Grind My Gears – Chepang: Free-Form Grind, Free From Grind Matt MacLennan June 11, 2020 Grind My Gears, Listen To This! I've got a backlog of grind and violence bands that I need to cast the spotlight of GmG on but I've been neglecting the one band I believe to be the future of extreme music; or at least the closest representati... Read More...
Grind My Gears – Blasting In Perpetuity Matt MacLennan May 14, 2020 Grind My Gears So, we're still locked up. We're still thinking about learning new hobbies then giving them up after a day. Netflix has run out of original content and is secretly mining Amazon for their shows. But there is st... Read More...
Grind My Gears – The One With the Caustic Wound Record Matt MacLennan April 16, 2020 Grind My Gears Honestly, there'd be more to this weeks Grind My Gears if I could be fucked but I'm losing my marbles and all sense of productivity. Isn't it just as well that there's at least one record released in the last w... Read More...
Grind My Gears – No Snappy Title This Week (They All Got Panic Bought) Matt MacLennan March 11, 2020 Grind My Gears, Listen To This! As Europe begins its long-overdue descent into a pandemic paranoia, the Grind keeps Grinding here at Heavy Blog. From my frozen mountain hideaway, I've picked some rowdy and punky grind and powerviolence acts t... Read More...
Grind My Gears – Order Now At 666-555-6969 Matt MacLennan February 6, 2020 Grind My Gears, Listen To This! We're going to do something a bit different today - I've been joined by Janice from Heavy Blog HR. She'll be monitoring the content I'm contributing and, if we're lucky, she might pipe in with her sanitary, mil... Read More...
Grind My Gears – No More Resolutions Matt MacLennan January 23, 2020 Grind My Gears I'm sick of the sound of my own voice, so I won't be grandstanding or trying to make sweeping statements about major events or big issues in the intros to Grind My Gears this year. This column is basically a pl... Read More...
Grind My Gears – 2019 Breakdown (Calm Down, Not That Kind) Matt MacLennan December 12, 2019 Best of 2019, Grind My Gears I've used and abused the Grind My Gears column for a few years now, writing blast blurbs while taking the hits and shits of life as they come. There have been fistfuls of scuzzy riffs and eardrums perforated by... Read More...
Grind My Gears – No Turkey, Thanks. Matt MacLennan November 26, 2019 Grind My Gears, Listen To This! Though there are fewer celebrations in the UK this week than say, somewhere in middle America where they eat bullets and shit hot dogs, that doesn't mean this sullen, sodden Scot can't take a moment to be be th... Read More...
Grind My Gears – Early AOTY Prediction Because Fuck November and December Matt MacLennan November 14, 2019 Grind My Gears, Listen To This! In a moment of gaping shock, my jaw nearly hit my chest when I got tagged in a most unexpected post. One of the sneakiest best trios OF ALL DAMN TIME were ruining the rest of my year with their October release ... Read More...
EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE: Stream Three Tracks From Psychoneurosis/Herida Profunda/Suffering Quota Split Matt MacLennan November 5, 2019 Grind My Gears, Premieres Not just one. Not even two. Three! Three brand new microdoses of pissed off, cathartic grinding from mainland Europe. Like an edgy cocktail of swirling football violence and brutalist poetry, we have a track fr... Read More...
