GRIDFAILURE: “Drunk On The Blood Of My Neighbor” Video Playing; Sixth Mass-Extinction Skulduggery III, Featuring Guests From Today Is The Day, Vastum, Les Chants Du Hasard, T.O.M.B., And More Out On Nefarious Industries

photos by David Brenner

GRIDFAILURE presents the final video from the faction’s uncompromising Sixth Mass-Extinction Skulduggery III, released in October on Nefarious Industries, with a visual accompaniment to the album’s “Drunk On The Blood Of My Neighbor.”

GRIDFAILURE‘s five-album concept series continues to follow the death of our ecosystem and humanity’s renaissance of self-mutilation with Sixth Mass-Extinction Skulduggery III: Acquiring A Taste, with tales of mass-enslavement of humans for consumption, rampant cannibalism, prevalent desire and addiction to homicide, warmongering conspiracy theorists in power, the reliance on AI, and more, amidst ever-worsening extreme weather disasters, as humanity loses the war we’ve waged upon our own planet. With over eighty minutes of confrontational battery, the record expands the project’s genre-bending experimentalism, with bizarre and theatrical excursions into jazz, classical, techno, folk, black metal, Americana, and more infused into its post-industrial/dark hardcore foundation. The series infuses material spanning GRIDFAILURE’s existence, with recordings dating back to 2015 and elements recorded outdoors during extreme weather events.

Sixth Mass-Extinction Skulduggery III sees GRIDFAILURE creator David Brenner supplying the effects-drenched primary vocals, guitars, bass, drums/percussion, keys, synth, violin, theremin, found sounds/field recordings and more, while orchestrating the project’s most extensive cast of collaborators to date. Steve Austin (Today Is The Day) contributes additional lyrics, vocals, and guitar to five of the fifteen songs, which collectively feature Leila Abdul-Rauf (Vastum, Ionophore), Mac Gollehon (live/session for David Bowie, Duran Duran, Onyx, Blondie, Héctor Lavoe, Madonna), Benjamin Levitt (Megalophobe, GRIDFAILURE-live), Richard Muller (Giant Spider, GRIDFAILURE-live), Greg Meisenberg (A Fucking Elephant, Dead Register, GRIDFAILURE-live), Lane Oliver (Diminishing), Jeff Wilson (Chrome Waves, Deeper Graves, The Secrecy), Christopher Henry (Fuck Your Birthday, Humans Etcetera), Graham Scala (US Christmas, Interstitia, Bleach Everything), Dan Emery (Thetan), BJ Allen (Zero Trust, Xtinguish The Code), Clayton Bartholomew (Mountaineer), No One (T.O.M.B., Dossang Tempel), Morgan Evans (Walking Bombs), Hazard (Hasard, Les Chants Du Hasard), Pranjal Tiwari (Cardinal Wyrm, S.C.R.A.M.), Jared Stimpfl (Secret Cutter, Orphan Donor), Natan Vee (Cardinal Wyrm, Fyrhtu), Mike Giuliano (Big Happy), Josh Thorne (Cadaver Industry), Alex Haber, Rosa Henriquez, Pete Tsakiris, Isaac Campbell, and Rob Levitt.

Sixth Mass-Extinction Skulduggery III was performed, recorded, arranged and mixed by David Brenner at The Compound in Valley Cottage, New York, with some of the contributors’ elements recorded remotely. The album was mastered by Dan Emery at Black Matter Mastering in Nashville, Tennessee (Kool Keith, Steve Von Till, Krieg), and completed with cover art, design, photography, and videos by Brenner.

“Drunk On The Blood Of My Neighbor” sees Brenner joined by Leila Abdul-Rauf, Lane Oliver, Christopher Henry, Mac Gollehon, and Morgan Evans.

Watch GRIDFAILURE’s “Drunk On The Blood Of My Neighbor” alongside all prior videos in the series, the limited cassette box set, and more at Nefarious Industries HERE and Bandcamp HERE.

The three Sixth Mass-Extinction Skulduggery albums span the current unraveling of society, oblivious to the ongoing Anthropocene in which we’re immersed. The violent chapters of this triptych embody harbingers of the post-apocalyptic terrors to be told on the impending closing chapters of the album series – Teeth Collection and Drought Stick – which will be completed in 2026, GRIDFAILURE’s tenth year of existence.

GRIDFAILURE will perform a set at Darsombra Presents: Transmission – A Celebration For Ann Everton, the two-day tribute event taking place February 28th and March 1st at the Ottobar in Baltimore.

GRIDFAILURE Live:
2/28-3/01/2026 Darsombra Presents: Transmission – A Celebration For Ann Everton @ Ottobar – Baltimore, MD [tickets]

“…its inspirations are vast, with at least a dozen disparate genres forming the foundation of this record… GRIDFAILURE’s massive undertaking here pays off more than it doesn’t. Even if Sixth Mass-Extinction isn’t right about our bleak future, it’ll make you feel like it’s already here.” – Decibel Magazine

“GRIDFAILURE’s aim is to transport you into the fetid jaws of a post-apocalyptic world where humanity has reverted to animal levels of morality… audio panic worthy of a film score. Whether you can stomach it more than once is another question.” – Scream Blast Repeat

“…a compelling listen as the chaos coheres into something uniquely powerful… It is a demanding listen, but one that rewards those willing to confront its diverse yet unrelenting focus.” – Avant Music News

“…completely unique and downright terrifying… GRIDFAILURE must be applauded for creating an album that is this unique and out there.” – Metal Epidemic