Tag Grindcore
Personally, it came as a bit of a surprise to discover that Abaddon Incarnate were releasing a new album. Unaware that they were still going, my last point of contact with the band was 2004’s ‘Dark Crusade’. While an extremely… Continue Reading →
There is something rather horrific about this trio of US releases on Southern Lord. Each one seeks to carve deep penetrating auditory scars within your fragile psyche by exuding corrosive and barraging music that sits entrenched within core like manifestations,… Continue Reading →
“Angst” is the second album release from the Spanish band Hybrid. Having been captivated by the mixture of the extreme, experimental and progressive and technical metal styles which all feature in this work, Andrew Doherty interviewed Iván Durán, the band’s… Continue Reading →
Every review I see about this band seems to focus on the derivation of their name which I am not going to do. It is four years since these Swiss grinders released “Behold The Failure” an album I still thoroughly… Continue Reading →
You might be forgiven for thinking that the warm southern Californian climate is an unlikely breeding ground for grindcore. Well, think again. Nails, from this very region and formed in 2007, are grindcore with a capital ‘G’. Having unleashed their… Continue Reading →
This is an American Grindcore release with a slight twist. Eclectic influences rear themselves from time to time and it’s rare, if not for bands like “JaKa (Japanische Kampfhörspiele)”, for grindcore bands to have anything different up their sleeve than… Continue Reading →
Comprised of ex members of misanthropic black metallers Svarttjern, death metallers Bloodspawn and power metallers Frail Grounds, the mixing pot here is a strange one, but the result of this conglomeration of styles sticks resolutely within the realm of death… Continue Reading →
Polish grindcore/death metal will either be one thing or the other, good or very chaotic and very bad. It is the former thankfully on this latest in a long line of releases by this band. Immediate comparisons come to the… Continue Reading →
Originally going under the banner of Gran Toucher this UK grind outfit decided to opt for Human Cull as the bands name after endless line ups. With a handful of demo releases and one EP titled “Human Cull”, “Split Second… Continue Reading →
Occasionally a band seems to simply arrive. No birth pains, no demos shouted about on the Interether, no biography in the usual databases; just that sickening crunch as your skull and your psyche break under the first inexplicable encounter. Yeah,… Continue Reading →
You don’t get more groundbreaking or influential in extreme music than Terrorizer. The band’s “World Downfall” still stands as a solid template for past, present and most likely future grind outfits that want to specialise in the genre. Face ripping… Continue Reading →
Artist: Terrorizer Title: Hordes Of Zombies Type: Album Label: Season Of Mist Records As with any outfit that released an album that was arguably a defining moment in a metal genre and then released nothing else the question begs as… Continue Reading →