“Just play music and smash shit.” – A conversation with Secret Cutter.

“Just play music and smash shit.” – A conversation with Secret Cutter.
Deafheaven will dominate the headlines, but there’s a whole host of other new LPs that also deserve your attention.
A tribute to some of our favourite bands that unfortunately couldn’t stick around.
Merging the grindcore of Pig Destroyer and Famine with the noise rock of acts such as Shellac and The Jesus Lizard, Herd Mover’s unrelenting flurry is intentionally demanding yet direct and very much to the point.
WW3 seems to be inevitable, so why not get your apocalypse playlist ready now?
From trippy sludge and avant-garde death metal to laid-back “flower doom”, it’s been a good two weeks of music.
We recently had the opportunity to interview Robert R. Williams, drummer for proto-prind/pioneering hardcore band Siege. Arguably one of the most influential bands of the 1980s/ early 90s.
So, what exactly does “astrogrind” sound like? Well if the third album from Greek outfit Dephosphorus is anything to go by, it’s a noisy and suitably eclectic style of music infused with smatterings of punk, various subgenres of extreme metal and, you guessed it, grindcore.