"I don't give a damn about YOUR OPINION, your somatic presence by itself just causes my AGGRESSION so better don't come nearer and DON'T CROSS THAT LINE, instead of trying to step up to me rather OPEN YOUR EYES and learn THE ABC before you make your DECISIONS, you'll get splattered at the WALLS OF CONFINEMENT while I tell you what the VOICES INSIDE MY HEAD told me once and before I will EXHUME TO CONSUME your bloody remains..."

YUPPIE-CLUB - "PRETTY INSANE"
("SoulFood Records" / "The Finest Noise - Home Of Independent Music" / "W-Productions"; CD):

Okay, what we have hear is the second output from the german band YUPPIE-CLUB, it carries the title "PRETTY INSANE" and was released after their debut "PRETTY BRUTAL" (sounds like some sort of a concept behind it;-)...) back then in 2009. And this is pretty strange, because I got this CD as a 'only for promotional use CD' just two weeks ago from now (yes, I do take normally this time for getting worked into a record before I do a reiew of it), I mean, no problem with it (and thanx a lot anyway), but why just now, two years after it was released?!? You get what I mean;-)?!? But okay, anyhow, it shall not matter that much here anyhow, and I will review it anyway. So, hm, YUPPIE-CLUB, the name told me nothing at first sight. Haven't known them before this one here anyhow. By judging from the bandphotos you can think that we get some SLIPKNOT like Nu Metal, with all the bandmembers wearing some sick masks and also a pretty uniform like outfits at all, okay, no 'prison-overalls' but 'business-men-overalls' instead, but I think you get what I want to say. But no, here you get no Nu Metal and especially nothing what you maybe can call New School anyhow. Nah, in no damn fucking way!!! This here is total fucking Old School, and it is 'nothing else' than Grindcore!!! Old School Grindcore spiced with Old School Death Metal, to say it more precise. And I really mean it's pure Old School, from the production sound to the style of the played music(k). It's Grindcore with slices of Death Metal like we all (?) know it from the early years of the 1990's and also of the late 1980's. Fast speed up to blast speed structures, loosen up by some old school 'groovy' Mosh parts, some very few and short mid and some even 'fewer' and 'shorter' down paced parts, filthy and crusty, heavy guitar riffing, evil and grim buzzing bass work and rumbling and jangling rattling drums, and above all deep and also croaky Death'n'Grind grunts as vocals, no screams or 'pigvoices' to be heard here, just that described grunts all done in a very staccato way of doing this things. If you are into it and like this kind of music, and I grew also up with that stuff and still like it from time to time more or less anyhow, then you'll be pretty soon very familiar with YUPPIE-CLUB and what they are doing. Hm, and that it is all not so overly creative at all isn't a real problem anyhow and also it's just a matter of the personal taste and not really a problem if you would like your Grindcore more Punk and (Hard-) Core or more Death Metal influenced, nah, that are all no real problems anyhow, it's much more sort of problem that it's all simply not coercive enough, neither the blasts, nor the guitar riffs or the Mosh-Groove parts or the mid-to-down-paced-parts of the songs (that are meant to be really heavy, but aren't it here anyhow 'really'), and also the songwriting could be done more grapping and at least maybe a little bit more 'fresh'. A lot of this demerits are also caused by the total down-to-the-minimum-reduced production sound of this record that is also really Old School and nothing else, it sounds more like a dull and lumpish, cheap rehearsal recording than a proper release, and a lot of the drumming (much more tight than it seems at first sight respectively listen) and also the major part of the heavyness and brutality of the guitar playing is taken away by that production sound. Hm, this might be pretty 'true', such a total Old School production sound, but just because it was back then okay and all-too-well-known doesn't mean that it was great back then anyhow and it really doesn't mean that you have to do things also today still this way only because some scene-police jackasses may preach that this would be 'true' anyway. I think with a (much) better production sound this record would score in (maybe even much) higher than it does with the production sound it owns here and now. Okay, beside this I think that they must be a great live band!!! And also the artwork looks awesome, I like the style of it very much, even I don't know if it is the 'real deal' of the artwork or if anything did change with the proper release (remember, I already mentioned that my copy here is  'just'a 'promo' CD), but this one here looks great, like a mixture out of some 'AMERICAN PSYCHO' impressions and a reaction at the world economic fiscal crisis, haha;-). To the lyrics I can't say that much, they aren't printed and to really understand something here isn't really possible to me anyhow, haha;-), but it seems to me (by judging from the songtitles and the artwork and the appearance of the bandmembers) that the journey goes from some critical stuff over hack'n'slay issues to pornographic lyrics, so it's your usual lyrically Grindcore cocktail like we know it also, ha, right, from the early 1990's on and so, yes, let us call it again Old School, haha;-). Ah, they also do three covers here, "WALLS OF CONFINEMENT" by NAPALM DEATH, "EXHUME TO CONSUME" of CARCASS, and also "GO SLOW" of the ( to me totally unknown) CHRONICAL DIARRHOEA (sounds great, right, or doesn't it haha;-)...), and maybe with the early NAPALM DEATH and CARCASS, and maybe also early EXTREME NOISE TERROR you can describe the YUPPIE-CLUB pretty well (at least with what these bands had done back then at the beginning of the 1990's as well as at the end of the 1980's) and if ya want to add some BLOOD you're maybe also doing not that much wrong anyway. Nothing groundbreaking, but if you're into Grindcore, especially of the totally Old School kind of it (so forget about, for example, NASUM or BRUTAL TRUTH) then this is maybe something that will really brighten up your mood, so give it a try. Some solid and good stuff, but with a lot potential that just wasn't skimmed off by the band enough anyhow, what's really a giant pity, if ya ask me. This band is from Northrine West-Phalia here in Germany and it seems to me that they are still pretty active also and even today (even this now two years old release is their last and so still current one to date) so that will probably make a lot of you Grindcore fans out there pretty happy. There are much more worse bands than this guys here, don't interpret it that wrong just because this record review doesn't 'sound' that much enthusiastically this time, becaue this one here surely is some solid and especially some good stuff if ya like Grindcore, and if that's the case then do yoursef truly and really the favour and check them out with this one here. (7 of 10 points)
(Contact: http://www.myspace.com/yuppieclub)
Now you get a video clip (pretty cool suff) of the (pretty good) track "DON'T CROSS THAT LINE" of YUPPIE-CLUB that you can find on the here and now above reviewed record, so enjoy it and draw yourself a picture of what's your opinion when it comes to the YUPPIE-CLUB.

YUPPIE-CLUB - "DON'T CROSS THAT LINE"