Jhyappa

Thrilling proof that grindcore is a global language, CHEPANG are legends in their native Nepal. Now based in New York City, they must surely be destined for a WORMROT-style international breakthrough, particularly now that those sensible people at Relapse Records have snapped them up.The grittiness and grime that we expect from Big Apple brutalists is in abundance on "Jhyappa", but the band's self-styled "immigrindcore" is firmly rooted in the crazed intensity of the blastbeat-obsessed East, ...

Vier Typen aus Nepal und ein Kerl mit kolumbianischen Roots residieren im New Yorker Stadtteil Queens und scheppern dort um die Wette. CHEPANG spielen ruppigen Grindcore, reichern ihn aber mit folkloristischen Sprengseln an und singen zudem in nepalesischem Slang, was zu Textzeilen wie „Tero ghetro reti, chaati chiri, mutu luchi, tersyaunechu fokso sahit“ führt, wo