Grindcore

Caustic Wound – Grinding Mechanism of Torment Review

Caustic Wound – Grinding Mechanism of Torment Review

By Saunders on April 28, 2025 in Reviews, Death Metal, 31 comments

“Back in the strange old days of 2020, Seattle’s Caustic Wound detonated a skin-blasting deathgrind debut, entitled Death Posture. It landed on my end-of-year list and has remained a staple since. Comprised of like-minded scene veterans, including members of Mortiferum and Magrudergrind, Caustic Wound skillfully weld brutal, old-school death and grindcore influences into a raw, gnarly, riff rumbling beast. Death Posture’s dirty, unrefined production and reeky, terrorizing attack lent it a dangerous, unhinged edge, complimented by its infectious riffcraft and ugly underground values. Fast forward to the present and Caustic Wound reappear hellbent to fuck things up in their wickedly violent, deranged way.” You better get that looked at…

Coffin Feeder – Big Trouble Review

Coffin Feeder – Big Trouble Review

By El Cuervo on April 22, 2025 in Reviews, Death Metal, Deathcore, Hardcore, 56 comments

“Sometimes you can judge a book by its cover. The intellectual property rights-busting album artwork of Big Trouble by Coffin Feeder pays tribute to the silliest action movies of the 80s and 90s, just like the music within. This album represents the band’s full-length debut after a pair of EPs that tickled our very own Kenstrosity. Though the core members may be Belgian, the bands through which these guys ordinarily peddle their wares (Aborted, Leng Tch’e) are fused with a steaming smorgasbord of high-profile guest spots (Benighted, Cattle Decapitation, Archspire). The result is an energetic fusion of various cores, from death to grind to hard.” Get to the chugga!

Scare – In the End, Was It Worth It? Review

Scare – In the End, Was It Worth It? Review

By Dear Hollow on February 21, 2025 in Reviews, Sludge Metal, 30 comments

“Hardcore is usually pretty one-note, a hard-and-fast genre for white young ‘uns to unleash their anti-establishment rage against the machine, and it can be difficult to create anything that contains even a mere smidge of memorability. Scare embodies all the vigor of hardcore but attempts to fuse it with the bitter vinegar of sludge metal, making the sound of being beaten by police batons more like being showered by bricks. In the spirit of hardcore brevity and bleak nihilism, indeed: In the End, Was It Worth It?” They came so far…

Drugs of Faith – Asymmetrical Review

Drugs of Faith – Asymmetrical Review

By El Cuervo on February 19, 2025 in Reviews, 4 comments

“Though the group may have swerved any attention at AngryMetalGuy.com, and swerved a full-length album for more than 13 years, Virginia’s Drugs of Faith have no shortage of grindcore pedigree. Besides a smorgasbord of demos, EPs, splits, and singles, Richard Johnson of Agoraphobic Nosebleed notoriety graces the band with guitar and vocals. Asymmetrical is their latest release and promises an uneven spread of musical directions and lyrical themes on a base built on punky, noisy grind.” Faith in medicine restored?

Järnbörd – Filmer för blinda Review

Järnbörd – Filmer för blinda Review

By Dolphin Whisperer on January 17, 2025 in Reviews, Grind, Hardcore, Noise Rock, 16 comments

“Though every album lands into our grabby hands with a visual artistic adornment of some sort, and that representation may reflect in the music to varying extents, a lot of compositions don’t rely on the strength of that accompaniment for a full impact. To an extent, our eyes get the opportunity to shop before our ears in the modern day, with absurd band names and grand images (or conversely, the rejection of AI images) standing on lists and tag trees as important first impressions where a faceless radio single may have filled in before. Järnbörd takes the idea a step further using their own narrative recordings to adorn their grind-loaded messages with a fun cinematic flair” Welcome a Börd!

Ass to Mouth – Enemy of the Human Race Review

Ass to Mouth – Enemy of the Human Race Review

By El Cuervo on November 25, 2024 in Reviews, Grind, 63 comments

“Ass to Mouth are an entertainingly-titled but unheralded Polish band that quietly dropped one of the best grind records of the 2010s with Degenerate, before promptly disappearing for a decade. Their prized quality was their irreverent, cynical outlook on life that resulted in music that tore chunks out of politicians, organized religion, and other holier-than-thou hypocrites. They did this with a perversely visceral brand, dipping into images of sex and violence to deliver their message. 2024 sees their equally unexpected return with a new line-up and record called Enemy of the Human Race.” Ass is in session.

Earthburner – Permanent Dawn Review

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

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….