Year: 2013
Country: Polish
City: Warsaw
Label: SelfMadeGod
Format: CD
Tracks: 18
Time: 33 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Grindcore
The
alcoholism is an addiction. We have it all clear, or almost all (the patient
denies his addiction, in most cases). Good, I have an addiction, and it does
not consist of consuming alcohol, drugs, neither psychoactive drugs or anything
similar, in industrial quantities. My addiction is the Music, and while wilder
and violent be, more addictive it proves to me. Therefore, the Grindcore is one
of my addictions. As addict that I am to the genre, i was waiting for this
album with big expectations (something not very common for me, since habitually
the edition of a record to future don´t generates me few expectations, and,
sometimes, none. I prefer listening to the music without prejudices), so the
previous work of the Polish, the extraodinary Grind Virus, it left the rod high up. So, my expectations were
focused on the following: will the Squash Bowels at least match what was done
in that great album? Or just do what they like, what they want to do, without
stopping to think or draw overcome this masterpiece? To my knowledge, they did
the last: made a record genuine, sincere and real.
They did what they wanted to do, what they wanted to hear, and to hell with
expectations. In other words, they took the best decision of all, and so,
became his new opus on a very good album. A very good album of the purest and
pissed Grindcore, with the hallmark of Squash Bowels, putting everything in
place and confirming that for them time does not seem exist. Almost 20 years
ago that are on the road, playing visceral Grindcore almost any respite be (I
know the group 15 years ago, in fact. But the band formed in 1994). Almost 20
years ago that do their thing without losing effectiveness or energy or
anything. Since 20 years Squash Bowels is an inhuman killing machine that uses
the Grindcore as a weapon of mass destruction. Since 20 years ago that never
fail, always guess right. Grindcoholism
is no exception to the rule, fortunately. A little more than 30 minutes of pure
rage, chaos, speed ruthless, torn voices (and bloodcurdling), noise, violence
and all that we love the Grindcore addicts. And if all this were not enough,
those responsible for all this madness are three guys that are kicking ass for
almost 2 decades, and, as a corollary, never released a bad album, ever. Again,
Grindcoholism is no exception to the
rule, but rather the opposite, since it does nothing but confirm something we
always knew: Squash Bowels is one of the hottest bands in the history of
Grindcore. O Goregrind, if you prefer that tag. Anyway, this is a great album,
which songs devastating as "Tastelessness", "The Theater"
(my favorite) or the song that gives name to the album explode in your face and
do not let a single bone intact. Other songs destroys the rest of the body with
the same violent intensity. To sum up,
there is only say this: Arthur, Marius and Andy, thank you for another superb
demonstration of pure and brutal grindcore. And thanks for almost 20 years,
again, of the best Grindcore (*NOTE this review is from "Puro Ruido" )
