Tuesday, January 8th, 2013
California gore lords Exhumed will return to the road this February alongside grind behemoths Phobia. The short West Coast beat down will commence February 15 in Lancaster, California and conclude February 23 in San Francisco. Souls will be severed; dreams will die.
The latest stretch of dates follows Exhumed ’s maniacal run with Napalm Death and Municipal Waste at the end of the year which was met with a host of hurdles including being denied entry into Canada and vehicular failure that left them temporarily stranded in Alabama. Comments vocalist/guitarist Matt Harvey:
As happy as we were to get home for the holidays, we thought we should ...
Wednesday, June 13th, 2012
Grindcore mainstays, Phobia, ripped through Philly’s Millcreek Tavern last week with a solid dose of local talent that included No Stayer, Backslider, and Infernal Stronghold. Phobia are riding high and steady, having just released a brand new LP, Remnants of Filth, on Willowtip Records and are coming off a slew of high profile shows, including the infamous Chaos in Tejas musical festival last month. Though slightly road worn from vast jumps around the country in the days leading up to this performance, the members of Phobia were in high spirits and sat for ...
Monday, June 4th, 2012
Band: Phobia
Album: Remnants of Filth
Label: Willowtip Records
Release Date: June 5, 2012
FFO: Noisear, Brutal Truth, Rotten Sound, Pig Destroyer
Northern Cali’s grindcore mainstays, Phobia, offer up another barrage of filthy blast-induced tracks with this latest recorded effort, Remnants of Filth, hitting streets tomorrow (June 5th,2012) via Williowtip Records. Let’s just get this out of the way now- The members of Phobia offer up their patented blend of blast-beats, choppy grind riffs, guttural vocal attacks, and hilarious movie samples, all wrapped in tight punk structures that will surely appease those that have been following the band throughout its 20-plus year history.
Now that you know ...
Tuesday, April 10th, 2012
Legendary grind merchants Phobia are set to scathe the masses with their fifth studio offering, Remnants of Filth, this June. Produced and mixed by Scott Hull (Pig Destroyer, Agoraphobic Nosebleed) at Visceral Sound Studios in Bethesda, Maryland and engineered by Mike Harrison at Winter Skies Productions in San Antonio, Texas, Remnants Of Filth offers up 18 pile-driving, socio-political grind hymns in 19 minutes. Slated to drop on June 5 through Willowtip Records, the band –- vocalist Shane “The Pain” Mclachlan, bassist Calum MacKenzie, drummer Bryan Fajardo(Noisear, Kill The Client) and guitarists Dorian Rainwater (Noisear) and CC Loessin – have crafted one of the ...
Thursday, December 9th, 2010
Murder Construct
Self-Titled EP
Relapse Records
Available Now
FFO: Exhumed, Terrorizer, Phobia
Avid fans of grind and death metal often bemoan the fact that most ‘new’ bands have lost the ferocity and integrity of the ‘old-school’ 80s and 90s-era extreme music via albums like Brutal Truth’s Need to Control (1994) and Napalm Death’s From Enslavement to Obliteration (1988).
In recent years, the majority of new bands to emerge in the grind and death metal scenes have abandoned the organic chemistry of live recordings, showcasing sharp musicianship captured by clever sound engineers, for mechanical releases that are overly polished with computer-induced sterility. Upon first listen of Murder Construct's debut Self-Titled E.P., I knew we found something old-school death metal and ...
Monday, November 15th, 2010
Phobia have long reigned as a patriarch of the American grind scene with over 20 years of proliferation that began with 7″ releases at Relapse Records when the now indie-Goliath was still in its infancy and functioning out of a basement. This was before the term “grind” or “grindcore” was commonplace among extreme music aficionados..The band’s forthcoming, November 23rd release on Relapse Records, Unrelenting, is 17 tracks of grind goodness blasting in at 22 minutes. No samples, no filler, no bullshit. Unrelenting has trimmed off all of the fat for a concentrated mix of speed-metal influenced grind and punk that will surely please long-time fans ...
Thursday, November 4th, 2010
PHOBIA
Unrelenting
Relapse Records
Release: 11/23/2010
FFO: Brutal Truth, Capitalist Casualties, Pig Destroyer, Regurgitate
Phobia have long reigned as a patriarch of the American grind scene with over 20 years of proliferation that began with 7" releases at Relapse Records when the now indie-Goliath was still in its infancy and functioning out of a basement. This was before the term "grind" or "grindcore" was commonplace among extreme music aficionados. And although the band would release their first 7" in 1991, the turbulence of day-to-day life resulting in members changes and financial instability would see the band hold off on their first full-length until 1997.
It's no industry ...
California gore lords Exhumed will return to the road this February alongside grind behemoths Phobia. The short West Coast beat down will commence February 15 in Lancaster, California and conclude February 23 in San Francisco. Souls will be severed; dreams will die.
The latest stretch of dates follows Exhumed ’s maniacal run with Napalm Death and Municipal Waste at the end of the year which was met with a host of hurdles including being denied entry into Canada and vehicular failure that left them temporarily stranded in Alabama. Comments vocalist/guitarist Matt Harvey:
As happy as we were to get home for the holidays, we thought we should ...
Murder Construct
Self-Titled EP
Relapse Records
Available Now
FFO: Exhumed, Terrorizer, Phobia
Avid fans of grind and death metal often bemoan the fact that most ‘new’ bands have lost the ferocity and integrity of the ‘old-school’ 80s and 90s-era extreme music via albums like Brutal Truth’s Need to Control (1994) and Napalm Death’s From Enslavement to Obliteration (1988).
In recent years, the majority of new bands to emerge in the grind and death metal scenes have abandoned the organic chemistry of live recordings, showcasing sharp musicianship captured by clever sound engineers, for mechanical releases that are overly polished with computer-induced sterility. Upon first listen of Murder Construct's debut Self-Titled E.P., I knew we found something old-school death metal and ... 
Phobia have long reigned as a patriarch of the American grind scene with over 20 years of proliferation that began with 7″ releases at Relapse Records when the now indie-Goliath was still in its infancy and functioning out of a basement. This was before the term “grind” or “grindcore” was commonplace among extreme music aficionados..The band’s forthcoming, November 23rd release on Relapse Records, Unrelenting, is 17 tracks of grind goodness blasting in at 22 minutes. No samples, no filler, no bullshit. Unrelenting has trimmed off all of the fat for a concentrated mix of speed-metal influenced grind and punk that will surely please long-time fans ... 
PHOBIA
Unrelenting
Relapse Records
Release: 11/23/2010
FFO: Brutal Truth, Capitalist Casualties, Pig Destroyer, Regurgitate
Phobia have long reigned as a patriarch of the American grind scene with over 20 years of proliferation that began with 7" releases at Relapse Records when the now indie-Goliath was still in its infancy and functioning out of a basement. This was before the term "grind" or "grindcore" was commonplace among extreme music aficionados. And although the band would release their first 7" in 1991, the turbulence of day-to-day life resulting in members changes and financial instability would see the band hold off on their first full-length until 1997.
It's no industry ...