Erotic Diarrhea Fantasy

Erotic Diarrhea Fantasy is such a damn treat. The best way to describe this album is that this is Mortician with nastier vocals, more slam riffs thrown in, and more gross and retarded. This album absolutely fucks when youre in the mood, goddamn!

You can't go wrong with the name and title, there's just something I love a lot about the cover and name of this album, it's awesome. I like it. It fits the sound of the music too, especially since this is part goregrind and slam. I like how it's a more simple cover for an album in its genre, but it's utilized perfectly. The cover truly does describe the album's name, and the colors and design of the logo make it even more aesthetically pleasing. It looks so awesome and is very blatant as well, which is great and fitting.

The guitars are VERY distorted and grindy, which refers to the goregrind part of them. Pretty reminiscent of Mortician, but Torsofuck does it in their own way which I can't necessarily describe. It's again very distorted and grindy. Sounds like literal electricity if it were an instrument, if that makes any sense. It's like if they were recording this by playing their very downtuned + distorted guitar through a fan. That's the best way I could describe the sound of the guitars on this album. I really really like the guitars. They sound so pleasing and just fucking AWESOME. On top of having a cool sound, they're pretty organized and keep a good flow so it doesn't get boring or repetitive. As well as having a brutal death metal-orientated style with a grind guitar sound, they put slams in here as well. After all the fast grinding, they'll slow down for a second and play a few slams and then go back to the brutality, or they may play a specific pattern followed by slams at the end of it. Heck, sometimes (very little, though), there will be sections with little melodies. The guitars and this album truly hit all the marks while still being a very specific and niche style, they're definitely the most prominent and defiant feature this album has!

In most albums like these you'd probably never hear the bass or pay attention to it, but the bass has a voice of its own on here. The extremely distorted guitar may steal the light from everything else, but the bass manages to make itself hearable as well. On some songs you can hear it for a few seconds, and it's very delicious. It has such an awesome and present sound. The bass is strong and satisfying!

Some may not like the drum machine, I'm not a giant fan of drum machines that are more on the obviously fake-sounding side, but it works in the best way here. Like I said previously, this album is part grind, and a lot of the time, computerized drums are used in the genre. On an album like Erotic Diarrhea Fantasy, it FITS. Everything else is played fast and in a ridiculous manner, so the drums should follow. Obviously a real drummer can achieve the same goal, but programmed drums being used on this album really sets the stone in the personality being portrayed here. The snare has its own sound, it's very poppy and solid as hell, you'll remember how it sounds for the rest of your life once you hear it. I'm glad it sounds the way it does, it's really satisfying when blasts beats are being played, or when there's the sudden snare rolls. The snare drum being dominant and making sure you're aware of its existence is what makes me love it here. The kick drum sounds pretty real, actually. It does have a refined feel since it's a computer, but at the same time, it's solid, heavy, and thumpy. It doesn't sound over-exaggerated or annoying/tiring, especially when the drums are very fast and ridiculous. This is a great example of how computerized drums should sound and be executed, depending on the genre/style, of course. I don't have anything bad to say at all about the drums. Along with the iconic + ridiculous guitar sound, the drums further enhance the style this album is going for, and is why its so great. It's it's own thing. Simply just awesome and punishing.

The vocals are fabulous, they have more of a goregrind style. They consist of guttural gurgle growls that purr and drag out. I’m pretty sure you could probably refer to these vocals as “predator” vocals, if not then it’s similar to that vocal style at least. These vocals sound like burping but vocally controlled, with lots of edge and spice to it. It's nasty and disgusting. This is how I like my vocals to sound, and they fit the album's aesthetic greatly too. Grind vibes + gross and retarded vocals = perfection.

All the songs are great, awesome songwriting. Fast and relentless grind riffing, drums with slight technicality and straightforward consistency, and the extremely catchy patterns that hook you in and will keep you focused until the album ends. Songs like “Fistfucking Her Decomposed Cadaver” is a great example of the awesome songwriting. It has speed, groove, slams, a little bit of melody, and rambunctious brutality. It’s the total package and it's so satisfying to listen too. The music never fails to keep me entertained. Super catchy songs.

The only gripe I have with this album is that the samples are way too long, and there are too many of them. Which is why I had to dock the album some points. Dont get me wrong, I love samples in death metal especially when they’re stupid as fuck and funny, but when you factor in that the albums’ length is 30:15, and it shortens to a staggering 18:57 when you take out the samples… that’s a huge issue. Almost 12 minutes of music lost, in place of samples that overstay their welcome, is purely unacceptable. (There are versions of the band’s albums without samples someone made and posted on Youtube because of this reason exactly. The samples tend to be way too long). Some of them are even longer than Mortician samples, yeah. Samples, especially in brutal death metal albums should not be long. They’re best when they’re short and sweet (think of Cerebral Incubation [excluding A Gentleman’s Intermission]). The long samples on this album take away from the time that could be spent hearing more music. Sadly enough, the sampleless verison on Youtube is the ideal way to listen to this album, unfortunately.

Otherwise, Erotic Diarrhea Fantasy is such an awesome and stupidly fun album to listen to. If you're looking for some dumb, fun, frantic, and “retarded” unique brutal death metal, this is definitely the album for you. A very fun and entertaining album in fact. Torsofuck produces excellency and brutality!!!

Ok, let's get something straight people...

I understand that you can have fun with brutal slam death metal, I also know that there are good brutal slam death metal out there, but this can't be serious. I've just read some really good reviews for "Erotic Diarrhea Fantasy" here on the Metal Archives, of course there were a few writers who didn't think this album was that great, but I can't explain how this album was able to generate a relatively high number of fans. Some albums get a classic status because the band either split up afterwards or stood on shaky legs and fought their way through despite moderate success. That's all legitimate because every band should get their recognition for their work somewhere.

But if an album by such a band comes across as damn pointless, dull and unimaginative, then I just don't understand it. In all honesty, "Erotic Diarrhea Fantasy" isn't even fun! In my opinion, it's a waste of time. It is of course also possible that I just don't understand "Erotic Diarrhea Fantasy" or that it just doesn't suit my taste. I actually give albums the chance to develop for a long time, I've heard it quite often but it is and remains crap in my ears. The misery begins with frontman Mikko Friberg, the guy sounds like a boar. That doesn't have to be bad, on the contrary, I find it fascinating what the guy is doing vocally.

He just stays in the same frame so that his pig noises get very annoying after a while, that wouldn't be a problem either if the instrumental framework surrounding the songs didn't do exactly what Mikko does: sound the same. Jarkko Haapala's riffs are boring to die for. It is used on one riff per song that is repeated until you want to vomit all over your CD player, there really could have been more. We don't even need to start talking about the drum computer these two guys use at this point, it was just used to express brutality. Dead boring!

The lyrics come across as humorous and completely over-the-top, the only problem is that they're not funny. They're stupid, that's it. It's about letting elephants fuck you, rape your pet, bathe in diarrhea and be happy about it, or fuck corpses. Typical I-fuck-dead-pussies-and-ejaculate-over-her-slit-boobs-lyrics annoy me anyway in the genre. I always don't know what these hatred-of-women poems are all about. That's just stupid and it doesn't shock a pig either.

So that's it, nothing more is coming. The only thing I can say is that Torsofuck could only stretch their album to a good 30 minutes by overusing samples. The playing time of the samples alone takes up almost half of the entire album. Most of the time the actual song is shorter than its sample intro. In all honesty, I'm out. That said, I don't have the right to condemn anyone who thinks this garbage is good, I can even partially understand it, but my opinion about it looks like the one described in the last few lines. But that's just my opinion, I don't know why I wanted to give this album a lot of chances, but I did. "Erotic Diarrhea Fantasy" is and will be junk in my ears, and I wasted a lot of time understanding this album. So fuck this album, fuck the intention I had, and most importantly, fuck me.

If one were to ask me what the most memorable death metal or grind albums to me are, Torsofuck's Erotic Diarrhea Fantasy would be absolutely be noted. Just the fact that the (frankly terrible) cover art alone burns its image into your retina at first glance is the best impression this record can give how it's going to stick in your memory. I recall seeing this album at a record store at a young age when my dad was taking me out during his common vinyl hunts. I was somewhat disturbed by the cover art and of course I had no way to listen to until years later.

First time I heard a track from this album was at 16 years old. The song "Raped by Elephants" was that song, and it was the first track I ever listened to in my life with slam riffs in its composition. It's because of that song when my love for slam death metal came way later in life, I would always get a weird elephantine feeling from the way a slam sounds; the pattern of a elephant walking or stumbling about was what always came to mind because of that song and the opening riffs to that track do a good job at painting that exact image as it should. In fact many mental images come to mind with this record, whether they be horrifying, funny or disgusting. The lyrical takes do a good job at sealing that deal providing the listener with intricate mental movie of whatever the subject of the track is.

One of my biggest problems with this album is, however, the goddamn sound samples. You can't talk about this album without mentioning the samples, they are unavoidable. The album in total is 30 minutes and 15 seconds long. If one were to listen to this album with all the samples removed, it would reach 18 minutes and 57 seconds in length. That comes out to slightly more than 1/3 of this record being solely sound samples. Needless to state, that is a tad bit excessive. However, this would prove a much larger problem if the music wasn't utterly so fantastic.

This album is blaring bypass of brutality (BBB). It drills into your noggin with unmatched barbarity and by the time it's over, you're left wanting more. Almost comes as a surprise only two men created this masterpiece with all the ideas that they were able to stuff into 19 minutes. For a band that erroneously gets pigeonholed as "pornogrind" (mostly by idiots that don't know what they're talking about), there are a surprising number of slams on this record. As I mentioned before with "Raped by Elephants" it doesn't stop there. This is one of the earliest instances of the blast-slam-blast-slam drum machine band mechanic before it became a more common practice by the time MySpace was in full-swing. Sometimes you'll get some caught up in catchiness that you'll never stop to think how fucking putrid the music really is. There's times where during listenings I'll be like "wait this band is also part goregrind? I forgot".

The vocals are relatively absurd... are they gutturals, are they growls? They're neither, but a different style entirely dubbed "gore purr" vocals. A vocal style that has been frequently observed to draw audial comparisons to that of a fart. I guess a bit fitting given the band's very toilet humor themed nature. Still, as absurd as the vocals are, they definitely work with this band and it makes this album all the more memorable as if it wasn't enough. The vocals just kind of seals that deal. Most goregrind bands have pitchshifted and heavily edited vocals to produced a watery sound, why do that when your vocalist can sound like that just fine on his own? Very stupendous.

This music isn't for everybody, just as Mortician isn't for everybody, and just as anchovies aren't for everybody. But like the two aforementioned items, this is a dearly loved product by those who are able to understand it. This record is pure neanderthal grotesque brutality with a disgusting theme/presentation and it executes that so fucking well. Whether unintentional accident or not, this was the album that raised the bar for extreme music in the way I see it.

The band name, the album title, and the album cover tell you all you need to know about this record before you even start listening. But, just in case you're curious anyway about what it sounds like, here is a description. You get thirty minutes of material: about 50 percent samples and 50 percent music. The samples are either from porno flicks, cult classic comedy films ("I'll fuck you in the ass next Wednesday instead - WOOO!"), or random other things that you probably don't want to know the identity of. Often, these samples will take up half of the song or more (the last song on the album is the biggest offender in that department).

Let's chalk up the overuse of samples to creative bankruptcy, because the music is very poor. It's either mindless blasting and grinding or paint-by-numbers slamming, neither of which would probably be impressive if you could make out what the musicians were doing through the awful production. Everything about the way this record was produced is wrong. The guitar sound is even worse than the one on the latest Devourment album, noisy and toneless. The bass is horribly thin and clicky, as if the bassist did not even bother to plug his instrument in. But the worst of all of them is the drum machine. It sounds like plastic, there's about one cymbal hit every bar, and the snare drum sounds like someone banging on a Pringles can. The vocals are, if anything, worse than the instruments. It sounds like some clod just ran into the studio, gurgled and snorted randomly for a couple minutes per song, hastily scribbled down some lines about porn and feces as an afterthought, and later said "Hey, let's publish these as the official lyrics!" It is impossible to match the vocals with any line from the lyrics. But never mind; with such poetic delights as "Third elephant forced me to take its giant cock in my mouth/I sucked like a whore while I was assfucked by elephant trunk", who would want to?

Because the production is godawful and the music is so sloppy, of course there are no earworms, save for the rhythm of "Raped By Elephants", which actually has some kind of sick way of lodging itself in your head. The only thing that resembles intelligently-written music in the whole mess that I can remember is a section in "Fistfucking her Decomposed Cadaver" where they try harmonies. From what little actual music I could hear, I noticed that they have an interesting approach to guitar riffs: instead of using fifths exclusively for power chords like most do, they exclusively use fourths. A simple change, but one that could make them stand out nonetheless. Pity you can't hear that change for the most part.

If you take out all the samples, this record clocks in at around 18 minutes - about enough music for a nice little EP, but the band can't even get that part right. The only redeeming thing about it all is that it's sometimes humorous. I admit, I bust out laughing when the sample in "Mutilated for Sexual Purposes" finally stopped and the hyperblast/gurgling combo suddenly dropped out of nowhere. It's so cringe-worthy that you almost have to laugh at it - much like the movie from which the intro for "Raped By Elephants" is taken. But, humor aside, the music is bad, the sound is bad, the overuse of samples is bad, and the vocals and (lack of) lyrics are bad. In a nutshell, this isn't a good album... not by a long shot.

Oh, one more thing. As a "cat person", I cannot listen to, read the lyrics of, or see the title of the eighth track without becoming enraged. Fuck this band in the torso.

Erotic Diarrhea Fantasy is probably one of the most brutal albums I've heard. Back when I found this band, I had the feeling that this would be like most of the bands I had heard back then, that Torsofuck would be only pig squeals and uncomprehensible guitar riffs (and machine gun drum programming).

But this was no ordinary band at all.

The drums in this album are all made with a drum machine, yet they are made so perfectly that you think that someone is behind the drums (although there are some songs where the drumming is obviously programmed). The guitars are really down tuned, almost like in a porngrind band (main reason why this band has been qualified as porngrind in many blogs), but instead of sounding like the typical porngrind band, it sounds more technical that many goregrind bands, making some complex riffs in most of the tracks. The bass player is not a newbie, in fact, he is astounding. In all the tracks, the bass can be heard really loud, and it has some solo parts, demostrating that this band was worried to show that the bass player was there (unlike the debut album of Waking the Cadaver). The vocals where something new I heard back then. I thought this guy used some effect or that where modified with a computer, but no, those where completely natural vocals, and where the most lower, insanely, undeciphrable vocals I heard.

The lyrics are mostly about feces, sexual depravations, gore and things like that, but the vocals are so low that is almost impossible to follow the song with the lyrics, which is a shame 'cause many of us (fans of Torsofuck) would like to follow Raped by Elephants along with the lyrics

Although this album is amazing, there is one thing many of us listeners of this album hate. The samples. I mean, it's ok to put some samples before the song starts (or at the end of the song), and usually these sample are short, but Torsofuck used samples really long in some of their songs, the most notorious is Cannibal, in which the samples are put before the song and in the end of it, and the song without samples doesn't last more that 2 minutes, Mutilated for Sexual Purposes is another example of a bad use of samples in this album.

Overall, Torsofuck stands along some other brutal bands like Guttural Secrete, Septicemia, Infant Bile and others. Search this album if you wanna hear something extremely brutal with non-modified vocals, I assure you that you won't be dissapointed.

(Originally posted by me to the Metal Music Archives: http://www.metalmusicarchives.com/)

Let me put it bluntly: even with the immature grotesque elements stripped away, Torsofuck have nothing going for them. Now, I'm usually too busy with other shit that you probably don't care about to pay attention to an album like Erotic Diarrhea Fantasy; but every once in a while, my eyes get burned by that shock value-intensive album cover. In a fitting metaphor, I get fed up with the shit and feel the need to flush it down the toilet where it belongs. So, let's make this happen.

I'm just going to go ahead and get the criticism for the thematic elements out of the way. No, perverse elements are not totally a red area for me. Cannibal Corpse pulled them off just fine with Tomb of the Mutilated. But here, Torsofuck aren't only sick, but they're fucking stupid, unless you find elephant penis, dismemberment during intercourse, or ejaculating while being crapped on entertaining; in which case, you really need to take your mind out of the gutter and your head out of your ass, lest you find having your head shoved up your ass satisfying too.

On to the music. The most immediately annoying aspect is that music here is samples! The first song goes on for over two fucking minutes before actually playing any metal music. I don't like listening to music if I feel like they're wasting my damn time. This album is only thirty minutes long, and it's value is going to be greatly lowered if only 17 or so minutes of it is actually music. If anyone is actually dumb enough to buy this, they're either going to feel ripped off for not getting their money's worth, or they'll be entertained by the stupid samples that are on this album.

There is nothing outstanding about the music that's actually there in between the samples. This shit sounds like goddamn Spermswamp with slightly better production and Waking the Cadaver. Not only do the riffs feel stale, but the so called brutality also feels stale. It's all uninteresting! The fast parts of one song feel like the fast parts of another song. Ditto for the slow parts. Have you fuckers ever considered taking some influence from Cryptopsy? They were able to make some brutal sounding music that was actually interesting, they also had a human drummer who could drum as fast as the machine on this album, and they had Lord Worm's almost unintelligible vocals. That brings me to the vocals in Torsofuck. They sound like Spermswamp and Waking the Cadaver. Farting and belching sounds are another branch off for this band's immaturity. They do not sound dark and disturbed, they sound stupid.

Is it irony that Torsofuck involved themselves with so much fecal imagery that their musical output turned out to be shit? I'd like to think they had it coming. I got as much of a kick out of album as I did that one time I dropped my toothbrush in the toilet when the one who previously used it didn't flush. EDF sucks. Everything about it is horrible, and I don't care to listen to it ever again.

A band has finally done it. Finnish brutal death metal/goregrind act Torsofuck have created an album that sits on the fine line of primal brutality and unlistenability. Bands like Guttural Secrete and Devourment fall under this line; Enmity and Last Days of Humanity step right over it as if it were nothing more than a speedbump. But Torsofuck are sitting right on the edge of this line. The music's simple as fuck and doesn't want anything more than to smash the listener's brains out of their ear canal, but it still has merit as music. I doubt the formula will be mastered this well in a long, long time.

Torsofuck's music has two main variations: the fast, unrelenting blasts, and the slow, chugging slams. Both work very well: the blast beats could be compared to most you'll hear throughout a goregrind album, and the slams simply work well because of the feedback produced by the guitars. Most of the guitarwork is ridiculously simple chugs masked behind intentionally distorted production that produces quite a bit of feedback. I'd normally hate this crap, but the band has managed to still let the listener easily hear what notes they're playing. Honestly, though, the tones aren't all that important: some of the best parts of this album occur when the guitars become the equivalent of drone feedback and provide background noise for Torsofuck's drum machine and vocalist. Speaking of which, this band is one of the few I know who can use a drum machine at the very front of the production and get away with it without sounding repetitive or silly. It might be because it's right next to the drone-production guitars, but either way it sounds a lot more serious than most programmed brutal death metal drums, which saves the music from being too retarded for me to take seriously (and it comes dangerously close).

The vocalist has some of the deepest gutturals I've ever heard. They, too, pass the line of decency and sit alongside Enmity in terms of sounding like a pig. Thankfully, Torsofuck's vocalist has the decency to use rhythm among his monotonous grunts, so they fail to truly annoy me.

I honestly love the musicianship on this album; it's worthy of a 90% or more by itself. What brings this album down, however, is the ridiculous amount of samples. The first track drags its movie sample on for almost two-and-a-half minutes before the listener actually hears what Torsofuck's music is like; almost half of "Worm Infested Anal" is samples; "Pussy Mutilation" uses what sounds like a trailer to the movie Blood Sucking Freaks to take up over half its length; and "Cannibal", the biggest offender, uses more than four minutes of its near-six-minute running time to create imagery about cannibals (albeit, the samples in this song are pretty cool, and the music is some of my favorite off the album). These are the biggest offenders, but pretty much every single song has at least ten seconds of samples from crappy horror movies. This probably takes up anywhere from one-third to one-half of the album's length, and it's very disappointing.

So yes, although Torsofuck's music is great, Erotic Diarrhea Fantasy's content as a whole will probably piss you off to no end. If you think you can tolerate such a ridiculous amount of filler, then have at it, and experience this beautiful example of a perfect division between brutality and musical merit. If you're wondering about the choice cuts on the album, try "Snuffed Freak", "Raped by Elephants", and "Cannibal".

Before anything else, yes, the samples are annoying and unnecessarily long and probably take up a third of the album, but I can't bring myself to care a great deal.

A lot of the overt thrashiness of the band's material on their split with Lymphatic Phlegm has been excised here; slightly through songwriting, but mostly via the production, which is much more bass-heavy and in line with modern brutal death/goregrind than it was before. The riffing, too, is a little more in line with that style; while the influences from albums like 'Eaten Back To Life' or Deicide's self-titled are still very present, there's certainly an edge of more modern material here.

The style, though, is relatively intact: short songs full of grooving riffs, hyperspeed blasting, and rather bizarre vocals courtesy of the much-lauded Mikko Friberg, whose 'gore purr' style certainly was something new in the extreme metal scene at the time of this album's release, and still isn't used too commonly. Torsofuck can be depended upon to provide a good mix of groove and blast without letting either become to dominant on even the shorter tracks. Certainly the production and overall aesthetic can push people away but frankly this is about as close to pop music as brutal death gets.

I don't find the material on here quite as memorable as that on the previous split; even though two of the tracks off that one are rerecorded here, that release just has something special about it that can't really be replicated again. But despite that, this is still a worthwhile if somewhat unremarkable addition to a brutal death fan's collection. But shit, as well known as Torsofuck is at this point, it's already in the hands of everyone who would conceivably want it.

Ah, the sound of brutal death metal; the heavy drum beats, the guttural growls of hate and anger, the furious distortion of the guitar; it all fits together fairly nicely. Normally I am quite pleased with such music, and Torsofucks first full-length, Erotic Diarrhea Fantasy, was absolutely no exception. This group from Finland has got a lot of reputation in the obscure metal scene for their outrageously gory lyrics and fantastic use of a drum machine (though they now use a real drumkit on tours). Let's go into more depth.

The pace of EDF is very rapid, with varied drum beats giving the music a cutting edge. The drum programming was especially outstanding on the 5th track, called Raped by Elephants. The pace of the percussion often changes from a steady tempo to a full-on blast beat on this track, which just sounds fantastic.

The vocals are very 'growled' and mostly incomprehensible, which is somewhat of a let-down, because you'll want to hear the awesomely brutal lyrics. They are choc-full of rape, coprophilia, bestiality and other grossly perverted concepts that it's just candy for brutal death fans. The guitar and bass are quite well done too, with consistent rhythm and usage.

This album loses marks for its vocalization and annoying intros. The intros for all the songs go for about 30 seconds and are often a bit immature and irritating. The vocals could've been done better, but I guess they were tolerable. So overall, a solid record. I would highly recommend it to any fans of such music.

This is an example of drum machine used right. There are only a couple of bands that I accept this from, and they are one of them, along with Retch and Dysmennorhic Haemorhage. With this style of music it is understandable, plus they got a drummer as fast as they could after making the album, which just adds plus points. This music was written in a way that I believe they were expecting a drummer for the future unlike let’s say Retch, who will never have a drummer because of the impossible riffing.

The music is down tuned, real low like, Mortician on speed, basically. I really like it because of its staunch heaviness. Also, it is not such a typical death/grind release as people make it seem, after all, the guy from Archgoat, so you know that there is at least one psychopath in the band, but judging form the lyrics and artwork, possibly more. You can feel the metal influence, I must say, more so then on many other Mortician clones. Also, they are not clones; you could pick them out of a line up after 30 seconds of one of their songs, sometime after only like 5. The vocals are what carry this thing, he has two voices, deep and guttural, and even deeper guttural, but seriously there is this semi-nasal like pigs grunting voice he has that sends shivers up mine spine. I like guttural shit, and I have heard a lot of it, but this voice is unparalleled, it is just snorting and puking basically. Really disgusting, and the whole record is full of really extreme, really nasty musical endeavors. Such is the extreme down tuning and wacky riffs, the speed, the voice, the intros, etc. oh yes, just like Mortician, half of their songs are intros as well. All in all, you should get this if you like death/grind, they are one of the most extreme in the genre right now, although these things change fairly quickly. A solid record, and I am very glad to hear that they have a live drummer with them now. Cannot wait for the next album, it was supposed to be released already, lets hope their drummer keeps up the tempo!