Blood Duster - Str8 Outta Northcote
1998 Relapse

Track Listing:

1. Givin' Stiff To The Stiff

2. Hippie Kill Team

3. Metal As Fuck

4. I Hate Girls And Crusty Punx

5. Chop Chop

6. Tittie

7. Motherload

8. The Meat Song (Stiffy In McDonalds)

9. Death Squad

10. Instrumental I

11. The Simple Life

12. Where Does All The Money Go When Releasing A Full Length Album

13. It's Just Not Metal

14. Celebrating 35% Pig Fat

15. F.S.S

16. Ooh Aah

17. Derek II

18. Roll Call

19. Shoved Up Your Pisshole

20. Ballad Of Hoyt

21. Pure Digital Silence 

Line-Up:
Vocals:  Tony Forde
Guitars:  Finn Alman
Bass:  Jason (PC) Fuller
Drums:  Euan Heriot

Website:  www.bloodduster.com

Shev's Rating:  A+
Average Album Rating:  A+

Also be sure to read:
Blood Duster - Blood Duster by Shev
Blood Duster - D.F.F. EP by Shev
Blood Duster - Cunt by Shev
Blood Duster - SixSixSixteen EP by Shev

Shev's Review:  
Still in their infant stages, Australia’s Blood Duster decided to follow-up one of the most impressive grind albums of the 90’s (Yeest), with something a lot more experimental.  The grindcore aspect is still very strong, but they have also thrown in quite a bit of good, old fashioned, dirty rock & roll to create one of the most important extreme groove albums this world has ever heard. 

Most noticeably different from their previous material is the guitarwork, although still quite filthy, contains high amounts of ass-shaking, fuzz-drenched groove and an overall borderline dance-friendly rock sound.  While a definite change from Alman’s performance on Yeest, he does a great job of keeping his grinding integrity and supplying the listener with easily-accessible and all-out fun riffs.  Complimenting the guitars is the legendary Tony Forde on vocals, working his grind edge into rock-based music, and coming through in flying colors.  The bass and drums, while nothing spectacular, do a sufficient job of holding up the bottom and throwing in some stylish elements without really breaking through the paper and sharing some spotlight. 

Overall this is a very questionable work among grindcore purists as it marks a change in direction more distinct than Carcass or Napalm Death, but at the same time performs to the best of it’s ability and delivers some incredibly classic tunes…with exception of the Pure Digital Silence track.  I mean, that’s just obnoxious. 
Shev's Rating:  A+

Discography (last updated 7.18.06):
Menstrual Soup Demo - 1991 
Fisting The Dead EP - 1993
Yeest - 1995
Str8 Outta Northcote - 1998
Cunt - 2001
D.F.F. EP - 2003
IWannaDoItWithADonna 7" - 2004
Blood Duster - SixSixSixteen EP - 2004
Blood Duster - Blood Duster - 2004