BORIS
Smile
(Southern Lord)

HELLBLOCK 6
Nuclear Age
(World Eater)

AHLEUCHATISTAS
Even in the Midst...
(Cuneiform)

GLOOMY SUNDAY
Beyond Good and Evil
(Solitude Prod)

SQUALORA
S/T
(Wantage)

BUSH TETRAS
Very Very Happy 

(ROIR)

POPULATION
REDUCTION
At the Throats of Man Forever

(Tankcrimes)

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Though this naughty Cisco duo seems bent on shoving down our throats the idea that they suck ass; I beg to differ. At least as long as they play like they know and shut the hell up.  At The Throats of Man Forever compiles the band’s five songs from a 2002 Demo CD-R, a 2005 7” EP titled like this release, an unreleased cover of Spawn of Satan and close to twenty songs culled from a 2001 Radio Show. Their intentions are pretty clear after the record’s intro of the band leading the crowd into a chant of ‘Population Reduction Sucks Ass’. Obviously the crowd obliges, and how wouldn’t they? This sort of self-deprecation is as effective as the whole ‘smoke pot’ rant; to this day a crowd pleaser and winner. The seven cuts that follow are for the most part straight forward grindcore with chugga-licious guitar tones, breakdowns, hammering guitars and drum interplay, each clocking at about a minute and a half at its most extensive. The following five songs are from the CD-R release and have a cleaner production, and though opinions may vary; here Population Reduction sounds far more electrical with a thinner guitar sound and a hollow drum sound.  Desperate solos are included in a few of the songs peppering the album with one shade of thrash.

The band’s cover of “Vigils of the Damned” (Spawn of Satan) comes off like one, basically because the track sounds nothing like the rest. My copy skips though, so I couldn’t listen to the full track. The next eighteen songs are plain and simple hard to digest because of all the earwax that’s in between. Taken from a 2001 radio show; we are treated to a very long set of Population Reduction tunes with a vocal introduction to each. The music is OK; a lot of it is pretty thrashy, a lot of it is grindcore with blast beats (and some very nice nuances from Dr. X) and a lower than low killer guttural, though barely audible, voice courtesy of guitarist/vocalist Peter Svoboda. But as far as all the filler in between; it is a bit of a waste of time.  There is no interview being done, and certainly, there is no important information being divulged so chopping blocks of pointless rants would have served the record good.

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