Recorded + Mastered by Jason Fuller at Goatsound / Mixed by Xavier Irvine at Loaf / Copyright infringement + layout by ESP MAYHEM – ”What’s mine is mine / What’s yours is also mine”
So psyched with how this turned out! This is our first recording that really nails the ESPM sound – thick, loud, unique, crazy! Technically ESPM is a very hard band to record & mix but Jason & Xavier did an amazing job getting it all together while being mercilessly overseen, scrutinised and nitpicked by us. Stream it on Bandcamp or Spotify, physical copies available through the emails in the flyer above and also at The Searchers in Melbourne, Repressed in Sydney or Bad Habit in Nambour, and more distros and shops as we spread it around.
ESP MAYHEM ‘Cyber Bully’ 7” launch with WELL, GIL CERRONE and HORMAGAUNT
Melbourne’s most sonically obnoxious and morally reprehensible bunch of sticky-fingered little shits have finally superglued enough other people’s intellectual property together to bring the cacophonous ‘Cyber Bully’ EP to fruition. ESP MAYHEM crassly fuse grindcore, gabber, industrial, metal and a blatantly slavish adhesion to the KLF’s dogma through the use of 3 keyboards, a drummer and vocals. Luddite ‘electronica’ for the primitive future.
‘Support’/upstaging comes courtesy of 3 true powerhouses, consisting of:
𝐖𝐄𝐋𝐋 – This town’s supreme scions of the angular and bristling point where the weirder, more discordant ends of metal, hardcore and sludge met in the mid/late 90s and all genres hit their most rewarding sweet spots. These guys refuse to take their feet out of that beartrap to keep bleeding the rich blood of Kiss It Goodbye, Unsane, Breach and Neurosis.
𝐆𝐈𝐋 𝐂𝐄𝐑𝐑𝐎𝐍𝐄 – One of the recent wave of bands taking on the heroic task of stopping ‘screamo’ from being a dirty word. Heralding back to the fire-bellied explosions of arrhythmic dissonance and benign violence they take the pure essences of this abused and embattled genre and inject it full of fresh ideas, fantastic songs, tasteful dramatics and a heap of speed.
𝐇𝐎𝐑𝐌𝐀𝐆𝐀𝐔𝐍𝐓 – like the rest of the bill play a genre plagued with mediocrity and predictability but shove enough electricity up its ass to have the corpse brimming with new life. Nominally ‘old school death metal’ these guys know where the riches are hidden and are an unstoppable, uncontrollable example of making death metal exciting, inventive and engaging again, all the while staying exceptionally brutal.
Grindhead Productions is proud to announce, for the first time in Australia, Japanese goregrind kings VISCERA INFEST.
The Japanese forensick goregrind bulldozer will tear its way through NSW, the ACT and VIC in August 2024.
VISCERA INFEST have gained an infamous reputation with their insane speed, punishing riffs and profoundly violent artistic style. Drummer Yuyi has blown minds across the world with his blistering blastbeats, and their patented cockroach mosh will leave Australian audiences festering on the floor.
Nembutolik Munt Spew Balloon Gravepeeler False Dichotomy Satanic Dog C*nts
VISCERA INFEST will be carving their way through Australian audiences on the following dates:
14/08/24 – Newcastle: Hamilton Station Hotel 15/08/24 – Canberra: Pot Belly Bar 16/08/24 – Sydney: Simos Dive 17/08/24 – Frankston: Singing Bird Studios 18/08/24 – Melbourne: The Tote
I finally made a video for my 2023 audio response to visual score “Frequency Assembly 1” created by Tina Douglas for “hypha_e” visual score/performance project – http://tinadouglas.net/hypha_e One 15-minute track in 6 parts/”scenes”, representing my interpretation of the 6 panels of the visual score. Abstract worlds, ambiguous realities, transmissions of unknown origin, and other mysterious sci-fi shit. [00:00] 1. Blast Tunnel [02:39] 2. Infinite Data Expansion Wave [04:36] 3. Hallucinogenic Hyperspace Delirium [07:24] 4. Phantasmal Off-World [09:48] 5. Shifting [12:38] 6. Unrecognised Coordinates
This is the most involved thing I’ve ever done with SPASMOSLOP. I had the artwork on the wall of my studio for about a year and a half, gradually making recordings of what I thought it sounded like, bouncing back & forth between the visuals and the sound, adding layers and nitpicking the fuck out of everything as ideas came to me. Big thanks to Tina for the inspiration and coordination! Among many firsts that came about in this process, it’s also the first time I’ve ever had a SPASMOSLOP recording properly mastered – by Jason Fuller at Goatsound – and it sounds amazing, especially with headphones. He also mastered this while we were at it and completely transformed it into what I wanted it to be. Thanks Jason! Floating on inspiration from this project, I’ve been slowly recording a new SPASMOSLOP album for the last year or so which is nearly finished and should be out this year if I can have the self control to stop tinkering with it.
Recently uploaded to the Beantube, this has a killer sound recorded from the desk and mixed by ol’ Tolman so you can hear all the fuck-ups in perfect clarity while you cowabunga crank it and wait for our upcoming soon-to-be-recorded album and/or EP!
Audio response to visual score “Frequency Assembly 1” created by Tina Douglas for “hypha_e” visual score/performance project – http://www.tinadouglas.net/hypha_e
One 15-minute track in 6 parts, representing my interpretation of the 6 panels of the visual score. Abstract worlds, ambiguous realities, transmissions of unknown origin, and other mysterious sci-fi shit.
Come and get blindsided by the reunion you never knew you needed with SMACK BABY bringing the furious powerviolence peltings and ham sandwich vokills, new skids on the bowl HEMATEMESIS to belt you upside the head with blistering meat and potato fast grind gravy attacks and SPEW BALLOON rounding out the evening with a barrage of board shorts, brutal slidy-riff grinding and coconut oil drenched punk bravado and buffoonery!!
Second Spewies 2.0 gig with my/everyone’s favourite noisy bastard Brad on geeeetar ripping solos and other high-octane rock’n’roll madness!
Feat. Interstate blastings!! The return of SPEW BALLOON with extra tasty new recipe!! CLOGGED & G.B.S. bringing the gore!! ESPM’s first time in Frankston!! A large amount of time spent at Last Chance!! Heaps of other good shit!!
Some/all(?) of these gigs have pre-sale online tickets and all that annoying shit. Use the googlator to find the infos!
LET'S NOISE! 