Grade: 8/10
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Sordid - Sordid remains MCD
Genre: Crust/grind
Origin: Australia
Released: 2006
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Label: Grindhead Records
Uploaded: 15.09.06

Well this came like a breath of fresh air from out of nowhere. I�ve never heard of the band before, by the looks of the CD I expected it to be a gory deathgrind album. So I had no idea this furious grinding crustcore outfit would smack me so hard.
The artwork�s very gory, which really set me off the wrong track. The lyrics can be fairly gory, but also takes up a more serious subject, namely incest, and also Christianity, everyday, monotonous life etc. So there�s also some social awareness going on, which is very seldom for goregrind acts. Music-wise it is absolutely raging, grind-infused crustcore with a black metal dose. The latter one might not be very apparent, but at several occasions I find strong similarities to the French black metallers Antaeus. For the crustcore the traces I can find are mostly from bands like Detestation and Disrupt, meaning bands very inspired by the Scandinavian school of crust. But also maybe a little bit of Drop Dead for that hectic tempo. A mid-paced tune can end up in a grinding fury before it breaks down into a slower, churning inferno. The vocals is mostly a raspy screaming, sometimes a little deeper and sometimes a little brighter, but always brutal-as-hell.
Very energetic, and should be great to see live as it�s perfect for a troublesome moshpit of drunken punks and metalheads. A bunch of samples are also thrown in, sometimes a bit funny, like for the The only way to get to know Jesus is to get on your knees tune where a lady says �take that book of Mormon and show it so far up your righteous asses that you choke�. Hehehe�

Tracklist:
01. Psychoanalism
02. Mix 106.Fuck You
03. Tuol sleng
04. Dream of death
05. The only way to get to know Jesus is to get on your knees
06. From the outside in
07. Cunt struck
08. Hatred
09. Hollow
10. Threat remains
11. Suffocating