Cunt is the 3rd full-length album

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 by Australia

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n grindcore

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 band Blood Duster

Blood Duster

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. Despite, or because of, its deliberately vulgar and anti-commercialist title, Cunt proved to be the band's most successful release to that point of their career, earning them high amounts of radio play, especially by Triple J

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, even though its title did make life difficult for the distributors and it didn't make it into many high street shops for the same reason.

The title was not the only point of controversy

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 about this album. The original cover, an image of a decapitated

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 Fred Durst

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, drawn by Wes Benscoter

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, was dismissed by their label, Relapse Records

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, for fear of getting sued. The Australian release was issued in a plain black cover with the word "cunt" centred and printed in a small font. The cover displayed on the right greatly resembles that of American band Ween's 1994 album "Chocolate & Cheese.".

Cunt also saw the release of the band's first single, "Pornstorestiffi" in the form of a nu metal

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 parody video played on Channel [V

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], a channel on which the band was also interviewed.

Cunt was a slight return to a more death

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/grind

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 style after their Southern rock

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-themed release Str8 Outta Northcote

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. The album also features a cover of the Impetigo

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 song Dis-Organ-Ized, which originally featured on the tribute Wizards Of Gore, released on Razorback Records.

According to the liner notes, Cunt has 93 riffs and 2068 words, and a large amount of porn-themed audio samples from movies, mostly from Boogie Nights

Boogie Nights

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, Orgazmo

Orgazmo

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and Australian film Idiot Box

Idiot Box (1996 film)

Idiot Box is an Australian film starring Ben Mendelsohn. The story follows two fictional characters "Mick & Kev" that have nothing going for them. They are stereotypical bogans with a taste for cheap thrills. Kev's hobby is being angry, his motto is "Maximum fear, minimum time". He hasn't got a job...

.

Because of the success of this album, Cole Clark Guitars decided to use Blood Duster to endorse their products, producing for them a guitar with the 'Cunt' logo across it. Guitarist Belthrower still uses this guitar.

Tracklisting

1. "We Are the Word Police" – 1:12
2. "Big Fat Arse" – 1:28
3. "Another Slack Arsed Aussie Band" – 1:20
4. "Porn Store Stiffi" – 1:31
5. "Pissing Content" – 1:00
6. "I Just Finished Sucking Off Metalheads in the Men's Urinals" – 0:38
7. "Hoochie Mumma" – 1:30
8. "I Love It When Joe Pesci Swears" – 0:53
9. "Stock Takin'" – 0:39
10. "Lets All Fuck" – 0:17
11. "A Track Suit Is Not Appropriate Metal Apparel" – 0:28
12. "The Corpse Song" – 2:17
13. "Fuck You Scene Boy" – 0:18
14. "Is Killing Clones Illegal?" – 1:05
15. "Don't Call Me Homeboy Ya' Cunt" – 1:12
16. "Spefeven" – 0:49
17. "The Object Is to Shift Some Units" – 0:58
18. "Sweet Meat" – 5:10
19. "Dis-Organ-Ized" (Impetigo cover) – 5:09

Credits

• Jason "PC" Fuller - bass
  Bass guitar
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  , vocals
• Tony Forde - vocals
• Matt "Lowpantz" Collins - guitar
  Guitar
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• Matt Rizzo - drums
  Drum kit
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Release history

Region	Date	Label	Format	Catalog
Australia Australia Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...	2001	Dr Jims Records	CD Compact Disc The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,...	DRJIM 27
Australia	2001-06-13	Drug Bust Records	Vinyl Gramophone record A gramophone record, commonly known as a phonograph record , vinyl record , or colloquially, a record, is an analog sound storage medium consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove...	12414
North America North America North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas... , Europe Europe Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...	2001-11-13	Relapse Relapse Records Relapse Records is an independent record label based in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania. It was founded by Matthew F. Jacobson in 1990.-History:The label was started by Matthew F. Jacobson in August, 1990 in his parents' basement in Aurora, Colorado...	CD	RR 6486-2
Australia	2003	Shock Shock Records Shock Records is Australia's largest independent record label. It helps distribute records from overseas records labels such as Epitaph Records, and also for small record labels designed specifically for that band such as Cement Records...	CD	27
North America, Europe	2008-04-29	Relapse	CD	RR 7006-2
Japan Japan Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...	2008-06-18	Relapse Japan	CD Compact Disc The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,...	YSCY-1111
Australia	2008	Goat Sound	Vinyl	GS-BD-08-03