Author: letsnoise
ESP MAYHEM @ Filthfest 24/02/2018

FILTHFEST 2018 enjoins you in a magnificent bath of sonic filth, the 3rd year running and curated from the bog to showcase the rancid cream of Australian extreme music.
Band selected by reason of their capacity for cracking the sky:
Lizzard Wizzard • Bolt Gun (WA) • Tired Minds • BØG • Siberian Hell Sounds(Qld) • Trespasser (TAS) • Diploid • Tired Minds (NSW) • Dead Architect(NSW) • BLIGHT WORMS • Neck Grip • Creep Diets • REAPER – Melbourne• Removalist • HEXTAPE (Bridget Mary Chappell) • Nunchukka Superfly •Too Birds • The High Drifters • Motherslug • Defenestration • ESP Mayhem •Intrinsic Light • Fornicatador • Lethal Sound Division
FILTHFEST is on at The Tote Hotel on Saturday Feb 24, 2018 from 2pm.
Tickets: Pre-Sale $25+BF or Door $30
We’re on really early – 4:45pm on the main stage, don’t be late!
SPASMOSLOP – DUCT on Soundcloud
After some initial uploading tech problems I finally got DUCT on to Soundcloud for streaming/download for those with an aversion to bandcamp or whatever. Maybe in another 6 months or so I’ll put it on youtube…?
GRIND PUNISHMENT @ Last Chance 17/02/2018

KUTABARE – these wretched, slimy, cretinous and downright disgusting gory ‘n sludgy DEATH/GRIND legends are back and killing it. Try pulling yourself out of the dirt after they’re done. Hint: you won’t be able to cause you’ll be fucking dead!
CLOGGED – Fist pumpin’, hard Jardin’ noisy GOREGRIND WILDNESS dealt out by members of Internal Rot, Super Fun Happy Slide, Headless Death and many others! For Last Days of Humanity-obsessed chuds only!!
CHRISTCRUSHER – supersonic MELBOURNE GRINDCORE SYNDICATE speed dealers that’ll destroy you along with all the bullshit you think is cool. BLAST!!
PREGNANCY – knuckle-dragging GOREGRIND DEPRAVITY that won’t stop beating the stinking carcasses of Bile, CBT and The Day Everything Became Nothing. Not for those without robust bowels!
ASBESTOSISIS – heaving, lurching GOREGRIND/NOISE slop that’ll induce vomiting en masse to all those within ear/arseshot. This is a rotten-to-shit offal pit in audial form so you better not wear a clean shirt!
RAWHEAD – GOREGRINDING MORTICIANWAVE idiots. Plenty of Hemdale/Last Days/Regurgitate vibes in amidst the Jards!
$10 entry. Doors at 7:30, bands at 8pm
Thanks to Lachy for organising this cracker! I’m gonna be filling in on vocals for PREGNANCY for this gig, should be fun!
GRINDCORE FEVER @ Whole Lotta Love

Complete loss-of-control grindcore FEVER hits Whole Lotta Love on Friday January 26th!! Bring ya tissues, band-aids, diapers and spittle-hankies because you’re gonna need ’em all for this continence-testing mess!!
Internal Rot
Saturday’s headline: RELENTLESS GRINDCORE SMASHERS SMASH GRINDCORE FANS RELENTLESSLY. Expect relentless smashing.
Christ Crusher- Melbourne Grind Syndicate 666
MGS reppin’ speed freaks who have been doing this shit since well before you ever trepidatiously typed ‘grindcore’ into YouTube!
Clogged
More repulsive than that guy who sits next to you on the train at the peak of flu season who never takes his hands off his smart phone to cover his germ-dispensing face holes!
Spew Balloon
You’ll have no trouble convincing your boss you got food poisoning after exposure to these putrid party boys! Treat yourself to a few days off work.
FRIDAY JANUARY 26 // 8:30PM // $10 // LOSE CONTROL!!!!!
WHOLE LOTTA LOVE
524 Lygon St, Brunswick East
CLOGGED on upcoming SOUNDS LIKE SHIT tape

Cool! Thanks Jacek/Grindfather for asking us to be on this. Should be out in about 3 months or something, apparently….!
UMBILICAL TENTACLE @ The Bendigo 20/01/2018

DOORS OPEN AT 8PM / TICKETS $10 @ ENTRY
KILLSNITCH ENGAGE 08:15 – 08:30
BLOODOFITO 08:50 – 09:10
HANGOVERDOSE 09:35 – 09:55
PISSBOLT 10:15 – 10:40
UMBILICAL TENTACLE 11:00 – 11:40
PRIMITIVE CALCULATORS 12:00 – LATE!!!
Bendigo Hotel – 125 Johnston St. Collingwood
MIUC 20th Birthday Mania!!

Next week I’m very excited to be playing 2 sets with a bunch of my favourite sound people for one of MIUC’s 20th birthday gigs!
Tuesday 16th January 2018
Bar Open, Fitzroy
• Elizabeth Millar [CA/AU] / Craig Pedersen [CA] / Belinda Woods
• Rod Cooper / Ari Sharp / Nik Kennedy / Maz Benjamas / Kerrie Farnsworth
• Byron Scullin / Carolyn Connors
• Toecutter [NSW] / Bridget Chappell / Aloysious Falcon aka Gem Falconer
• Umbilical Tentacle / Curse Ov Dialect / Emile Zile
More info here: https://www.facebook.com/events/102488467214304/
Thanks to Annalee Koernig and Ari Sharp for organising!
CLOGGED @ Whole Lotta Love 12/01/2018

WHOLE LOTTA GRIND.
$5. 8PM. JAN 12. @ WHOLE LOTTA LOVE.
524 Lygon St. Brunswick
Rawhead
Repulsive Parasitic Death/grind
https://rawheadau.bandcamp.com/
Clogged
Two-channel Ambidextrous Gore
https://radicalblarghst.bandcamp.com/album/clogged
Mindrippa
Primal Skittish Grind Riffs
Maggot Bath
Sludge-ridden Filthgrind
https://maggotbath.bandcamp.com/
SPEW BALLOON @ SUMMER SPEED FEST

Kick off the new year with a vicious assault by:
-KUTABARE
-HEADLESS DEATH
-METH LEPPARD (SA)
-CHRISTCRUSHER
-SCUMBAG (QLD)
-SHITWRECK
-INCINERATED
-SPEW BALLOON
-DEFENESTRATION
-NO CASH
$10 Entry.
Tago Mago – 744 High St. Thornbury. Tram 86 stops meters from the venue.
3pm until Late.