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Confine – Setting Fire To The Western Hemisphere

UK grindcore outfit Confine, which features Oblivionized member Zac Broughton, has a new EP out, and you can stream it via the widget above. It’s fast, brutal, grimy, hard-hitting, and doesn’t let up for a single moment. Enjoy!

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Knelt Rote- Trespass

Utterly heavy, gruesome, and relentless is the new Knelt Rote album, which you can stream via the Bandcamp widget above.

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Anaal Nathrakh- “Of Fire, and Fucking Pigs”

Extreme metal outfit Anaal Nathrakh has a new album coming out next month via Candlelight Records, and “Of Fire, and Fucking Pigs” is an ear canal-hammering track from it. The title: Vanitas.

AN’s blend of black metal and grindcore is inspiringly potent. Not to say the music is uplifting, but it’s refreshing that they not only pack in grind’s trademark blast beats and intensity, but incorporate some the chilling, yet, beautiful melodies typically found in black metal. There are some moments where the guitars get layered into hellish walls of despair, and the vocals are pretty stomach-churning as well. Bring on the pain, I say.

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The Locust- “Sever the Toes”

The Locust – Sever the Toes from TurnStyle Films on Vimeo.

The music video above, which was put together by the good people at TurnStyle, is a promotional for the new Locust compilation. The comp features a mess of hard-to-find and out-of-print songs. Anti- has seen fit to give all this material another issue, and keep the flame burning for one of the most abrasive bands in noise. Good on them.

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False Light- Self-Titled

False light is conjuring nothing but blast beats and corpses on this new EP of theirs, which is available as a free download right now on Bandcamp. Try it out via the widget above.

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IDYLLS- “Paradise of Blood”

Brisbane band IDYLLS reaches the threshold of grindcore-inspired extremity without beating an eye on “Paradise of Blood,” and the band manages to litter the short and to-the-point sonic assault with some of the most colorful and frenetic guitar phrases I’ve heard in a while. Oddly enough, it reminds me a bit of the band An Albatross back when they were still making some waves.

To put it bluntly, this is just straight up orchestrated chaos. So much detail and planning went into this two-minute assault, but it still comes off feeling like a whirlwind of noise that’s difficult to wrap the mind around.

IDYLLS’ new album, Farewell All Joy is out now. Grab a copy on Bandcamp.

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Six Brew Bantha- Self-Titled

Some mosh-inducing powerviolence from the new, self-titled Six Brew Bantha album. Stream it via the Bandcamp widget above. The record is set to be released on To Live A Lie, but its physical release date doesn’t seem to be known at the moment. Soon?

All I know is these guys create a pretty tight and impressive whirlwind of highly enjoyable noise. “Anti-music” indeed!

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DNF- “Homesick” / “Hunger Pains”

Featuring members of Touche Amore and Trash Talk, California powerviolence outfit DNF scratches a darker kind of itch. With throttling and heavy riffs and grindcore-style blast beats, these two tracks from the quartet’s new 7″ are an all-out assault. The vocals of lead singer Kyle Takahashi are completely enraging.

Get the 7″ now on No Idea.

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Napalm Death- “Analysis Paralysis”

For the past several days, I’ve been listening to the new Napalm Death album, Utilitarian. I was sorta lukewarm on it at first, but now I’m coming around; however, I feel like this new band-directed video is throwing me back into a pit of emotional ambiguity.

For a band that’s known for its fundamental contributions to extreme music, most of the expressions throughout this video look pretty, well, unenthusiastic. Maybe the video session didn’t hold a lot of chemistry for Napalm, I dunno.

I don’t know what’s up with these weird chroma key shots combined with stock footage of avalanches and skies either. It just seems like a video that would have been produced on an extremely low budget in the 90s.

The song is decent, though.

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AusGrind Compilation

In celebration of summer in the Southern hemisphere, here’s a new compilation of Australian grindcore bands.