SKiN GRAFT Records is over the moon to share that three new acts have joined the label’s storied roster of artists. Coming to the fore in 2024 are North Hollywood’s masked sci-fi grindcore annihilists SQUID PISSER, Japan’s stunning stripped-down minimalists HYPER GAL and the US-Italy avant-metal-noise-rock supergroup BUÑUEL.
These three bands join the previously announced new arrivals – Berlin’s noise-wave iconoclasts CUNTROACHES and Minneapolis’s UPRIGHT FORMS (headed by ex-Dazzling Killmen singer-guitarist Nick Sakes), as well as the recently reactivated YOWIE, who will debut their new line-up at this year’s Subterranean Dissonance Fest.
SQUID PISSER
Delivered via the manic pedalboard wizardry and sophisticated finger work of guitarist Tommy Meehan (Cancer Christ, Deaf Club, Cartoon Network) and the utterly brutal and savage drumming of Seth Carolina (Starcrawler), SQUID PISSER’s tightly controlled, futuristic hardcore-onslaught of amped-up rainbow vomit is a thing of throbbing, mucous-laden beauty. Conceptualized and formed in 2022, SQUID PISSER decided to fully utilize planet Earth’s viral slumber in order to gestate, write, and record – resulting in the opening salvo ‘My Tadpole Legion’ (Three One G / Sweatband) and a spattering of live shows, already the stuff of legend.
HYPER GAL
Springing from Osaka, Japan’s cultural center and historical heart, comes HYPER GAL, a two-piece band consisting of visual artist Koharu Ishida on vocals and noise artist Kurumi Kadoya on drums. The minimalist duo make maximum impact – stripping music down beyond the bare essentials, to create shimmering, no wave pop from blastbeat drums, glittery keyboard loops and ethereal bubblegum vocals – laced with velvet and firecrackers.
BUÑUEL
BUÑUEL is heavy. The sound of a difficult situation made worse by an unwillingness and an inability to play nice. Produced by a literal supergroup of global significance, BUÑUEL boasts the sound work of the Italian trio of guitarist Xabier Iriondo (Afterhours, A Short Apnea), the bass of Andrea Lombardini (The Framers), and the drums of Francesco Valente (Il Teatro Degli Orrori), along with the singular vocals and lyrics of Eugene S. Robinson (Oxbow).
