loading...Sick, sick, sick, sick, sick, sick. - 65%
Some folks might actually wonder how it is possible to get free releases; maybe even without asking bands for them. Well, there was a time when I pressed it. Send mails to band and begged for their releases, review release, but the results were rather poor. Now the situation has changed: I simply do not care anymore about this issue, send mails on track lists and even though I do not drown in releases, I am able to get some quite obscure stuff lately... and for some reason the focus of them lies partially on grindcore; generally, releases by this genre are often those I tend to trade. Gutstump would fall under this category
Their first demo is a mixture of growls, pig squeals, some movie samples and fast played guitars of course as well as drums; solo parts appear also now and then, too. Somehow the mix was not optimal, as the focus of the music lies rather on the vocals than on the instruments; of these the drums have a larger impact on the music, while the guitars are drowned in some respect. The nine minutes and thirteen seconds, this would the entire length of this demo, is not entirely blasting, but rather complex song-structures with some amount of catchiness. A lot of switches in the riffs appear, tempo variations and solo parts... despite some plainness now and then, the overall impression is a positive one and the three songs are a good first start. The vocals add a lot of atmosphere to the music, especially as these tend to switch a lot between the different styles of 'singing'.
How this sounds like? How the hell shall I know this? Being quite unfamiliar with Grindcore, I am unable to give any proper references to other bands of this genre. The UltraBoris approach, compare everything to thrash metal, proves also to be a little bit tricky, so I have to fall back on a more general description: Gutstump's first demo is a sick bastard of a release; sick vocals meet blasting riffs with a small amount of samples. Too short, though.
