The 5 club: grindcore

Dear me, that title's still annoying me. Anyhow...

Siege Of Hate
Starting off as a death/grind band, especially with the awesome album 'Subversive By Nature', Siege Of Hate have moved somewhat onto a more pure grind oriented sound with last year's album 'Deathmocracy', especially with the stylistic shift of the vocals. This one's off that album - I would have included something off 'Subversive...', but I couldn't find anything on Youtube.


Agoraphobic Nosebleed
Combining standard grind with electronic elements and one hell of a drum machine courtesy of Scott Hull, I personally feel that the quality of ANb's output has somewhat diminished since the addition of real members lessened the craziness of the music, so here's part of their MCD masterpiece, 'Altered States Of America'.


Last Days Of Humanity
Goregrind sickos Last Days Of Humanity first hit the limelight with debut album 'The Sound Of Rancid Juices Sloshing About Your Coffin', but, such is goregrind, that pretty much all of their music is interchangeable... just somehow they do it better than most other goregrind acts!


Insect Warfare
It was claimed by Earache, as they rereleased it, that 'World Extermination' was the best grindcore album since 'From Enslavement To Obliteration'. Whilst I may not place it that high, it's certainly in amongst the greats, and so here's 'Human Trafficking' off that great album.


Reth
Still relatively unknown, Reth made 2008's 'Precursors To Extinction' available for free legal download not too long ago, and are really an exciting prospect for British grindcore, as they really show that the essence of spazzgrind lives on. Here's 'Shibboleths Of The New Panacea'.

Doing the iPod

No, not a dance where you see how compact, thin, sleek and shiny you can make yourself, but a bi-weekly (for me anyway) ritual in which one shuffles about the music on the ol’ iPod from an extensive (see previous post ‘A list of my music’) library.

You see, in my sad little world, I actually look forward to this with earnest, as it gives me a chance to shuffle about what I’ve to listen to over the next fortnight, and get a change from whatever I’ve been listening to over the last fortnight, as I very rarely have the foresight to put a mixture of metals on there, and very rarely anything else – right now I’m all grindcored out from 9 different Napalm Death albums, Genghis Tron, Insect Warfare, Nasum, Phobia, Pig Destroyer, Raw Noise (ok, so crust punk but whatever), and Rotten Sound.

So, I go painstakingly through my library, artist by artist, and pick out any albums which take my fancy, either ‘Ooh, I’m not quite sure what that sounds like’, ‘Ooh, that’s new’, ‘Ooh, I haven’t heard that in a while’ or ‘Ooh, that’s an awesome album, better put it on again’. This is a process which usually takes about 45 minutes, and is actually quite invigorating, believe it or not!

After this is done, I have to see whether my (8GB) iPod would be overfull from the playlist I’ve created or not, and if so, I have to unfortunately go through all the albums I’ve picked, and take some out. Bang, there goes another 15 minutes.

Right now, I feel like something proggy…