MarkhantonioYeatts

Interesting review Cabbie. Problem with grindcore is there are a variety of styles within that sub-genre. I happen to really like a lot of grindcore, guess I've been on a bit of a grindcore kick of late, but I hated this. Hate might be too strong, but I didn't like it. This doesn't sound like the same sub-genre as most of the grindcore I generally listen to. I guess I lean more toward the extreme end of gc and I prefer some death metal mixed in with my grindcore. Not saying Gridlink's been mis-genred, it's definitely grindcore, just not the 'good' grindcore. I will now proceed to go on a grindcore binge this evening.
 
NP: Sickrecy - Salvation Through Tyranny, Sweden 2022 - ahhh, the good grindcore
 
Internal Rot - Grieving Birth, Melbourne Aus 2020 grindcore
 
I understand taste is subjective mec, and I'm not discrediting your love of HE, but I just kept seeing you guys post Hate Eternal over and over so I thought I'd weigh in and offer my thoughts on the matter. Guess I just like the death metal that doesn't put me to sleep, that's all. And yes, we say 'fight tooth and nail' over here as well. Funny I don't like Morbid Angel either, so maybe that whole side of the death metal world is just not for me. Anything with the rapid-fire clickety drums I'm almost always going to pass on. There's just too much other death metal I really like a lot to waste time on stuff I don't. But hey, I'm glad you've found a reliable method to help you get to sleep!

Wormrot - Voices, grindcore Singapore 2016. Digging this, seems I've unfairly overlooked these dudes. There's just so may bands with Worm in their name I get them mixed up. There's a band from Spain called Wormed everyone was all ga-ga over a few years ago that I can't stand, and I guess I must've seen these guys' albums and thought they were that band. Those Spaniards Wormed are not grind though, I believe they're some type of wacky tech death thing.
 
Grindfernö - Human Stupidity, 2023, two-piece crusty grind band from Spain. Spain seems to have a high concentration of quality death/grind bands. This is one of the better ones, solid debut, hope we see more from these hombres. Although Machetazo will probably always be my favorite Spanish deathgrind band.
 
 
 
I enjoy his gig write-ups quite a bit as well, even though in most cases the band lineups for these gigs he goes to leaves much to be desired from my perspective. This particular gig I could not have stood through for all the Queen's filthy lucre. 20,000 Stab Wounds and Cattle Decap with a kiddie deathcore band sandwiched in between? Sweet creamery Jesus on a stick, please don't ever drag me to something like this! But keep the write-ups and pics coming Jon-O, us cantankerous old farts are living vicariously through your British tube riding metal adventures. I'm just waiting for the day when he finally gets stuck at Crewe Station.

Dahmer - Our Worst Recordings comp. Grindcore Quebec City, Canada 2007
 
Regurgitate - Carnivorous Erection, goregrind Sweden 2000
 

Napalm Death started out as a grindcore band, but somewhere along the line amidst all the lineup changes they veered pretty hard into death metal territory. Some of their albums sound quite different to some others, but overall I'd call them deathgrind. At this point in their career (1990) I'd say they were closer to death metal than they were to grindcore. Although in more recent years they've since come back to embrace the grind a bit more. I like Barney's vox, think they add a lot to their sound, as does his stage demeanor. But then I tend to like most things with hardcore overtones, whereas you say that you don't. But fair enough, that's cool, absolutely nothing wrong with not liking stuff whatever the reason may be, baseless or otherwise. But still I don't see why anyone who's into the more extreme end of metal wouldn't like this. Watch a few minutes of this and tell me you don't want to get in there and mix it up with those kids (who are probably all old men now 34 years later) or jump around your cubicle and start breaking shit.
 
Napalm Death - Live Corruption, Filmed at the Salisbury Arts Centre, UK, 30th June 1990. One of the best extreme metal live performances ever recorded imho.
 

THE WALKER BROTHERS - The Electrician
 

THE WALKER BROTHERS - The Electrician
 

CHAOSDOGS - Profane Charge
 
OGRISH DEMEANOR - Primal, Violent And Dehumanizing
 
WAYS TO THE GRAVE - Cult Of Reapers
 

CHAOSDOGS - Profane Charge
 
OGRISH DEMEANOR - Primal, Violent And Dehumanizing
 
WAYS TO THE GRAVE - Cult Of Reapers
 

PRONG - Working Man
 

PRONG - Working Man
 

PRONG - Working Man
 

Blasphemathory - War, Blasphemy & Divine Destruction
Bolt Thrower - Those Once Loyal
Sentient Divide - Haunted By Cruelty
 

BLOOD - Impulse to Destroy
 

Cryptae - Capsule, 2022 "hallucinatory new album from Dutch experimental raw death metal absurdity Cryptae... their most aberrant, delirious and labyrinthine (master)piece of anti-music yet." They're not really that terribly absurd, definitely in line with most of the Sentient Ruin roster. Doc might dig, Doc might not. Got this rec from Afterbirth Cody who has more eclectic tastes than I do. But I like it.
 
Cabinet - Hydrolysated Ordination, listened last night, now again this morning, new Cabinet is siiiiick. You can keep your Judus Preest, I'll stick with this as my top album for March.
 

Warloghe - Three Angled Void
 

Father Befouled - Crowned In Veneficum, 2022. What a marvelous idea. I love FB, one of my absolute favorite death metal bands of the last 20 years.
 
Convocation - No Dawn For the Caliginous Night, death/doom Finland 2023. FFO Skepticism. This isn't quite funeral paced, but it's pretty close at times. Not often in the mood for 'slowcore' but when I am this hits the spot. Love the well placed ethereal female backing vocals juxtaposed against the paternal befoulment filth I just digested.
 
 

INTEGRITY - Live
 

INTEGRITY - Live
 

Fossilization - Leprous Daylight, São Paulo death 2023, still getting plenty of spins 6 months later
 
Seraphic Entombment - Sickness Particles Gleam, Alabama death, in keeping with the black & white theme
 

I think hideous pretty well sums it up. I wouldn't ever be able to click on something that horrific, not a minor complaint by any means.
It's either blackened or progressive. They've gotta pick one, can't be both. Got curious so I went and dialed up a video, and holy shit it's worse than I even imagined. They're like a fucking power metal Arch Enemy hybrid. Nothing remotely progressive or blackened happening here, unless just having keyboards counts as being progressive. Who listens to this shit? This is worse than Moonlight Sorcery even. I might have nightmares.
Yeah last year's Moonlight Sorcery was pretty fucking terrible. Wretched even. Lame power metal with bm shrieks is about right. And I had gotten all excited beforehand because they're Finnish. I really think the Finnish metal authorities should confiscate their passports and deport them for that abomination.
Faethom
 
 
NP: Disciples of Mockery - Prelude to Apocalypse, New Jersey death, their only full length album from 1999. Craig Pillard of Incantation fame on guitar and vox. These guys certainly spared no expense on their cover art
 

No idea King Gizz had pumped out another one. Not sure how anyone can keep up with these guys. Seems they drop something every few months. I'll have to check this out.
Golgothan Remains - Perverse Offerings to the Void
Golgothan Remains - Adorned in Ruin
 

Necroccultus - Encircling the Mysterious Necrorevelation, Mexico 2005
 
Stench of Decay - Stench of Decay, 2012 Finland
 

Goatpenis - Apocalypse War, 2016
 
Warpvomit - Barbaric Triumph of Evil, Seattle 2016
 

INDUSTRY - A Self Portrait At The Stage Of Totalitarian Domination Of All Aspects Of Life
 

Last two...
 
Goatpenis - Decapitation Philosophy, Brazil 2020
 
Zeke - Death Alley, Seattle 2001