GROINCHURN - ''Already dead'' 3'' CD
Genere: grindcore
Mark
: 5,6/10
Label: Crimes Against Humanity Records
Year: 2002
Length: 9 tracks - 20:25 min
Link: Groinchurn
Mp3: /
Favourite Tracks: ''Kill trend suicide'', ''Soulcraft'', ''Toadlee''

Izgleda kot, da tale mali disk vsebuje starejši material, ki se je nabiral tja od leta 1996 po raznih split ploščah in kompilacijah, poleg tega pa vsebuje še tri neizdane komade in dva posneta v živo. Vsekakor ne prava svar s katero bi moral pričeti spoznavat tole afriško grindcore zasedbo, ampak ok. Zadeva ni slaba, muči me le to, da nisem raje izbral njihovega velikega albuma, ki bi bil posnet v enem obdobju, ampak kaj čem, prikupenemu izgledu te male stvarce se nisem uspel upreti. Stavr pričnejo s tremi neizdanimi komadi, ki so bili posneti v obdobju snemanja albuma ''Fink''. Ti imajo še najboljšo kvaliteto zvoka in mi delujejo kot njihov najbolj zadnji material na tem dokumentu. Zadeva je počasnejša kot sem bil pričakoval, zlasti ''Already dead'' kjer hitri grind deli dobijo priložnost le občasno, pri drugih dveh pa je izmenjavanje približno 50-50. Nasplošno so ti truje komadi zgrajeni preprosto, z izstopajočo bass kitaro in barvitim kričanjem (naslanjajoč se na kruljenje), ter se kljub dolžini, ki ne presega treh minut kar vlečejo, kar pa se v nadaljevanju na srečo zgubi. Naslednji trije, od katerih sta dve priredbi (''Kill trend suicide'' od Brutal Truth in ''Soulcraft'' od Bad Brains) so dosti boljši in silovitejši od prvih treh in so se originalno pojavili na split 7'' z Warspite. Obe priredbi zažigata! Ostane še en zabaven ampak super komad, pobran iz splita z Woyczech, ter dva live komada za katera bi raje videl ce jih CD ne bi vseboval. Nisem namreč nek velik fan live posnetkov! Kot sem že prej omenil je izgled prednje slike, ki nosi zeleno bogomolko, odličen, drugače pa vsebuje ovitek še za vsakega člana posebej svojo fotko, podatke o komadih, ter risbo še ene bogomolke. Besedil ni, ampak glede na naslove komadov sklepam, da gre za za družbeno-kritično vsebino. Kaj naj rečem? Komadi so mi povprečni in niso ravno dosegli mojih pričakovanj, ampak še vedno mi nekja govori, naj preverim raje njigove velike albume in mislim, da jih ob priliki tudi bom!

English Version:
Seems like this little CD contain Groinchurn's previously released material that has appeard on various split releases and compilations since 1996 and besides that they added also three previously unreleased and two live recorded songs. Certainly not the right thing to start with, but ok. It's not bad, I just feel a little regret I haven't rather picked up one of these African grinders full-lengths recorded in the same period. Well, what can I do, this little thing looked so attractive I just couldn't walked away empty-handed. First three songs were recorded during the ''Fink'' recording session and they have better sound quality than others. I guess they're the most recent material herein. Things are slower than I expected, especially the the opening song ''Already dead'' where grind momenet almost don't get the opportunity while tempo changes relation in other two songs are around 50-50. Song structures are simple, bass guitar is in the foreground and they often use multicolour screaming that lean towards growling. Although these first three songs length takes less than three minutes they kind of drag on towards the end, but luckly they abandon that in the songs ahead. Next three of which they're two covers (Brutal Truth's ''Kill trend suicide'' and ''Soulcraft'' of Bad Brains) are much better and forcefull and they originally appeared on a split 7'' with Warspite. Both covers kick ass! Here remians one great and really amusing song taken from split 7'' with Woyczech and two live songs I would rather see they weren't included since I'm not that big fan of live recordings! Like I mentioned before, the front cover with green praying mantis on it looks fantastic and besides that they added also one photo for each member, songs infos and an artwork of another mantis. There's no lyrics but looking at their song titles I guess they're dealing with socio-critical issues. What can I say? Songs are average and they didn't really reached my expectations but something still tells me I have to check out their full-legths and I guess I will.