Lista de los grupos Grindcore Piss Vortex Piss Vortex

Copenhagen based band, Piss Vortex, are a quartet that protrudes a wild amalgamation of crude genres into 14 one to two minute grind tracks. Not much is known about the band, or perhaps my researching skills suck something awful, however, one member out of the quartet has been in business with a fellow Copenhagen based brethren Hexis with their 2011 EP release. Soon after or simultaneously taking on Piss Vortex had formed in 2011 and had been making such a name for themselves in their homeland, Indisciplinarian Records had scooped this band up and released their first album that is perhaps self-titled? Piss Vortex? Whichever way it goes you have this crazy album.

Take a gander at this band’s artwork. That pretty much sums up their creation, a tenacious horde of colors that can be misconstrued as a morbid forest, a Jackson Pollock painting on his most drunken day, or filth from the darkest recess of Denmark’s sewers. Not one color intertwines or repeats itself within this mural of defilement, which coincidentally coincides with how this album is sculpted. Piss Vortex, has created a very violent and abrupt album that could be used as the soundtrack, for a lack of a better comparison, the Michael Brown riots. Loud detuned twangy guitars give off a bit of a sludge crust sound whilst maintaining a strong front with death and hardcore as they have numerous shift-pitch riffs that sound guttural and raw and at other times they almost sound like the bassy razor etched Nails or Dismember’s Self-Titled album. The bass has a nice beefy Gregorian Chant like sound that aid in giving the guitars that much more thump when playing those chaotic hardcore pitch-shifting like riffs or pulling off some of their more subtle jazzier riffs that aid in making the audience feel like they are engulfed in a vortex of filth. The drums are crystal clear and again compliment the bass quite well to where there is this almost Code Orange Kids like feel, where it gives the double-bass so much punch that it hits like a sludgecore band without compromising their versatility.

After giving this record numerous spins and re-reading and re-writing this review, it has the formula of a breathing legend, however, there are a lot of production faults that hinder this LP from being epic. The bass and the double-bass are loud and thunderous, but with those detuned guitars intermingled with that crusty like sound it makes it quite difficult to hear the technical aspects of this band. The switch between genres is what really saves this album, songs like Altered State and Hallow Success portrays the talent behind the band, switching from an experimental technical sound to a hardcore grind act with only a song between. The more chaotic hardcore and grindcore sounds don’t really have a good mixing and at times there isn’t much to the structure in terms of melody, they tend to stick to the general vibe and formula of the old school grind, which isn’t meant to downplay their image, but the songs begin to meld together and often feel like one long song before hitting the memorable ones.

The band definitely has talent and is capable of bringing on a new wave of experimental grindcore like Dephosphorus, A Million Dead Birds Laughing, or even Kataplexis. However, the sound the band chooses to utilize to make themselves unique doesn’t quite flow well and doesn’t compliment what the band could be. Instead the band sounds like Ethan McCarthy from Primitive Man, Withered, Vermin Womb, and Clinging to the Trees of a Forest Fire where he is amazing at putting his creativity into various bands, each of them that suit the specified sound that he wants, but when you put them all together, it all sounds like Primitive Man. Piss Vortex sound the same within many of the songs and what they need to focus on in later projects is identity, once the Vortex has established a steady foundation, this band can flourish, but right now isn’t that time (5/10).