2023 was a year, this is true. Some grindcore and powerviolence albums came out this year that quite tickled our fancy and in the spirit of true grind we decided to make a top list of our favorite songs off those albums. Feel free to trash this list on Twitter.
20.
Cave Moth
“Paralytic Love” from Paralytic Love
Pure strangulating tech death compounded into 18 seconds of agony. Kind of sounds like my sex life.
19.
Shitstorm
“Only In Dade” from Only In Dade
I could pick out a singular song or you can just have the best nine minutes of your life and listen to the whole fucking album on YouTube.
18.
Noisy Neighbors
“Selective Outrage” from Derailing the Hype Train
Yes, the song is great, but can we just take a minute to acknowledge how this band is changing the meme game on Instagram for everyone? Raw D-Beat Grind reigns supreme.
17.
Zero Survive
“Epitaphs Written With Complete Selfishness” from Abjuration
I will forgive this band for being from Boston and just say: THIS SHIT RULES!
16.
Warfuck
“Murngle” from Diptyque
Ah, the French. So brutal, so precise, so je nais se quois, ear shredding grindcore?
15.
Korroded
“Cheapjack Scum” from Rudiment Butcher
Look, it’s pretty simple, if you put hardcore two-steps and breakdowns in between blast beats, I’m gonna like it enough to put it on my year end best of list.
14.
Sulfuric Cautery
“Torrential Regurgitation” from Suffocating Feats of Dehumanization
HOLY FUCKING SHIT HOW DOES HE PLAY DRUMS THAT GODDAMN FAST?!
13.
Rotten Sound
“Apocalypse” from Apocalypse
Let’s be real here: This is the only band that should be allowed to use an HM-2 pedal.
12.
Lycanthrophy
“Wasteland” from On The Verge of Apocalypse
For those who don’t know, ‘lycanthrophy’ is the act of a human being transforming into a wolf. Just thought you’d might like to know that.
11.
Gendo Ikari
“Beg-Die” from ROKUBUNGI
A fucking Iron Maiden tease? In the Year of Our Lord 2023?
10.
Deliriant Nerve
“Soulless Leech” from Contaminated Conscience
How does this band only get better? Kinda pissing me off tbh.
9.
Suffering Quote
“Out” from Collide
Normally creepy intros indicate the song is gonna suck. Not in this case.
8.
Moral Bombing
“Shadow Dancers” from Erase Your Flesh
Screamo. Grindcore. In the wise words of my friend Ryan Shaner: “Check this the fuck out”
7.
Convulsions
“Noche Agonica” from Grindcore Not War
Holy sweet mother of two-steps. Can’t wait to be the only guy american slam dancing at OEF when this band plays.
6. Atomc
“Dinosore” from Towering Failures
FROG VOCALS!
5.
Massacred
“Dark Spirit Destruction” from The Devil’s Awakening
The best Mortician song not by Mortician.
4.
Thin
“Foilage” from Dusk
Mathcore lives.
3.
Chepang
“Na” from Swatta (B)
Psychedelic, immigrant, grindcore. This is beautiful. This is art.
2.
Cognizant
“Siezures” from Inexorable Nature of Adversity
HOLY FUCK THAT INTRO.
1.
Gridlink
“Silk Ash Cascade” from Coronet Juniper
The best song off the best album of the past eight years (since they released their last album). Gridlink are still the masters of the game and just like to check in once in a while to remind you so.
