Release Date June 6th, 2026
Format CD
Genre Grindcore
Origin USA
Mental Anguish comes from the Buffalo and Niagara underground, with members connected to acts such as Immortal Terror, Grotesque Infection, Eternal Torment, Arsenic Disposal, and Anthropic. Their background is rooted in Western New York extreme music, and this self-titled release on CDN Records brings that experience into short, violent grindcore built on speed, filth, and blunt impact.
"Mental Anguish" is a raw grindcore release with no patience for padding. The songs are short, the riffs are sharp, the drumming is violent, and the vocals come out like factory alarm noise over collapsing machinery. Chris Hull’s voice gives the material a feral edge, Carl Pace’s guitar work slices fast, Russ Martin adds a heavy low-end grind, and Jim Santillo drums like the kit owes him money.
The production is rough in the right way, loud enough to damage the walls, dirty enough to match the style, and not cleaned up into some lifeless modern extreme metal product. Tracks like "Construct Of Fear", "Perilous Grasp", and "Whore Of Babylon" show the band’s main weapon, short blasts of speed, grinding riffs, and zero patience for decoration. It is not subtle, and subtlety would be useless here.
There are limits. Some parts blur together, and the release relies more on attack than on variation. At this score level, that matters. The band has the right attitude, the right background, and the right ugliness, though the songwriting could use more moments that leave a deeper mark after the noise stops. As a first strike, it does its job with enough violence to get noticed.
"Mental Anguish" is a good grindcore release from people who know the underground from the inside. It is fast, mean, and stripped down, with enough filth and aggression to satisfy anyone into old-school grind and no-nonsense extremity. It is not top-tier yet, and it has space to become nastier and more distinctive, though for a debut punch, it leaves bruises.
|7.0
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