UNHOLY MATRIMONY [V/A]

Title: Unholy Matrimony [Various Artists]

Format: This is a 64 x file (MP3) that was collated and released on the Smell The Stench label (Australia) on 24 December 2008, catalogue reference sts-net 400 .  There has been no official physical release of this compilation.

1-01.  Stigma Diabolicum & Zarach Baal Tharagh  *  Unholy Union  2:52 

1-02.  Slut Kull  *  I Ain't Gonna Murder Anybody On Our Wedding Day  4:12 

1-03.  [C. T. D.]  *  Vocal Improvisation For Leigh And Mandi  2:38 

1-04.  Silas Ciarán  *  Vous Aimez Seulement Les De La Ville  5:48 

1-05.  Rats With Wings  *  Misogamist  2:47 

1-06.  Bruital Orgasme  *  Music For Honeymoon  3:35 

1-07.  RedSK  *  A Happy Union  1:52 

1-08.  Endometrium Cuntplow  *  December  4:58 

1-09.  Screwtape  *   Love Ascends  5:42 

1-10.  Prodvkt  *  A March For Leigh  4:21 

1-11.  Ewe  *  La Voix De Ghoby Part 2  1:39 

1-12.  Flat Affect & DRK  *  Moreover  5:36 

1-13.  Mystified  *  Tumble  3:40 

1-14.  Some Asian Female Bodybuilders & Mixturizer  *  Torturexploitation / Goddess Heather  4:33 

1-15.  Rabbit Girls  *  Doves  5:50 

1-16.  Tainted Corrosive Mist  *  #16 (A Drone'n'noise Wedding)  4:38 

2-01.  Not Half  *  The Honeymoon  4:59 

2-02.  Chav Stabbe  *  First Waltz  5:00 

2-03.  Flippin Idiots  *  Legion  4:57 

2-04.  Crnich  *  Mandleighville  4:12 

2-05.  Soma  *  Happy Wedding  5:00 

2-06.  +DOG+  *  Sodomized Priest In Flames  2:51 

2-07.  Nihilistic Front  *  Poison Gas Attack  4:59 

2-08.  Herz Tod  *  Destructions (Remix - Zarach Baal Tharagh) 2:29 

2-09.  UNIT731  *  Cum Transmitter  2:00 

2-10.  Necroanal  *  I'm Getting Married, Too! (To My Right Hand, We've Been Dating For Years)    

2-11.  Extreme Volume Pop  *  Wedding Day  4:06 

2-12.  Fuck, The Retarded Girl  *  'Ave Yourselves A Lovely Otis Redding  1:16 

2-13.  Villain  *  Dance  3:54 

2-14.  900piesek  *  Full Moon  4:42 

2-15.  |n|!|g|h|  *  I Conjure No Life  3:44 

2-16.  Razxca  *  Untitled 465h5t Partial  2:34 

3-01.  Novasak  *  A Commitment To Noise  4:54 

3-02.  Zebra Mu  *  I Do  1:23 

3-03.  KZ9  *  Spread Baby Stench In The Face Of Allah!  4:54 

3-04.  Armenia Z024  *  Muslo 02  3:12 

3-05.  Doldis  *  Bröllopsdag  5:15 

3-06.  Hrossharsgrani  *  Terminate  5:51 

3-07.  Abraxas_apparatus  *  1L2A  1:26 

3-08.  Flutwacht  *  GFG  5:07 

3-09.  Hatesound  *  Ships In The Night  4:18 

3-10 .  Trend Basher  *  Untitled  3:15 

3-11.  Sick To The Back Teeth  *  Morning Gift  4:57 

3-12.  Gorgonized Dorks  *  Dead Dream  7:37 

3-13.  Heirdrain  *  In Life Beyond Death  4:24 

3-14.  Infested With Maggots  *  Untitled 4 Leigh And Mandi  4:30 

3-15.  Hybrid Frequency  *  Just Like Me  4:10 

3-16.  Cat.n.Bone  *  And Again A Set Of Utensils Into A Gift To A New-Married Pair  1:11 

4-01.  Ego Death  *  Click  5:00 

4-02.  I Spit On Your Grave  *  Hatchet For The Honeymoon  4:02 

4-03.  I;C;O;C  *  JjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjJFbBTIIIIIi XzX  4:46 

4-04.  Duct Tape  *  Sadist Tribute  1:58 

4-05.  Undecisive God  *  Spinning Gerogerigegege  4:23 

4-06.  Mixturizer & Hinyouki  *  Inhumanity / Zangyakuhidou  4:59 

4-07.  The Noisettes  *  Soldering Mesons  3:14 

4-08.  Dotåbåtå  *  The Stench Of Wedding Bells  4:56 

4-09.  Flower Of Flesh And Blood  *  For Leigh And Mandi  3:35 

4-10.  Bicycle Sighs  *  I Am Not The Girl That You Think You Are  4:56 

4-11.  IDO59  *  Flyby  5:01 

4-12.  Innominus  *  Seremonia  4:53 

4-13.  Zieltogend  *  XXIX  4:39 

4-14.  Socialistic Jonny Goblet  *  Smell The Nuptuals  3:32 

4-15.  Sliced Up Junkie Cunt  *  Was Si Muess Muess Si  2:54 

4-16.  The Helmut Bernecker Noise Gore Experience  *  All The Best And A Wiener Schnitzel  1:39

There’s not a lot you can say about a monstrous compilation like this one, other than be prepared to be shocked, repulsed, intrigued and ultimately exhausted in equal measure.  The ’net’ label side of Smell The Stench had a fine history of downloadable releases numbering into the high hundreds and around every 100^th release they’d put out a gargantuan release like this one, bringing together as many noise-mongers from the Melbourne/wider Australian territories as possible, then adding in overseas contributions until saturation point was achieved.

This particular effort – the 400^th net release, as reflected in the catalogue reference – was a 2008 event issued to celebrate the wedding of Leigh (Smell The Stench co-founder) and Mandi Stench.  And, as can be seen from some of the more entertaining song titles, many of the bands took the opportunity to make pertinent and relevant comments on this newly achieved nuptial bliss in their contributions.  Other songs seem pretty much to have been shoe-horned in for the hell of it, one of which being the Hrossharagrani contribution ‘Terminate’.

Normally one might have expected a noisy affair from Hugin’s Bonemachine project to have found its way onto this sort of collection (which, in fact, has been pretty much the order of things for previously reviewed STS endurathons) so to find a song by Hrossharsgrani is unexpected.  But then this was the period (2009) in which they went a bit industrial on us, moving away from their traditional Viking-influenced metal assault, so perhaps it was just the sound that Leigh was looking for?  ‘Terminate’, you may recall, appears on the somewhat abstract “Pro Liberate Dimicandum Est” album.  And, of course, Smell The Stench went onto release a few Hrossharsgrani titles after that time too such as the 3” CDr pressing of “The Long Grey Road” so this association led to interesting things in the years to come.

  

Other than a picture of the happy couple on their wedding day (below – don’t say Nazgul doesn’t try hard to get this stuff pulled together for you) there’s probably nothing more to say other than to reiterate the wise words of the Helmut Bernecker Noise Gore Experience: All The Best And A Wiener Schnitzel.