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Rating: 65 songs in 77 minutes. Two CDs in one, that's what Carnival Of Carnage together with Byocist are offering.
The Carnival Of Carnage, a Dutch band (the side project of Roger Kkuzee), is a one-man band dedicated to a very primitive goregrind, good for headbanging and nothing more. The programmed drums are the usual (exhilarating) out-of-control meat grinder, the guitars are very raw, dirty, acidic, and downtuned. The growl is at times inaudible but always present, a smothered gurgle submerged by the otherworldly beats of the drum machine. Their work of devastation is composed of 22 short tracks, recommended if you want to listen to something hard, brutal, and extremely vulgar (the themes are almost exclusively about zombies, cemetery remains, and the undead that return to wander the earth and feed on human flesh, as in the worst z-movie remake of Romero's masterpiece living dead), as main influences for this band I could mention the early legendary Mortician of "Hacked Up For Barbeque", so do not expect anything more than the usual putrescent, inhuman, savage, and destabilizing vintage goregrind. A nice smack in the teeth anyway, that's for sure. Rating 8/10.
The proposal of Byocist is an ultra-distorted gore to the excess and at times inaudible, divided into 43 tracks that in most cases last at most five or six seconds: just enough time to deliver two poorly settled blast beats and the time of an ultra-effected and liberating burp, buried alive under layers and layers of white noise. These are Byocist. There's no talent in this type of proposal, just stupid, primitive, improvised, crude, and ultraminimal goregrind of the night of times. The themes talk about autopsies, vivisections, operating rooms turned into slaughterhouses, where atrocious and revolting criminal acts are committed on the lifeless bodies of the poor patients. Anyone who happens to listen to this aimless garbage might give at most a 3/10, but personally, I enjoy this mess a lot, so I feel compelled to give it a quite positive rating. I would say a 7/10, which is a pass, despite everything I said earlier.
In conclusion, I would say a work that will appeal to very few listeners, especially for those who do not conceive this type of effortless grindgore, played just for fun and dedicated to the most useless fooling around. I recommend it anyway because I was satisfied with the filth and trash this CD is able to generate during listening. I am fond of this type of music and I have no qualms about giving high scores, even if many of you might consider this disc insignificant and meaningless. An absolute must instead for all the "others", I mean the fans of the most primitive and uncompromising goregrind. If any still exist.
Overall rating: 7.5/10
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