FORCED STARVATION (New Zealand grindcore) - spotlight

Holy fuck, New Zealand just knows how to do it right!

New URL - www.tm-zine.com

 If you're seeing this, then it worked!

Bands - get your own website with a webstore going (not Bandcamp!). Listeners - you should be buying MP3s instead of streaming.

Oh, another anti-streaming rant? I get it, same old whinge, screaming into the void - but maybe don't scroll by this time?!

ENDLESS LOSS - "Traversing the Mephitic Artery" CD (2024)

Alright, what’s happening over in Adelaide?! That town is generating some killer shit as of late with CHARNEL ALTAR, DECREPITORUM and EXHUMED KORPSE all putting out very strong releases over the last couple of years, and now ENDLESS LOSS (don’t let the name fool you, this isn’t sad boy doom or DSBM as it may suggest) lay waste to wimpy shit with their debut full length album of incredibly dense, churning, EVIL DEATH METAL.

Tickets for small shows - fuck off!

I'm definitely not the first to raise this, but it shits the hell out of me, so I'm gonna rant about how small local shows mostly being ticketed is bullshit.

GRINDCORE and the trend of shorter-than-ever releases.

Alright, so it's 2024 and for better or worse, there are shitloads of grind and gore releases coming out every month. That isn't what this rant is about, though - the target of today's whinge is the trend (hell, it's just the norm now) of newer bands releasing ever-shorter records, and why that's just no good.

SIN / SPINE WRENCH - "No Rest For The Wicked" split CD (1992)

SIN, made up of members from NAUSEA (NY), CATTLE PRESS and IABHORHER [well, I just gave away that this is gonna be good!] bring the superior side of the split with four tracks/23 minutes of miserable, oppressive industrial metal mostly heavily reminiscent of GODFLESH circa 1988, with some nods to early SWANS.

DOME RUNNER – "Apocalypse.Pulse.Worship." 12"/CD (2024)

A fresh release from Finland's DOME RUNNER is welcome news to me! Following on from their strong debut album, "Conflict State Design", "Apocalypse.Pulse.Worship." brings five tracks of grimy, rusted-out, wasteland industrial metal, with a remix topping it off.

BISTURI - "S/T" discography compilation CD (2022)

 

From Spain comes brutal old school grinders BISTURI! This compilation brings together everything released so far, from 2016-2022, covering all their standalone releases, splits and a live set.

PULMONARY FIBROSIS - "Pulmonologists" CD (2022)

France's ever-prolific gorehounds PULMONARY FIBROSIS are back with another sloshing, slashing and totally septic full length!