Wailing guitars open the album of the grindcore-band Suppository. The foursome from Holland have been active since 1992 albeit as a two-piece (Max Goulash and Rutger Ragout). Suppository is not sheer hyper-blasting violence. The tempo changes keep the music varied. The guitar-riffs are kept simple and clear. Every song has a limited number of riffs so songs are very consistent. The vocals alternate between (overdriven) screams, deep guttural grunts and growls. The layout has a real hard-/grindcore feel to it featuring sepia pictures of beer-demonstrators, war and deformed faces. Depicted on the front cover are two free-fighters giving each other Hell. The low resolution gives the layout an certain underground feel. Since I have no booklet and at the time of writing the website appeared to be offline I cannot tell you much about the lyrics but the track-names seem to be more HC-oriented (no splatter but titles as ‘Ignorance is Bliss’, ‘Mockery’ and ‘Set it Off’).

In between some songs there are excerpts from movies. I am not a big movie fan but I can imagine some parts are from famous cult movies. The last song ‘For Sale’ ends with filtered noise and sonic glitches as if your CD player just broke down. Remaining under thirty minutes the album is not exactly long but for a record containing intense grindcore songs this is no surprise. The honest, in-your-face production makes it a more than welcome debut album. Personally I think the layout could have been more elaborated but as said before it might have been a conscious choice to keep an underground feel. ‘Punching Out Reality’ is for those who relate to bands like Inhume, Nasum and Regurgitate.