Any band that elects to describe itself as "space grind" is going to be a little out of the ordinary, but when Norwegian freaks Psudoku use the term, they really, really mean it. Psudoku is the mega-warped brainchild of Papirmøllen (the lunatic behind one-man grindcore project Parlamentarisk Sodomi), and has just released a new record via Nerve Altar in conjunction with 625 and Crucificados. Plantetarisk Sudoku is the weirdest grindcore-ish recording I've ever heard, and I've spent a lot of time listening to blastbeats. The project professes to take more inspiration from Naked City and Magma than traditional grind like Napalm Death, and it shows—this is either the most brutal free jazz-cum-Krautrock-cum-prog album ever recorded, or the inadvertent pinnacle of unnatural grindcore progression. This makes Gridlink look like Enya.According to the band's bio, the album is comprised of "four long tracks of space grind with guest appearances by Anders Hana (vocals), Inge Breistein (saxophone) and Wei Li (vocals). It was recorded next year in a parallel universe where grind didn't develop from hardcore punk and thrash metal but from 70s prog from the future." It also takes a big steaming intergalactic shit all over what we expect grind to sound like. This is a whole new breed of extremity.Buy it on limited vinyl here, and stream the whole manic mess below…if you can handle it.Kim Kelly is ensconced within Repulsion's comforting embrace on Twitter.
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