Metal

Back door to asylum

Taking Care of Business Is Our Business... And Business Is Good

Finna Get You High (Putrid Stu)fluids

Behemoth "Slaves Shall Serve" from their album "Abyssus Abyssum Invocat"

Behemoth "Slaves Shall Serve"

Welcome back metalheads to another episode of The Great Metal Debate podcast. It's me Xander again and today I'm going to be talking about the Finnish goregrind band known as Torsofuck and their new album Postpartum Exstasy - the band's first album in 19 years!

In the year 2004, I was between the ages of 12 and 13 years old. At this time in my life, the heaviest bands that I knew of were: Slipknot, Lamb of God, Hatebreed, Killswitch Engage, Shadows Fall and Atreyu. Little did young Xander know, one of the most brutal bands of all time had released their debut album titled Erotic Diarrhea Fantasies. It wouldn't be until many years later when I was 19 or 20 when I discovered the infamous song "Raped by Elephants".

We all seem to have that sort of love/hate relationship with Torsofuck mainly due to the first half of most of their songs being sound clips from either real porn flicks or some B horror film. If the sound clips weren't so long, we would probably get into the music itself.  This is evident in the new album title track "Postpartum Exstasy" in the way that it was way too much like their song "Pussy Mutilation" from the first album. Both tracks have the majority of it being movie clip filler.

The only difference is that instead of the whole Blood Sucking Freaks intro, you instead hear someone screaming in anguish for the first 2 minutes of the 4 and a half minute runtime. I guess I'm just slightly annoyed that in almost 20 years, the band hasn't seemed to improve much.

"Self Dismemberment" does the exact same thing. The band Mortician seems to have a similar issue especially with their older albums yet more people have heard of and are fans of Mortician and they are well respected in the scene. Torsofuck have their own form of street cred but it's probably not as well received by most metal fans. I will say the song "The Pig" is probably my favorite song on this new album mainly because it has one of the shorter intros at only 28 seconds out of the 5 minute track. It's good to have a song that is less bullshit and more business. "Animal Lover" only has an 18 second intro but it's a much shorter song.

Despite the vocalist Mikko Friberg being an absolute monster when it comes to his capabilities of sounding like a creature, every live video I have seen doesn't seem to show him projecting his voice loud enough to stand out among the rest of the instruments. This reminds me of how Visceral Disgorge is live. The vocals are too quiet outside of studio mixing.

Let's talk about the musicians. If you're looking for groovy guitar riffs or solos or any type of structure outside of downtuned chugs, you won't find it here. Torsofuck has always been the type of band that is very simplistic in their nature and they aren't about being musicians. They are about being heavy and gross. If you're looking for something loud, purposely offensive and obnoxious; you've found it. This has always been the main goal of the band.

You know what the problem is with this record? It's 15 years too late. Maybe if this album had come out in 2008, they could've played some of the new tracks like "Necropervert" or "Retarded Anal Whore" during the band's final live show in 2009 before they split up for the 3rd time. Each song on this new album just sounds like the same structure that they used in every song on the previous album. That is both a good and bad thing. It's bad because it's repetitious but good because Mikko hasn't lost his vocal capabilities over the years unlike Antti Bowman from Demilich which is another brutal band from Finland who hasn't put out an album in 30 years.

If you enjoy metal that is closely related to the noise genre, then this will be directly up your alley but if you want something with a little more heart and soul put into the music and lyrics then you could find it in the many other subgenres that metal has to offer.

The Great Metal Debate

Album Review - Postpartum Exstasy (Torsofuck)

Scotobleps, Slight Concave

Second spawn of Moscow-based brutal tech-death formation is a true monster inspired by the undiscovered and unexplored depths of space and human minds. By developing its sound, full of blistering guitars, inhuman accelerated vocals and intricate drums, Back Door to Asylum has stepped up in field of technical extremity. Empowered by guest vocals of Julien Truchan (Benighted) and Fabio Marin (Internal Suffering) as well as the master of drone guitars Ilya Lipkin (Re-Stoned, Foggy Realm), "Cerberus Millenia" is a true journey of pleasure and horror for every extreme music listener

Official page: facebook.com/backdoortoasylum

Back Door to Asylum - Cerberus Paradigm (2014)

Second spawn of Moscow-based brutal tech-death formation is a true monster inspired by the undiscovered and unexplored depths of space and human minds. By developing its sound, full of blistering guitars, inhuman accelerated vocals and intricate drums, Back Door to Asylum has stepped up in field of technical extremity. Empowered by guest vocals of Julien Truchan (Benighted) and Fabio Marin (Internal Suffering) as well as the master of drone guitars Ilya Lipkin (Re-Stoned, Foggy Realm), "Cerberus Millenia" is a true journey of pleasure and horror for every extreme music listener

Official page: facebook.com/backdoortoasylum


Back Door To Asylum - Auroral Plasmagenesis (2014)

Back Door To Asylum - The Convergence Process (2014)

Auroral Plasmagenesis (Demo'2013)

Putrid Stu / Fluids – Taking Care of Business Is Our Business​.​.​. and Business Is Good (2021 Goregrind/Deathgrind)
Putrid Stu:
1. Finna Get You High
2. Baby Daddys for Days
3. Milk & Cigarettes
4. Putrid Stu
5. Finger Fucker Named Tucker
Fluids:
6. TCOB
7. Escape/Departure
8. Necrotwerker
9. Frontiers
10. Dabbed
11. No, We Don't Want to Do a Charity Comp on Your Stupid Fucking Label
you can buy Putrid Stu side on bandcamp: https://putridstu.bandcamp.com/album/taking-care-of-business-is-our-business-and-business-is-good
you can buy Fluids side on bandcamp: https://fluids666.bandcamp.com/album/taking-care-of-business-is-our-business-and-business-is-good

Fluids - Necrotwerker (from split with Putrid Stu)

"Bastards Of A Lying Breed" from "The Crusher".

Amon Amarth "Bastards Of A Lying Breed"

"The Pursuit Of Vikings" from the "Fate of Norns".

Amon Amarth "The Pursuit Of Vikings"

Bitchagram

Analeashed

Grindcore

Song from Blood Of Abel pre-production, recording 10 new tracks sometime soon

Morbid

Cradle of Filth’s return to supreme infernal decadence with new masterwork ‘The Manticore & Other Horrors’.

Cradle of Filth formed in Suffolk in 1991 and after a string of demo recordings released their debut album, ‘The Principle of Evil Made Flesh’ in 1994. The band have gone on to become one of the UK’s most successful metal acts, known for their dynamic symphonic style of gothic black metal, along with the dark poetic lyrics from the hand of enigmatic front-man Dani Filth.

The title of this, Cradle of Filth’s tenth studio full-length, can be likened to a bestiary, a collection of stories on Monsters; personal demons, Chimeras, literary fiends and world-enslaving entities to blame but a few, Manticore being the ravening title track. It is a song about a beautiful mythological horror that comes to be feared as the disfigurehead of foreign occupation in the Indian provinces.

The songs ‘Illicitus’ and ‘Pallid Reflection’ bare the sweet ingredients of vampirism and lycanthropy; the wicked ‘For Your Vulgar Delectation’ and ‘Frost On her Pillow’ are woven perversely into grim fairytales, whilst classic, monumental tracks like ‘The Abhorrent’ and ‘Siding With The Titans’ both extol tentacular Lovecraftian values.

The album itself possesses an altogether new atmosphere for the band, incorporating a heavier, faster NWOBBM (New Wave of British Black Metal) punk vibe that is both current and cruel, blended with ornate orchestration and the quirky immediateness of 2000’s Midian opus.

Recorded in eight  weeks at both Springvale and Grindstone studios (where it was also mixed by Scott Atkins), Suffolk, the album is testament to the longevity of The ‘Filth, as not only does it reek of Cradle’s (feared or revered) brand of delicious metal vamperotica, but this thoroughly modern album places the band firmly in fresh killing fields anew.

Singer Dani Filth had this to say on the new album:
‘This is our tenth commandment in metal. We have diversified and kept alive the spirit of this band and breathed it into something that I can proudly say, slays like an absolute motherf**ker. The Manticore is coming… Long live the filth!’

Cradle of Filth is also set to spread their darkness upon European lands with a tour throughout November & December.

Release Date 29th October 2012

Tracklist:
1. The Unveiling of O
2. The Abhorrent
3. For your Vulgar Delectation
4. Illicitus
5. Manticore
6. Frost on her Pillow
7. Huge Onyx Wings Behind Despair
8. Pallid Reflection
9. Siding with the Titans
10. Succumb to This
11. Sinfonia

For more info, check out the album site at: www.peaceville.com/cradleoffilth/manticore

Cradle of Filth - For your Vulgar Delectation (from The Manticore And Other Horrors)

The Best of Deicide

Deicide - Satan Spawn, The Caco-Daemon

From the BELPHEGOR album, Bondage Goat Zombie

Bondage Goat Zombie

BELPHEGOR - Bondage Goat Zombie

Vital Remains Dechristianize Orchestra

Brief preview of what there is to come from my project Atonement. One guitar track has been recorded and panned center, the drums are programmed.
Originally these ideas were for another project i was working on with my friend Nimai (Aeon Promotions). 
Riffs and Drum Programming by Geoff Bradley and Nimai Pujara

Atonement (Rough Ideas)

Newest track from our 2nd album.
Year: 2013
Genre: Technical Brutal Death metal
Location: Moscow,Russia
Official page: facebook.com/backdoortoasylum

Mixing&Mastering by TsunTsun productions
facebook.com/TsunTsunProductions

Unconditional Devoration (Promo'2013)

"Father of the Wolf" from "Deceiver of the Gods."

Buy from Metal Blade

Amon Amarth "Father of the Wolf"

Pre-Order from Relapse: http://bit.ly/ExhumedNecrocracy
Pre-Order via iTunes:  http://bit.ly/ExhumediTunes
Pre-Order via Bandcamp:  http://www.exhumed.bandcamp.com 

EXHUMED - "Necrocracy" from 'Necrocracy' coming August 6th, 2013 (N.America) August 2nd (Germany/Benelux), August 5th (UK/World) on CD/LP/DIGITAL via Relapse Records

Official Links:
http://www.facebook.com/ExhumedOfficial
http://twitter.com/ExhumedOfficial
http://exhumed.bandcamp.com/releases

http://www.relapse.com
http://www.facebook.com/RelapseRecords
http://www.relapserecords.bandcamp.com

Unconditional Devoration (Promo'2013)

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