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BIRDFLESH  Mongo Musicale  CD   (Candlelight)   13.98
Mongo Musicale IS CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE FOR ORDER

From their absurd band name to the equally absurd song titles and lyrics and cover art (is that Sean Connery?), Birdflesh don't go out

of their way to hide the fact that they are, indeed, a bunch of clowns. I mean, they have a song called "Wigdestroyer", and the lyrics go like this: "Here I

come bored of everything / I go downtown to look for you / You are the ones who lost your hair / And try to replace it with an ugly wig / I rip it off and

throw it to the ground/ Wig Destroyer..." And they do dress up as clowns when they play live. Some of them, at least. And yet the trio of Smattro Ansjovis

(drums), Barbro Havohej (bass), and Achmed Abdulex (guitar) totally kill. It's insanely fast punky grindcore that goes from hyperspeed blasting to

thrashier, midpaced punk rock, and into that mix Birdflesh toss in their goofy song titles ("Crocophile", "After-ski Obliteration", "Mr. Big Head",

"Handicapitation", "Dancefloor Dismemberment", "Moonwalk Massacre", "Victim Of The Cat"...you get the idea), and even weirder lyrics as with the

aforementioned "Wigdestroyer", or other songs about being carjacked by a deer, having a head that suddenly grows to enormous size, or death by Jacuzzi. If

you haven't picked up on by now, Birdflesh tap into the goofball genre-bending thrash of Spazztic Blurr, but deliver their silliness through crusty grind in

the vein of bands like Nasum, Napalm Death or Sayyadina, minute long songs of ferocious blasting, trickey percussive fills and technical riffing that gets

mixed up with weird bits of pop punk, goony nursery-rhyme type chanting or squeaky chipmunk vocals, silly samples, drum solos, operatic vocals, dogs barking,

and other whackness.