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Friday, November 21, 2025

Defigurement | Endbryo | Nefarious Industries

Release Date: October 17^th, 2025

Format: LP/CD/MC

Genre: Avant Grindcore, Experimental Death Metal

Country: USA

Defigurement is a band formed by veterans who have lived inside the extreme underground for decades. They come from bands like Fear Factory, Malignancy, Raven, Bad Acid Trip, Murder Construct, Rottenness and many others, and bring all that chaotic experience into one twisted body. Mike Heller handles the drum assault, Kevin Fetus drives the guitars, DMT bends bass and noise into strange shapes, and Matti Güey unloads his snarling vocal attacks. This squad was clearly created to push speed and violence into uncomfortable territory, and “Endbryo” is their first attempt to bottle that mindset.

“Endbryo” runs through sixteen eruptions that move with manic direction, sci fi panic and grind aggression. The band keeps the energy constantly boiling, guitars slicing through the mix while the rhythm section piles on pressure without pause. The album has a wild personality, almost like a living organism that mutates every few seconds, turning death metal, gore grind, tech chaos and sudden bursts of melody into one compact blast. The intensity remains high across the album, with vocals that jump between harsh roars and frantic shouts in a way that suits the frantic pace.

Guest appearances add extra sparks without turning the core sound into something unrecognizable. The extra guitars on several songs tilt things further toward a frantic sci fi death metal zone, while the additional vocal layers create moments of raw extremity that punch even harder. The mix by Rob Caldwell and mastering by Lasse Lammert give the album a rough, aggressive surface that supports the project’s violent character. Nothing here plays it safe, everything runs at full throttle.

“Endbryo” delivers what its lineup suggests, a collision of grind and death experimentation shaped with chaotic enthusiasm. It is an album for listeners who enjoy extreme metal at its most unhinged, where the fun comes from the sheer energy rather than any sense of comfort. Defigurement enters the scene with a debut that is wild, loud and proudly excessive, and that is exactly where its charm lies. Fans of the more deranged branches of grind and tech death will get a kick out of this feverish slab of metallic madness.

Score: 7.0

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Thursday, November 20, 2025

Lavisher | Aligned & Vital | Nefarious Industries

Release Date: November 14, 2025
Format: 12" Vinyl/CD
Genre: Space Rock, Post-Rock, Grunge
Country: United States

Lavisher is a Chicago-based collective led by Gavin Cushman III and Benjamin Standage. Emerging in 2017 with a self-titled EP, the band quickly developed a signature sound blending heavy, textured rock with lush melodies and a hint of psychedelia. Their 2019 debut full-length “Drastic Shadows” laid the groundwork for the band’s exploration of spacey, grunge-infused atmospheres. In 2023, Gavin and Benjamin reunited creatively, resulting in “Aligned & Vital”, a twelve-track album that expands the band’s sonic palette while keeping the core of their velvet-tinged rock intact.

“Aligned & Vital” presents a vibrant mix of distorted textures and melodic lines. Lavisher moves through their twelve tracks with a sense of controlled ambition, balancing dense guitar layers with expansive vocal lines. The album has a steady pulse, occasionally shifting into heavier grooves or atmospheric passages that linger just long enough to leave an impression without slowing the flow. The songwriting leans on concise structures, letting the music breathe in a way that’s deliberate and engaging, while the production keeps the vocals and instruments balanced and clear.

The album’s mood alternates between reflective and urgent, with moments of quiet intensity interspersed with more driving segments. Tracks like “Way Too Much” show a slightly different flavor, adding variety without disrupting the continuity of the album. Overall, the sound is immersive and polished, giving listeners a complete experience that’s easy to follow yet layered enough to reward repeated listens.

Score: 6.0

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Thursday, November 13, 2025

Gridfailure | Sixth Mass-Extinction Skulduggery III | Nefarious Industries

Release Date: October 3^rd, 2025

Format: Digital, Cassette

Genre: Dark Ambient, Experimental, Dark Hardcore, Avant Jazz, Black Metal, Drone

Country: USA

Born from the New York underground, Gridfailure is the solo project of David Brenner, an artist known for his chaotic blend of post-industrial soundscapes, experimental noise, and pitch-black atmosphere. Since its inception in 2016, Gridfailure has operated as a shifting entity, pulling together collaborators from across the extreme music spectrum. Brenner’s project thrives on unpredictability and raw tension, merging elements from jazz, drone, ambient, and metal into something entirely alien. “Sixth Mass-Extinction Skulduggery III” marks the third installment in an ambitious five-part conceptual series chronicling humanity’s downfall, a grotesque and theatrical vision of a world devouring itself.

The concept here continues a saga of environmental collapse and moral decay. Brenner presents a brutal sonic depiction of the Anthropocene, painting scenes of cannibalistic societies, collapsing ecosystems, and self-inflicted ruin. The album’s subtitle, “Acquiring A Taste,” suggests a civilization not only dying but celebrating its destruction. It’s as bleak as it sounds, an eighty-minute descent through suffocating electronics, percussive chaos, and nightmarish textures.

Musically, the album shifts unpredictably, crossing through distorted soundscapes, ritualistic noise, and moments of eerie calm. There’s a cinematic sense of decay running through it, as if the entire world is collapsing in slow motion. Guest appearances from figures like Steve Austin of Today Is The Day, Leila Abdul-Rauf of Vastum, and Mac Gollehon (whose trumpet once graced sessions for David Bowie) add even more layers to the madness. Their presence doesn’t lighten the tone; it only deepens the sense of suffocation and unpredictability.

Brenner’s approach is uncompromising. He works with sounds gathered from years of field recordings, weather events, and countless improvised sessions, resulting in an album that’s both vast and claustrophobic. The production stays raw and unfiltered, perfectly suited to the theme of environmental and human disintegration. The use of multiple genres, industrial, black metal, ambient, and avant jazz, is less like fusion and more like collision, a sonic disaster unfolding in real time.

“Sixth Mass-Extinction Skulduggery III” isn’t meant for casual listening. It demands patience, even endurance. It’s a sound experiment that drags the listener through rust, static, and screams from an earth in its death throes. It’s chaotic and overwhelming, but that chaos has a strange magnetism. Beneath all the noise lies a kind of order, the grim logic of collapse.

For fans of Gnaw Their Tongues, The Body, and T.O.M.B., this album offers a journey into the extreme end of experimental music, ugly, fascinating, and thoroughly human in its depiction of destruction. An absorbing but punishing listen, “Sixth Mass-Extinction Skulduggery III” expands the boundaries of Gridfailure’s vision without losing its raw, corrosive edge. It’s not meant to entertain, but to unsettle, and in that, it succeeds completely.

Score: 6.0