One On One With The GRIM 1

The UK's Wallowing  crash through sonic boundaries, as they merge music with print media. Their 2019 album  Planet Loss  is a 30-minute song of harsh noise, fat tones and spacey passages, paired with a graphic novel illustrating their lyrics - the story of a dystopian planet ruled by reptilian overlords and a worker's revolt. Wallowing's Tom and Ruari go one on one with the GRIM-1 in this interview:  HELL-O folks What was the creative process like, both for the comic book and its source material? Tom:  It was a lot of fun to write PLANET LOSS as a record and then revisit it in an entirely new format. When writing the music for the album we had to think about how we could effectively represent different scenarios, scenes and locations with sound that reinforced the lyrics/story. It was a similar process in creating the comic I feel, as we had the story/text good to go in the form of the lyrics - so it was a case of then reinforcing the content we already had wit...

Nashville's Yautja attack with an unorthodox amalgamation of punk, grindcore and sludge on their new album The Lurch. These dudes have diligently shredded and toured throughout the last decade, and their recent music video for their heavy single "Tethered" totally sold me. Yautja bassist and vocalist Kayhan goes One On One With The GRIM-1 in this phone interview, transcribed below.  HELL-O))) Kayhan! What's one song everyone should listen to off The Lurch? I would say "The Wait." It's like the third single video we put out for the record.  Your new music video "Tethered" is like a backyard recreation of Tetsuo: The Iron Man . What was your inspiration? I had an idea that was based off the lyrics to the song. I kind of like...this would either look really sick with high production value and practical effects and nice camera work and editing and all that stuff. Or it would look really cool, super lo-fi, straight to VHS, and getting a group of our...

Photo by Deidra King Terry Butler is one of the death metal bassists who has held it the fuck down since the eighties. His resume is a roadmap through Florida's most horrific death metal misadventures. He played on and co-wrote the classic Death albums  Leprosy (1988) and Spiritual Healing (1990) -  both Necrosexual favorites - then rejoined   Massacre for their albums From Beyond (19 91) and The Inhuman Condition (1992) . In the mid-nineties, Butler joined Six Feet Under , with barbaric stoner Chris Barnes, where he remained for fifteen years. Butler has since played with Obituary since their 2014 album Inked In Blood. His newest project, Inhuman Condition is a throwback to Massacre, in everything from the logo to the album title, and justly so - his Inhuman Condition bandmates are recently expatriated Massacre members Jeremy Kling and Taylor Nordberg. Their new album Rat God looks and sounds like vintage Massacre in all the ways that are sure to thr...