Robocop - Robocop II

Robocop - Robocop II
Grind core Karaoke




Robocop were from Orono, Maine but unfortunately they recently called it quits. I guess you could call Robocop a grindcore band, and you wouldn't be wrong, especially since their latest release, Robocop II, was released by Grindcore Karaoke, a label Daryl recently jocked on here with other greats like Kunt Puncher, Inerds, Cloud Rat and Wadge. The thing is, Robocop wasn't content to be just a grindcore band, and this album thoroughly puts grind in the blender with power violence, thrash, noise and even sludge.

The results are a cacophonous, blast of ear-bleeding goodness, along with audio clips from the movie... you guessed it: Robocop 2! People who like their music putrid and unsociable are invited, all others must fuck off and die.

Recommended for fans of Twodeadsluts Onegoodfuck, Wadge and Bastard Noise.


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Kunt Puncher - Take Drugs and Eat A Kebab

Kunt Puncher - Take Drugs and Eat A Kebab
Grindcore Karaoke


Featuring ex and current members of My War, River Freshney, Dripback, Yes My Ninjas?, Nebukadnezza, & Damnas. Kunt Puncher Are a four piece experimental cyber-grind group from London, England.

Another outstanding release from Grindcore Karaoke Kunt Puncher blew me away all through their six song, nine minute debut release. Opening with a dreamscape of soothing sounds and narration describing the band's intent of mind control, these themes repeat throughout the record, at times ethereal, but mostly just brutal. I feel like this is the grind band that Douglas Adams could've been a part of in another dimension somewhere.

The wry, and extremely cacophonous use of television and film dialogue, the synaptic mash of it all; it's really what makes this record so good. I find it hard to focus on any one sound for more than a few seconds. This is musical ADHD in cyber-grind form.

I would recommend this to fans of Two Dead Sluts One Good Fuck, or The Penguin Collector. I give this album a rating of "A Bruce Lee side kick in the throat" (trust me, that's a good thing).

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Death Toll 80K - Harsh Realities

Death Toll 80K - Harsh Realities
Rodel Records | FDA Rekotz




Arguably the best grindcore album I've heard in 2011, Harsh Realities is not fucking around. Death Toll 80K burst out of the gate, and these Fins do not relent for a second through their 23 tracks of vitriolic violence. That being said, these guys know when to throw in a thrash or death inspired riff to keep things from getting boring, much like classic grindcore bands such as Pig Destroyer, Nasum or Circle of Dead Children.

The whole of everything is then coated in a veneer of crust and thrown at you like a baseball made of worms and coated in viscera. For those who like to know what all the growling is about, Death Toll 80K are into social issues and political commentary, so if that's your thing you'll have to find the lyrics; you're not going to decipher much from these monstrous growls and piercing screams.

Fans of the aforementioned classics and newer grind acts like Insect Warfare, Despise You and Phobia should be overjoyed to hear this album.

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