MANKOLOVER: POP PORNO GRIND?

MS Suckalo Spwee1494 e-mailed us Japan’s Mankolover, who he classified as “popporngrind.” (“Manko” is apparently Japanese slang for “vagina.”) Well, that certainly sounded interesting, so I decided to head on over to their MySpace page and check them out tout de suite. And I thought things were off to a pretty good start when I saw song titles such as “Sperm Terror,” “Stinkpussy” and “Milky Lotion Shower.” Clearly, the band had the “porno” part down.

Plus, I immediately fell in love with their band bio. Please excuse me while I make fun of some guys who don’t speak English as their first language:

– Wanna shout “cock” and “pussy” with blast beats!! – With this strong urge, the prototype of the band started in 2002.

Unfortunately the music is pretty sub-par. I’m also not sure where Spwee1494 is hearing any pop; the only song that’s poppy in the slightest is “Zero Gravity Masturbation.” In all fairness, I have no idea how you’d ever write pop-grind; the two genres just strike me as being mutually exclusive. If you told me that some band was going to play grind but with a lot of synths and really polished production – like Pig Destroyer covering Devin Townsend’s Addicted or something – I’d be super curious to hear it. Alas, Mankolover ain’t that band.

But check ’em out and let Spwee1494 know what you think in the comments section. Maybe some of you will hear the innovative genius that I do not.

-AR