Drenched In Blood
Drenched In Blood

So this is a different kind of review than usual.

When I decided to make an album all by myself, this "Drenched In Blood" is the result—10 tracks for 15 minutes of music that I would define as a sort of goregrind/gorenoise. I recorded the guitars and vocals on the computer; as for the drum parts, I borrowed them from a couple of albums by the Swedish band Regurgitate. The vocal parts are not intelligible; they are just grindcore-style screams added spontaneously, while the track titles were randomly chosen, yet still in the depraved style of goregrind. The cover is taken from a Lucio Fulci film. Naturally, this album or mini CD, whatever you want to call it, is entirely self-produced at home. In my opinion, the best tracks are the initial "Molesting The Deformed," "Huge Elephant Shit In The Faded Tar Forest," "Jeff. The Killer.," and "Pure Disembowelment At High School"—the first four tracks, to be clear—where the massive riffs made with a fuzz guitar (for the occasion, I used the Behringer superfuzz) intersect well with the blast beat parts of the drums. The singing is screamed and monotone, ranging from gore phrasing to more black metal-oriented vocals recorded with the Focus Scarlett Rite audio interface microphone. The two longest tracks of the batch are titled "Emethic Spores Of Glande Deflagration" (the 5th track) and "Ann-Mary Miscarriages In Her Stool," the last track, both exceeding 2 minutes. In short, nothing special, just an experiment in extreme music that one might or might not like, considering I am neither a professional musician nor a professional singer. I recorded the album in November 2024. I'd say there are at least 2 or 3 winning riffs; of course, the voice is what it is—too monotone because there are no lyrics, just spontaneous screams. I recorded the instrumentals first and then sang over them. A "gorenoise" experiment; take it for what it is. I won't rate it because I made it, but I might later put up samples of all the tracks so you can get an idea of what I accomplished that November. A professional musician with a band liked it, even though it's not his genre, but he's a friend, so take his appreciation for what it is.

See you soon with the samples! (I already know someone will comment "but why not listen to Nilla Pizzi?") but oh well.

Correction to the album review: the moniker I used is Iracondo, and the album is titled Drenched In Blood because, besides the 10 tracks I previously mentioned, I added 10 grindcore/hardcore tracks at the beginning, sung in Italian and produced differently. "Mondo Bastardo" is the first track of the album, followed by "Evento Cristiano," "Lacerazioni Cutanee," and others. Anyway, I will also put up samples of the tracks in Italian. So, the album consists of a total of 20 tracks with an overall duration of 24 minutes, and there's also a change of cover.

Here's the link to the complete album:

iracondo.bandcamp.com