Album Type: Split 12”
Date Released: 7/1/2014
Label: Tankcrimes
‘Splatterhash’ Split CD/DD/12” track Listing:
1. The
Inhalation Plague (CANNABIS CORPSE)
(02:42)
2. Shatter Their Bongs (CANNABIS CORPSE) (03:07)
3. Inner Sanctum (GHOUL) (05:06)
4. Spill Your Guts (GHOUL) (01:43)
2. Shatter Their Bongs (CANNABIS CORPSE) (03:07)
3. Inner Sanctum (GHOUL) (05:06)
4. Spill Your Guts (GHOUL) (01:43)
Bio:
Featuring four tracks of rabid, brutalic insanity, the Splatterhash 12” will be
unleashed via Tankcrimes January 7, 2014 on CD and digital download. For their
portion of the split, GHOUL returned
to Earhammer Studios in Oakland, California where they recorded both Transmission Zero and Splatterthrash. CANNABIS CORPSE recorded at
bassist/vocalist Land Phil’s own Blaze of Torment Studios in Richmond,
Virginia. The whole rollicking shebang was mastered by Dan Randall at Mammoth
Sound and Santa Cruz, California and features cover art by Andrei Bouzikov
(Municipal Waste, Skeletonwitch, Toxic Holocaust). The release marks the first CANNABIS CORPSE material to
feature Land Phil on vocals and Brent Purgason (Pustulus Maximus of Gwar) on lead
guitar.
CANNABIS CORPSE, who recently joined the Season Of Mist roster, is amarijuana-themed death metal assault from Richmond, Virginia. Featuring members of Municipal Waste and Gwar, the red-eyed riffmanglers inCANNABIS CORPSE pride themselves in their exceptional knowledge of good green, face raping riffs and death metal parodies. Future live ceremonials from both
CANNABIS CORPSE, who recently joined the Season Of Mist roster, is amarijuana-themed death metal assault from Richmond, Virginia. Featuring members of Municipal Waste and Gwar, the red-eyed riffmanglers inCANNABIS CORPSE pride themselves in their exceptional knowledge of good green, face raping riffs and death metal parodies. Future live ceremonials from both
bands to be announced in the months to come.
The masked legion known as GHOUL –
Cremator, Fermentor, Digestor, and Dissector – are mutants from Creepsylvania
specializing in the execution of bone-snapping splatterthrash, grave robbing,
flesh devourment and a variety of gory night time rituals. The band will bring
their audio indecency to the stage Halloween night opening for the mighty
Danzig in San Francisco. Additionally, GHOUL will co-headline the first annual Black Sky gala
founded by Skinless’ Sherwood Webber. Denver Black Sky will be held on December
14th, 2013 and features a absurdly sick lineup of: Dying Fetus, Exhumed,
Speedwolf, Power Trip, Mammoth Grinder, Call Of The Void, Reproacher,
Weekend Nachos, Iron Reagan, Axeslasher, Primitive Man, Vimana, Of Feather And
Bone, Native Daughters, Black Sleep Of Kali, Dead Temple and Flight Of
Sleipnir.
Review:
At
12 minutes and 37 seconds, hand-delivered by a label in Oakland featuring bands
from Richmond, Va. and deep within the bowels of Creepsylvania, ‘Splatterhash’ is a brutal, 4 song EP ready to assault
any auditory system. Both bands destroy their tracks, doing what they do best, crushing
metal filled with over-the-top gore & chaos.
Cannabis Corpse began when Phillip “Landphil” Hall and his brother Josh (aka, “HallHammer”) coined the term and thought it would be a great idea for a band. Weed themed death metal. I mean, right?!? But here’s the twist, each of their songs’ characters always meet some horrible end from smoking weed, usually in a horrifically gory manner. Throughout the years, this band of deathly stoners has only released two albums and (now) three EPs, having been through several line-up changes and eventually settling as a three piece with Brent Pergason (also in Gwar) on guitar.
Their
first track on the EP is ‘Inhalation Plague’, a gnarled tale about a green
vapor of THC and bathsalts spreading over east L.A. Of course the protagonist must get high off the vapor, because why
not? As the bathsalts begin to take over, he quickly loses his mind and breaks
into the neighbor’s house to massacre the family. Why? Because METAL! ‘Shatter
Their Bongs’ is the second song, about a mental patient forced to smoke weed
for science until “he’s addicted to hi-grade potent weed eternally.”
And
then there’s Ghoul, the mysterious madmen of Creepsylvania. A strange place with
creepy trees and a sordid past, you can read all about Creepsylvania in the 11
paragraph history on Ghoul’s website. Pretty interesting stuff, Attila the Hun
even briefly owned it until he “accidentally” lost it in a card game. However,
these days the land is filled with bands of roaming ghouls mutilating people
and playing metal.
The
longest song on the EP at 5 minutes, “Inner Sanctum” is the band’s story on how
they lure the innocent into their lair for grisly torture. Their second track,
“Spill Your Guts,” continues the story with HOW Ghoul will torture you or
anyone else they capture. I especially liked the line about once spilling your
guts they’ll sop up the drippings “with your Iron Reagan shirt,” in a grim nod
to one of Landphil’s other projects.
‘Splatterhash’
is short, fast and loud, capturing the best of both bands in just the right
amount of time to piss off the neighbors when cranked up. It’s also one of the
last recordings—if not the last--of
Ghoul with alumni, Dan Randall, on guitar as Dissector (he also mastered the
first few Iron Reagan EPs/album because the metal world is rad like that). You
could always buy the cd or download it, but for just a little extra, why not
pick it up on split colored vinyl? That way, when you’re old and broken, you
can pass it onto the kids in one last attempt to prove you were once cool and
thrashed with the best of them.
Words by: Mat Weir
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