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Sikfuk - Gore Delicious

Not up to the standards of later releases - 54%

Noktorn, June 2nd, 2011

This is one of the weirder takes on the old United Guttural style- it's sloppier, more haphazard, and more overtly grind-influenced than stuff like Fleshgrind or Bound and Gagged. Honestly, I feel that Sikfuk really hit their stride with 'Teabagged At Birth'; this is really a prototype of the sound they'd later master. Everything here is basically what you'd expect from the United Guttural style, just with little stylistic diversions here and there which in the end don't add up to a whole lot. This isn't a bad album, but it's certainly no match for Sikfuk's later material.

Frankly, this is kind of dreary. Playing in basically the same style as bands like Incestuous, Sikfuk's music at this point was blast-heavy and sloppy, with a lot of very technical (and very thinly produced) tremolo riffs and stop/start rhythms making up the bulk of the record. Sikfuk's trademark gurgles are intact, though at this time actually using lyrics (supposedly)- still, they're not as refined as later albums, like every other element on this disc. The riffs tend to be unmemorable and covered up by the drums and vocals in the rather sloppy production, just there to provide chaotic noise more than anything catchy and interesting for the listener. Frankly, the bass is more audible than the guitar a lot of the time, bringing a slightly playful Cryptopsy feel to the music without how often it gets to impishly solo or slap and pop where a full-fledged guitar riff would ultimately go. While neat, it's sort of a diversion from what we really want to hear: sick blasting, brutal grooves, and deranged vocals.

Really the biggest problem with this record is just that it's not very memorable (an issue which plagues a lot of United Guttural releases, frankly). It's technical brutal death metal played by people who aren't really instrumentally capable of playing material this fast and complicated, which causes a lot of the riffs and musical passages themselves to blur, and not in a particularly neat way. The brackish, rather unmixed production doesn't do anything to make the music more lucid, and the songwriting simply isn't refined enough to let the band's style breathe on its own. It's decent enough for what it is: a very violent, chaotic, oldschool brutal death metal album, but would I really recommend this to anyone who's not a devout fan of this particular niche style? Probably not. Pick up one of the later albums for a better picture of this band.

Dull, Unispiered, and Unlistenable. - 20%

grim_necro_kvlt, October 4th, 2006

With an illegible band logo, an album cover that resembles a piece of rotting meat, and "gore splattered" lyrics, you have the making of a stereotypical goregrind album.

Nothing in this album is unoriginal, interesting, or remotely listenable. All the songs (not including anally aborted) are exactly the same. And even if you love this style of playing, you will get bored of the same song being played, over and over again. The guitar riffs are repetitive and unoriginal, the drums are decent, but extrordinary sloppy. And the vocals, boring as fuck (and yes, its spelt fuck, not fuk). The vocalist just says ohhhhh or oooooooo and sometimes oorrraoooooooooo at very low frequencies with a bit of gargling. No break in this style at all. Some might think "ohh cool a goregrind parody band", but sorry folks these guys are dead serious.

The only credit I can give this band is the bass guitar work is quite good, and the song "analy aborted" is the only listenable one out of the entire crop. But besides a few good bass lines and one good song, this ain’t' worth buying.