Head-scratchingly bizarre as only the Czech can be, Chirurgia are a super-obscure thrash/death outfit that started out in the early 90's and released what appears to be their final album in 2002, Deep Silence. There's little information to be had on this band, and I only found out about them through our friends at PurpleSoil Records in the Czech Republic, who had a small quantity of this disc that they hooked us up with. On the cover, the album title is emblazoned across the naked back of a skinhead, above which is Chirurgia's weird logo that appears to have drawings of lumbering zombies replacing the "i"s. Whoever designed the package for Deep Silence was high when they were working on it, as the word "Silence" is totally mispelled on the spine of the case. Inside, the package is minimal, with just photos of the band members, a normal looking four piece lineup. Chirurgia's music, on the other hand, is completely out of it's fucking gourd. At first, I thought that this was going to be some brutal but standard old school grindcore with a heavy early Earache influence. It quickly turns into something else though, a mutant death/thrash/grind/punk hybrid with bizarre singing; the vocalist bounces between a dramatic gothy croon, a drunken punk rock yowl, deep gutteral death growls, and weird shouting that reminds me of a carnival barker, and the music is likewise all over the place, one minute it's blasting deathgrind, the next the members of Chirurgia are spitting out an angular Jesus Lizard style rock attack with boiling doublebass drumming seething underneath jagged stop/start rythms, or ripping into some convoluted progressive thrash metal a la Mekong Delta or later Voi Vod, all inverted dissonant riffing and shredding speed, or some fucked up, stumbling gothic post-punk fused to crushing detah metal guitars. While they aren't as over the top as fellow Czech bands like Contrastic or The Gutteral Clamour Of Queer Decay, Chirurgia are most definitely one weird band, mixing together everything from Arcturus, Napalm Death, Dead Kennedys, Naked City, and progressive thrash into their stoned blast stew. We were onyl able to get a dozen of these from Purplesoil, so once these are gone they'll probably be out of stock for good, seeing as how I've been unable to find any information on the label that released this, anywhere!