Blast Worship

Blast Worship: Trauma Bond

July 5, 2022

Hear London duo Trauma Bond come together over in celebration of blast beats and noise-filled breakdowns.

Video Premiere: BLCKHWK – “Decomposing Rotting Flesh”

June 23, 2022

Get down with the latest video from Indonesian rot ‘n’ rollers BLCKHWK.

Blast Worship: Triac

June 7, 2022

Veteran Baltigrinders Triac channel punk fury into metallic bliss on new release Pure Joy – Numb Grief-stricken Animals.

Mathcore Index Reveals Festival Lineup for 2022 Edition

May 24, 2022

The fourth annual Mathcore Index fest will feature such genre stalwarts as gif. from god, Black Matter Device, Frail Body, fallfiftyfeet and more.

Blast Worship: No/Mas

May 17, 2022

Four years after their first Blast Worship appearance, we revisit DC grind heroes No/Más. Unsurprisingly, they still rule.

Blast Worship: Whoresnation

May 10, 2022

French grinders Whoresnation offer anything but a dearth of crushing riffs on their latest LP.

Full Album Premiere: Lorelai – ‘Concealed Ovulation’

May 3, 2022

Hear Philly death grinders Lorelai‘s debut Concealed Ovulation in advance of its release.

Blast Worship: BowelFuck

April 26, 2022

Prague blasters BowelFuck evacuate the gore from their system in favor of grindcore.

Blast Worship: Gritted Teeth

April 19, 2022

Bite down hard and experience mysterious German grinders Gritted Teeth.

Blast Worship: Genestealer

April 12, 2022

Hear San Diego grind fiends Genestealer splice grindcore and punk into a familiar mutation.

Blast Worship: Scud

April 5, 2022

Hear Israeli group Scud launch an audio attack of Washington D.C.-styled grinding hardcore.

Blast Worship: Days of Desolation

March 29, 2022

Crusty Belgian blasters Days of Desolation bring the riffs but no motherfucking Hootie & the Blowfish.

Blast Worship – Human Cull

March 22, 2022

Accelerate the world’s demise with some sci-fi dystopian type grindcore for U.K. trio Human Cull.

Blast Worship: Fake Dust

March 15, 2022

There may be (at least) two Portlands, but there is only one grindcore band called Fake Dust.

Blast Worship: BLCKHWK

March 8, 2022

Get down with the serious beatdowns of Indonesian grinders BLCKHWK.

Full-Album Premiere: Comé Mierda – ‘2021 Demo’

March 1, 2022

Hear Horror Pain Gore Death Productions’ reissue of Comé Mierda‘s ripping 2021 demo. That counts as a premiere, right?

Dreary North Fest Announce Lineup for 2022

February 22, 2022

Cloud Rat, World Peace, Sick/Tired, Choke, Fluoride, Knoll, Test, Sissy Spacek, Grishka and Brazil’s Test all set for the second annual Dreary North Fest.

Blast Worship – Bodyrot

February 15, 2022

Sick, twisted crust-influenced grind is skin that Bodyrot are in on Fleshworks.

Blast Worship – Syntax

February 8, 2022

Hear Los Angeles’ Syntax create well-formed songs in the language of grindcore.

Album Premiere: Deliriant Nerve – ‘Uncontrollable Ascension’

February 1, 2022

Hear D.C. deathgrind crushers Deliriant Nerve before the release of their nine-track grind tornado Uncontrollable Ascension.

Blast Worship – Full Body Punishment

January 25, 2022

In which we wonder aloud, way can’t every one-person grind project be as good as Full Body Punishment?

Blast Worship: Expression of Pain

January 18, 2022

Hear Canadian grinders Expression of Pain blast on in memory of fallen drummer Graham Green on their self-titled release.

Video Premiere: Test Big Band – “Teste do Error, As Vozes dos Tolos”

January 11, 2022

Watch Brazil’s premiere grindcore unit Test expand to Test Big Band for an 11-minute grind opera.

Blast Worship’s 21 Favorite Grindcore Songs of 2021

January 4, 2022

Now that 2021 has ground to a halt, blast back with the 21 best grindcore and powerviolence songs of the past year.

Blast Worship – Neon Hiss

December 21, 2021

Catch the buzz on the Canadian mostly-solo avant grind project Neon Hiss.

Blast Worship: Will Cope

December 7, 2021

Hear Lithuanian grind duo Will Cope, bring an east coast hardcore vibe to eastern Europe on An Attempt.

Blast Worship – Gummo

November 30, 2021

The French grind scene contributes to the growing — am I reading this correctly — mirco genre of grindcore bands inspired by the 1997 film Gummo?

Blast Worship: Razoreater

November 23, 2021

Hear the U.K.’s Razoreater serve up a brutal helping of HM-2-propelled old-school Euro grind.

Blast Worship: Civilian Thrower

November 16, 2021

Do not toss aside the heaving black metal-influenced grindcore of France’s Civilian Thrower.