“Get in, loser. We’re going grinding…” That’s what Septic Worship says to me from the first instant, the opening five-second blastfest of the wonderfully titled “Inauguration Of Septic Tank Release And Epic Faecal Sludge Chug-Off.” Blastbeats, overlapping burping vomitous growls, squalling guitars, no real riff save just cacophony… Ah, the sounds of grindcore… Release date: March 29, 2024. Label: Me Saco Un Ojo / Dark Descent. From there, though, that last bit resolves itself quite nicely into something bigger and better: Septage is nothing if not deceptively riffy, throwing plenty of carving ..read more

Thankfully, I’ve never yet had to deal with hemorrhoids, but I hear they’re a total pain in the ass… Boom. Mic drop. Thanks. I’m here all week. Release date: March 15, 2024. Label: Extremely Rotten / Headsplit. But seriously, folks. These bloody Portland, Oregon-based death-grinders (with members also in Cemetery Lust and Nekro Drunkz) bring you their first full-length, after Demo 2023 last year, and damned if Raw Materials Of Decay doesn’t seriously kick some… well, you know what. It’s appropriately raw and incredibly nasty, like the Good Lord intended; filled with blastbeating mayhem and yet ..read more

It’s important, dear readers, that, as we all wander through this blistering hellscape of life, we take a moment each day to stop and smell the… smallpox? Formed in Bangkok in 2006, Smallpox Aroma has only just now gotten around to their first full-length record, though they’ve managed an array of splits and a strong EP in 2017’s Repulsive Pleasures. Those early splits were repackaged as Collection Of Vivisection, also in 2017, an exhaustive retrospective of the band’s first decade – and at 68 tracks of programmed-drum goregrinding in just a little over an hour’s time, it’s also a bit of an ex ..read more

Before he was the drummer in Axis Of Despair, Anders Jakobson was the drummer in a little ol’ band called Nasum. And before he was the drummer in Nasum, he was the bass player in Nasum, in the earliest days of that band, with Rikard Alriksson on drums. And before those two were in Nasum – and before anyone was, since Nasum was yet to exist – they were most (sometimes all) of Necrony, a relatively short-lived grindcore-slash-death-metal outfit from Örebro. In a short run through the early 90s, Necrony managed two demos, one early and one late, alongside a single, a full-length, and an EP of cov ..read more

How you feel about this first FesterDecay full-length ultimately comes down to how you feel about two things: Originality. And Carcass. If you’re one of those who demands the former, then it’s very likely that Reality Rotten To The Core isn’t for you, because it absolutely reeks of putrefaction. In some ways, it’s like it was transported from Ritch Bitch Studio-circa-1988 to present-day Japan through a temporal wormhole opened by a malfunctioning vocal effects processor. And then, beyond that, if you’re one of the poor soulless bastards who doesn’t love Carcass… well, there may be no hope for ..read more

Just think: While you’ve been getting down and out about the liars and the dirty, dirty cheats of the world, you could’ve been getting down to this “Sick Beat Arrhythmia.” Release date: April 22, 2023. Label: Obscene Productions Coming from nasty grindcore luminaries Malignant Tumour, Pathologist, and Ingrowing (among many notable others), these players gonna play, play, play you some pathological goregrind, and now two albums in, Sick Sinus Syndrome is only getting sicker. Like the rest of the sub-sub-style, Sick Sinus Syndrome’s particular sickness is heavily indebted to Carcass c. 1989, bu ..read more

Somewhere towards the beginning of the long line of teachers who are disappointed in what I’ve done with my life, there’s one who attempted to teach me French, starting in my earliest school days. For eight years, she tried, and now, three decades after that, I can remember how to say “my name is…” and “please” and “thank you,” and almost nothing else… And so, confronted with confounding French and reminded of my failure in spite of her best efforts, I turned to the all-knowing for a translation of this particular album title. According to Google, L’Innommable Remugle et la M​é​lop​é​e Cavernu ..read more

It must be some serious pressure for a young band to pick exactly the perfect gross-out name, but this trio from Dayton, Ohio, has certainly pulled out an all-timer with a portmanteau of “moist” and “mucus.” Tell me that ain’t icky, and I’ll call you a liar. What the name “Moiscus” also is a bit goofy, but that’s okay because the band Moiscus are themselves a bit goofy. That’s just one more part of their appeal. Release date: February 17, 2023. Label: Headsplit / Gurgling Gore This beautifully bright-green blast of bloody blasting is Moiscus’ fourth standalone effort (alongside a split with Pu ..read more

Wait, wait. Stop. STOP. Before we get too far into this – or before we get into at all, in fact – credit where it’s due, and let’s call some attention to the undeniable: Release date: February 3, 2023. Label: Extremely Rotten Productions . In the pantheon of gore-metal song titles, where pathology and decay sit sickly beside body-horror torture and just plain ickiness, there are scant few titles of the simple caliber of “Giblet Excreter.” It’s not flashy, really; in fact, it’s downright pithy, especially compared to the medical dictionary verbosity of many gorefiends. It’s just two short words ..read more