The Process of Elimination

The market for this album is pretty clear in my eyes: if you like mid-era Aborted, Emeth, Misery Index or any other modern day deathgrind, then you are going to seriously enjoy this CD. As are their fellow countrymen Aborted, Leng Tch’e are now playing a more ‘core’ influenced brand of grind, but ‘The Process of Elimination’ is Leng Tch’e’s very own ‘Goremageddon’ – a slick, fast, unmistakably heavy deathgrind release, with a hardcore punk vein flowing through it to keep the album fun and catchy.

I firstly want to make a point about the lyrics because, surprisingly for me, the lyrics and the ideas behind the album were a real bonus which is not normally the case. What I like about this CD is that Leng Tch’e manage to explore many of the usual ideologies of grindcore without taking any of them too seriously. They have enough socio-politically orientated tracks to be seen to be making a point (‘Reality? TV’, ‘Man’s Inhumanity to Man’) but also present on this album are the obligatory chunks of medical-themed gore (‘Terminal Excess Patient’) and light-relief moments of humour (‘Don’t Touch My Spandex’, ‘Bobby-Joe’s Slumber Party’) to complete what is actually a very rounded CD in terms of lyrical topic.

Most importantly, though, they have got the music right. The album opens up into the mindless jabbering intro of ‘The Fist of the Leng Tch’e’, which serves to amuse and simultaneously catch you off guard before unleashing a complete blitzkrieg of machinegun drums and furious yet rich vocals. Grandiose terms with which to evaluate a grind record, I know, but that really is what it feels like; guitar riffs whizz past and then spiral totally out of control, the thick production reinforcing their impact, while the drums smash away relentlessly throughout, usually interchanging between hardcore punk-like rhythms and fast, punchy blastbeats.

As far as actual content goes, on display here is basically a mish-mashing of a few select styles, namely hardcore punk, death metal and moments of thick, sludgy groove, employed in fairly equal parts throughout the CD. These are made more acute by the pace of the album, which is sharp and immediate; Leng Tch’e manage to fit 24 songs into just over 33 minutes, so the approach should be obvious: intro, blast, make the point, and finish, no messing around with weird interludes or the overuse of samples.

This album is not revolutionary by any means, but it is a refreshing take on modern deathgrind without sacrificing the genres essentials, and if you get on with mid era Aborted then this should fit in nicely in your collection. As mentioned, the genre is very quickly moving onto (generally unwelcome) pastures new, and Leng Tch’e are moving along with it, but ‘The Process of Elimination’ will serve as one of the reminders of the better days that deathgrind has seen.

When I played this album the first time, I became immidiatly a fan of this group. Thier new, simple but catchy aprroach to the grind genre made me see that these fellas ain't the usual goregrind band, just wanting to show how brutal they are.

The band consists of members from several bands, like Aborted's vocalist Sven De Caluwe, hitting the drums in a very simple but efficient way, and vocalist Boris from Suppusitory/LDOH, and Dark Age, and hit the scene from Blegium. Well, the last thing I could have of was Sven playing drums in a grind band, and then I saw this grind fucking band kicking it really good. And I think Sven should actually stay at this place, because he's doing a really good job, perforating the skins lie a real grindhead. If this album stands for anything, then it's pure fucking energy and powerful entertainment. After being through half of the album, I just wnated to smack somebody, to kick somebody in the face, take a sledgehammer and applicate my hatred on a idiots face. Well, I haven't done that by now, but I feel good with every time I listen to this. This is seriously a great album, and anyone who likes grind that ain't just blast beats and gurgle gurgle vocals, will be very pleased with this. They call this style they play "razorgrind" and I think it's the best way to describe this vile creation.

This is the third release of this guys, and it shows their progression in every case. This album means professional approach to doing grind, but has still the fun when you listen to it. These guys sound a bit like Hemdale or Blood Duster, and that0s good, because those are bands I like too, but this is by far better and more catchy, intensive and the vocal performance of Boris is just fabulous. His vocal style ranges from the throaty raspy, over guttural snarls to high pitched screams, and combines it all to a big vocal assault that can't leave you untouched and sitting on your fat ass. And I must say to believe Sven has laid some back vocals over it all, because he does this most of the time, why not now?

This album represents everything a grind album has to have for me now. I've been always a fan of goregrindcore, since first time listening to my all-time favorite - Carcass' Reek Of Putrefaction. This band could even unite the hard core bastards having accumulateda big hate against everything that's Death Metal, because these guys incorporate HC into their music very well, and even though I can't really say I'm a HC fan, I like it in here. My fav songs are amongst all "Don't touch My Spandex", "Another Hit Single", "Glamourgirl Concubine", "Motorgrinding", "Clarity Denied", and the rest is totally good too. So, nothing bad in this album. So get the fuck up and buy it!