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Below is our complete Gridfailure news coverage, including columns and articles pertaining to the band. Some articles listed may be indirectly related, such as side projects of the band members, etc.
Gridfailure Premieres "I Shall Not Survive..."
From amidst the forests just north of New York City, the cult of Gridfailure continues to spew its discordant brew of off-kilter experimental terror with the release of "I Shall Not Survive Another Winter" this Friday for the Autumnal Equinox. No Echo is now streaming the whole recording, which you can check out over here, or simply in the player below.
Each song on "I Shall Not Survive Another Winter" grows longer than the one preceding it, the record further exploring full-on post-apocalyptic dementia; a vision of Post-Sixth Mass-Extinction Skullduggery which is the concept of the upcoming Teeth Collection and Drought Stick albums and several surrounding mini-releases portraying a grim vision of humanity's future. A nearby reality where those who have survived mankind's override by artificial intelligence, the ecological rebellion of our planet, and thermonuclear warfare amidst our own kind strive to rebuild society, and are continually thwarted. Thriving only amidst the gutters and back-alleys of a scorched culture, Gridfailure's sound reflects this impending cross-contamination of horrors.
The track list for the album is:
1. Cabal
2. Sew Nothing, Reap Nothingness
3. Pact Rejection
4. It's Too Late For Me, It's Too Late For You
5. Hara-Kiri Superstars
6. Never Was
7. I Shall Not Survive Another Winter
8. No Longer Communicable
Check out the album here: More...
Gridfailure Streams "Cut The Hard Line"
New York solo outfit Gridfailure will issue the demoralizing "Scathed" album next week through DIY dark ambient/noise label Darker Days Ahead.
Today the grinding "Cut The Hard Line," one of the more abstract/ambient noise-based tracks from "Scathed," has come online and can be heard below.
If you missed it, previously released track "Condescender" can also still be heard over here. "Scathed" will see free digital download and handmade CDR release through Minneapolis-based Darker Days Ahead on June 2nd. More...
Gridfailure Posts "Condescender"
Long-running underground music zine Aversionline just premiered a new track from the upcoming "Scathed" album by New York solo outfit Gridfailure, which will see release in early June through Darker Days Ahead.
Check out the track "Condescender" below, which Aversionline calls "a six-minute spread of sinister dark ambient swaths, murky melodies, and vengeful vocal textures."
Unloading ten defeating new anthems for hallucinogenic seppuku, Gridfailure's "Scathed" sees minister of propaganda David Brenner delivering unpredictable wrath through unhinged power dementia. Paranoia-inducing atmospheres surround punishing vocal torrents, which writhe forth from the rubble of eroded guitars and bass, aneurythmic beats, lunatic keys/synth, theremin, didgeridoo, xylophone, harmonica, and more.
"Scathed" will see free digital download and handmade CDR release through Minneapolis-based Darker Days Ahead on June 2nd. More...
Gridfailure Announces "Scathed" Release
New York solo outfit Gridfailure purges forth some of its most tortured output yet with "Scathed," which will see release in early June with DIY/experimental label Darker Days Ahead. The record's "Gaze Of Aversion" is now streaming below.
While many recent Gridfaulre titles infuse collaborations and contributions from a wide range of henchpersons, "Scathed" is void of any participants, as creator David Brenner solely unloads ten unpredictable and defeating new anthems for hallucinogenic seppuku.
Layered with seismic and eroded guitars and bass, percussive lunacy, homicidal keys/synth, theremin, didgeridoo, xylophone, harmonica, and more, these songs writhe forth from surreal atmospheres, and deliver the most scorned vocal evisceration from the outfit to date.
Due out as a free digital download and handmade CDR through Minneapolis-based Darker Days Ahead on June 2nd, the album's track listing is as follows:
1. Collecting The Blood We Spilled On Your Lands To Feed The Crops On Ours
2. Gaze Of Aversion
3. Infection In The Treatment Area
4. Just Relax
5. Cut The Hard Line
6. Scathed
7. Disappointing Warrior
8. Condescender
9. The King's Highway Ripper
10. Raze More...
Gridfailure Streaming Collab Album
"Dendritic," the new avant/ambient collaborative album by New York groups Gridfailure and Megalophobe, will see release on Arbor Day (this Friday, April 28th). The artists are currently planting trees across the Lower Hudson Valley region in conjunction with the record, and today an advance stream has come online.
Fusing guitars, accordion, trumpet, keyboards, analog synth, mbira, theremin, harmonica, didgeridoo, trumpet, vocals, effects, and a variety of vocal styles, Gridfailure & Megalaphobe's "Dendritic" ebbs with hints of mellow prog and jazz, demoralizing noise/drone buildups, nature recordings captured in several countries, and more into ambient soundscapes, abstract dreamscapes, and a uniquely experimental overall sound.
Guest contributions include trumpet by Mac Gollehon (David Bowie, Miles Davis, Blondie, Onyx, Duran Duran), vocals by Leila Abdul-Rauf (Vastum, Ionophore, Cardinal Wyrm) and Friederike Schüür, guitar by Liz Ciavarella-Brenner, Rob Levitt, and Christian Molenaar (Those Darn Gnomes), and field recordings from Jon Paris (Rack). More...
Gridfailure Streaming "Hostile Alchemy"
NYC-area experimental project Gridfailure just released "Hostile Alchemy," a nine-track soundtrack to a crumbling political world order, a dying ecosystem, and a worldwide race to thermonuclear apocalypse. In other words, the album was constructed during the 2016 U.S. election cycle.
With oppressing instrumentation and vocals by Gridfailure creator David Brenner (ex-Theologian, ex-Heidnik), "Hostile Alchemy" features guest contributions from a wide cast of allies including Leila Abdul-Rauf (Vastum, Ionophore, Cardinal Wyrm), Mark Deutrom (Bellringer, ex-Melvins), Jeff Wilson (Wolvhammer, Abigail Williams, Chrome Waves), Faith Ciavarella, Pete Tsakiris, Benjamin Levitt (Megalophobe), Christian Molenaar (Those Darn Gnomes), Alexei Korolev (The Company Corvette), and more.
The full "Hostile Alchemy" album is streaming now at Bandcamp (and in the palyer below) where each sale in March/April plants a tree for Arbor Day. More...
Gridfailure Streams "Target Rich Environment"
Experimental/dark ambient project Gridfailure will issue the politically-charged "Hostile Alchemy" record next week (March 24th, 2017), deploying "Target Rich Environment" into the population early today.
"Target Rich Environment" features guest trumpet by Leila Abdul-Rauf and synth by Jeff Wilson in addition to the vocals, bass, guitar, percussion, electronics, field recordings, and more by Gridfailure's David Brenner.
1. Unveiled Abyss
2. Target Rich Environment
3. Kompromat
4. Mannequins
5. Surrogates
6. EMP ASAP
7. Scourge Telepathy
8. Hostile Alchemist
9. Fallout Curtain More...
Gridfailure Announces "Hostile Alchemy"
Gridfailure will release new "Hostile Alchemy" EP in the coming weeks as the experimental outfit acknowledges one year of auditory disruption.
Conceived in the final weeks of the 2016 election cycle in protest to the profoundly destructive and misinformation-fueled current style of politics we're witnessing, "Hostile Alchemy" delivers nine tracks which bare a more reality-based intent than the outfit's customary horror.
In addition to suffocating layers of instrumentation and vocals by Gridfailure creator David Brenner, "Hostile Alchemy" features guest contributions from a wide cast of allies including Leila Abdul-Rauf (Vastum, Ionophore, Cardinal Wyrm), Faith Ciavarella, Mark Deutrom (Bellringer, ex-Melvins), Jeff Wilson (Wolvhammer, Abigail Williams, Chrome Waves), Pete Tsakiris, Benjamin Levitt (Megalophobe), Christian Molenaar (Those Darn Gnomes), Alexei Korolev (The Company Corvette), and more.
Gridfailure will digitally release "Hostile Alchemy" on March 24th with a physical entity of the record to follow. The band's second full-length, "Teeth Collection," will then be completed in the coming weeks for release in the spring, with sprawling third album, "Drought Stick," directly behind it. More...
Gridfailure Releases New Video
Gridfailure has completed and released the project's first video, created for the track "Paranoia Will Not Coagulate." The soloist also confirms several new recordings to see release over the coming months.
"Paranoia Will Not Coagulate" comes from the debut Gridfailure album "Ensuring The Bloodline Ends Here," which was released in May 2016 through The Compound Recs.
The outfit has since recorded and completed several other new titles, yet returns to the debut album for a series of videos beginning here. Captured in various sectors of New York and Pennsylvania over the Summer, the visual stimulant for the song was solely filmed and edited by the outfit's lone creator. More...
Gridfailure Releasing Split EP
The split EP between East Coast solo/experimental acts, Never Presence Forever and Gridfailure, has been completed for independent release in December. Today an early stream comes on line and can be heard below.
The split will see independent release on December 23rd in a run of 100 cassettes and digitally through both artist's Bandcamp portals. The track listing is as follows:
Side A: NEVER PRESENCE FOREVER
1. Unwell
2. 12205
Side B: GRIDFAILURE
1. Lifecycles Decay More...
Gridfailure Offering EP For Download
Gridfailure's "Further Layers Of Societal Collapse" EP is now infecting the masses through a free digital download at Bandcamp here.
With seven tracks harnessing twenty-six minutes of harrowing dementia, "Further Layers Of Societal Collapse" meshes the ghostly elements of dark ambient, power electronics, and industrial metal.
1. A Severing Of Ties 03:26
2. Digital Crush 04:51
3. Android Infusion 01:50
4. Get Fucked Dance 02:57
5. Broken Systems 02:47
6. Indian Point Disaster Direct Proximity Warning Tester 02:45
7. Woodlands Of Self-Impalement 07:37 More...
Gridfailure Shares "Digital Crush"
Gridfailure's "Further Layers Of Societal Collapse" EP is impending its free digital distribution on Samhain 2016, and today new track "Digital Crush" is leaked online.
"Further Layers Of Societal Collapse" delivers nearly a half-hour of unharnessed dementia, infiltrating additional realms of biomechanical madness, meshing ghostly and fractured elements of dark ambient, power electronics, and industrial metal.
1. A Severing Of Ties
2. Digital Crush
3. Android Infusion
4. Get Fucked Dance
5. Broken Systems
6. Indian Point Direct Proximity Warning Tester
7. Woodlands Of Self-Impalement (streaming here) More...
Gridfailure Streaming New Song
A new track from Gridfailure is now playing online in conjunction with the announcement of an impending free digital EP.
"Further Layers Of Societal Collapse" presents several random recordings which see the outfit's works infiltrate further realms of biomechanical madness, meshing ghostly and fractured elements of dark ambient, power electronics, and industrial metal with the confrontational wrath of tectonic hardcore.
Check out advance track "Woodlands Of Self-Impalement" below. Gridfailure will offer "Further Layers Of Societal Collapse" as a free download on October 30th through Bandcamp. The track listing is as follows:
1. A Severing Of Ties
2. Digital Crush
3. Android Infusion
4. Get Fucked Dance
5. Broken Systems
6. Indian Point Direct Proximity Warning Tester
7. Woodlands Of Self-Impalement More...
Gridfailure Streaming Full New Album
Today - Friday the 13th - Gridfailure launches "Ensuring The Bloodline Ends Here" via The Compound Recs.
The album bears eight movements performed, recorded, and produced entirely by David Brenner (Theologian, ex-Heidnik), who misuses a variety of guitars, basses, violins, harmonica, keyboards, electronics, chimes, drums, while infusing elements of incineration, physical ailments, weather systems, faunae, and other auditory unpredictability.
The entire album has now come online and can be heard in the player below. The album's full track listing is:
1. Shedding The Husk
2. Self-Exile
3. Ensuring The Bloodline Ends Here
4. Apparitions Revenge
5. Paranoia Will Not Coagulate
6. Shackled, A Crown Aflame
7. Traumatized By This New Reality
8. Welcoming Pyroclastic Eradication More...
Gridfailure Streaming "Self-Exile"
As torturous new experimental outfit Gridfailure prepares for the "Ensuring The Bloodline Ends Here" release on Friday the 13th, today the record's "Self-Exile" track has come online.
A soundtrack to which the listener may feel driven to podcast their own snuff film live, or explore creative surgery tactics on unsuspecting neighbors, "Ensuring The Bloodline Ends Here" is a curious mutant; an unforeseen entity which was only conceived three months ago. Listen in below, if you dare. The album's full track listing is:
1. Shedding The Husk
2. Self-Exile
3. Ensuring The Bloodline Ends Here
4. Apparitions Revenge
5. Paranoia Will Not Coagulate
6. Shackled, A Crown Aflame
7. Traumatized By This New Reality
8. Welcoming Pyroclastic Eradication More...
Gridfailure Posts "Apparitions Revenge"
Gridfailure is the unforeseen, disharmonic outcome of an experiment that rapidly spiraled out of control in very recent weeks. Barely two months old, the solo outfit has completed a full-length album set for release in May via The Compound Recs, and today sheds the track "Apparitions Revenge" from the demoralizing effort.
The genesis of Gridfailure unexpectedly took place in February of 2016 when solitary member David Brenner (Theologian, ex-Heidnik, Vise Massacre, etc.) began to conduct disturbing Frankensteinian experimentation on material collected from various solo recording sessions over several months prior.
With no forethought as to what these sessions were to become, while layering these disturbing and off-kilter recordings, the mutated pieces began cannibalizing each other in an uncontrollable downfall; instead of ending the experiment under acres of hard earth immediately, the confused creator dove headlong into the abyss. More...