Wasting no time in starting the lashings, this album comes out swinging with opener “Tastelessness”. You have a nice Rotten Sound-ish buzz to the guitars, and a killer growl/yell courtesy of frontman Artur Grassmann. He also handles the bass, which is quite impressive in a genre that requires so much energy expenditure of its vocalists. The fourth track “Surrender”, and longest at 3:32, starts out with a hefty lurching groove before stirring the grind party to a frenzy at the 1:15 mark.

Follow up track “The Second…” is a blast fest designed to do nothing but incite violence, and “Inclinations To…” sees drummer Mariusz Miernik show off some wicked double bass skills. Andrzej Pakos churns out the riffs and nasty buzz-saw chords through the whole show, with it all coming together in a wonderful mix of the grind we all know and love.

With 14 tracks and most averaging in the 1:30-2:30 timeframe, it’s kind of nice to see a band spend a little more time on songwriting instead of making 63 tracks all around the 30 second mark. The whole album is a little over a half hour, and with the various tempo changes and vocal variations it never seems too long. Also have to give props for a very inventive album title, as it beats the hell out of the cop out move of putting out a “self-titled” album when bands can’t think of anything creative.

If you are familiar with European grind such as Afgrund/Nasum/Rotten Sound and especially former label, Obscene Productions’ stuff (Birdflesh, Blooduster, Cripple Bastards, Captain Cleanoff etc), you’ll be right at home with Grindvirus, as I was, even though I have not heard anything this lot has done since 2005s Love Songs. Furious, beefy, mid range, groovy and surprisingly catchy grindcore with ultra deep vocals and tongue planted firmly in cheek.

The 13 songs are all in the 1- 3 minute range with standout “Child Victims” coming in at a whopping 3 ½ minutes and all have the huge wall of sound production that is Mieszko Talarczyk’s legacy. Starting with the phlegmy hack of the title track, Grindvirus is full throttle for 28 minutes on the legs and arms of drummer Mariusz “Melon” Miernik. When the band does slow down its a brief groove or bridge (“Wriggler”, “Sheepy Dag”, “Nose Lunger”, “Anodal Closing Odour”) into some paint peeling vicious blasts (i.e “D.I”, “Hamsters in Your Head”, “Don’t Look a Gift Horse in the Ass”).

An album like this does not really need too much dissection, but I imagine grindcore fans and fans of any bands mentioned above already have this, but if you don’t, you should get this album from one of the genres most reliable and consistent bands.