ALBUM REVIEW: Grizzlor - "Destructoid"

By: Charlie Butler

Album Type: Full Length

Date Released: 15/08/2017

Label: Hex Records

“Destructoid”is a record that fully lives up to its title. Grizzlor have served up a sumptuous platter of riffs that effortlessly lays waste to the opposition.

“Destructoid” CD//DD//LP track listing:

1). Fruitloopville

2). House in the Woods

3). Tooth Pain

4). Miserable Jerk

5). Stupid Shit

6). Too Many People

7). Fighting Aliens With No Gravity

8). Wade’s Notes

9). Feeling Like Shit

10). Simulation

11). Quit And Die

The Review:

New Haven’s Grizzlor continue to carve out their own bizarre niche in the world of noise rock with debut LP “Destructoid”. The band achieve a perfect balance of lurid absurdity and nasty heaviness like opening up a kids comic book to discover it has been used to harbour dark top-shelf material.

The album lurches into life with the gargantuan “Fruitloopville”. Imagine a 50 foot Clutchafter having their drink spiked by the Melvins and you have an idea of the monstrous, city-levelling riff Grizzlorunleash here. This sets the scene for the next thirty minutes of mayhem. While on previous releases the band have ripped through seven songs in ten minutes, here they have managed to lengthen their attention span in order to wring maximum impact from their bottomless arsenal of weapons-grade riffs. “Tooth Pain” and “Simulation” prove they can rock hardcore punk tempos without losing their edge but it is the relentless attack of closer “Quit Ad Die” that captures the band at their peak.

The fact that Grizzlor can achieve this and maintain their unhinged acid-fried intensity is no mean feat. Key to this are the vocals and lyrics of guitarist Victor. His barked maniacal delivery is the perfect vehicle for his darkly comic rants on tooth pain, crippling paranoia and feeling like shit. The air of weirdness is enhanced by outbursts reverb-drenched lead guitar that lend the likes of “Feeling Like Shit” a warped surf edge.

“Destructoid”is a record that fully lives up to its title. Grizzlorhave served up a sumptuous platter of riffs that effortlessly lays waste to the opposition.

“Destructoid”is available here

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TRACK PREMIERE: New Haven noise trio Grizzlor raise the finger to mediocrity with “Fruitloopville”

 

Spewed forth into existence in the year 2013, GRIZZLOR hit the Earth with a misanthropic thud. Hailing from the toxic depths of New Haven, CT, these are three dudes power slopping their way through the daily drudgery, weighed heavy with fuzz, sludge and an itching disdain for the mundane. Their anthems are sonically beefy for the sardonically bored. 

Coming 3 years after the release of their 7” “When You Die”, GRIZZLOR will finally release their first full-length album, "Destructoid", on September 8th via Hex Records  and their unique brand of lurid, sludgy weirdness is perhaps more potent than ever.  Coming across like the Melvins providing a twisted soundtrack to Saturday morning kid’s cartoons, "Destructoid"is a barrage of sharp angular riffs, aggressively pummeled rhythms and vocals spat through a wall of misanthropic fuzz and today we are excited to deliver a  brand new exclusive track, for your listening pleasure.

To quote Fight Club “This is your life and it’s ending one minute at a time”, so why not enrich it by playing a cool fucking tune by kick ass band. Check out the magnificent “Fruitloopville” below, preorders for “Destructoid” are available here.

 

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