"I had drifted o’er seas without ending, Under sinister grey-clouded skies That the many-fork’d lightning is rending, That resound with hysterical cries; With the moans of invisible daemons that out of the green waters rise." -H.P. Lovecraft Nemesis     Cautious and shrewd readers might recall that the last words written within this blog about the Québécois Chadhel was a January 2023 entry regarding the release of the prior year's Failure//Downfall. They have consistently been active for the better portion of a decade. The band has produced no less than one release an ..read more

    Last we heard from Vermintide was 2022 and the band had released their debut EP, Meaningless Convulsions, the year prior. The band's budding brand of Israeli slamming death-grind was just congealing as was the band's line-up. Meaningless Convulsions was an admirable and propelling first entry. You can read my review of that release here.  Since then the band has released two full-length albums—2023's Ashamed Of My Species and early 2024's Virus Pedigree.     Ashamed Of My Species saw Vermintide as a more cultivated and developed dea ..read more

State Department spokesperson, Christine Shelley:  "We have every reason to believe that acts of genocide have occurred." Reuters correspondent, Alan Elsner:  "How many acts of genocide does it take to make genocide?”  State Department spokesperson, Christine Shelley:  “Alan, that’s just not a question that I’m in a position to answer." -During a Clinton Administration press briefing    in regards to the genocide in Rwanda.  June 10, 1994     Danish grinders, Genocide Doctrine, released their debut full-length, Sleepers, ou ..read more

    As I recall, around this time last year I was struggling trying to narrow down my 2022 top ten favorite grindcore releases due to the exceptionally strong output of material. Once again, I find myself in similar straits this year with yet another crop of amazing records to scour through. With 2023 being a year full of economical and political strife, a string of great albums to listen to is the least that can be afforded to us. What was truly unexpected was a collection of releases from bands that hadn't put material out for several years. Bands like Bandit and Organ Dealer fina ..read more

"A concept release that relates the story of a man, who is deeply convinced that machines are controlling the world he lives in, feeding on people to grow stronger. Under their influence, he feels constantly observed. He tries to run and hide, in a never-ending race."     Grind-O-Matic issued that Orwellian blurb above in regards to their latest digital EP—2023's, Influencing Machine. And I know what some of you are thinking, but a grindcore concept album isn't unheard of, yet it isn't exactly the norm in a genre that boasts songs that are just seconds long. Grind-O-Matic is makin ..read more

         For the sake of the uninitiated, Irving Lopez is a talented guitarist and recording engineer living and performing out of the Dallas, Texas area. I say this as a formality because grindcore listeners and Return to the House of Grindcore readers should already be familiar with his name in at least some regards. Lopez has graced the liner notes on more albums, EP's and splits than even I am aware of—including the likes of Phobia, Noisear and PLF. Globally, he should be recognized from his work in Cognizant, his work with Takafumi Matsubara  ..read more

    Straight out of the fields and rolling hills of Carroll County, Maryland lies the dirty and uncapped powerviolence paraphernalia that is Dope Needle—a low-fi, high blasting, classic sounding powerviolence that mainlines an IV of PV directly into your ear holes. The band's side of this split consists of three and a half minutes of noisy Spazz worship nestled in-between chill hip-hop sampled clips from artist such as Necro, DKKAY, and HEEZ140. A very common treatment for modern powerviolence bands and despite the numerous powerviolence clichés, Dope Needle ar ..read more

    What's more exciting and appealing than professional wrestling? From Mexico's lucha libre to Canada's Hart Foundation, the cowbell kickoff of clean kayfabe competitive combat is for some the height of entertainment. It's a modern amalgam of clashing gladiators in a crowded coliseum and a Greek tragedy holding spectacle in an encircled amphitheater, brought to life in your home's living room like an in-ring telenovela. The conflict between larger than life baby-faces and sinister heels embodies the timeless morality tales of good versus evil via the most electrifying t ..read more

    Full disclosure time: I don't know a single thing about Grindfernö. I have never heard of them before. I don't know who is in the band, where they are from or when they were formed. Occasionally, when reviewing releases it happens that I'm not privy to any of that pertinent information. Even my cursory Google searches of Grindfernö all came up fruitless. Usually when doing these reviews I listen to the release for weeks in addition to the band's entire available back catalog. I don't even know if Grindfernö has a catalog, frankly. Although, back ..read more

     The After The Fall Of Man/Hongo Atroz: Double Mushroom Attack is a lengthily named international split between two blast heavy grind-gore bands from either side of the Atlantic—France's Blue Holocaust and California's Morgue Breath. I was a little apprehensive about this release as I am not the biggest fan of certain ardent strains of goregrind and I have never even heard of Blue Holocaust prior to the submission of this release for review. So it looks like we're going to discover this doomsday duo together.         Blue Holocaust is a long runni ..read more