GIGANTIC BRAIN "The Invasion Discography" CD RR27

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Gigantic Brain
"The Invasion Discography" CD
Razorback Records 2004
Review by Roar E-Zine
It's the year 2004, a year that some of you lucky survivors might remember as the year the Gigantic Brain attacked the earth. It all started with that strange anonymous transmission from outer space...

**start of transmission**

"Hello citizens of planet Earth, this is a warning to you all. A Gigantic Brain headed towards your planet. Jealousy turned this Gigantic Brain against his own species, but now there are none left it is targeting the entire universe until everything is dead and rotting. Please abandon the planet immediately or you will be doomed. This is a last warning, go now or be obliterated."

**end of transmission**

Imagine the reactions; world leaders were in tears from laughter, underground radio was calling their listeners to build their own space ships to get out while they still could, religious fanatics saw the calling of God himself and prepared for the end of all times. I spoke to several eye witnesses that were still around the day the Gigantic Brain arrived at our then flourishing planet, to see what they had to say.

Jane Doe:
"A brain the size of the moon, preposterous. There is no such thing; whatever is out there is just a government plot to get my property...now get off my lawn before I unleash Brutus."

John Doe:
"Honestly man, you know... like awesome man, a Gigantic Brain, man, wow...seriously trippy man... awesome..."

Billy & Jill:
"Hey, have you met our pal here yet? Yes, that's THE Gigantic Brain, isn't it awesome! We'll be releasing a CD filled with his music!"

I was dumb founded, a Gigantic Brain that could... play instruments? Never in my life had I heard such a silly thing. But it was true after all, as the world never recovered from that dreadful day the Gigantic Brain unleashed its outer space sonic beam through the raging label known as Razorback Records. I suppose we have them to thank for this disc despite the whole...you know, blowing up the world with a gigantic sonic beam of destruction thing.

Sixty-three, yes you read it right, SIXTY-THREE insane tracks of hyper speed drum computer madness, frantic down tuned guitar play and the most dramatic epic feeling you could ever imagine from a band like this. Imagine an agoraphobic nosebleed, but with more style and musicianship and a natural flair of epic song writing. There is too much stuff on this disc to mention (you can check the tracklist here, it was way too long to add), but here are some of the highlights:

- Cancelled full length stuff, has two great tracks ("The First Stampede" and "The Second Stampede")

- Four brand new tracks

- Twenty-three misc. unreleased tracks

All of that comes in absolutely brilliant packaging, very retro and heavy on the alien factor.

Now, as I float here around in space, on my own, alive only because of my copious amounts of oxygen tanks, I am glad that I brought "The Invasion Discography" with me, because the brand of the Gigantic Brain will scare anyone that dares to come close.

Gigantic Brain
"The Invasion Discography" CD
Razorback Records 2004
Review by Riftrock.com
Reviewer: David Huffy
Rating: 8.5 (Highly Approved)

Gigantic Brain is something out of this world, think of some sort of sci-fi version of Agoraphobic Nosebleed on crack and speed and you’ll get Gigantic Brain. Hyper grind assault of thundering drum machine death with heavy erratic heavy as led guitar distortion. This disc is one that will make your head explode.

Sixty-three tracks of unreleased and failed material that never made it to various full lengths and split EP’s now available on one disc for the whole world to see and be killed to. This is definitely one of those bands? Perhaps project is the better word. Gigantic Brain is a project that was taken on by someone who knew their equipment and had a great imagination for music to create something like this.

”The Invasion Discography” is 63 tracks of relentless death, picture getting hit in the head every minute. The album is just one attack after another with great simple crushing guitar work, in the case of this album you don’t need crazy guitar work, you just need something that can stay in a simple rhythm with the insanely fast drum machine. I couldn’t pick out a particular track if I tried; this is an album you listen to until you feel like your brain is melting. The fast guitar and drum machine will cut out and then jump right into a grooving rip your face off break down. Some tracks have interesting electronic spacey samplings that are freakish sounding but somehow fits the music perfectly. The album is what it would be like if some horde of alien monstrosities were to start taking over the planet.

”The Invasion Discography” is a must for grind fans and anyone into insanity and so brutal it will get you with its pounding heaviness. Gigantic Brain is not of this planet, beware!


Gigantic Brain
"The Invasion Discography" CD
Razorback Records 2004
Review by undeadair

This is everything you know about grind gone horribly wrong in the best possible way. From the hyper-space blast beats to the sick alien screams of pan-dimensional destruction, Gigantic Brain conquers your headspace and makes you an unwitting thrall in their campaign of utter annihilation of all known life in the space of an hour. This disc of intergalactic grind is pieced from all previously conceived anti-material and as such, there is little " flow" to be found here. What you will find however, is fleeting stability until being sucked into a black-hole and spat out to a completely unique multi-verse of aural chaos. If you can survive the entire trip, you are truly among the few; the elite who can claim to have the impenetrable strength of will to withstand such a mind-blowing experience. With that said... you will still become food for the Gigantic Brain. Buy and/or die anyway!

Gigantic Brain
"The Invasion Discography" CD
Razorback Records 2004
Review by Metal Nightmare Zine

Think you've heard extreme grindcore? Think again. GIGANTIC BRAIN is here to conquer the world! That is... if it doesn't destroy us all first. One man, armed with his guitar, drum machine, and plenty of distortion has assembled all of his recorded material and coerced Razorback Records into pressing it all on CD. With sixty three songs coming in a just under one hour, it's a lot to try to take in at once. Even if GIGANTIC BRAIN was a straightforward grindcore band, it would be a lot. But all kinds of crazy shit happens on this CD, where the most intense moments suddenly shift into calm tranquility. And then back again before you know it. The cool thing is that all of the material kind of runs into each other, creating an atmosphere that almost seems like this is an hour long song. Almost. But chances are that you'll be too busy cowering in a corner to notice. GIGANTIC BRAIN wants you dead.

Gigantic Brain
"The Invasion Discography" CD
Razorback Records 2004
Review by Traumatized Webzine

Having never heard anything by Gigantic Brain before I was unsure of what to make of them by simply looking at the case -I expected something in the vein of Prosthetic Cunt given the sci-fi artwork and anti-human song titles. After putting in the CD I was greeted with stomping riffs similar to that of Gorelord and with all the force of a drill. I was also surprised that after a couple of minutes I was on track 4, the music flows so nicely you'll hardly notice the changes. Vocals range from gutteral growls to Haemorrhage style phlegmy screeching to pitchshifted roars. The samples are kept to a minimum aswell, Gigantic Brain is all about the music.

The first set of newer tracks are fast and brutal with a few weird effects thrown in to establish the sci-fi feel. "Negotiations Lead to Instant Death (The Government is Obliterated)" will make you want to punch someone in the head. "The Grizzly Impalement, One by One" opens with an unexpected dark piano interlude from out of nowhere before kicking into a short Agoraphobic Nosebleed esque blast. A few tracks later a personal favourite of mine, "My Family, Crushed (The Second Stampede)" breaks down into an suprisingly emotional ballad but it isn't long before we're bitch slapped back into fighting mode with crushing riffage and the drum machine going mad at the end. "My Aftermath" opens with another quiet piece played on piano with a hip-hop beat. The song then follows the standard procedure of kicking in with fat chugs before the drums are set on hyper mode.

This is certainly a strange release, I've never heard gore-grind done like this before - dirty riffs and hyper drum machine madness accompanied by music that is common amongst the likes of melodic metalcore! But the weird combination works a treat, I wouldn't be surprised if we hear more stuff like this in future. I'm calling this gore grind as a generalisation, in all honesty its not - A new genre has been invented with Gigantic Brain. I haven't a clue what it is, but I'm loving it.

Intensity is the key with this, and even with 63 tracks I was still nodding along towards the end. I guess you'd call listening to this CD a journey, its diverse to say the least but after the 40 minute mark I found theslow-fast-slow-fast technique a bit predictable. This isn't a bad thing, it works great but given the length it could prove a bit too much for one sitting after you've listened to it a good few times.

In all, this is a fun album with loads to offer - furious blasting mixed with heavy as fuck breakdowns set aside slow atmospheric tunes laden with quirky electronic bits thrown in to make it that bit more odd.
Fans of Agoraphobic Nosebleed, Mortician, Anal Penetration, MeatShits and Fuck... I'm Dead will cream over this. Give it a try, if you don't like it you could always use the CD as a beer mat.

Gigantic Brain
"The Invasion Discography" CD
Razorback Records 2004
Review by Mark Carlson
I remember having a dream one night a few years ago. I was wandering through a field for some reason, when I noticed a giant brain, sitting in the middle of the feild. It wasnt doing anything. It was just a gigantic
brain, sitting in a field. It was still "alive" too, cause it was pulsing, So I guess it was thinking. Probably thinking where the hell the rest of its body is. Regardless, that has nothing, at all, to do with this review. I was
just in desperate need of a way to begin this review. Looks like I'm doing a pretty good job too. Anyways, I'm not really a fan of one-man gore/cyber/drum machine bands. A lot of them are basically from started by kids who just heard some release from some cd-r only label, and they figure they can do it too. Basically, the problem with one-man, gore/cybergrind is that a good 90% of it just terrible, unorignal garbage whose main concern is who can have the grossest picture on their little cd-r demo that maybe 10 people will hear. So when I heard Razorback signed a, more or less, cybergrind band, I was very excited. Knowing this label doesn't release s***, I knew that this band had to be something special. So I get the cd in the mail, and immediately laugh at the classic b-movie Monster artwork. I put the cd in... and noticed the run time; 59mins. 63 tracks in just under an hour? Already I know this gunna be great. I pressed play... and proceeded to
have my ears raped for the next hour. One of the biggest problems with drum-machine fueled grind, is that it all starts to sound the same after the first few tracks. There are few bands that can escape this curse.... and
thankfully, Gigantic Brain are NOT cursed by the "didn't I just hear this song?" syndrome. Mostly cause this band is... what's that word... oh yeah, ORIGINAL. Its not just a constant barrage of inhumanly fast blast-beats and horribly distorted rifffs. Each song, most only being about a minute long, manages to actually progress into something, and then destroy itself. Most 3 or 4 members bands, doing 4 or 5 minute songs arent able to do that. For instance, listen to the song Animal Implant. It opens with a very hypnotic,
ambient feel and after a few seconds of that it unloads some of the most utterly insane grind youre ever likely to hear, moves into a very groove filled mid-part, throws some bizarre Libido Airbag-esque noise at you, and
then finishes with more ambient pulses. All this, in about a minute. And then of course, theres the vocals. EVERY single form of vocal delivery(except clean) are used in this... usually with 3 or 4 different
style in one song. Gurgles, screams, grunts, pitchshifted vomits... name it, you'll hear it. There's not a lot more I can say about this. This is actually one of the few albums you have to hear in order to get a full understanding of just what the hell is actually going on. Theres just too much, gernerally in one song, to explain that will do this any justice. Buy it. Even if you're not a fan of cybergrind/drum-machine grind, I have a feeling this will definitely convert more than a few people. Fans of Spinegrinder, Merzbow, Nunwhore Commando 666, Libido Airbag, and the like will almost certainly be into this. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!!!

Gigantic Brain
"The Invasion Discography" CD
Razorback Records 2004
Review from Teufels Tomb

What happens when you spend too much time living at home in your parents' basement staying up far too late watching cheesy alien invasion movies from the 60s? You become a large tub of lard that only leaves the house to attend Star Trek conventions dressed like a fat Tron, that is, unless, you have a drum machine, a guitar and a penchant for poorly tuned chaotic goregrind. The latter is the case for Gigantic Brain, although that still doesn't mean there aren't any fat Tron outfits in his closet, however, what is known, is the music he single-handedly creates is some of the most bizarre, infectious slabs of sheer pummeling chaotic insanity. From the moment you press play you feel as though at any moment a large-headed short green man will come for you to inflict some thorough and violent probings on your rectal regions. Don't be fooled by image, however, Gigantic Brain is no joke. This outfit is drum-machine fueled lo-fi goregrind with an eerie atmosphere straight from the movies, only, instead of the comical cheesiness of low budget sci-fi, Gigantic Brain will literally make your skin crawl and your bowels shift your breakfast burrito 8 inches closer to painting your Calvin Kleins. The music is so ridiculously heavy and catchy that you can't help but want to destroy all humans. Clocking in at just 59 minutes for 63 tracks, there are a lot of super short songs that are little more than filler material, but contained on this single shiny disc is a lot of really solid music, the best of which is the new material, the stuff from Our Bovine Destroyers and a lot of the 23 previously unreleased tracks, but, oddly enough, you can't go bored for more than 30 seconds on this disc, for every one bland filler track, there's 8 tracks tearing your intestines to shreds. Somehow Gigantic Brain was even able to include music from classic 80s video games, make it fit the music and make it sound like pure evil. While comparisons can be made to bands like Agoraphobic Nosebleed, Catasexual Urge Motivation and other noisy grinders, Gigantic Brain is a completely separate entity and amazingly unique in a genre plagued with unoriginality. The Invasion Discography is not to be taken lightly. I, for one, am now a converted believer in the mighty Gigantic Brain. It is now my mission in life to convert as many as I can into believers. Goregrind will never be the same after Gigantic Brain enters your life. Let the violent probing begin!!!

Gigantic Brain
"The Invasion Discography" CD
Razorback Records 2004
Review from fmd.deathgrind.com/

Ok I am a fan of GxBx...and I like industrial music... and I also like grind... and I also like death metal.But this is a combination of all and more! GxBx are for sure from outer space with their unique style of cyberblasting futuristic metal noise industrial strength. It took me a little to get used to this release,it had to grow on me a little. It had been a while since I had listened to stuff that reminded me of Ministry. But this band is in no way compared to them except some of the drum programming.Very ecclectic and surreal at times then blasts into total noise grind industrial. This is one of Razorback's most unique and strange releases.But it is amazing! Different then most of the cybergrind noise out there,it has more of a feel to it.Not any way like Agoraphobic Nosebleed or Dataclast but kinda like them. It is just one blast into multi-dimensional deathgrind noisecore industrial! Just totally unexplainable.Some of the newer tracks or unreleased tracks were more thought out then some of the straight blast songs.Including ambient sounds and violins and pianos.Reminded me of "Neurosis -Souls of Zeros" days, but once again no way like them.A truly original release that grows on you like a cancerous meteor from outerspace spreading foliage all over the Earth.You have no one to answer to...except the GIGANTIC BRAIN! -The Rev