Filth, foulest stench fuelled pornographically enhanced necro filth! That’s what we have here from these sick Germans and not only that but they have gone and delivered it on old-school cassette too. Somehow it seems all the more apt getting it this way, it is the same as getting your hands on deviant films; they always seemed so much grimmer, grimier and precious on video tape than they did on DVD. Most of the naked, gimp masked, inverted cross, cunt and dick art that is displayed on the tape is not suitable in the slightest for a family publication like ours (ha who am I trying to kid) but I think I can just about get away with the cover image. These schweins have in the past released one album ‘The Dirty Arts’ in 2011 and various other bits and bobs and it is the latter of these that make up this cumpilation gathering together ‘Demonatrixxx Butchery Cult’ (2010), Hinterland (2011), Silvia, Saint Of Hell (2012) and Sex Blood Darkness (2012).
The wretched trio here no doubt hang around in the sex dungeons and scat clubs of Germany when they are not making music and this has an all pervading air of grottiness about it. Thick and cloying riffs take us into first demo and open the ‘Cunt Of Christ’ in a welter of pummelling bruise inducing drums and whipping guitar riffs, vocals gurgle rancid and wretchedly like a sadist plying their art. It seems almost natural that once this black thrashathon is dealt out the band pay praise to filthmeister supreme GG Allin and take things to even more taboo extremes and ‘Fuck The Dead.’ It’s an admirable cover but then again everything respewed from Allin’s vaults seems to hit the mark. Punk till ya puke and choke on em! Ambience, screams and grim speech allow atmosphere to ooze and you can almost smell the dank, dark torture vaults it sounds like it has been recorded in. If anyone remembers German 80’s nuclear thrash act Violent Force the butchery cult concludes with a clattering cover of their venomous ‘Under The Sign Of Evil’ The Hinterland EP has a muddier and bass heavy sound and is quite rank, with ‘Sex, Blood Darkness’ sounding like some beastly, primitive S American Sarcofago worship ugh! It’s got to be said the ambient parts between tracks really are a good idea and they add to the pervading perversions of the main music really well.
Skipping ahead to the B side and more recent stuff, (ass)uming you know who Silvia Saint is her tribute tracks start with some much better sounding electronic parts with orgasmic moaning to get you in the mood before the rasp heavy punk laden slew of sound is spunked out in a gnarly abusing fashion. It’s hardly subtle stuff or well played particularly but does it need to be, this is one take snuff stuff. The final demo actually features a couple of the previously heard numbers re-recorded along with the charmingly entitled ‘Fucked And Butchered.’ By now you should have got the idea but there is a better quality to this and the vokills sound more beastly, violent and dangerous and the band more enthusiastic.
Mother Of Worms have a sound that is just perfect if you want to wallow in filth for half an hour and think vile deviant thoughts. Without the atmospheric parts it would have probably been a bit too depraved a listen but then again these are demo quality recordings on cassette and the mix matches the achieved goal well. I dread to think what their shows if they play are like but as The Reeperbahn has been relatively cleaned up I’m not sure if there is even anywhere they could smear their shit on a stage. Looks like they only have 14 Facebook likes at the moment; check them out and if you are mad enough join them!
(6/10 Pete Woods)
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