Review: Dystopiate – Filth Film

Review by Sandre the Giant Released: 6th April 2026 The new record from Boston’s crusty hardcore grindpunk Dystopiate is the work of Chris Maillet, a New England underground lifer by the look of his Metal Archives page, most notably work in ambient industrial black metal project Cryostasium (on writing this review, I discovered I actually have a Cryostasium album in my collection and had no memory of how I got it). But ‘Filth Film’ has much more of a grind and punk approach to its blackened ferocity, and it is out now through I Heart Noise Records. A cocktail of explosive hardcore punk, Discharge, Venom and Motorhead, Dystopiate come battering from the gates with ‘Filth Film Trailer’, barrelling relentlessly into the rest of the record with nary regard for anyone’s safety. ‘Infiltrator’ feels like first wave black metal mixed with some gnarly d-beat fury, crust punk and a rabid hardcore edge that reminds me a little of Disfear without that guitar tone, even squeezing a Tom G. Warrior…

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