The Alchemical Mixture - Hell Comes Home Vol. 1 Box Set (album review + short interview)

Twelve 7" split singles featuring 24 of the noisiest, filthiest downtuned bands one is likely to hear in a single collection.  Coming in a just a shade under two hours long there's no easy way to sum up any overall feelings or impressions about this mammoth undertaking from Galway, Ireland based label Hell Comes Home, so we'll take it slowly.  "The only way to exit / Is going piece by piece".

As mentioned earlier, it's a lot to take when looking at the menu all at once.  There were familiar bands: Thou, Fight Amp, Coffinworm, Fistula; bands that I had first heard of here, whom I later became better acquainted with: Kowloon Walled City and Dopefight; and eighteen others that I had been ignorant of.  Soon, it was time to put down the menu  and say, "I'll have one of everything."  Only one question remained, did I have the rugged constitution to stomach such a heavy load?