Recorded + Mastered by Jason Fuller at Goatsound / Mixed by Xavier Irvine at Loaf / Copyright infringement + layout by ESP MAYHEM – โWhatโs mine is mine / Whatโs yours is also mineโ
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 โCyber Bullyโ 7โ launch with WELL, GIL CERRONE and HORMAGAUNT
Melbourneโs most sonically obnoxious and morally reprehensible bunch of sticky-fingered little shits have finally superglued enough other peopleโs intellectual property together to bring the cacophonous โCyber Bullyโ EP to fruition. ESP MAYHEM crassly fuse grindcore, gabber, industrial, metal and a blatantly slavish adhesion to the KLFโs dogma through the use of 3 keyboards, a drummer and vocals. Luddite โelectronicaโ for the primitive future.
โSupportโ/upstaging comes courtesy of 3 true powerhouses, consisting of:
๐๐๐๐ – This townโs 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.
๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ – One of the recent wave of bands taking on the heroic task of stopping โscreamoโ 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.
๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ – 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 โold school death metalโ 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.
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!
Girth (USA) offer up a rancid goregrind feast fit only for the morbid(ly obese) with their immense weight supported by Melbourne grindcore smashers Internal Rot, grinding death metal bulldozers Incinerated and hard Jardin’ goregrinders Clogged!
US hyperblasting grindcore heavyweights Sulfuric Cautery are heading down here to lay waste to our east coast and as the final date of their tour, this show is a fucking huge banger covering as much as is possible of Melbourne’s most ruthless!
Cheers DIPLOID for having us on this ripper gig. If you’re not on facebook and want the address send me an email (sfhsgrind at hotmail .com) or instagram message.
Futureshock synthgrind from Melbourne, Australia clogging your neural network with sawtooth slaughterwaves of subversive cyber sewage. Featuring the usual cast of miscreants you love to hate from Internal Rot, Incinerated, Headless Death, Contaminated, etc.
Klown – Synth
Bruce – Synth
Karrl – Synth
Dough – Vocal
Ralph – Drums
Recorded by Jason Fuller at Goatsound
Mixed & Mastered by Colin Marston at Menegroth
Illustrations by Robert Parish
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Massive cheers to NERVE ALTAR for releasing this! We’ll have some copies for Aus people…soon…? New shirts available soon too. Two gigs coming up 16th Feb and 7th March, stay tuned.
๐๐ฆ๐ฃ ๐ ๐ฎ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐บ Synth core? Electro Grind? The Limewire genre category that was just called โundefinableโ? New vocalist, Cher Tanโs (Grimalkin/Spiteward ADL) blood curdling voice and articulate cynicism seem right at home in the ESPM soup, and a SPICY soup it is! https://espmayhem.bandcamp.com/releases
๐๐ฎ๐๐๐๐ถ๐ฐ ๐๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฝ NIN, and Multiple Man walk into a bar. Itโs not a joke, but you canโt remember ever having this much fun before. CG is the dark EBM/Industrial project of Naarm based, non binary artist Scud Viney. https://causticgrip.bandcamp.com/album/the-descent
First ESPM gig in ages, and our first gig with Cher on vocals! We’ll be playing a bunch of brand new songs, and they’re more wild than ever. Including future hits like “The One With The Absurdly Long Blast Parts” and “The Slabber” (slam + gabber = slabber)!!
Also – new outrageous Bloodsportswear shirts! If you love copyright infringement, robots, and excessive sleeve prints, you’re in for a treat!
LET'S NOISE! 