The mindmelting 2004 album from Polish avant-grinders Antigama that first caught the underground metal scene's attention with their intelligent, forward-thinking grindcore, mastery of electronics, and demented riffing. When this came out, I got that same feeling as when I first heard Brutal Truth or Discordance Axis, hearing the grindcore paradigm being reshaped into something new and exciting yet without losing any of the brutality or heaviness that true grindcore requires. Discomfort is filled with weird time changes, dissonant guitar chords formed into utterly alien sounding riffs, deep gutteral vocals that don't sound contrived, cleverly designed electronic textures, and bursts of rocking midtempo destruction that appear just when the band seem to be disappearing into another dimension. Some of the shit that they pull off on here is nuts...like the stuttering CD-skipping glitch blast of the intro to "This Structure Is Tight", or the insanely precise stop-start riffs of "President Say Yes", or the deep throat-chanting that opens "Flies". Every few seconds these guys throw something out that has you hitting rewind to figure out what the fuck it was that you just heard. Imagine Meshuggah meets Diatribes era Napalm Death meets Voivod meets Brutal Truth circa Sounds of The Animal Kingdom meets Megativa. Discomfort was originally released on the U.S. death metal label Extremist, but after that label went belly up, Selfmadegod reissued it with two bonus tracks: "Discomfort", a short electronic drone piece, and Fala (seed remix), which is almost complete silence for seven minutes before erupting into a brutal rhythmic noise piece that chops up parts of Antigama's brutal grind into an abstract gabber/breakcore beating. Intense, and highly recommended...this is one of the most amazing grind albums of the decade.
The disc also contains a DIVX file for an awesome music video for their song "Flies"!.