On the other end you have tracks like The Well of Ghouls or the album’s self-titled track, which offer some of the album’s fastest moments, rich with that blackened goregrind tremolo riffing. Their shuffling tempos combined with their simple structure and repetition are not only the longest tracks but powerful monuments of doom in the album’s favor. Tracks like Empire of the Centipede of Pigs and Hoes or Myth of Perversion are slow sculptures of sexy sludge metal as well as dark demonstrations of sexual doom metal. Gut innovated pornogrind once and now they’re up to their usual tricks again, turning the genre on its head with a perverse act of sexual monstrosity. Its genre is not only more metal, but more unique as well, a combination of blackened goregrind, death metal and doom/sludge metal. There’s also a doom/sludge metal slant to everything as well, with the band taking the time to deliver slower tempos and riffs that create an impending and intimidating atmosphere. The riffs are often akin to black metal tremolo riffing and more technical than anything seen before. Disciples of Smut is Gut’s most metal output bar none and acts almost like an act of maturity from the band, if such a thing were possible. I bring this up for anyone who believes this album to be a venture into the familiar, as that couldn’t be further from the case. Their modus operandi was groovy, short and sweet, with occasional 2-3-minute songs inter-cut with mostly less than minute-length filler and bloated with samples from films. Now to allow me a bit of a history lesson, in their 30-year stride, Gut has always been more of a punk-based grind outfit. Every aspect is an impressive display of grindcore that fills the mind with dingy, dark, dank thoughts of perversion. Disciples of Smut not only exceeded my expectations but chained them up, gagged them and made them their perverted and demented slaves! I’m not exaggerating when I say that this is another solid contender for album of the year. But I’d be flat out lying if I said the singles or previews leading up to this release didn’t turn my head as they were all crushingly brutal, catchy and memorable. To be honest, Gut has never truly impressed me with any single release but had a suitable number of entertaining tracks to cement their position as the fathers of pornogrind in my mind as well as reality. ![]() With their newest material prior to this album being 10 years old and their last album 14 years old, I was curious to see how their newest album would turn out. Gut is back everyone, and even more dirty and disgusting than ever.
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