Trencher - 2006 Lips

Band : Trencher
Album : Lips
Release Year : 2006
Genre : Grindcore | Noisecore | Experimental

Tracklist :
1. Commissioner Of Sewers
2. Hung, Drawn Yet Shorter
3. Nightmares On Crack St.
4. Mouth To Anus
5. All That Blood And No Pain?
6. In Reverence
7. Two Semi's Don't Make A Hard-On
8. Lips Like Suicide
9. Chatter Of Slimy Teeth

Trencher is a band from London creating a particular Grindcore sound. But think of it as a band without guitar player and with a casio-tone toy keyboard. Original and with character. Like old DIY grindcore bands, but darker, and sometimes, rather more experimental.

To the untrained ear Trencher could very well sound like a creative dead end. Wrong. It’s important to take into account the humour at play here. Trencher’smusic is hellish, there’s no doubt about that. They certainly sounded like death on their early recordings lo-fi and formlessly segueing slabsof bottom-heavy grind that (dis)graced the world with their presence only on audio cassettes with tracing-paper sleeves. The Trencher of today are different though. Though still developing their beastly formula for Casio destruction they’ve developed a masterful grasp of structure, an articulation to their chaos that is hard to argue with. To counterbalance the heaviest, sludgiest sawtooth bass guitar there are ‘House Of Horrors’ keyboards; cute little stabs of Casio and clean and direct frequencies. Foregrounded and hilarious Trencher are all about surreal. Their 2006 full album Lips was a slight move away from the soundtrack to a carcrash that was Dracula..., you can hear aprogression away from total chaos and lack of control to something much more brutal, heavy and structuredkind of like an 18 wheeler at a monster truck show colliding in mid-air...on purpose.

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Trencher - 2011 All suffering...soon to end

Band : Trencher

Album : All suffering...soon to end

Release Year : 2011

Genre : Grindcore | Noise | Experimental

 

Tracklist :

 1. All Suffering...
2. Maggots
3. Fucking a Corpse
4. Vlad Tapas
5. White Light/Black Plastic
6. ...Soon to End.

Self proclaimed 'casino grind' band Trencher have certainly created an album with plenty of atmosphere. The quintet from London established themselves as one of the most exciting bands you've probably never heard of in Britain with the release of the terrific LP Lips in 2006, fusing noise, grind, synth and God knows what other elements brilliantly.

 

This time round though the band appear to of lost the energy and utter ferocity of Lips, opting instead for a darker experience. Make no mistake though, this band will still kick you in the dick. The atmosphere culminates nicely after the introductory track slides into the stomach churningly heavy 'Maggots' which showcases Trencher's slower, more doom orientated sound.'***ing a Corpse' begins with an onslaught of Locust-esque percussion, presented to you by the band's talented drummer Lock Monger. The song culminates into the terribly catchy shout of "Still makes me stiff!" which is accompanied nicely by some simple, but satisfying, synth work. And of course a sense of shame.

The fourth track 'Vlad Tapas' again showcases drummer Lock Mongers ability, and it is probably my favourite track, combining all instruments brilliantly with singer M. ***s switching between deep growl and haunting half scream half anguished moan. This track is an example of why toy keyboards and doom surprisingly work well together, the synth again adding a much needed extra layer to what I fear would otherwise be a pretty standard song. This culminates nicely in an orgy of noise that leads to the eerie track 'White Light/Black Plastic'.

The bass is given a much more prominent role in this track, the first 90 seconds reminding me of Head Wound City's track Michael J. Fux, not because of any musical plagiarism, but because of the hypnotic tune it drilled into my skull. This leads to what can only be termed as a hideously demonic three minutes of big drum hits, guitar slugging and bass smashing accompanied by the eerie synth and quasi-medieval religious chanting of M. ***.

Then the album finishes with three minutes of guitar feedback. Which is nice. I suppose. Whilst adding to the atmosphere, I did feel slightly cheated.

Overall, All Suffering Soon To End is a very solid album. It conveys a lot of emotion and atmosphere which a lot of noise influenced bands fail to convey, the LP itself is very haunting and songs like 'Maggots' and '***ing a Corpse' really resonate in the memory. Some of the tracks do feel slightly padded out however and there are no tracks that demonstrate Trencher's ability to melt your face off with frenzied noise like the Lips track 'Two Semis Don't Make a Hard On'. It's still a very good listen though, particularly if you're partial to a bit of demon possessed noise. -IHeartRomans

 

 

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Trencher - 2004 When Dracula Thinks "Look at Me"

Band : Trencher

Album : When Dracula Thinks "Look at Me"
Release Year : 2004

Genre : Grindcore | Noisecore | Experimental

Tracklist : 

1. Head Trauma
2. Gastronomy
3. Illuminated Dead
4. Dead At Work
5. Wounds Cordon Bleu
6. Will To Shit
7. Horse Race Amputee
8. Leeches
9. Riddled With Death
10. Hispanic Telepathy Attack
11. Erotica Of Flies
12. Dishonesty
13. Autopsy
14. Theodore 'O 'Nam

London's premiere Casiocore outfit Trencher re-unleashes its soul splattering 2004 effort to a crowd of unsuspecting ears. When you think about it long and hard you'll wonder if, in fact, these cats were the cats that made Genghis Tron what it is today, or if Trencher occupies such a unique place in the Bizzarecore universe that any attempt to tame and describe––heck to even listen with patience and virtue––that discussing it in traditional terms or even traditional language is worthwhile. Novel without the winking, loud and abrasive with a sense of purpose––each track does in fact create a distinct mood–– When Dracula Thinks "Look At Me" makes you rethink your prejudice toward some of these'n here underground novelties. But Trencher is above and beyond that, as demonstrated across its rich discography, and, when the dust settles on this decade and all the sonic tomfoolery that's come along, Trencher will be remembered as one of the few that did all this jazz with sense and style.

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Trencher and Loa Loa - 2005 Split

Band : Trencher and Loa Loa

Album : Split

Release Year : 2005

Genre : Power Violence | Noisecore | Spazzcore | Experimental

 

Tracklist :

Trencher
01. Attack Of The sXe Attackers
02. Delusions Of Grindeur
03. Deja Poo
04. Blondes Of Meth
05. Row Upon Row Of Leper Skulls
06. I Lost All My Hair In A Skiing Accident
07. Trapped Under A Train, Alive

Loa Loa
08. Untitled
09 . Friends Inside Us (Vasja Krusaider)
10. Fineas Gage
11. A Sockerel
12. The Summer Was Small And Rainy
13. The City-Machine
14. Rex
15. Personal Johnstown
16 . Untitled

Great Split from these two foreign bands. Trencher launches out with some frenetic screamy noise in the vein of The Locust and An Albatross...to name a few. every song by them is fantastic. Loa Loa hails from Russia and all of their vocals are in Russian. They genre skip quite a bit, going from full out punk to an accoustic sing-a-long.
Good Stuff if you're looking for something from the otherside of the world.

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