Pumpkin Faces in the Night: Mixtape Curated by Ryan Page

A bit late, but damn well worth it, Ryan Page, mastermind behind body horror electro grind entity Body Hammer and the remorseless Robocop was kind enough to make a special mixtape for you loyal readers in the spirit of Halloween. He's even gone ahead and included some fitting summaries.

I approached Ryan thinking "who could be more perfect than a guy who names his bands after a Japanese body horror film and makes intriguingly frightening grindcore?" Can't thank Ryan enough, so please check out all his doings and projects.

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1. Goblin - "Buio Omega"  
Aristide Massesseci making me wanna vom, while Goblin plays disco or something…

2. Dead Neanderthals - "The Stake"  
Jesus Franko club scene on crank. That or my laserdisc player is malfunctioning.

3. Gnaw Their Tongues - "White Skin"  
Mrs. Hartevelt, I must insist.

4. The Conet Project - "The Lincolnshire Poacher" 
Lincolnshire: 39715

5. Brainbombs - "Die You Fuck" 
"Now I know why they call you Dirty Harry"

6. Dr. Dooom - "Apartment 223"  
Tenement: Game of survival remade in a McDonald's Play Place.

7. Black Sabbath - "Disturbing the Priest" 
The Entity with Barbara Hershey's role taken over by Bruce Campell at the last minute

8. Electric Wizard - "The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue" 
Scary because I like something off of 'We Live!'

9. Bathory - "Call from the Grave" 
Recorded inside of the coffin below that tombstone knocked over in Plan 9.

10. Cathedral - "Night of The Seagulls" 
Blind Dead get off the bikini model boat and take over where the Deep Ones left off.

11. G.I.S.M - "Nih Nightmare" 
Recently discovered sequel to Burst City contains way more balaclavas.

12. Butthole Surfers - "Strangers Die Everyday" 
The Mack driving down International listening to the distant gunshots and quietly playing 'Don't Fear the Reaper'

13. Death in June and Boyd Rice - "You Love the Sun and the Moon"

14. Death in June - "No Pig Day" 
Only Van Morrison's 'Ringworm' compares.

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15. Dishammer - "Sex Witch"
Sex scene... WITH A WITCH

16. Fabio Frizzi - "Un Gatto Nel Cervello - Sequence 12" 

"A Cat on The Brain: "The original script was 49 pages long and contained no dialogue. It consisted of descriptions of bodily mutilations/imagery and sound effects that would compliment them on screen." "DOCTOR FULCI!"

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Monomaniac Vol. 1

Back in the day, a day I probably don't have much business talking about, procuring music was more difficult and expensive; hence compilations provided a necessary role for those without buckets of money. Growing up I indulged in plenty of shitty compilation cds and would find one or two bands worth a damn and was thankful for that. A bit of nostalgia in that regard as Blastbeat Mailmurder's Monomaniac Vol 1 occupies an excellent niche in the grindcore world as it brings together many bands ready to burst into international acclaim (and all tracks exclusive to this comp).

Keeping with the comp's theme of roughly 1 minute offerings, I'll describe each track with one sentence.

Michigan grinders Cloud Rat start things off with "Finger Print;" a jam those Finns Rotten Sound wish they could pen.

Following up are 3 frantic, noisy and raw outbursts from Australian favorites thedowngoing (review for their latest athousandyearsofdarkness).

"Birthday Party" shows Detroit's strong suit in penning a 34 second grinder that's as elaborate and thick as you could get.

My first introduction to Sete Star Sept isn't pretty, nor is their brand of noiser than thou grind encapsulated by "Why not Intersect."

Body Hammer's "Dog Star Man" rounds off the noisy escapades with an awesomely haunting track that's 1 part grind and 2 parts evil souls lost at space.

Head Cleaner offer up the most metal approached grinder of the comp with "The Weapon of the Proletariat," which disappointingly lacks a bit of the muck the other bands include.

Diocletian's "Traitor's Gallow" is a welcomed change of pace as it ushers in one of two awesomely brutal and rough black metal tracks that incorporate an ugly breath of death metal.

The Howling Wind offer a strand of their subterranean and bizarre conjuration of black metal seen through grinder's eyes with "Bewilderment."

"Beneath the Emblems of Death" is the comp's other brutally ugly blacken death metal track courtesy of Sempiternal Dusk.

Things end on an unsettling, abstract, and alluring note revolving around noises and one noodley guitar line with This is Past's contribution "Catatonia."

A great comp showcasing bands from all over the globe that you should hear. I particularly like the combo of black metal bands with grindcore bands as it's always been a marriage I've advocated. I'm particularly fond of Body Hammer and Diocletian's contributions to this comp.