A while back, I stumbled across a subterranean art phenomenon called EroGuro online that blew my doors off. Sort of a loosely-defined movement of macabre

manga infected with deviant sexual overtones, the "Guro" material that I checked out through a couple of fansites was some of the most extreme, boundary-

pushing art I have ever seen. Definitely nothing that timid mainstream anime fans would want to witness, that's for sure. The loose translation of the term

"EroGuro" is "erotic grotesque nonsense", but that doesn't even begin to describe the atrocities that are documented in these stories and illustrations:

extreme surrealistic sexualized body-destruction, disfiguration, beyond-extreme levels of splatter and gore. Rough, rough stuff, but perversely fascinating,

if you have the iron stomach required to explore far out material like this. Enter Japanese duo BASKET OF DEATH, whose new Origami Jigoku disc is a

demonic, avant-grind descent into the filthy, gore-caked underworld of "EroGuro" depravity. Musically, the 14 tracks on show here blend together ridiculously

fast and damaged drum machine grind with psychedelic Japanese electronic noise, jackhammer industrial rhythms and scum-encrusted gabba beats,

disgusting, horrifying samples, crunching sounds of something being eaten, and foul sludgy grooves surfacing in the muck. Imagine the audio

equivalent to the Guinea Pig series of underground gore-surrealism film, a gross hybrid of DISGORGE/CATASEXUAL URGE MOTIVATION gore grind, way-

fucked drugged deathmetal riffing, DISSECTING TABLE style noise industrial, MASONNA/CCCC/ASTROMERO psych troniks, extreme Japanese splatter pornography,

almost BLACK MAYONNAISE-esque fungoid doom crawls, and berserk blasts of gabber/speedcore, all mushed together into a gross, burbling, gorey stew of chopped

up limbs and bondage rope and technicolor fluids. Intensely disturbing, absurd, sense blasting psychedelic filth, and definitely NOT for casual

grindcore fans. Most of these tracks were actually originally released on an out-of-print CD-R by a tiny gore/noisecore label, and are exhumed here along

with 2 additonal tracks. Then there's the booklet, which not only has several seriously disturbing illsutrations and way WAY over-the-top gore

lyrics, but also includes a surprisingly extensive glossary list of Japanese terms to aid you in decoding the lyrics. We seriously have to warn you: this is

about as extreme, evil, offensive, appaling, and disturbing as it gets, albeit in total cartoony, gore metal manner. Over 18 only!