Tag Napalm Death
Switzerland’s Calcined is a band I came across when I reviewed their debut album for the site back in 2015 and was reasonably impressed by it. The sophomore was equally decent upping the technicality slightly that accompanies a band when… Continue Reading →
Five short tracks from the West Midlands based lunatics Accelerated Mutation on their latest review. The three piece of Mike Petalengro (vocals), Tim Connor (guitars) and Simon Heywood (drums) are back with five songs of manic, thrash-based grindcore with something… Continue Reading →
Experimental Tech-Metal outfit Shame are a 5 piece who first caught the attention of many during the Lockdown years with their debut release ‘Stalker’ released in 2021 which featured some rather high-profile guest appearances from members of The Dillinger Escape… Continue Reading →
It’s a cold, grim and rainy day. What I need to perk things right up is some Swedish Grindcore with a dirty dose of death metal added. Lurching into life in 2017 this is the third release and second full length effort from the… Continue Reading →
If you are not familiar with Brooklyn NYC’s Gravesend then click here for my review of their debut album. It is killer (the album not the review – although it is quite witty and well thought out but I digress). All… Continue Reading →
Dirty dirty dirty! Bad dog on your bed! This is pretty filthy stuff from Transcending Obscurity – as one would expect. Though the bands moniker sounds like a knock off Minecraft Rather than block combining and mad youtubers what you get is half an hour of gnarly deathgrind from Germany…. Continue Reading →
When people share those memes and jokes about being broke and wanting to become a drug-dealer so their money troubles will magically vanish, we all chuckle and share in that sentiment to a slight degree, after all, who wouldn’t want… Continue Reading →
A sharp and brutal slice of in your face DIY grindcore for your delectation today. Hailing from the West Midlands, Accelerated Mutation are making what they call “rancid grinding thrashcore”, or what you and I might call crusty grind. The… Continue Reading →
Extermination Order, it would seem, are a five piece from all over the place (California, Germany, Iceland). They cite influences such as early Amon Amarth, Edge of Sanity, and crucially, Bolt Thrower. I have always been puzzled why Bolt Thrower,… Continue Reading →
If there ever was a soundtrack to what is happening in the world today then UK’s Utilitarian sum it up through 14 tracks of pervading sonic vehemence. Their last couple of releases were unrelenting and vitriolic tirades about the world… Continue Reading →
Ha, I actually have ‘Under Pressure’ the first album by Finns Rotten Sound on CD and just played it and ‘Apocalypse’ back to back. Seriously it sounds like it is about half the speed of the new one, a crusty,… Continue Reading →
I’ve always hated the term supergroup, it sends icy tendrils into my bowels turning me into a chocolate poo machine, causing my intestines to spasm and rendering my jeans into a waterslide of excrement. I mean of course it doesn’t,… Continue Reading →