Blast Worship

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

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

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

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

Bite down hard and experience mysterious German grinders Gritted Teeth.

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

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

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

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

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

Get down with the serious beatdowns of Indonesian grinders BLCKHWK.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wisconsin grindcore trio Mellow Harsher is, um, immunized against lousy extreme music on a new split EP.

Hear Canadian crushers Bone Tower raise a monument to the pain and chaos of the past year and a half with We All Will Die One Day.

Vancouver duo Jisei healthy dose of deathcore doesn’t spoil their grindcore recipe on Bad Representation.

Long Island, New York’s Dog Food are on the menu if you have a hankering for stompy riffs mixed with rapid-fire grindcore precision.

Czech out the latest release from European grind duo Impulsealer!