Oddly enough, mention their name and everybody knows of them though, so they have built up a kind of legendary underground status and its much deserved. This live album is basically two radio broadcasts the band did in 1996 and 1999 respectively so they were recorded when the band were at their absolute peak. Most people who I have spoken too over the years about the band seem to own at least one compilation and so most people will know most of the songs on this album already. I think there is at least 10 songs on here that have appear on these comps, maybe more. 'Live For Nothing' is packed to the brim with Noothgrush hateful brand of sludge, 79 minutes worth of it in fact, so this is a real value for money release put out by Southern Lord. What is also a bonus is, there is no repeats in the playlist which is surprising seeing as these broadcasts were made only 3 years apart.
When you listen to the power and intensity of the band, it is strange they are not mentioned in the same breath as Eyehategod and Buzzov*en because they really deserved to be. Noothgrush played a diverse brand of sludge, stoner-metal, and doom in the 90's which is why they were so great back then. They were full of hate and nasty riffage but they also were great at bringing infectious melodies into the madness and they also injected some killer hooks and grooves into some of their songs and this album is a good showcase of those talents. 'Sith,' 'Oil Removed,' 'Hatred For the Species,' and 'Made Uncomfortable By Others Pain' are a few of the highlights here and these are all minor classics within the sludge-metal genre.
But you also get out-and-out stoner-grooves as in 'Derrell’s Porno Song' and then there is epic, monster cuts like 'Erode the Person,' 'Flee From Hunger And Disease,' 'Useless,' and 'Jundland Wastes' which are songs that are not that long really but sound totally epic anyway. Most of Noothgrush’s songs are slow, lethargic head-nodders, the kind of heavy music perfect for drunken headbanging when banging in-time is completely out of the question. The icing on the cake here is the best-ever cover version of Celtic Frost’s 'Procreation (Of the Wicked)' that you will ever hear, so good that the album is worth buying for it alone.
What is so important about this is, this is the closet that 99.9% of us will ever get to seeing the band live so it is two recordings that has to be heard by anyone with even the slightest interest in the sludge-doom underground. The sound on this album varies and could have been a lot better but it is good enough to get the point across that Noothgrush are a band that deserves some much overdue admiration......8/10
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