'Twitch of the Death Nerve'

by ~R3D-R

Long and Boring Intro
So, after a weird chain of links and whatnot I landed here--> grindgore.net
It's a site hosted by this (obviously) french guy named Pierre who's in love with the style of Goregrind music.  I'm starting to get into it, really, and so checked out lots stuff in the download section, really liking this song called 'Dancesteps on the Edge of a Razor' by a band called 'Blue Holocaust'.  Eventually, once I realized that Blue Holocaust was a one-man underground project, and that that one man was the same Pierre who ran the grindgore-net site [aka Braindead Webzine] I had to put some money down to support him.  I figured 30-odd tracks of the same stuff 'Dancesteps on the Edge of a Razor' was made of couldn't hurt.
Actual Review
In fact, it didn't hurt, I really liked it.  The album, Twitch of the Death Nerve, is just under 40 minutes long, totally hand-done.  The guy does all the vocals, which have an amazing effect- or just talented and creative recording- on them that makes it sound like some raging animal...which is a good thing!  He plays all the instruments as well, probably using a drum machine but it sounds wicked anyway.  At some points it's a bit too chaotic and sloppy for my taste but for the most part, I really like this CD.  There's samples galore, from 'various giallo movies' as the credits in the back of the book say, and it has 'Giallo-Inspired Gore' written on the spine.  So women screaming, plot-twisting music and some actual dialog, even, gets overlayed to the crazy music.

And when I said totally hand-done above, I meant it.  He drew all the art and hand-wrote all the lyrics.  While that last part, writing the lyrics, was a bit pointless because there's no way you could ever understand that booming, echoing roar of his, it's just a homely touch.  And I love the sleeve, I notice more details in it the more I look at it.  I have a theory that the titles of every song are represented in it somehow, and I've almost proved it.  Just a few more to pick out...

So.  If you like goregrind (though that's just what he calls the music, I don't know enough about the genre yet to say if it truly is, but it might be closer to noisecore in my book, I think with LDOH and others the genres pretty much overlap) like I'm starting to, want to help support and indie deathmetal/gore label or just are interested in something totally different, I'd hustle over to the 'shop' section of Braindead, or just check out Gemm, I got it for $12 and that's WITH shipping, pretty good.

Also, if you downloaded the single song available<sp?> on Braindead, check out his myspace (Just a /blueholocaust i believe) for a few more sample tracks.  But don't scroll down to far there was a gross picture (like zombie handjob gross) last time I saw it.  ;)

Total Score: 8 1/2 out of 10

Excellent debut, sure to grow on me, but it could use more variety.