BLIND IDIOT GOD, bbigpigg, Cellular Chaos, Clean Girls

The band has shared the stage with artists like John Zorn (a collaborator who released their third album on Avant Records), Helmet, Black Flag, The Minutemen, Sonic Youth, Die Kreuzen, Don Caballero, Jesus Lizard, Napalm Death, HR, Eekamouse among many others.

Noisey/VICE enthused "Blind Idiot God is back, and they're somehow even bigger, louder, and heavier than ever." and BLURT calls the band "heavy skronk merchants." Sounds Magazine declared "[Blind Idiot God] summon up an instrumental music of horrific, towering, scale."

Blind Idiot God is Andy Hawkins on guitar and Tim Wyskida (Khanate) on drums. Gabe Katz, the band's original bass player is featured on the album but moving forward Will Dahl is the band's new bass player live and in the studio. Touring in support of the new album is planned for later this year.

The thirteen tracks on Before Ever After are 1. "Twenty Four Hour Dawn," 2. "Night Driver," 3. "Antiquity," 4. "Earthmover," 5. "FUB," 6. "Barrage," 7. "High and Mighty," 8. "Voice of the Structure," 9. "Under the Weight," 10. "Ramshackle," 11. "Wheels of Progress," 12. "Strung," and 13. "Shutdown."


The frantic slam of NYC quartet Cellular Chaos draws a bit on the no-wave leanings of their guitarist Weasel Walter as well as the quivering frenzy of his excellent 1990s band Lake of Dracula. But there's something of-the-moment about their sound too, especially in the urgency of singer Admiral Grey, whose rangy warble led Lydia Lunch to dub her the "anti-Karen O". On "Adviser," from the band's self-titled debut, her voice rises as the music swells and stands firm as it threatens to fall apart, climaxing in a burst of yelped vowels. The tune's bleeding energy shares a spirit with Erase Errata's sharp angles and Perfect Pussy's crashing speed, but Cellular Chaos' fire has a singular crackle, one that sounds pretty impossible to extinguish.