Powerviolence
Track Premiere: Stomach – “Double Lung Transplant”
September 26, 2023 Adem Tepedelen
Hear the gut-churning sludge and misery of new Chicago duo Stomach.
Album Premiere: Blast No.1 – Blastbeat Tribute To Type O Negative
September 4, 2023 Sean Frasier
Blast No.1 – Blastbeat Tribute To Type O Negative features 19 fast and filthy versions of Type O classics. Get bloody kissed by a fist.
Interview: Zulu Frontman Anaiah Lei Discusses the Band’s Debut Album, A New Tomorrow
February 27, 2023 Emily Bellino
Zulu talk their new album, A New Tomorrow, before its release this Friday.
Full Album Stream: Endorphins Lost – “Night People”
February 1, 2023 Emily Bellino
Rage out with Endorphins Lost and their new album, Night People.
Album Premiere: Horrible Earth – ‘Weakened By Civilization’
February 1, 2023 Addison Herron-Wheeler
Hear Boston powerviolence/grindcore attack Horrible Earth accelerate the end times on their new record, Weakened By Civilization.
Blast Worship: no_clip
January 5, 2023 Gene Meyer
Hear California fastcore force no_clip blast first and ask questions later on Backrooms.
Blast Worship’s Top 10 Grindcore Songs of 2022
January 3, 2023 Gene Meyer
2022 might finally be over, but that doesn’t mean you don’t want one final mirco list in your life, right? So here are the Top 10 Grindcore Songs of the last 12 months.
Video Premiere: Ground – ‘Indurated Juvenescence’
September 19, 2022 Emily Bellino
Ground take on mental health with candor and blast beats.
Blast Worship: Endorphins Lost
August 10, 2022 Gene Meyer
Hear Seattle grinders Endorphins Lost lean into their punkier side on new EP Head Sick.
Blast Worship: Triac
June 7, 2022 Gene Meyer
Veteran Baltigrinders Triac channel punk fury into metallic bliss on new release Pure Joy – Numb Grief-stricken Animals.
Blast Worship: Fake Dust
March 15, 2022 Gene Meyer
There may be (at least) two Portlands, but there is only one grindcore band called Fake Dust.
Video Premiere: Catching Whiffs of Dystopia with Depleted Uranium’s “Beta Particles”
February 24, 2022 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Take a gander at a two-part video from Toronto grinders Depleted Uranium!
Dreary North Fest Announce Lineup for 2022
February 22, 2022 Gene Meyer
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: Mellow Harsher
November 9, 2021 Gene Meyer
Wisconsin grindcore trio Mellow Harsher is, um, immunized against lousy extreme music on a new split EP.
Blast Worship: Stall
October 5, 2021 Gene Meyer
Cincinnati’s Stall don’t have time to slow down via powerviolence blasts delivered in a minute or less.
Full Album Stream: Trappist / Connoisseur – “Cross Faded”
September 8, 2021 Emily Bellino
Powerviolence vets and craft beer experts Trappist get Cross Faded with Oakland powerviolence quartet Connoisseur .
Blast Worship: Ranker
September 7, 2021 Gene Meyer
West Coast powerviolence crew Ranker don’t care about your fantasy football draft.
Blast Worship: Choke
June 8, 2021 Gene Meyer
Choke‘s It’s Hard To Talk Shit, With No Fucking Teeth is the antifacist grindcore antidote to a lifetime of bullshit.
Blast Worship: Bleachdrinker
June 1, 2021 Gene Meyer
A hearty bottoms up to Bleachdrinker‘s voracious whirlwind of blast beats and D-beats.
Full Album Premiere: Waternoose – “All Pain, No Feeling”
May 4, 2021 Gene Meyer
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.
Blast Worship: Sulk
March 23, 2021 Gene Meyer
U.K. blasters Sulk do the very opposite via their eclectic, self-aware grindcore.
Blast Worship: Maxxpower
February 2, 2021 Gene Meyer
Get fully amped on Canadian powerviolence bashers MAXXPOWER
Blast Worship: Squashed Beef
January 5, 2021 Gene Meyer
Connecticut crew Squashed Beef are low on drama, high on blasts and burger puns.
Video Premiere: Thetan – “Frustration/Focused Hatred”
December 3, 2020 Bradley Zorgdrager
Watch guitarless powerviolence duo Thetan smash a pair of tracks together in their new video.
Blast Worship: HONG KONG FUCK YOU
October 13, 2020 Gene Meyer
Mexican powerviolence purveyors HONG KONG FUCK YOU are coming to the bottom row of a festival flier near you.
Blast Worship: Snarler
August 18, 2020 Gene Meyer
Nova Scotia trio Snarler deliver a bit of the ol’ ultra grindviolence.
Full Album Stream: Cyttorak – ‘Simultaneous Invocation Of Apocalyptic Harbingers’
April 29, 2020 Sean Frasier
Rhode Island bruisers Cyttorak summon beasts from distant worlds on their new slab of slowerviolence Simultaneous Invocation Of Apocalyptic Harbingers.
Track Premiere: ACxDC – “Copsucker”
April 9, 2020 Bradley Zorgdrager
California powerviolence purveyors ACxDC deliver first new album in six years. Get a mouthful of new single “Copsucker.”
Video Premiere: Escuela Grind – “Inspirational Significance/Hyper-Victim/Private Vice, Public Benefit”
February 4, 2020 Dutch Pearce
Get to know brand-new grinders Escuela Grind through this absurd and gory infomercial for the first three tracks on their forthcoming debut LP, Indoctrination.