grindcore

Our resident birdbrains pecks on new releases from Loss, The Holy Circle, Danzig and Full of Hell. 

Demonization
Lock’n like Dokken
dB rating: 9/10

Our resident birdbrains pecks on new releases from Casket Huffer, Altar of Betelgeuze and Necrowretch. 

A year is just a year. But oh what a year it was: Death, Napalm Death, Mayhem, Bathory, Sodom, Anthrax and more!

Consisting of members from both Wake and Seminary, easily two of Canada’s best grind bands, you may be skeptical about this turn towards “Blackened doom.” But their five-song debut goes way beyond what anyone is expecting. 

The Doctor is in. Anything involving black metal convention is out. 

Pain Tank is on a killing frenzy, or at least exposing one, on 97,901,726 Confirmed Kills.

Clenched Fist, the all-star Sepultura cover band featuring members of Pig Destroyer, Agoraphobic Nosebleed and Misery Index will perform at the post-Decibel Metal And Beer Fest show.

Benighted unleash a grinding death metal assault against you on their new album, Necrobreed. 

Lock Up has a new vocalist but haven’t slowed down with “Desolation Architect.” 

The next 20 copies sold of Choosing Death (hardcover and paper) and the Decibel Hall of Fame Anthology Vol. II will be signed by Decibel editor in chief Albert Mudrian. 

In which our resident birdbrain pecks on new releases Avulsed, Grave Digger and the Drip.

Ulcerate, Whores, Gatecreeper, Full of Hell/Nails, Gendo Ikari and everything else Waldo pecked on in 2016. 

On new track “Anathema,” the Drip only grind in drops, but that’s when the hammer really drops. 

This three song tour de force is what happens when Full of Hell and Nails join forces for a split 7-inch.

The Whole of the Law
Total fucking destruction
dB rating: 8/10

Be sure to check these sets out when Southwest Terror Fest goes down next weekend.

Venom Prison‘s debut full length is a pissed off, forceful death metal album.

Pocho Aztlan
Larga vida a Juan Brujo
dB rating: 8/10

If any band has endured and persevered through extreme music’s potential for divisive conservatism and pedantic nit-picking, it’s the Locust.

In which our favorite DC-area grindcore staple interviews our favorite 67-year-old grandmother who fronts a grindcore band. You’re welcome. 

Experience pure sonic violence with Trap Them‘s Crown Feral, then recover from your beatdown with a macabre arts & (darker hand)crafts lesson from vocalist Ryan McKenney. 

Italy’s Hierophant unleash a palpable burst of anger on “Forever Crucified” as they prepare to release Mass Grave. 

The noise grind attack of Unyielding Love will tear us apart. 

The Grindmother – the Canadian trio fronted by a 67-year-old grandmother – are back with a Sepultura cover. And Decibel‘s got it here. 

It may be the punkest thing to ever happen to an album in Decibel’s Hall of Fame: It was bootlegged after its release by the band themselves.

Even Napalm Death had growing pains. Our latest Justify Your Shitty Taste defends that era of the legendary grindcore band.

Did you catch Napalm Death in the past couple of months when they rolled through your town? If not, you missed one of the most eclectic tour packages of 2016. We caught up with vocalist Mark “Barney” Greenway ahead of the band’s first of two sold-out shows at Slim’s in San Francisco to talk about how the “Savage Imperial Death March Tour” came about, the logistics of grindin’ for six straight weeks and, of course, the three-ring circus that is American politics.

War master Andy Whale re-enters the realm of chaos for death/grind victory with Memoriam.

Equal parts bluesy sludge and trudging grind, Musket Hawk bring the slow despondency necessary on the most hungover of afternoons.