From the Missouri Division of Conservation web site: “Hellgrammites are the aquatic larval stage of dobsonflies. The pinnacle is supplied with a pair of sharp pincers that can ship a painful (however innocent) chew.” From some comedian guide web site: “Hellgrammite (Roderik Rose) is a supervillain showing in comedian books printed by DC Comics, generally as an enemy of Superman, Batman, the Creeper, Inexperienced Arrow and Black Canary. Rose is an entomologist who topics himself to a mutagenic course of that transforms him right into a grasshopper-like insectoid. He has superhuman bodily skills and may crawl on partitions and generate sturdy cocoons. Quite a lot of his schemes revolve round remodeling others into weaker, subordinate variations of himself, resulting in clashes with Batman and the Creeper in The Courageous and the Daring #80, and with Inexperienced Arrow and the Black Canary in World’s Most interesting Comics #248-249.” From this very web site a mere two months in the past: “[lead single ‘Bayonet’] is a lurching, swirling, stuttering crusher crammed with noisy, atonal guitars, larynx-shredding vocals and exact, dense rhythm part.”
Along with all the above, Denver’s Hellgrammites are an rising power on the scene which mixes steel, punk, hardcore, crossover and rock with no care on the planet exterior of “does it rock and do the lyrics say one thing?” Pushed by “political division, systemic oppression, and the battle for self-accountability” as they’re music hailing from Minneapolis, the Pacific Northwest, the SF Bay Space and scads of midwest basements, the band are on the cusp of issuing their sixth recording, an EP entitled Ethos, which we’re airing a stream of right here at the moment. Partially recorded on the world well-known Blasting Room in Fort Collins, CO, Ethos places on show each the uncooked and polished parts of Hellgrammites’ sound and suggestions its hat to Refused through a canopy of their “Fairly Be Useless,” a sentiment many are feeling for the time being. Ethos is formally launched tomorrow on Misplaced Future Information with the band scheduled to play within the Denver space in help of the EP earlier than nudging additional afield and hitting the highway regionally to wherever demand takes them.
HELLGRAMMITES LIVE 2025:
05/16 Denver, CO – The Oriental Theater
05/24 Denver, CO – Hello-Dive
Hyperlinks:
www.instagram.com/hellgrammitesmusic/
open.spotify.com/artist/2bJgjTMKKvG84HQWUBaMOJ
