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Thank christ for this disc, a collection of all of the various 7” and 10” tracks that this prolific Japanese noisegrind band has pumped out over the past two years.
With my insane workload here at C-Blast, I don’t have the time to be constantly flipping records over, y’know?
Vinyl Collection 2010-2012 documents an incredibly busy period from Sete Star Sept, following the band from their transformation from a trio of guitar, vocals and drums playing Gerogerigegege-inspired blastnoise into the current incarnation as the duo of bassist / vocalist Kae Takahashi and drummer Ryosuke Kiyasu, the latter an active force in various realms of extreme / experimental music, having also spent time with Canadian power-violence technicians The Endless Blockade and legendary Japanese avant-rock band Fushitsusha.
The disc includes their tracks from the split 12” with Generic Death; the split 10” with Noise; the split 7”s with Penis Geyser, CSMD, Satan, and Rotgut; a four-way split 7” that apparently never came out; the Gero Me 10”; and a live radio performance.
Here’s the older write-up for the Gero Me 10” that is included here:
…this 10” is a love letter of sorts to the vomit-and-cum splattered fantasies of ero-gero written in the form of fifty tracks of batshit noisegrind from this bass/drums duo.
Beginning with the sound of puking vocals and screaming high pitched feedback, the band launches into a non-stop orgy of adrenalized blastnoise, each “song” a hyperpseed assault of deformed grindcore riffs, insanely bestial-sounding female vocals, chattering monkey shrieks, hoarse psychotic gibberish, and ultra-chaotic blast beats, each track averaging around thirty seconds long.
It’s all seemingly improvised, the shapeless grind melting into pure howling amplifier noise, and every couple of tracks they’ll suddenly lurch into a crushing freak-out of tribal drumming and electronic skree, or a grinding mid-tempo punk riff, a short blast of creeping noise-drenched sludge, lock into a bizarre whirlwind groove that sounds like the band has abruptly started to play backwards.
A couple of tracks are barely seconds long, bordering on noisecore, but with some brutal riffing found in the cyclone blasts of supersonic earhate. This ultra-violent blast chaos is rendered with nice burly production, and fans of stuff like Scum-era Napalm Death, 7 Minutes Of Nausea, Anal Cunt, Sore Throat, Aunt Mary, Nihilist Commando, Fear Of God, and Nikudorei will lose their minds to this record…
The rest of this collection is just as blistering, leading into the extreme low-fi vomitblast of the tracks from the split with Generic Death, a series of super-short shock-attacks of chaotic noisecore drumming and gibbering inhuman vocals, mangled riffing and pure cyclonic noise, bursts of free-jazz style drumming spraying across these micro-seizures of Gerogerigegege-meets-Anal Cunt-meets-Pneumatic Slaughter pandemonium.
The tracks from the split 10” with Noise are some of the bands noisiest , most blown out material; these twelve tracks are INSANELY distorted, their already-violent noisegrind pushed through a rumbling, crackling wall of Merzbowian distorttion so deep into the red, it makes for one of the one of the nastiest sounding grind/noise recordings ever.
On their split with Penis Geyser, Sete Star Sept blast through eight tracks of pulverizing noise-grind, a brutal fusion of raw grindcore a la the early Earache ear-destroyers with over-the-top levels of noise and chaos. This shit is amazing, hideous and ultra-violent and totally cathartic; they have the same ability to completely scrape out the interior of your cranium that Unholy Grave does, but work at a vastly greater rate of speed.
The songs erupt and flare out in a matter of seconds, a Neanderthal riff introducing the song right before everything goes supersonic, the high pitched shrieks and monstrous bellowing lost in a maelstrom of crushing bass, 500 mph blastbeats and totally shapeless non-riffs.
The three songs taken from their split 7” with CSMD are some of the band’s most abstract; the first song “Confession Machine” is, by their standards, a fucking epic, at over five minutes long. Contrasting weird improv scrapings and quick two second blasts of chaotic percussion with a steady nauseating feedback tone, this stands out from the rest of the disc as a weird cross between 7MON-style microburst noisecore and the extreme sonic experiments of Randy Yau.
The other two tracks are more like what you’d expect, thirty second blasts of maniacal improvised grind and shrieking vocal horror.
In contrast, the split 7” with Satan provides some of STS’s most straightforward material, five tracks of grinding noisiness with a hardcore punk backbone; lots of ripping three-chord thrash, over-modulated riffs and pummeling D-beat drumming comes barreling off these songs, and even at its most chaotic this is some of the closest stuff to actual grind songs that you’ll get from this band, save for the last track “Colostomy” that ruptures into a slimy mess of total noise.
The split with Rotgut is total freeform blasting, equal parts meandering hyperspeed destruction and blown-out hardcore punk, some almost anthemic hooks coming through on songs like “Fighting Strength” and “Half Asleep”, then splattering apart with the spastic angular improv of “Mechanical Fuck”.
And their material from the four way split 7” they appeared on is more of that super low-fi carnage that again shifts between brutal blasting grindcrust, weird lurching breakdowns, total noisecore chaos and pure howling noise.
The disc wraps up wityh a seventeen minute live set that was recorded at the San Francisco radio station KFJC in early 2012 while the band was touring the U.S.; this sounds like the dup was tearing the very walls of rthe station down around them.
Totally essential for fans of the band who don’t want to mess with tracking down all of the various vinyl releases, this is also the perfect place to start if you’re a noisecore/grindnoise fan new to Sete Star Sept’s 1000mph ultra-violence.
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