Dismembered Fetus Demo and Rarities Collection

This stuff needed to be collected, plain and simple. For the sake of the music, yes, but also to pay tribute to Joshua "Ace" Stough's contribution to extreme music. I've been a fan of Dismembered Fetus and a friend of Josh's since 1995 and I haven't heard half of these recordings until recently. It's criminal how underrated Dismembered Fetus were as a band and how difficult it was for me to track down their earliest material. I considered myself to be one of the people in the fold (well, maybe just on the fringe), but it alluded me for nearly 20 years. Even in the Internet age, precious little information has turned up about them and only low resolution scans of Foetusgrubber's beautiful artwork could be found. There wasn't much to work with when compiling this collection, but with help from a friend and hours of plundering through fanzines untouched for almost two decades - here is the bulk of their work. The music is as visceral today as it was in the 90s and finally hearing the first two demos gave me a whole new appreciation of their evolution as a band. Literally all of it, though, is absolutely crushing. This hatred they captured on tape sounds genuine, too, and nobody since has been able to duplicate this sound. This is truly angry music, menacing and ugly. Fuck, I miss the 90s.

This release is dedicated to Joshua "Ace" Stough. Though you're gone in form, the memories and your music will live on forever. RIP, 1975-2008. 

These two volumes compile the following releases:

"Dumpster Days" Demo (1992)
"Broken Neck" Demo (1994)
"Hate" Demo (1994)
"I Don't Feel So Fucking Good" Demo (1995)
"Mutilated God" split w/ Drogheda (1997)
"Rotted Head Meat Supply" Compilation
"Attacked By Bees..." Compilation
"Hymns For The Hearing Impaired Vol.1" Compilation
"Pigeoneck.... 8 Years Of Unreleased Shit" Compilation
+ Unreleased material

Download the first part (MORT:072) HERE

...and the second part (MORT:073)  HERE.

MORT:063 ARTORTURED - "Dimensions of Suffering" free download

15 tracks of desert-baked, hyper-blasting noisegrind from Santa Fe, New Mexico featuring members of Ear Bleeding Disorder, Sistema Nervioso, Dismembered Fetus and Noisear. The band was short lived and only recorded an 8 track demo, a split 7” with Crisis Rebirth and was featured on the Bad People Records Comp “Hymns For The Hearing Impaired” in the mid nineties. They performed only a few shows in their short existence with bands like Assück, Logical Nonsense, MITB, Neurosis, Spazz, The Fanatics, EBD, His Hero is Gone, Agents of Satan, Dead Bodies Everywhere and Dead and Gone. This was their only full length, recorded at Free Reeling Studios in Denver, CO in 1998, and never saw the light of day until now. 

Thanks to Dorian for unleashing this monster after all this time and for allowing me the honors. Dedicated to Joshua "ACE" Stough - RIP

Download it for free HERE

E.B.D. collection re-upped

12 songs from an unreleased 4 track rehearsal demo have been added to the E.B.D. collection below. The cover art has been changed to reflect the new track listing and the download link has been switched out with a new one. Thanks to Chris "Pito" Petersen of Zombie Hate Brigade for now only bringing these recordings to my attention, but for sending me a copy of them, too. If you've already grabbed this collection, please do so again. The added songs are worth the effort.

EAR BLEEDING DISORDER: Its Causes and Cure v.2

I had already been exchanging letters, trading tapes and talking on the phone with Joshua “Ace” Stough for a couple of years at that point, but 1997 was the year my friend Brian (drummer of C3L) and I first made the 12 hour drive to Denver to meet Josh. Josh had just moved back in with his father and seeing how he’d not met either of us before then, he wasn’t sure if it would be okay for us to stay at his father’s house. Instead, we ended up sleeping at EAR BLEEDING DISORDER’s rehearsal space in an old school building in the middle of Five Points, a ghetto in Denver sometimes referred to as “Harlem of the West”. Not only was I not crazy about leaving my car parked on the street overnight, the building had no air conditioning or even windows that opened. There were no showers or working plumbing. It was the middle of July and the smell in that room reached epic heights, but we spent most of our daytime hours driving around doing things, so the heat was tolerable at night. Strong, lasting friendships were formed that summer, so it was worth all the inconvenience.

EAR BLEEDING DISORDER was a band made up of members of REFORM CONTROL, DRATSAB and DISMEMBERED FETUS. I don’t remember how Haroldo and Josh met each other, but they came from two fairly different music scenes: Josh from the death metal/noisecore scene and Haroldo from the hardcore/punk scene. Kevin and Haroldo knew each other from the hardcore scene, even releasing a split 7” with each others bands. Somehow E.B.D. came to be and we happened to be there in the middle of it. We saw them rehearse at least a couple of times, caught one of only a few shows they played during their short existence and even recorded a C3L session with all of the members of E.B.D. and released it as a split 7” with UNHOLY GRAVE. Another C3L session was recorded and released as a split tape with DUECE during that trip with everyone in E.B.D. but Haroldo present. It was a fun week and I made several trips back out there to see Josh and Kevin, some with Brian, some on my own.

EAR BLEEDING DISORDER only recorded in the studio one time, a session that yielded their split 7” with LAUGHING DOG, 17 tracks for the “Chords of Chaos” CD compilation and 6 short blasts of noise for the “Attacked by Bees…” cassette compilation I released before starting up Mortville. Strangely, all of their tracks from their split 7” with the exception of “Magnumb” also appear on the “Chords of Chaos” CD. Some of the songs had different titles on their two releases even though they were the exact same recording. The live tracks on this collection were sourced from a second generation VHS tape, some of which don’t appear on any of their releases making it impossible to attach song titles to them. This 46 track collection contains every scrap of audio I had in my possession.

Just as I don’t remember how the members of E.B.D. met each other, I don’t remember the circumstances surrounding their breakup. Josh reformed his old band YEAST INFECTION a couple of years later, Haroldo took over the drummer position in CATHETER and Kevin did a tour with C3L in the summer of 1999 and has been laying low since then. I haven’t heard from their singer, Brian, since E.B.D. broke up, no clue what he’s doing now.

Thanks to Chris Petersen for bringing the demo recording to my attention and expanding this collection from 46 tracks to 58.

Split 7" with LAUGHING DOG
(Bad People Records + Riotous Assembly / 1997)


"Chords of Chaos" compilation CD
(Lofty Storm Records / 1998)


"Hymns For the Hearing Impaired Volume I" compilation CD
(Bad People Records + Riotous Assembly / 1999)



”I WANNA SEE A SICK PIT FOR THIS ONE."