Number Five: Gross Pizza – Pepperonivirus 2: Pizza Variant “One step on the balls… Two steps on the dick” is perhaps my favourite lyrical passage of the year, and this is all thanks to this amazing and funny discovery I made earlier this year. Indulge.
Number Four: Rat Punch – It’s a Drink VIDEO It’s a Drink is fast-paced and chaotic and heavy hitting; it’s all we need from a grindcore album!
Number Three: Full of Hell – Garden of Burning Apparitions VIDEO
Number Two: Diploid – I Am Yours, and I Am Here Again VIDEO
Number One: Many-Eyed Seraphim – Many-Eyed Seraphim VIDEO I’ve raved about this one already , so I shan’t indulge. Just know that this is the best grind album of all times.
Notable Releases Hover over foreign scripts for pronunciation and romanization.
Friday, 5 March Regional Justice Center – Crime and Punishment 13:23Seattle, Washington
Tracklist (click to display) 1. TAUGHT TO STEAL [01:03]
2. DUST OFF [01:20]
3. ABSENCE [01:16]
4. INHUMAN JOY [01:53]
5. SICKNESS ON DISPLAY [01:29]
6. CONQUEST [01:14]
7. CONCRETE [01:18]
8. SOLVENT [00:55]
9. VIOLENT CRIME [00:55]
10. …AND PUNISHMENT [02:00]
Friday, 12 March Twitch of the Death Nerve – Beset by False Prophets 46:21London, UK
Tracklist (click to display) 1. The Wages of Faith [03:36]
2. Facadism [03:21]
3. At the Trial of the Exhumed Pope [03:39]
4. Confounded by Apophenia [02:23]
5. Intro (live) [00:49]
6. The Locard Principle (live) [03:11]
7. A Resting Place for the Wrathful (live) [03:19]
8. Ochlocratic Prostration (live) [03:19]
9. Apotropaic Scarification (live) [03:35]
10. Of Rutting Beasts and Drifting Herds (live) [03:10]
11. This Sickening Frailty (live) [02:47]
12. A Witness to Ruination (live) [03:36]
13. A Hundred and Twenty Days in Sodom (live) [03:28]
14. Promulgation of Infected Innards (live) [06:23]
Friday, 7 May Feed Them Death – Negative 29:48Genoa, Italy
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Superficialibi [02:32]
2. Minima Moralia [02:27]
3. Displeasure in Pleasure [02:49]
4. Eulogic (Negative Dialektik) [Feat. Derhead & LaColpa] [05:02]
5. Our Cruelty to Reality (Evokism IV) [05:26]
6. An Objective Tragedy [02:50]
7. The Underworld Unveiled [03:26]
8. The Idiotic Yearning for More (Barbarism of Perfection) [05:16]
Friday, 28 May Vorvaň – Awakened 56:01Russia
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Hyenas [02:34]
2. Paths We Have Strayed From [04:45]
3. Niebo [04:34]
4. Shaped by the Void [05:11]
5. Red Mistress [02:28]
6. Superscum [04:19]
7. The Reason [02:52]
8. Of Those Who Bled [05:59]
9. Stalemate [06:32]
10. The Greatest Threat [03:37]
11. By Nomads Expelled [04:19]
12. Anhalter Bahnhof [08:51]
Friday, 18 June Wanderer – Liberation from a Brutalist Existence 23:03Minneapolis, Minnesota
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Marionette [02:18]
2. Mind Leash [00:53]
3. Abrasion [02:16]
4. Bloom [02:16]
5. Decay [01:13]
6. Hellhole [02:22]
7. Simone [02:24]
8. Frost Cage [02:25]
9. Bourn [03:02]
10. Contented [03:54]
Saturday, 26 June Human Empathy Machine – Eating out of the Trough 8:35London, UK
Tracklist (click to display) 1. I Am Going To Kill My Manager [00:56]
2. Coward [00:25]
3. Your Playdough Brain [01:18]
4. Polyp Farmer [00:59]
5. Burying The Hatchet (In Your Head) [00:34]
6. Dumb Guy Zen [01:07]
7. Meat [01:01]
8. Patrick Bateman Of The Stockroom [00:46]
9. One More Pint, Then The Lobotomy [01:29]
Many-Eyed Seraphim – Many-Eyed Seraphim 20:15Denmark
Read our review.
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Metacellular Degenerating [01:42]
2. Katechic Extraction of the Infrared [00:48]
3. Expunging Internal Organs: The Subterranean Dilemma [01:44]
4. Hurled off a Cliff, I Blow in the Wind [01:14]
5. Empty Cup Spreading Dissociation [02:11]
6. The Frame Divine [02:49]
7. Opus of Abandoned Reasoning [01:13]
8. Phallic in Design [01:19]
9. Vortexal Idealism [01:13]
10. Entangled In Forms, Deepen Unknowing [06:02]
Wednesday, 11 August Imperium – Hatred Incarnate 21:46United States
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Heart of Scorn [01:16]
2. Attack Assail [01:29]
3. Hatred Incarnate [03:53]
4. Violence Enforcer [02:35]
5. Iron Gates [03:36]
6. Might Makes Right [03:13]
7. Deathwish Ultimatum [02:44]
8. World Detonation [04:16]
Friday, 13 Septage – Septisk Eradikasyon 11:41Copenhagen, Denmark
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Of Gangrene Limbs [03:05]
2. Perpetual Fetid Odor [02:42]
3. Sick Possessions [01:55]
4. Simmered in Mephitis [03:59]
Friday, 20 Infinite Hex – Simulacrum & Stimuli 29:06Wellington, New Zealand
Tracklist (click to display) 1. xeno_encabulator.exe [02:01]
2. Tragedy + Time = Comedy [00:47]
3. Sin Cos Tan [02:15]
4. Knuckle Draggers Inc. [01:30]
5. Deceased Due To Operator Error [00:46]
6. Gleaming The Tetrahedron [00:41]
7. Incorrect Password, One Attempt Remaining [01:00]
8. Slow-Roasted Republican In A White Whine Source [01:37]
9. Jakob’s Escalator [02:08]
10. A Good Hill To Die On [01:31]
11. Jeffergenics [00:34]
12. Axel F Has Entered The Chat [00:36]
13. The End Is The Beginning (Bridgette Exits The Bardo) [02:25]
14. Where Brain Cells Go To Die [08:05]
15. Total Void Ghasm [03:10]
Monday, 30 August Anal Puff – Gramissimum 36:40Saint Petersburg, Russia
Tracklist (click to display) 1. BAD TEACHER [01:21]
2. BLACK PORTAL [03:22]
3. Bipolar Disorder [03:44]
4. SMOKE [03:22]
5. VIRUS [04:50]
6. КРИК ДУШИ [02:54]
7. МЫ ЛИШЬ ПЫЛЬ [04:00]
8. ROCK-OIL [05:51]
9. MURDER [07:16]
Friday, 3 September Blind Equation – Life Is Pain 21:54Illinois
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Lcd Dem [01:53]
2. _BLUR [02:01]
3. :reconnect: [01:09]
4. johncenafunnymeme.exe [01:24]
5. Still Dying [01:09]
6. >disconnect< [01:30] 7. Shortages II [Ft. ZOMBIESHARK!] [01:39] 8. 666 forever [01:19] 9. Pain [Ft. Natty Gray] [02:31] 10. We're Just Fine [Ft. Hot Lettuce!] [01:55] 11. https://xboxonecollab.net [00:34] 12. loss_is_4ever [00:31] 13. Life V [04:19]
Diploid – I Am Yours, and I Am Here Again 24:47Melbourne, Australia
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Falling [02:06]
2. There Was Little to Drag Out [00:42]
3. God’s Injunction [00:26]
4. Disease Carrier [01:11]
5. Abominable Licentiousness [01:01]
6. Death March [00:51]
7. Failure to Deradicalise [01:00]
8. The World Is Overflowing With Sorrow [02:34]
9. False Repentant [01:24]
10. Vertical Chamber [00:25]
11. Scorched Earth [01:16]
12. Muselmann [01:16]
13. His Arms Bound [01:43]
14. Empathy [01:19]
15. A Mountain of Charred Corpses [00:41]
16. Relapsing Exhaustion [02:43]
17. Incomplete Skyline [01:18]
18. Active Shooter [02:51]
Friday, 1 October Full of Hell – Garden of Burning Apparitions 20:45Ocean City, Maryland
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Guided Blight [00:58]
2. Asphyxiant Blessing [01:56]
3. Murmuring Foul Spring [01:25]
4. Derelict Satellite [03:15]
5. Burning Apparition [01:33]
6. Eroding Shell [00:52]
7. All Bells Ringing [01:12]
8. Urchin Thrones [01:25]
9. Industrial Messiah Complex [01:27]
10. Reeking Tunnels [02:06]
11. Non-Atomism [01:06]
12. Celestial Hierarch [03:30]
Friday, 15 Rat Punch – It’s a Drink 16:58Knoxville, Tennessee
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Rat Dad in a Garbage Can [00:44]
2. Litter Kink [01:01]
3. A Sour Caffeinated Blue Raspberry Alcoholic Seltzer [00:32]
4. Black Metal Facebook Groups are Really Funny [01:04]
5. Turbo Octane Maximum Charge High Performance Traffic Jam [00:54]
6. Snakies in the Grass [01:45]
7. Nightmare Ants [01:32]
8. Piss Yourself [01:00]
9. A Dark Room, a Pen, 3 Strobe Lights, 13 Job Applications, and One Hour [01:03]
10. DUI (We Don’t Mean It) [01:41]
11. Squauking Anathemata From the Transdimensional Portal of Thermotoxinceneration [02:03]
12. Riff City [01:49]
13. Golfin With Dolphins as Performed by Rat Punch [01:50]
Friday, 22 Gummo – A Fresh Breath on the Neck 21:47Lille, France
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Where Was Gondor [01:34]
2. A Fresh Breath On The Neck [00:59]
3. Kreak Krake Kraken [01:19]
4. A Rope Under A Bridge [01:07]
5. Blast Beat & Red Wine [01:03]
6. Haters [02:00]
7. Die Incel Die [01:09]
8. Bullshit Job [00:55]
9. You’ll Pay The Bill To The Styx [01:52]
10. Jayjay [01:09]
11. Where Are The Girls [00:47]
12. Clean Your Scene [00:49]
13. Change My Mind [00:58]
14. Vomit & Drink Again [01:13]
15. Mikee The Rusk [00:02]
16. Anas K [01:09]
17. Prime Time Sexual Assault [01:38]
18. Dr Hill Is A Pervert [02:04]
Friday, 29 October Bloodmouth – Unmanned 18:24Canberra, Australia
Tracklist (click to display) 1. DRAGGED ACROSS THE THRESHOLD [01:17]
2. SPOILED GAZE [01:32]
3. MATSUTAKE INHERITANCE [01:32]
4. THE NAME OF A DOG [01:18]
5. FLESH CEREMONY [00:57]
6. TOMB OF THE STOAT [01:50]
7. ZOOTROTIC CONVULSIONS [01:05]
8. COPCROCALYPSE 1312 [02:07]
9. PNEUMATIC INTERNALS [01:27]
10. WITH PLIERS [01:27]
11. PANGOLIN DEATH SQUAD [01:33]
12. SHARPENING STONE [02:19]
Friday, 19 November Cara Neir – Pain Gel of Purification 26:05Dallas
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Spicy Sabbatical Spectrophilia [01:35]
2. Sign Here for Beef [02:03]
3. Squirrelly Saboteurs [02:17]
4. Ya One Gnarly MFer Over Here [00:35]
5. A Weasel, His Crush, and Her Prince [03:11]
6. Al Bacio [02:19]
7. We Don’t See Much of Yer Boy Anymore [01:50]
8. Get Me the Fuck Out of Here [01:14]
9. Portable Prophet [01:26]
10. Beyond the Gnar [02:20]
11. Gastrointestinal Betrayal [00:21]
12. Matthew Lillard is Pretty Fucking Great [00:09]
13. Wolverine Tears [00:42]
14. Litter Krew ft. Glitzy [01:37]
15. I Have Feelings Too You Never Think of Me [02:09]
16. Greasy Joe Marinara [02:17]
Gross Pizza – Pepperonivirus 2: Pizza Variant 4:51Boston, Massachusetts
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Carbo Load [00:55]
2. Adopting Your Kids / Garlic Bread Beat [00:32]
3. Yeast Infection Chip Dip [00:20]
4. Obituary Section Mind Palace [00:28]
5. Boner Broth [00:41]
6. Gently Placing My Teacher’s Nose Into His Brain [00:37]
7. An Entire Wine Bottle Full of Ground Down Bones [00:43]
8. Team Battleship [00:35]
Teeth – Finite 21:10Los Angeles, California
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Garden of Eyes [07:21]
2. Dreamless Hieroglyphs [02:15]
3. Concubine [02:17]
4. The Fog of Futility [04:10]
5. Scornful Nexus [05:07]
Friday, 3 December I Shot the Duck Hunt Dog – For Derek 16:10Jacksonville, Florida
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Start Screen [02:21]
2. Peach is One Dumb Bitch [01:55]
3. I Sniffed Tifa’s Orthopedic Underwear [02:12]
4. Techno Viking [02:05]
5. Flower Girls Who Don’t Put Out Get Stabbed [01:29]
6. Tetris Doesn’t Have Shit on Dr. Robotnik’s Mean Bean Machine [01:54]
7. Solid Snake, The Guards, and the Pass Out Game [02:26]
8. Credit Roll [01:48]
Sunday, 5 December Neon Hiss – Shame 14:47Toronto, Ontario
Tracklist (click to display) 1. OUTSIDE THE BEEHIVE [00:54]
2. EASTER 24/7 [01:10]
3. MORMON BEAUTICIAN [01:16]
4. BIO-WEAPON [00:52]
5. GONER [02:04]
6. SUPERSPREADER [00:52]
7. LURCHING [01:14]
8. THE GUEST [01:37]
9. QUELAAG [01:42]
10. SHAME [03:06]
Wednesday, 8 December Bloodtruth – The Walls of Oblivion 12:46Perugia, Italy
Tracklist (click to display) 1. The Walls of Oblivion [04:45]
2. Slaught to Eradicate [04:44]
3. The Templar Verdict [03:17]
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