Photo by Gomez
Today blistering grindcore force CHEPANG shares their video for “Nirnaya.” The track comes off their Relapse Records debut album, Jhyappa, set for release on May 23rd.
The band comments, “‘Nirnaya’ is about making the ultimate decision to finally kill all your inner demons and negativity inside you and to come out victorious.”
Watch CHEPANG’s “Nirnaya” video, directed by Gomez, HERE
Watch the band’s previously released video for the album’s opening tracks “Parichaya 2.0 / Shakti (Force).” HERE and their “Gatichad” visualizer HERE.
Jhyappa will be released on CD, LP, cassette, and digital formats. Find preorders at Relapse.com HERE.
CHEPANG will perform the Jhyappa album in is entirety later this month at Maryland Deathfest on the album’s release date of May 23rd! The band will also celebrate the release of Jhyappa on July 5th in Brooklyn at TV Eye! Stay tuned for more tour announcements.
CHEPANG Live:
5/23/2025 Maryland Deathfest – Baltimore, MD
7/05/2025 TV Eye – Ridgewood, NY *Record Release Show w/ Drugs Of Faith, Vixen Maw, Kartel
Hailing from Queens, New York, by way of Kathmandu, Nepal, CHEPANG has never been your by-the-numbers band. They dub their music “immigrindcore” and use samples from Nepali pop songs. They sing in Nepali. They embrace their immigrant identities. CHEPANG melds these elements together into an album about self-immolation as a means of self-preservation. Jhyappa touches on these philosophies through a ferocious grindcore attack that sounds as violent as the means through which the band wishes to achieve redemption.
Jhyappa was recorded and mixed by Kevin Bernsten (Full Of Hell, Integrity, ILSA) at Developing Nations and The Magpie Cage Recording Studios (drums only) and mastered by James Plotkin (Electric Wizard, Thou, Gridlink).
The lyrics on Jhyappa are “hardcore Nepalese,” guitarist Kshitiz Moktan says. “This record is more personal,” he says, about “trying to relearn everything about yourself, releasing all your negative energy inside you.” Jhyappa’s cover art by Masato Chaos is based on self-immolation. But not “about any religion or any government; it’s against yourself. Everyone has their struggles, in their own head and in life, but the only one that can fix that is you,” Moktan explains. “One has to be closer to one’s self spiritually to defeat this and come out victorious.”
NYC is also referenced throughout the band’s output. “All of us have lived half of our lives here. We live here, we see everything, positive and negative, so we wanted to have some kind of New York [vibe],” Moktan says. On the streets and in the subways, the band always sees “many people of different colors and races with their own life and story to tell. These are dynamic cues in life and serve as a motivation and also pride to be a part of this big city where diversity is everything. A melting pot of cultures.”
True to that mentality, CHEPANG has played the world over on the backs of their prior records. From playing Obscene Extreme in Czechia to tearing down the walls at Baltimore Soundstage as part of Maryland Deathfest, the band is poised to revisit the world-over once again with their unique grind.
Musically, the band decidedly wanted to call back to their first cult-collected 7” from 2016, Lathi Charge, and go full circle – old-school CHEPANG. Although Jhyappa is similar to their first EP sonically and structurally, a new metallic edge has crept its way into the band’s playing and is now present throughout. Blastbeats give way to crushing low end and no-frills, heavier-than-anything-else guitar passages. In true grindcore fashion, nine tracks stitch together a brutal package in under twenty minutes.
CHEPANG:
Bhotey Gore – vocals
Wreckless Life – noise
Gobinda Senchury – drums
Dipesh Hirachan – bass
Kshitiz Moktan – guitars
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