Tag: ESP Mayhem

Updates – Jan 2025

It’s been a while…

SPASMOSLOP – been working on a new album on & off for over a year. In trying to cook up the sounds that are in my brain I of course made it stupidly over-complicated and incomprehensible but I’m trying to make it make sense. I record in a really basic way and mix everything in Audacity and have no fuggin idea what I’m doing so it takes forever. Currently remixing it for the 2000th time, then it’ll get mastered by someone who does know what they’re doing and should sound sick.

SPEW BALLOON – nearly finished our new 6-track EP. Studio recording with lots of mics & shit, but being mixed by Tolman so it sounds proper filthy & wild! Should hopefully be released in some form in time for Flippin The Bird or one of our other gigs in March. Then planning to record for a full-length album mid-year or so.

ESP MAYHEM – a few gigs coming up. Been jamming a lot ahead of recording for a full-length soooooon.

CLOGGED – possible resuscitation and new release 2025/2026… maybe…

G.B.S. – new recordings in the works for some kind of release

STRESSED OUT STRAIGHT GUY – despite not actually being very stressed out I’ll be doing vocals for this HEADLESS DEATH punk rock side project thing, unless I get replaced by an actual SOSG.

Upcoming gigs:
08/02 – ESP MAYHEM @ Last Chance w/ Pissbolt, Religious Observance, Tumour
26/02 – G.B.S. @ Last Chance w/ DJ RND2TR
01/03 – SPEW BALLOON @ Flippin The Bird, Singing Bird Studios w/ heaps of other bands. All ages!
07/03 – SPEW BALLOON & ESP MAYHEM @ Spit, Footscray w/ Mortal Ambition (SA), NPCede. All ages!
29/03 – SPEW BALLOON @ The Tote front bar, 3pm arvo show w/ Derailment, Overthrone

Top 17 Good Things From 2024 List
+ Watching INTERNAL ROT & DOUBLED OVER play live
+ GORE BEYOND NECROPSY – Noise A Go-Go LP on Haunted Hotel Records
+ The hot tunes of DJ RND2TR!
+ FINAL EXIT – Born In Hell LP
+ Sick gigs from visitors like BODY MELT, CEREBRAL EROSION, RADIATION VOMIT, FORCED STARVATION, FUXACHE, EXIT MOULD
+ Lugging a bunch of gear on a non-tour holiday to Japan and playing one single gig in Osaka with WANKOSLOP
+ Recording the SPEW BALLOON EP at Dangertone Studios
+ ESPM and SPEW BALLOON gigs at Spit, the best venue in Melb
+ ESPM finally releasing the “Cyber Bully” EP
+ OVERTHRONE
+ Endless hours of rare & obscure music on Youtube
+ Endless hours of dark drum & bass and techno mixes on Soundcloud
+ Being recommended BLUT AUS NORD’s last few albums by a mate
+ Resurrecting DEATH BY CONES for DEATH BY DRONES
+ Noise gigs at Radio Bar, 2nd best venue in Melb
+ Noise gigs under The Bridge
+ My car catching fire due to my mechanic fucking something up

ESPM – Cyber Bully OUT NOW

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 EP launch

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.

Presales: https://tickets.oztix.com.au/…/a05060a5-c34f-4aae-b3dd… or $15 at door

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‘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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwHJtGe_W5o
https://wellnoise.bandcamp.com/
https://gilcerrone.bandcamp.com/
https://hormagauntdeath.bandcamp.com/

November gigs

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!

New ESP MAYHEM video

Track taken from the upcoming CYBER BULLY E.P.

STREAM OTHER STUFF HERE
Bloodsportswear 7″: https://tinyurl.com/yc3b38ch
Moonbeam Terror Split: https://tinyurl.com/bpacwndw
Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/yc8y4jkh

Single: ETERNAL RETURN
Released: June 26, 2023 via Coplike Silence Records
Genre: Synthgrind
Location: Neo-Melbourne

For any enquires email: bloodsportswear@gmail.com

Line-up:
Vocals – Cher
Synth – Kahli
Synth – Nik
Synth – Zev
Drums – Christoph

Credits: Recorded by Jason Fuller @Mixed GOATSOUND
Mixed + Mastered by Brendan Auld @ BLACK BLOOD AUDIO

Coplike Silence Records: https://tinyurl.com/3t9tyrdm

℗ & © 2023 Coplike Silence Records All rights reserved.

SULFURIC CAUTERY/GIRTH Melb shows!

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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!

Girth:
https://girthcore666.bandcamp.com/

Internal Rot:
https://internalrotters.bandcamp.com/

Incinerated:
https://incinerateddm.bandcamp.com/

Clogged:
https://radicalblarghst.bandcamp.com/album/clogged

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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!

Sulfuric Cautery
Faceless Burial
ESP Mayhem
Derailment
Rawhead
Sanctioned
Asbestosisis
GBS

Sulfuric Cautery:
https://terriblemutilation.bandcamp.com/album/chainsaws-clogged-with-the-underdeveloped-brain-matter-of-xenophobes-2

BRUTAL! Hugest cheers to TERRIBLE MUTILATION for organising this crazy shit!

SULFURIC CAUTERY will also be touring east Aus with CONTAMINATED so check it out if you’re in that direction!

ESPM & DIPLOD HOUSE SHOW – 16/02/2020

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Coburg House Show

We are welcoming you all to our home to come raise some money for Wires wildlife emergency fund. 

Our planet is dying. So-called Australia is on fire. So come and enjoy ESP Mayhem and tolerate Diploid. 

There will be a BAKE SALE so bring gold coins for some amazing treats.

Respect the house or you will be ejected.

Diploid
ESP Mayhem

Doors 2
Location announced morning of the show.

https://www.facebook.com/events/880517959048868/

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.

ESP MAYHEM 7″ out now!

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.

Watch video for “Twisted Metal” youtu.be/3aMV0IS9WFQ

ALTAR46
ESP Mayhem “Bloodsportswear” EP
300 Military Green Vinyl (mixed)
Cover Stock B&W Handcut Jackets
Available now from Nerve Altar
nervealtar.blogspot.com
www.facebook.com/nervealtar
nervealtar.bandcamp.com

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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.