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GENERIC DEATH  Underground Is Dead  7" VINYL   (At War With False Noise)   7.98
Underground Is Dead IS CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE FOR ORDER

Here's another side project from Dopi, the drummer from Spanish death grinders Machetazo, doom metallers Deadmask and crustbeasts Dishammer. As Generic Death, he ventures solo (handling all of the vocals, drumming and bass guitar) into the realm of total noisecore, paying homage to the likes of Sore Throat, 7 Minutes of Nausea, Nikudorei, and Fear Of God with this 39-"song" 7' on At War With False Noise. Each side begins with a different harsh noise intro, blasts of corrosive guitar noise and wah-wah abuse mixed with sampled spoken word parts, then blasts into a series of nonstop blurr bursts, each fifteen second "song" disappearing in a cyclone-blast of hyper speed blast beat drums, formless low-end bass rumble, and vomitous gorilla roars. Those grindcore style vocals set this apart from alot of early noisescore worship, and along with the extremely succinct form the tracks take and the lack of anything resembling a guitar riff, this starts to feel like a missing link between between Napalm Death's Scum and Seven Minutes Of Nausea's Chavo, only, you know, recorded this year. The label also points towards the early noisecore of Cripple Bastards as another comparison, which makes sense to me. One thing that this record really has going for it is the recording - don't worry, this sounds like a fucking concrete mixer, but it's recorded loud, and has a really heavy quality, something that is all too often missing with this sort of stuff, which tend to gravitate towards really high, tinny mixes. This fuckin' will cave your skull in, on the other hand. I think that you'll love Generic Death if you're into old school noisecore, as Dopi packs in a LOT of blast and ear-terror on this little Ep. Released in a limited edition of two hundred and fity copies.