Disgust
Brutality of War

THE REVIEW

1993 was one of the most interesting and brutal years for Death Metal and Grindcore.

Death, Morbid Angel, Sepultura, Suffocation, Pestilence, Carcass, Atheist, Entombed thoroughly delighted and tormented my eardrums.

But my morbid and depraved auditory pleasure wasn't yet full; and so the ever-praiseworthy "Earache Records" saw fit at the end of November of that same year to release the ominous debut of the English band Disgust.

Band name, album title, and especially cover image: it is all too evident the auditory chaos one is set to encounter in the barely half-hour listening of the record. We are faced with an anarchic form of Grindcore-Crust-Hardcore. Disgust are the heirs, the legitimate offspring of that war machine called Discharge born on English soil at the end of the seventies.

Same executional vehemence, same cynical rawness in the lyrics; there are no moments of reflection in the tracks of Disgust. An intro and an outro and in between relentless battering without any mercy. Titles that leave no doubt: "As Millions Suffer," "An Horrific End," "Life Erased" are examples to understand the unstoppable destructive march of these five madmen.

They invent nothing new; they use a monolithic drumbeat to elevate even more their degree of ferocity. If we're not at the level of the aforementioned Discharge, we're very close; a knockout punch of impressive rage.

Enjoy some of their stunningly effective videos online, if you dare.

Diabolos Rising 666.