1/01/2009
TRACKLIST
1. Capiam Deiis
2. Special Prupose
3. Fight Song Revisited
4. To Hell With the Enlightenment
5. Post-Teenage Redemption
6. Untruth as Master Signifier
7. Irritable Bowel Disorder: Project Reagan
8. You Are My Favorite Line in the Worst Song Ever Written
9. The Function and Malfunction of Lab Experiment No. 728
10. Three-Pronged Apparatus
11. 53rd Street South
12. Recipe For Token Sing-Along Polemic Complete With Expletives Aimed At Positions of Power
13. Geld
14. Big Brother
15. Blood and Tongue
16. Notes For an Uproarious Comedy Show
17. Counter-Hegemonimania
18. No Friend of MIne
INFO
Unrelenting! Explosively powerful creative thrash marked with tough metallic breakdowns, floor- punching chunka-chunka, and raucous female vocals. Speeding hardcore filled with abrasive twists and turns, violent vocal trade offs and dark and thoughtful lyrics. SCROTUM GRINDER is composed of members of the bands HANKSHAW (though they sounds nothing alike), FAILURE FACE, along with Steve Kosiba, who was in Misery Index-era ASSUCK and lead vocalist, Michelle who is a punk rock crowd-leaping terror and later sang in MOMENTO MORI! By no means a repeat of past bands or sounds, this tears with inventiveness and imagination while still keeping even keel with a destructive hardcore path, an apocalyptic dark ride with lyrical hope and inspiration as a guide... and yes, Prank knows the band name is terrible!
LISTEN: Fight Song Revisited
Etiquetas: hardcore, metal, Screamo, Scrotum Grinder
eraser at 11:12 a. m.
(0) comments12/27/2008
TRACKLIST
01. Psalm Xxii
02. Reveries Of A Newborn Loss
03. Killing For Fame - Dying For Greed
04. Airborne
05. Falling Into The Arms Of An Angel
06. Why Swim If You Can't Drown
07. Void
08. Synopsis
09. Mass Media Murder
10. Lies Hurt...Shotguns Hurt Even More
INFO
We are Some Pedestrians.
We make music with our intruments.
I have a bird in a cage.
Sometimes i take it out and i play with the bird
Sometimes i also kill older people because i dont like them and because they smell. please dont throw rocks at us. thank you
Thank you.
LISTEN: Airboner
Etiquetas: metal, Progressive hardcore, some pedestrians
eraser at 1:08 p. m.
(0) comments
TRACKLIST
01. Control vs. Control
02. Are You Tired Of Your Own Bitterness
03. Fuck Those Straight Edge Kids
04. Out Of Luck
05. Safari Beauty
06. Live Scarier Than Death
07. Forever Rebel
08. Arbeit Ist Scheisse (Keine Aber Auch)
09. Disillusion Starts Within Yourself
10. Ever Fallen In Love
INFO
MÖNSTER was formed in May 2004 by Alexandre (BORN DEAD ICONS, ex-THE BLACK HAND), Jobst (ex-PEACE OF MIND, ex-HIGHSCORE), Marek (INSUICIETY/drums, ex-DYSMORFOFOBIA/drums) and Matthias (ex-A THIN RED LINE, ex-COSTA..S CAKE HOUSE).
The band started as a project, but after realizing that such a good chemistry shouldn..t be blown off in the air, decision was made to take it out of the practice space. The first two concerts confirmed that the audience could also relate to this energy. In terms of sound, comparisons have been made to the modern Swedish-Crust-Portland sound with a good measure of rocking riffs and a classic straight forward hardcore feel.
The CD contains all their songs released so far only on 7inches + a previously unreleased bonus track!
Canework Records
LISTEN: Control vs. Control
Etiquetas: crust, metal, mönster, Punk
eraser at 12:35 p. m.
(0) comments12/09/2008
TRACKLIST
01.Tombs - Gods of Love and Suicide
02.Tombs - Cypress
03.Tombs - Cheval Noir
04.Planks - A Sunken City
05.Planks - Of Tides and Bearing
06.Planks - Siren
INFO
Tombs delivers three sombre tracks of dark, black metal-influenced hardcore. April and Aaron from Black Horse contribute guest vocals and additional electronics.
Germany's Planks serve up three heavy-duty tracks of down-tuned heaviness. Think His Hero Is Gone meets High on Fire crossed with Euro Metal legends Breach. Features Ralph Schmidt from Hellstrom on guitar and vocals.
Black Box Records
Etiquetas: Black Metal, crust, hardcore, metal, planks, tombs
eraser at 5:56 p. m.
(0) comments12/04/2008
TRACKLIST
01. origin contact
02. mask
03. carbon 14
04. neutrolized
05. cut off
06. clonin' masses with bouddha adn
07. dieselblood
08. vostock VI
09. golhäb
10. values (r) evolution (le dub de mâdhva) v 2.0
11. jacomito
INFO
Formés en 1989 et émigrés à Bordeaux en 1993, aux avant-postes d'une scène locale en plein renouveau les Sleeppers sortent 3 démos qui aboutiront en 1995 à l'élaboration de leur 1er album "Illogical Moody Mind" et leurs permettra d'assurer les premières parties de Bastard, Kepone, Today is the Day, Gober Patrol, NRA, ...
Après un Maxi 4 titres, "Noise Pollution", ils frappent de nouveau quelques mois plus tard, les esprits curieux avec un second L.P encore plus abouti "Subconscious Nocturnal Activity", et enchainent les concerts avec des groupes comme Todos tus Muertos, Chokebore, Headcleaner, Unsane et Neurosis (Tournée française 96), Hammerhead (Tournée française 97), No Means No, Hellworms...ou encore des formations françaises telles que Prohibition, Tantrum, Belly Button, Portobello Bones, Near Death Experience, Well Spotted....
Après toutes ces expériences scéniques et une première tournée européenne (Suisse, Allemagne, Belgique, Espagne) les Sleeppers retournent en studio et sortent en 1998 "Adrenalien", un 5 titres définitivement hypnotique et torturé. Ils se lancent alors rapidement dans une tournée française, au cours de laquelle ils enregistrent des morceaux, qu'ils sortiront en 1999 sur un vinyl "live" 25 cm. Cette nouvelle production sera suivie d'une longue tournée européenne qui les emmènera en Allemagne, en Suisse, en Belgique, en Espagne, au Pays Basque, en Italie, en Hollande, en Tchéquie, en Slovènie, en Croatie et bien sûr en France.
Après plus de 500 concerts à leur actif, ils décident de s'attaquer à la production du 3ème album "Cut Off" qui sortira en octobre 2000 et qui marquera un tournant dans leur production sonore. De nouveau produit par Fred Norguet, celui-ci l’enrichira et fera prendre au groupe une nouvelle dimension avec cet album qui sera plébiscité à sa sortie.
Après avoir de nouveau tourné en France et en Europe, les Sleeppers créent un collectif : TRIGGER, constitué de nombreux groupes qui ont croisés leur chemin (Burning Heads, Seven Hate, Near Death Expérience, Improvisators Dub…) et qui remixeront des titres du groupe.
Le projet Trigger figurera en MP3 sur « Interaction », leur 4 ème album, toujours enregistré avec Fred Norguet, au printemps 2003.
L'arrivée d'un nouveau guitariste "Raph" (ex. TOMY) depuis la tournée « Cut Off » aura motivé le groupe pour composer rapidement ce nouvel album et l'influence plus "mélodique" du nouveau membre se fait ressentir.
En novembre 2005, pour fêter leur 15 ans d’existence, ils sortent le DVD « 15.597_Making Noises » [At(h)ome / Wagram]. Ce DVD réunit des morceaux enregistrés au cours de la tournée « Interaction » (Eurockéennes de Belfort, Noumatrouf de Mulhouse et Rock et Chanson à Bordeaux),.mais aussi la totalité de la discographie du groupe (jusqu’à « Cut Off » - 2000).
En avril 2006, les Sleeppers seront de retour avec leur 5ème album « Signals from elements » toujours chez At(h)ome. Fruit d’une nouvelle collaboration avec Fred Norguet, cet album enrichit l’univers sombre et teigneux des Sleeppers , et ouvre de nouveaux horizons, notamment par des collaborations avec Reuno de LOFOFORA et avec les RAGEOUS GRATOONS.
LISTEN: Mask
Etiquetas: metal, noise rock, sleeppers
eraser at 7:28 p. m.
(0) comments12/03/2008
TRACKLIST
01.Weeping Minds of Silence - broad spaces of clinical white
02.Weeping Minds of Silence - mythology
03.Weeping Minds of Silence - a(ch)ile systrid zabor
04.Weeping Minds of Silence - nera faez (two dimensional)
05.Weeping Minds of Silence - a peaceful line
06.Ximel - gabeziaren barruan ihesi
07.Ximel - burua makurturik
08.Ximel - palabras ocultas (verdades ensombrecidas)
09.Ximel - gela batean
10.Ximel - elkarrizkatearen arau zintzoak
INFO
This one was laying around close to my stereo for some – oh my gosh! – I think months now. I listened to it regularly but never found the time or ease or words to get down to a review. Which I am sorry about, because a) it is an independent and modern release on a small label from a French label and b) it offers great post-hardcore of the complex and emotional (WMOS) as well as of the raudy and noisy screaming side (Ximel). Both things are usually intriguing to me and never fail to catch my attention. Maybe I was just getting used to the sight of the nice bluish-grey cover next to my CD-player that I blended it out of my conscious perceptance. Well, let’s get it over with, it definitely is deserved.
Apart from all the discussions about sound quality and business tactics, overprizing and copyright enforcement, one thing is clear: the concept of a split release has clearly deteriorated with the introduction of the Compact Discs. Because it is one-sided[1]. Simple enough, and that means, that an order of the bands is established. I fondly remember those double-A-sided vinyl platters, with one band on the one side and the other on the other side. That imposed a sort of equality upon the bands and liberty and emancipation on the listener, who was free to decide, which side would be his favourite, his a-side. Well, that’s gone and since it is no use to cry about spilled milk and what’s done is done, I’ll leave it at that. But I’ll mention Weeping Minds Of Silence first, because they are the first band and Ximel second, because they are. One more word beforehand: both bands get five songs to show their talents and that is just fair enough.
Weeping Minds Of Silence offer a complex and emotional dynamic that is usually called post-hardcore. Songs take their time to evolve, to grow and to finally erupt into the explosive and impressive bits they have hidden in their core from the beginning. For minutes they are content of going at it without vocals at all, giving the listener time to relax. They never get harsh or overtly brutal, not at all, no screaming and shouting there. No heads banged against walls till the blood comes. WMOS remain in control and in command of the tidal wave of music they produce. Well, they have been around for quite some years, so it is to be expected that they have gotten rid of the youthful eagerness to trash about in chaotic excitement during those years. Think of quieter bands on ebullition, if you will (Policy of 3 always were some of my favourites) but more melodious and amicable than them. Every band that reaches the stage where sound becomes more important than songs is enviable for that truly revolutionary step. (Just don’t start talking about Brian Eno to them.)
In spite of all that said about Weeping Minds of Silence, I actually find myself preferring Ximel. (Already in the olden days it was always usus to name your favourite band when reviewing a split-release.) And solely for the pure intensity and old-fashioned noise-rock they deal. In my experience there is an old-fashioned noise-rock band in every region. In Austria you might turn to Bug or Turn Out or Sensual Love. When in Portugal turn to Ximel. The classic three-piece formation, reigning the parade of noise bands ever since Jimi Hendrix lit a guitar on fire on stage and then rammed it into oversized amps. Heavy bass and guitar-riffs, distorted screaming, banging drums – every noise rock cliché you have been looking for, you’ll get it with Ximel. There might be a lot of thought or (political) message in the lyrics of Ximel, but actually I ain’t interested. That guitar sound, those unrelenting songstructures and that destructive-aggressive atmosphere of the music are all that I need to know. The global language of noiserock, a call to arms for all dissatisfied and disgruntled citizens of the western world.
monochrom.at
LISTEN:Ximel - burua makurturik
LISTEN:Weeping Minds of Silence - Mythology
Etiquetas: Indie, metal, noise rock, post-hardcore, postmetal, weeping minds of silence, ximel
eraser at 5:51 p. m.
(0) comments11/29/2008
TRACKLIST
01.Memento Mori
02. Sentido de Dirección
03. Profunda Oceánica
04. Atlántida Oceánica (fastasmogenesis)
05. Año 632 Ford
06. Cenit de una Caida
07. En el principio fue la acción, querido Crowley las noches más felices están por llegar
08. Aunque Viva en el Error
INFO
ANNE O son ya un clasico del Metalcore estatal sin duda alguna, aunque no ha sido de lo mas regular su trayectoria, ya que sus primeros discos salieron alla en los 90, ahora vuelven con un discazo lleno de todo lo mejor que este grupo siempre ha sabido darle, sin duda un disco grande en todos los sentidos, desde las canciones brutales de principio a fin, definen y completan la evolucion del grupo en todos estos años, un sonido contundente, del que nunca se ha descogaldo este grupo y un diseño muy completo que remata un disco para amantes del Metal-Hardcore. "Dios no tiene ningun plan maestro para nosotros" es el título de este trabajo editado por Fragment Records.
NOIZZ Webzine
LISTEN: En el principio fue la acción...
Etiquetas: anne o, death metal, grind, metal, noise core
eraser at 3:16 p. m.
(0) comments11/27/2008
TRACKLIST
01. Inspiration Could Strike at Any Moment
02 Everything
03 There is a Hole in My Heart, Literally (Pt 1)
04 Citation
05. There is a Hole in My Heart, Literally (Pt 2)
06. There is a Hole in My Heart, Literally (Pt 2)
07. Regrets
08. Truth
09. Try Not to Die
10. Struggle
11. Scientific Discoveries By the Everyday Man
INFO
I believe "In the Event of a Blackout" is the first recorded output from Cathedrals, and what an awesome little demo this is. 11 tracks, 13-and-a-half minutes, and that's all she wrote. But, whew, their combination of crushing heaviness and burly His Hero is Gone dissonance with energetic bursts of hyperactive and lightly melodic hardcore makes for a memorable listen that definitely leaves you wanting more. The contrast of such explosive bursts of tactful speed and such a dark, dismal midpaced crunch may seem somewhat odd, but believe me it works (as you'll hear below), and I'm pretty god damn surprised that these cats haven't been scooped up by a label yet. This disc is so damn short I really don't even know what else to say here. This is intense, powerful, open-minded, creative hardcore… and I'm damn sure all for it.
Aversionline
LISTEN: Regrets
Etiquetas: cathedrals, hardcore, metal, noisecore, Rock
eraser at 5:54 p. m.
(0) comments11/25/2008
TRACKLIST
01. Historiens Svarta Vingslag
02. Konfrontation
03. När Bomberna Faller
04. Brännmärkt
05. Another Downfall
06. Välfärd
07 Your Dark Eyes
08. Maktens Pjäser
09. I Stormens Öga
10. Helvetet Är Här
11. Sista Brevet Till Sverige
12. Väggarna Omkring Dig
INFO
Crust/hardcore from Lidköping. Twelve songs of total fury! Fullength album recorded at HoboRec, Jönköping. The songs are mixed with slower parts, which keeps the record as a whole interesting and focused. As on a prime note; crustpunk has never - and will never be - better than this. Think Totalt Jävla Mörker mixed with Neurosis!
Black Seeds Records
LISTEN: När Bomberna Faller
Etiquetas: Crustcore, M:40, metal
eraser at 11:08 a. m.
(5) comments10/30/2008
TRACKLIST
01. Deluge
02. Forgiveness to Tyrants
03. Mollusk King
04. Fists of the Ocean
05. Totenschiff
06. The Curse of all Things Drowned
07. Narrows
08. The Harpooner's Divide
INFO
No rays from the holy heaven come down on the long night-time of that town; but light from out the lurid sea streams up the turrets silently- gleams up the pinnacles far and free- up domes- up spires- up kingly halls- up fanes- up Babylon-like walls- up shadowy long-forgotten bowers of sculptured ivy and stone flowers- up many and many a marvellous shrine Wwose wreathed friezes intertwine the viol, the violet, and the vine. resignedly beneath the sky the melancholy waters lie. so blend the turrets and shadows there that all seem pendulous in air, while from a proud tower in the town death looks gigantically down.
LISTEN: Deluge
Etiquetas: crust, metal, planks
eraser at 11:38 a. m.
(0) comments10/29/2008
TRACKLIST
01. My Last Shred Of Decency
02. Hospital
03. Pig Crazy
04. The Brazen Bull III
05. Stab
06. She Pulled Machete
07. Brine
08. The Brazen Bull II
09. Hold My Hand
10. Winter Formal
INFO
Always A Six, Never A Nine is the second album and the follow up to the 2006 self-titled debut from Portland, OR aggro wreckers Black Elk, whose psychotic brand of crushing, noise-rock influenced heaviosity is a return to the unhinged underground rock force of bands like Jesus Lizard, Melvins, Black Flag and Hammerhead. This new album features ten songs of seething weirdness, with the dissonant, crushing riffage, lunging rhythmic push and awesome freaked out, Yow-esque vocals of singer Tom Glose that made their debut a fave among anyone who remembered the days when Amphetamine Reptile ruled the underground rock scene, but with some interesting new elements (bleak, blackened guitar ambience, a smattering of piano, skyreaching guitar harmonies, etc.) that add new shadows to Black Elk's ferocious sound.
Crucial Blast Records
LISTEN: Hospital
Etiquetas: black elk, metal, noise rock, Rock, sludge
eraser at 4:17 p. m.
(0) comments10/13/2008
TRACKLIST
01. odprostit
02. duna
03. otázka deštì
04. T.N.È.D.D.P.
05. jsme teï 3
06. gottavila
07. matka zemì
08. chlív náš
09. sestup
10. tetsuo
LISTEN: jsme teï 3
Etiquetas: Děti deště, industrial, metal, noise rock
eraser at 10:45 a. m.
(2) comments9/28/2008
TRACKLIST
01. Mort mort mort
02. une heure plus tard
03. le veilleur du grand marché
04. ...
05. huit
06. le kid de la plage
07. on a qu'a se dire qu'on s'en
08. 8 prophète de malheur
INFO
Coming from Caen, France, Aussitôt Mort (as soon as dead in french) began playing together in early 2005 : soon after the Apollo Program break up, Antoine, Milouze and Greg decided they wanted to carry on making music together... They teamed up with good friends and great musicians Pierre (also bassplayer in Amanda Woodward) and Cédric (from the experimental-post-rockish local band None-Id). No rules were set, no boundaries erected, just the usual “making music you like with good friends” thing. They first tried to create a new style, “emo-doom”, which could have been called “emoom”, or “doomo”, but they kind of failed. Several months later, some songs have been put together, recorded in le Studio de la Souleuvre, a remote studio in the Normandy countryside. During the process, some played french bowls, a dead mouse was found in a bed, things went pretty good.
Level Plane
LISTEN: on a qu'a se dire qu'on s'en
Etiquetas: ambiental., aussitôt mort, metal, Screamo
eraser at 10:27 a. m.
(0) comments9/27/2008
TRACKLIST
01. Maitatzen dut
02. Naci sin carnet II
03. Norbaiten zain
04. Norbaiten zain (outro)
05. Musika eta soberako hitzak
06. Ez zait
07. Baleak
08. Are uholdea
09. Musikaren erabilpenak (buen rollito irratia)
10. Altxa !!
11. Eromenaren ertzean
This album is the Hondarrabia group's second. Harsh rock working with (its own) personality where the influences of punk, hardcore and metal styles are patent. Karlos Osinaga, member of the Lisabö group, just as he did in "Askatu Korapiloa" from Dut and with "Ezarian" from Lisabö, has done all the recording and, with his help, this quintet from Hondarrabia has moulded and concentrated and strengthened their sound on this new album the result is there to be heard.
Metak
LISTEN: Ez zait
Etiquetas: lif, metal, post-hardcore, Rock
eraser at 11:35 a. m.
(0) comments9/20/2008
TRACKLIST
01. The Unknown Bury Me
02. The Decay
03. Scars Make Life
04. Leaves Fall Rotten
05. The Plague
INFO
Their "demo" cd hit me by surprise and I really couldn't refuse to put this out! These folks come from Gothenburg in lovely Sweden and deliver the goods! The demo (minus 1 song though) that you'll find on this black piece of vinyl hold 4 times thundering death and black metal soaked doom, with hints of crust, as well as atmospheric and epic darkness. The guitars range from devastating heaviness to gloomy acoustic sections, with piercing leads that flash through the darkness every now and then. If you've ever wanted to know exactly how your favourite metal, crust, and doom bands would have sounded like if they were one band this is where you should turn. I won't namedrop anything, just ask you to take me on my word that you really need to check this out if you've been even the slightest intrigued with what's written above. Even though I could drop many influential names, as well as list several of your favourite Swedish crustcore bands in the "members of" department. First 1100 copies comes in a nicely done gatefold.
Skuld Releases
LISTEN: The Decay
Etiquetas: agrimonia, crust, death metal, doom, metal
eraser at 7:45 p. m.
(0) comments9/10/2008
TRACKLIST
01.John Merrick - Carreteras perdidas
02.John Merrick - El valor de lo fugaz
03.John Merrick - Lluvia ácida
04.John Merrick - Tu propia víctima
05.John Merrick - Una vida de ensueño
06.Dédalo - 11
07.Dédalo - 8
08.Dédalo - 4
09.Dédalo - 7
10.Frieda's Still in Love - Godzilla
11.Frieda's Still in Love - Thursday
12.Frieda's Still in Love - Too young to suffer, too old to cry
Etiquetas: dedalo, frieda´s still in love, john merrick, metal, post-hardcore, Rock, Screamo
