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Album Review: Bakteria - Defecate! Suffocate! Mutilate! Masturbate!
Review by Danny Crombie - October 24, 2009
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Bakteria are a rare kind of band, a bunch of guys who've been around since '92 who sing songs to piss people off and (I hope) get some cheap laughs at the same time. What drew me to review this piece of filth was, A. The fantastic manic cover art and, B. The title of the record, Defecate! Suffocate! Mutilate! Masturbate!.
I have some sort of perverse attraction to silly and sick music and this seems easily set to be the death-perv-thrash-core release of the year unless Scottish legends Rectal Examination make an unexpected and quite frankly, unwelcome comeback.
I've never heard of Bakteria in my life but these guys are supposedly banned in Canada and Germany and singer, Umberto Torres killed a guy at a show with a handgun (whether he shot someone or beat them with it I'm not so sure).
In comparison to Behemoth whose latest release I covered recently, the music is not as brutal and resembles that of early 80's thrash like Napalm Death, D.R.I and hints of Black Sabbath at times - it's also a lot less imaginative.
Their songs have questionable and rather disturbing titles like Platypus Bestiality, Shit on My Pubes, Hospital Fuck Fest and Castrate with a Rusty Skate. Lyrics like “fuck your kids with a knife” and “feed faeces to the foetus” will never gain them a prevalent audience and are best described by my disgusted girlfriend as “tasteless”. If ever an album deserved a Parental Guidance warning sticker, this is it.
Bakteria's songs are so utterly ridiculous and offensive for the sake of it that they're incredibly entertaining and fun to listen to. The music and lyrics are one dimensional and seems to be no more than 4 guys trying to irritate as many people as possible and that's what's so great about it.
© Danny Crombie
