Matsunaga Was Right – Kings of the Deathmatch Reviewed: September 2021 Released: 2021, HPGD Productions Rating: 3/5 Reviewer: Aaron Yurkiewicz I’m 3 seasons late to the party, but I’ve recently become hooked on Vice TV’s Dark Side of the Ring series. Admittedly, the last time I paid any real attention…
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Grisly – Salting the Earth
Reviewed: September 2021 Released: 2021 Xtreem Music Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Demitri Levantis Death metal, the world’s most extreme genre; Sweden, the home of some of the biggest and best death metal bands in the world; put those two things together and what do you have? The new album by Kalmar-based…
Animal Schoolbus – Going To Grammy’s House 2021 Remix
Animal Schoolbus – Going To Grammy’s House 2021 Remix Reviewed: May 2021 Released: 2021, Lawnmower Jetpack Records Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Aaron Yurkiewicz Every band needs a gimmick, even in grindcore. Maybe it’s funny outfits like Birdflesh, maybe it’s wearing blood soaked scrubs like Hemorrhage or General Surgery. Or Maybe it’s…
Monnier – Monnier
Monnier – Monnier Reviewed: April 2021 Released: 2021, HGPD Productions Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Aaron Yurkiewicz One of the best perks about writing for this site is getting to spew your jackass unfettered opinions about whatever it is you may be listening to at the moment. Another is discovering really good…
Mortify – Grotesque Buzzsaw Dismemberment
Mortify – Grotesque Buzzsaw Dismemberment Reviewed: March 2021 Released: 2021, HPGD Productions Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Aaron Yurkiewicz Sometimes you just wanna get smacked around for 10 minutes, if only to feel like you’re still alive. That’s the immediate reaction I had when listening to GROTESQUE BUZZSAW DISMEMBERMENT, the latest EP…
Napalm Death – Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism
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…
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…