CEPHALOCHROMOSCOPE

Life Through a Cephalocromoscope Volume 1 Mix

Hey all! Nigel (aka Desiccatedveins) here with something a bit different. At the beginning of the summer, I'd been thinking a lot about the blog's origins as a music-sharing site when Karlo and the crew originally conceived of it. It's what caught my interest, led to my friendship with Karlo and ended up all these years later helping out at the site. I wanted a way that I could share the recent music I loved more immediately and more quickly with a lot of folks in a way that isn't possible through reviews and other kinds of wri…

Suffering Quota (Netherlands) - Collide (2023)

Some bands shift their sound drastically once or more over their lifespan, while others hone what's present on their earliest material, adding influences as they age. Suffering Quota has been around for nearly 15 years, and in that span of time they've refined their sound into a unique brand of crushing grindcore that pulls from a number of stylistic areas. Collide is composed of shards of pummeling death metal, blasting grindcore that balances between technicality and emotional resonance in a manner not unlike Discordance Axis and…

Negative Bias (USA) - Negative Bias LP (2022)

Good thrashcore has an infectious, propulsive energy. The style sits astride grindcore and powerviolence, but hooked to a live wire of pure 80s thrash. Grindcore prioritizes speed, and powerviolence distorted bass and moshpit-forming breakdowns, while thrashcore champions a wry, attitude-driven variety of fleet-footed punk. North Carolina's Negative Bias bring thrashcore into the 21st century with an extreme, blastbeat-heavy take on the style that still emphasizes light-hearted fun. Following 2021's Speedcore Summer! EP, this full len…

Barren (Belgium) - I (2022)

I Against I I was never expecting much when starting this blog. I didn't even know enough to know what to expect, honestly. Return to the House of Grindcore is a labor of love that is way more trouble than it's worth. In the despondent words of Norman Bates, "A hobby's supposed to pass the time, not fill it." The blog was intended to fill the void of grindcore review blogs that had cease to be and to review releases in an obnoxiously specific way that only interested me. Hopefully someone would find it useful or, …

Chadhel (Quebec) - Failure//Downfall (2022)

Chadhel's Model You needn't think I'm crazy —plenty of others have worst tastes in music than grindcore. Why don't you laugh at those black metal kids who killed each other over lo-fi fantasy club clout? If I don't like that damned metal, it's my own business; and we're here to discuss grindcore anyhow. Well, if you must hear it, the last I heard from Chadhel was in April of 2021 after the split 10 inch between them and Assiduous Assault. No, I don't know what's become of Assiduous Assault. …