2.05.2023

ALL PIGS MUST DIE

 








"hostage animal"
Year:  2017
Country:  US
City:  Boston
Label:  Southern Lord
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  10
Time:  26 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Crust Metal













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"nothing violates this nature"
Year:  2013
Label:  Southern Lord
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  10
Time:  40 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Crust Metal








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"God is war"
Year:  2011
Label:  Southern Lord
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  8
Time:  28 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Crust Metal








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REPULSION

 








"horrified"
Year:  1986
Country:  US
City:  Flint, Michigan
Label:  Relapse
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  18
Time:  30 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Grindcore













Repulsion is a grindcore band from Flint, Michigan, founded in 1984. Matt Olivo and Scott Carlson, with bassist Sean MacDonald, formed Tempter in 1984, a metal act covering Bay Area thrash metal bands, such as Slayer and Metallica. The group's sound became increasingly infused with hardcore punk when Phil Hines, of Flint hardcore punk band Dissonance, joined as a drummer. They juggled band names, first renaming themselves Ultraviolence and then Genocide before recording their first demo in 1984. In spite of their growing popularity in the underground Genocide struggled to survive and faced difficulty maintaining a consistent lineup. The activity of the band has been: 1984-1988, 1990–1993 and since 2003 until present.
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2.01.2023

FILTHY CHRISTIANS

 







"mean"
Year.  1990
Country:  Sweden
City:  Falun
Label:  Earache
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  18
Time:  36 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Grindcore













Fortunately this album came out in the days when I was really into crustcore and grindcore. There weren’t that much bands releasing full length albums in those styles which could be bought anywhere so Filthy Christans’ ‘Mean’ immediately reached my collection thanks to Earache records. Years later I must however conclude that despite still being a good album, it is not one of the all time grindcore classics. It’s still a well known name from those days but the album has lost much of its impact.

Whereas now in the 21st century the grindcore scene is a matter of quantity, the competition in ’87-‘90 was hard in terms of quality. Of course we had Carcass and Napalm Death from the U.K., Agathocles from Belgium, Old Lady Drivers and Terrorizer from the U.S. and the remembrance of Fear Of God and Genocide/Repulsion hauting all those bands. Say what you will but all those bands had something highly characteristic in their sound. Be it compositionally, vocally or whatever. They all were easily recognisable. Filthy Christians did indeed have more hardcore punk influences in their sound (just like Napalm Death they were a punk band earlier) than the average grindcore band but didn’t go as far as sounding like Extreme Noise Terror, Intense Degree or Heresy.

Filthy Christians mixed crustcore with grindcore but a lot of songs lacked character - as said – compared to contemporary competition. Mostly this was because of the generic grunting vocals (which sound much better on other FC releases) and the rather tame production this album had. There are some great riffs here and there but the foggy guitar sound really damages the intensity of the material. A real stand out track here is “Party & Fight For Your Right?” with its catchy clean intro and great breaks. Quite logical this song made it unto the Grindcrusher compilation album.

Now lyrically the album wasn’t really on a par with Napalm Death who already had a slightly more philosophical and eloquent approach to their preachings nor did Filthy Christians go for the full scale horror and gore attack Carcass and Repulsion had explored earlier. Just like the early works from Agathocles, Filthy Christians combined some gore lyrics with pubescent left wing dogma, PC lyrics about drunk driving and statements about the hardcord punk scene during the late eighties. Nothing new under the sun.

As a whole though not much songs really stand out and the album can best be listened to as a whole. When doing so it is highly enjoyable. But honesty compells me to say it’s more sentiment than sheer quality.
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1.03.2023

GRIDLINK

 








"longhena"
Year:  2014
Country:  US
City:  Hoboken, NJ
Label:  Selfmadegod
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  14
Time:  22 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Math Grindcore













Single minded is a term that would aptly describe Gridlink's approach to creating music, a mix of mathcore and grindcore. Velocity, precision, purity - these are the tenets of their persona, combined and compacted into parcels of explosive sound-violence. In conjunction with eloquently confrontational lyrics, Gridlink's musical missives manage to utterly dominate the airspace they occupy while elevating the consciousness of the listener to supreme levels of ecstatic anxiety and heightened sensory awareness. This is the music of the apocalyptic-computer-future-world as delivered by first hand-witnesses to the horde of humanity as it draws ever closer to the edge of oblivion - a cautionary battering to capture the attention of those who might wish to move in the opposite direction. As in the words of George Orwell (who might as well have been describing the aesthetic of Gridlink's sonic knifings) "If you want a picture of the future imagine a boot stomping on a human face--forever."

While made up of musical luminaries who have proved their mettle in other much lauded musical outfits (Discordance Axis, Mortalized, Human Remains, Kill the Client, Burnt by the Sun, Hayaino Daisuki, etc), this is hardly a necessary qualifier in the face of a ferocious musical accomplishment such as Orphan. While possessing the energy, aggression, and overall focus of its predessor (2008's Amber Grey), the songs contained herein provide an ever denser and more nuanced musical assault combining short bursts of accelerated thrash, blinding passages of helicopter blasting, monochromatic smears of near-noise, and the alien howls of singer Jon Chang. In a realm of perpetrators veiled by smokescreen tactics of studio trickery and trapped in herd minded musical and socio-political maneuvering, Gridlink provide a much needed counterpoint in which sincerity, determination and artful execution triumph finally and fully. 
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"orphan"
Year:  2011
Label:  Hydra Head
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  12
Time:  12 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Math Grindcore








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"amber gray"
Year:  2008
Label:  Hydra Head
Format:  CD
Tracks:  11
Time:  10 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Math Grindcore








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12.29.2022

RYKER'S

 








"ours was a noble cause"
Year:  2022
Country:  Germany
City:  Kassel
Label:  Beatdown Hardwear
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  10
Time:  26 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Hardcore














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"the beginning doesn’t know the end"
Year.  2019
Label:  Beatdown Hardwear
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  15
Time:  40 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Hardcore








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"never meant to last"
Year:  2015
Label:  Beatdown Hardwear
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  14
Time:  30 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Hardcore








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"hard to the core"
Year:  2014
Label:  Beatdown Hardwear
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  8
Time:  24 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Hardcore








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"life's a gamble... so is death"
Year: 1999
Label:  Century Media
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  18
Time:  36 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Hardcore








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"a lesson in loyalty"
Year:  1997
Label:  Raw
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  18
Time:  36 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Hardcore








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"ground zero"
Year:  1996
Label:  Warner
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  16
Time:  38 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Hardcore








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"brother against brother"
Year:  1994
Label:  Lost And Found
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  14
Time:  30 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Hardcore








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12.06.2022

KILL DIVISION

 








"peace through tyranny"
Year:  2022
Country:  US
City:  Florida
Label:  Redefining Darkness
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  11
Time:  24 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Grindcore












Kill Division are a grindcore act that embody and honor the essence of grind's humble beginnings from luminaries in the scene.

"Kill Division’s Peace Through Tyranny is so damn catchy, expertly played, and ferocious, which makes this one of the best grind albums I’ve heard in decades. Catchy grindcore is tough to pull off but each song on this album is catchier than the previous one. This is the best grind album of 2022 and if you can’t get enough of Napalm Death, Terrorizer, Misery Index, Squash Bowels, Nasum etc.. and really need something new to melt you and your pet goldfish’ face off then this is a Buy or Die of the highest order. This KILLZ!!!!",
- Frank Rini, Teeth of the Divine

"Kill Division set out to deliver something that embodies the chaos of grind in its purest form and get anyone and everyone pumped from listening to it. It’s a simple and effective approach, made all the more enjoyable because the talent in this band are capable of doing it justice.
Don’t over-think it. Just press play and be consumed by the ferocity of unmitigated grinding heavy metal at its best.
- Games, Brrraaains, & a Headbanging Life

"The debut of Kill Division (by the way, what a name adequate to the content) is half an hour of barbarism at the highest level. Yes, you can find some similarities to Napalm Death with Pintado era or early Terrorizer (we even have a cover of "Barely Alive" for dessert), but Kyle&co. so intelligently melt everything into their own style that there's noother way but to take the hats off. An absolutely crushing album, you may say, the younger brother of "World Downfall" from year twenty-two. There will be no better album in this genre this year. It's done!"
- Apocalyptic Rites

" It is very obvious that they love this style of music it and it comes completely naturally to them. Because the sounds of our youth are always there in us and returning to them is always familiar. From fans to fans of the good old grindcore."
- Rockway.gr

"After almost 24 minutes it's over (much too quickly). Peace Through Tyranny doesn't reinvent the genre wheel, but it does everything right. Big wrecking balls meet clumsy lumps of lead, the production is wonderfully rough, the presentation is fun from start to finish. You shouldn't expect miracles from Kill Division, but their debut is more than entertaining and cleverly plays off the class of individualists as an uncompromising, biting unit."
- Demonic Nights
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11.30.2022

CORRUPT SOUL

 









"ancient psychophony"
Year:  2022
Country:  Spain
City:  Barcelona
Label:  Pathologically
Format:  CD
Tracks:  8
Time:  24 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Death Metal













Death Metal band from Barcelona, Catalonia (Spain). they started in 1990 and disbanded in 1994. their music was a personal and original death-metal with elements totally different of the rest of the bands such as: melodical guitar riffs, some little electronical touches in drumms and lyrical themes: politics, social issues, human history, anti-war, etc. they have released two demo's called: "Demo # 1" and "Psychophony". Corrupt Soul featured the themes 'Second birth', 'Theophilus broome' and 'Human race' in the "Death Metal Party" Compilation (PSM Music, 1995). Another spanish bands featured are Pulmons Negres, Traste, Human Waste, Obscure, Mortal Mutilation, Karne de Zerdo and Necropsy.

Excellent production work of  Xavier Navarro, an spanish Death Metal and Hardcore engineer from Barcelona who used to run Metal Pesad Studios where he worked as producer & sound engineer with spanish underground death metal / hardcore bands like 24 Ideas, Argar, Blazemth, Corrupt Soul, Declivity, Dismal, El Kaso Urkijo, Eroded, Human Waste, Mortal Mutilation, Necropsy, Pulmons Negres or Terminal Disease.

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11.09.2022

GRINDCORE AGAINST TRUMP

 








"grindcore against Trump"
Year:  2017
Country:  US
Label:  Posers Inc
Format:  cassette
Bands:  33
Time:  36 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Grindcore














"grind against Trump" is a compilation featuring 20 + grindcore, crust punk and powerviolence bands and the first release from Posers Inc. 70% of the proceeds from this compilation will be donated to SPLC ( Southern Poverty Law Center ) to help combat hate groups across the country.
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