I Can’t Do Voregrind (Disembowelment Blues) / Dicky Dick’s Puke Fountain

**"I Can't Do Voregrind (Disembowelment Blues) / Dicky Dick's Puke Fountain"** is a suite of songs by Negative Øhio, starting as a mix of Blues and Death Metal, and ending in Grindcore, all in a massive parody of Extreme Metal shock lyrics. The song is labeled as such genres as Avant-Garde Metal, Blues Rock, Cybergrind and Death Metal.

It was released on March 5th, 2021, digitally.

## Composition

The track consists of 2 songs, which are both linked to each other lyrically.

The first part, Disembowelment Blues, is primarily in 4/4 at 90BPM, with interludes in 6/4, a solo section in 17/8, and another one in a polyrhythmic 6/4. The second part, Dicky Dick's Puke Fountain, blasts out at a constant 250BPM in 4/4.

### Disembowelment Blues

The drums in this song are a mix of samples and MIDI. The snares are sampled from a cookie tin, while the kicks are made out of samples of a kalimba being hit. There are also other samples used for flairs and such, including speaker feedback, stock sound effects, vocal snippets and a backmasked part of the song "Don't Wipe Your Ass With Oil".

The main instruments here are a mix of Ukuleles and Bass Guitar, playing standard Blues riffs in a very distorted and dissonant sort of way. The song also utilizes the Harmonica and programmed Saxophones in the interludes between verses, and they have a dueling solo during the 17/8 breakdown.

The vocals are primarily performed in low growls, trying to make a combination of gruff Blues vocals with Death Metal brutality. These are technically pitched for the most part, but are so guttural it's impossible to hear what pitch they are in the full mix. There are also some inhale growls and screams, used to indicate nausea and puking.

### Dicky Dick's Puke Fountain

The drums in this song are mostly MIDI, but the snares are actually samples of a toilet lid being slammed shut. There is also a sample of a broken microphone making white noise in the outro.

Instead of mixing several different lead instruments, this part consists only of many different Bass guitar parts layered on top of each other.

The lead vocals are snarled at breakneck tempo, and are mostly completely incomprehensible. It starts and ends with a small skit with spoken dialogue, and the outro also has crowd vocals made from several takes and vocal samples combined into one.

## Lyrics & Themes

The song is a parody of the tendency for Extreme Metal bands to try and make their lyrics as gross as possible. Part of the joke is that the lyrics describing the disgust with trying to write something in this vein are themselves fairly gross, graphically detailing vomiting with many colorful metaphors. The second part, meanwhile, is just a full-on attempt to actually make a song as disgusting as possible, because irony.

```
[Verse 1]
Yuck!

I wanted to be the sickest one around
That combined both Gore and Pornogrind
But when I try to write any lyrics down
My bowels can’t take it, no they can’t take it
Erotic cannibals makes me want to puke
As my belly’s innards come up like a nuke

[Verse 2]
Yuck!

I got the disembowelment blues
This music is too gross, I must refuse
My stomach acid’s not for show
But right now it just has to go out
Followed by my guts and other organs
I’m not gonna feel good in the morning

[Harmonica & Sax Solos]
I got the disembowelment blues!
Disembowelment blues!

Ugh...
Oh no...

Disembowelment blues!
Disembowelment blues!

Oh no...
Ugh, oh god...
Oh no...

[Ukulele Solo]
Yuck!

Ugh, oh no...
My stomach, oh no...
Oh my guts...
Oh no...
Ugh...
Ewww...

This shit is nasty
Oh no...
Look at that stomach acid fly! Oh no!
Oh... ewww...

[Outro 1]
Just thinking about this thing...
Ugh, I can’t…
\*vomit sounds for 50 hours\*

(Well I’m glad you got that out of your system)
You know what, I changed my mind
(WHA-)

[Dicky Dick's Puke Fountain]
It’s like a thousand knives in my belly
Blood and gall splatting around like jelly

Stomach is churning and burning and exerting
Vomit corrodes the underwear
Buttocks exposed to acid rain
Deluge of puke, money-shot on your face

Ralphing on your Laurens turns me on
You’re spewing back at me and my mind’s gone

I feel like I’m dying, Freudian style
Timothy’s blood drips in my eye
Cut me open like an apple pie
Then recreate the food scene from Witchcraft 8

[Outro 2]
You're turned on by THIS!?
(crowd of disgusted onlookers)

```

## Trivia

* The idea of mixing Blues and Death Metal came from an old song idea Nightmare Lyre had a decade ago. The title "Disembowelment Blues" was the original planned title for this song as well, but it would have had entirely different lyrics.
* One inspiration for this song is the Metalocalypse episode "Bluesklok", where the Death Metal band Dethklok gets the blues and tries to learn about the genre to get their music career back on track. While the song they ended up making doesn't really sound like Blues for the most part, Negative Øhio decided to take it one step further by making the majority of their own song Bluesy. The vocal performance in this song is also influenced by the vocals of Dethklok vocalist Nathan Explosion.
* In-universe, the canonical singer and writer of this song is Tone Bláttdottir, the Icelandic alligator woman from the Mirror Timeline.

## References

1. ↑ https://negativeohio.bandcamp.com/track/i-cant-do-voregrind-disembowelment-blues-dicky-dicks-puke-fountain