This disc combines the complete recordings of the Italian band Thanatologist, an early 90's goregrind band who played a style of blasting death spew comparable to Carcass, and the band that rose out of the ashes of Thanatologist around 2004, Entropic Degrade Behind Phylogeny, who took their goregrind influences into noisier, industrial territory. Not too surprising when you realize that one of the members of Thanatologist/Entropic Degrade is also in the harsh noise/industrial duo Splinter Vs Stalin...

The Thanatologist tracks appear on the second half of the disc, four tracks that had originally been recorded for a 7" release in the mid-90's but which ended up shelved after the label that was supposed to release it ended up disappearing. These are the only recorded tracks from the band aside from a demo, all pure Carcass worship, heavily influenced by Reek Of Putrefaction but rising above the hordes of Carcass-clones with some genuinely killer riffs and songs, the guitars vomiting squealing noisy leads all over the guttural screams and blasting drums; "Embryopathical Alteration (Clinical and Sarcastic)", the last song on here, is my favorite of the bunch...a rocking, super catchy blast of groovy goregrind mayhem that blends that Reek-era Carcass worship with their weird guitar noises.

But it's the weirdly named Entropic Degrade Behind Phylogeny that's the real freak show here. You've got one of the main guys from Blut Aus Nord here, and several of the members of Thanatologist formed this group after the demise of their previous band, and although Entropic Degrade... also comes from a goregrind influenced sound, the mutant grind that they created is much weirder than anything they had done before. An industrialized goregrind, maybe, especially the very first track "Maternal", which sounds like the rhythmic blast of a pneumatic press behind cacophonic chunks of gore-soaked blastnoise, crushing clipped guitars and distant detonations and weird electronic noises mixed with over modulated bass lines and evil vocoder spoken word vocals, totally bizarre and EVIL, like Carcass crossed with Neubauten. That track is fucking amazing. The next thirteen tracks are more straightforward chaotic death/grind, but it's still pretty twisted, the chaotic, blasting grindfrenzy filled with blown-out bass, howling, screeching vokills, messy blasting drums, ringing snare blasts and weird effects and noises, the riffs all angular and convoluted, the death vomit vokills heavily processed with electronic effects. Reminds me a bit of Gore Beyond Necropsy, and anyone into weirdo goregrind like GBN and the Czech death/grind scene should check these guys out.

The disc comes in a beautiful full color digipack featuring the bizarre, surreal doodle artwork of singer Lorenzo Ariono, and includes a booklet with complete lyrics.