Audio Kollaps - Music From an Extreme Sick World + Panzer

Talk about bargain bin, I've literally seen this one on the bottom shelf at Amoeba, and unfairly so!  What you have here is pure, old-school Grind goodness!  I never really liked this new "speed (not songs!)" type Grindcore that's been popular the past ten years.  Probably the worst part of this "Relapse" school of Grind is the ultra-compressed and brittle sounding production.  You know when you visit a modest-looking blog, and within a few seconds the volume-cranked playlist starts, and you have to scramble to hit the mute button before your speakers explode?  That's what Nasum albums sound like to me.  Or, have you ever seen a band like Phobia live, and after their set, not be able to remember a single riff?  I know Grindcore is supposed to be simple and brutal, but that doesn't mean that it has to suck!  Thankfully, we have bands like Audio Kollaps to break that monotony.

Sounding like a catchier "Harmony Corruption" era Napalm Death, these Germans deliver some tasty riffs with grit and force, despite being half the speed of say...  Insect Warfare.  They take it back to a time when there was little difference between Grindcore and Death Metal.  Back to a time when Grind bands still had dynamics and serious political messages, not misogyny and poop jokes.

I've also included their more Death Metal sounding 2nd album Panzer, which wasn't distributed in the US.  Schmeckt Gut!

Fuck Die USA
Panzer : http://rapidshare.com/files/455077015/audio_kollaps_-_panzer.rar