Rolling Grindcore/Powerviolence/Thrashcore thread 2011

I just haven't heard any new grind releases yet this year tbh.

I got sent an album by a bunch of insane drunk teenagers called Drugzilla but I'm not sure if it would go here or not.

I reviewed Rotten Sound on BurningAmbulance.com today.

Also, here are some YouTube videos I shot at SXSW last week:

Wormrot:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njBvaO4HeSc

Kill the Client:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cftg37VmSM0

AG, you'd probably like the new Rotten Sound album, Cursed. It's fast and aggressive, but has more in common with punk rock than super-extreme metal, and the songs are a little longer and more "song-ish" than many grind acts' work.

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Just listened to this and frankly I think its amazing. Perfect blend of grindcore/thrashy breakdowns and just a lot of interesting stuff going on as well as PUNISHING BLASTBEATS. The vocal delivery is pretty straight HC which is nice because it would be totally weird for that kind of album to have, like, piq squeals and shit-grunts.

Rotten Sound are the heirs to Nasum's crown IMHO.

Yeah, except I never liked Nasum - sacrilege, I know, but there was always something too clean about their sound. I prefer the nasty, grimy grind of bands like Phobia or Kill the Client.

The new GridLink album comes out next week.

yes!!

so, anyone hear the akbk lp? I mentioned these guys on rolling metal but nobody replied. love the stuff on their myspace:

http://www.myspace.com/akbkgrind

very chaotic, lots of left-field curveballs, long songs (for a grind band), varied. all signs point to great but I can't track the whole thing down anyhere. have even had it on backorder from aquarius records for a while as well...

long songs (for a grind band),

Over a minute???!!!

some are even around four minutes!

love the skronky guitar too.

prog-grind!

you might like these guys, actually.

also have a track on the "small doses" comp. have to spin this sometime. this promo vid is SICK:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-y8TmyAsFc&feature=player_embedded

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xp1JTqQS_8M

These guys are my new favourite grind band. They remind me of the Janmichaelvincentcarcrash, but faster and tighter and without the vocals.

I somehow managed to miss the NAILS album last year, but it fucking kills.

new Wormrot goes hard - 25 songs in 21 minutes or something like that - sounds like their other stuff but why wouldn't you want it to

the first band on this single are pals of mine, until recently they were a grimy Agoraphobic Nosebleed bite but they have a drummer now

That new Wormrot is a free download from Earache at the moment. Jay Randall from ANb posted this link on his Twitter; they just want your e-mail address. I'm sure I'll get loads of Earache spam but it's worth it.

Yep got this yesterday. Pretty awesome stuff.

NPR muses on Grindcore Karaoke. The fact that their music dude is a metal fan has been covered on the Rolling Metal Thread, I believe.

Okay, so the new Gridlink is fucking face-meltingly amazing, so so much better than Amber Gray. I'm not sure if it raises any bars for the genre, but it doesn't really have to.

what is the longest track?

"The Last Red Shoulder" - 1:28.

I've listened to the gridlink a few times now and it is so chaotic that I still haven't retained much. I do like it but I'm not sure about the production. everything kinda bleeds together.

sick leads, tho.

and I wish these guys weren't on hydra head - seems like the vinyl release with both EPs is annoyingly limited. anyone know where I could pick it up? or the discordance axis reissue for that matter? just came back from record store day shopping sadly missing DA vinyl.

Is 500 copies limited for a grindcore band with inherently niche appeal? It's an honest question (Jon Chang himself admitted on a blog somewhere that the Hayaino Daisuki records sold fuck-all).

500 is pretty damned limited... That's like the amount a local band would press, hardly enough for a North American or Worldwide release. But if they've had problems selling off bigger amounts I can't really blame them...

yeah, I'm just bummed because I've been waiting for some gridlink vinyl. love the format for grindcore on a personal level. fond memories of many afternoons spent sitting around playing tons of grind and hardcore 7"s, etc. but I guess I didn't get the memo about this one and it seems like it already sold out. whadda drag.

and hydrahead just seem to play up the pricey but limited thing a little bit more than I'd like. can't say I blame em. gotta make money somehow these days. just sucks when this stuff sells out in the blink of an eye and I've been waiting for this particular release for a while now.

thrashcore/grind 7"s evoke a lot of happy memories for me as well.. :)

Love it when the whole sleeve folds out to be a gruesome poster.

yes!!

hydrahead are usually pretty good with represses though, right?

It looks like this one was marketed as a 500-copy limited run. But surely they can get around that and press more on different coloured vinyl or something, or simply not include the karaoke version of the album that was packaged with the first run.

I mean, if they've sold out so fast clearly the demand is there. So rather than economising to ensure they're not stuck with remaindered stock, they're kinda shooting themselves in the foot by not pressing more. They are a proper label, after all, not some bedroom CDR operation with covers made from felt and old socks.

(To be clear, I had been thinking that 500 copies seemed a lot for the type of band this is. But in hindsight I really think Hydra Head underestimated the demand, assuming the Hayaino audience and the grind audience were the same.)

yeah, I mean grind is a ridiculously narrow niche but the discordance axis connection alone is HUGE. total legends.

scored some gridlink vinyl from aquarius records if anyone is still looking!

I haven't heard any of the new Weekend Nachos yet but I dig the cover; it's completely at odds with the genre conventions:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9E3taatLj_o/Tb9cuObaWfI/AAAAAAAAA5A/FN0urZ00LUA/s1600/weekendnachos.jpg

oh yeah, just posted to the rolling metal thread about this one. on my first listen right now. like it!

and yeah, I'm into that cover.

this one is fun:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Cy4Z1dXSZQ

loving these guys:
http://kneltrote.blogspot.com/

blistering grind with a healthy dose of harsh noise.

That Weekend Nachos album is great!

some dudes from The Endless Blockade have a new band called Column of Heaven, anything they do is worth hearing imho

here is a photo of their demo tapes on top of some books which I daresay just happened to be sitting there

http://www.20buckspin.com/site/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/cohdemo.jpg

Weekend Nachos aree amazing.... but that name is soooo retarded

kinda love the name tbh. I'll take humor where I can get it with this genre.

weekend nachos is an awesome band name and if you do not like it then i fear you have never enjoyed nachos on the weekend

otm

http://downloads.tankcrimes.com/album/ans-ramming-speed

new ANS/ramming speed split LP is totally great thrash/d-beat; ramming speed don't take themselves seriously at all (sample song titles: "pizza party," "shane embury is the brad pitt of grindcore," etc) and are much better off/more fun for it

yeah, that's doing the trick

that's awesome

Saw Psycho/Afternoon Gentlemen/Human Junk last night, good show but once again rather under-attended.

Afternoon Gentlemen pretty killer grind with 2 bassists, definitely going to check them out further.

Psycho were great too, super cool guys as well, got their entire discography across 3 CDs, nice after just having the mp3s for years.

I just read about The Afternoon Gentlemen in MRR. Will be checking out their stuff.

Anyone going to see Wormrot on tour soon? They're playing a two-day fest in Dublin in September with Doom and a bunch of other hardcore, crust and grind bands. Haven't actually been to a grind gig yet (Napalm Death excepted) so I'm looking forward to it!

Listening to the Psudoku album out on 625 right now, it's pretty fantastic on first pass.

caught doom with dropdead about a month ago. they were fun but played waaaaaay too long. there's a reason most grind albums are about 20-30 min.

dropdead were pretty amazing tbh.

I should not that I'm not v familiar with the doom catalog.

uh, "note" that is

Wormrot are fantastic live. You're gonna have a blast (no pun intended).

Saw Doom last year and they were awesome, would love to see them again. Didn't think they played too long at all, but then I am pretty familiar with their catalog :)

I'm putting Wormrot on in about six weeks in a basement where even short ppl like me can easily touch the ceiling

it's sad it was my hearing

Where's that? Wouldn't mind going.

Undertone in Cardiff

no Bristol date last I checked

Cardiff's not that far if it's the only show though. Will check I'm free and might see you there.

Super into the akbk album now that I've heard it. Like a really freakin tight band grindin it out while a noisier greg ginn solos off to the side. The songwriting is a cut above and material that could have come off as a disjointed, proggy mess in lesser hands really shines here. It all flows even with the occasional curveball but all with a fine layer of guitar skree lathered on top and subverting your expectations. Which is key!

Get this!!

^^^kind of cliched-sounding now that I'm reading that back. I'm no writer but I just want to make this one sound cool. because it is!

also doing a bit of a disservice to focus on the guitar noise. it's the most novel aspect the band has going for it but hardly the only thing worth writing about. the drumming is particularly strong and always compliments the action here.

also a fan of the vox. often trading off between low growls and high shrieks but always with a ton of reverb on top. some delay effects here-and-there as well. struggling to think of a comparison... maybe incantation for the lower growls? that doesn't quite get at it but they are similarly atmospheric.

and, in general, there are nods to black metal but nothing too overt. I personally appreciate that they don't overdo it. lots of newer hardcore bands blending in bm can strike me as ham-fisted. but I'm cool with the occasional frostbitten riff which is what we have right here.

So what's this about Shane from Phobia being "the Ike Turner of grindcore" (according to ANb's Jay Randall)?

From the ANb Twitter account: ""Shane Phobia is the Ike Turner of grindcore, long history of beating girls up when he's drunk and if you think that's cool -we ain't... Gave Shane Phobia plenty of time to figure out what he and his brother owed us and to stop bootleggin'/selling our shit on ebay -times up!...Shane Phobia went ahead with doing ANB merch without working a deal with us first and has I guess sold it for years now without paying us a dime... So glad I've been unknowingly contributing to this fuckin' piece of shit crust punks beer fund for years now -fuck Shane Phobia."

no idea who that is, but I laughed several times while reading it

2012, but..
http://www.decibelmagazine.com/featured/kindred-spirit/

2017 but...

first release in almost 15 years from Gasp!
https://gasplapsychviolence.bandcamp.com/releases