Labels: De Graanrepubliek – React With Protest – Shove
Review by: Kunal Nandi
These ex-Shikari / Last Mile dudes absolutely lay waste to everything before them on their second release, sounding far more vicious and heavy than on their split with Vuur. What Grinding Halt do very well is take a cross-section through all the genres that matter (i.e. hardcore, metal, doom, punk), sift off the crap and then focus their attack straight at your brain. The riffs are largely discordant, the rhythm section is satisfyingly brutal, the shrieks are totally nerve-shredding and the song structures are interestingly varied without being pointlessly tricksy. They make a hell of a lot of noise, but don’t forget to make it musical too.