Entropy – Reunion Show February 21st 2026 (my thoughts and reflections)

by Mark 'Yeti' Richard · Published February 24, 2026 · Updated February 24, 2026

As I reflect back on this past weekend at Ralph’s Rock Diner in Worcester, Massachusetts, I am completely blown away on the reception we got from my old band’s first show in over seventeen years. The love and support that we received from our old school and new fans alike was completely amazing and humbling. The love and appreciation felt for my nineties era grindcore/ sludge band Entropy, was pretty overwhelming! I truly didn’t expect to see and feel that kind of reaction to a band that was dormant for nearly twenty years. I saw and conversed with people that I haven’t seen in almost thirty years and it was so nostalgic and wonderful. I met some new fans too and can’t express enough on how much this evening meant to me. It felt a little weird when people came up to me to say how much Entropy means to them and how influential we were on a genre that combined hardcore and death metal music. For us, we were just doing our thing. We have individually and collectively been inspired and influenced by so many different bands and styles of music. We were teenagers when this band started and it’s amazing of the impact that our extreme music has had on other people. It was so nice to hear all the wonderful compliments. For me, the music has truly been a gift and the ultimate vehicle for expressing anger and injustice. The release I get from our songs is amazing and therapeutic! We like to call it “Grindcore Therapy”.

How this reunion show even came about was quite remarkable. It was through our guitar player’s son, who is now our bassist, hounding his Dad about us playing live again. I have always wondered if we could even pull this off based on our busy schedules, age, desire, and sheer abilities. I still felt confident inside that I could get to that place where my voice could pull this off, even at fifty one years of age. Getting us all together to jam was the real challenge based on us being fairly spread out logistically. It was a long year plus process being able to practice a couple of times a month, if we were lucky. However, we were all committed to do this and set a goal of playing a show or maybe more, once we all felt ready.

Without our long standing fans, this band is nothing! The outpouring of appreciation for pulling this show off was unexpected, quite frankly. Thankfully, we played our asses off that night and the energy was there, just like it used to be- maybe even more! People tell me that our music has inspired a younger generation of punks and metal heads and it’s still hard to believe it. To us, it comes naturally and even though I don’t listen to such extreme music much nowadays, it felt so right performing it! I get everything I need from Entropy to fill that void for fast and nasty music.

As the heavy underground music scene that I primarily write about in the Jam Yeti Music Blog demonstrates, it’s a community built on the love for the music. There’s not much money to be made in either genre and each of the styles are saturated now with so many bands. As I have gotten older, my interests have shifted into the heavy underground music scene with more riff based rock with good singing, or none at all. The variety is more open and sonically, it is what I gravitate towards nowadays. However, my roots are planted in heavy metal, thrash, punk, hardcore, death, grind, and all forms of extreme music. The DIY (Do It Yourself) ethos is a huge part in all of those genres. That probably explains why I have been involved with each of those musical styles throughout different stages of my life. When I connect with something, I tend to go all in. That’s why the heavy underground is such a big part of my life now, similar to how punk, hardcore, and metal were back then. The love and passion for each is the glue that holds it all together. I can be critical with current heavy music with harsh vocals, based on my past involvement with such styles. I don’t expect anyone who reads my blog to like, appreciate, or even understand what Entropy is or was about. I’m not pushing this on anyone but simply sharing my thoughts and feelings about it.

Entropy will always hold a special place in my heart and my brothers in the band (past and present) mean a great deal to me. I love our die hard Twin City Hardcore fans and appreciate the many friendships that our scene has gifted me with. I was so happy and honored when our longtime friends in the death metal band Scattered Remnants agreed to play this show with us. Our scene back then welcomed many different musical styles where hardcore and death metal could converge together and we could all be friends. It is very similar to how the heavy underground music scene is functioning now with the musical diversity and love, at its core. Entropy could never be pigeonholed or fully categorized as one thing. We had elements of everything in our crazy music and that’s what kept us so interested and engaged to what we were playing and creating. The songs were almost all written back in the early to mid nineties and it’s amazing that people can still find it relevant today, thirty some odd years later.

Our forty plus song discography is out there for all to indulge. The recordings are pretty raw but so was the music. It would be a blessing to re-record some of these tracks today with our new found energy and enthusiasm but at the very least, it was wonderful to play a handful of these songs live again. We ended up choosing seventeen of our songs spread out from most of our tapes and records, with a few never released. Thanks to everyone that came out to Ralph’s and raged along with us and gave us the energy and love and to be able to share this special moment with you. I can’t express my gratitude enough to what it meant to me personally and all the great vibes that came with performing live again. Our lineup for this reunion included our original core of myself on vocals, Mark Evans on drums, Justin Serratore on guitar, and Sam Barrett on guitar. Sam’s sixteen year old son, Isaac Barrett (drummer of Soundoutthebraille) played bass. I appreciate all of the amazing people that showed up: especially our fans, friends, bands, wives, partners, promoters, and sound engineer. It was an awesome night and just the release that I so desperately needed. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart… Until next time.