PORKFARM

BLOOD HARVEST (EP)



TRACK LIST



1. Suffer



2. Severd and Bound



3. Torn Apart



4. I Shall Hack



5. Sickening Dismemberment



6. Theres No Way Back



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Though their moniker conjures disturbing.

death metal approved images of giant, gutted boars and sows hanging from rafters of a dilapidated croft house, it also points to another more famous, though intentionally ridiculous, metal farm (if you need a hint, it starts with sex) paying no mind to the tag's laughability, these guys are as serious as Jack Owen's guitar face. theres quite a bit of early Corpse worship added to some Cephalic grinding and pre-'Destroy The Opposition' Dying Fetus both in terms of the riffing and their penchant towards whimsical groove busting, all employed without getting tangled in stylistic trappings of the old-school. Fans of willowtip death metal, Sickening Horror and Prostitute Disfigurement will dig the polished production and 'forwardthinking' brutality. Victims of there own talent, the occasionally go a bit overboard but their predilection for quality sondwriting saves them from mediocrity, carving a mouthwatering juicy cut of meat in a whilwind nineteen minutes

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JILL MIKKELSON



Porkfarm unleash their Deepsend debut EP. Blood Harvest is a blistering blast of gory death/grind that blends dashes of early Gorerotted with a host of classic death metal acts and some grindcore dirtiness to boot. What helps to separate Porkfarm (love that name) from the remainder of the pigs is sheer unrelenting energy and power--they bash and crash in equal parts with technical flair and with vicious imprecision. It's like being gutted with a kitchen knife instead of a scalpel. The blasts are machine-precise, and when the band drops into a slow grind, it's absolutely staggering. And all that adds up to what? Well, dammit, it adds up to exactly how I like my death metal, with all the subtlety of an axe to the skull…

Fucking smashing.



- Jeremy Witt



Metalreview.com



Could it be that death metal is making a comeback in the good ol' UK? With Mithras, Man Must Die, Detrimentum, Spearhead, Sarpanitum and now the debut EP from Porkfarm, it appears so…. Compacting enough brutality and savagery into 6 songs to warrant any death metal fans attention, Blood Harvest is a death metal/grindcore mash up that does almost everything right as far as blunt force trauma and technical voracity, without being either a Unique Leader styled blast fest or a downtuned, sloppy goregrind groove fest.

Porkfarm rip and tear like the 300 lb Russian wild boars in Hannibal.

From opener "Suffer" through personal favorites "Torn Apart" and "I Shall Hack" to closing bonus track "There's No way Back" Porkfarm are direct, efficient and more to the point, brutal.

-Teeth Of The Devine

By Erik Thomas

August 2008



Playing a style of Death Metal very similar to Dying Fetus, Brain Drill, Necrophagist, and Beneath the Massacre, Young English Death Metal act Porkfarm display an apt control over both the brutal and technical sides of the genre. They keep the technical wizardly and the “slam” side of their sound under control displaying in where the song progresses to a point where either of them is needed but not veering off into either direction willy-nilly and it is this disciplined approach that gives this six song EP an air of supreme professionallity.



At Nineteen minutes this release makes you demand more. Along with the Tech-Death and Slam influences some of the songs such as “Suffer” and “Torn Apart” have some old school influences such as vintage Morbid Angel and Deicide, and with many new bands falling into the deathcore/wigger slam trap its great to see a new band making death metal how its supposed to be made. Definitely one to watch in the future