Tag: Grindcore
Complete Failure – The Art Gospel Of Aggravated Assault Review
Way back at the beginning of three months ago, we here at Last Rites did a little round-up feature of records we were most looking forward to in 2013. My contribution to that article was …
Blockheads – This World Is Dead Review
To my knowledge, Blockheads is the only French grindcore band whose name doubles as a Charlie Brown insult. But that’s the only thing silly about this. Formed way back in 1992, not too long after …
Rotten Sound – Species At War Review
Species At War is eight minutes of rapid-fire, rabid, and fiery grinding, a six-song stopgap to fan the flames before the next full-length firestorm from a band that’s currently at the top of the grindcore …
Early Graves – Red Horse Review
It was always going to be a hell of a thing to listen objectively to the first Early Graves album since the tragic death of the band’s vocalist Makh Daniels in a bus accident in …
Pig Destroyer – Book Burner Review
The first few times I sat down to try and write about this new Pig Destroyer album, I will admit, friends, that I had a bad attitude. I had already formulated a number of critiques …
Noisear – Turbulent Resurgence
Albuquerque art-grinders Noisear jump from Relapse to Willowtip for this, their third full-length effort. I have to admit that I missed out on last year’s Subverting The Dominant Paradigm (to my loss, I’ve heard), and …
Afgrund – The Age Of Dumb Review
Afgrund’s straightforward Scandinavian death-infected grindcore offers little in the way of stylistic diversion from the path laid forth by the likes of Nasum and Rotten Sound, but it more than compensates for its second-wave nature …
Catheter – Southwestern Doom Violence Review
Don’t quite believe everything you read, kids – this one’s not really doom. But it is violent. Denver-based grindcore trio Catheter last released a full-length in 2005. That disc, Dimension 303, was a fun and …