ABERRANT EXTERMINATION IMPULSION - Grindcore Is Dead...Long Live Grindcore (Premiere & Review)3/10/2026 
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In a manner misaligned with the genre's inherent brevity, I could happy wax poetic about the virtues of grindcore for hours. Days, even. In other words, prepare for a very long writeup. Grindcore as a genre is intriguing on a wide variety of levels. There's the obvious draw of the music itself, which is the abrasive audio equivalent of having one's skin zested whilst simultaneously being run over by a brush hog. There's the political level--it is irrefutable that a radical left-wing and anti-fascist ethos inform the genre's birth and development. And there's the structural level, which is perhaps the most unique. Grindcore is brisk. It consistently challenges expectations of song structure, of album length. It executes ideas with a keen succinctness that I profoundly admire. Needless to say, I'm always on the hunt for new grind and grind-adjacent music. Which is how, at the top of this year, I found myself listening to Annihilate, the second album from Matthew Brammer's Aberrant Extermination Impulsion. It was the project's second release within like 10 days, and fourth release within a month. I was extremely impressed, both by the sonic environment and the production rate. Aberrant Extermination Impulsion's penchant for finding the oh-so-sweet spot between bristling aggression and concise-yet-pulverizing songcraft was exciting. The project was also vocally anti-fascist, anti-MAGA, and anti-cop, which is always a plus. Indeed, before you press play, one thing is apparent: Aberrant Extermination Impulsion embodies a refreshing outspoken conviction. Matthew is ACAB all day, as evidenced by, y'know, the existence of a track entitled "ACAB." It is always cathartic to hear music that reflects how fucked up everything is, and even more so than previous releases, this album is pissed off. It calls a spade a spade, and it certainly doesn't hide behind apoliticality. "Support Your Local Copkiller" is unambiguous. "Kirkified" is straight to the point. "An Alarming Number of People Have Normalized the Taste of Leather" leaves zero room for interpretation. In a sociopolitical climate where the messaging of the status quo is perpetually disconnected from the reality we are experiencing, it is rousing to witness an inequivocabile Fuck You. Anyways, lets cut the chatter and get to the music, shall we? I'm pleased to premiere below in its entirety Grindcore Is Dead...Long Live Grindcore, the new album from Aberrant Extermination Impulsion. It will be officially released this Friday, March 13th, but you can listen to it (on repeat, preferably) via the embed conveniently lurking below. As always, we'll meet you on the other side!
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Welcome back to AMPWALL Roundup, our (unfortunately infrequent) column dedicated to shining a little light on the music we slumbering scribes find whilst trawling through the explore page over on Ampwall. It's been a little while since we checked in, but rest assured: Ampwall is still cool. They have also updated the embed display since the last Roundup, which is exciting and much appreciated. As far as introductory fluff goes, I've written myself into a bit of a corner here at this stage in the game, so let me quote the intro from Volume II: "If you don't know what this whole Ampwall thing is all about, please take a quick gander at Volume I, where we get a little more in-depth regarding the many virtues of the new platform/marketplace/community. We here at ye olde Sleeping Village are big advocates for the integration of additional resources into the independent artist's promo toolkit. To that end, having more music-purchasing people become aware of Ampwall's existence will only help it grow as a viable option moving forward." Let's get to the music, shall we? Below are 6 (more!) bands I recommend checking out! 
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As a someone who enjoys new music, there are fewer joys greater than "discovering" a band that has 0 monthly listeners on Spotify. And yes, that feeling isn't diminished even when the act of "discovery" actually refers to clicking a link that a band has emailed directly to me. In any case, we slumbering scribes are happy to get in on the ground floor--albeit a whole year after said email was received--and I hope that this review leads to a double-digit listener count for today's band in question. The band? Bighead, a solo act reveling in the kind of overt noisy goregrind grotesquery that makes me wish, for the reader's sake, that I could hide this review behind a tasteful blur. If you are preemptively imaging track titles and samples detailing medical procedures gone terribly wrong, that's exactly what Backwoods Medical Anomalies has in store. And for that reason, I highly recommend NOT clicking "read more" if gore and the assorted words and sounds that come with it don't sit well with your stomach. Otherwise, see you on the other side! 
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Let's clear this up right out of the gate: Trocar are gross. Not cutesy gross, but fundamentally and irrevocably gross. Repugnancy has been the name of the game for these (literal) organ grinders, and their debut full-length is accordingly stomach-churning. If you're unfamiliar with Trocar, just consider that the band composition consists of two members of Fluids (Jan Grotle and Walter Hale) alongside death metal connoisseur Schuler Benson, who you may know from @deathmetalradio infamy. Given the lineup, please extrapolate. The sum of the component parts is bound to be bloody, unsettling, grotesque. Anyways. The bluntly and accurately entitled Extremities was released April 5th via Selfmadegod Records, and if you've enjoyed Trocar's work thusfar across various splits and EPs, you'll enjoy this. Indeed, in my opinion, this is their best work yet. A genuine level up. It may be the sonic equivalent of a garbage bag filled with medical waste left in the sun for, oh, a couple of decades, but Extremities is the finest grind I've had pleasure of consuming in quite some time. |
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