Melyxylem - Endophrenesis

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Meet Melyxylem, the UK quartet quickly making noise in the death metal scene. They deliver a ferocious blend of old-school intensity and modern technicality. Imagine relentless blast beats, razor-sharp, complex riffs, and guttural vocals that perfectly mesh brutality with precision. If you crave punishing, technical death metal, they are essential listening. 

FFO: The Black Dahlia Murder, Dying Fetus, Decapitated, Behemoth & Belphegor

Secret Cutter - ///

 

Secret Cutter is one of my all time favorite bands, and their last album, Quantum Eraser from 2018 is one of my favorite albums. So I was beyond thrilled to see they just put out a brand new record last month, and it is fucking great. Non-stop, pummeling, industrial-sounding, catchy, groovy grind. I don't know of another band that sounds like this. Check them out if you aren't familiar. This one isn't free either but it's streaming at all the usualy locations of course. 

FROM: Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

GENRE: Grind, Sludge, Powerviolence

RELEASED: March 20, 2025

ЖЭСТАЧАЙШЫхПЕРАТРАХ - B.O.G.

FROM: Batumi, GeorgiaGENRE: Powerviolence, Grind, CrustRELEASED: February 23, 2025

Hanga - Self Titled EP

FROM: ?GENRE: Crust Metal, Powerviolence, Noise/GrindRELEASED: January 24, 2025

Chiens - 1.8.7. Myself (2023)

 

FASTCORE / GRIND / PUNK / POWERVIOLENCE

Louse - Municipal Genocide (2023)

HARDCORE / CRUST PUNK / D-BEAT / GRINDCORE / POWERVIOLENCE

Eyeteeth - July 2022

Blade Of Phanes - Monoliths Of Suffering

From: Orlando, Florida
Genre: Post Hardcore, Metalcore, Grind
Released: June 19, 2019
Tracks: 5
Length: 15m 2s

This is a killer solo project. "Music for queer people to beat the shit out of their oppressors to."

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SEIZE - In The Claws Of Light

From: Hamilton, Ontario
Genre: Grind, Sludge, Hardcore
Released: August 28, 2018
Tracks: 4
Length: 13m 46s

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LETHARGY/SOCIAL INFESTATION

 goddammit i gotta pee. be right back

i have these cds and you dont. fuck you. beer and typing are not compatable. its biblical. look it up. im thinking about a minotaur for my next tayttoo. what do you think.?

LETHARGY

SOCIAL INESTATION INFESTATION

CHARMER - Demo (2018)

Hardcore / Punk / Powerviolence / Thrash / Grind from Richmond, VA

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TIME BOMB - Unforgivable (2018)

Time Bomb released their final CD in January of 2017

But here are few unreleased songs that were sitting around. 

For fans of Metal, Crust, Grind and Deathcore. 

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Swan Song CD + Penultimate EP (2017)

FUCKED - Miss Piss EP (2018)

Around 8 minutes of blasting Blackened Grindcore to make your neighbors hate you even more

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LA HESS - Demo (2017)

Nihilistic Sludge Violence from Lyon, France

Featuring members of Lovgun, Belladone and Overmars

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WANDERER - Abandoned (2018)

Metal / Crust / Dark Hardcore / Grind / Sludge / Doom from Minneapolis, MN

I loved this band's "Gloom Daze" release from a few years ago

This new one definitely keeps those same heavy ass riffs

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HEARTWORM - Distributor Of Pain (2017)

Hardcore / Grind / Metal / Crossover from Columbus, OH

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TERRIBLE AS THE DAWN - A Shadow Circuit (2017)

Two-piece Emo / Grind / Post-Hardcore & Metal from Ann Arbor, Michigan

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UNCLE RAY - Downer (2017)

PowerViolence / Noise / Grind from Windsor, Ontario

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SIBERIAN HELL SOUNDS // CONVULSING - Split LP (2017)

This split LP will melt your brain.

I've been a huge fan of Siberian Hell Sounds since their inception in 2013. I feel like they are cosmically connected to this blog as their debut EP was one of the first things I posted here and it seems they release something amazing every year for me to talk about. It's also worth mentioning that they are super cool dudes as well. That being said, it's fitting that they, along with Convulsing, close out this shit & garbage filled year with a 2 track LP that sounds like it is ushering in the dawn of the apocalypse. Siberian Hell Sounds have been evolving and mutating over the years into what you hear now on Side A. I can't say it better than the Art As Catharsis label did:

"The Breath Of The Beast marks the moment when Siberian Hell Sounds transcended the sum of its parts, and emerged as a hypnotically heavy drone machine - more a cataclysmic force majeure than music. Siberian Hell Sounds draw influence from clandestine corners of extreme music while never adhering to the tropes of any particular subgenre."

Convulsing's Side B is just as haunting and damaging, made all the more impressive by the fact that this is a band consisting solely of one Brendan Sloan of Dumbsaint. I am forever jealous of people that are able to put all of this together by themselves, and the oppressive atmosphere he is able to create here is mind boggling. Here are some more words that describe this madness far better than I could:

"Convulsing’s Engraved On Bleached Bone exists as a bridge between two selves: between despondency and turmoil of the past, and the uncertainty of the present. It is a knife at the throat of a now-defeated enemy. A bloodied howl of contempt."

"Cathartic excess" is a brilliant way to describe this release and it's two, 20-minute tracks. Do yourself a favor and find a dark room, turn this all the way up. Lie down. Try not to cry. Cry a lot. Because you deserve it.

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