Disintegration (USA) - Carbon Shadow (2022)
Graphite-Grind Disintegration are a death-grind band from deep in the heart of GWAR country, Richmond, Virginia, that play a type of grindcore that filters thrash and black metal through a crusty grindcore filter. They weaponize aggressive riffing and heavy blasting in the form of their 2022 full-length, Carbon Shadow . Since the debut of their demo in 2016, Disintegration have been fine-tuning and polishing their said metaphorical munitions, resulting in a very Assück sounding style of metallic grindcore. Although, Disinte…
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, …
Fading Trail (Finland) - Count The Days (2021)
"And they beheld the vicious spectacle that loomed before them, draped in the finest of carnage, twisted in the foulest of horrors. Flesh made augur. Atrocities made omen. And they knew then that this land was barren of all clemencies. Another glorious day in God's country." -A nonymous Much like many European cities, Helsinki is a modern capital founded atop the ashes of war, great fires and the bones of over a thousand victims of the Black Death during the plague of 1710 that decimated some two-thirds of the then p…
Kaliya (Texas, USA) Self-titled (2015)
Nagaz Wit Attitudes I actually had to do some leg work to obtain this album. Even though Kaliya hail from my home of DFW, I some how missed show after show. Even a show in which my band was suppose to open for them was cancelled due to overbooking by the venue. Eventually I caught up with the band opening for Aborted on a predominately metal bill. Their merch table was largely ignored, save for the over flow of metal-heads from neighboring tables who used the Kaliya spread as a place to set their drinks down. I think I was the only one…
Chadhel (Quebec)/Assiduous Assault (USA) - Split 10" (2021)
Call of the Chadhel "There was a mighty eddying and foaming in the noisome brine, and as the steam mounted higher and higher the brave Norwegian drove his vessel head on against the pursuing jelly which rose above the unclean froth like the stern of a daemon galleon. The awful squid-head with writhing feelers came nearly up to the bowsprit of the sturdy yacht, but Johansen drove on relentlessly. There was a bursting as of an exploding bladder, a slushy nastiness as of a cloven sunfish, a stench as of a thousand opened graves, and a soun…
Nervous Impulse (Canada) - Time To Panic (2015)
Start Panicking Nervous Impulse is a Canadian death-grind band that I was completely unaware of until the band's second album, Time To Panic . This record is a sonic assault of grind blasts, shredding death metal guitar and some real unbridled vocal mayhem. There's an undercurrent of maybe some deathcore, not too dissimilar to bands like Despised Icon with some hints of later Cannibal Corpse . Especially in the guitar tone and the breakdowns. The drumming on Time To Panic is what initially sold me on Nerv…
Socioclast (USA) - Socioclast (2021)
While all grindcore sounds like blasting noise to the untrained ear, as grindcore fans we know the genre plays in a number of modes. Some bands bring influence from punk, some from death metal; some employ intricate, technical riffimg and some stick to more straightforward fare. This first LP by Socioclast, a brand new trio of California grinders led by In Disgust's Matt Gomes on guitar and vocals, features a blend of elements from across the genre that should appeal to a large swath of the grindcore listenership. They play metallic grindc…
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