Posts Tagged ‘Grindcore’
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › E on Wednesday, November 20th, 2019
Sweet Texas watermelon! Has it been two years already? Wow…it really doesn’t seem like a couple of years have passed since Exhumed released their fan and critic praised Death Revenge, but here I am blasting my eardrums as well as my face, clean into oblivion with the aural onslaught that is Horror, Exhumed‘s seventh full-length […]
Tags: 2019, Death Metal, Exhumed, Grindcore, Kristofor Allred, Relapse Records, Review
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › S on Monday, July 15th, 2019
When word of the this supergroup/side project surfaced earlier this year I immediately pre ordered the album after just hearing one song. And I’m by no means a fanboy Job For A Cowboy or The Black Dahlia Murder, but when vocalist Jon Davy and fellow JFAC guitar cohorts Alan Glassman and Tony Sannicandro team up […]
Tags: 1126 Records, 2019, Death Metal, E.Thomas, Grindcore, Review, Serpent of Gnosis
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › N on Tuesday, May 7th, 2019
Baltimore Maryland’s death/grind band Noisem return after a 4 year album hiatus to bring us Cease to Exist, their third and most devastating album to date. Several things have happened since their monstrous Blossoming Decay album from 2014. Sometimes fame too fast can have effects on a band. When Noisem’s debut Agony Defined came out […]
Tags: 20 Buck Spin, Frank Rini, Grindcore, Noisem, Review
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › M on Monday, March 25th, 2019
Misery Index return with their 6th full-length album, Rituals of Power and for me this is the best album, thus far for 2019. Holy Crap, Misery Index is on fire. As much as I liked their last album, The Killing Gods, Rituals of Power is more aggressive, upping their death/grind approach to the nth degree! […]
Tags: 2019, Death Metal, Frank Rini, Grindcore, Misery Index, Review, Seasons of Mist
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Wednesday, January 9th, 2019
Plowing their way through England’s Midlands since ’05, The Atrocity Exhibit provides a drippy, gooey take on punk-riddled sludge-grind that feels distinctly, well, English. There’s a scuzzy take on this genre here that could only come from the UK and it’s a sound purveyed by killer fairly recent bands like Among the Missing, Mistress and […]
Tags: 2019, Death Metal, Grindcore, Jay S, Review, The Atrocity Exhibit, Wooaaargh Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › G on Wednesday, March 7th, 2018
Finland’s Galvanizer waste no time in cranking up the Boss HM-2 Pedals and blast-beating your souls away with their debut full length Sanguine Vigil. Having released some demo material and been around since 2013 these guys could give Rotten Sound or Nasum a run for their money. I love the cover artwork done by TG […]
Tags: 2018, Everlasting Spew Records, Galvanizer, Grindcore, Nick K, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › I on Friday, January 26th, 2018
If you have ever asked yourself “what happened if black one man black metal was rendered with a classic Swedish death metal guitar tone?”, Frenchman Stephane Thirion is here to answer your question with his self released third album, A fleur de peau (‘Sensitive’? ‘On edge’?). First off , I was thankful this wasn’t a Kataklysm […]
Tags: 2018, Death Metal, E.Thomas, Grindcore, In Shadows and Dust, Self-Released, Swedish
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › L on Tuesday, January 16th, 2018
It’s been damn near 7 years since Belgian grinders Leng Tch’e dropped their last full-length slab of death-y, crusty doomgrind, Hypomanic. There hasn’t been an original member left in the band since 2007, although these maniacs have stayed relatively true to form sonically over the last 3 records. For me, the filthy highpoint of the […]
Tags: 2018, Grindcore, Jay S, Leng Tch'e, Review, Season of Mist
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › B on Monday, February 24th, 2014
Although they started back in 2000 as a black/death act with nods to early Opeth (hence the band name), now France’s Benighted is a filthy, ultra-groovy and much different beast altogether. Most of their albums, including 2011’s excellent (and, for me, list-topping) Asylum Cave, are like being flung around inside a brutal death/grind bounce house packed with […]
Tags: 2014, Benighted, Brutal Death Metal, Grindcore, Jordan Itkowitz, Review, Season of Mist
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › P on Friday, June 29th, 2012
Grindcore mainstays Phobia are back with their 6th full length, and on this newest one they made the odd choice to introduce… clean vocals and female gothic influences?!? Ummm… No. This is straight up ass-melting grindcore, and it’s what these guys have been pummeling eardrums with for over 20 years. When you can personify the […]
Tags: 2012, Grindcore, Kevin Ellis, Phobia, Review, Willowtip Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › C on Tuesday, May 8th, 2012
Cattle Decapitation is a band that has grown a lot on me the past few years. I wasn’t keen on their early work, but starting with Karma Bloody Karma and continuing with The Harvest Floor, this vegetable-loving four piece have continued to flesh out their crushing style on Monolith of Inhumanity. What is so interesting […]
Tags: 2012, Cattle Decapitation, Deathj Metal, Grindcore, Kevin Ellis, Metal Blade Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › C on Monday, May 7th, 2012
Catheter?!? What the hell?!? It’s been seven years since these guys have dropped a full length, and having not heard much from them at all since then I had written them off for dead. After doing a little research I found out that they have released two or three splits in that time (depending on […]
Tags: 2012, Catheter, Grindcore, Kevin Ellis, Review, Selfmadegod Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › N on Wednesday, February 29th, 2012
Ladies and gentlemen: Napalm Death have entered the building. This is their new album, Utilitarian. It kicks ass, just like their other albums. Go download it, stream it or steal the money from your grandmother to get your hands on a copy. End of review. So what more is there to be said? Why are […]
Tags: 2012, Century Media Records, Grindcore, Kevin Ellis, Napalm Death, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › L on Monday, February 20th, 2012
So the band Liberteer came to my attention after reviewing the recent Beaten to Death album, a grindcore album that was grindcore with a difference, and so is the debut album from Liberteer. Comprised of Matt Widener, the grindcore lineage is certainly here considering Widener’s involvement in the likes of Cretin, Citizen, Exhumed and The […]
Tags: 2012, E.Thomas, Grindcore, Liberteer, Relapse Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › B on Monday, January 30th, 2012
You know if I’m reviewing a September 2011 release here in 2012, it has to be good, and holy shit is this good. Hailing from Norway, Beaten to Death consists of a few of Norway’s veteran players from short lived or middle tier bands like Insense, She Said Destroy, oh and drummer who has played […]
Tags: 2012, Beaten to Death, E.Thomas, Grindcore, Mas-Kina Recordings, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › B on Tuesday, January 17th, 2012
So here’s another reason to own a record player (and a cassette player); Sacred Plague Records. And one of their recent releases is the second effort from Chico, California’s Black Hole of Calcutta, a noisy, primal punk/grind/hardcore collaboration featuring members of The Makai, Transient and Mammoth Torta. Named after a 1756 incident where 146 prisoners […]
Tags: 2011, Black Hole of Calcutta, E.Thomas, Grindcore, Hardcore, Review, Sacred Plague Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › M on Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011
Reviewers tend to get caught up in clever descriptions, mostly because it’s sometimes hard to describe exceedingly typical things. You can’t say, for example, “It sounds like average goregrind” for every average goregrind album you review. That would either be incredibly lazy or the most honest thing a reviewer has ever done, I’m not quite […]
Tags: 2011, Chuck Kucher, Grindcore, Review, Supernatural Cat Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › B on Tuesday, November 1st, 2011
Brutal Truth returned from their extended hiatus in 2009 with Evolution Through Revolution, an angular, violent extension of the sound they developed on 1997’s Sounds of the Animal Kingdom. End Time sees the band unleash a blistering whirlwind of grinding fury, continuing the developments of Evolution with a slightly meatier production and a noisier and […]
Tags: 2011, Brutal Truth, Chuck Kucher, Grindcore, Relapse Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › B on Monday, October 10th, 2011
Yup. You read right. This death metal/grindcore band from Finland is called Blastanus. Luckily, their second, self-released album is more impressive than their moniker as Collapse delivers 11 songs and 43 minutes of punchy Euro sounding death/grind that should please the fans of Aborted and maybe newer Cephalic Carnage and such. There’s thick, beefy guitars, […]
Tags: 2011, Blastanus, Death Metal, E.Thomas, Grindcore, Review, Self-Released
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A, Reviews › D on Friday, September 30th, 2011
It makes sense that Agoraphobic Nosebleed did a split with Despise You. The band has worn proudly on their sleeve their love for grinding power-violence through the shirts they wear, songs they’ve covered, and singer Jay Randall’s very own free record label, Grindcore Karaoke. But they didn’t just have a flavor-of-the-month powerviolence band to do […]
Tags: 2011, Agoraphobic Nosebleed, Despise You, Grindcore, Relapse Records, Review, Stacy Buchanan
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › G on Tuesday, September 27th, 2011
It never ceases to amaze me how many bands have managed to incorporate the word ‘gore’ into their name. From Gorefest to Gorguts, to Gore Story and Dr. Gore, it just never seems to end. I’m still waiting for ‘Gorecornflakes’… or ‘Gorepaperclip’… or… never mind. Anyways what we have in Germany’s Goregast is an old […]
Tags: 2011, Death Metal, FDA Rekotz, Goregast, Grindcore, Kevin Ellis, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › D on Monday, September 26th, 2011
Up until I heard this 10 song, 7″ release from Atlanta’s Dead in the Dirt, God Is War from All Pigs Must Die was my favorite crust release of 2011, and before that, Nails and their Unsilent Death release was my favorite crust release of the last decade or so. But once the needle hits […]
Tags: 2011, Dead in the Dirt, E.Thomas, Grindcore, Hardcore, Review, Southern Lord Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › L on Monday, September 12th, 2011
I’ll admit I wasn’t too excited for a new Lock Up album. I mean, it’s been eight years since Hate Breeds Suffering, which I really though wasn’t necessary after 1999’s Pleasure Pave Sewers, (which was admittedly one of the first high profile super groups). And let’s be honest, a grindcore side project in 2011 featuring […]
Tags: 2011, E.Thomas, Grindcore, Lock Up, Nuclear Blast Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › N on Monday, August 8th, 2011
To grind or not to grind; that is the question. That question is answered by Germany’s Necromorph in the extreme affirmative, as you’ll hear within moments of the calamitous ride that is Grinding Black Zero. More Nasum than Insect Warfare and characterized by a relative degree of compositional diversity within grindcore parameters, Grinding Black Zero […]
Tags: 2011, FDA Rekotz, Grindcore, Necromorph, Review, Scott Alisoglu
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › W on Friday, July 8th, 2011
Opening with a ripping guitar solo that hits with the force of an out of control machine gun. Instantly the glass shatters from the window that encases your lavishing frame. 20 seconds in and the murderous intentions seep through and kill everything in the blink of an eye. How is this done? Powerviolence! Weekend Nachos […]
Tags: 2011, Grindcore, Jesse Wolf, Relapse Records, Review, Weekend Nachos