Available once again, this is another version of Bathtub Shitter's Fertilizer 7" EP from 1999 - the last time we had this in stock, it had been reissued by the US punk label FirstBloodFamily. Now we've got the version that was released by the German label T.V.G., and unless I'm mistaken, this might be the original release that has been impossible to find. It's on thick pink/yellow marble vinyl and comes in the same black and white sleeve that the original pressing was in, so we may have stumbled across a long-lost stash of the first pressing of this blistering grind EP. In any case, this has always been one of my favorite Bathtub Shitter 7"s (although it's pretty hard to pick between em !).

Just hearing the name Bathtub Shitter and seeing that these guys are a Japanese grindcore band will be enough for some of you to know that this is going to be awesome, but the band go even further by singing about nothing but shit. There's no way a band like that could come from anywhere but Japan. I didn't need much convincing once I heard these guys years ago, but I'm still surprised that Bathtub Shitter and their fecal-obsessed grind managed to get this really rabid cult following around them over the past decade. Seriously, we've seen just about every single Bathrub Shitter title that we have carried sell out and go out of print, so it's cool to see this 7" become available again, even if it is just for a short time. This five song EP was the first thing that I had ever heard from Bathtub Shitter, a short but crushing blast of brutal detuned riffing, crunchy guitars roaring over blastbeats and weird groovy rock parts, massive sludgy breakdowns dropped in the middle of ferocious hyperblast speed assaults. The drumming is totally out of control, the guitarist spews all kinds of nutzoid shred and solos over their burly grind, but the vocalists are what make these guys sound really insane. There are two singers, one of whom does that ultra-deep, gutteral death metal cookie monster belch, muttering ridiculous lyrics about shit, but the other vocalist is the exact opposite, screaming in an impossibly high pitched squeal, utterly freaked out and hysterical. It's one of the most nut-decimating shrieks I've ever heard a grind band use, and the way that Bathtub Shitter have the two singers trade off vocals with each other is fuckin brilliant. There are some other weird parts that the band throws in, especially on the title track with it's drugged mix of crushing grind and tape-delay vocal weirdness. Think Napalm Death, Pig Destroyer, SOB, that sort of brutal, meaty grindcore blasted with shit-obsessed Japanese insanity - awesome!