Golem of Gore plunges into horror.
After numerous releases, Riki (vocals, Grumo), Marco (guitar/vocals, Grumo, Logic Of Denial), Bonne (bass/vocals) and Dave (drums) sign to Everlasting Spew Records and unveil their second album: Ultimo Mondo Cane.
Described as their most morbid and unrestrained work to date, the quartet pay homage to GoreGrind legends such as Last Days Of Humanity and Regurgitate, and on these eighteen tracks (including an intro, an interlude and an outro) deliver an indecent number of cavernous vociferations and blasts. The band show no mercy and plan to make no compromises when they strike, allowing us to breathe only during the samples borrowed from gore cinema that intersperse the waves of brutality where growls and pig squeal mingle with the unbridled sonic molasses. There are occasional oppressive slowdowns on tracks such as L’isola maledetta – Immersed In A Formaldehyde Coffin, but the tempo generally remains fairly high, in keeping with the band’s supercharged approach and aggressive roots, which only become dissonant on the interlude La Montagna della Dea Cannibale. The second half of the album also maintains the same furious, permanent approach to aural grease and horror, with a majority of frantic moments, but also a few moments of heaviness and slowness that finally run out of steam with the final sample of the outro, Senza Uscita – Worse Than Reality, ending half an hour of carnage.
Golem of Gore didn’t invent GoreGrind, but it magnifies it with Ultimo Mondo Cane, an as greasy and agonizing as violent project. Don’t expect to come away from their concerts unscathed…
90/100