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White Eyes (Germany) - Beastmode (2009)

White Eyes (Germany) - Beastmode (2009)

Zmaj - 4:36 PM

I don't know why anyone but me would remember so I might as well note that I raved about German (somewhat experimental) grind outfit White Eyes around the time they released their only full-length effort,  Beastmode (as far as I know, the only other release that followed was their 2012 split with perhaps the highest peak of Australian grindcore, i.e. The Kill) . Believe it or not, I stumbled upon them like I did with countless great bands, tracing the footprints of Discordance Axis in the collective web of blastbeats, as I often did, to gr…

SWARRRM (Japan), ゆめをみたの - i dreamed... + The [re]Birth of Cephalochromoscope

SWARRRM (Japan), ゆめをみたの - i dreamed... + The [re]Birth of Cephalochromoscope

Zmaj - 11:17 PM

You may not know this, but Swarrrm is the reason why Cephalochromoscope exists in the first place (as for the term itself, read some Philip K. Dick and get back to me). Swarrrm is also the reason why me and Orfee exchanged the first of our many, many emails (since 2008) and jumped straight into the creation of our own sentimental  sketchgrind. And if Nino Rota came to be reincarnated in Japan (Kobe, to be exact), where he then developed an insatiable appetite for blastbeats at a far too early age, perhaps we could get to hear another band of …

鞠螺千世 [kiKURAChiyo] (Canada/Croatia/Japan) - sketchgrind (2010)

鞠螺千世 [kiKURAChiyo] (Canada/Croatia/Japan) - sketchgrind (2010)

Zmaj - 7:17 PM

鞠螺千世 (KiKurachiyo) no. 2, much faster and noisier and goddamn sketchy (open the blue schematic above for the tracklist counting ten minutes & forty-four seconds). I can't promise that you'll like it, even if you liked Satan Samurai ¤REC Pirate Force , 'cause, while it's still punk as fuck, it has gone a bit into the abstract and came to be with a somewhat specific approach in the first place, one that we dubbed "sketchgrind" ('cause I'd rather use a term made-up a bit less predictably than post-grin…