Meth Leppard - Gatekeepers (2025)

Saw Australian grind duo Meth Leppard live a few days ago (at Les Passagers du Zinc in Besançon, with promising local grinders Proudhon and Travolta from Belgium who also put up a good show) and it felt a bit like being hit by a demolition truck. Believe it or not, I enjoyed it! Vocals are a bit too uniform, but cool riffing and the drummer is a relentless beast. What about their second album, Gatekeepers? Might be the best release yet, with the inclusion of slightly more nuanced moments, while staying pure old school grind rampage.

 

The BC page. 

 

Meth Leppard - Woke (2020)

Finally, a first album from the Australian grind duo Meth Leppard! Five years after their start (and a demo and several splits, some reviewed on this blog, Here). Woke is a fine piece of pure grindcore, in the vein of Napalm Death or Extreme Noise Terror, but with a modern sound.
If you need your grind dose, this one will perfectly do! Good stuff.

The BC page.

Meth leppard / Blight Worms - split (2019)

Really good old school grindcore split (roughly six minutes for each sides) released by Psychocontrol Records with two Australian bands. I follow Meth Leppard since their demo in 2015 and this time again they don't disappoint. Blight Worms is another new grind band that I'm discovering with this release and they are good as well. It's this kind of split that are keeping this grind tradition much alive and exciting. Good stuff.

The BC page.

Meth Leppard / Deterioration - split 7'' (2018)

I knew the Australian grind band Meth Leppard since their demo in 2015 and I like their old school Napalm Death inspired grind, I'm discovering Deterioration thanks to this split, a grind band from the US, also on the old school spectrum of grind, and I like what they do as well. A very good split of pure grind done right. 

The Meth Leppard side on BC

The Deterioration side on BC

Meth Leppard - Demo tape (2015)

Meth Leppard is a new grind duo from Adelaide (Australia) wih guys from Powerxchuck and Seminal Embalmment, they are releasing (with Bloody Scythe Records) a demo tape (limited to 100 copies). This demo happens to be very good  old school grind in a Napalm death vein (and I'm not saying that just because the last track of the tape is a cover of "Siege of power"). the demo is six song (five originals plus the ND cover), and there's no filler. The production is good, especially for a demo (but is a tape released by a label still a demo? anyway...). Their main strengh is the riffs which are really good, bringing some good grooves and a "catchy" feel in a good grind way. The songs are short and fast, but with mid tempo parts that will helps the riffs to crawl into your ears and brains. This is a really good first release, simple but highly enjoyable grind.

The BC page (just one track from the tape at the moment).