Album Review: Escuela Grind – Memory Theater (MNRK Heavy)

Carl Fisher 2 min read

Massachusetts metallic hardcore/grind foursome Escuela Grind will release their new album, Memory Theater on the 30th of September via MNRK Heavy.

Let’s not beat around the bush here. There’s simply no point spouting bullshit when it comes to describing what Escuela Grind are and what they have produced here with Memory Theater.

It’s nine tracks and around 22 minutes of grim and nasty metallic grind and hardcore-infused noise. Where sense and order has been abandoned and all that remains is the sound of chaos. The sound of pure and unbridled dissonance. Where just a handful of words can describe it in the most accurate way possible and those are ‘fucking furious’.

We’re not just talking about Escuela Grind there. Go into this in a bad mood and you’ll come out with an even worse one. Feeling happy and sunny today? Memory Theater will bury that under mounds of savagery. It’s misery incarnate and because of that, it’s so freaking enjoyable.

Yes, for all the noise that Escuela Grind spit out, their talent for making it, shines through. This is an impressive example of ridiculous amounts of heavy. That this revolting ferocity can sound so listenable, is amazing.

It’s partially because Escuela Grind come across believably angry. The passion exuded from every fibre of this band comes through strongly. It’s also partially because unmitigated musical chaos always has an appeal and there’s few better examples that have been released this year.

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If all of that wasn’t enough, this album betrays the standard grind fare of short and sharp tracks. Here we get tracks that actually pass the three-minute mark. You won’t believe that Escuela Grind can possibly make such a cacophony for that length of time but the proof is right here and it’s pretty damn good.

Escuela Grind – Memory Theater Full Track Listing:

1. Endowed with Windows
2. My Heart, My Hands
3. Cliffhanger
4. Strange Creature of Nothingness
5. Faulty Blueprints
6. All Is Forgiven
7. Forced Collective Introspection
8. The Feed
9. Memory Theater




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