My favourite grindcore from 2023

Well, the title says it all... find below the list, in alphabetical order, of my favourite grindcore albums from last year. Click on it to go to my review.

Chepang - Swatta

FesterDecay - Reality Rotten To The Core

Gridlink - Coronet Juniper

OrganDealer - The Weight of Being

 Sea of Shit - Sea of Shit

 Shitstorm - Only in Dade

SonicPoison - Eruption

Chepang - Swatta (2023)

Chepang fourth album, Swatta, see them going even further the innovative and technical grind road (reminding a bit Discordance axis / Gridlink) and it's an awesome album, and probably will be the most memorable (possibly also best) grind album of the year. They kept the chaotic sax element on some songs, but also wrote some more melodic and longer ones, invited plenty of guests on some others, and there's also a part experimenting AI songwriting. Fifty minutes of crazy and full of surprises grind. Would take me pages to properly review this album... I'll just sum it up in one word : WOW! 

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Best grindcore in 2020

 Like I did every year since 2012 I'm giving you my list of favourite grindcore (including grindpunk, deathgrind, noisegrind, etc.) released in the passing year. Alphabetical order. Click to go to my review.

 

- Anthropic - Architects of Aggression

 

- Bain de sang - Sacrificed for A Load of Filth and Lies (EP)

 

- Caustic Wound - Death Posture

 

- Chepang - Chatta

 

- Cognizant - Cognizant

 

- ESP Mayhem - Bloodsportswear

  

- Feastem - Graveyard Earth

 

- Feed Them Death - Panopticism : Belong / Lost

 

- GALL - 17 : 21 MIN

 

- Internal Rot  - Grieving Birth

 

- Napalm Death - Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism

 

- Triage - Triage

Chepang - Chatta (2020)

Chatta is Chepang's third album, still with Nerve Altar, and they managed again to evolve while keeping the very high quality level. Chatta is a very dynamic album, with catchy and straight to the point songs, but also because of the diversity introduced by sax playing and some guitar soloing on some tracks, and generally by a songwriting that doesn't care about following some fixed formulas. The last track reminds Painkiller, with some Nepalese percussions, and then, surprise, comes a few remixes, drum & bass and breakcore style. I prefer the "normal" grind part of the album, but this remixed part is ok. Why not?

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2017 : my grindcore list

I'll later give a general list but as is the tradition for Blasting Days I'm doing a specific list for the grindcore (and closely related stuff) releases that I enjoyed the most this year. As I'm not fond of giving ranks I'm giving it in alphabetical order (with link to my review just aside on the right, where you'll also find the links to the Bandcamp pages).

Anthropic - Anthropic EP the review

Birdflesh / Organ Dealer - split  the review

Blame God - Strategically Confined  the review

Chepang - Dadhelo    the review 

D.E.R - Rancor    the review

Expulsion - Nightmare Future   the review

GALL - EP     the review

Gendo Ikari / Droves split  the review

Gowl - On our feet or on our Knees  the review

Husmanskost - Ründpült    the review
 
Lock Up - Demonization   the review

Looking for an Answer  - Dios Carne    the review

Stimulant - Stimulant   the review

The Arson Project - Disgust   the review

Chepang - Dadhelo (2017)

Chepang impressed last year wih their first album, and now, with Dadhelo, on Nerve Altar again,they prove they're not one of those band who cannot equal their first release. Their ferocious modern grind is still of a very high quality and really effective, with a technical twist that put them often closer to Maruta than to Napalm Death, and some bits of chaotic noise hardcore for good measure. Short and condensed tracks with a high impact and enough changes to keep you listening and coming back to it. serious stuff...

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My favourites 2016 grind releases

Here's my "traditionnal" list of best grind releases of the passed year (and I feel 2016 was a good year for grind), in alphabetical order and with the links to the review I wrote :


 Asphalt Graves - The New Primitive  the review

Cavernicular - Self-titled  the review

Chepang - Lathi Charge    the review

Coffin Birth / Shitgrinder split EP   the review 

Gadget - The Great Destroyer    the review

Livet Som Insats - Check your Grind   the review

Sissy Spacek - Disfathom   the review

Sonic Poison - Harsh Demonstration  the review 

Terrorazor - Abysmal Hymns of Disgust - the review

Violent Frustration - Peace was Never an Option   the review

Wormrot - Voices   the review

Writhing Mass - Human Capital EP    the review 

Chepang - Lathi Charge (2016)

Chepang is a newcomer on the grind scene, they are New Yorkers from Nepal and Lathi Charge is their first album (10 minutes of music but this is grindcore so we could say it's an album isn't it?). And it's a very good one. They include elements of old school grind but overall they are on the modern side of grind, with technical riffing a bit like Maruta, and they also have some Suffocation style death metal elements. This mix makes an original and fresh sounding result. Among the more interesting recent grind releases, and a new band I will follow with interest.  

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