It Just Gets Worse is the sixth full-length album by the grindcore band Anal Cunt

Anal Cunt

Anal Cunt, also known as AxCx and A.C., was an American grindcore band that formed in Newton, Massachusetts in 1988. Since its inception, the band underwent a number of line-up changes. Known for its grindcore musical style and controversial lyrics, Anal Cunt released eight full-length studio...

. It was released in 1999 by Earache Records.

Recording information

The album was recorded between August 1998 and August 1999, although the majority of it was recorded after the band's 1998 tour in 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...

. The guitar and drums were recorded on a 4-track at Anal Cunt

Anal Cunt

Anal Cunt, also known as AxCx and A.C., was an American grindcore band that formed in Newton, Massachusetts in 1988. Since its inception, the band underwent a number of line-up changes. Known for its grindcore musical style and controversial lyrics, Anal Cunt released eight full-length studio...

's practice space and the vocals were recorded on a PA in the studio, where vocalist Seth Putnam

Seth Putnam

Seth Edward Putnam was the founder of grindcore band Anal Cunt. He was known for his brutal screaming and lyrics that either shock, offend, or invoke morbid humor...

 mixed it. The album was then released after their 1999 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...

an tour with the band Flächenbrand and was the last of the band's albums released under the Earache label. "Your Kid Committed Suicide Because You Suck" was originally titled "Connor Clapton Committed Suicide Because His Father Sucks". "Chris Barnes Is a Pussy" was based on an incident that involved Putnam being attacked by Six Feet Under

Six Feet Under (band)

Six Feet Under is an American death metal band from Tampa, Florida, formed in 1993. The band was originally a side project by Cannibal Corpse vocalist Chris Barnes with guitarist Allen West of Obituary...

's roadies, while their vocalist Chris Barnes

Chris Barnes (musician)

Chris Barnes is an American singer-songwriter, best known as a death metal vocalist recognized for his very low guttural vocals and explicitly violent lyrics...

 fled to his tour bus after a scuffle between the two.

Track listing

1. "I Became a Counselor
   Mental Health Counselor
   Mental health counselors practice mental health counseling which is a dynamic, holistic, strengths-based and psychoeducational discipline born in the late 1970s when several mental health professionals realized that the master’s degree level counselors working in community settings lacked a...
   
    So I Could Tell Rape Victims They Asked for It" – 0:43
2. "Easy E
   Eazy-E
   Eric Lynn Wright , better known by his stage name Eazy-E, was an American rapper who performed solo and in the hip hop group N.W.A. Wright was born to Richard and Kathie Wright in Compton, California...
   
    Got AIDS
   AIDS
   Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is a disease of the human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus...
   
    from Freddie Mercury
   Freddie Mercury
   Freddie Mercury was a British musician, singer and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist of the rock band Queen. As a performer, he was known for his flamboyant stage persona and powerful vocals over a four-octave range...
   
   " – 0:42
3. "I Like Drugs and Child Abuse" – 0:22
4. "Laughing While Leonard Peltier
   Leonard Peltier
   Leonard Peltier is a Native American activist and member of the American Indian Movement . In 1977 he was convicted and sentenced to two consecutive terms of life imprisonment for first degree murder in the shooting of two Federal Bureau of Investigation agents during a 1975 conflict on the Pine...
   
    Gets Raped in Prison" – 0:41
5. "I Convinced You to Beat Your Wife on a Daily Basis" – 0:51
6. "I Sent Concentration Camp
   Internment
   Internment is the imprisonment or confinement of people, commonly in large groups, without trial. The Oxford English Dictionary gives the meaning as: "The action of 'interning'; confinement within the limits of a country or place." Most modern usage is about individuals, and there is a distinction...
   
    Footage to America's Funniest Home Videos
   America's Funniest Home Videos
   America's Funniest Home Videos is an American reality television program on ABC in which viewers are able to send in humorous homemade videotapes. The most common videos usually feature slapstick physical comedy arising from incidents, accidents and mishaps...
   
   " – 0:34
7. "Rancid
   Rancid (band)
   Rancid is an American punk rock band formed in Berkeley, California in 1991. Founded by Tim Armstrong and Matt Freeman, both of whom previously played in the ska punk band Operation Ivy, Rancid is credited—along with Green Day and The Offspring—for reviving mainstream interest in punk rock in the...
   
    Sucks (And The Clash
   The Clash
   The Clash were an English punk rock band that formed in 1976 as part of the original wave of British punk. Along with punk, their music incorporated elements of reggae, ska, dub, funk, rap, dance, and rockabilly...
   
    Sucked Too)" – 0:40
8. "I Paid J. Howell to Rape You" – 1:44
9. "I Pushed Your Wife in Front of the Subway" – 0:46
10. "Extreme Noise Terror
    Extreme Noise Terror
    Extreme Noise Terror are a British crust punk / grindcore band originally formed in Ipswich, England in 1985. The band are widely considered one of the earliest and most influential European grindcore bands, and particularly the forefathers of the crustgrind subgenre.Notable for one of the...
    
     Are Afraid of Us" – 0:29
11. "You Rollerblading Faggot" – 0:31
12. "I Sent a Thank You Card to the Guy Who Raped You" – 0:29
13. "I Lit Your Baby on Fire" – 1:56
14. "Body by Auschwitz
    Auschwitz concentration camp
    Concentration camp Auschwitz was a network of Nazi concentration and extermination camps built and operated by the Third Reich in Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany during World War II...
    
    " – 1:02
15. "I Intentionally Ran Over Your Dog" – 0:30
16. "Sweatshop
    Sweatshop
    Sweatshop is a negatively connoted term for any working environment considered to be unacceptably difficult or dangerous. Sweatshop workers often work long hours for very low pay, regardless of laws mandating overtime pay or a minimum wage. Child labour laws may be violated. Sweatshops may have...
    
    s Are Cool" – 0:47
17. "Women: Nature's Punching Bag" – 0:57
18. "I Snuck a Retard into a Sperm Bank
    Sperm bank
    A sperm bank, semen bank or cryobank is a facility that collects and stores human sperm mainly from sperm donors, primarily for the purpose of achieving pregnancies through third party reproduction, notably by artificial insemination...
    
    " – 0:30
19. "Your Kid Committed Suicide Because You Suck" – 1:02
20. "I Ate Your Horse
    Horse
    The horse is one of two extant subspecies of Equus ferus, or the wild horse. It is a single-hooved mammal belonging to the taxonomic family Equidae. The horse has evolved over the past 45 to 55 million years from a small multi-toed creature into the large, single-toed animal of today...
    
    " – 0:50
21. "Hitler
    Adolf Hitler
    Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party , commonly referred to as the Nazi Party). He was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and head of state from 1934 to 1945...
    
     Was a Sensitive Man" – 0:49
22. "You Robbed a Sperm Bank Because You're a Cum Guzzling Fag" – 0:28
23. "I Made Your Kid Get AIDS So You Could Watch It Die" – 0:53
24. "I Fucked Your Wife" – 0:40
25. "Into the Oven" – 1:42
26. "I Gave NAMBLA
    North American Man/Boy Love Association
    The North American Man/Boy Love Association is a pedophile and pederasty advocacy organization in the United States that works to abolish age of consent laws criminalizing adult sexual involvement with minors, and for the release of all men who have been jailed for sexual contacts with minors that...
    
     Pictures of Your Kid" – 0:52
27. "The Only Reason Men Talk to You is Because They Want to Get Laid, You Stupid Fucking Cunt" – 1:02
28. "I Made Fun of You Because Your Kid Just Died" – 0:28
29. "Domestic Violence
    Domestic violence
    Domestic violence, also known as domestic abuse, spousal abuse, battering, family violence, and intimate partner violence , is broadly defined as a pattern of abusive behaviors by one or both partners in an intimate relationship such as marriage, dating, family, or cohabitation...
    
     Is Really, Really, Really Funny" – 0:42
30. "Dictators Are Cool" – 0:35
31. "Deadbeat Dads Are Cool" – 0:43
32. "I'm Really Excited About the Upcoming David Buskin
    David Buskin
    David Buskin is a singer, songwriter, performer, author, playwright, jingle composer and girls’ basketball coach. He is well known for composing numerous television and radio commercials produced in the 1980s and 1990s. He won a Clio Award in 1983 for Just Watch Us Now, NBC's signature...
    
     Concert" – 0:45
33. "Being Ignorant Is Awesome" – 1:03
34. "You're Pregnant, So I Kicked You in the Stomach" – 0:28
35. "Chris Barnes
    Chris Barnes (musician)
    Chris Barnes is an American singer-songwriter, best known as a death metal vocalist recognized for his very low guttural vocals and explicitly violent lyrics...
    
     Is a Pussy
    Pussy
    Pussy is an English word meaning:* Cat* The human female genitalia, for the slang term related to genital anatomy.* Pejoratively, cowardice or weakness as an insult in general- Etymology :The origins of the word are unknown...
    
    " – 1:04
36. "Tim Is Gay" – 1:30
37. "BT/A.C." – 0:41
38. "I Sold Your Dog to a Chinese Restaurant" – 0:49
39. "I Got an Office Job for the Sole Purpose of Sexually Harassing Women" – 0:58

Personnel

• Seth Putnam – vocals
• Josh Martin – guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  
• Nate Linehan – drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
  
  , backing vocals (39)

Guest appearances

• Choke (Slapshot
  Slapshot (band)
  -History:Slapshot was formed in 1985 by Steve Risteen and Mark McKay, formerly of Terminally Ill; Jack "Choke" Kelly, formerly of Negative FX and Last Rights; and Jonathan Anastas, formerly of Decadence and DYS...
  
  ) – backing vocals (1-3, 5, 7, 8, 9, 13, 16, 18, 19, 21-24, 26-29, 31, 34, 36)
• Anal Cunt Gestapo
  Gestapo
  The Gestapo was the official secret police of Nazi Germany. Beginning on 20 April 1934, it was under the administration of the SS leader Heinrich Himmler in his position as Chief of German Police...
  
  – backing vocals (5, 21, 35, 36)