Legs Akimbo seem to be one of the most ‘outstanding’ labels when it comes to splattering and grinding sonic filth. Just click on the label’s name and you’ll get access to some reviews of other perverted reviews I did write for this UK-based label. Completely in the vein, in the spirit of this specific trend, quite a lot gets released on vinyl, of course. This goes as well for the split with Japanese combo Sete Star Sept and Belgium’s finest Anxiety Disorder.
The Sete Star Sept -side was recorded in one day at the Grand Blue Studio (very important information, I admit) by Kae and Kiyasu (and to be even more detailed: on February 2nd 2014). This Tokyo-based 7s7-act (you might find out it yourself) is especially known from its contribution on about 665 splits before (hey, this might be the 666th!). Now they come up with eight totally distorted, malformed and sick Noisegrind eruptions, quite comparable to the likes of Carcass Grinder or Arsedestroyer, and even Sore Throat and Gore Beyond Necropsy might come to mind. Is it world-shaking? Actually it is not. Is it reinventing anything at all? No, seriously, it is not. Is it dull? Well, unless you’re allergic to grinding excrements, you will have to pay tribute to the great decompositions by this Tokyo-based outfit; it’s that simple…
The other side of this split-7”EP consists of six ‘songs’ (hehe, what’s in a word) by our own Anxiety Disorder (Kassy Ikea, Gerty McLovin, Bramy Meathat ([1]) and Roddy McWonderfull) [(1) ‘vleesklak’ is some kind of dialect translation, locally used in Flanders, for ‘meat hat’, so it does sort of explains the connection with the Vleesklak-label]. These guys were previously acting in Witness The End (at least several of them), an act that didn’t release but one EP, but that did gain quite a fabulous live reputation (at least in their home town Wuustwezel, and some other villages nearby, haha). Anyway, they bring a form of Goregrind with quite some references to the ugliest sides of the Death Metal side, the Grindeath current, and the ‘regular’ Grind-scene in general. Damn yeah, they are much more ‘mainstream’ than their Japanese colleagues on this split… NOT! Actually, although a certain Death Metal injection (and now it seems as if death Metal is mellow music for tired souls…), these guys are at least as splattering and slashing-smashing-crushing as many colleagues all around on our rotten globe.
This is an easy one to summarize. With this split, two fine acts are joined together in order to depopulate Mother Earth, if only the sonic solution could be a means… I mean, both bands are protagonists within this specific sub-genre, and it’s great to have them both gathered on one single piece of vinyl. Grind-freaks surely have to check this out!