REVIEW: ALTAR OF GIALLO/BRAIN CORROSION 'SPLIT' (ROTTENPYOSIS)

Leading dealers in disposable splatter, there's no possible capacity for surprise with Spanish three-piece Altar Of Giallo - they delivery chugging, gurgling practice studio goregrind, only dissimilar from Gruesome Stuff Relish - with whom their share vocalist/guitarist Noel Kemper - in that they don't sound quite so much like 'Reek Of Putrefaction' being played back on a Fisher Price cassette player. Opening up their side of the split with the ominous, six-minute-plus 'Zombie Reign' and a sample of '80s incidental music that could come from pretty much any bongwater stained VHS in their collection, Altar Of Giallo write trudging, Impetigo-like death that can be played with either the leprous digits of the song's subject matter, or a complete lack of skill, talent and decent equipment - but that's goregrind for you.

'They Need Flesh' picks up the pace like that first cadaver bashing on the car window in 'Night Of The Living Dead' before it shatters under his fists, giving way to Taiwanese trio Brain Corrosion - who misleadingly share their name with a Dead Infection album. In actuality, Brain Corrosion have far more in common with the skin-lashing death metal chug of Cannibal Corpse or Necrophagia, and a hefty dose of punkish grindcore swagger, that makes Brain Corrosion's four tracks instantly stand out over that of their more experienced and better known disc-mates, rounding off proceedings in suitably gastric fashion with a cover of 'Bleeding Peptic Ulcer' by Swedish gorelords Regurgitate.

Altar Of Giallo lurch, Brain Corrosion strut - making this split 1985's zombies versus punks splatterfest Return Of The Living Dead. So then, somebody's going to have to die.