This is the fourth album from Complete Failure, a grindcore band from the US.
Complete Failure play aggressive grindcore with streaks of vicious punk. Continue reading “Complete Failure – Crossburner (Review)”
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Death Toll 80K – Step Down (Review)
This is the second album from Death Toll 80K, a grindcore band from Finland.
Containing 17 tracks in a scant 16 minutes, this violent and abrasive grindcore is raw, ugly, nasty, and full of furious rage. Continue reading “Death Toll 80K – Step Down (Review)”
Scour – Red (Review)
This is the latest EP from US black metal band Scour.
Containing members and ex-members of bands such as Pig Destroyer, Decrepit Birth, Cattle Decapitation, Down, Pantera, Misery Index, and many, many others, before you even listen to this you know that a lot of experience has gone into it. Continue reading “Scour – Red (Review)”
Dirtyprotest – Hellstorm (Review)
Dirtyprotest are an Irish death metal band and this is their debut album.
Essentially a one-man band with a main guest singer, (and some additional ones too), Hellstorm offers up 35 minutes of classic death metal. It’s old-school and has a predilection for the Swedish style – what’s not to like? Continue reading “Dirtyprotest – Hellstorm (Review)”
Prolefeed/Henry Kane – The Mass Forfeiture of Collective Responsibility – Split (Review)
Prolefeed are a UK grindcore band and Henry Kane is a one-man Swedish deathgrinder.
We last met Prolefeed on their very enjoyable split with War All the Time, and they open this release with a fast and furious 13 minutes of aural mayhem. Continue reading “Prolefeed/Henry Kane – The Mass Forfeiture of Collective Responsibility – Split (Review)”
Friendship – Hatred (Review)
Friendship are from Japan and play blackened grindcore/hardcore. This is their debut album.
Reeking of corrupted dark hardcore, blackened brutality, scathing powerviolence, and virulent grind, this is an album that’s perfectly titled. Continue reading “Friendship – Hatred (Review)”
Haemorrhage – We Are the Gore (Review)
This is the seventh album from legendary Spanish goregrinders Haemorrhage.
This is 35 minutes of unhinged medical mayhem. However, the band also know the virtue of restraint when necessary, as sometimes the applied force of a surgical strike is more effective than a chainsaw to the guts. Continue reading “Haemorrhage – We Are the Gore (Review)”
Nesseria – Cette Érosion de nous Mêmes (Review)
This is third album from French metallic hardcore band Nesseria.
Having unleashed something as heavy and violent as 2014’s Fractures, Nesseria have now returned to inflict their latest ode to sonic violence Cette Érosion de nous Mêmes; 38 minutes of intensity and aggression. Continue reading “Nesseria – Cette Érosion de nous Mêmes (Review)”
King Parrot – Ugly Produce (Review)
King Parrot are an Australian thrashgrind band, and this is their third album.
While 2013’s Bite Your Head Off was on the grindier side of the spectrum, but still imbued with a thrash vitality, 2015’s Dead Set played with the thrash side more, with longer songs and more involved compositions. Continue reading “King Parrot – Ugly Produce (Review)”
Implore – Subjugate (Review)
Implore are a German grindcore band and this is their second album.
What’s in a genre tag, eh? Grindcore this may be, but that appellation doesn’t tell the whole story, for that we have to expand the genre label a tad. Quite a bit actually; blackened crust deathgrind. How about that? Closer to the truth, but definitely an unwieldy mouthful. Continue reading “Implore – Subjugate (Review)”
