Below are some excerpts of some of the reviews I have received over the years. You can read the full reviews as well as reviews of everything else I have done over at Crionic Mind.
Gruntsplatter
“The Aberrant Laboratory” CD – 2006- Dark Vinyl Records
“. . .The Aberrant Laboratory is a 70 minute tour de force of heavy feedback, industrial reverberations, abstract synth textures, screaming subtle harmonies and moving surging seething atmospheres that will impress even the most jaded. Every layer here is constantly morphing and changing while weaving in and out of each other to form a monolithic sound palette that has so many miniscule strands involved it boggles my mind. . .It is the most bleak of testaments and the most apocalyptic of prophecies. It is an exploration into the important issues of our time such as genetic experimentation, and mutation, the corporeal and spiritual consequences of our curiosity and the repercussions of making our dreams, and with those, our nightmares a reality. I sincerely hope that after our world has been destroyed by nuclear holocaust that this CD and a stereo are one of the few things left so whatever is left of humanity (hopefully nothing) will be able to hear this monument of doom and know where we all went wrong. . .Gruntsplatter has moved onto a higher plane in my book. He is now working at a level very few others can reach in this scene. The only thing I have left to say is: incredible.” Blood Ties
“What Candey seems to be saying is that this is our doom and there’s nothing we can do to defer its arrival at the appointed time. We don’t know how long we have left, but whether it is tomorrow, next year, next century or in ten million year’s time, the prognostication remains depressing – the cancer that is humanity will keep on running its destructive and antagonistic course along with its unwillingness to change or uplift itself. One can look upon Gruntsplatter’s music as either a warning or an anticipatory hymn to the eventual demise of the human race and all it represents – they may even stand as testament to those few individuals who possessed enough prescience to see our end coming. There’s definitely a part of me that would love to see the devils and demons dancing on the graves and piles of doomed humanity – I even hope they’ll let me join in with them. If they do, then some album or other of Gruntsplatter’s will be on my mp3 player at the time….” Heathen Harvest
“. . .“The Aberrant Laboratory” is a CD that sounds like the gates of Hell have been opened, welcoming you to the dark ambience and ritual noise of a rogue medical community gone awry. And as with all good ambient music, there must be a cinematic presence. This happens here, in a big way. . . Picture a blood splattered sign stating the Hippocratic oath, dangling in mockery from a rusted nail on the wall. On an operating table you see something. A cadaver? Comatose? Catatonic? Autopsy or experiment? Death? Or life slowly drained via a three-inch incision? . . . Whereas Mary Shelley conjured the possibility of life created from death, the scene unfolding before you is an altogether different monster. You look away, but you can’t deny the existence of the sound, because it penetrates you on the cellular level.” Virus Magazine
“. . .The illegality of clandestine experiments and the renouncing of the Hippocratic oath has been translated here into ten almost unearthly, flowing sonic constructions with a total duration of seventy minutes. How does something like that sound? Like Merzbow and Lustmord meeting each other during a symposium of physicians who are as brilliant as they are insane.” Gothtronic
“The Eulogists Assembly – CD – 2005 – Eibon Records
“. . .Scott Candey is a God. A minor God compared to the big fuck off ones that everyone prays to but a God none the less. Put it this way…if old slow hand himself Eric Clapton can be called one, so can Scott. . . .Hidden indistinguishable voices seem to reach out through the shrill vibrations that abound then fade quickly from whence they came. Swirling patterns grow in tempo and structure before being swallowed in a maelstrom of palpitating static waves. Quite refrains are pummelled relentlessly until only the faintest memory of their existence remains. . . A ‘classic’ release in every respect and one that will give you nightmares for years to come.” Heathen Harvest
“…”The Eulogists Assembly” is another journey into the netherworld of experimental frequencies and dense electronics all wrapped up in the glossy black sheen for which he’s so renowned. No-one quite does atmosphere like this man.” Auralpressure
“. . .A sense of unease is maintained throughout, as is a dark, claustrophobic atmosphere.” Ultimate Metal Forums
“Chronicling The Famine” CD – 2002 – Desolation House/Relapse
“. . .The sounds incorporated on Chronicling the Famine are truly impressive… Imagine listening to the sounds of your inner organs alongside the sounds of the decaying dying planet. Think about how this would sound. Sickly wind sounds and grunts of organic sound textures fill this disk. The music is extremely complex and well performed. It is highly original and in fact highly meaningful in its own way and many other ways. I have listened to this disk, lying down in bed with eyes closed, completely absorbing the atmosphere. The album took me to this strange state of mind that was never before awoken within.” Darkambient.org
“. . . . Sounds like a gargantuan galactic tarantula’s slimy cavernous lair, teaming with thousands of spindly legged arachnids, mandibles dripping with ooze. This is quite an astonishing nebulous of electro-experimental atmospherics and abrasive auditory inclinations towards outer spaces’ furthest reaches. . . If Candey’s inspiration stems from esoteric literature, histories, and his emotional state of mind, consider Gruntsplatter his looking glass into drastic social decay and morbid psychosis.” KFJC
“. . .Chronicling…” is a disc to be experimented on your own and let it grow; there’s always something new in each of its multiple obscure corners and labyrinth corridors. And such a complexity turns out pretty simple when trying to say the last words: fascinating and essential; it’s really that easy.” Sekuencias De Culto
“A forest at night would be the perfect place to enjoy this release if possible, but if it isnt, just turn down the lights and drink a glass of wine.” Vengeance Magazine
“. . .A lot of the detail involved in these pieces is very subtle, so headphones would be recommended, but the warmth of the recording along with it’s distinct crispness and loud volume helps matters for sure. . . .Very well done. Gruntsplatter definitely remains one of my favorites in the genre, and the quality of his work remains incredibly consistent.” Aversionline
“. . . The gloomy and frightening soundscapes often sound like a storm raging over the surface of a post-apocalyptic world, generating macabre tones from slowly decaying scrap sticking out of the frozen rubble. The modulated white noise sounds ,because of its throbbing and rustling, like something that’s living in a realm where only death should exist.” Gothtronic
“. . .What distinguishes this disc from others in this genre is Candey’s way of taking would-be harsh sounds and submerging them in a thick, unsettling soup so that they don’t sound harsh at all. . .Gruntsplatter makes for good 4 a.m. headphone listening. It would also make a nice accompaniment to your next trip to the isolation tank.” San Francisco Bay Guardian Vol 37 #25
“. . .Gruntsplatter’s music has always had a very weird edge, not entirely because of the dark imagery in which it comes packaged, but also for the pulsating and oscillating form of its noise.” Recycle Your Ears
“The Death Fires” CD – 2000 – Crowd Control Activities
“. . . Rather, the concept is basically a personal journey with death, the thoughts and feelings of those close to death, the mourning of those who’ve passed, and visits with the ghosts of those whom Death has taken. . . . there’s so much boiling under the surface that even with several listens you’ll still hearing things you hadn’t heard before – voices almost wholly unrecognizable as human at times and at other times eerily similar to EVP recording” Worm Gear #2
“. . .Here, the emotions and images are evoked from within, exciting the listener’s imagination rather than dulling it. . . There is a great deal of noise here, too, but it is a subdued, brooding type of noise, not the chaotic brutality of power electronics. The overall effect is rather calming, despite the subtly disturbing undertone of the whole album. An atmosphere of gray death, a lonely vigil at a forgotten sepulcher.” The Plague
“. . .The whole atmosphere of the CD is a one of nightmare washed realm in which a primitive driving forces of pain and isolation are prominent. Unsettling soundscapes of electronics tear from the speakers in a deafening slow pace which engulfs you into the living darkness that the tracks possess, without offering much in the way of a reward for the primal experience it bestowed on you.” Judas Kiss
“. . .. It’s very subtle, almost minimal in approach, but the uncompromising effect Candey has achieved with this CD is extremely powerful. This is an intense listen; by the time it’s done I’m almost compelled to turn to something light and poppy as an antidote to the gloom.” Grinding Into Emptiness
“. . . Gruntsplatter is definitely creating some of the most thoughtful and well performed electronic noise of present. This comes highly recommend as some of the best in the genre.” Aversionline
” . . .. For music intent on swallowing the earth, the scope of what Scott has accomplished here, in giving it heart and soul, is nothing less than astonishing. How else could one explain how this ‘roiling, turbulent sonic vehemence’ could also be described as, quite simply, beautiful? Inspiring work from a major force within the realm of dark, sonic expression.” Outburn #13
