Napalm Death – Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism Reviewed: January 2021 Released: 2020, Century Media Records Rating: 5/5 Reviewer: Aaron Yurkiewicz For almost 40 years and I don’t know how many albums at this point, Napalm Death has explored and documented every corner of musical extremity. They’ve…
Grindcore
Fuck The Facts – Pleine Noirceur
Reviewed: [November 2020] Released [2020 Noise Salvation Records] Rating [4/5] Reviewer: Peter Atkinson Ottawa grind faction Fuck The Facts are back with their first album in five years, which is nothing too unusual for the band as their pace for pumping out full-lengths has slowed considerably since issuing six LPs…
Anaal Nathrakh – Endarkenment
Reviewed: November 2020 Released: 2020, Metal Blade Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Kieron Hayes Anaal Nathrakh are a big name in extreme metal, and Endarkenment succinctly illustrates why. The album doesn’t represent a significant shift in their approach to making heavy music because it doesn’t need to. They’ve long since mastered…
Houkago Grind Time – Bakyunsified (Moe to the Gore)
Houkago Grind Time – Bakyunsified (Moe to the Gore) Reviewed: October 2020 Released: 2020, Outrageous Weeb Power Productions Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Aaron Yurkiewicz I’m admittedly a sucker for bands that are musically left of center or just generally odd, but Houkago Grind Time takes it to another level. The brainchild…
Formless Master/Bayht Lahm – No Chords Barred (Split)
Formless Master/Bayht Lahm – No Chords Barred (Split) Reviewed: June 2020 Released: 2020, HPGD Productions Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Aaron Yurkiewicz Formless Master’s 2019 EP was a true gem. The brainchild of Gridlink multi-instrumentalist Takafumi Matsubara was a grindcore love letter to Bruce Lee and all things martial arts, and a…
Cattle Decapitation – Death Atlas
Reviewed: January 2020 Released: 2019 Metal Blade Records Rating: 4.5/5 Reviewer: Peter Atkinson There’s something about Cattle Decapitation that seems to scream “the holidays.” A year ago, on the Black Friday after Thanksgiving, the band served up Medium Rarities, a collection of nasty bits – B-sides, rarities, demos and the…
Formless Master – First Strike
Formless Master – First Strike Reviewed: November, 2019 Released: 2019, HGDP Productions Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Aaron Yurkiewicz Ever wish your grindcore had more of a karate theme to it? Are you ever in luck, my friends… East meets West in a dojo of destruction, as members of Gridlink, Deterioration and…
Entombed A.D. + Aborted + Baest @ The Dome, London
Entombed A.D. + Aborted + Baest @The Dome 18th October Review by Ambra Chilenwa
Serpent of Gnosis – As I Drink From The Infinite Well Of Inebriation
Serpent of Gnosis – As I Drink From The Infinite Well Of Inebriation Reviewed: August 2019 Released 2019 1126 Records Rating 4/5 Reviewer: Peter Atkinson Remember Job For A Cowboy? Seems like only yesterday, they came from out of nowhere thanks to MySpace – remember MySpace? – and became one…
Full Of Hell – Weeping Choir
Reviewed: [June 2019] Released [2019 Relapse Records] Rating [4/5] Reviewer: Peter Atkinson One of my all-time favorite albums is Brutal Truth’s 1994 outing Need To Control. The combination of spasmodic grind, caterwauling vocals, industrial clamor, electronic fits and utterly crushing heaviness on the band’s second full-length was nothing short of…
Pig Destroyer – Head Cage
Pig Destroyer – Head Cage Reviewed: January, 2019 Released: 2018, Relapse Records Rating: 3/5 Reviewer: Aaron Yurkiewicz I like this album, but I don’t love it. And that kinda sucks. Pig Destroyer are inarguably one of the biggest grindcore bands on the planet right now, and their music is already…
Axegrinder – Satori
Reviewed: July, 2018 Released: 2018, Rise Above Records Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Aaron Yurkiewicz I had to open up the ledger and double check my records when I saw this promo hit my inbox. Was this the same Axegrinder that released RISE OF THE SERPENT MEN, back in 1989 and then…
Desertfest London 2018, Day 1
Desertfest London 2018, Day 1 @ Various venues, Camden Town, London 4th May 2018 Review by Gabor Csete Photography by Ryan Whitwell / Shotison
Septic Tank – Rotting Civilisation
Reviewed: May, 2018 Released: 2018 Rise Above Records Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Peter Atkinson After kicking around as more myth or concept than actual “thing” for the better part of 20 years, and offering but a tease with a four-track, 7-minute EP in 2013, the supergroup Septic Tank have finally come…
Sectorial – We Are The Titan’s Rising Ashes
Reviewed: May, 2018 Released: 2015, noizr.com Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Owen Thompson Ukraine’s Sectorial are a very interesting case. A real musical melting pot of Grindcore, Blackened Death Metal, and a judicious use of ethnic instruments; they beguile, confuse and delight in equal measure. It must be noted that is…