sounds, a healthy dose of bizarrely ridiculous humor and samples galore. Diabolical Milking Mysticism was a self-released EP that was available for free download / CD-R and the themes clearly center on Immortal, cats and milk - even though I think Robi is vegan.

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Miserable Absence Of Harmony - Retro Fever (2011)

Miserable Absence Of Harmony is a one-man gorenoise band from Arad, Romania. Unlike most gorenoise - which typically sounds like someone recorded a toilet flushing with loads of distortion - M.A.O.H. sounds more like what one should expect from the literal meaning of gorenoise; old-school goregrind and noisecore blended together with plenty of disgusting sounds, a healthy dose of bizarrely ridiculous humor and samples galore. Retro Fever was a self-released EP that was available for free download / CD-R and the obvious theme for this is kickin' it to the oldies (I can't believe I just wrote that).

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The Vanishing Act - Ludovico (2012)

The Vanishing Act is a deathgrind band from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The band plays in an exceptionally unique style that blends the old-school deathgrind of Autopsy, Impetigo or Repulsion with the dark melodies of modern hardcore / screamo and a hint of goregrind influence; it's eerie, vile, emotional and visceral all at the same time. Ludovico is a self-released tape available soon from the band directly and is considerably more death metal influence than their previous works.

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Agathocles & The Vanishing Act - Split CD (2008)

Agathocles needs absolutely NO introduction and The Vanishing Act is a deathgrind band from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. On the Agathocles side of the split, there are no surprises; just straight ahead mincing with particularly raw recording quality. The Vanishing Act play in an exceptionally unique style that blends the old-school deathgrind of Autopsy, Impetigo or Repulsion with the dark melodies of modern hardcore / screamo and a hint of goregrind influence; it's eerie, vile, emotional and visceral all at the same time. The CD was released by the Canadian, Sir Punkly Records.

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