History & Biography “Brown metal” band Meat Shits was lead by a very angry man in California called Robert Deathrage in 1988. The pussycore and pornogrind group became more than Robert after female bassist Scruff Muff approached the guitarist to form an actual band. They recorded the Bowel Rot demo. The band and man were known for homophobia (Sniper At The Fag Parade or Homosexual Slaughter), gore, horror, porno samples, dubs, porn pictures as inserts and provocations, something that Robert claimed got more acute as time went by and he became the subject of more attacks. Robert would also admit to heavy drug usage. Legend has it that during the Meat Shits second ever show, where the band was opening for Primus, a waitress went into fits from Robert’s stage banter and subsequently died en route to the hospital. Moreover, Primus, and its fans, were offended by the act and pulled the plug on Meatshits. The band’s first demo had several hundred songs. With titles like Fuck Frenzy, Fag Killer, Mental Midget, Menstrual Samples, Regurgitated Semen (possibly an ode to chain junk food 'burgers') and Eat My Fuck it was hardly a wonder that Meat Shits were shocking - not to mention the band’s monicker.
The band’s definitive release was Ecstasy Of Death (likely not a tribute to 'Chuck'), which was issued by Moribund Records in 1993 and contained a mere 55 tracks. On the album’s insert Robert sported an Anal Cunt sweatshirt and many pornographic photographs were included. The band was essentially Robert, but characters like Jeff, Les, Acy, Sami and Manuel also contributed. During The Second Degree Of Torture period Robert was using interchangeable backing musicians and had members of Seattle, Washington's Infester be the Meatshits band. Robert flew to Seattle to record with the band. The band officially came to an end in 1996 (and several times thereafter) with Robert expressing anger at the scene. Several recordings had gone unreleased after members and labels had backed out. Robert moved to Utah after his area in Modesto California was flooded when the Tuolomne River overflowed in 1996. Robert was left unemployed. Robert reformed the band in Utah (with a Utah "cunt") where he was installing carpets before, characteristically, abandoning the line-up and returning to California. The new line-up back in California included Andy Garcia/Kurt Cobrain Splatter (Burial Ground), Doug Carranza/Smush Mouth (also Burial Ground and ex-Piranha), Vince Castillo/Vaginal Desecrator on bass, Aaron Copelan/Tapeworm Assucker Of Pax Mortis (drums) and shockingly Leyla Shelton/Pre-Menstrual Cunt on keyboards.
In 2001, the band signed with War Hammer Records as well. In 2010, Sevared Records began compiling the band’s music on various samplers. The band was playing shows and had even opened for Entombed in Hollywood. Robert was working as a janitor.
Meat Shits was also known for issuing many demos and split singles. Robert dated and got engaged to Rumi Iwamoto, the Japanese editor of Gore Lunatic in 1992. Meat Shits was the subject of much censorship including from the South American label, Rotteness Records, which had the band change its cover artwork three times. Meat Shits also contended that said label, Wild Rags and even Moribund had ripped him off. Gulli Records of Germany would not even send the band a copy of its release. Subsequently, Deathrage and Catatonic Existence (with whom Meat Shits had a split single) man Multidator formed Morbid Granny Records.
Reviews MEATSHITS - SHIT LIST
Interesting concepts with musically diverse and perverse lyrical points gloried with sickness brutal Meatshits Shit List sums it all up. Upon receiving this latest infection of melodies the group from Ceres, California makes its mark within the grindcore adding pornographic word imagery with industrial horror-like samples added to this deathly sound. Selective Inbreeding and She Never Says No are short song examples that are brief making the listener draw inward due to the content behind the music. Meatshits history goes back to the late 1980's more or less living in the shadow of Anal Cunt, but with a lower grade of shocking material draw upon senseless inspiration. With over 7 album releases and a few split EP's this band makes another attempt at offending the weak with Shit List. One of the highlights here with this album, just like the rest is the use of sampling mixed with the stylist use of porno death metal. Downside to this are short lived songs. The album, in its entirety, is too repetitive vocal-wise making the band name for what it is a bunch of MS. - Jussi
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