METALLIAN - Brutal Sphincter

Dirty Jazz Bondage Club - 2015 - Rotten Roll Rex
Analhu Akbar - 2018 - Rotten Roll Rex
Sphinct-Earth Society - 2025 - Time To Kill

Members

Vocals

Vitriolised>>MAJOR DIARRHEA [JIM DEFAYS]>>Vitriolised - Vaginotopsy, Clitorape>>Léo Clitvox>>Clitorape - Mike Litoris Complot>>GG STALIN [GRISKA LUTGEN]

Guitar

Germain BxSx/Spermain [Germain Bodeus] - Space Quake, Dead Season, Black Dünya, Vermin, Anwynn, Inhuman, Dysrancor, Xaon>>EERIK MAURGAE>>Dead Season, Black Dünya, Vermin, Dysrancor, Xaon

Bass

Klysma, Human Vivisection, RazorRape>>GERMAIN BXSX/SPERMAIN [GERMAIN BODEUS]>>RazorRape

Drum

Vitriolised>>Jason Anania>>Vitriolised, Plague Tomb - Inner Visions, Eternal Flight, Broken Mirrors, Backdawn, Deathcode Society, King, Xaon>>JULIEN RACINE>>Deathcode Society, Xaon

History & Biography

The gore band was founded in 2012 - although it went online in 2013 - and had a debut and self-titled demo in May 2013. Dirty Jazz Bondage Club sounded like a Pungent Stench title and was the band’s debut record. This had a drum machine programmed by (former bassist) Jason Anania and two singers (Clitvox and Defays). Léo Clitvox left in 2015 and eventually committed suicide in 2022. Singer Griska joined in 2015 after Leo Clitvox's departure. Germain was switching from the guitar to the bass, as well, in 2015.

Analhu Akbar was an equal opportunity offender with its title track (“The Islamic boner has risen/By the (butt)cheeks of the righteous” or the reference to the right-wing party of Belgium in N-VA: Nazi-Vlaams Alliantie). The record had Analepsy’s Tiago Correia as guest drummer. Analepsy’s following drummer Leopoold joined the band in 2018. Eerik joined the band in the same year. Former singer Leo Clitvox, incidentally, had been in Vaginotopsy. The band was heard on the Grind Over Sofia 2019 compilation next. Spermain played several gigs as a guest with RazorRape in 2020.

Self-cover versions were trendy so the band jumped on the bandwagon with The Art of Squirting (Revisited), which was originally heard on the act’s demo. The act appeared at Hellfest (2022). Kraanium’s The European Defilement tour was to occur in December 2023 and was to feature Brutal Sphincter and Monument Of Misanthropy as openers on select dates. A tour with Birdflesh and Gutalax was postponed at the beginning of 2024 and pushed to 2025. Belgium-based Brutal Sphincter was booked for Brews And Blast Fest in April 2024. Leopoold left in favour of newest drummer Julien Racine (Xaon). The latter had been filling in for the former for a while. The group was booked at Beastial Fest 3. Spermain opted to leave the act he founded after 11 years. He was not into goregrind anymore supposedly. He was to remain until a replacement could be found. In typical Brutal Sphincter fashion, this ended up being an April's Fool's day gag. The act also appeared at Summer Breeze 2024.

The band signed with Time To Kill Records at the beginning of 2025. Belgian goregrind band Brutal Sphincter released a new album, called Sphinct-Earth Society through Time To Kill Records in May 2025. Early track Unvaxxed Lives Matter mocked and derided the anti-vaxxer right-wing loons. The band stated: "The idea for this song came to us during one of our many frustrations over anti-vaxxers amid the Covid-19 restrictions. Previously, we only knew anti-vaxxers as odd figures from the world of conspiracy theorists who didn't want to vaccinate their children against polio or measles. However, anti-vaxxers suddenly gained significant prominence in society and, to our absolute bewilderment, managed to spread their views to a larger portion of the population. We noticed that this movement repeatedly portrayed itself as victims, despite not being the group that suffered the most in the context of the pandemic. Shoutout to all the healthcare workers and those who had to be isolated due to their illness. This phenomenon seemed so ridiculous to us that the name 'Unvaxxed Lives Matter' came to mind, clearly referencing the Black Lives Matter movement. From this committed and absolutely necessary movement, other movements quickly emerged, slightly altering the name to portray themselves as victims. Examples include All Lives Matter, Blue Lives Matter, or White Lives Matter, which tend to come from the far-right milieu."

The band terms itself as “poolitical.”

Reviews

BRUTAL SPHINCTER - SPHINCT-EARTH SOCIETY - TIME TO KILL
It is sometimes difficult to figure out what to make of the four boys in Brutal Sphincter. I mean, the band's name.. What the hell? The goofy image with the silly smirks. Is it all a joke? Are they one of those idiotic rightist bands that are popping up everywhere? The last album was named Analhu Akbar. The band's acronym is BS after all. Then glancing at the album's cover and its cartoonish illustration makes things worse. But, yes there is a but, it seems that the joke is on us. The band is fearless and critical and has been paying attention to our societies all along. It seriously looks like the boys, two new members included, know a thing or two and are unafraid to confront controversial topics. Case in point, the song Unvaxxed Lives Matter, which mocks and derides the wackos that are the anti-vaxxer segment of our society. Moreover, in a moment of serene seriousness, the band takes time to thank the healthcare workers for their performance. The politics do not stop there with this band. There is a song called Abolish Frontex (with its good riffing underneath the vocals-first mix). There is more politics, and humour too of course, given a song called Persona non-Greta. What about the heaviness and speed of Name Three Songs?
Not only has concern about the quartet being a far-right bunch of goofs been dismissed, but there was also the possibility that the band also has nu metal drop tune nonsense in its repertoire. That was because following a Brutal Truth-like intro, the song Tony Hawk's Pro-Choice 2022 contained a breakdown, dropped notes and such in addition to the brutality, heaviness and double dose of growls. As hinted, that concern was mostly rectified as well since most of the music that follows is goregrind metal and not kiddie mall commercialism. The music is fast, slamming vomitcore fronted by two pitched hogs singing on top of the crushing music with the occasional dub. The aforementioned Abolish Frontex does end like a silly rock song fading into the nether, but even that issue is minimised with the music set to 'repeat.'
So, in summary, some good stuff here. Still, it is OK if you don't like this review, this album or the group's opinions. After all, as of this writing, the band's website does not even acknowledge the existence of Sphinct-Earth Society. - Ali "The Metallian"

Interviews

Is Brutal Sphincter for real? Is the band serious or is everything a joke? Who knows? Ali "The Metallian" didn't. The release of album number three, Sphinct-Earth Society, through the group's new label Time To Kill Records was the ideal time to get bassist Spermain on the line in order to get to the bottom of the goregrind act's intentions and discuss the new release at the same time. It turns out that in a scene where no one takes a position and nary anybody stands for anything, Spermain, and his band-mates, are filterless, disarmingly frank and stand both out and for something. - 04.03.2025

METALLIAN: We are going to talk about the songs, but there's also everything else, right? Perhaps you enjoy confusing people.
SPERMAIN: You're on point. We like to confuse people.

METALLIAN: That was a reason, beyond the music, to conduct the interview.
SPERMAIN: Yes, also, for our upcoming album through Time To Kill Records on the 23rd of May we are releasing a video clip a month. We already released the first one ten days ago. It was called Unvaxxed Lives Matter. They are real video clips. With this album, we want to turn our project into a professional one as possible. We have another clip using a professional producer. The next video clip that we're going to release is an animated video clip like we did for Make Goregrind Great Again. It's the same producer. We have a third video clip that will be released in May, which is filmed with the same producer as the first video clip, except that there is a bit more of a script to it. For Beatdown Syndrome, we are making a satire - which we like to do anyway - of the beatdown scene. We shot the clip in one of the most popular underground venues in Wallonia because Belgium is split into two or three parts. The Flemish side in the North and Wallonia, which is French speaking, in the South. We are from the South region and the video clip that we made is from one of the most well-known underground venues called MCP-Apache. There is a well-known and strong hardcore scene there. There is more of a script, but it remains very very very stupid! The fourth video clip is one that we shot at Summer Breeze. So it's more like a live video. It's like a cheaper video clip, but it's still a good promo tool.

METALLIAN: Tell me about your departure from the band.
SPERMAIN: It was probably the best April Fool's I ever did. It wasn't serious and later became a joke. It was always a joke. It was never serious. It was the first of April, but that's what we like to do. It is a reflection of reality about information and fact checking. There is so much information flowing that people never take the time to read. They see a title and they don't really read what's written or they are not paying attention to the details. Generally, we are giving a big headline that is very fucking stupid and people are stopping at this and not even reading the rest or the lyrics for the songs for example.

METALLIAN: Aside from the music, look at your name. The cover of the album is almost goofy. The lyrics, the titles, etcetera, is the band a joke? Or is the band dead serious? Where is the reality of this band?
SPERMAIN: In-between. I mean yes, most of the song titles are a huge joke (laughs), I mean Analhu Akbar is a big joke from the last album. Unvaxxed Lives Matter is completely inappropriate, knowing that some movements are really serious such as a Black Lives Matter. Sphinct-Earth Society is completely stupid as well, but let's say that the stupidity kind of stops at the first headline. If you pay attention to the concept, we are criticizing movements, political movements by the absurd. Just read the text and pay attention and you will see that it's a big criticism.
It's criticizing the anti-vaxx movement. The same went for the last album, Analhu Akbar. We made it about the extremists, islamic extremists; not about regular Muslims. My day job is to work with refugees. I have absolutely no problem with it. It's just criticizing, when society goes too far. For example, Sphinct-Earth Society, the text is funny somehow as well, but it's criticizing people who say "I really believe that the earth is flat. It's not round because I have proof of this. I've been on the internet. I've checked, etcetera, etcetera." We say, 'no, it's not true. The earth is not flat. The earth is not round (either), the earth is a fucking sphincter and we have proof for that.' That's what we are bringing up in the text. It's a criticism of the movement by the absurd. Same goes for the song Persona Non-Greta. It's a title about ecology where we say, 'global warming is so cool because due to it we can make a barbecue during the winter.' But, there is a real critique of today's society and the far right movement, conspiracy theories, etcetera.

METALLIAN: You mentioned the word "absurd". I get it, but the question becomes, why not be serious about a serious topic? Why are you funny or, as you say, 'poolitical' or joking about a serious matter?
SPERMAIN: Well, that's another thing, there are a ton of bands being serious all the time about political stuff and that's okay, but it's not a way to stand out anymore. The approach is in goregrind, the style is, the lyrics are, I mean, the lyrics are about gore, about porn and things like that, you know, nothing really clever.
And the purpose, I believe, of those themes back in the day was to shock people. We think that gore lyrics are really boring nowadays. We start to speak about politics because it's way more polarizing. We kept this goregrind approach of being shocking but we want people to think. If people will be shocked by the text, not the text, the title, then maybe they will take a few moments to read the lyrics and maybe it can bring the people to reflect on it.

METALLIAN: Okay, an answer, but I'm going to object to one thing you said. In my opinion, on the metal scene, goregrind, death metal, whatever and even on the hardcore scene, like you said in the south Of Belgium, my perspective is that every band has become like the pop scene or the rock scene. Nobody takes a position. Nobody wants to be political. If I ask any band about politics, they would say, 'oh, we don't talk about politics.' Exactly like a rock band or a pop band.
SPERMAIN: So right. So you just made me wrong. What you said. You just proved me wrong. I mean, there was back in the day a strong position where there was some political opinion. But nowadays, it's true that people tend to put it aside, politics, because it's a triggering topic and they don't want to lose fans.

METALLIAN: Yes, so that whole extremism of goregrind or death metal or thrash metal is gone. Everyone plays the music, but they don't practice it. It's just music.
SPERMAIN: Yep. I can hear it. Totally.

METALLIAN: That got me extra interested in your band because you actually say something. So let's talk about a couple of the songs in a moment and you can give me the context now that I understand where you're coming from. First, however, Are you worried or are you concerned because you are saying things that are controversial? You insult these extremist Muslims for example. There have been terrorist attacks in Belgium, France, Germany and more.
SPERMAIN: Yes. We are concerned. Of course. We mostly thought about it with the previous album. We brainstormed about it and found a concept. We spoke about it for months before accepting that title because, of course, we are feeling fear like every human being. It's logical. However, if you are looking at terrorism, the first victims of terrorism are Muslims.
I mean, yes, the Western world, like in Europe or I guess in Canada and The USA and whatever, we witnessed terrorist attacks and it's really really sad. I can condemn them, of course, but when you think about it, for example with Daesh, it's Syria that has been destroyed. It's not the West. So, I believe that extremists are not really clever and are not always attacking the right persons. I mean, basically, Daesh and ISIS, they killed more Muslims than they killed (so-called) kuffar.. So it's a moderate risk. It's like there are people that have way more balls than us. For example, still on that topic, because I have a lot of interest in it, there are people like Majid Oukacha in France. He was a Muslim in his teenage years and is openly criticizing Islam now and really hard, really harshly on YouTube. He's still not dead. However, we know that it can provoke some risk.

METALLIAN: Yes. And of course, you're right. Many more people died in Syria than in the West. Even with Donald Trump, more Americans will be hurt before anybody else.
SPERMAIN: Yeah. Yep. I hate this guy.

METALLIAN: Well, you need an IQ of less than 30 to like that guy. Anybody who voted for this guy has an IQ less than 30 or is a billionaire and wants his tax cut. [At this stage Spermain is distracted by a personal call]...
SPERMAIN: I'm back. Alright. It's really cool. It's a really good interview.

METALLIAN: Okay. I appreciate that. A change of topic, there was a gap of seven years between the albums.
SPERMAIN: Well, we had line-up changes. Now we have a more stable line-up. We started writing the new album during the pandemic and the thing is that it takes a lot of time to write music when you have a full-time job and also when you are doing the booking by yourself, when you are doing it all yourself. I am basically doing all the administrative stuff for the band, we have an association, I'm doing the booking, I'm thinking about social media, the promo and everybody has a full-time job so that's why it takes so much time. We will try to make the next album faster because now we know a bit more where we want to arrive at, what result we want to arrive at, but it's just that we are missing time sometimes.

METALLIAN: How did you find Time To Kill Records? That's a new label for you.
SPERMAIN: Well, Time To Kill Records…. I already knew them because of Fulci and I'm someone that is talking on the internet quite often to see what I can do and what are my next moves with the band. So, I contacted a few labels before time came to record… like the biggest labels, they answered me at least, but they weren't interested and at that moment we played in Italy in July 2024 where I went to the toilet and I saw Time To Kill Records' stickers on it.
I knew about Time To Kill Records so I went to speak with the organizer of the event who is really involved in the Italian metal scene and asked them if they could tell me a bit more about that label. 'Do you think that they're doing a good job?' So, after speaking, they knew Enrico, the boss of the label and I contacted him and that's how it happened. I'm glad.

METALLIAN: When you started giving the answer, I was thinking you either met another man in the toilet or the office was in the toilet with the stickers. So it wasn't a story about meeting other men in the toilet.
SPERMAIN: I always like to say 'if God put the prostate in the ass of the man, there is a reason for it.'

METALLIAN: Well, this same God put nipples on man too. Let's talk about a couple of songs on the new album. Why does Abolish Frontex fade out like a rock or pop song?
SPERMAIN: Actually, we did it because we felt that it sounds like a last title and that way people can see that it's the end of the album.
We are playing goregrind. That's where we are coming from, but we have a lot of other influences that are really far from grindcore and we just think that it was cool.

METALLIAN: I enjoyed the songs except the first song proper, Tony Hawk Pro-Choice 2022.
SPERMAIN: Oh, really?

METALLIAN: You introduced nu metal with that and I wanted to see if that's part of your humour or is it serious? Is that something you do, part of your style? Is that a joke?
SPERMAIN: I don't really have an answer for that. We just found that it was sounding cool and it was groovy for us. What matters the most for us is that it's always groovy and original because I think I'm going to give myself a blowjob, but there are not many bands that sound like us. We were thinking that it was cool. That's all. So, you know, that's fair.

METALLIAN: What is this song about? I couldn't figure it out because this title makes no sense.
SPERMAIN: Yeah. Yeah. Well, I was not the biggest fan of the title, but whatever. We didn't find anything better. Basically, it's a meme. Tony Hawk something something is like a meme on the Internet, but not really popular. So I guess that most of the people will not understand it, but that's okay.
Reading the lyrics, and they will be available with all the explanations and everything, you can see that it's a pro-choice title because in the United States there are, and also parts of the West let's say, more and more anti abortion movements. This is what we are criticizing in the text basically. It's a song that is totally pro choice and we are criticizing the pro-life movement for all their stupidities.

METALLIAN: This movement, especially out of The United States, has the same opinions as the Taliban. They both believe in capital punishment, they both don't care for the environment, they are both against abortions and commit crimes against humanity. It's like these people should marry each other. They love each other.
SPERMAIN: Mentally, they're already married.

METALLIAN: Two of my favourite songs, Beatdown Syndrome and Name Three Songs, are heavy and fast. Could you say a couple of words about these two songs?
SPERMAIN: Those songs are technical so actually I believe that you like technical stuff. So the Beatdown Syndrome is really death metal-ish with some really heavy hardcore parts. Basically the chorus is kind of a hardcore riff with hardcore vocals. We are kind of trolling the beatdown movement. Actually, it sounds good and I love hardcore anyway. There is also that sick bass solo in the middle of the song with that speech. I think it's a really special song and it's kind of challenging with the guitar and around the bass. Lyric-wise it's not the most clever. It's just more, it's just something funny. We have more trolling, there is no real political theme or something like that.
Name Three Songs, I'm surprised that you love it, but actually, tell me if I'm right or wrong, but I think that you like the technical stuff. It is more old school-ish, I guess. Yup. that's probably why you didn't like Tony Hawk… because there is nu metal stuff, and here you like the technical stuff, so it makes sense. So, Name Three songs is a really really technical song. I think that it's for the guitar and for the drum, most musicians cannot play it and I'm lucky to have such good musicians. I have both a guitar and a drum teacher (in the band). It's really fast riffing with some groove elements and the title, 'three songs' came from a meme, We are criticizing the toxic masculinity that you can find in the metal scene. You know like, 'oh this girl is always following a boyfriend, she's probably not even a metal fan. She just likes to show herself and blah blah. Oh, this girl doesn't know anything. She cannot even know of Chris Hong.' Actually, we are trolling all those guys that think that metal is something for men and not for women.

METALLIAN: I guess you're not a Manowar fan.
SPERMAIN: It depends. From the gay side, we can focus on them, but, I think, oh definitely we can be fans because they are gay enough so let's say they are allies.
We are trolling Slayer all the time, but, you know, that's what we do.

METALLIAN: That's something else on the metal scene. If your band doesn't work out and if you don't sell any albums, I can tell you the best thing to do is disband. You can disband in May right after your album comes out and then have a reunion in June, and you will have a thousand people at your concert. That's what Slayer is doing.
SPERMAIN: Slayer for sure. They, you know by the way, Name Three Songs starts with "fucking Slayer." The thing I was speaking about is that, as I was telling you, the titles are really provocative. They can trigger a lot of people, of course, and that's kind of funny, but behind them we have a solid concept where there are solid lyrics based on research and science. I mean science like sociology. Those explanations will be available in all the physical albums, vinyl or on the tape, where you can read about it. I think it brings more, lore, let's say, lore to our music.

METALLIAN: I want to pick up on something you just said. Are Corde Sensible and Julien music teachers?
SPERMAIN: Yes. Yes. They are.

METALLIAN: Okay. Is there anything I should have asked you that I didn't because I didn't know to ask?
SPERMAIN: No. I think it's good to be honest. Maybe we can just add that one day we hope that we will play outside of Europe. So, if there are promoters that like to, they can get in touch with us. But, it's just really expensive to go outside of Europe and we are not paying from our pockets to play outside.
We really want to grow the band as much as possible. We try to have a professional approach to everything.

METALLIAN: Are any shows booked for the band?
SPERMAIN: We play at Lamaecum Metal Fest in Portugal in two weeks. At the end of March, we play in Braunschweig in Germany. Then one week later we play in France in Rennes. Then we have a little break. We will come back there and play Reanimator in France and then we will play in Switzerland. We also have two festivals in Germany for May, then one in Bulgaria in June, then there is the summer season where in July we'll play at the Tolminator metal fest. Helsinki metal fest is in July. We're going to play in a few others. So we have a busy year and by the end of the year I'm trying to book a few mini-tours to promote the new album.

METALLIAN: Spermain, why is Metallian the best website for metal in this universe?
SPERMAIN: Well, Metallian is the best website for metal in the universe because they gave us a 70 on the album and our music is absolutely shit. So I think that all the other magazines will rate us lower so thank you Metallian for that 70%.

Everyone has their own reasons and they are all valid. You can find out more regarding singers Major Diarrhea and GG Stalin, guitarist Corde Sensible, my interview partner bassist Spermain, drummer Julien Racine and their 2025 album Sphinct-Earth Society on their website here.

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