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CEREBRAL TURBULENCY  Germ Of Error  CD   (Khaaranus)   9.98


Here's an older EP from Cerebral Turbulency that's been kind of hard to find - I just picked up a small quantity of these and it's doubtful I'll be able to get any more once these are gone. If you've been following the underground grind scene for the past couple of years, you might have noticed that the Czech Republic has produced some of the weirdest grindcore bands around...T.O.O.H., Pigsty, Contrastic, Alienation Mental, Lykathea Aflame, and Mincing Fury And Gutteral Clamour Of Queer Decay all ranks as some of the most fucked up, bizarre grindcore bands you'll ever wrap your eardrums around. It seems like the Czech grind scene is pretty open to experimentation and incorporating elements like sampling, electronics, jazz and funk (!), etc., into their music. So here we've got another Czech grind band, Cerebral Turbulency, and yes, they are every bit as crazed, hypercreative, and brutal as I was hoping they would be before I actually heard 'em. Germ Of Error is a 13 song EP that came out on the Czech label Khaaranus a couple of years ago, most of the songs are mach 10 blasters that run an average of a minute and a half, classic grindcore style, with tricky riffing and deep gutteral roars trading off with high pitched shrieking. But these guys graft some shit onto their grind that I was not expecting at all...weird electronic sampling, soaring stoner rock solos, DJ scratching, vocals manipulated into gross textures, flashes of breakbeats, epic vocal harmonies that sound like Gregorian chants being recited over punishing Napalm Death riffage, awesome 8-bit sounding synths accompanying the chugging guitars...and TONS of cowbell! Seriously, the drummer is nailing that cowbell seemingly every couple of seconds. And the drumming overall on here is insane, with tons of complex, chaotic fills and blastbeats. There are also some slower, grooving riffs and percussive rhythms that come together into something that sounds kinda close to later Sepultura or even Soulfly; I wouldn't actually call these occasional grooving parts "nu-metal", some of those parts sound more like System Of A Down mixed with brutal deathgrind, but obviously grind fans with a high aversion to groove should take note. To me, they just add to the general state of fucked-upedness on this disc. Closest thing I can compare Cerebral Turbulency to is a funkier, more experimental, more stoned version of Disassociate.