The Flesh Volcano was a

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of singer

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and Clint Ruin, also known as

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. Its sole release was the ''

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'' EP, which was expanded to album length in a number of reissues. Almond and Ruin were formerly bandmates in the Immaculate Consumptive.

Reception

The 1998 re-release of ''Slut'' was described as "pretty much intolerable" by

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. Another AllMusic critic, Ned Raggett, called their collaboration "essentially nothing more or less than Foetus at his most industrial and clattering with Almond at his most theatrically pained and howling".

Discography

EPs

*''

'' (1987, Some Bizzare)

Reissues

*''Violent Silence•Flesh Volcano'' (1997, Some Bizzare) *''Flesh Volcano•Slut'' (1997, Some Bizzare) *''Slut'' (1998, Thirsty Ear)

References

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