BAND OF THE DAY: GRIDE

The history of the Czech Republic's Gride is almost typical of Czech grind as a whole, of its stalwart ethics, sense of purpose and its triumph over day to day shitfuckery. Almost, but not quite. While others endlessly pillage the dusty old manuscriptsof powerviolence orthodoxy, Gride have taken an odder, but no less furious path - making them fellow travellers with the likes of Total Fucking Destruction, Japanische Kampfhörspiele, Drugs Of Faith and anyone else in an Extreme Noise Terror patch jacket who suddenly had a moment of awakening three bong hits into their first Jesus Lizard album.

Since forming in 1996, the five-piece have weathered the typical storm of line-up changes and fuck-ups, evolving from a traditional crust-grind assault to something more awkward and dissonant. Incorporating elements of off-kilter alternative rock on their 2008 full-length 'Horizont Udalosti' – like Helmet and Fugazi blended at dizzying speeds with a handful of broken glass – they've remained fiercely tied to the scene that spawned them, releasing recent splits with the utterly righteous Lycanthropy and the now defunct post-hardcore unit Thema 11, tearing apart stages in fields and in squats.

Catch them at this year's Obscene Extreme.