Chepang

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Time changes , seasons change , life & places change, however the spirit of friendship and family never dies …

We unite once again in KATHMANDU NEPAL to celebrate this spirit and HBD to the Hammer …

From NY to London to Paris to Kathmandu with ❤️

ANTIM BHET

Jan 3rd 2026
SATURDAY
3-6 PM
Purple Haze
KATHMANDU NEPAL

Moment captured by during Fest

❤️❤️❤️Thanks to everyone who has supported our music for the last decade .

🙏Special shout out to Developing Nations recording “Jhyappa” and Relapse Records for trusting us to release it . And of course Rolling Stones for including us in the year end list which means a lot .

🇳🇵We are headed back home NEPAL to celebrate “Jhyappa” in its entirety at Purple Haze, Kathmandu on Jan 3 (Saturday) 2026 . Please join us if you are in Nepal , we welcome you with love and grind only !!!!

Happy to announce that we will be back in Nepal 🇳🇵 for our 10 Year ANNIVERSARY show in Purple Haze, Kathmandu one FINAL time !

We will be performing our latest record “Jhyappa” in it’s entirety with our fellow grinders &

See you all for ANTIM BHET at PURPLE HAZE!!!

Jan 3 2026 - - Saturday - - 3 to 6 PM — RS 666

Some Awesome shots by during our set Fest a few weeks go !!!

Thank you Metal Hammer for the wonderful shout out !!!!

Rather than catching up with New-York-by-way-of-Nepal ‘immi-grindcore’ band Chepang at a sweat-dripping basement gig, Hammer chats to the band as they enjoy an out-of-state fishing trip – a sedate endeavour that speaks to the thoughtful mindset at the heart of their raging grindcore maelstrom.

“We started without intending to play grindcore,” laughs guitarist Ksh*tiz Moktan. “I didn’t really know what grindcore was, but the drummer knew how to blastbeat because he was playing black metal. He started blasting, I started playing fast, and we became grindcore.”

Having accidentally barged into the genre, Chepang nail the style while being unafraid to warp it. 2023’s Swatta was a dense, bewilderingly varied double album boasting guest musicians like Colin Marston (Krallice, Behold The Arctopus) and Dave Witte (Melt-Banana, Municipal Waste). New album Jhyappa, meanwhile, sees things pared back to the bone.

“Swatta took us a lot of time to write, and after we released it we were kind of burned,” admits Ksh*tiz. “This record is more straightforward. It’s more… acceptable.”

Putting aside the laughable notion that anything about Jhyappa’s blistering, dissonant noise might be ‘acceptable’ (bar, perhaps, the occasional Nepalese pop samples…), it’s noteworthy that their desire to deconstruct and rise anew sonically is reflected in the album’s philosophy.

“The whole record revolves around the idea of self-immolation,” says Ksh*tiz. “It’s about taking out all the negativity inside you and really being the true, authentic version of who you want to be.”

As we talk, Ksh*tiz mentions a sense of heightened cultural and spiritual awareness that he puts down to his Nepalese background, but also the impact of Covid and seeing corpses loaded into trucks a block or two from his home in Queens.

Sounds Like: A wrecking ball of brutal, jagged, full-tilt grind that isn’t afraid to mix it up
For Fans Of: Nails, Discordance Axis, Nasum
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