Grindmother (born August 1948) is a Canadian grindcore singer. [1]
She has appeared on several TV and news programs, [2] and footage from a rehearsal in 2016 has been viewed over one million times on Facebook. [3] [4] The name Grindmother is a melding of the grindcore subgenre and her grandmother personae.
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Grindmother released her debut album, Age of Destruction, [5] in April 2016 which featured guitar by her son, Rain Forest, and drums by Tyson Apex. A live guitarist has been added to the band, with Forest handling live bass duties. [6]
On July 26, 2016, Grindmother released a cover of Sepultura's "Slave New World" via Decibel . [7] Sepultura noted the cover on their Facebook page saying, "Yesterday, in Brazil, we celebrated the Grandparents Day and look what we've found: a Slave New World version sung by a grandmother of 67 years old! She's from a grindcore band called The Grindmother. You can read a little bit more about The Grindmother in a article published by Decibel Magazine."[ citation needed ]
Grindmother has played live with her band 58 times, with dates in Germany, Japan, Canada and the US.[ as of? ] In July 2025, she announced her retirement due to dementia. She is slated to join Cattle Decapitation for two dates in December 2025 as a farewell bow.