The slug-themed EP/demo ‘Extraterrestrial Gastropod Mollusc’ of Italian based Death Metal/Grindcore combo Slug Gore, is the band’s first outing. And apparently, with all their sluggishness, they have found them some popular niche-scene, as the 50 copies of the cassette tape version were sold out before I could grab one. If you are still interested, this 6-tracker is still available digitally as well as on CD format.
Those tracks are including an intro that should get you ready for the gory sounding Death Metal/Grindcore fusion that would follow in the next 9 minutes and a bit. Non-complicated grinding attack with solid Death Metal riffing and ditto production and wild dynamics. The furious bursts, on the otherwise already rather up-tempo pace, is what mainly gives the music its Grindcore feeling, but if you go to the nitty gritty of Slug Gore, it is fair to conclude that the band divided their music in two equal Grindcore/Death Metal pieces. But, frankly, that discussion is quite a bit redundant as it is the music that should do the talking. And, in this case, it reminds of quite a bit of the early 90’s Grindcore/Death Metal sound, at times the very first recordings of Vomitory came to mind, but Slug Gore also evidently took inspiration from ‘Altars Of Madness’ Morbid Angel, especially in the short but great ‘Infestation’. Regardless of how you listen to it or whatever you hear in their music, its genuine sound and the straightforwardness of it must appeal to anyone who has this soft spot for Old School extreme metal, whether you call it Death Metal or Grindcore, or anything else.
