Political Filipino grindcore. That's right kiddos, and it comes with a heavy dosage of the kickass. Vex makes up for their lack of a good studio, good instruments, and good intentions with a brutal spine-snapping grind that will split your ears and make you play the 24 minute album over and over. Like a lot of grindcore albums, a significant portion of that 24 minutes is devoted to random sound bytes (mostly in Tagalog but there's one clip of some government official speaking in English about the benefits of a partnership between government and free-enterprise). Also the last 7 seven songs are all different versions of the same song, "Cum and Taste Our Revenge," but this proves to be very entertaining rather than redundant. There's even a cover of a Standfast (infamous Swedish punk duo) song, "Self-Righteous Bastard", and a jab at fellow grindcore band Agoraphobic Nosebleed "Agorephobic Saliva Spitting Basstard." Vex is what grindcore is all about, which is having fun, mocking authority, and being incredibly abrasive. Saucy's picks: "Ultra Poverty=Ultra Tragedy", "Capitalism Is Cannabalism", "Basura", "You're So Cool", and of course "Cum and Taste Our Revenge."
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