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Track Premiere: Rat Lord – “Now Diabetical”
August 12, 2024 Addison Herron-Wheeler
If you dig the idea of grindcore and powerviolence and poking fun at black metal, Rat Lord are gonna be your new favorite band.
Album Premiere: Blast No.1 – Blastbeat Tribute To Type O Negative
September 4, 2023 Sean Frasier
Blast No.1 – Blastbeat Tribute To Type O Negative features 19 fast and filthy versions of Type O classics. Get bloody kissed by a fist.
Demo:listen: Dripping Decay
February 15, 2022 Dutch Pearce
This week Demo:listen watches you rot with Portland grinding death gore-tet Dripping Decay.
Demo:listen: Torsion
December 21, 2021 Dutch Pearce
Tennessean death/grind trio Torsion are here to deliver a world of gut-twisting pain on this week’s Demo:listen..
Demo:listen: Ootheca
December 14, 2021 Dutch Pearce
Discovered in the dankest depths of the Salt Lake City underground, death-drenched two-piece Ootheca corrupt this week’s Demo:listen.
Fight Fire with Fire: ‘Scum’ vs. ‘Horrified’
June 17, 2021 Greg Pratt
It’s an early-grindcore showdown as we try to figure out what album is better: Napalm Death‘s Scum or Repulsion‘s Horrified.
Track Premiere: Human Failure – “Your Hope is a Noose”
April 20, 2021 Dutch Pearce
Americian one-man demolition unit Human Failure drops a warhead called “Your Hope is a Noose” off their forthcoming debut album Crown on the Head of a King of Mud.
EP Premiere: Septage – Septic Decadence
October 13, 2020 Dutch Pearce
Get your brutal death grind fix right here with Septic Decadence, the debut EP from Copenhagen-based gurgling mass Septage, featuring members of Hyperdontia and Taphos.
Dropdead Talk 2020 Reissue campaign, New Discography Album
October 1, 2020 Greg Pratt
Catching up with Dropdead‘s Ben Barnett and Bob Otis to talk about the band’s extensive 2020 reissue campaign.
Track Premiere: Resin Tomb – “Prostrated”
July 8, 2020 Sean Frasier
Dissonant death/grind newcomers Resin Tomb crack open the crypt of their upcoming EP with unholy new single “Prostrate.”
Full Album Stream: Cyttorak – ‘Simultaneous Invocation Of Apocalyptic Harbingers’
April 29, 2020 Sean Frasier
Rhode Island bruisers Cyttorak summon beasts from distant worlds on their new slab of slowerviolence Simultaneous Invocation Of Apocalyptic Harbingers.
SKAM Smashes All Solids to Liquids
February 28, 2020 J. Andrew
If Anaal Nathrakh was more into D-beat and less into using electronic noises in their material, and you’d be pretty close to what SKAM has to offer.
Snuff Out 2019 with Horror Pain Gore Death Productions
December 18, 2019 Sean Frasier
Philadelphia label/distro Horror Pain Gore Death Productions release a free 42 song sampler to summarize their 2019 releases. It’s the soundtrack for the world’s end, just in time for the year’s end.
EP Stream: Formless Master’s First Strike and Takafumi Matsubara Interview
October 24, 2019 Kevin Stewart-Panko
We’re showcasing the new EP by Formless Master, featuring Takafumi Matsubara, as well as an interview with the man himself.
Formless Master Greets You at the “Fatal Impasse”
October 11, 2019 J. Andrew
Formless Master, a new force in grindcore, will unleash their first round of attack on November 15 via Horror Pain Gore Death Productions.
Track Premiere: Shock Narcotic – ‘Erratic Smearing Vitals’
July 15, 2019 Albert Mudrian
Former and current members of the Dillinger Escape Plan, Child Bite, Shit Life, the Black Dahlia Murder and Battlecross join forces to grind faces.
Full Album Stream: Scumripper – “All Veins Blazing”
June 25, 2019 Dutch Pearce
Check out the debut album from depraved Finnish grinders Scumripper.
Full Album Stream: Musket Hawk – ‘Upside of Sick’
March 27, 2019 Sean Frasier
Baltimore instigators Musket Hawk reload another batch of diseased sludge/grind anthems on Upside of Sick.
Track Premieres: Grind Free-Agents P.O.O.R. Release Four New Ragers
March 13, 2019 Sean Frasier
Golden State maniacs P.O.O.R. (Point Of Our Resistance) return after 6 years with a four-song glimpse into their new LP.
Full Album Stream: Get “Necrosexual” with Pink Mass
October 25, 2017 Sean Frasier
Jersey grind hedonists Pink Mass stream their debut LP Necrosexual and share their vision of a world without sexual repression.
Track Premieres: Get Split into Quarters by Toxicology, Skuz, Triple Cripple, and Ground
October 11, 2017 Sean Frasier
Horror Pain Gore Death strike again during Halloween season with a four-band split from Toxicology , Skuz , Triple Cripple , and Ground.
Takafumi Matsubara Returns on Retortion Terror/Invidiosus Split
September 29, 2017 J. Andrew
In 2014, Gridlink unleashed one of the most ferocious, innovative and refreshing grindcore albums of all time, Longhena. However, the well-deserved fanfare and critical accolades were severely tempered by the news that guitarist Takafumi Matsubara was suffering from severe inflammation and infection of the brain. This rendered him unable to play guitar, and it seemed…
For Those About to Squawk: Warbeast, Exit Eden, Damn Freaks
August 4, 2017 Blake Harrison
Our resident birdbrains pecks on new releases from Exit Eden, Warbeast and Damn Freaks.
Full Album Stream: Birdflesh & Organ Dealer Split
May 26, 2017 Emily Bellino
Stream the grind-tastic new split release from Birdflesh and Organ Dealer.
Track Premiere: Leng Tch’e – ‘Gundog Allegiance’
May 24, 2017 Emily Bellino
Stream the first new music from rabid grinders Leng Tch’e since their last album in 2010.
Demo:listen: Disincarnation
March 17, 2017 Dutch Pearce
On this week’s Demo:listen, we sing the praises of the Slime God in vain hope that doing so might preserve us against that awful deity invoked by San Jose’s Disincarnation.
Track Premiere: Sloth Herder Give Genre Labels a One-Toed Salute on “Spectre of the Absurd”
March 1, 2017 Sean Frasier
East Coast rule-breakers Sloth Herder play “power-slob” the way your three-toed uncle likes it: Dirty, mean, and LOUD.
EXTREME CONDITIONS DEMAND EXTREME INSTRUMENTS: OWN DANNY LILKER’S BRUTAL TRUTH BASS
December 14, 2016 Shawn Macomber
“Works fine, but looks a little beat up due to being my main bass during Brutal Truth’s career in the early 90s.”
So reads the no doubt understated Ebay listing for the US-made B.C. Rich 4-string bass extreme music trailblazer and living heavy metal legend Danny Lilker — revisit our “Better Living the Danny Lilker Way” for a reminder of the man’s unquestionable supremacy — deployed on such landmark Brutal Truth grinders as Extreme Conditions Demand Extreme Responses and Need To Control as well as S.O.D.’s 1992 Live at Budokan.
Full Album Stream: Trap Them’s “Crown Feral” Will Royally Blissfuck You Up
September 19, 2016 Sean Frasier
Experience pure sonic violence with Trap Them‘s Crown Feral, then recover from your beatdown with a macabre arts & (darker hand)crafts lesson from vocalist Ryan McKenney.
A Grind 7″ to Split Your Head Wide Open
August 26, 2016 J. Andrew
Sunlight’s Bane and Geist are ready to drill through the Cancerous Void.