Final Exit (Japan) - ノイズの若大将 (Young Guy of Noize) (2020)

Final Exit (Japan) - ノイズの若大将 (Young Guy of Noize) (2020)

DesiccatedVeins - 11:57 PM

Movies often serve as an inspiration for grindcore bands. Grind albums are littered with film dialogue samples, bands like Repulsion take their name from films, and bands even occasionally use a still from a film as an album cover. And as is befitting grindcore's chosen subject matter, these films are predominantly in the horror genre.  Long-running Japanese noisegrind stalwarts Final Exit, however, take a different approach. Their new LP Young Guy of Noize blends fragmented noisegrind with smooth, competent surf rock. It also, unusually …

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 …

Gasp (USA) - Stardonas (2020)

Gasp (USA) - Stardonas (2020)

DesiccatedVeins - 4:43 AM

Gasp was an anomaly among the California punk scene of the 1990s. They played a relentlessly strange, deeply psychedelic blend of grindcore, powerviolence and noise. Their music was tough to categorize, but rewarding to the determined listener. 1998's Drome Triler of Puzzle Zoo People , their sole LP, is a high water mark in the blending of psychedelia and extreme music.  They split up in 2004, and their last release was the 2005 collection An Earwig's Guide to Traveling . It would be easy to imagine such a singular group would just va…

Stimulant (USA) - Sensory Deprivation (2020)

Stimulant (USA) - Sensory Deprivation (2020)

DesiccatedVeins - 8:30 PM

Among the most promising extreme music acts of the early 2010s was undoubtedly Water Torture. They played a sludgy, oppressive brand of grindviolence that immediately made waves in the underground. After releasing a number of splits, EPs and an LP, Water Torture sadly called it quits in 2015. Rather than ending there, however, two of the three members immediately formed a new band. That band was Stimulant , a faster, noisier cousin to Water Torture's heavy blend of grindcore and powerviolence, with a similar sense of oppessive atmosphere.…

Fuck on the Beach (Japan) / Endless Swarm (Scotland) - Split 7" (2020)

Fuck on the Beach (Japan) / Endless Swarm (Scotland) - Split 7" (2020)

DesiccatedVeins - 5:30 AM

This split was originally planned as a physical release to be sold at the cancelled Zesta Grande II grindcore & powerviolence festival in July 2020. Like that festival, which was conceived as a throwback to Spazz vocalist/bassist Chris Dodge's Fiesta Grande festival in the '90s, this release is a modern throwback to a classic era of extreme music. Japanese fastcore/powerviolence legends Fuck on the Beach have been releasing music for 25 years, and besides an improvement in recording quality, not much has changed. They're stil…