GRIDLINK - USA

Amber Gray - 2008 - Hydra Head
Orphan - 2011 - Hydra Head
Longhena - 2014 - Selfmadegod
Coronet Juniper - 2023 - Willowtip

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Members
Vocals
Sedition, Discordance Axis, Hayaino Daisuki, War Chalking, No One Knows What The Dead Think>>EVA05 [JON CHANG]>>Discordance Axis, Hayaino Daisuki, No One Knows What The Dead Think

Guitar
Mortalized, Congenital Hell, Hayaino Daisuki, Retortion Terror, Solo, Formless Master, Killseduction, Birth And Loss, Sex Virgin Killer, Barren Path>>MATSUBARA TAKAFUMI>>Congenital Hell, Hayaino Daisuki, Retortion Terror, Solo, Formless Master, Killseduction, Birth And Loss, Sex Virgin Killer, Barren Path - Human Remains, Discordance Axis>>Steve Procopio

Bass
Eternal Aggression, Human Remains, Hayaino Daisuki, Burnt By The Sun>>Teddy Patterson>>Eternal Aggression, Graven - Dzoavits, Maruta, Code/Error, Ozaru>>MAURO CORDOBA>>Maruta, Code/Error, Shock Withdrawal, Ozaru, Barren Path

Drum
Phobia, Kill The Client, P.L.F., Noisear, Enemies Of Inertia, Rotten Sound, Cognizant, Assiduous Assault, Triage, Trucido, Captain Cleanoff, Flesh Parade>>BRYAN FAJARDO>>Phobia, Kill The Client, P.L.F., Noisear, Enemies Of Inertia, Rotten Sound, Cognizant, Assiduous Assault, Triage, Trucido, Captain Cleanoff, Barren Path, Flesh Parade




History & Biography
This act was founded in 2004. Chang and Takafumi met during the last Discordance Axis tour of Japan in 2001. The two started a heavy metal band, Hayaino Daisuki. GridLink was a secondary effort that followed that project. It featured Japanese drummer Terada Takiya of Melt-Banana and bassist Okada Keisuke (both of Glossectomy) at first before Jon was invited to join and released an album called Amber Gray in 2008. Okada, a sound engineer was supposed to mix this record. Three members were Japanese before the rhythm section departed. The 2008 album was promised as early as for 2005 initially. The guitarist was Japanese man Matsubara Takafumi and the cover artwork featured a man in a noh mask. The act was working on this record from the end of 2005 until the end of 2006. Upon joining Jon Chang brought a few tracks he had kept in his back pocket for an unrealized Discordance Axis album, and follow-up project War Chalking, with him.

Singer Chang ran a nascent anime and video studio called Studio Grey. In the interim, the act was booked for the GrindAid skate festival in Osaka, Japan, which was scheduled for May 2006. The second album came in 2011. The record added second guitarist Steve Procopio and a bassist called Teddy Patterson. The Japanese inspiration continued. Longhena switched gears and featured a serf from Metallian Towers on its cover. The second guitarist was gone and former Assück singer Paul Pavlovich appeared as a guest. Matsubara suffered a stroke in 2014 and was paralysed in the left hand. The man went into rehab and the band went into hiatus. This ended in 2022 and Matsubara was ready to grind.

USA-based grindcore group Gridlink released an album, entitled Coronet Juniper, through Willowtip Records in September 2023. Mauro Cordoba was on bass. This record included “karaoke” versions of its tracks as well. This idea was lifted from many japanese albums of course.

The band announced two back to back concerts for late October 2023 with different sets and merchandise for each night.These were billed as farewell, for a long time, concerts. The guitarist was flying in from Japan. Takafumi was involved in half a dozen acts despite his health issue and tendonitis and Jon was busy with his studio and businesses. John aside, the last incarnation's line-up regrouped in Barren Path. Two members were also in Ozaru.

The band’s lyrics often touched upon manga and comic books, as well as science fiction.


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