Man, you can blame this all on Digby. Even though Earache Records brief flirtations with hardcore techno like Ultraviolence in the 1990's was almost universally scorned by the underground death/grind community, you know there had to be a small cadre of blastheads that actually got into the rave stuff via Earache and made the connection that the label was trying to point out between the hardest techno/gabber/speedcore stuff and extreme metal. And I've been seeing it over the past decade and a half, bands that incorporate jungle and techno and gabber into their grind, or have the occasional remix...and then there are the actual breakcore artists who incorporate extreme metal into their sound, like Bong-Ra and Drumcorps, creating a whole new hybrid of blasting, grinding breakcore. For a small number of us extreme music fans (and, um, the entire Czech grindcore scene), theres a lot of common ground here to be explored between blastbeats and brutal breaks. One of the weirdest techno/grind mutations that I have ever heard, though, is the disgustingly monikered Womb Goo Gai Pan. I just picked up the debut disc from this project after hearing a couple of tracks on their myspace page, and its an incredibly fucked up fusion of old school techno, breakcore, crushing industrial rhythms, and impossibly low pitchshifted gore-gurgles. Thunderous breakbeats and hammering four-on-the-floor rhythms meet hypersonic blastbeats and throbbing squelchy synths, evil synth hooks and deep basslines, like a cross between Godflesh and some heavy dark techno, but with nauseating bowel-melting vocal sounds that sound like Chris Barnes from Cannibal Corpse having his vocals turned into a gurgling drone. Seriously weird and funky and heavy as fuck. I've been going on about how Last House On The Right is ground zero for the absolute weirdest, most "out" goregrind, and with the new Soldered Poon, Gored, S.M.E.S. and this, the label has cemented their position as the home of total freako experimental goregrind. In addition, the packaging for this features freaky grossout/psychedelic artwork, weird text from the mutoids behind Womb Goo Gai Pan that poetically pays homage to the vag, and one of the craziest, most intricate and ingenious goregrind logos I've ever seen... recommended to open minded goregrind freaks, and fans of casio grinders S.M.E.S., digi-vomit beasts Libido Airbag, Microphallus and Purulent Wormjizz, and the goregroove of Soldered Poon. Without question, my favorite splatter-industrial-techno album of 2008.