Splattered Nachos... good memories. (Almost) every recording session was special, insane, idiotic... simply fun.
Everything started in January 2005 I think... At the time JuVo and I (Gag) played in a death metal band called Cured Leper together, he was on bass and I was guitarist and vocalist. JuVo spent the night over at my place from time to time and one day he had the great (?) idea to play some grindy noisy stuff on the bass, do some vocals to that and record everything with my cheap cassette-player. Of course I loved the idea and quickly got my sister's keyboard as well in order to do some spastic drums to it as well. We took turns on the instruments in between tracks and the result of the whole thing was a totally shitty but funny low-fi recording of... whatever. We always found it hard to describe our music, but the session was then titled "SpasticatedSplatterNacho NoiseGrindGore". Even though the sound is quite different, the general concept was similar to that of Anal Cunt, I guess... We made fun of a lot of things in these tracks. Not much happened to this recording then, though, because I didn't know much about recording music on the PC yet and stuff, but someday someone offered to digitize this tape for us and made mp3s of it.
A couple of months later JuVo was at my place again and we did a second session just like the first one, but with a guitar instead of bass in some tracks. It followed pretty much the same spirit and we called the result "Vomit on the Nazi". The same guy that digitized the first session for us also did it this time and I think it was then that we finally started spreading the sessions a bit on the internet...
The next session, "Noisegrinding Vomit Gore", took place 1 or 2 days after I got myself a drum-kit. I guess we made my parents regret their decision to have one at our home pretty fast, haha... ;-P Sound-wise, this session was totally different from the previous two, but of course it followed the same retarded spirit.
For some reason I can't remember anymore that guy that did the tape-to-PC transfer for us could only do the first 5 tracks of this third session and then he was unavailable, so the tracks of this session remained unlistened for a good while.
A couple of months later in Summer 2005 we did a fourth session, "Grim & frostbitten Summer Day", and it followed the direction of the third session.
Someday after this I finally understood how to transfer tapes to the computer, so then we started spreading the 3rd and 4th sessions on the net as well.
I'm not sure whether it was after the 3rd or 4th session when we did a kind of "video clip" for our self-proclaimed chart-breaker "Grind'n'Roll". We had a Cured Leper band-rehearsal at my place and towards the end we had the idea to do something like that. We dressed up in the most idiotic way possible, asked Tom (Cured Leper guitarist) to play anything on the guitar while we do stupid stuff and asked my sister to film the whole thing. The result is so dumb that I can't possibly upload it to youtube, JuVo would probably kill me hahaha...
Later in 2005 I had the not so great idea to start doing actual songs with Splattered Nachos. I didn't mean to write actual riffs or so, but I thought basic song-structures and vocal patters could be good. I wrote some silly and also some rather serious lyrics about different topics I was concerned with at that time and we tried to record them all in a fifth session. At some point we were bored and annoyed by it and interrupted the session - and never got back to it later either. I think we kind of forgot about this one afterwards and I listened to the tape someday in 2006 or so just for fun and found it pretty nice in some ways, so I spread these tracks under the name of "Lyrics Session" as well.
Before that we played a short concert in a youth center though, towards the end of 2005 I think... The (my) idea was to play "actual" songs and I wanted to really rehearse stuff before the gig etc., which really killed the entire SxNx concept, but I didn't notice it back then. Fortunately the gig was lots of fun anyway because we pretty much ended up doing a jam-session on stage, similar to the stuff we did in our 3rd and 4th recording sessions.
I think it was someday in early 2006 when we did another session, recorded with my mp3-player. It was semi-acoustic because my mom couldn't handle a lot of noise in the house on that day and the final result was probably the weirdest session of all. "Wikinger sind schwul" ("Vikings are gay") contained even some rap-stuff and a calm acoustic song that we almost couldn't get done without laughing too hard at some point. Anyway, pretty stupid but fun stuff.
After that JoVo and I didn't see each other that much anymore because of his school and profession, so Splattered Nachos was put on ice.
In 2008, I suddenly had the desire to do another session and release it for real this time, on my label Vomit Bucket Productions. JuVo agreed and I recorded drums and guitar for several songs and we both added vocals to them later and gathered lots of hilarious TV- and movie-samples to put in the tracks. With this procedure, the session was of course totally different from everything we did before and it maybe lacked the certain SxNx-feeling, but it was a quite nice result anyway and it was released on pro CD-R on my label, limited to 50 copies. All the money we got from sales was put aside for nice stuff; mostly beer, but we also got cinema tickets from it and stuff.
After that there was silence again, but we did another (final) mega-session in August 2009. By the time we generally labeled our stuff as "ranzcore" just for fun; noisecore but still worse and more rancid than noisecore. Anyway, this session really had the essence of SxNx again, as we recorded everything live as on the early recordings. It was quite a brutal raw grindy session in which we did our "The Ultimate Ranz-Session" CD-R, our parts for the split CD-Rs with Musikantenstadl Massaker and KZ9, which were released shortly after the recording, and also the split with Suela De Zapato, which was finally released about a year or more later.
Again, all the money we got mostly went into beer, so thanks to everyone who supported us :-)
Even though we didn't plan it, for some reason SxNx got inactive again and when we noticed this happened we agreed to leave it that way.
So that was it. We don't think there will ever be another SxNx release, but I'll probably upload all the material we did somewhere for you to enjoy for free.
I had all the old stuff hosted on rapidshare for some time, but because of their retarded policy to delete files when they're not downloaded frequently I had to re-upload them all the time and someday got bored by that, which is why they're currently unavailable.
A note about the content of our recordings...
There's a lot of offensive humorous stuff in it that's quite obviously not meant to be taken seriously. Especially the Cured Leper guitarist (Tom) had to take a lot of crap from us throughout our recording sessions... :-)
But there are also serious tracks, concept-wise, because both JuVo and I are Christians and we did some stuff in that direction as well.
