Review by Arek on May 4, 2024.

My contact with this quartet rooted in the Podlasie region was as unobvious as the fact that even living pretty much next door I have still missed such a band. But that's what happened and I don't know how long I would have remained in ignorance if it weren't for the coincidence that just before going to the first BlastFest, my friend asked me if I knew this band from Białystok - Meat Spreader? And to my surprise, he added who was in it. I don't know how blind and deaf you have to be to miss such an incarnation. Let me put this on the back of this abnormally driven world, being bombarded with megatons of musical bytes every day, and move on to the review of their latest album.

Fifteen songs and 30 minutes of gore/grinding with a crusty edge. I've always liked the crust sound, especially in grind. Is this due to replacing Tocha with Jawor? I don't know, but Mental Disease Transmitted By Radioactive Fear is so crunchy that even Rotten Sound could envy them - trust me on that one! Jaro, despite losing his long hair and having the young years of his life behind him, proves that he ages like a fine wine, and there are many ways to grind your throat away. It's true that he sometimes uses electronics, but believe me, it only helps this album and proves his musical experience. Radek is not in any fault either, he knows perfectly well when to throw dynamite into the hen house.

The album flies by quickly, and tasting of it it ends in scarcity despite the genre's intensity and power. Short but sweet as they say so you can listen to the album many times and discover new flavors after each listen. Although Meat Spreader certainly didn't invent the wheel and sometimes you can pick up some threads previously heard on other albums, I think that they filled the gap left after the loss of Dead Infection and the dormancy of Incarnated perfectly.

To finish this review, I will only add that every fan of solid sonic ass kicking from death metal to grindcore, will be satisfied after listening to this album. Will everyone be as hot for it as I am? You have to check the album yourselves to find out which I hope I encouraged you to do throughout this review. When asked which of their albums I recommend more, I will answer with the full commitment that you should listen to both. And as proof, I would like to add that the first one was recorded by musicians from Dead Infection (Tocha and Jaro), Squash Bowels - Artur aka Paluch and The Dead Goats/Neuropathia - Radek. The second one is the previously mentioned Jaro, Artur and Radek and Jawor (The Dead Goats/Neuropathia).

Rating: 8.5 out of 10

Review by Carl on July 19, 2022.

You know how in prog rock they have these supergroups made up from well-known guys from other bands? Well, that's kinda what's happening here but with goregrind. Here is a band that's made up from people who have earned their laurels long ago with acts such as General Surgery, Lymphatic Phlegm and Regurgitate, and those are just the tip of the congealed pus-berg. This is their first full-length, and if you come with me, I will gladly discuss the debut album of goregrind's answer to Asia with you.

I take it that nobody is going to be surprised when I tell you that this has a serious Regurgitate and Carcass vibe running throughout. It has the blasts, distorted bass and pitch-growled vocals, but the occasional groovier yet still nauseatingly heavy sections are present as well. The songs are kept short, 14 of 'em in 30 minutes, while playing is tight throughout, often exhibiting an almost hardcore punk-like energy. It sounds like a lot of care has gone into making the music on offer here as energetic, heavy and varied as is possible, with all the trademarks of the goregrind/death metal genre present, without resorting to weird experiments. What has to be said as well is that for an album recorded in different locations all over the planet, this certainly sounds coherent, and not cobbled together in any way. The whole package is held together by a clear production that fortunately still has a good amount of grit to it to make it all sound not too polished. Listening to this platter 'o' splatter, you can actually hear that these people had fun (de)composing and recording it.

This will most certainly not win any awards for originality, but to hell with that. This is just a good and solid slab of gory grinding underground metal, and I doubt any fans of the genre will be malcontent with it.

Rating: 8.5 out of 10