grindcore

  • GRIDLINK – Orphan by Hydra Head Records GRIDLINK – 3 Miles Below Sea Level by Hydra Head Records It’s not often that I’m in a grindcore mood, so why not show off a band that took their sweet time growing on me: Gridlink. I’ve been conscious of the band’

  • Wormrot’s brand of grindcore will probably strike most people as being old school. Their dedication to thrash metal riffs and a natural-sounding production style calls back to the genre’s salad days in the 80s. But not everything here is from the past. The band’s intensity and speedy

  • Rotten Sound’s Curse is a loud record. No one can deny that. They have the speedy blast beats, vocals, and guitar riffs every grindcore band should have. However, this LP loses a lot of potential energy in its extremely regulated recording. I know the in-the-moment sound bands like Terrorizer

  • dirge

    “Principle of Puppet Warfare” MP3 Singapore’s Wormrot will be dropping an LP titled Dirge on Earache Recs this May. In the meantime, the label has been awesome enough to allow fans to download the entire album for free on their website–for the price of an e-mail address of

  • album

    Thanks to the good people at Lambgoat, Rotten Sound’s sixth album is up for streaming. Cursed is a pretty unforgiving grindcore record, loaded with a whirlwind of drums and distorted bass. The one shining ray of light in this pit of despair is the high-gloss production on this LP.