Track listing:
1 - First Cut (46.07)
Total Running Time 46.07
Released November 1999
CD £5
"Apparently, Terror HQ has been neglecting the output of Bristol grind/ death/ industrial/ hardcore Smear. Apparently, we liked one of their releases, didn't like another and then ignored them. How positively fucking rude of us (but then, what do we know, eh chaps?)
Anyway, the spell in coventry is about to end with this 'harsh as fuck' burst of electronic noise that is Smear side project, Hate-Male.
This is like being caught, or rather consumed by a ferocious electrical storm, albeit a warm and fuzzy one, and one punctuated by occasional Lynchian (c'mon, it's in the label name) passages of, well not calm, exactly, but surreal respite or something. It's also one which is the product of a box of Germanium transistors (the fuzz cognoscenti's proverbial 'shit', apparently). Never mind the first five minutes; try the first five listens. It's fucking STAGGERING.
The accompanying literature is far too apologetic for it's own good (you're like, one of the most brutal releases of the year so far - now is not the time to be sensitive). Fears of bandwagon jumping are simply irrelevant, this would have been a better (and far more aesthetically pleasing) torture instrument than the shock torture used on a guy chained up in the Charles Bronsan film I saw last night. THE ELECTRODES PLEASE!!! But then, what do we know..."
9 out of 10
Catherine Yates, Terrorizer Magazine # 79, June 2000
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"Featuring more (inc. newer stuff) of the halfway intelligent Smear and the white noise of Hate-Male which, at least to me is shit scary (very good thing!) - mad distorted guitars screeching in your ears for 8 minutes, and it's only a cut. This shows what could be the beginnings of an interesting label, now if only Loz would get a few bands that he isn't involved in! More of Hate-Male though, especially with the lyricist which has been promised!"
Bob Smith, Chaotic Order fanzine # 6, 2000, reviwing a label sampler.
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"Thanks for the Hate-Male CD which I enjoyed. Very good harsh sound."
Masami Akita (Merzbow), personal response, 2000
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"Cut Throat Razor is certainly an album living up to it's name. Brutal white noise abounds and it's a pleasantly unsettling experience."
Alex Mann, Chaotic Order fanzine # 13, 2002.
