Ebolie - I like the old snuff better than the new snuff
Released: 2004
Cost:
$5

Tracklist:
1. Foetal Grindings
2. Worked Forced
3. Reinventing the Wizard Driven
4. Zombie Cunts
5. The Return to Chaos


 


Reviews

"Sydney band EBOLIE have been making audiences giggle, swill beer and get whiplash with their fun grindcore over the past few years, and are about to put out a full length CD on Grindhead Records, which is Bubsy from Ebolie's label.

This disc has two songs from that, and three bonus tracks, one of which was recorded on a Playstation by drummer Gene.
EBOLIE are good, in that the first impression you get of them, either seeing their CD cover (a picture of a girl, naked, with a rifle inside her...) or meeting them (they're hyperactive funny yob cunts) is of a goregrind band.

But then you put on the opening track, "Foetal Grindings" whose 40 second intro has mellow jazz drums opening a blanket of shiny guitaring and drums warming up with subtle china hits and swigning along the whole time. The explosion hits with relentless blastbeating, guttural dischordant grind with groovy breakdowns with a general funk and hardcore vocal. The stop-starting blasts make for excellent bridges into the sludgy moments where evil reigns supreme. Bubsy's vocals have gotten more brutal and can hit a lot of different notes, and the drumming is exceptionally fast. The twists and turns eventuate into a glitcy breakbeat scape with tribal Indian sounding singing for eight seconds. An epic, manic idea of where EBOLIE are heading with this album.

"Worked Forced" is the other track off the LP, and it's guitaring intro is very cold but huge in a black metal way, building up into a more muted thrash metal crossover grindcore with hyper short blasts working tight with the muddy, funky bass. A MR.BUNGLE sounding circus sample makes for an introduction into a tech-metal sounding part. The Mr.Bungle of Australian grindcore?

"Reinventing the Wizard Driven" is, I'm pretty sure, a pisstake of black metal, patch wearing cunts. It has a very fast, blasting drum machine and "you think you're wizard driven just because you wear a cape" opens up the thrashing, hilarious number. Bubsy sounds like he's being raped by satan and his eyes are being pecked out by a scarecrow. A charming number breaking the minute barrier.

"Zombie Cunts" is a very dark, deathmetal sounding track with heaps lowend vocals and guitar. 39 seconds.

The surprising track on this is "The Return to Chaos" a hardcore techno number. It's at about the right speed for good, driving hardcore, and it's sample, 'it'll take time to distort chaos' is good if a bit repetitive. Builds up well, and has a gabber-esque melodic line, and has some nice sounds in there.

Secret track is a 3 second sample of a man shitting profusely." -Screaming Bloody Mess Ezine