Shitstorm (USA) - Only In Dade (2023)

Holy Shit

    Did anyone have a new Shitstorm release on their 2023 bingo card, because I sure as shit didn't. Shitstorm's Only In Dade came out of nowhere and absolutely destroyed. The album is a staticky, grime drenched onslaught of completely pissed off grindcore vengeance. 

    Shitsorm have their grindcore roots in hardcore and thus have an unflourished purity to their grind. They don't have time to fuck around, just bludgeon. The guitar riffs slide in and out of chord changes and different levels of distortion tone like nothing I've ever heard. The bass punches into the mix just long enough to let you know it's there and it's not happy about shit. But that all quickly means little as the whole thing is strangled out by screaming feedback. Like, literally blast beats over stinging white noise. It's like the instruments and fuzz are clamouring over each other for dominance. Meanwhile, the drums are just toppling over themselves at the most violent of speeds. The vocals act as ringleader to this head-on collision with livid barks reminiscent of 90's era powerviolence. 

    Only In Dade is plain and simple savagery for savagery's sake. And just like the grindcore albums of yore, Shitstorm fires off twenty-seven tracks in less than ten minutes! So, yeah. This album is not for posers or metalhead-weekend-warriors thinking they listen to grind. I love how Shitstorm just checked-in to remind everyone who the fuck they are and what the fuck they do. 

FFO: Magrudergrind, Yacøpsæ, Capitalist Casualties, Combatwoundedveteran

Listen: https://miamigrindcore.bandcamp.com/album/only-in-dade

[Originally posted on January 4, 2024, Return to the House of Grindcore]

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