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BIRDFLESH  Happy Fun Sumo Sandwich: Live in Japan 1999  CASSETTE   (Haunted Hotel)   4.98
Happy Fun Sumo Sandwich: Live in Japan 1999 IS CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE FOR ORDER

Can never get enough of Birdflesh! This Swedish grind troop has been at it for over a decade now, playing their ferocious punky grindcore at hair raising speeds that channels the napalm fueled power of the early Earache grind movement and especially the genre-hopping Spazztic Blurr. Musically at least, the grind is dead serious, kinda technical and brutally heavy and fast, along the lines of Napalm Death, but the lyrics are absurd and the band drops in goofy bits of jazz, reggae, pogo punk and other unexpected sounds into their raging grind.

This live cassette has an entire performance recorded in 1999 while the band was touring Japan...dunno when or where exactly this was recorded from, but we get fifteen tracks of primo Birdflesh grind that includes songs like "Sky Rat", "Jazzim Qassim Electrodeath", "Teenage Mutilator", "The Hedgehog Sickness", "Kick on the Cross", "Motorbed", "Dead in the Paper", "Arabian Dreams", "Destination Shangai", and a cover of "Vicious Dreams" by Japanese grind legends S.O.B. The tape comes from a decent soundboard recording, it's not too muddy and is certainly listenable, but as with most live recordings, this one is for diehard fans only. Limited to 300 copies.