Full Length Review: MAGGUT Into The Gore (Bloodbath Records) by Devin Joseph Meaney

Band: MAGGUT

Place of origin: Osaka, Japan

Genre: Death metal/grindcore/goregrind

Full Length: Into The Gore

Label: Bloodbath Records (Japan, Vietnam)

Release date: 2004

Normally I would try to review newly released music, but today I am taking a step back in time. I introduce to you Maggut, one of my all-time favorite Carcass clones. ''Into the Gore'' by Maggut is a filthy, wretched and vile goregrind release, with vicious splattery vocals that pulse forth from your speakers with a vengeance. The vocals sound as if they were recorded in a sewer by a cannibalistic humanoid underground dweller. As for the drums, they are fast and chaotic, pounding along in the background in true grinding fashion. The guitars are tuned low, and sincerely manage to prove that this band can fucking shred. The production quality is just how I like it. Not too high end, yet not lo-fi to the point that the music is barely audible. The song titles are one hundred and fifty percent gore... a monument to Maggut's catchy and vulgar brutality/sickness. I will say that Maggut pulls off that gore-thang ALMOST as good as Symphonies of Sickness era Carcass... almost. Few things are better than a grinding opus such as this, and I will continue to listen to this release time and time again. Like carrion flies to a bloated corpse, gore grinders should lap up this festering pile of awesomeness. Maggut forever! -Devin Joseph Meaney

Lineup:
Masaki: Vocals, bass
Funa: Guitars
Susumu: Drums

Track list:
1. Into the Gore
2. Circle of Maggots
3. Hate Humanitarianism
4. Shrunken Heads
5. Frozen Gut
6. Hermaphrodite
7. The Mule Faced Woman
8. Dismemberment Corpse Collector
9. Pickled Punk
10. Total Dismemberment of a Female Corpse (Regurgitate cover)
11. Vicious Vivit Vomit (VxVxV)
12. Rotten to the Core
13. Unspecified Homicides
14. Cannibal Carnival
15. Intestines Burst
16. Cannibalism Boneheads Disorder