I've been trying to get my hands on past issues of Invocation Of Obscene Gods ever since learning of it - here's an old-school print zine that seems like it's totally lasered in to my interests, with past issues featuring everything from articles on Jpanaese avant-noise legend Gerogerigegege and interviews with Steveggs from Pile Of Eggs/Nutscreamer, to pieces on Nuit Noire and Gonkulator. They go out of print pretty quick,
And it's almost non-stop brutality:
The awesome deathsludge of Skullhog's "Smouldering Abnormality" that sounds like a punk version of Asphyx; Bodybag's savage deathgrind assault "Fuck Your Hippie Love"; Southern scum punks Antiseen belt out the raucous ripper "Burning Money"; a blast of brain-damaged hardcore punk from Poopy Necroponde called "Conjurers Of The Magic Sand"; a cluster of obnoxoisly blown-out, bass-heavy noisecore from Pizzahifive that belches up chunks of grinding primitive death metal amid the churning blastnoise; Sex Grimes and their catchy, snotty, speed-fueled hardcore punk; a brief burst of compressed grindcore ultra-violence from The Kill; the noise-splattered, almost Brainbombs-like berserk blackened dirge "Devil's Star On The Rise" from Finnish necro-weirdos Ride For Revenge; a dozen "songs" of psychedelic, severely mind-melting echoplex-wrecked noisecore madness from CSMD that sound more than ever like an insane hybrid of Sore Throat and Acid Mothers Temple; bone-rattling hardcore punk from Lifespite that downshifts into pulverizing slow-mo heaviness; a couple of blown-out live tracks from Brazilian bestial blasters Goatpenis; a bunch of short, shredding tunes from Slaktrens that unleash some serious hyperfast hardcore; Fossil Fuel's obnoxious, supremely demented casio-laced brain-damaged madness that resembles Gary Numan crossed with Flipper; a bunch of bangin' tracks from Erectile Dementia that belt out more of their ferocious rocking noisecore-meets-Ted Nugent brutality, including a song titled "Baby Bottle Full Of Werewolf Semen"; Vestron's no-fi punk anthem "No Talent"; blistering hyperspeed Swede-crust from Massgrav; Violation Wound's burly punk stomper "Abuse Abuse Abuse"; some hideously ugly grindcore primitivism from Sewage Grinder that includes an Agnostic Front cover; Doktor Bitch's frenzied, laryngetic cover of Motorhead's "Stay Clean"; another hillbilly punk pummeler from Hellstomper called "Dixie Dynamite"; a blast of locomotive hardcore from Australian band Thrillkillers; over-modulated, gut-churning doomdeath from Intensive Care that sort of resembles an industrial-tinged Obituary, killer stuff; a dozen short tracks of gargling, misshapen noise-punk savagery from Siviilimurha, probably the weirdest shit on this compilation; the lewd lounge-punk of Dick Panthers' "The Liquor Did Flow";
a handful of songs from blastcore terrorists Overviolence; some blasphemous low-fi blackened noisegrind from Vickers; and a triumphant hardcore anthem cvalled "I Fucken Am" from Brody's Militia closes the album.
The zine that accompanies this compilation comes in a stickered plastic sleeve with a Backwoods Butcher sticker, and features fifty-two pages of grotesque artwork, band info, lyrics, interviews and more, including an introduction from Autopsy's Chris Reifert, art from Sockeye's Food Fortunata, an "advice column", and lots more.