Balázs Pándi

Balázs Pándi is a Hungarian drummer and journalist. He has worked and toured with various acts from all around the world including Venetian Snares, Otto von Schirach, To Live and Shave in L.A., The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble and Zu. He also played drums for the Blood of Heroes project.
Since 2009 he has frequently played drums live with Merzbow, and they have released three live records together. They headlined the experimental stage at the Scion Rock Fest in Tampa, Florida in 2012. More recently, he and Merzbow have performed as a trio with Mats Gustafsson. They released Cuts in 2013 on RareNoise. For the follow-up Cuts of Guilt, Cuts Deeper, they were joined by Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth.
Balázs started an electronica-metal-breakcore project with Bong-Ra called Wormskull in 2010. Most recently he joined the Italian experimental instrumental band Zu. His current projects include Italian doom band Obake, Metallic Taste of Blood, and Slobber Pup. From 2012 he started to play solo shows on selected festivals under his own name.
From 2013, he worked as a journalist at Hungarian news site Index. After the resignation of the majority of the staff in July 2020, he moved to Telex.

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Discography

;With Marshall Allen, Danny Ray Thompson, Jamie Saft, Trevor Dunn and Roswell Rudd

2019 – Ceremonial Healing

;With Marco Eneidi

2012 – A Hint Traumatized

;With KK Null

2017 – Demon Core
2019 – Demoncore 1

;With Jason Köhnen

2017 – Darkness Comes in Two's

;With Merzbow

2010 – Live at Fluc Wanne, Vienna, 2010/05/18
2011 – Ducks: Live in NYC
2012 – Katowice
2016 – Live at FAC251

;With Merzbow and Keiji Haino

2016 – An Untroublesome Defencelessness
2019 – Become the Discovered, Not the Discoverer

;With Merzbow and Mats Gustafsson

2013 – Cuts
2015 – Live in Tabačka 13/04/12

;With Merzbow, Mats Gustafsson, and Thurston Moore

2015 – Cuts of Guilt, Cuts Deeper

;With Metallic Taste of Blood

2012 – Metallic Taste of Blood

;With Obake

2011 – Obake
2014 – Mutations

;With Ivo Perelman and Joe Morris

2013 – One

;With Lee Ranaldo, Jim Jarmusch, Marc Urselli

2019 – Lee Ranaldo / Jim Jarmusch / Marc Urselli / Balazs Pandi
2021 – Churning of the Ocean

;With Slobber Pup

2013 – Black Aces
2015 – Pole Axe

;With Wadada Leo Smith, Jamie Saft, and Joe Morris

2014 – Red Hill

;With Rope Cosmetology

2009 – Diffusion de la rue de la Double Identité
2009 – Spezial: Gedankengefüge
2009 – Discoteca Festival
2011 — The Honey Fox in Hare's Longing
2012 — Disunion Strips

;With Roswell Rudd, Jamie Saft, and Trevor Dunn

2016 – Strength & Power

;With Mikołaj Trzaska and Rafal Mazur

2014 – Tar & Feathers

;With Jon Wesseltoft

2018 – Infinite Vice
2019 – Terreng

;With Wormskull

2011 – Sound of Hell

;Other appearances

Year	Artist	Title	Label
2007	Venetian Snares	Pink + Green	Planet Mu
2008	Last Step	1961	Planet Mu
2010	The Blood of Heroes	The Blood of Heroes	Ohm Resistance
2011	Submerged	Before Fire I Was Against Other People	Ohm Resistance
2011	Enduser	Even Weight	Ad Noiseam
2011	Imaginary Forces	Uppstigande	Ad Noiseam
2012	The Blood of Heroes	The Waking Nightmare	Ohm Resistance
2012	Loops Haunt	Zenith	Black Acre
2013	To Live and Shave in L.A.	The Grief That Shrieked to Multiply	Monotype
2013	Highness	Hold	Magic Bullet
2013	Les Rhinocéros	Les Rhinocéros II	Tzadik
2014	Loops Haunt	Exits	Black Acre