Gene Meyer

Don’t overthink the caustic grind of Los Angeles blast duo Shitbrains.

Watch Idaho’s killer hardcore power trio Ingrown in their natural habitat in the new video “Waste.”

Midwest grindcore crew Gastropod marry a caveman aesthetic with a progressive approach to performance.

In which a psychedelic doom metal band releases a split album with a folk singer from Brooklyn

Are Ptomatopsiaa your new favorite hypergoreblast band? Of course they are!

Choke‘s It’s Hard To Talk Shit, With No Fucking Teeth is the antifacist grindcore antidote to a lifetime of bullshit.

A hearty bottoms up to Bleachdrinker‘s voracious whirlwind of blast beats and D-beats.

Hear Finnish groove grinders Kuvotus make the genre somewhat accessible in their split with fellow blasters Tunkio.

Dallas blasters’ split release with Cryptic Void is a definite grind album of the year candidate.

Hear the Jersey punks in Ides and Sunrot team up for a heavily Black Flag-inspired split.

If you are a fan of any era of Daughters, the Locust or Saetia, it’s time to tune into the powerviolence/screamo/shoegaze hybrid of Waternoose.

Get to know Quebec crushers Chadhel as they team up with Assidious Assault on a crucial new split

Are Myrtle Beach’s Sugar Wounds the world’s first “shoegrind” band? Probably not, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t listen to their Calico Dreams release right now.

Hear the ripping new split from Sacramento’s Human Obliteration and Athens-based maniacs Vile Species.

Hear Jerusalem’s Karkait bring forth its potent mix of black metal anguish and angular grindcore on Yevul

U.K. blasters Sulk do the very opposite via their eclectic, self-aware grindcore.

Hear Dutch goregrinders Last Days of Humanity “clean up” their sound on Horrific Compositions of Decomposition.

Regional Justice Center’s sophomore full-length Crime and Punishment is our grinding face-peeler of the week.

Maryland grinders Jarhead Fertilizer emerge from six years of recording silence with Product of My Environment.

San Jose trio Socioclast unleash an early contender for grindcore album of the year on Carbonized.

Middle Days of Humanity: think of them as the Empire Strikes Back of ridiculous-sounding goregrind.

German blasters Pari’sya drop just a hint of Scandinavian blackness into their debut EP, SOG.

Get fully amped on Canadian powerviolence bashers MAXXPOWER

Los Angeles grinders Guilt Dispenser are our blasting band of the week.

Can you take a punch from Portuguese crossover killers Bas Rotten?

Connecticut crew Squashed Beef are low on drama, high on blasts and burger puns.

2020 is (almost) fucking dead! Long live the best blasting bits of 2020!

Ontario based two-piece Acid Womb grapple with the impact of PTSD on their new Grief EP.

Hear Aussie death blasters Incinerated deliver a new split of thunderous hyper goreblast insanity mixed with absolutely bowel-shaking slam.

Philadelphia-based bashers Ten Ton Hammer drop five new tracks of ’90s-fueled metal and hardcore squarely on your cranium with the New Failures EP.