S.M.E.S: Gorry Gory Halleluja CDR Promo 2006. Death / Grindcore. Check audio (whole album). Free £0 for CD or LP orders of £28+

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Country: Netherlands

Release Date: 2006
Record Label: Bizarre Leprous

Track list:
1. Gory Gory Halleluja
2. Cozy Nostra
3. Sucker on My Pucker
4. Total Abdomination
5. A Muse Sick
6. Nibble on a Nipple
7. The S.M.E.S. Army Knife
8. In Fact: Infect
9. Your Own Fault
10. Its Raining
11. Turtleturd
12. Suicide Against Old Age
13. Surprisefarty

Cyber Pornogoregrind eh? Its a funny old thing. Highly mechanical Clubgrind beatz with a penchant for Techno, Gabba or Jungle, peculiar squirly noises, pulsin’ rhythm, drug-induced noisescapes and revoltin’ alieneqsue vokills. Back in the Traumatized days of festeryear, I was very keen on this kind of stuff, usin’ the label website/zine to feature and sometimes distribute the likes of Smothered Brothers, Gynophagia, Mermaid in a Manhole, Count Chopula, Nunwhore Commando 666, The Bitch Project, Microphallus, Goat Orgy, Urethral Enema and Sleepy Samurai, along with my own extremely sloppy Cyber Porngrind project, Anal Gorecum Pissflap Slap. Libido Airbag and S.M.E.S. have always been my favourite of the genre, so I was highly pleased to receive this latest outin’ by the latter. Like a lot of Cybergrind projects, the material is written, performed and produced by one musician, and in this case it is the legendary Erwin de Groot, who of course formerly had excessive mouth-gas in Last Days of Humanity and currently resides in Kots. On special occasions, I still enjoy a good spin of his delightful Goregasmic Tales of Technophobia album, as well as the less inventive (but still entertainin’) tracks on his splits with the legendary Lymphatic Phlegm and eccentric chaps Fuck the Facts. Unfortunately, I missed out on The Good, The Bad and Me, probably cause I was immersed elsewhere in some chugs or blasts, but I don’t think it matters too much, cause despite a slight increase in the catchy n’ danceable bits, de Groot hasn’t modified much within his winnin’ digital formula.

As always, the instruments, sounds and noises heard on this release have been generated entirely with music production software, while the analogue elements (vokills and guitar) are heavily processed thru sound manipulation suites. It sounds a lot like each riff keynote has been recorded then loaded into the sample toolkit with the rest of the funny noises, allowin’ Erwin to chug away at his MIDI keyboard. This results in extremely clinical, highly segmented riff-clank which when coupled with the oil garglin’ vokills n’ mechanical drum-patterns, gives the material a madcap robot feel. These basic S.M.E.S. components are wrapped in a rainbow of wacky sounds, with Mr. de Groot usin’ his sound module and/or VST instruments to add a range of idiosyncratic instruments to his inventory. I think everything on his arrange-page is tweaked with one or more effects or plugins, givin’ the material a bizarre, otherworldly feel. Like other S.M.E.S. stuff, exactly the same elements and patterns appear in every track (slosh-vox, riff-binary and blast-codes), but they’re accompanied with a different zany and peculiar sound each time, examples being pianos, organs, strings, brass, double-bass, scuba-divin’ sounds, pulsin’-pads and a bit o’ FM synthesis silliness,

Although there are elements of some of the bands mentioned in the introductory paragraph, such as the throb n’ thrum of Libido Airbag and the deliberately synthetic sound of Microphallus or Terrible Noise Shit, this is unmistakable S.M.E.S. daftness! Owing to the overt Electronic/Dance influence, there are many similarities to artists outside Grind, with some segments soundin’ similar to the tweest bits of old Prodigy and the sillier moments of such Warp Records artists as Aphex Twin or Plone, mixed with an Acid Techno edge vaguely reminiscent of the Liberators collective, or Darc Marc or someone.

Cos Erwin has recorded, manipulated and produced everything at his computer, the material has obviously undergone much dynamic processin’ and polishin’ seein’ as such facilities are so readily available within his workstation and all highly compatible with his tracks. This results in a high level of clearness and a lovely n’ balanced mix, but the bawdy bop-rhythms n’ repulsive vokill sound daub this clarity in pleasant filth.

I recommend this and all SMES works to open-minded Death/Grindcore fans, cos they’ll enjoy this light-hearted take on an extravagant Grind sub-sub-genre. Loyal fans of Erwin will love it. Another absolute hoot from Mr. de Groot!