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 place for me to shout about all the nasty bands…
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 thankful too. This year I’m thankful for blastbeats, dissonance, and releases I…
It’s always a little bit special when a UK band perfects a sound that Euros and North Americans have been in-charge of for x amount of time. That’s the case on Geist’s new release, Swarming Season. The Northern outfit have hit the dark, crusty hardcore nail so perfectly on the…
There have been a few surprise releases over the last fortnight, including a few featured below. I’m not entitled enough to complain about them throwing off my playlist or writing schedule, but their appearance from out of nowhere has shuffled the Grind My Gears pack a little bit; fewer words…
Yes, the title is an Infectious Grooves reference. No, I will never stop using bad puns in this feature. When I first started writing Grind My Gears way back in checks calendar but it doesn’t really matter because time is a man-made construct and bears no real impact on the…
This is one of those reviews were there could be a hundred different bands tagged for the sake of comparison and a hundred different genres stuck in for SEO purposes too. Detach The Islands’ debut record, The Burden To Become Fact, was born from one maniacal musician’s mind, pulling together…
Ten out of every hundred promo invitations grab me with the first sentence. Maybe two of them will live up to that initial hype. Today’s premiere is from a band whose brand new record did just that. Detach The Islands mix punk sensibilities with frantic, dissonant powerviolence, and panic-inducing mathcore…
2017’s Hatred came and went with little to no fanfare, and that itself is a crime against music. We didn’t cover it here, so more fool us. Not this time though. Undercurrent, the new record from Japanese hardcore miscreants Friendship, demands the attention that Hatred might have gathered, were it…
This post has been a long time coming. We’ve been dropping hints here and there for years now about the growing underground scene in Israel, a scene which I, as a native of Tel Aviv, am well poised to explore. Interestingly enough, this has become less and less obvious as…
Got ten minutes to spare? Want to ruin the rest of your day with two bands and four tracks of raw, raucous filth? Well, aren’t you in luck. Here to tighten the knot on your hump day’s noose are two of the UK’s fiercest underground acts – the crusty, claustrophobic…
