siLLy puPPy Yet another band that caught my attention merely because of its ridiculously long name. This band is actually known as Acidic Vaginal Liquid Explosion Generated by Mass Amounts of Filthy Fecal Fisting and Sadistic Septic Syphilic Sodomy Inside the Infected Maggot Infested Womb of a Molested Nun Dying Under the Roof of a Burning Church While a Priest Watches and Ejaculates In Immense Perverse Pleasure Over His First Fresh Fetus but simply goes by XAVLEGBMAOFFFASSSSITIMIWOAMNDUTROABCWAPWAEIIPPO for short. They released their debut EP in 2016 and its titled GORE and they come from Durban, South Africa.

GORE is a short but brutally sweet 12 minute EP of headache music that mixes slam death metal and deathgrind with good old fashioned grindcore with some melodic death metal touches here and there. This is chaotic, heavy and unrelenting punk infused energy with heavily distorted guitars and bass, blastbeat drum aggression and snarling shouted vocals with a touch of pig squealing. The unrelenting pace is fast and in yer face. Surprisingly the four tracks stand out a bit and some of it reminds me of the Japanese zeuhl metal band Ruins with the noise rock type constructs. Despite a somewhat more diverse palette than more grind type acts, ultimately this one comes off as fairly average in its delivery but a worthy delivery of concentrated aggressive metal outbursts. Not bad but not memorable either.

Satisfying if you want brief spastic pyroclastic flows of metal bombast in full decibalage but not very satisfying if you seek thoughtful constructs of compositional brilliance. Beyond grindcore 101 but not quite 2.0 either. I have no idea where the silly ass name came from. This is basically a less than serious side project of Duncan Bentley (vocals) of Vulvodynia. Other noisemakers include Kris Xenopoulos and Lord Necrotic Gore Bong. LOL