Wormrot - Hiss (2022)

 New album from Asian grinders Wormrot, returning six years after the previous one, and for a last time with their vocalist. Hiss delivers modern grind, fast and tight, and also like they use to do it provides many surprising elements along the way, like a bit of clean vocals, guitar solos, crossover parts, a bit of neocrust riffing, violins, etc. Sticking to grind basics but bringing in more diversity. Another good album from Wormrot.

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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 

Wormrot - Voices (2016)

After a five years stop the Singaporean grind trio is back, as strong as ever. With their new album Voices, Wormrot is just starting again where they left as if nothing happened (which is definitely not a bad thing!). The solid old school grind foundations they displayed so well, with a lot of efficiency and creativity, on their first two albums are still there, intact. But they also are following the experiments they tried on their last release, the Noise EP. So you'll find in Vocies more song structures and guitar parts that are unusual in grind. The fast and technical but melodic elements added in the guitar parts reminds a bit Gridlink, but the overall result is different since Wormrot does not have their "as fast as possible all the time" attack. Probably even more than on their previous releases there's a great diversity in the album, staying in grind boundaries, with all its intensity, but enriching it. Wormrot return is a resounding success and Voices will very likely be the best grind album this year.

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