GRIND YOUR PANTS OFF!

Well dood's... It's about time... Please don't mind if this grinds from behind. (in the immortal words of Graham... RIP)

This mixxer is gonna grind yo'****in pants off...

If you know what grindcore is, you'll love this... If you don't, grip it up anyways and have a good laugh. Don't miss out though it's got some fun stuff on it...

To some, it might be missing some crucial tracks, but next time, I swear. This is what I thought to be a good cross section of what grindcore has to offer.
It's fast, distorted, and full of growling.

Grip it up, GET INTO IT...


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Lizzy Borden

Lizzy Borden

Visual Lies (1987)

Metal Blade Records

Rating: 3 1/2 out of 4 Pentagrams

Reviewed by: Jeff Deth 

There are a handful of bands from the 80’s Sunset Strip era that have aged well over time and still remain relevant amongst the metal scene today. Lizzy Borden emerged in the mid-eighties during a second wave of Hollywood Glam bands following in the footsteps of WASP and Motley Crue. While other followers simply cashed in on the success of the glam ballad, Borden offered a darker and more respectable take on things. Although they were featured in The Decline of Western Civilization II next to Poison and other embarrassing LA posers, Lizzy and crew actually had something other to say besides “fuck groupies and party!!”

Visual Lies, released in 1987, contains all the most endearing elements of the 80’s metal sound and none of the god-awful cheesiness. The musicianship and songwriting is excellent throughout. There’s no throw away songs there to pad a couple of radio hits. I don’t know if Borden ever aspired for hit single success. With this record it defiantly feels like a cohesive statement with all the songs relatively equal in quality.

Lyrically, Visual Lies hits on different themes like obsession, alienation and deception. The concepts are painted with such a broad stroke as to leave a lot of room for interpretation. Everything is a hint, a suggestion. The album left me with a feeling of mystery. Lizzy himself has a special vocal quality that is haunting without being menacing. So while the songs are very upbeat and harmonious, an undertone of evil permeates throughout.

On first listen, the sound was very familiar but more perfected. The quintessential LA shine and glimmer. Lizzy just did it better than most everyone else.

Gene Allen and J. Holmes are pitch-perfect with their guitar work. The solos have their own distinct Lizzy feel to them that even carries into the work different guitarists are doing in the band today.

I prefer things that are more aggressive and fast, so my favorite track is “Den of Thieves” off side one. The energy is at it’s highest point, the tempo blistering. On the other hand the album has peeks and valleys in which slower songs are able to take you to different places along the way. All the songs have their own emotional quality that creates a mental cascade of imagery. This is their best record of their classic line-up and would be a great introduction to the band.

I would say that if you appreciate great 80’s guitar metal but want more in terms of a cerebral experience, Lizzy Borden is your band.

TREATS! 4 of them!

This is all the releases of one of my favorite bands, if not my favorite band. This band started by making early Japanese hardcore with crust influences, known mostly as what a band called "Gloom" coined "Crasher Crust". I always loved that term so I always used it to describe those kind of bands, and I know most music people would scoff at that term or call it not a real genre... But this is my post, so it is the truth as I say it. This band for some reason has always made me tingle in the sense I was always blown away by them from their roots to their most recent endeavors. This is a band that truly evolved over time and each release reflected the scene they were in. From their first releases and split with Agothocles being heavily influenced by fastcore / PV & hardcore to their next release "ego and desire", there is a huge leap into more apocalyptic hardcore, that leads into "Why do you live" which is an epic crust masterpiece. Shikabane is one of those bands... Just epic as **** even in their crasher releases.

Shikabane translates into "Corpse".

Here it is... GET INTO IT...

Shikabane - s/t
Split
Ego and Desire
Why do you live?

Plum Mixxer... OVERTIME MODE....

Well dood's I have been working like what, making money like its already spent... Making enemies and acquantainces... Cross dept drama and bullshit like no other but... There was one cool dude, who rose from the shit to make a good impression... The Pizza guy, always the fucking hero, the noble pizza guy! Me and Jeff Deth were both pizza guys for long periods of time and this dude is real chill. He is even in a band (most pizza guys are), and a hardcore one to boot, so hats off to you pizza guy!

Well this Mixxer is for you good sir, a classy gent in a sea of dickbags. Stay golden.

I don't really remember what I put on here... But I am sure it's pretty sweet, I don't listen to bad music...


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Well kittens tomorrow I am gonna give yall peeps a treat stay tuned...

butcher Cassidy peacin out to play some neo geo...

Uncle Sam

Uncle Sam (1997)

Directed by: William Lusting

Rating: 1½ out of 4 Pentagrams

Reviewed by: Jeff Deth 

William Lusting really disappointed me with this one. Having directed two films I really loved, Maniac and Maniac Cop, I had some hope for Uncle Sam.  That being said I’ve left it on the shelf for a number of years because deep down I knew it wasn’t going to be good.  The time finally came when I had to be sure, just in case. Well, now I’m sure.

I don’t even know how it went wrong. the script isn’t good for starters. Larry Cohen wrote it and he has a solid reputation having directed some good films himself such as It’s Alive. The premise itself of a disfigured Iraq war vet returning home for more killing has a lot of promise. They could have made the killer really campy and fun. I guess they tried but it doesn’t work for me.  I was left wanting much more.

The other thing is, if you can’t get the story right at least put some effort behind the special effects. Well, they failed in that regard too. The effects suck for the most part. I thought the make-up job on Sam himself was good, it’s the kill scenes that get the shaft. I don’t know if they didn’t have the budget or what but they basically cut away on every kill. If they only made the kills more graphic and outrageous this would have been more worthwhile. I mean after all this is from the guy who gave us Maniac, one of the most brutal and graphic slasher flicks ever.

It feels like Lusting forgot himself making this movie. The political satire that should have been inherent given the theme falls flat. Everything feels fake. All the acting is terrible with the exception of Isaac Hayes who is the only character who is at all interesting to watch. It seemed as if he understood the camp quality potential and no one else did. And for that you have to blame the director because it’s his job to control the performances given.

I was on-board for about the first 20 minutes while I could feel some level of build up taking place. Uncle Sam’s dead body returns home to his abused wife and sister along with the nephew who wants to grow up to become him. Things seemed to be in the right place. Unfortunately, everything falls apart the moment Uncle Sam re-animates without explanation after days of lying dead in a casket. There’s this weird shift in mood where everything just feels wrong. The kills are supposed to be motivated but they all seem random. He just wanders around the town and “wrecks havoc” during the Fourth of July festivities.

There where too many missed opportunities and bad decisions all adding up to a movie that fails to have either scare value or camp value.  It’s been over 10 years since Uncle Sam thudded on the ground and we haven’t heard from Lusting since. What a disappointment that he has yet to redeem himself. Because hey, every great horror director has made a total POS. But what preserves their career and place in horror history is they usually fire back with something good again. In the end the balance sheet is more to the good than bad. Lusting has made so few movies that his place in history is hard to gauge. He has made the two aforementioned classics, two debatable sequels to one of those classics, three action type movies and this forgettable trash. His average is somewhere in the middle I suppose evaluating only his horror work. And I hate to say that because I really enjoyed the early stuff. See this only to know what could have been.

Midas Touch

Midas Touch

Presage of Disaster (1989)

Noise Records

Rating: 2.75 out of 4 Pentagrams 

Reviewed by: Jeff Deth

Midas Touch were a very short-lived Swedish thrash band, baring a strong resemblance to many of the German Thrashers of the late 80’s era. I found this cassette on a dollar rack at the Record Collector amongst a treasure chest of other hard to find thrash albums. Given the dirt-cheap cost I grabbed it based on the Noise Records logo alone.  Also, the record cover art gave me a good impression, their logo spoke to me and said, “hey! We’re a thrash band, look at my sharp edges!”

Presage of Disaster shows a lot of promise. the technical playing as well as the interesting lyrical content set Midas Touch up firmly next to bands like Nuclear Assault and Destruction. The album has a good flow of peaks and valleys. like all thrash bands they keep the pace mostly very aggressive and heavy but some of favorite moments where the quite intros or breakdowns.

The vocal style is acceptable but not unique. There actually seems to be a bit of a punk influence in certain parts. The political lyricism is also especially punk tinged dealing with war, religion and censorship. This album is defiantly a time capsule of what was going on in metal 87-90 and if you’re already a fan of these types of bands you won’t find anything disagreeable here. At the same time there’s nothing that is extremely memorable either. 

All in all it’s a nice addition for someone looking to expand his or her thrash-metal collection. For the average or temperate fan this is certainly not a must have masterpiece, definitive of the style. Rather it’s a technically solid debut record by some young musicians at the time trying to break into a fairly established metal scene at that point. And this was Sweden before “Swedish Death-Metal”. Midas Touch remains relatively unknown being that this was their only release. Had they stayed together, toured more and recorded a few more albums they could have had more success. But for most people there really is only so much room on the shelf. But for me, I’ll continue to stack’em to the ceiling till I’m dead.

Street Trash

Street Trash (1987)
Directed by: Jim Muro
Rating: 2.75 out of 4 Pentagrams
Reviewed by: Jeff Deth

Oh my God. Dear Lord. How do I describe this film? I can’t even begin to classify this. What I can tell you is that Street Trash has almost every form of depravity I can think of. Muro and crew obviously set out to make something within the horror/comedy genre that closely resembles a Tromaville production. The fact that Troma had nothing to do with the making of this amazes me.

Quite simply, if you enjoy schlocky bloodbaths like Class of Nuke’m High and The Toxic Avenger, you’ll certainly love this. If you don’t veer in that direction, I can’t possibly see what there is to enjoy otherwise. Horrible acting, totally nonsensical plot development,
repeated offenses against humanity, etc.

But if you’re like me, you will excuse it all given the pure entertainment value of it all. Actually, enjoying this film makes me realize what a sick fuck I must be. The average movie-watching citizen would watch this film and scream in agony. Me? I’m laughing my ass off 70 out of 90 minutes. I’m sick, that’s what I am. And so were the people involved with making this slab of filth.

As I said, the “plot” is pretty incoherent. The main premise is supposed to be about a 60-year-old case of liquor pints that make people melt and/or explode upon ingesting. That basic idea is fine and from a horror stand point it provides the only real horrific scenes to justifiably label it that way at all. Aside from that, the movie documents the pathetic comings and goings of drunken, derelict bums each covered by a literal sheet of dirt and scum. The local liquor shop begins selling off the discovered “Viper” booze at liquidation price, setting off a chain of bum deaths.

A painfully overacted role of tough guy cop is introduced to investigate. There’s all these bizarre human relationship subplots taking place amongst the bums centered around their dwellings of the scrap heap junkyard. There’s a crazy Nam-vet that is either having flashbacks about killing people or he is actually killing people in the present. Mostly other bums in the junkyard. Somewhere along the line a Gangster/Nightclub owner gets involved. Then there’s the owner of the yard and his Asian assistant who tries to aid the bums living on the premise. It’s all a little much when you just want to see people melt. How they shoehorn in romantic interests amazes me. You feel so f’n filthy watching this, the last thing you want people to do is get it on. But they do by God. The intent of this film is to offend and disgust and it does not fail.

Anyway, there’s a couple great melting deaths on the front end that catch your attention but unfortunately this is followed by a 45-minute dry spell where the ridiculous “character building” develops. I was close to giving up when the kills start rolling in again to give quite a strong finish. The drunks get thirsty and vengeful and the melting gets serious. I loved the way they introduced a rainbow of colors to ooze out of the Viper victims instead of blood and guts alone. The F/X crew is the hero that makes this all worthwhile. Created on a shoestring budget and not entirely perfect, the make-up is very cool to watch. Watch this one drunk or sober, preferably in a crowd for maximum laughs.

Hats off for pushing the gore to the limit in addition to the hilarity of exploiting crazed, drunken, Nam-vet Street Trash!

THE HORROR....

Butcher Cassidy here... Telling you a tale of great WTF... I am currently listening to "Besk" and it is good, and maybe some "Artimus Pyle" I dunno, I need cheering up kids... My beloved 360 red ringed... So... I buy a new one... Here is what it was missing

One 60 gig Hard Drive (bro... seriously bro...)
One Controller (lol...)
Booklets (wtf ever)
Headset (cool whatev... Don't wanna hear a 13 year use the N word anyways)

So... Refund is in works and no more from this site... I am now listening to "Disfear"... Well monday I will have a new 360 I hope... One that works, and can play vs 13 year old white suburban racist homophobes....

Carver

Carver (2008)

Directed by Franklin Guerrero Jr.

Rating: 3.25 out of 4 Pentagrams

Reviewed by: Jeff Deth 

The DVD packaging on this film promises some serious brutality and gruesomeness and for once they are telling the truth. I found this film to be truly enjoyable to watch for a few reasons. One, the kills are awesomely over the top and two, the killer is actually scary looking. I mean I can’t picture that fat retarded backwoods hillbilly to be anything other than a psycho-twisted killing machine.

The size of the SOB really plays well in scenes where you can sympathize with how dominating he would be if squared against him. Especially with the woman. It’s all a cat and mouse game of torture and mutation.

Ah, but let’s talk plot. The first half of Carver is your typical stock-in-trade slasher premise. A group of college kids heads out to the wood… there’s a family of psychotic butchers living in a dilapidated shack filled with 16mm torture-porn snuff films… invariably the two come to meet.

The acting is believable enough for the most part. The important factor is that they seemed truly terrified when they come face to face with the demented killer.

Stylistically the director and cinematographer did a good job with dirtying up the look to create a gritty atmosphere. Obviously, Texas Chainsaw was a major influence. Tons of movies have tried to be like TCSM but they never seem to build the intensity that classic is famous for. They seldom come off as genuine either.

The difference with Carver is that they really used that classic model and were able to take it into their own realm. The idea of having the killer family double as snuff filmmakers was a nice touch. That kind of raw realism is what Chainsaw was capturing in the first place.

At the end of the day this is just a slasher movie. But it’s one of the better ones in a sea of mediocrity. Sure there are flaws and predictable moments but its easily overlooked considering the level at which the envelope is pushed, violence wise. The box art mentions a scene in particular that I for one was shocked by. Overall the filmmakers set themselves apart from other Hollywood types by being ruthless toward the characters in favor of the killer. There was very little mercy shown which was quite satisfying.

I was impressed by the effort put into the kills and apparent reverence they showed the genre. I felt like they actually cared about entertaining me the viewer and where willing to pull out some extra stops to surprise someone who’s seen a thousand of these things.

I actually felt an emotion when the credits came up. Kind of sick, kind of dirty. An impression was defiantly made and that’s much more than I can say for most straight-to-DVD horror that’s made nowadays.

I love D-beat... And most Mexicans...

What up bro-snakes!? Hey I got a new mixxer because I know you are all about looking at this **** and getting deez mixxers.

D-Beat is good. It's a subgenre of punk modeled after the band "Discharge" and there are alot of "dis" bands playing similar hardcore with it's signature drumming style. Such bands are usually called "disclone" bands and usually kind of tied to crust punk as well, with typical apocolyptic lyrics, DIY ethics, and typical behaviors. D-beat has really evolved from stuff like "Anti-Cimex" to "Disyziit" and some modern bands playing the old-school variety like "Bullet Frenzy" and "Disneyland"... Then the more crusty **** like "Aghast" and "Depressor"... Who was the first to play D-beat? Some say State of Fear, some say otherwise but much like the center of the tootsie-pop, we will let you decide.

I will edit this for errors I have a huge migraine and can't think straight right now... I love you all and download this, GET INTO IT...


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I don't give a **** if this is something that would get me made fun of... I love this ****... **** you...

MAXIMUM The Hormone!

My rating - 9 soiled panties out of 10 soiled panties... (They were bought from a vending machine.)

Country of Origin - Japan (obviously)---->
How I found them - DEATHNOTE into & outro
Genre - Nu-Metal mixed with everything else... yep... Butcher Cassidy just admitted to listening to Nu-Metal... This is good ****...

Tracks
01- Buikikaesu (this is a killer song... Love it)
02- Zetsoubu Billy (outro for season 2 of DEATHNOTE, plus a mix of like six genres)
03- Kuso breakin no breakin lilly
04- Louisianna bob
05- Policeman benz
06- Black Power G man spy
07- Akagi
08- Kyokatsu
09- Bakini Sports Ponchin
10- Whats up, People!? (Intro to season 2 of DEATHNOTE)
11- Chu Chu Lovely Muni Muni Mura Mura Purin Purin Boron Nururu Rero Rero (wtf... seriously... wtf....)
12- Shimi
13- Koi no mega lover
14- Super BONUS track.

If you don't like this, thats fine... I love it... It makes me feel like getting a notebook and writing your name in it... Are you prone to heart attacks? Will that be suspicious? Suicidal? Well I will write something special for you...

Disclaimer - Butcher Cassidy "is not" in possession of a shinigami's ledger...

Seriously, grip this up... It's FUN music, very fun music. Try it you might like it.


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GHOUL! SPLATTER THRASH!

Ghoul is one of those bands, they just slay. Every track will make you wanna headbutt your microwave. Seriously great band... Enough **** riding....

Ghoul is all about what this blog is all about, bad movies and great metal. They are a burlap sack wearing, machete swinging troupe of undead metal heads. You cannot get any better than this for metal, even if they started as a joke band.

The guitars are killer, the vocals are brutal, and a live show by these guys is an experience any horror buff or metal head should partake in. The lyrics are great and a huge tribute to all things horror.

NOW... I would never straight up condone grippin this up, and you better buy some merch from theses guys. I am putting this album up under this statement....

Bands like this... SHOULD BE SUPPORTED... Get this listen to it, and buy a copy or some shirt or whatever... Bands like this exist for your entertainment, but... SUPPORT THEM... Go see them, get into it..

This band has mysterious members and some claim they know, but no one will truly know where these freaks came from. It's kinda well known but... I like the whole mystery...
Here is a cool pic of the crazy doods...


Here is the album -----> SPLATTERTHRASH

Get Thrashed

Get Thrashed: The Story of Thrash Metal

Directed by: Rick Ernst

Rating: 4 out of 4 Pentagrams 

 Reviewed by: Jeff Deth

All of our thrash prayers have been answered in the form of this incredible documentary. With appetites being only faintly wet from Metal: A Headbangers Journey, Get Thrashed gives a pinpoint focus on this one very important genre. This is no cursory overview of the thrash scene that only touches on the “Big 4”. Up until this point that’s the best that could be hoped for regarding any story-telling having to do with the history of metal. That’s finally been squashed here as Ernst has pulled out all the stops To deliver the absolute best film investigating the bands, places and time when thrash ruled the world.

The film is a linear story that begins during the early 80’s and takes us through the grunge era of the early 90’s.

Every major and most minor bands are covered to varying lengths. Obviously the Big 4 gets the most coverage due to their impact, popularity and longevity. That’s not a bad thing; no thrash documentary would be authoritative without them. What sets this film apart is the attention other pivotal bands like Exodus, Testament and suicidal Tendencies get.

All the significant geographical scenes get covered from the infamous Bay Area to New York, Germany and even South America. The coolest thing from a fan perspective is the boatload of rare footage and archival materials included. Ernst took many years to compile interviews from tons of bands and key players past and present.

Former Overkill drummer, Rat Skates contributed a great deal of material in addition to animating all the graphics for the film. This is clearly a film crafted and designed by die-hard fans. In another sense though, they let the bands themselves create the story by being the providers of information.

Both classic thrash bands as well as current bands influenced by them are represented. There’s a bunch of great stories and history that gets laid down. My only criticism would be that there are so many bands

To talk about that true justice to each one could not be done. I would have given more time to some and less than others but I gladly accept the end result regardless. 

The bonus disc answered any disappointment I had over obscure bands going unmentioned. Just about every band I’ve ever heard of or own a record by gets their props via the extras.

As far as the DVD package, it couldn’t be much better. Not only do we get a 100-minute documentary, the bonus disc provides about another 90 minutes of bonus footage.

Overall this is a must own for general metal enthusiasts as well as the hardcore thrashers.

Hell of the Living Dead

Hell of the Living Dead (1980)

Directed by: Bruno Mattei

2 1/2 Pentagrams out of 4

Reviewed by: Jeff Deth

This film opened me up to the world of the Italian rip-off. Apparently certain producers and directors there take successful American films and head right into the studio to start filming their own version of it. (With probably a quarter of the budget.)

Previously I had associated Italian horror with masters like Lucio Fulci, Dario Argento and Lamberto Bava. This was my first experience with director Bruno Mattei, who I’ve come to learn, made a whole career out of copying other people’s work.

Hell of the living Dead follows Dawn of the Dead and Cannibal Holocaust by only a year. Everything about this film wants to be like those two classics but instead turned out as a fringe second-rater.

Mattei specialized in exploitation films in all possible sub-genres from Nazi themes, to chicks in prison. Mattei handles this zombie treatment decently I suppose. Although his success is limited in his ability to mimic material from others. The zombies are the same mindless slow-motion moaners you’ll get from any of the early Romero films. There is really no original spin on the creatures or in the way he has put a story together based on them.

The movie soup starts with some kind of chemical plant outbreak that spreads into the jungles of New Guinea. The story follows a group of… I don’t know, mercenaries or something trying to track down the spread of the virus. These tough guys dressed in blue janitor suits bump into a chick reporter and camera dude and they all end up caravanning together, getting their flesh torn apart.

The best zombie films not made my Romero all brought something new and unique to the table. Something unexpected. I’m thinking of The Evil Dead, Dead Alive, Dance of the Dead, 28 Days Later, Re-animator, etc.

This film however wants to be nothing more than an Italian Dawn of the Dead. A straight-up cash in. They even stole the music originally scored for Dawn by the band Goblin. In watching interviews with Mattei he seems pretty shameless in all this. He even freely admits to padding his work with documentary footage from other movies.

Another thing is, I can’t be 100% sure of the quality of the acting when I watch a foreign film. Especially going the route of the overdub. If the lines delivered from the translation are accurate, we’re dealing with some rotten ham. judging from the facial expressions, the actors don’t always realize it. Or they pretend not to.

After all this being said I still say this is worth a watch. If you’ve already worked your way through all the majors of this genre, why not. Unless you want to go back and watch Dawn for the 50^th time. But I guess that’s kinda what this is after all.

They did their best at goring it up with a very minimal special effects budget. It’s not anywhere near Tom Savini, but I still give them credit for attempting it. There’s plenty of ripping flesh off the bone and exploding heads.

If there’s one thing Mattei seems to relish, it’s violence. In this category, he holds no punches.

For what it’s worth, it’s a decent little zombie flick. Just don’t expect anything other than that and you won’t be too disappointed. Ah, well, at any rate you’ll get to cross off another title from the never-ending list of zombie horror films.

NOISE not MUSIC

This Mixxer is all about being as noisy as humanly possible... Well most of it... It's just a bunch of stuff most people would find abbrasive, but if you like the metal punx stuff, you might like this... I am sorry I could not find my "Dust Noise" album or that would totally be on here... Or even some noisy stuff like "Hermit Prose" or "GAI" or "Abraham Cross"... Look into those name drops and download this new Mixxer.... Got some goodins on it.

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Butcher Cassidy - Peacing out to play some Battlefield - BC...