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Cannot wait for a new Wormrot album (this live in studio LP is a blast though). 🇸🇬 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cfe0i3CKbm4 #Grindcore

#CurrentlyListeningTo Brutal Truth - Need To Control #HeavyMetal #Grindcore 🇺🇸

Back to the Grindstone: Brutal Truth – Need to Control

By Saunders

Back to the Grindstone is a love letter feature dedicated to the appreciation of all things grindcore. This most extreme of extreme niche genres has been kicking since the late ’80s, growing in underground stature as the years march on. The rule of thumb to this feature is simple; spotlight will be on grind albums old and new, though will not include releases from the past five years, or albums previously covered on this website. Genre classics, underappreciated gems, old school and nu school will be covered, highlighting albums aimed at established fans and curious listeners interested in diving into the cesspool of the grind scene.

Despite being a big name in the history of grindcore, arguably New York’s legendary Brutal Truth is a touch underrated. While the band split in 2014, they left behind an excellent catalog of game-changing grind, highlighted by their first two LPs, 1992’s stone-cold classic, Extreme Conditions Demand Extreme Responses, and the subject of this feature piece, their experimental, wildly innovative sophomore album, 1994’s Need to Control. Already boasting an early grind classic under their belts courtesy of the nasty, precision slice of death powered grind of the debut, Brutal Truth turned the genre on its head with Need to Control. Originally, I planned to write this piece as a double whammy, Yer Metal is Olde/Grindstone feature in 2024. Unfortunately, after chasing my tail again, it didn’t eventuate. Nevertheless, seems the time is right to dust off Back to the Grindstone to applaud and unpack the grind masterwork well ahead of its time.

Need to Control both encompasses and rejects grindcore conventions. Daringly expanding on the genre’s early groundwork, while spitting jagged shards of noise, industrial, death, and punk into a brutally violent, nuanced, and thoroughly demented mutation of grind’s core values. The line-up of Kevin Sharp (vocals), Rich Hoak (drums), Brent McCarty (guitars), and legendary bass slinger Dan Lilker (ex-Anthrax, Nuclear Assault, S.O.D., Venomous Concept) captured a lightning in a bottle moment. Kicking off a bold sophomore effort with a decidedly non-grind song was a ballsy move that paid off. “Collapse” illustrates Brutal Truth’s bold adventurism outside grind parameters, its clanking industrial death stomp, dual powered vox, and ominous mid-paced grooves striking with an iron fist. Deviations from the out-and-out gold-plated grind blasters (“Black Door Mine,” “I See Red,” “Bite the Hand,” ‘Brain Trust,” etc) dominating the album fail to compromise cohesive flow or blunt the band’s visceral attacks. The atmosphere is intense, the energy electric, while the varied pacing and experimental flourishes serve to add increased potency and creativity to the finished package.

Featuring brighter melodies, hooky riffs, and groovier accessibility, the didgeridoo-adorned “Godplayer” is the closest thing to a metal hit the Brutal Truth boys ever approached. And it works a treat, still packing a heavy wallop atop a typically unhinged vocal performance from Sharp. It’s another fine example of the album’s ahead of its time class, nestled amongst the album’s overarching grindy chaos, which also includes an overdrawn noise experiment (“Ironlung”), fun punk cover (The Germs “Media Blitz”), and crust punk-grind crossovers (“Choice of the New Generation”). The album is a non-stop blast, deftly balancing raw throat-grabbing grind attacks with innovative turns and burly industrial death stomps. Streaked with dark melodic flourishes and an innovative, technical and unhinged flair, Need to Control exhilarates in weird and wild ways.

Need to Control holds up remarkably well, remaining a cutting-edge example of the genre some thirty-plus years later. Brutal Truth continued to carve a unique pathway in the grind field during the subsequent years of their career. However, the blunt force thrust of energy and precision death-influenced grind of their debut and infectious genre-scrambling innovation of Need to Control remain the band’s greatest achievements.

#1994 #AmericanMetal #BackToTheGrindstone #BrutalTruth #DeathMetal #Grindcore #NeedToControl #Review #Reviews

newstuff2025-22

https://paper.wf/aintjustmusic/newstuff2025-22

WORMROT (Singapur) presenta nou àlbum en directe: "TNT" #Wormrot #Grindcore #Maig2025 #Singapur #NouÀlbumEnDirecte #Metall #Metal #MúsicaMetal #MetalMusic

#CurrentlyListeningTo Wormrot - Left To Rot #HeavyMetal #Grindcore #PowerViolence 🇸🇬

a #Lovecraft inspired Blackened Fantasy Synth song:

💀🐉 🎹 "Der Drache und die Schergen des Königs"

by Annelieses Zerstörung unter gefrorenen Monden (AZugM)

here for free: https://mastodon.social/@azugm/114591300654334167

#DungeonSynth #BlackMetal #Noise bastard with traces of #DeathMetal and #Grindcore

🎵 ✏️ lyrics (about a dragon escaping his prison to fight the king's henchmen and the Shrunken Head Divisions in a stony forest, full translation coming soon):

Unzählige Welten
Hinter tausend Stäben
Selbst viele tausend Stäbe
Könnten den Drachen nicht halten

Der Drache im steinernen Wald
Erwidert das Feuer mit Feuerspeien
Weltenbrand in Gestalt
Der Schrumpfkopfdivisionen

Zwangseingezogen wurde ich
In einen Krieg
Den ich darauf brenne zu kämpfen

Die Schergen des Königs
Was würden sie mit uns tun?
Was würde passieren?
Drohte Gefahr
Von diesen Tieren?

Das Gewehr im Anschlag
Kauere ich hinter einer Mauer
Neben mir essen Kinder Eis

Gespenstische Gesänge
"Halt' doch bitte meine Hand!"
Hoffentlich löst sich kein Schuss
Hier im Handgemenge

Wie ein gespenstischer Rausch
In dem doch keine Zweifel bleiben
Hier bin ich Drache, hier kann ich
Teil von etwas Großem sein

Der Drache fürchtet einen Feuerstoß
Doch alles bleibt still
War die Loyalität der Schergen
Zu ihrem König doch nicht so groß?

Oder waren ihre Worte Lügenpropaganda
Für die wir zu stark waren?

Noch mehr Feuer wird gespien
Erst recht wenn die Lippen dabei verbrennen
Bei Schmähgesängen gegen den König
Und seine Verbündeten aus dem Norden

Der Drache verlässt den steinernen Wald
Fliegt in die Wintersonne
In der Schlacht gesiegt
Fragen bleiben und bilden ein Rätsel

#Fantasy #FantasySynth #HarshNoise #Bass #ThursDeath #DungeonSynthDonnerstag #Pornogrind #PigSqueals #Mystery

While you sleep, I write reviews :

COFFIN CURSE (Chile)/ VOLTEADORES (Chile) Split tape.
DEAD SPEAK (Pol) Human alchemy CD.
SONIC POISON (Fin) Eruption CD.

Read it at: https://nihilistic-webzine-distro.fr/cadre2.htm

Support underground metal!

#deathmetal #grindcore #musicreview #underground

I'm stuck on punk and hardcore this week.

Hailing from #Germany I've got Audio Kollaps fueling my morning. Straight up dirty #punk mixed with grindcore. These guys were so good!
The whole album is in German. If you're open to expand your music palate, give it a chance.

FFO: #Skitsystem #Nasum #ExtremeNoiseTerror

Audio Kollaps - Eiszeit
(My personal favorite track)

#AudioKollaps #ThursdayFiveList #Grindcore #CrimesAgainstHumanityRecords

https://audiokollaps.bandcamp.com/track/eiszeit

💀🐉 🎹 #Lovecraft inspired Blackened Fantasy Synth song:

"Der Drache und die Schergen des Königs"
by Annelieses Zerstörung unter gefrorenen Monden

#DungeonSynth #BlackMetal #Noise bastard with traces of #DeathMetal and #Grindcore

🎵 ✏️ German lyrics in the replies and in the video description, they are about a dragon escaping his prison to fight the king's henchmen and the Shrunken Head Divisions in a stony forest (full translation coming soon)

#Fantasy #FantasySynth #HarshNoise #Rilke #Mystery

Ce soir à Lille : Belljars + Cuntroach + Dendrophilia + Cerbère + Sténodactylo au Centre Culturel Libertaire, orga @gzlvnr@mastodon.social !
https://chpunk.org/Belljars-Cuntroach-Dendrophilia-Cerbere-Stenodactylo-Centre-Culturel-Libertaire-Lille
#Belljars #Cuntroach #Dendrophilia #Cerbère #Sténodactylo #CentreCulturelLibertaire #CCL #Lille #concert #sludge #shoegaze #grindcore #GZLVNR

Belljars + Cuntroach + Dendrophilia + Cerbère + Sténodactylo @ Centre Culturel Libertaire Lille 28.05.2025

Violent Encounter, Hakapik, Feartilizer 1492 @ Thrashcan - Sunday, June 1st, 2025

Thrash Can, Sunday, June 1 at 08:00 PM EDT

EARSLAUGHTER X VIRIDIAN CULT PRODUCTIONS presents:

Haven't got your fill of filthy grindcore after Earslaughter weekend? Well have no fear! Belgian goregrind outfit Violent Encounter will be hitting the Thrashcan for a last minute show this Sunday, joined by sludgegrind power-duo Hakapik and deathgrind heavy hitters Feartilizer 1492!

Violent Encounter:
https://zasautoproduzioni.bandcamp.com/.../violent...

Hakapik:
https://hakapik1.bandcamp.com/album/pig-skull

Feartilizer 1492:
https://feartilizer1492.bandcamp.com/track/manifest-of-war

Sunday, June 1st, 2025
@ Thrashcan (Ask a Punk!)
Doors 8:00 PM
Show 8:30 PM
$15 / PWYC
18+ (ID Required)

https://montreal.askapunk.net/event/violent-encounter-hakapik-feartilizer-1492-thrashcan-sunday-june-1st-2025