O' my weak world! How brutal this fucking music can be? Who fucking knows that?!!! Ha!!! The answer is none of us!!! Yup... even me, hahahaha... If You want to imagine "where it all goes down to", if You want to see "decadence of god's creation" and hear "the sound of the inevitable", get now the debut CD of Greek Inot The Gore called "Pain must be amplified". Band started in 1998, with some line-up changes now they are five men with five sick minds and five mega brutal terrorvisions. It is very strange that in sunny Greece, land of famous Necromantia, they are playing brutal death metal, full of massive riffs and brilliant drum-work. Vocals (except growl, here we can find radio-voice like on the YATTERING's albums, so I can't tell about originality right now) and guitar solos are not the best but who caress... Not me! So songs structure is moderately multiplied by riffs, so it won't boring You. Cover art work is very good, professional computer work. We have on it screaming face, dead human, beast's spine, cosmic textures and all is mixed in one big "pain", I can't find the other word, sorry, hahaha. Production isn't from Florida, but I like it very much, even more than some USA bands. Music of ITG is creating the specific atmosphere, full of sick emotions and is dedicated only to persons without any problems with a heart. I think that on gigs they kicks asses, hehehe, maybe someday I will see them live. I want it!!! I am still listening to that music and I can't stop it... Yeah, maybe right now I will kill someone???… Who fucking knows that?

V každém hudebním stylu můžeme najít skupiny kvalitní, ale i ty, které na tom ještě nejsou moc dobře. Je tomu tak i v death metalu. Mezi smrtonosné veličiny, jejichž hudba zatím nikdy nezklamala, můžeme směle zařadit řezníky Cannibal Corpse, dnes již pohřbené Obituary a Pestilence, kanadské dřevorubce Cryptopsy a spousty dalších. Zapomenout samozřejmě nesmím na průkopníky stylu Death, kteří každým novým albem naznačovali cestu, po níž se bude death metal dále ubírat. Do seznamu méně kvalitních smrtonošů jsem si po vyslechnutí desky "Pain Must Be Amplified" zařadil mimo jiné také Into The Gore. Nijak výrazný death metal rychlejšího tempa nemá zatím schopnost zvednout ze židle, podobných skupin bychom na zeměkouli nasbírali nespočet. Poměrně jednoduché kytarové linky, klasický brutální zpěv dpolňovaný skřekotem, žádné zvláštní nápady, zkrátka nic co by více zaujalo. Vzpomínám na dobu dávno minulou, kdy jsem byl omráčen deathovými skvosty jako "The Ten Commanders", "Consuming Impulse", "Human", Butcheret At Birth","Diabolical Summoning" nebo "Cause of Death". Tuhle nesmrtelnou klasiku si určitě pustím raději než průměrný death, jaký provozují Into The Gore. Nechci říct, že by materiál na "Pain Must Be Amplified" byl úplně odpadovitý, ale mně osobně rozválcovat nedokázal. To se za poslední dobu podařilo jen několika z těch méně známějších kapel (např. Sever Torture, Absolute Defiance...). Jako ve všem ale záleží na chutijednotlivce, a je proto možné, že někoho Into The Gore dokáží více zaujnout.

INTO THE GORE is hand's down the best death/gore-grind band to come from Greece. The layout of this disc is fantastic and the production is top notch. If you like SUFFOCATION or YATTERING you must own this immediatey. You will not be disappointed!

Další masakrátoři mozkoven se hlásí ze slunného Řecka. Pětice psychoušů, schovávajících se za výmluvný název Into The Gore, zplodila bez mála půlhodinku trvající debutní výlisek pro slovenské company Metal Age. Těleso holduje divokému a brutálnímu kovu smrti s nepřeslechnutelným aromatem jistého psychotična, což nervnímu matroši dodává na osobitosti a originalitě. Ono aroma mají na svědomí především dva střídající se křiklouni (jeden hluboký a druhý nějakou plechovkou upravený ječák). Muzika je nápaditá, rytmus a tempo stále se měnící a posluchač si neodpočine ani v občasných, krát-kých elektronických introdukcích. Stejně jako hudba je řádně pomatený, originální a shlédnutihodný obal. Zprvu jsem albem "Pain Must Be Amplified" nadšen nijak nebyl, ale po několika soustředěných posleších mohu prohlásit, že se mi i líbí a deathovým experimentátorům jej mohu doporučit. Tito horkokrevní Řekové to zkrátka hrnou trošku jinak i přesto, že některé pasáže znějí kapánek naivně a omšele, což má na svědomí i ne zcela dokonalá zvuková kvalita. Vzhledem k relativně nízkému stáří kapely (datum vzniku: léto 1998) lze řadit Into The Gore k příslibům a do budoucna s nimi zřejmě bude nutné počítat. Jsem si jistý, že po konzumaci této nahrávky rozhodně oceníte krásy ticha...

I've heard lately a couple of bands coming from Greece that are absolutely worth the try. I can remember now of Inveracity or Atavism and now, I can add to the list to those Into The Gore. This is their debut record that was released last year by the Slovakian label Metal Age Productions and includes 10 songs of an aggressive kind of Death Metal that sounds heavy and brutal. It has some elements from Gore here and there and a very good production.There are mixed vocals on each and every song. You have some kind of "game" between both of them that sound very well, as one of them is guttural and the other one is semi distorted. Musicwise, it's mainly fast, although they incorporate some mid tempo parts that fit perfectly with the rest. I would define this as modern Death Metal and I don't think I'd be wrong. To compare it with something, I'd say Malevolent Creation ("Eternal" era, although not as fast as this one!) or the project some of the guys in this band have Hate Plow. Good release if you're into powerful Death Metal.

Ok, it's time for some holiday work now! So, which English band was the first one to play gore death/grind and get some success? Carcass, congratulations! All the ones who answered right to this question are now authorised to lacerate their face with a rusty spoon. Now that it's done, I'm going to amplify your pain by making you listen to Into The Gore, a Greek band of grind/death influenced by? Carcass, era "Necroticism", congratulations! If you have found again, you can lacerate another time. Else, too bad, you had to use your weak brain, there was a reason why I had mentioned Carcass earlier. So here are ten tracks that will please the elder ones, all the more that the sound is quite old school too! Normal, in Greece they are used to recording black metal or gay stuff (this is gonna make people love me even more), so there's now way they can give a modern sound to a death/grind album. That's it, what else can be said but that a copy is never better than the original, and that the tribute to Carcass is cooler than this album? Really for the nostalgic ones, and the ones collecting morgue pictures.

I heard about this band because an massive e-mail that arrived to me some months ago. On that times the band was looking for a new logo for their upcoming CD "Pain Must Be Amplified". I tried to contact the band but never replyed my e-mails (:-| ). Now is my chance, hehehe...it´s a joke!!. Into The Gore is a band from Greece and are proud to say that are the brutalest one from that country. Well, that´s true nowadays ...but they must reload energy because I have news about a new ultra-brutal band from that country...but that´s another subject... The band is a five-member combo (AMX on guitars and screams, JT on rythmn guitar, MK on drums, SS on vokills and KB on bass), that play a brutal and sometimes original mix between american death metal (early Malevolent Creation), European death (Avulsed or Benediction) and so high influences from thrash metal (Slayer and Destruction), giving their particular vision of music, adding some ultra-distorted screams and some original riffs, and playing all (on most parts) so fast and raw. Sound remembers me a bit to Abaddon Incarnate´s first album. Perhaps you´ll not find something new on this recording...but it´s not boring or middling!...but probably, the best of "Pain Must Be Amplified" is the digital design of the cover and booklet, wich is really amazing. Try it!

Již pět let oblažují Into The Gore všechny obyvatele slunného Řecka svým velmi brutálním pojetím death metalu, při kterém se slovutný Olymp otřásá ve svých základech. Sice už hrají delší dobu, ale až nynejší album "Pain Must Be Amplified" je jejich debutem. Tenhle počin byl očekáván již delší dobu, neboť jejich demo "Promo 99" bylo v undergroundu velmi vyhledávaným artiklem. Nové album obsahuje celkem deset zběsilých skladeb, ve kterých se plne projeví jižanská nátura. Skladby jsou velice přímočaré, plné vitality a agrese, kterou jsou jižní národy známy. Zpestřením je, že ITG využívají dvou vokálů, a sice vokalisty Steliose, a zpívajícího kytaristy Alexandra Michaela, kteří se svorně podělili o typický deathový murmur a skřípavý ječák. Kto si libuje v kráktých, nekompromisních skladbách, které si to drhnou v jedné nastolené koleji (kromě úvodu třetí skladby "I Am Flesh", jež se trochu posouvá do industriálu), dostane se mu toho zde měrou vrchovatou. Řečeno stručně, žádný výrazný zázrak, ale ani žádné zklamání.

...This album has an absolutely great layout, it's amazing! Also the sound is clear, but I got a feeling that those guys from Greece (that's where they come from) wanted this album to sound a little bit in garage way. Guitar sound is very harsh, you can hear that garage sound a little while listening to drums sound (very good drummer by the way). I don't know and I don't care, if they wanted listener to receive that feeling or not - it works here! Musically it is brutal and fast Death Metal. Drummer is good enuff to do a great background, make extremely fast tempos, and guitars are doing their parts well. Sometimes it all reminds Morbid Angel from debut (but sometimes only), sometimes just standard corpse fucking competition. Have you heard Yattering's "Anal Narcotic" track? It all here generally reminds me of that track, maybe ITG is more grindcore'is sometimes. But the opposite thing to Yattering here is that their Anal-Chaos is more organised, and on "Pain Should be Amplified", I got a feeling that there is a lack of coordination, not everything here is well organised. But I think it will be defeated with time. As I said earlier, we got here industrial intros, they remind me of Ravenous industrial shit - very similar atmosphere. Weaker a little, but good at all! Worth listening - definitely....

..."Pain Must Be Amplified" will delight the fans of the sickest and also brutal sonorities cause Into The Gore really can catch the attention of both audiences. One of the things that lacks on this record is a bit more originality on the songs even if the musical skills were good enough to produce it and even if in the end the record strikes for the positive side due its professionalism. I wonder if by now I.T.G. already grabbed the attention of any label like they were planning 'cause the band really has potential to deliver a devastating album next time! Extreme music fans, this is a good choice for you!

Whoa, fuck - I didn't have any idea that even in the sunny Greece incredible sick psychopaths can exist!!! However, "Pain must be amplified" - yeah, INTO THE GORE are the anthropomorphised pain itself, that intensive, that crushing, that scathing - I dunno, it can't bebut it is! If you take old CRYPTOPSY for example - they were extreme. Fucking extreme. But INTO THE GORE are even a step further, faster, more brutal, with a terrifying intensity, sicker, an organized chaotic mindfuck, I'd say, I think it's the frenzied drumming I've ever heard, it's incredible fast but very precisely, though, the guitars scratch your skin to the bone, the bass makes your intestines flushing around and the vocals - I dunno - it's pure fucking noise! A.M.X. is screaming like hell, with a distorted voice - and, well, he simply gives you the rest. When you're through the band's atmospheric, groovy, chaotic debut you'll revel in pain, wishing to find a quick end, but be a masochist, push play and let 'em overcome you again! "Pain must be amplified" features five new songs plus five re-recorded ones from their "Raw" promo, 1999 - and, well - if you wish to be merciless humiliated - just move your fuckin' ass and get it! and then, kill some!

You know... A real grind core live in Greece is as rare as a blizzard in the middle of Athens. Well I think we had more blizzards than grindcore gigs. Finaly, Into The Gore decided to perform one of these so called "Did you see that?" gig. Into the gore used to be a very good band, uniting death metal with grindcore (yeah, I know everyone is doing this but shut up and let me finish) in their own way, providing the listener with joy seeing that Suffocation is not the center of the scene. I said they used to be because now (brand new songs) they fucking rule. Hell yeah, brushing away the most brutal death metal elements, adding a total grinding holocaust that will keep your "suffocationish" ears bleeding for a long time. Off with the live I say... When they first came out they had some sound problems, but then... the mayhem begun. Let me get this straight, the sound in the entire live was one of the most massive and pro sounds I had the chance to experience in my life. Their set of 10 songs, old and new did not allow us to think about it very much. People beating the shit of other people, (among them was a wrestler that crushed several backs and heads just for the fun of it) drumming the blast-beats all the way, screams like a chainsaw, guitars pumping blood through my eardrums etc. I could go on about 3 more pages writing down this experience but I whon't. In the end, I must admit it was a very good live. Full of energy and cool people that knew why they were there and loved it (the most of'em). I wish we had 100 more gigs like that one, but one time like this can stay in your mind as well as in your heart. Yes I know, I sound very childish about that one but what can I say when I am witnessing things that I had dreams about when i was 8 years younger? At least I do not support'em cause they're from my country or that it's the new trend. Fuck all these i say... When I see grindcore I support it... Cheerz..!!

Every time I listen to this record I get more and more exited. This shit here is ultra fast and dirty and it is advisable only for the fans of the extreme sound. Let me describe you what is about. Imagine an industrial sound of the guitar (something like the "Waking The Fury" of Annihilator) at extreme speeds, add a grind blasting drumming and bass of course, and mix them once with brutal vocals and once with a distorted industrialized voice. Yes it's an "in your face" album but it's also well-made in its sound and in its theme songs. That proves that the five guys from Salonica have worked hard for this album. But I repeat it again. If you don't like extreme stuff DON'T listen to this album. The only thing that you 're gonna get is a headache. Let's mention that "Pain Must Be Amplified" isn't a classic death-grind album. It contains a lot of American new fashioned industrial elements but they are filtered in such a way that the music stays primitive brutal and authentic. If you don't like these kind of mixes then you will probably be disappointed, cause it's not an old-fashioned album and it isn't here for brains that are stuck to the classic death-grind sound.

Erst seit 1998 besteht die grichische Formation INTO THE GORE, die mit nur einem Demo sowohl diverse Angebote von namhaften Labels bekam, sich schluendlich aber für das etwas kleinere Label Metal Age aus der Slowakei entschied. Die Griechen sind zwar kein Schmerz in den Ohren, massiv verstärkt kommt ihr Sound aber dennoch rüber. Brachialer Death Metal amerikanischen Zuschnitts, der aber durch den surrenden Gitarrensound eine gewisse Eigenständigkeit mitbringt. Als Kontrast zu den guten Growl-Vocals wird hier mit satt verzerrtem Geschrei gearbeitet, was ein zu langes Schnüffeln an Vulkanen nahelegt. „Pain Must Be Amplified“ haut mächtig auf den Putz, ist ordentlich produziert und geht leider nur eine knappe halbe Stunde. Ansonsten ist INTO THE GORE ein korrektes Debut zu bescheinigen, das auch optisch sehr ansprechend daherkommt.