1. Blast of Truth
  2. Only the Depressive Trades
  3. No Chance to Refuse
  4. Afected by Disequilibrium
  5. Trapped
  6. Nothing Becomes Ruin
  7. Palestine Guts
  8. Brain Pulsing
  9. Human Hardware Dysfunction
  10. Plasma Arc
  11. Interruption Request
  12. Aufklärung
  13. End of Line
  14. Madness and Reason
  15. Spell or Xenophobism
  16. Sofrer em Paz
  17. Sense Power, be Dead!
  18. Exploitation
  19. Condemned
  20. Time Rips Us Out
  21. Worthless Anger
  22. Purging the Phlegm
  23. One Day of Terror
  24. Chaotic State of Addiction
  25. Spread Our Cancer
  26. Não [Part. 1]
  27. Regurfecontocoremintocegues
  28. Não [Part. 2]
  29. Grey Waste II - O Cocito
EXPURGO - Burial Ground

GENRE: Grindcore
COUNTRY: Brazil
FORMAT: CD
LABEL: Black Hole Productions
YEAR: December 17th, 2010

RATING: 7/10
REVIEWED BY: PSL
PROVIDED BY: Black Hole Productions

Expurgo is a Brazilian four-piece. The band plays dirty grindcore in the vein of Regurgitate, early Carcass, but I hear a bit of Machetazo in there as well. Besides grindcore the band finds inspiration in punk, hardcore, goregrind and death metal. There's not exactly anything different in what the Brazilians are doing, but it's not much of an issue.

The music is straight forward and mostly fast, but it has the needed diversity to be interesting. The riffs are good and many of the songs are quite catchy. It doesn't hurt either that there's a bit of groove in the music now and then, as well as the band recurrently slows things down a bit. Most of the songs are short, two minutes or less. That does add to the energy of the CD and I appreciate that.

As with so much else music in this genre there's a few samples here and there. These are taken from horror movies. The samples do fit the songs just right and I like the feel that these add to the songs. Another good thing is that the four-piece doesn't overdo it like so many other bands tend to.

Burial Ground may not be a magnum opus, but it's an effort that has all I like to hear on a grindcore CD. If you like your music dirty, brutal and in-your-face then I'd give Burial Ground a chance as it's definitely just as good as so much else out there.



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