### Goregast: La revancha

#### 28/11/07 || Kampfar

When I first heard “La revancha,” I thought I had found myself a nice surprise, a hidden gem to share with those into gore metal. In addition it seemed as a nice opportunity to honor a band – for the greater part of their career named Distress – that has stayed in the game and churned out music since 1993. The name of the game being death/grind, aka gore metal.

Turns out I’m wrong, there’s no need to heap praise, and they haven’t exactly been pouring out music throughout the years either. Repeated listens revealed “La revancha’s” blandness, and from 1993 to 2004 the band were active as dead whores, producing only two demos, most likely horrible ones, at least bad enough to ensure them interest from no one. Rumour has it that the entry into The metal archives was the apex of Distress’ career. That I believe.

So then, in 2004 they found the time right to give it another go, this time equipped with one of the shittier monikers of metal, a mean feat for sure. In fact, when I noticed they wore masks (oh, except for the sunglasses-dude) I at first thought they did so in shame of their name. Later I’ve concluded that the reason could just as well be because they want to leave the impression that they are wanted criminals, ones letting free animals and demolishing slaughterhouses as a day job. Anyway, their masks looks like utter shite, and is without doubt the cheapest looking Slipknot replicas I’ve ever seen.

Their music sounds better than their masks look, make no mistake, but ultimately we don’t need Goregast. Their blend of death, grind and a little punk (a side-effect of the grind?) is not up to par with any of the big players’ game. First of all, it isn’t violent enough, especially not for a band sporting a “be environmental, kill a human” sort of attitude; and secondly, if they are all tongue in the cheek about it, they should start being funny already. Apart from, “Sorry, I damaged your brain,” the title, not the song, I’m not exactly left all giggly and smiling.

The worst part about “La revancha,” however, is that I can’t truly mock it, drag it through the dirt and crucify it. It’s not like the band overestimates their skills, simultaneously shit their legs and make a horrible German scat fest out of it. No, their crime is being bland and dry. Boring. Out of ideas. In fact, Boregast is the best way to describe the band behind this effort. All I can recall from numerous listens is the chorus of “Animalismo,” and that part I’ll forget soon after I’ve concluded this review. Of that I’m sure. I do remember a couple of more riffs when I listen to it (which I’ll never do again), the sad fact being that I do mean a couple.

Quit already, Goregast. We have bands like Birdflesh, Jigsore Terror, Nasum, Napalm Death, Sublime Cadaveric Decomposition, Rotten Sound, Gorerotted, among others, available, each and everyone rendering your existence surplus. It’s true that the list of bands being worse than you would’ve been even longer, but Mount Mediocre is the shittiest climb of them all, inducing an emotional vacuum hard to describe.

Fuck off.

4 out of 10.

- Information
- Released: 2007
- Label: Hecatombe Records
- Website: Goregast MySpace
- Band
- Rico Unglaube: vocals
- Rico Krause: guitar
- Steve Kleinert: guitar
- Ronny Thiel: bass
- Josch Stritzke: drums

- Tracklist
- 01. Intro de revancha
- 02. Animalismo
- 03. Solo Asesinos
- 04. Varg sucks varg
- 05. Sorry, I damaged your brain
- 06. Aspirador
- 07. Suck my ass, yeah!
- 08. Pelt coat fuck off!
- 09. Chinabrain for apes
- 10. Assbushhole
- 11. Gusano Songroso
- 12. Outro de revancha