Hardcore grinding filth in the manner of Eyehategod, but even more deranged in its expression of hatred, degradation and horror. By all accounts Buzzov*en were truly a band from society’s underbelly, revelling in violence and addiction and fully able to translate that reality into sound. Sore remains their definitive statement, mixing faster tracks with longer, drawn-out expositions of dementia, with the album’s sleeve art resembling sketches stripped from a psychiatric ward for serial killers. An array of unpleasant samples add to the music’s feral, rabid bite, making Sore an authentic trip into blood-splattered purgatory. The album’s last track, “This Is Not…”, has an additional looped voice sample appended to its initial 5-minute duration; this “repeat groove” section runs to some four minutes on the vinyl edition (here), or fourteen on
the CD.