REGURGITATE Hatefilled Vengeance (2002) CD

Goregrind doesn't do subtlety, and Sweden's Regurgitate never pretended otherwise. Hatefilled Vengeance is exactly what it says on the sleeve, thirty-plus tracks of blasting, grinding, medically themed chaos from one of the genre's most relentless acts.

Released in 2002 on Relapse, this record sits at the uglier end of a very ugly spectrum, and that's the compliment. Regurgitate were operating in the same gutter-level tradition as Haemorrhage and Agathocles, but with a Swedish precision in the low-end that gives the whole thing a nasty, almost surgical weight. The song lengths are measured in seconds. The riffs are measured in damage. If you know, you know. If you're just finding out, welcome to the deep end of the extreme metal pool.

CD, 2002. Swedish goregrind. For fans of Haemorrhage, Machetazo, Agathocles, Exhumed.