"This is some of the best grind-core I’ve heard in a long time. I mean the bile is rising to the top of my throat and I still feel like ripping apart a mosh pit with my hands and teeth. These guys have a pace that can’t be beat, a rhythm that thumps like adrenaline, and a gory necro-gangsta style that makes me want to recognize them with two middle fingers sky high. I haven’t heard from these guys in a few years. Man, am I glad that they sent this steamy pile to me in the mail. It is totally whipping my ass. You want to hear the most intense thing on the market today? Pick up a copy of “Rot, Crumble, Collapse” and get ready for the doo-doo to hit the fan. More gristly than Cannibal Corpse and 100% more entertaining."
"This is the new & improved CARRION CRAWLER, back on the scene. These guys have been demolishing the scene since the mid 90's with their blend of Grindcore, Noize & Death metal music. These guys are crazy. Their music is very spastic sounding which you find in Grindcore & Noize blended with heavy brutality that you would get from Death Metal. I loved this band then & I love them now. The vocals are very harsh Grindcore screams & low end Death gurggles. These guys remind me of a Death/Grind version of the band DEATH CORE. This is a must for fans of this style!!!"
"Carrion Crawler = Agoraphobic Nosebleed + Anal Cunt + Cephalic Carnage + Anal Blast Named after a heinous D&D beast, this Colorado band screams forth with all the rage and fury of any self respecting gore\noise\grindcore band. With surprisingly long songs for a band of this genre, this is a pretty quality release. If you’re into the chaotic sounds of Anal Blast, Agoraphobic Nosebleed and other grinding chaos, this is worth checking out because it’s a rotting head and shoulders above many of their peers out there!!"
"Deadly fucking grindcore that kills! I was in shock, literally. Elements of Agx/A.C./FUCKTHEFACTS/EXISTENCH make this a flawless grind release! To get your copy is cheap as hell (pro release,sick art) $5 usd +$1 shipping, can't go wrong!!"
"Having seen a cover of this disk I was horrified - this picture would be an ideal visual expression of what my comrade Valik ("Posadil Derevo") disrespectfully names "meat, brains and guts"! Fortunately, inside - in music - nothing similar was detected!!! It is not the first album of grindcore-trio Carrion Crawler. The bass player/vocalist of the band Todd (Fish Man) together with guitar-player Justin Kelly "control"("Formed" - ED) the experimental label Swamp Of Pus and realize their avant-guard-noise ambitions in the project NOVA-SAK. Yeah, have I written that it is grindcore? Technically faultless, with contrive arrangements (no, I do not mean levity of Locust and An Albatross) and crazy drive which lasts the whole album. Closer by the end musicians hardly "play" with noise ("Bitch Shifter3"), and in the last track there is a ghost of late Neurosis ("Lorde Of All Maggots"). The best tracks: "Track #2", "The Downs Syndrome Nazi" and "Rippin' Dippin' Set Trippin'" that forced me to recollect fucking morrons S.O.D. The best alternative "to addict" your comrade on grind!"
1% Death Metal/Grindcore/Thrash; 99% Brutality.
"This is the kind of underground release that might not please the current metal scene: It's not over produced, the cover is not beautiiiiful and it doesn't contain over the top of fame selling arguments. But since music matters much more than the $$ invested in production or any over the top jet setting points, and the current scene is over saturated with crappy means and abusively lazy valours, let's put our fingers deeper into the bowels of this underground release. CARRION CRAWLER evolves between grindcore, brutal death and grindgore. Each side of the spectrum is more present depending on the song: One of the ugly faces is quite gory, following an almost goregrind approach that could remind of old SANITYS DAWN, early EXHUMED, with a little bit of old GENERAL SURGERY, old FILTH (Demo tape), old INTENSE HAMMER RAGE (Am I wrong?) or eventually IMPETIGO (For some moods... But it's not the same style). The second ugly face would tend to quite complex US Brutal death fornicating with Death grind, while the third face of purulence sounds like "Complex grind" à la HUMAN REMAINS, DISCORDANCE AXIS, a bit of old (Blasting) SOILENT GREEN and quite fukked things like that. Even thought some parts are cool and quite entertaining, there's also a bunch of moments that don't develop much the putridity (You could also insert the words "Sickness" or "Brutality", depending on your mood), and would even dissolve the efficiency with demonstrative manners. I also don't like a part of the drum-playing that much, it feels like some blasts could sound stronger or some patterns could kick much more. Finally, we have an anticommercialy packaged release (Attractive cover) that contains its cool moments, but there are too many average parts to really turn me on. It might be a cool item for underground maniacs who dig demos and can't get enough of the various styles and bands quoted before."
"/”Satan can’t play Dungeons and Dragons” “ham’n’cheese on steel” I wish I had found such titles myself. This record, they say, is an insult to the black metal 2 D scene. Well: please ask a black metal fan if it is, I have no idea (but I do like the words 2D to describe the black metal scene). I guess that if you haven’t been listening to a lot of metal as a teenager as I did, the endless jokes & clichés on this record aren’t going to be very appealing to you but in case you did, I think you’re going to like it as much as I did. Or the other way round."
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