Undinism -  Born with an Erection
Released: 2001
Cost: $15

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Reviews

Undinism is without doubt one of the finest and fiercest grindcore bands ever to hail from Australia. They're vile and relentlessly violent. More characteristics are insane, hysterical vocals shrieked and screamed at the top of the lungs, killer grinding riffs (with a thrashing edge at times), crushing, heavy bass and one hell of a tight drumming: blistering speed and blasting fury all the way... The intensity here is quite reminiscent of early Napalm Death, slightly more chaotic and occasionally noisecore-oriented perhaps. This cd is an outstanding collection of Split 7" ep's, unreleased stuff and demos... The first 21 tracks come with a really sweet heavy sound production, the rest is cruder and rawer but the band is always tight as fuck. There's the live stuff fromthe split tape w/ Squash Bowels and this stuff is really amazing, vocals are so fucking harsh and insane it has to be heard to be believed... You can take a look at the outrageous song titles, and notice how the band is infamous for a reason. This cd is 70 tracks and nearly one hour of pure, maddening, hateful grindcore... A must-hear really!  -Braindead

The first 2 recordings sound excellent in terms of recording and production - you get blasting no-frills grind alternating with mid-paced catchy hooks, somewhere between early NAPALM DEATH and BRUTAL TRUTH, and bound to appeal to fans of VAGINAL CARNAGE, FILTH, and very early BLOOD DUSTER. Sometimes it comes across as very primitive and straight-forward stuff, but the songwriting is really good and they break it up a lot like some PHOBIA material, throwing in slower almost doom riffs on some tracks. Of course there's a lot of tracks under 10 seconds too, as you'd expect from a band glorifying the early grind sound. The vocals are tortured hate-filled screaming the whole way, and will not disappoint. There's un-PC samples scattered throughout which are good for a laugh, and in keeping with the song titles. A personal favourite being "Fart Filled Asthma Pump." This CD comes HIGHLY RECOMMENDED for anyone with even a passing interest in grind.

There is a fucking shitload of material on this discography, definately good value clocking in at just under one hour. The recording and production is awesome on the first 21 tracks, taken from the split 7" with GONKULATOR and the unreleased 'Frigid Test' UNDINISM 7". It makes me think a bit of VAGINAL CARNAGE's 'Dildo Detention', but I think that's a combination of the recording/production and the strong and individual character of the band. On tracks 22 to 28 from the split 7" with DAHMER the recording is not so flash, it sounds prettty raw and harsh, but with UNDINISM's style of grind it works OK. Just turn it up when the CD gets to those tracks and it's not an issue. Tracks 29 - 54 which are from split tape with SQUASH BOWELS are 24 live tracks with an hilarious intro from Cosmic Commander. The recording is pretty good for live material, and does a great job of capturing the band's energy. Tracks 55 - 59 consist of the 'Dead Girls Don't Say No' Demo, and while the recording is a little murky it's thankfully quite heavy, and everything is audible so it's not a problem, pretty good blasting grind. Demo #1 (tracks 60 - 70) sounds fucking great for an early demo, and the material is awesome, consistent with the rest of the CD. -Metal Shtorm