Labels: HG Fact
Review by: Kunal Nandi
Well, this is a no-brainer. It’s quite obviously going to be genius, even before it’s received a spin. The artwork is an appalling day-glo cartoon of the reprehensible GBN members looking like they’ve been drawn by the makers of “Yellow Submarine”, and the back suggests that a collection of classic rock standards (among them, songs by, er, The Spaceshits, The Sonics, and even covers of covers, such as Howlin’ Wolf by way of Jimi Hendrix, and Motorhead’s reworking of Eddie Holland) are about to be royally screwed in the inimitable Gore Beyond Necropsy style. Quite what “the inimitable Gore Beyond Necropsy style” really is is anyone’s guess, seeing as this is the band that released an entire album full of songs with titles such as “Horribly Analdrilled”. Even Carcass might have thought twice about that one.
Anyway, unsurprisingly, it’s good-time rock “n’ roll filtered through extreme Japanese grind, so it’s thunderously heavy, and surprisingly tuneful “” in fact, the band 324 came to mind on more than one occasion “” with absolutely hideous vocals that sound so, so wrong that they are in fact so, so right. Sometimes this guy actually tries to croon some of these tracks, and considering he usually sounds a bit like Hevi from Corrupted (i.e. like a bear dying), it frankly boggles the mind. This kind of record makes me glad to be alive!