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

Gridlink - Coronet Juniper (2023)

A new Gridlink album has always been a pleasure, but this time, with Coronet Juniper, it's extra special. Indeed, previous album Longhena was supposed to be their last one after guitarist Matsubara Takafumi get injured and thought he wouldn't be able to play guitar again. But they're back (Matsubara Takafumi, Bryan Fajardo on drums, Jon Chang on vocals and Mauro Cordoba  on bass), and, as it used to be, their grind is faster, more technical, and more melodic (even emo) at the same time. It's clearly not a nostalgic return, they can easily reclaim their place among the very best, most interesting and special, grind bands. 

The BC page.

 

The cream of the grind 2014

Like I did the previous year I'm gonna give you the list of my favourite grind releases for the year that is just over.
here are the 8 grind releases that I enjoyed the most :

Coffin birth - Necrotic liquefaction            my review        the interview

Cretin - stranger                                          my review        the interview

Six brew bantha - Intravenously commodified       my review

Gridlink - Longhena                                                 my review

split Detroit  / Thedowngoing                                my review

OSK - Wretched existence : bleak future                  my review

Dead instrument - See through negative(EP)        my review

Vertigo index - Posthuman v1.1(EP)                       my review  the interview


good 2015 in grind!

Gridlink - Longhena (2014)

sadly Longhena is the last Gridlink album (Gridlink was Jon Chang (Discordance axis), Bryan Fajardo (Phobia, PLF, Kill the client, Noisear), Takafumi Matsubara (Discordance axis, Hayaino Daisuki) and Teddy Patterson (Burnt by the sun, Human remains, Hayaino Daisuki), but at least they end on a very high note. very few bands, if any, could match their intensity and Longhena is also very intense. but at the same time they introduced some longer songs (the longest is 3 min 11 though) and slower parts (not slow parts, but slower compared to their usual extreme speed). in doing so they managed to keep the intensity very high while adding more diversity, more space to breathe, in thir music. which do not decreases its impact but actualy increases it because you don't get lost on the way and stay focused during the whole record. Longhena is released by the excellent Selfmadegod records and Handshake inc.

Longhena on BC