Filthpact were a crushing crustcore band that came from Aberdeen, Scotland and kicked it around the European continent for a couple of years before finally disbanding in July of 2007. Their blazing metallic crustcore takes me back to the glory days of 90's crust/grind show, ratty Mad Max imagery and hyperspeed punk blasts, Disrupt, Drop Dead and later Brutal Truth and the Profane Existence anarchothrash scene - Filthpact channeled all of that, sounding not unlike a more metallic Disrupt or Extreme Noise Terror with some quirky guitar riffing, brutal blastbeats firing off like a machinegun every few seconds, and monstrous grunting trading off against painful sounding shrieks. This discography CD is a collection of all of the bands studio tracks as well as some live recordings from Scotland, Poland, and Ireland, making up an exhaustive retrospective of the band's work that fans of extreme crust/grind should certainly dig. What made me pick this disc up however was the inclusion of a series of remix tracks at the end of the CD that features a number of experimental noise artists reshaping Filthpact tracks; there is almost 15 minutes of this electronics/crust remix work here, which includes contributions from Nackt Insecten, Asahara, Leoslayer, Veestar, and Blackest Eyes. Nackt Insecten was the only noise artist that I had been previously familiar with, from their amazing dead-bee-filled CDR that At War With False Noise put out a while back, but all of these tracks are cool: NT takes Filthpact's "Not Punk" and turns it into a droning hisscape of grinding, quasi-triphop beats and heavy feedback; Asahara converts the song "X Youth" into a minute long blast of overmodulated blackened chaos; Leoslayer's remix of "CLosed Gates" is an awesome, dubby dirgescape that slows Filthpact's raging crustcore down to a thunderous flatline over which the remixer layers some strange, abstract spoken word recordings. "Closed Gates" is remixed by Veestar into a crushingly heavy hardcore techno/crustcore hybrid that reminds me of the dancefloor-grindmetal shit that Earache was messing around with in the late 90's (and for which I still have an unusually high tolerance for). And Blackest Eyes contributes a ferocious glitchy IDM/tape-splice/gabbergrind take on the anti-rape diatribe "Consent" that is hand down the most faceripping of the remixes included here, a disorientating blast of abstracted electronic violence that matches the fierce indictment of the original song's message.

Packaged in a black and white gatefold sleeve with an insert foldout that has all of the lyrics, remix info, and flyer reproductions, and a small glossy Filthpact sticker.