The first waves of summer’s intense heat have been sweeping the northern hemisphere, and today I am tasked with raising the heat a little more. Forgive me, my fellow sweaty people, for I must expose the newest music video from Connecticut mathgrind outfit, NEWANDYKE, and it has every possibility of making you move, thrash, slam dance, and spontaneously organize a wall of death wherever you may run across this. Be gentle with your surroundings and offer water to anyone caught in the crossfire. Stay hydrated yourself. “Consequential Madness” is too good to not blast loudly and get hyped about. Check it out!
NEWANDYKE aren’t newcomers. The quartet was originally active between 2001 and 2005, playing with notable acts in the scene and releasing multiple EPs and demos. After a two-decade hiatus, NEWANDYKE returned with a new EP, Consequential Madness, last year, proving that age and time can’t deconstruct the violent and precise grind that dwells in their souls. The eponymous single and video merge as layered bursts of psychological horror erupting though the cracks of dystopia, there are unexpected turns that nearly cause whiplash, but are held together by the return to malicious, pulverizing grindcore. This is fast, gnarly music with an equally flashy video accompaniment by Poorly Crafted Music Videos.
Consequential Madness was released on August 8, 2025 and offers the kind of technicality and dynamic shifts that is often overlooked in the grind world. Yeah, it is intense and fits into grind, but with a refined edge that stabs into your frontal cortex, severing what you thought you knew about grindcore with surgical precision. Though brief, the EP scratches a specific itch and gets bonus points for closing with a Majority Rule cover that fucks shit up as well as their original songs. You can purchase the digital album on NEWANDYKE‘s Bandcamp and give them a follow on Instagram. Now hydrate, sucka.
