Grade: 6/10
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Cause of Divorce - Non serviam CD-R
Genre: Grindcore
Origin: Germany
Released: 2004
Website: Cause of Divorce
Label: -
Uploaded: 25.08.04

Jeez... A 13 song demo, plus intro, outro and multimedia bonuses. Also pro-printed cover and individual pages in the booklet for the lyrics. It's not often a band puts so much effort into a demo. But that's also why I'm surprised that they didn't put equal amount of effort into the recording, the sound quality does not do them justice. It's pretty thin production to be honest. But they recorded it themselves and that's DIY for ya. Not everyone has access to Soundlab when recording their own band, hehe.
I'm not really sure what to compare this to. It can be quite mid tempo and sound like a hardcore crust band. When the faster parts kick in it all gets too murky, and you can't really make out what the drummer's up to. The vocals remind me a bit of .Inane, which means harsh dog barks vs. rabid dog barks, hehe. They're pretty good and fit great. But I know the music really reminds me of another band, I just can't figure out which band. I've gone through my record collection, but I still don't know. The best I've come up with is Immured, and that's no good comparison. Oh well, there's really nothing I can do about that right now... Anyway, political lyrics dealing with neo-nazism, war making, and of course the scene. Oh yeah, as I said it has some multimedia bonuses. You can find a bunch of pics there, but also five music videos!
They should have put more money into the recording, which would have improved this demo a lot. I mean, it's definitely good ol' fashioned grindcore for the unloved, I like it, but the sound drags it in the mud...

Tracklist:
1. Intro
2. How to belong to the scene
3. Guilty
4. Kollateralschaden
5. The unloved
6. Genius morbi
7. Ultimate expansion of fear
8. Take me to your leader
9. Incomplete knowledge
10. Blindfold the pathfinder
11. Circle of disharmony
12. What are you waiting for?!
13. Lack of loyalty
14. Karma fucker
15. Outro