Year: 2025Label: Break The Records/Fight Records/SPHC Records The warhogs are back, true to their style. Finnish Kürøishi are instantly recognizable from their cover artwork, always featuring wild boars, always courtesy of Akihiko “Sugi” Sugimoto. Maybe it’s not characteristic quite to … Continue reading KÜRØISHI: Egocide Of The Warmad
Year: 2024Label: Krypta Records Finnish The Carnival are true eccentrics within the realm of extreme/underground music. Granted, it’s no news to anyone that first wave black metal was heavily influenced by punk rock. And later on, plenty of crust acts … Continue reading THE CARNIVAL: Absoluuttinen syntymä
It must have been 25 years ago to the month that I first heard US death/doom icons Winter for the first time. I remember it clearly: spring was already turning warm, the end of school was just a few weeks … Continue reading From the Vaults #10: Into Darkness/Eternal Frost
ZANJEER: Parcham Buland Ast Release year: 2022Label: Symphony Of Destruction Cramming six tracks onto a 7″ release is no mean feat. Sure, there are rabid grindcore bands who’ve fit ten times more songs on a 7″, but even so: six … Continue reading Zanjeer with flags raised
Kürøishi: Käärme sisälläsi, myrkyttää maailmani Release year: 2021Label: Break The Records/Fight Records/SPHC Records Behind the rather odd name of Kürøishi are to be found five Finns, whose collective CV is some kind of impressive: Terveet Kädet, Lapin Helvetti, Deathbound and … Continue reading Kürøishi with snakes inside
NAPALM TED: Cesspool Of Human Mind Release year: 2021Label: self-released/Mögähead Napalm Ted, whose name strikes me as a silly play on the name Napalm Death, have been going at it for six years. During this time, the crust and death … Continue reading Cesspool of napalm
NISTIKKO: Tuhannen pasuunan voimalla Release year: 2021Label: Suicide Records With a past discography steeped in grindcore, it comes as no surprise that Finnish Nistikko continue down a path of furious, dark and extreme punk on their newest album. However, according … Continue reading With the strength of a thousand trombones
DISCREANT: Community Standards Release year: 2019Label: Stadin Rec With thirteen tracks and a running time of ten minutes, and a name starting with “Dis”, it’s pretty easy to guess what’s contained on Community Standards, the first proper release of Finnish … Continue reading The hardcore standards of Discreant
Only Death Is Real 