Grindcore

To help us remember which bands we should look for in the future, and which ones we should forget, we’re beginning this feature here, like so many review magazines before us, in a similar vein to the classic one-sentence killer reviews. The cutoff for quality in this section stops at ‘mediocre’ — but anything that is REALLY good will be re-examined in depth, in the future.

At best: This is for our readers to find some interesting newcomers. ~Ed.

Famine Year (Finland) – This almost seems to be rehashed from the same batch as all of the others who take part in the “Fellowship” of Discharge: crusty d-beat. Their saving grace, however, is that their songs will vary in intensity at all the appropriate times.

AB:NORM (Germany) – Brutal songs with sonorous riffage. AB:NORM also features the vocalist from cult German grind band, BLOOD. Their releases can be downloaded at their official website(!)

Freewill (Indonesia) – There seems to be a lot of influence from Terrorizer and early Kataklysm. Cascading percussion and guitars weave themselves into unrelenting, forceful, AND coherent passages — Go check them out!