Crash Test Dummies - God Shuffled His Feet

The soundtrack to my burgeoning adolescence...well, this and the X-Files theme song, oh Agent Scully!

MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

Incubator - Symphonies Of Spiritual Cannibalism

The return of this slimy slithering Grungy German death metal entity. A bit more streamlined than McGillroy, but still just as weird and fucked.

Symphonies Of Spiritual Cannibalism

Winterblut - Grund Gelenkkunst

So, keeping true to my word, I am delving ass deep into the insidious world of German Black metal...and without further ado, ladies and gentlemen...Winterblut's Grund.
A monumental statement put out by ol L'Hiver almost a decade ago. If the Jesus Lizards ever recorded a black metal album, this would be it my friends...grungy, mathy evilness that grooves on that enviable tin-pan alley swag. Just love that he put a cheering crowd at the end of the album...fucking brilliant!

"Grund"ge

Valborg - Glorification Of Pain

Part of the German Zeitgeister label contingency...Personal fav of mine, taking doom death and anagogic grunge into mystifying realms with Celtic Frost's moves and Nirvana's smooth groooves.

Glorification Of Pain

Fertilizer - A Painting Of Annoyance

What is it with Germans and their knack for crafting idiosyncratic death metal? Much as the Czechs crafted wonderfully romantic death metal, the Germans seem to have cornered the market on perfecting the art of death metal + grunge. Atmosphere reigns supreme on Fertilizer's Painiting. So let me paint you a portrait...an undercoat of vintage Soundgarden mixed with the primal brushstrokes of an early Amorphis...and a few glazes of Led Zepellin II. Underground as hell, raunchy and wild. Fuck I love this album!

A Painting Of Annoyance

Incubator - McGillroy The Housefly

This album just really captures my imagination...grungy German death metal from '92 dealing with greys, gore, rape and all things unwholesome. The cover is an exemplary piece of demented Seagrave-styled artwork (that sweet little alien-like insect with a dagger sitting on a tree/pile of it's own larvae is a real keeper) and sets the stage for the weirdness of the music within. This is what I call "relaxed" death metal...almost having more to do with Voivod (especially Outer Limits era) than Morbid Angel. Actually I think a good comparison can be made with Supurations's Voivodian masterpiece The Cube mixed with a little bit of Carbonized's Disharmonization. Rhythms play a big part of this "relaxed", but unsettling atmosphere...always kept tastefully in check...more apt to use a jumpy hi-hat or well-placed crash instead of a blast; although there is one blast section on this housefly...I won't say where, suffice to say it will throw you for a loop. Really an underrated gem, and a real score for those that like their death metal weird and wild.

McGillroy The Housefly

Sup - Anomaly

Well somewhere along the way these Frenchies decided that Supuration was too long and shortened it up to Sup. Their previous album The Cube is fantastic, a kind of death metal that instantly transports your imagination.  Anomaly is darker, more rock-based with gothic overtones, still just as awesome, but in a different way, like a doomier more lugubrious cousin to the great Finnish band Babylon Whores. 

Anomaly

Winterblut - Von den Pflichten Schones zu vernichten

My Deutsch is a bit rusty, but I believe it means "Duty to Destroy the Beautiful"  if this is the intention, then L'Hiver and friends certainly succeed.  Foul and dissonant while maintaining a hobbled languorous demeanor. Like an old curmudgeon rocking on his porch muttering insults at the world passing by...

Von den Pflichten Schones zu vernichten

Supuration - The Cube

A lot of disparate elements come together to make a really strange album that I can't get enough of.  The sound of grunge rock and progressive death metal literally melting over each other and seeping into every available orifice birthing an alien monstrosity thats not unlike Voivod circa Dimension Hatross.  Proceed with cares as this will fuck with your noodle.

The Cube