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Tuesday, August 11, 2020

California one-man mincegore band HOUKAGO GRIND TIME, featuring Andrew Lee (Ripped to Shreds, Azath), will release the debut album Bakyunsified (Moe to the Gore)  on 12" gatefold LP and digital format through Outrageous Weeb Power Productions (US), Grindfather Productions (UK), and Psychocontrol Recs (CZ). The album was recorded and mixed at Andrew's Weeb Dungeon studio, and mastered by Colin Marston at Menegroth, The Thousand Caves.

Bakyunsified (Moe to the Gore) is a love letter and a statement of devotion to Kyoto Animation's classic moe anime boom of the mid 2000s. Taking cues from K-On, a show full of friendship, growth, and positivity, Bakyunsified rejects the violence and hatred pervading the current state of the world, eschewing the genre conventions of blood, guts, and porn. In a short twenty minutes, HOUKAGO GRIND TIME celebrates the minutiae of otaku culture while simultaneously questioning the validity of substituting true interpersonal relationships for passive consumption of the simulacra of such. Punky Carcass riffs float over a bed of ultra fast blastbeats and dbeats, punctuated by bowel churning pitchshifted gurgles. Pillars of grindcore like Dave (PLF) and Leon (Impaled) contribute guest solos, and Colin Marston's dense mastering ensures that every second of every microsong suffocates the listener beneath a thousand heartwarming fluffs. In short: fuck you, it's anime goregrind.

FFO: Carcass, Archagathus, Dead Infection, Regurgitate, Mortician, Last Days of Humanity, Agathocles

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Track List

A1 Bakyunsified (Moe to the Gore)
A2 Houkago Grind Time
A3 Effortless Regurgitation of Kyoani Moeblobs
A4 Endless Eight Part 2
A5 Ruptured in Akkariin
A6 Hey Toshino Kyoko
A7 A Manual of Ways to Occupy Oneself While Waiting in Line for Limited Edition Merch
A8 Endless Eight Part 6
A9 Walk Her Home Gently
A10 War Bad
B1 Moe: Nani?
B2 Makoto Shinkai Has a Goatee
B3 M is for Moe
B4 Is the Order a Blastbeat?
B5 P is for Keikaku
B6 Fuwa Fuwa Grind

Album Credits

Recorded and mixed at the Weeb Dungeon by Andrew
Mastered by Colin Marston at Menegroth, the Thousand Caves
Layout by Kiryu Zhang
Inner illustration by Emmy Toyonaga
 


Line-up

Andrew - drums, guitar, vokills, bass

Harlan - lead guitar (Moe:Nani?, P is for Keikaku)
Dave Callier - lead guitar (War Bad)
Leon - lead guitar (Makoto Shinkai has a Goatee)
Brandon - vocals (Is the Order a Blastbeat?)
Sleazy Derek - vocals (Ruptured in Akkariin)
Tom G - vocals (Endless Eight Part 2

BIO

Andrew met goremaster Harlan at a Fake Meat/RTS show in Taiwan of 2019, who invited him to play with Extremely Brutal at Antimusic Fest the same year. Inspired by learning EB's gore riffs and his love of anime, Andrew started his own one man mincecore/goregrind band, and released 4 demos/splits in the space of 5 months under his own banner of Outrageous Weeb Power Productions.
 
 


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