Bestial Vomit / Social Chaos - Split CD
Bestial Vomit—surprisingly a deceptively common band name—are a noise-grind unit based out of Italy since 2003. I don't know too much about them other than they have over a dozen releases including splits with some heavy hitters such as Proletar, Archagathus and Agathocles. The band plays a noisy, wild-eyed and raw version of grindcore. I think the noise identifier comes mainly from some of the band's past releases that contained more of a harsh and grating form of distortion and feedback. On this split the noise is mainly in respects to the very lo-fi production quality, although their last two songs venture into being more, unraveled. Their tracks sound like grindcore played through a clock radio. The guitar is shrill and staticky, the bass guitar is nonexistent and the drums are distant and seem to come and go depending on the song's tempo. For instance, the snare drum can be overshadowed by the hi-hats, especially during the blast beats. Think all treble and no bass. And I'm almost certain that this is an absolutely artistic choice as the rest of the band's discography is similar to varying degrees. They take the creed of "noise not music" to the nth degree and throw it in your face. Posers need not apply.
Social Chaos hail from São Paulo, Brazil and are genre veterans with over twenty years experience under their belts and almost more than two dozen releases in their discography plus several compilation album contributions. In short, these guys are no light-weights and know what they're doing. Social Chaos play a form of grindcore that is equal parts grind, thrash metal, and old school crust. Right from the start the band opens the split with a Slayer-esque riff intro leading into probably the band's catchiest song, "Seeds Of Hate." This opening death-grind banger is a heavy paced blitz that showcases both the band's grindcore and more mid-tempo metallic crustcore influences. Influences that are an amalgam of bands such as Slayer, Napalm Death, Disrupt, Brutal Truth and Bolt Thrower—or as we call them in Texas, War Master. But Social Chaos' crust roots run very deep within their sound, regardless of the genre mix. Track "Fabrica De Destruição" is an almost straight blistering grind number, while their next song, "Manipulated Life," could easily be a late era Warcollapse jam.
Esagoya Records