CHEPANG: New Album Jhyappa Out Now On Relapse Records; Band To Play Album In Full Tonight At Maryland Deathfest!

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“Concise and bloody…the album… shows off their blasting insanity, strategic deployment of noise, and an incredible amount of groove.” – Decibel Magazine

Blistering grindcore force CHEPANG’s Relapse debut album, Jhyappa, is out today!

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).

Stream CHEPANG’s Jhyappa HERE. Listen on all streaming services HERE. 

Watch the band’s video for the album’s opening tracks “Parichaya 2.0 / Shakti (Force)” HERE and “Nirnaya” HERE.

Jhyappa is available on CD, LP, cassette, and digital formats. Find orders at Relapse.com HERE.

In celebration of the record’s release, CHEPANG will perform Jhyappa in its entirety TONIGHT at Maryland Deathfest! The band will also perform Jhyappa in full 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

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

“Concise and bloody, paying homage to a pseudo-classic genre… the album spans only nine tracks in less than 20 minutes but in this compressed timeframe the band shows off their blasting insanity, strategic deployment of noise, and an incredible amount of groove.” – Decibel Magazine

“Discerning fans of blistering, mutant grindcore will want it on a permanent loop.” – Blabbermouth

“…both are scorchers…” – Brooklyn Vegan on “Parichaya 2.0/Shakti (Force)”

“…honest to goodness grindcore… no genre slash or verbiage… CHEPANG definitely tilt heavily towards the metal side of the genre with just a heavy, smothering, chugging sound…” – Banger TV Best Underground Metal Releases May 2025

“The songs are raw grind, hyper and fast … with an ability to go low and slow when needed… Closer ‘Bidhai (Outro)’ has some Slayer-isms in the riffing and tempo, while ‘Drivya Shakti’ has a bit of a meatier Pig Destroyer vibe to it, proving these guys could hold their own in a showdown with even the toughest grinders…. Best grind record I’ve heard in a while.” – Bravewords

“Jhyappa feels like it would be just as at home in a punk club as in a den of death metal.” – Metal Digest

“‘Parichaya’… features an older eastern recording which allows you to delve into the mind of this quintet which aims to blend peace with chaos. ‘Gatichad’ is a track filled with pummeling drums and shrieked vocals a la Brutal Truth’s Kevin Sharp; throat shredding and often felt as though it is in the periphery instead of in the forefront. ‘Khel’ opens with a spoken word recording and gives way to a righteous groove like Wormrot and vigorous blast beats showing influence from both the spiritual world and the utter confusion that is the global landscape. Jhyappa is the proper kind of evolution through aggression one needs for the here and now.” – Heavy Music HQ

“…the thickest, meatiest sound CHEPANG has ever laid to tape… it feels like we’re not only witnessing the band razing a building around us, but also feeling the weight of every brick crashing down on us.” – Nine Circles

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