Review by Michael on July 10, 2001.

The first time I gave this CD a spin I couldn’t help but laugh. With an average song length of about 30 seconds, and the average song name of about 8 words….it seems there is only enough time in each track to say the title and then move on to the next one. I’m not sure exactly what Agoraphobic Nosebleed were trying to achieve with this release, and to be honest I have no idea of whether or not they actually achieved it. They are written up as a Grind Core band, but I’m not exactly a wealth of knowledge in this genre. From everything that I’ve heard and seen….Grind Core is the name you give any music that sounds like drilling concrete (in 30 second intervals).

Now to the songs themselves. Well, I don’t think I can really call them songs….because they don’t seem to contain any pre-conceived structure at all. It sounded more like someone yelled out “ok guys, the mics on” and the band just started kicking their instruments around the room while the vocalist concentrates on fitting in all 8 title words into his 30 second timeframe, in a style that sounds surprisingly like someone is cutting his arm off with scissors. There are no real drums on this recording, only drum machines. I don’t think they spent too many hours programming the beats for each song, they just dialled up a couple of snare, kick and symbol sounds, turned the tempo up to about 400 and pressed play 26 times during the recording.

I think the only reason they actually created separate ‘tracks’ is so all the fans can use that little random button on their stereos, and challenge each other to a game of ‘which track is that?’. I’m quite sure that I would lose this game as I found myself checking if there was a problem with my CD player every 5 minutes (that’s about 14 songs by the way) to see if it was stuck on the same track.

Bottom Line: In all fairness to Agoraphobic Nosebleed, this cannot be a serious release. With tracks like ‘Polished Turd’, ‘Hat Full of Shit’ and the all time classic ‘How Sean Through His Back Out Sneezing’, I don’t expect this album to go down in metal history.

Rating: 3.5 out of 10

Review by Carl on June 20, 2023.

Before we get into the meat of this cd, I'd like you to focus your attention on the cover art. Go on, take a gander. Now you might be thinking that it's just a vase of flowers, but it's not until you take another look when you start noticing the splattered blood and body parts on there. Once you've spotted that, there is no more denying that this is some bitchin' cover art, right? You just gotta love art that comes at you in waves like that. It's something different than the depraved slaughter or dystopian landscape art that adorns a lot of death metal releases these days, and I love it! And with that out of the way, let's talk music!

Stylistically, you could place Grimentity between late 90's brutal death metal such as Lividity, Disgorge (US), Fleshgrind and Incestuous, and the death/grind style as it was popular around that same time in Germany and Eastern Europe, with acts like Ingrowing, Kadath, Nyctophobic and Abortion. Blast beat driven ferocity is alternated with groovier stomp, with the fat and heavy riffing holding the tracks firmly together. The vocals are a two-pronged attack of a gruff grunt and a ferocious scream that had me thinking of classic US grinders such as Terrorizer and Hemdale, thus establishing a genuine grindcore feel throughout. There are some winks and nods to the later works of Misery Index and Napalm Death in the guitar work as well, ensuring a good amount of variation, while keeping it all aggressive and fierce. This is a dose of way above average grinding death metal, and all into late 90's/early 00's bands such as Dying Fetus, Exhumed, Skinless and Resurrected should be able to find something to like in here.

When it comes to production I'm a bit torn here, honestly. It all sounds effin' massive, with everything neatly balanced out, but while the guitars sound heavy as fuck and the vocals make for an aggressive performance, the percussion sounds that bit too compressed to my liking. I guess that this is more or less a case of taste on my part, but if the drums had sounded just that bit more organic, it would have given the already ripping music even more punch.

I'm going to wrap this one up by saying that this is a pretty banging affair, sounding massive whilst oozing aggression, and it should be able to strike a nerve with all who like death metal/grindcore with an old school brutal death metal edge to it. If you feel any kind of nostalgia for the late 90's death metal scene (like me), these guys are sure worth checking out!

rating: 8.5 out of 10