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The Swill started off as a complete joke. Only a few hundred copies were made of the 1st single "Wanna Be God" and "Where's That Damn Cat" and was only meant to be given to friends. But after write ups in bigtime press like Spin, Forced Exposure, Flipside, Maximum Rock n Roll, and Your Flesh, and air play from the late great John Peel, the joke seemed to take on a life of it's own. More records followed including releases in the UK, Belgium and Australia. It has been 12 years since the last Swill show and after many requests from folks, Noiseville decided to finally release the Swill on CD. For more info go to www.noiseville.com. Here's some of things people said about Unholy Swill... UNHOLY SWILL "Wanna Be God" 7" from Spin Magazine (This) is boss. People gripe about that the 7" is dead, a bunch of companies aren't gonna make them anymore, but what the hex? It's little discs like these that validate the form as a worth one. Unholy Swill drink from the same urine trough as Drunks With Guns. Their two offerings sound like old dead men lying at the bottom of empty beer barrels being revitalized from within by armies of gerbils while a fuzz guitar buzzes around their heads. And I'm absolutely sure that I'd wanna listen to either of these things for 70 plus minutes at a stretch, but as they are, they rule. UNHOLY SWILL "Tapeworm in My Head" 7" from SCAT QUARTERLY (Pick of the Issue) I'm flabbergasted. This record is incredible. It sounds like even though the band partales liberally from the distortion pie, they decided to run the whole song through a distortion box a second time. Unholy Swill united rock n roll with RRR type noise in a way that far surpasses any other attempts I've heard. Beyond taking their music to its logical extreme, Swill is triumpant because they still manage to write a song with a killer hook like "Tapeworm". Fucking amazing. UNHOLY SWILL "HellGoat" 7" from GIG CENTRAL UK Two tracks of total guitar abusing that just about sum up the label name. "Hell Goat" blasts away furiously in ultimate noisy fashion. It really is just so excellent that it defies description, with an ending that just levels your stereo with pure kick-ass style. Unfortunately I cant vouch for the B-side, on first play I thought my needle was just skipping across the record and sussequent fouth and fifth plays I still couldn't get to grips with it. But shit who buys for the B-sides anyway. UNHOLY SWILL "Hellgoat" 7" from X-TREME NOISE UK Unholy Swill sound like a poor man's Motorhead with weak lead solos and messy song arrangements. From NY, this sounds like they've been recorded in the garage with all the knobs cranked to the maximum. UNHOLY SWILL "Tapeworm" 7" from MAXIMUM ROCK AND ROLL Two raging industrial punk cuts that are a noise freak's nirvana. There are rock n roll melodies submerged here, but delivered raw as shit. UNHOLY SWILL "Tapeworm in My Head" 7" from YOUR FLESH TIMH sounds like Drunks With Guns covering Hawkwind. "Basketcase" takes a dust covered riff and beats the shit out it before finally abandoning it. If Skullflower recorded with Butch Vig they might do sound something similar. UNHOLY SWILL "Tapeworm In My Head" 7" from FLIPSIDE Totally bottom of the barrel acid guitars that lie somewhere between Big Black and Helios Creed, vocals more like belches and a stupidity content of virtually nil. See the trick is to sound dumb so that everyone thinks you're smart. These boys go to the head of the class. UNHOLY SWILL "Tapeworm In My Head" 7" from MELODY MAKER UK TIMH sounds like Napalm Death playing a Status Quo song book through a sockful of custard. Awful and wonderful. Noiseville Records are the future now. UNHOLY SWILL "War Pigs" 7" from FORCED EXPOSURE 4th release from this unstoppable collector squall outfit, in a (purposely I suspect) "withdrawn" edition of forty, so you're excused for not knowing about it. Of course the first 3, including the Xmas promo only box 45 weren't too easy to come by either, so I don't know what difference it makes. This is a smashingly grunge fuck version of a song that wasn't even that bad to begin with though, and honestly, in the spirit of freedom of information, it oughta be available for plebs everywhere. UNHOLY SWILL "Armless Legless" 7" and "Wanna Be God" 7" from SILTBREEZE Mutated cyborg rock (MIKEY WILD & the Mess recording 1/2 Machine Lip Moves) Unholy Swill've appeared out of nowhere an appeared to be headin in a like minded direction. Do a nude take on the Hokey Pokey at your next family reunion or just play "Armless Legless" for em- yer bound to get the same results. They have a few similarities with Drunks With Guns (zero production skills etc) but these guys are nearly as malajusted, its like seeing some stupe glom food/drink at a party, then spew it all over the floor an stagger out the door. Just cause you do the same thing an hour later, folks'll call ya a loser but who's to say yours wasn't just an accident? UNHOLY SWILL "Wanna Be God/Where's That Damn Cat" from FORCED EXPOSURE ....upstoppable way in the red collector squawl from Yonkers that's outright devastating. Some where between Happy Flowers and Forbidden Dimension in the scuzz section of your local supermarket, with plenty of slurp-off guitar treatment, etc. This is the sorta records Jay Tiller could record on a weekly basis if he wasn't a fuckin' audiophile. C/U Entire Pressing (that little bit at the end C/U means "could use". Forced Exposure used to rate records by how many copies they'd like to have to stash for the future. Not many releases got entire pressing. A proud moment I guess) UNHOLY SWILL Live review from gig in Dallas that was released as "Live in Dallas" on Nawpost Records from DALLAS MORNING NEWS Unholy Swill who traveled by Greyhound bus from Yonkers New York to perform at the festival provided its finest entertainers. The band did cover versions of Ice T's "Colors", LL Cool J's "Mama Said Knock You Out" and the theme from the television show The Jeffersons. (they even put a picture of us...how sweet) UNHOLY SWILL "Hellgoat" 7" from MELODY MAKER UK "Hellgoat" is the first in yet another monthly series of limited edition seven inchers, this time licensed from the self explanatory American label, Noiseville. What can I tell you? It's orange, its the work of a trio of inbreeds who make Tad look like Petula Clark, it is indeed unholy swill, and it's "produced by accident" and sounds it. Mercifully it's very short. Check out the artist's website: http://www.noiseville.com Track List: 1. Wanna Be God 2. Where's That Damn Cat 3. Tapeworm In My Head 4. Basketcase 5. No Generation 6. Hellgoat 7. Bad Yams 8. Satan Swill Santa 9. Shoot My Boss 10. We're Truck Drivers 11. War Pigs 12. Belch Away The Boogieman 13. White Trash King 14. My Dog Ain't Got No Legs 15. Bloodbath 16. The Crusher 17. Jefferson's Theme 18. Why Don't We Do It/Yer Blues 19. Willie the Pimp 20. Summertime Blues 21. Willamina Blues 22. Red Hot/Move It On Over 23. Elvis Is Dead Suggested CDs:Other Genres:
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