Deathgrind

Brodequin – Harbinger of Woe [Things You Might Have Missed 2024]

By Kenstrosity on December 9, 2024 in Reviews, Things You Might Have Missed 2024, Death Metal, 90 comments

“One of the earlier purveyors of brutal death, Tennessee trio Brodequin, established originally in 1998 and put on hiatus in 2008, reunited in 2015 after a seven-year break. Jan Van Lugtenburg filled in the percussive void in 2016 for a few years, ultimately tagging out for Brennan Shackelford in 2020. Rounded out by founding brothers Mike (Guitars) and Jamie (Bass, Vocals) Bailey, Brodequin worked diligently on crafting their fourth brutal assault of groovy death. Harbinger of Woe is the result, and it might very well be the best thing they’ve put to tape so far.” Woe Momma!

Scumbag – Homicide Cult [Things You Might Have Missed 2024]

By Kenstrosity on December 2, 2024 in Things You Might Have Missed 2024, Death Metal, Slam, Technical Death Metal, 47 comments

“For the uninitiated, Scumbag constitutes a raucous combination of Brodequin-esque brutal death, deathgrind touches reminiscent of earlier Aborted, savage bounce that recalls brutal tech heavyweights Unfathomable Ruination and Abysmal Torment, and a certain irreverent personality not unlike The Black Dahlia Murder.” Name dropping scumbags!

Earthburner – Permanent Dawn Review

By Dolphin Whisperer on November 11, 2024 in Reviews, Grind, 23 comments

“There’s a sect of grind-lovers out there that say Terrorizer’s World Downfall represents the ideal to which grindcore should aspire, with many simply asking “Why hit anything else?” At its base, grindcore is a fusion genre of metal ideas against the speed and fury of fully torqued punk. And when bands like Terrorizer, Napalm Death, and Repulsion were making a name for the scene, the emergent flavor that spilled into their sprint-speed d-beats, hammering skanks, and flurried fight riffs was that of a nascent death metal. And on this foundation, Broken Hope veteran Jeremy Wagner seeks to unleash Permanent Dawn with his long-cooking Earthburner project.” Burn the world or just terrorize it?

Ripped to Shreds – Sanshi Review

By Saunders on September 29, 2024 in Reviews, Death Metal, 36 comments

“Four albums deep into a promising and increasingly impressive career, California’s death mongers Ripped to Shreds continue to hammer away and chisel a jagged path to the hearts of old-school death-loving folk. Following back-to-back bangers, the band’s prolific mastermind and guitarist/vocalist Andrew Lee (also of Azath, Houkago Grind Time, Draghkar amongst a plethora of other projects) readies his battle-hardened companions for another sick, ugly dose of grind-injected old school death mayhem.” You’re in for a surprise….

Pyrrhon – Exhaust Review

By Dolphin Whisperer on September 18, 2024 in Reviews, Death Metal, Hardcore, Noise Rock, Technical Death Metal, 136 comments

“Pyrrhon has spent much of the past few years living, trudging the way many do in their 30s. It’s not that life becomes untenable in the twists and turns about which time inevitably navigates, but that reality grows a face, a scent, a terror that swells as its layers develop and crust and encapsulate. Uncertainty and anxiety weigh heavy in the heart, and, no doubt, after releasing 2020’s Abscess Time, Pyrrhon hit a wall. Time passed, pressure grew. So to escape the grind with grind, to combat noise with noise, to face life with death metal, Pyrrhon holed up in the woods to create again—not to Exhaust, but to explore and explode.” Dead birds and NYC fumes.

Feind – Ambulante Hirnamputation Review

By Kenstrosity on August 14, 2024 in Reviews, Death Metal, Grind, 77 comments

“A debut LP that defies every expectation for overall quality, Ambulante Hirnamputation manages to do something that grind hasn’t done since 2018: activate the patented Ken hype machine. The anonymous, extremely hard-to-find German trio launch an all-out assault on institutionalized religion, late-stage capitalism, Internet culture, and any number of other societal dysfunctions in a scant thirteen minutes, and yet each new assassination makes a memory.” With Feinds like this…

Monument of Misanthropy – Vile Postmortem Irrumatio Review

By Thus Spoke on August 12, 2024 in Reviews, Death Metal, Grind, Technical Death Metal, 36 comments

“If you’re squeamish…skip this paragraph. Or don’t, because any good fan of death and grind should be ok with a little gore. Vile Postmortem Irrumatio continues Monument of Misanthropy’s recent trend of writing albums centred around certain serial killers, following 2021’s eponymously-titled Unterweger (about Austrian-born killer Jack Unterweger). This time, the subject is Ed Kemper, whose crimes might have been indistinct from the many other misogynist multiple-murderers of the late sixties and early seventies were it not for his particular habit of decapitating his victims post-mortem, and…orally copulating with the heads.” Heads up!

Werewolves – Die For Us Review

By Saunders on July 15, 2024 in Reviews, Death Metal, 30 comments

“Barring a short sample, one of numerous scattered across the album, “Get fucked” is the first lyric spewed forth on fifth LP Die For Us from Australian extreme metal anarchists, Werewolves. It’s a fitting introduction to the vitriolic assault on the senses the Australian trio unleash on their latest opus of controlled chaos and destruction.” Wolves in the trash room.

Fractal Generator – Convergence Review

By Dear Hollow on June 14, 2024 in Reviews, Technical Death Metal, 18 comments

“Old habits die hard, and Fractal Generator should not let their hard-hitting blend of dissonant death metal and deathgrind die. They’ve always encapsulated crawling Portal-esque dissonant sensibilities and Gigan-inspired sci-fi avant-gardisms – but fed through the Benighted machine. Serocs is a fair comparison, complete with triumphant atmospheres amid blasting tempos, and Convergence finds a newly honed balance and enriched textures that make it feel more like a passage through fantastical alien worlds and unknowable dimensions.” Generating the horrors.

Full of Hell – Coagulated Bliss Review

By Dolphin Whisperer on April 30, 2024 in Reviews, Grind, Noise Rock, Sludge, 69 comments

“If you’ve been following the modern grindcore scene in any fashion over the past fifteen years, then you’ve at least heard of Maryland’s high-output, low-trend grindmongers Full of Hell. Collaborating or splitting space with everyone from tough punks Code Orange to Japanese static spinner Merzbow to pneumatic pulse demons The Body, Full of Hell scrapes ideas from every corner in the extreme music space to fuel the iterative process of the twenty to thirty-minute burners that are their “full-length” releases.” Hell is home.