KUSARI GAMA KILL
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Reviewed on CRUCIAL BLAST
http://www.crucialblast.net/
We just listed another disc from this Dutch duo a few months ago, but here we are again with a new full length CD of insane, ultra-brutal digital noise/grind from Kusari Gama Kill, one of my favorite extreme grind bands on R.O.N.F. That last disc that I reviewed for C-Blast was the Dead Animal Noise Party CDR on R.O.N.F., which was actually a reissue of a previously out of print disc from 2006. Noisecore Extravaganza is the band's latest, a 99 track napalm blast of computerized abstract grind that I'm betting will have noisecore fans blowing their lids over. At first, you might think that this is going to be along the lines of Anal Cunt worship with the sheer amount of tracks and bizarre song titles like "Decomposed Hippie Breath" and "Obese Criminal Mastermind". Instead, you get a totally synthetic grind assault using drum programming, electronic noise and synths, with no guitar in sight, each track averaging around 15-30 seconds and packed with supersonic blastbeats, robotic vocals, mangled feedback and hard drive splatter, processed death metal vocals stretched and mutated into all kinds of weird shapes and shot through endless vocoder systems, shrieking space-locust oscillations, chopped up drill n bass spasms, menacing pipe organ clusters, grinding industrial piston-pulses and pounding drum loops. This shit is completely out of control as brutal electronic noise and lightspeed machine blasts hurtle out of your speakers uncontrollably, like hearing early Napalm Death being subsumed into the Borg hive-mind and mashed together with Dataclast, Bastard Noise, Noism and Merzbow and spat back out in fifteen second chunks of skull-imploding power. Fuck! What makes this so crushing is that Kusari Gama Kill actually have a pretty massive recording that makes their industrial white-noise chaosgrind sound thick and devestating, in contrast to the messy, murky recordings that you usually hear with other bands that play this kind of stuff. Obviously, this isn't for everyone, probably only extreme grind and noise freaks with a high tolerance for blastbeats and harsh noise will be able to withstand it, especially since this album is around forty minutes long, but for any of you folks that groove on the most extreme grindnoise/blast-troniks imagineable, this disc rules. Like the last one, Noisecore Extravaganza is limited to 100 copies, and the disc is packaged in a jewel case with full color artwork that features utterly retarded-looking demon-mutants dancing around a nuclear blast site designed by someone using MS Paint on a meth binge.
Reviewed on HEATHEN HARVEST
http://www.heathenharvest.com/
Well I’ll be damned, what we have here is something really twisted and I like it. Kusari Gama Kill is the offspring of two noisecore gits from the land of my own blackened soul, Denmark. When I first saw the cover I thought I was in for one hell of a brainstorm and with hindsight it would have been an almost correct statement. Fact is that certain poisonous animals use bright colours to warn of members of the higher food chain not the consume them. This could be true about Noisecore Extravaganza as well, only it is a sonic meal to delicious to resist. The music is quite hard to describe since it’s a crossbreed of intense noise, power electronics, madness, and harsh ambient structures with a hint of drums and guitars drowning in the shadow of the cacophony. Each track is between 10-50 seconds and they follow somewhat of a quasi-linear approach yet feels pretty unique in their own ways. The fact that someone have actually made a song titled Alcoholiday demands a praise in its own way. Under all the noise I can almost catch what sounds like black/thrash metal structures, either its that or it is just a sublime hint of all the styles that combined makes this album. My favourite song on this album has to be Crippled Melted Brain who actually manages to stick out quite a bit from its surroundings with a almost childish attitude in all the heavy destruction. Well its not that light, but still it stick out.. So who would I recommend this to? Well obviously you have to appreciate industrial electronical sounds, noise and a huge dose of madness to real get behind the cover of this album. But once again if you get into noise and power electronics you realise there is such things as good and bad noise, and this is definitely good noise. Of the 99 tracks available only a few felt wrong and even then it felt justified by the mere fact that this is a project based around two gits who must have worked bloody hard to make 99 tracks of pure mayhem that never really gets monotonous or repetitive. Hell even the fact that my bloody cd-player in the car refused to accept the CD proves that this is a heavy album not meant for everyone. If you however like me like some good noisecore to wake you up in the morning then this is your piece of pie. And it is a limited release so you might want to pick it up sooner rather then later. I’ll sure as hell keep my eye out for more madness from these gits, they have intrigued me and that is a rare thing nowadays..
Reviewed on BIG WHOOP! #4
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Holy shit, this is harsh as all fuck! There is definitely a blurr-grind undertone to many of these 99 tracks, buried under the layers of fucked-up loops and static. Harsh Noise usually just irritates me, but I found enough inventiveness on this disc to actually enjoy it. I'm going to eat a bunch of belladonna and then put this disc on again. We'll tally up the body count later.
