g r u n t s p l a t t e r

Gruntsplatter, the primary project of Scott Candey, came to be in 1994 after about a year of experimenting. It has always been a maleable creature that hovers in the gray area between abrasive noise and dark ambient. The music has been called "noise ambient" and it's a term I embrace.

Mood and depth of composition have continually been of the first importance for Gruntsplatter. By mixing the harsher elements and their details with the more atmospheric elements I feel I am best able to acheive what I am working toward. My intent has always been, and continues to be, to make something evocative and subtle in it's detail.

Influenced primarily by my mood and immediate state of mind I also draw, somewhat esoterically, from literature, history and the death rattles and rituals of our eroding gene pool.

I have also collaborated with a few others over the years, those projects include, Circadian, Triage, Blunt Force Trauma and Umbra. Gruntsplatter has always, and will always, consist of only myself.


Complete Discography...

"Bisect: A 90 min Split" w/ Torture Chamber - MC - limited to 100 - Crionic Mind - CM-001 - November 1995
Track Listing: 14FI | Beneath The Landfill | Jeffrey | Tumult | Insemination | Deflowerment | Only | Biological Satan
"Split" w/ Ruhr Hunter - CD - limited to 1,000 - Glass Throat Recordings - GTR-002 - May 1998
Track Listing: Immolating The Nest | Horripilation | Dolmen | Gressil | Teirinn | Hush
"Split" w/. Slowvent - CD - limited to 500 - Crionic Mind - CM-003 - December 1998
Track Listing: The Flagellant | Ascending Marrow | Bloodsoil | Gravemound | The Prophetic Maw
"Ertragen: Split" w/ Lefthandeddecision & Petit Mal - CDR - limited to 4 - Special Circumstances Rec. - August 1999
Track Listing: Neblig
"Split" w/ Armenia - MC - (unreleased?) - Bizarre Audio Arts - August 1999
Track Listing: In High Dudgeon | No. 8 Neu Strabe | Luciferous Eromania | Inhabit | Formulating Intent
"Pest Maiden" - 7" - limited to 250 - Troniks - TRO-13 - October 1999
Track Listing: All Fall Down | The Watchman, The Visited & The Under-Sexton
"Pest Maiden" - MC - limited to 50 - Troniks - TRO-13b - October 1999 (only available as an addition to the first 50 7"'s)
Track Listing: Permeating Tissue | A Hasty Grave | Finally Silent
"The Death Fires" - CD - limited to 1000 - Crowd Control Activities - CCA019 - March 2000
Track Listing: Black Toothed Mortality | Access the Blood | The Creeping Things | Against the Dying of the Light | Fearbiter | Waiting on the Body | Struggling to Breathe | When They Go | ...And So In Death | Below the Stones | The Resonant Soil
"Chronicling The Famine" - CD - limited to 1000 - Desolation House - DH002 - November 2002
Track Listing: Ravens at the Cradle | Swollen Like Their Bellies | The Slow Exhale of a Man Looking In | Laterns Blanch The Spoil | Tyrant Among The Bloodless | Waiting Among The Dead for Death to Come | Underneath The Luminous Poison | To Walk the Earth In Spite of It | Methane, Extinction & the Absence of Divinity | The End of the River
"The Organ Harvest: Rare & Unreleased 1994-1999" - CDR - limited. to 100 - Audio Savant - AS002 - February 2004
Track Listing: Stumbling Before Death | Luciferous Eromania | Formulating Intent | Inhabit | With Sword, With Hunger, With Death | Tantrum | Implements Of Hell | The Door Closed | 2 Rote Reihe | Bloodmeal | In High Dudgeon | No. 8 Neue Straße | Anesthetized
"Pest Maiden" - CD - limited. to 1000 - PacRec/Troniks - PAC107 - December 2004
Track Listing: Permeating Tissue | All Fall Down | A Hasty Grave | The Watchman, The Visited & The Under-Sexton | Finally Silent
"The Passions Of A Cripple" - 12" - limited. to 300 - Force Of Nature Prod. - FONR2 - February 2005
Track Listing: The Defoliant | Fire Behind Locked Doors | Fracturing The Phantom Limb | Mute In The Understanding | Through A Hewn Throat | A Stained And Ragged Cutting Board
"The Eulogists Assembly" - CD - Eibon Records - GRU052 - March 2005
Track Listing: The Tireless Slog Of The infirm | The Redundancy Of Procreation | Dissecting The Ceremonial Tongue | Architectural Scarecrows & The Ashes of Effigies | The Fraternal Order of Hypocrites & Zealots | Where The Fearful Eat Their Young | The Beasts That Perished | A Blight Between The Weeds | Our Rituals Inform Disease | The Sour Call Of The Gallows Birds
"The Aberrant Laboratory" - CD - Dark Vinyl Records - DV #52 - February 2006
Track Listing: Sifting Genuis From The Taboo | The Furnace Of Hippocratic Transgression | Experiments In Circumventing Evolution | Deliberating Galvanic Animation | The Singular Accidents Of Life | Clamoring Torches Ring The Hives Of Science | Inhospitable Genetics And The Mythology Of Monsters | A Congregation Of Regretable Biology | Repercussions The Empty The Streets | Can You See The Blood On The Burgundy Sea? 

Compilations...

"V/A - Tape Heads Two" - Track "Steep" - MC - Haltapes - July 1998
"V/A - Baited Breath" - Track "Corpse Lagoon" - MC - limited to 100 - Live Bait Recording Foundation - November 1998
"V/A - Madness Incarnate 1" - Track "2 Rote Reiche" - MC - limited to 100 - Verbrante Erde - February 1999
"V/A - On The Brink of Infinity" - Track "Age of The Homunculus" - CD - limited to 1000 - Chthonic Streams - October 1999
"V/A - The Sound of Sadism" - Track "Carnivean" - CD - Crowd Control Activities - October 1999
"V/A - Depth of Beyond" - Track "The Parasitic Twin" - DMC - limited to 197 - Troniks - July 2000
"V/A - Salvation Bloodletting" - Track "I Saw It In The Blood" - CD - limited to 500 - Live Bait - April 2001
"V/A - Krach Test" - Track "The Logic of the Slaughterhouse" - 3CDR - limited to 227 - Adnoiseam - April 2001
"V/A - Funeral Songs" - Track "A Day In August" - CD - Release/Crowd Control Activities - June 2001
"V/A - Deprograming Music" - Track "The World Below The Brine" - CD - limited to 500 - Sacred Sound - July 2001
"V/A - Information Apocalypse" - Track "Genomic Rituals" - CD - limited to 1000 - Annihilvs - March 2002
"V/A - Bitmapping" - Track "Scavenging Through Evolution" - DCDR - limited to 100 - Objective Subjective - May 2003
"V/A - Two Minds of Murder" - Tracks "Tantrum" & "Implements Of Hell" - CDR?? - AVA/ES1 - January 2003
"V/A - At The End Of The Rope" - Track "The Acidic Blood" - DCD - limited to 1000 - Chondritic Sound - March 2005

Remix Projects...

Lefthandeddecision - "Cracked Electonics" - MC - limited to 33 - Troniks - January 2000
Track "Prolix Sigh"
In Death's Throes - "Natural Selections" - CDR - limited to 100 - Troniks - January 2002
Track "Haunting Invokations (bloodgod mix)"
Bastard Noise/Hermit/Moz - "The Moralist Factor" - 7" - limited to 300 - Balefire Recordings - March 2004
Track "The Moralist Factor (pt. 1)" & "(pt. 2)"
Aidan Baker - "Remixes" - CDR - Arcolepsy Records - December 2005
Track "Predatory Sediment"
Coffin Birth - "S/T" - CDR - Witchhouse Records - December 2005
Track "A Stranger At The Exhumation"

Contributions...

Nothing - "The Grey Subaudible" - CD - Eibon - July 2000
Track "To Draw The Things...That Come To Corpses"
Goat - "The Book Of Revelations - CDR - Beauty And Pain - July 2004
Track "Alpha"