Buried Secrets (EP)

Buried Secrets
EP by Painkiller
Released	1992
Recorded	August & October, 1991 at Greenpoint, Brooklyn
Genre	Avant-garde jazz, grindcore
Length	26:24
Label	Toy's Factory, Earache
Producer	John Zorn
Painkiller chronology
Guts of a Virgin (1991) Buried Secrets (1992) Rituals: Live in Japan (1993)
John Zorn chronology
Heretic (1992) Buried Secrets (1992) Grand Guignol (1992)

Buried Secrets is the second EP by Painkiller originally released by Toy's Factory in Japan and Earache in the UK, featuring guest appearances from Justin Broadrick and G.C. Green from Godflesh.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Guy's Music Review	[2]

The Allmusic review by Steve Huey states "Although this is experimental music, it works quite well — it's actually more sinister and menacing than many death metal groups. Very dark and very disturbing, 27 minutes is almost too much to handle".^[1] Guy Peters stated "Sometimes I wonder what it is that makes me check out music like this. Is it the brutality, the ugliness, the potential to offend, the randomness, the explicit cover art? Most people wouldn’t even call this ‘music’ when facing a .44 at close range. It must be the sheer extremity of it all that attracts me... Buried Secrets isn’t even a good album, but it sure is an experience".^[2]

Track listing

1. "Tortured Souls" – 1:52
2. "One-Eyed Pessary" – 1:50
3. "Trailmarker" – 0:03
4. "Blackhole Dub" – 3:29
5. "Buried Secrets" – 6:13
6. "The Ladder" – 0:22
7. "Executioner" – 2:48
8. "Black Chamber" – 2:28
9. "Skinned" – 0:54
10. "The Toll" – 6:25

Personnel

• John Zorn – alto sax, vocals
• Bill Laswell – bass
• Mick Harris – drums, vocals
• Justin Broadrick – guitar, drum machine, vocals on "Buried Secrets" and "The Toll"
• G. C. Green – bass on "Buried Secrets" and "The Toll"

References