12/08/2008
TRACKLIST
01. ábrete desdenun
02. umeniñoa
03. ignacio vende muerte para vivir
04. el demonio del tiempo
05. sé... de un amigo
INFO
Híbridos formales que nos hacen recordar los tiempos en que 713avo Amor y Vírgenes Adolescentes ensanchaban los estrechos horizontes del yermo panorama musical español.
Después de nunca es música autónoma que sabe quitarse el sombrero ante los maestros y trabajar con humildad artesana en las noches sin tiempo; ahí cuando muchos duermen, hace canciones con sueños y sueña canciones que algún día podrán parir con sus manos amantes empuñando los instrumentos que les hacen obreros en un mundo nuevo.
Etiquetas son jaulas de las que todo animal quiere zafarse; pero si etiquetas son huellas con las que acercarse o referirse: rumba hardcore rock libre hardrock rock and roll soul ambient folk psiquedelia free jazz ruido flamenco Música libre que se encierra en canciones para explotar otra vez con las emociones que las parieron
Zemo98
LISTEN: Ignacio vende muerte para vivir
TRACKLIST
01. Autoa - Los Que Aun No Han Nacido
02. M.a.o. - Ton Sang Precioux
03. I.p.d. - Lo Sabras Todo
04. Lisabö - El Riff Numero Zero
05. Mate Almendral - Mi Asesino
06. Akauzazte - Gimiendo Brasas
07. Dj Amsia - Serpientes
08. Nacho Laguna - Dondestaelcielo
09. Doss - Fragmentos/la Cancion Del Viejo Nuevo Sueño
10. Dia Diez - Dondestaelcielo
11. Despues De Nunca - Seguimos Buscando, Jugando...
INFO
Después de Nunca giran durante el año 2000 y 2001 por toda la península ibérica y en el verano de 2001 viajan a México D.F. para realizar una serie de 7 conciertos en distintas zonas de la capital mexicana.
Durante esta gira Después de Nunca aparece en formato de dúo, trío o cuarteto, gracias a la colaboración alternante, a veces a la par, de Tim O’nellin y Dj Amsia en el manejo de los pregrabados y sus máquinas de ritmo, ruido y ambiente, y con la ayuda Joxe “El Paxarologo” en la mesa de sonido.
Durante esta gira también comparten escenario con otras bandas amigas: Akauzazte, Autoa, Dut y en México con San Pascualito Rey. Se producen hermosos encuentros con bandas como Doss, Viaje a 800 y Lisabö y no menos hermosos reencuentros con Nacho Laguna, Javier Almendral, Germán Sánchez (Día Diez) y Justo Bagüeste (I.P.D.).
Y ya tenemos aquí a los protagonistas de este cede, algo más que un disco de versiones, una nueva canción nace de cada canción, gracias a sus revisiones. Gracias también a los que finalmente no pudieron estar por una u otra razón, pues de ellos es también este disco, o así para nosotros.
Este disco no nació como un disco homenaje. Demasiado prematuro para una banda demasiado viva, con demasiado presente por delante, a pesar de su existencia solapada de silencios, de agujeros guadianescos.
Este es un disco armado a partir de una idea de Dj Amsia, en la que la lectura abierta de las canciones por parte de grupos a los que después de nunca considera colaboradores y amigos, es la que abre nuevos senderos por los que esta música que nació queriendo desdibujar fronteras emprenda nuevos viajes.
Y ahora que el pez volador remonta los vuelos en las alturas por donde le vimos llegar, también nuestros sueños se renuevan gracias a los viajes que hicimos siguiendo a tan singular criatura. Los horizontes de esta aventura abiertos de par en par gracias también, al trabajo gráfico de nuestro incansable colaborador Baxi Ubeda, el mago de las fotos que se mueven.
LISTEN: Autoa - Los Que Aun No Han Nacido
Etiquetas: Acid Rock, Copla. Flamenco, despues de nunca, Experimental., jazz, noise, psiquedelia, Rock, rumba
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(3) comments11/28/2008
TRACKLIST
1. Cut
2. Die elektrish leben machine
3. True to my heart
4. Brautigan
5. The sea
6. Into a stranger
7. Balcony
8. South west trains
9. Clay mud & dust
INFO
Duet of terrible children, wire of the punk-rock'n'roll and the noise, One second riot develops a personal musical universe, made sometimes intimate environments, sometimes close to the mass hysteria from where is extirpated a skinned voice, cutting through a path between noise, post-hardcore and industrial music.
LISTEN: Al Carrer
Etiquetas: industrial, noise, One Second Riot, post-hardcore
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(0) comments5/30/2008
TRACKLIST
01. Trip Trap
02. La Goma y la Comba
03. Liar's Test
04. Shrimpy comes. Paul Laughs
05. Butter Coin
06. Super Dandyzm
07. Parque Mágico
08. Bikes and Rice
09. Birdssing
10. mmm
11. Whale
Info
Infecciones de ritmo y melodía
disfuncional tocadas de forma
convulsa, vertiginosa y vibrante.
Volteretas noise y gargantas al
rojo, nervios de alambre, cuchillas
y óxido, pellizcos y espasmos.
Agitación. Grandes por derecho.
Bcore
LISTEN: Shrimpy comes. Paul Laughs
Etiquetas: Experimental Rock, margarita, noise, post-punk
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(2) comments4/13/2008
Tracklist
1. Apt. A, Pt. 1
2. Apt. A, Pt. 2
3. And All You Can Do Is Laugh, Pt. 1
4. And All You Can Do Is Laugh, Pt. 2
5. I Promise Never to Get Paint on My Glasses, Pt. 1
6. I Promise Never to Get Paint on My Glasses, Pt. 2
7. Jimmybreeze, Pt. 1
8. Jimmybreeze, Pt. 2
9. (Cloud Dead #5), Pt. 1
10. (Cloud Dead #5), Pt. 2
11. Bike, Pt. 1
12. Bike, Pt. 2
Info
Clouddead has a hard-to-classify sound; if you described it as "lo-fi ambient spoken word meets surreal hip-hop with an indie rock bent," you'd be leaving a lot out. The CD compiles previously released 10-inches created by producer Odd Nosdam and MCs Dose One and Why?--all members of Anticon, the West Coast hip-hop collective. The MCs rap, recite, and sing words that make Beck's lyrics sound tame and fussy by comparison. Their declamation can be goofy, swaggering, funny, swinging, nasal--you name it. This extremely open-ended and varied use of language recalls the work of the sonically inclined poet Edwin Torres. Sometimes the language on this disc can be almost inaudible; then it's just another element in Nosdam's lovely and murky music. Albums this odd often confuse people. Also, like this one, they can be extremely compelling.
Fred Cisterna
Listen: Apt. A (2)
Etiquetas: clouddead, Experimental., hiphop, noise
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(0) comments4/09/2008
Tracklist
1. Huge
2. Ibitsu
3. Furi
4. Death Valley
5. Ano Onna no Onryou
6. Naki Kyoku
7. Akuma no Uta
8. Kurosu
9. ワレルライド
10. 1970
11. Ibitsu (music video)
12. Furi (music video)
13. Kurosu (music video)
14. 1970 (music video)
Info
Live at Shimokitazawa Shelter is the first DVD release by Japanese band Boris. It was captured on their Black Summer tour on July 12, 2003. The first ten tracks are songs from the show, which are mostly from the Akuma no Uta and Heavy Rocks albums. Tracks 11-14 are music videos made by the band by Foodunited and Fangs Anal Satan. A loose translation of the first bit of the title is, "From The Tower That Turns A Blind Eye To Death".
Etiquetas: boris, doom, noise, Rock, stoner
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(1) comments3/25/2008
Tracklist
1. Huge
2. Ibitsu
3. Furi
4. Death Valley
5. Ano Onna no Onryou
6. Naki Kyoku
7. Akuma no Uta
8. Kurosu
9. ワレルライド
10. 1970
11. Ibitsu (music video)
12. Furi (music video)
13. Kurosu (music video)
14. 1970 (music video)
Info
Live at Shimokitazawa Shelter is the first DVD release by Japanese band Boris. It was captured on their Black Summer tour on July 12, 2003. The first ten tracks are songs from the show, which are mostly from the Akuma no Uta and Heavy Rocks albums. Tracks 11-14 are music videos made by the band by Foodunited and Fangs Anal Satan. A loose translation of the first bit of the title is, "From The Tower That Turns A Blind Eye To Death".
TROJAN!!!!
If you donwload the files, remove it please!!
If you donwload the files, remove it please!!
Etiquetas: boris, doom, noise, Rock, stoner
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(0) comments11/24/2007
Tracklist
01. Lack of Interest - My Life [0:44]
02. Lack of Interest - Social Inequality [0:46]
03. Excruciating Terror - Addiction [1:24]
04. Bludgeon - Kill God [0:58]
05. Dystopia - Backstabber [2:20]
06. No Comment - Dead Stare For Life [0:50]
07. No Comment - Distant [0:32]
08. No Comment - Lament [0:56]
09. No Comment - Skin Rape (Soiled By Hate) [0:31]
10. Cavity - Burning My Eyes [2:48]
11. Plutocracy - Dankstahz [1:15]
12. Discordance Axis - Panoptic [0:57]
13. Phobia - Internal Rot [2:43]
14. Agents of Satan - Castigo del Brujo [2:35]
15. Locust - Emaciation Fuckers [1:05]
16. Gob - Columbian Necktie [2:03]
17. Enemy Soil - Group Think [0:56]
18. Nuclear Armed Hogs - Different Strokes [1:15]
19. Man Is The Bastard - Heretic's Fork [2:26]
20. Man Is The Bastard - Ether Rag [1:01]
21. Man Is The Bastard - Instantly Bent [1:05]
22. Man Is The Bastard - Semen In the Eyesocket of Thomas Lenz [0:52]
23. Stabled Shut - Killer Breed [0:38]
24. No Less - Balls Deep [0:40]
25. His Hero Is Gone - T Minus Zero [0:41]
26. Noothgrush - Gage [3:02]
27. Spazz - Might For Right [0:38]
28. Evolved to Obliteration - Picked A Fight [0:56]
29. Crossed Out - Pure Delusion [0:22]
30. Crossed Out - Practiced Hatred [0:24]
31. Benumb - Beyond Fucked [1:05]
32. M.D.C. - Nazis Shouldn't Drive [2:22]
33. Cattlepress - My Only Wish Is To Destroy [3:06]
34. Cop Out - Untitled [0:43]
35. Cop Out - Over There [0:13]
36. Hellnation - Silent Bigot [0:42]
37. Utter Bastard - Macho Man [0:50]
38. Capitalist Casualties - Rumor Mill [1:00]
39. Capitalist Casualties - Fuck The Christians [0:32]
40. Capitalist Casualties - Roll Over & Play Dead [0:57]
Info
!Hola! - Slap A Ham Fiesta Grande #1 happend by accident. Little did I know thar this gathering of friends would escalate into a yeraly event, one with a papidly growing attendance where I would constantly mee new people who have travellesd from nearly every stare in the US, from the UK, from Europe, even Japan and Australia. And as the years progress, I´m seeing many of the same faces as well - new friends who become old friends through our common bond of excitement for these band and this style of music.
Many of these bands have fallen under the "power violence" banner but when listening to them all back-to-back it´s obvius that every bands has it´s own unique approach in spite of all labels and categories. Everyone has their own ideas about what is or isn´t "power violence", "emo violence", "hardcore", "grindcore", "noise" of "fastcore". Despite how you want categorize them, these bands represent the pinnacle of extreme music in the 1990´s. The have taken the ideals of ´70´s punk rock and the high-octane urgency of ´80´s hardcore (pioneered by the likes of MDC, who are represented here) and have taken it furher across musical boundaries and limitations than the mainstream will never know.
These songs are all taken from original soundboard tapes and besides a bit of EQing there isn´t much change in the sound quality. While the rough and varing sound quality of this album might not make comparable to "Frapon Comes Alive!", I think the unpolished nature of this collection makes it even more appealing. Rather that being a phony, slick live album, full of averdubs and remixing, this is a raw, stripped-down document that captures the punishjing, uncompromising power and sense of immediacy that this event generates year after year. After all, tha´s what punk rock has always been about.
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Etiquetas: fastcore, fiesta comes alive, Grindcore, hardcore, metal, noise, powerviolence, Punk, slap a ham, sludge, vv.aa
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(0) comments9/22/2007
Tracklist
1. Maraschino [4:52]
2. The Ninth Hour [2:35]
3. Damocles [3:10]
4. Apollo [5:33]
5. Exosphere [2:29]
6. A Valid Gait [6:04]
7. Altamon [4:45]
8. The Detachment [5:10]
9. The Portrait [3:17]
Info
What do VANCOUVER have to do with bands like KROKUS, CELTIC FROST, MESSIAH, CORONER or GURD? Well, firstly the origin, as newcomers VANCOUVER were also born in Switzerland, just like the musicians of the afore-mentioned cult bands. Secondly VANCOUVER continue the tradition of first-class acts being born in this country on a regular basis. Musically this quintet doesn’t have a lot to do with the bands mentioned at the beginning.
VANCOUVER should rather feel comfortable in the niche of Metal that is occupied by praised formations such as CULT OF LUNA or ISIS. Due to the high level of “The Moment” it shouldn’t be too difficult to get a nice place in this small but fine marginal field. Even after numerous spins it is still hard to find a description for this style, as the ingredients range from Doom Metal to Hardcore to Stoner Rock and are brewed into a boiling soup. Songs such as the opening and blazing “Maraschino”, the killer ear-wig “Apollo” or the blessed “The Detachment” speak a clear and unmistakeable language.
Despite the slow basic tempo of the single songs, VANCOUVER amazingly know how to build up brutish pressure and toss the listener through the room. Only in the closing track “The Portrait” singer Michael and his brave comrades leave the sledgehammer outside and walk musical paths that seem similar to those of RADIOHEAD. A great final a perfectly suitable contrast to the eight preceding tracks which present the listener with an emotional rollercoaster ride. The surprising thing about the Swiss’ debut is the fact that all of the songs were laid down live in the studio within two days only. But I guess that it is this fact that is responsible for the unadulterated and incredible power of “ – The Moment”.
The only negative thing for most interested people should be the fact that “The Moment” was only released on the two Independent labels Division Records (Switzerland) and Deep Send Records (Canada) and that it should be hard to get this masterpiece from your trusted dealer without any problems. A glance at the listed websites should provide a solution, though, and all I can do is promise that the efforts will definitely pay off. Due to the effort shown on “The Moment” VANCOUVER can look into a bright future, and someone who is able to record an album with so much life’s blood more than deserves it.
The.Metal.Observer.
Listen: Maraschino
DD
MASSMIRROR
Etiquetas: metal, noise, postmetal, vancouver
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(0) comments7/20/2007
Tracklist
1. 27 [7:42]
2. Glar [4:27]
3. Ties of senses [6:25]
4. Scheme [2:52]
5. Dull / dud [5:15]
6. Red july [7:33]
7. Hyoid [3:24]
8. Iron gap [11:29]
Info
Born in the year 2000, forceed goes on with exploring cold sounds and demoniac rythms. At the start the goal is to play music during hours as heavy as possible. In the year 2002 the band record an EP with 7-strings guitars and double pedal, the average of the band is around the age of 16. The disc has the opportunity to be assumed by Division Records, the swiss hardcore label of Unfold, Zatokrev, Vancouver, Shovel, impure Wilhelmina, Ordeal, and after a few shows in Switzerland the band records an album, in 2003, called "idyl of estreya". After these two records, the guys from north lost Switzerland plays with the same obstinacy for heavy and aggressive music. The result of this period is going to be available as a new album for the end of 2006.
Listen: Dull / Dud
MySpace
http://www.myspace.com/forceed
Download
http://www.mediafire.com/?3njd9jynn1z
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Etiquetas: Experimental., forceed, metal, noise, postmetal
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(0) comments7/09/2007
Tracklist
01. A [2:22]
02. B [3:24]
03. rolex [3:30]
04. gizon gizen [2:21]
05. D [2:07]
06. E [2:08]
07. F [7:27]
08. press b [2:49]
Info
Gutariko bat was formed in Bera on 1994. At the beginning the band was formed by five members and with this team they released their more significative releases. Rock experimentations, a mixture of different working methods, sound collages…
Remastered re-release for the first time on CD.
Listen
Untitled.mp3
Download
http://www.mediafire.com/?axhsmw5mgvj
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Etiquetas: Gutariko Bat, mathrock, noise
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(0) comments4/19/2007
Tracklist
Night Terror
Saigon Sleeps
Concentrate
Endless
Double Back
The Game
Drink This
Scout
Blood
Sleep Well
Info
An intentional homage to the world of horror literature and film, Night Mute is Ativin's ten song exploration into the themes of death, hopelessness, and fear. On it, the band has created a concise and harrowing sonic vision rooted in their trademark foundation of dirge and repetition of the guitar/guitar/drums. With emphasis placed on deconstructing the music back to its barest elements, the band has pulled away from the "spacious" and cinematic side of the Summing the Approach EP (1999, Secretly Canadian) and last year's Interiors (Secretly Canadian). Song titles and lyrical content reinforce the notion that this could be a subtle, disconnected soundtrack for terminally ill patients lying in wait behind closed doors. Guitarists and songwriters Dan Burton and Chris Carothers relish in the deconstruction of their own music. It may help to think of their dual contributions to Night Mute as a metaphor for a severed corpus callosum, as you begin to form a mental picture of the sound therein - two hemispheres of the brain are split in two, scared to death of each other, yet encased in the same brain cage and trapped for all eternity. "Night Terror", "Drink This", "Concentrate" and "Blood" are each meticulously honed razorblade attacks nodding to a return to the Ativin of yore - angular instrumental rockers like those on which the band waged war on Pills Vs. Planes (1996, Polyvinyl) and German Water (1998, Secretly Canadian). The addition of expert, marksmen style drumming from Mark Rice (the Impossible Shapes, John Wilkes Booze) propels Burton's and Carothers' spiraling, schizophrenic guitar interplay into a nightmare space where few, if any, musical acts have gone before.
Taking a look at Ativin's sordid past, one will see that there is more to their music then the late '90s post rock explosion from whence they came. In fact, Night Mute shows a stake in the divergent corners of the outsider canon. Echoes of Durutti Column, Unsane, Tones On Tail, Keiji Haino, and Organum can be heard throughout. Their sober take of the early Love & Rockets tune "The Game", for instance, finds Burton front & center at the microphone, slowly reeling in on what feels like a Philip K. Dick gothic folktale.
Secretly Canadian
MySpace
http://www.myspace.com/ativin
DD
http://www.mediafire.com/?dnndm3nyokq
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Etiquetas: Ativin, noise, post-hardcore, Post-rock
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(3) comments4/17/2007
Tracklist
01. I Am The Walrus [7:21]
02. Groon [6:35]
DD
http://www.mediafire.com/?aqutonnmmww
Etiquetas: boris, Electronica, merzbow, noise, sludge, stoner
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(2) comments3/02/2007
Tracklist
1. Against The Grain
2. Last Man Standing
3. This Stops At The River
4. Only Pain
5. No One
6. Windshield
7. Shooting Clay
8. Line On The Wall
9. Disdain
10. Eat Crow
11. East Broadway
Info
New York City's Unsane assisted in pioneering a more aggressive, less studied version of noise rock, one that blended the scum/art industrial sturm und drang of Foetus, the Swans, Einsturzende Neubauten, and Sonic Youth with the decidedly more straightforward hardcore idiom favored by acts like Sick of It All. While developing the blueprint for noise-metal bands to follow, Unsane cut a remarkable swath through underground music, inspiring a devoted, cult-like following around the globe. As a power trio, Unsane relied upon a hammering, power-press rhythm section, a searing Telecaster howl, and distorted vocals that resembled nothing if not the sound of a man trapped in the New York Subway system. Having met at Sarah Lawrence College in the late '80s, the original incarnation of Unsane -- Chris Spencer (vocals, guitar), Pete Shore (bass), and Charles Ondras (drums) -- crawled larvally out of the practice space in 1989 and began playing New York's seediest haunts. It was these graveyard slots at clubs like CBGB's where the band developed and honed their trademark sound and delivered the goods with due intensity and volume. Unsane piqued the interest of numerous small indie labels and began issuing a series of singles and EPs before recording their self-titled debut with Matador Records. Using the photo of a decapitated man lying across train tracks, Unsane's album cover set the tone for the admixture of seething aggression, naked fear, and barely controlled noise chaos contained within. But the band's devastating maelstrom contained more than enough tunefulness and rock propulsion to quite easily surpass its more affected Lower East Side peers. During 1992, Unsane's daunting schedule was cut devastatingly short by the untimely drug overdose of drummer Charles Ondras. Former Swans and Foetus drummer Vinny Signorelli climbed aboard the swiftly moving train in the fall of 1992 and the band began composing its next album. In the interim, Matador compiled and issued a collection of Unsane's early singles and compilation tracks, appropriately titled Singles: 89-92. It is perhaps Unsane's defining moment. The following year found the band recording its first for Atlantic Records, Total Destruction, a menacing, dark collection of songs driven by Signorelli's hypnotic drumming and Spencer's man-pushed-to-the-edge vocals. More touring followed and Matador released the Peel Sessions disc almost concurrently with Total Destruction. After being discharged from Atlantic in 1994, Unsane found both a new bass player in Dave Curran -- who joined on tour while doing sound for the band -- and a home for their next album, Scattered, Smothered, and Covered, on the independent noise rock label, Amphetamine Reptile Records. While maintaining the band's signature sound and volume, 1995's Scattered... showed the band opening their rhythmic approach, with most songs inhabiting a more rock-oriented 4/4 pattern, granting the album a more spacious and controlled feel. Scattered... also contained the unlikely MTV hit video for "Scrape," featuring a series of skateboard accidents intercut with footage of the band performing live. Created for 200 dollars, it was ironically named one of MTV's Ten Funniest Videos. The band toured relentlessly and managed to secure an opening slot with metal behemoths Slayer on one of their North American headlining tours. Shortly after, the trio made another label switch to Relapse Records and began constructing its final album, the ironically titled Occupational Hazard. While on a press tour in Europe only a month prior to the disc's release, Spencer was brutally attacked by street thugs and left for dead on the streets of Vienna, Austria. After emergency surgery, he returned to the touring arena. For over a decade they have represented a harsh, aggressive, honest, and intelligent voice of New York's Lower East Side.
AllMusicGuide
MySpace
http://www.myspace.com/unsane
DD
http://www.mediafire.com/?bo5ykjzmznf
Etiquetas: metal, noise, Rock, Unsane
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(0) comments2/28/2007
Tracklist
01. utility [4:02]
02. crash [4:13]
03. neurones [5:53]
04. virus [5:04]
05. dirty [4:20]
06. magic hours [5:02]
Info
The new french noise generation, walking on post rock 'n roll steps, finds its breeding ground on the notes of Membrane. Emerging from the pop-rock underground in 2000, Membrane, previously called Blindfold, rapidly grew up with noise bands, sharing the stage with Sleeppers, Tantrum, Doppler, etc and featured on the much sought after festivals Les Eurockéennes 2004 and Le Printempsde Bourges 2005 bills thanks to the quality and mouth-to-ear reviews on their first 'Stage box' cdep and their brand new debut cd 'Utility of useless things', captured by none-the-less than Serge Morattel adn mastered by Alan Douches. Membrane, given to live reviewers, is a power act. Seeing them live is a journey, a powerful and delightful sensation into the vaults of emotion, ambition and heavyness. Hastily labelled as a music close to Breach and Unsane, Membrane was at this time at the crossing point of cult 90's french bands Basement and Portobello Bones tending to more modern and loud bands such as Neurosis and this is right; Breach. 'Membrane take the noisy, blown, spittle-drooling-from-the-chin pigfuck of noise rock's heydey, mix in some earthshaking dirge metal a la Neurosis, and strap it to the back of a muscular post-hardcore assault that's similiar to the metallic attitude Jawbox copped after they toured with Helmet way back when.' Crucial blast Behind this down-to-earth emotion that urges from their shows, Membrane is priorily a power trio who focuses on a firm composition with memorable and catchy riffs. 'Utility' had a massive guitar sound despite the fact one-take only was prefered by the band. Plus, merely no effect was added to the mix, which somewhat shows how the band put interest into rendering the most honest and primitive version of the tracks. "The six tracks on UTILITY OF USELESS THINGS are a testament to heavy music, with lots of breakdowns; searing and chugging guitar work." Skratch magazine Also, they had a short episode trying an extra member on guitar. That was only as short as unefficient which means obviously that the band had to remain a trio forever. But where do they go from here ? Well 2 years later, some tours behind, the highly anticipated follow-up to 'Utility' is called 'A story of blood and violence' and presents 7 new tunes and a cover of Unsane, of course ! This time, they chose Niko of Kill The Thrill to record the new cd. 'Utility' was massive but 'A story' promises to be 100 more massive. 'A story of blood nad violence' is set to be out in May 2007 on Basement Apes Industries.
MySpace
http://www.myspace.com/membraneband
DD
http://www.mediafire.com/?f2wnmmznz2k
Etiquetas: Membrane, noise, posthc, Rock
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(1) comments1/20/2007
Tracklist
1 The Thick Gloss 4'25"
2 Hikikomori 3'50"
3 Steelbath 3'56"
4 Loess 5'27"
5 Aftermath 4'26"
6 Black Spot 4'25"
7 Pendulum 3'17"
8 Hand in Mouth 2'27"
9 Cutting Trees 6'16"
10 Blend In / Load Off 4'52"
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Hell yeah. Excellent hard-hitting material out of Switzerland here. How you'd "categorize" this I'm not sure, and I don't care, because it kills. Pounding rhythm focused chord progressions with scathing vocal screams, just the right amount of discordance and subtle melody, tons of gritty distorted textures across the board, etc. The recording is fucking stellar for this style of music as well. Everything is mixed tightly together without any gaps, so the percussion is totally natural and dense, you can hear the bass holding it down in the center, the guitars are hard panned and have an excellent level of clarity, and the vocals are deep against the music - adding in additional light distortion next to the guitar tone. I have zero fucking complaints about the production. None. The title track (fourth in line) is the first track to start out somewhat softer with some very faintly distorted guitars, gradually building up with percussion and bass, but never introducing vocals or full-blown heaviness - opting instead for a thicker melodic lead break/layered chord progression towards the latter moments. "Black Spot" opens with a lush fingerpicked passage over some soft volume swells, picking up into another of the more melodic and spacious compositions, this time cranking out some vocals and a heavier edge, leading into the faster and decidedly more rocked out brevity of "Pendulum" and "Hand in Mouth". The slowest and probably heaviest track, "Cutting Trees", surprises with some awesome singing vocals low in the mix just past midway through - a drastic change for the rest of the record that fits in perfectly and definitely calls for further attention. The layout is all done in high contrast black and white with a good deal of metallic silver, and it looks fucking awesome. Things are mostly made up of splotchy textures and whatnot, with a few recognizable insect wings and band photos. Lyrically things are fairly succinct and abstract, but still quite expressive: "The machines we built are heading back, Return to sender, Hell is up here, His helmet is fused to his head, Hit by the one he aimed, His hands are pieces of meat, He's facing up with his purpose - won't give in, Burn the flag as I am born, My sorrow's not for sale, Perception left so low and torn, Image and word proof to fail." I'd highly recommend this one for the Hydra Head crowd. Though definitely not the same beast at all this group is certainly aesthetically aligned with their fellow countrymen in Knut (and they also remind me of a nastier and less straightforward Helmet, which I view as a positive), so give this a shot.
AversionOnline
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Etiquetas: metal, noise, Rock, Unhold
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Tracklist
1. Dead People Only [4:13]
2. My Own Phobia [4:11]
3. Rose-Bays Over The Grave [3:38]
4. God Inc. [3:02]
5. Droping Life Intro WC [2:08]
6. Insert Coin [3:18]
7. Blindness VS Reality [8:05]
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Primera edición del sello madrileño Dead Wrong, antes XconvictionX (Sound of Silence, Another Kind of Death), que empieza fuerte sacando la segunda referencia de este grupo de Cadiz. Los cambios de formación acontecidos al poco de entrar a grabar han llevado a que la edición del disco se hiciese de rogar, pero al final el resultado, con un segundo guitarrista y la potente voz de Manuel, ha sido más que satisfactorio. En "Dead People Only" nos encontramos una fusión de noisecore, posthardcore y screamo con un sonido crudo, frenético y chillón. a medio camino entre Refused, Converge y los Jr.Ewing del "Calling in Dead". Con eso y todo, 8th of September no suenan a refrito y pueden alardear de tener un sonido personal que se aleja del tópico nacional de fotocopiar a las bandas extranjeras que más pegan. Además incluyen en este CD un videoclip bastante competente (con chica y todo, como no) de su tema "Dropping Life Into WC". Un disco directo, variado y agresivo, con muy buenas maneras compositivas, que nos muestran a un grupo en avanzado proceso de madurez y con mucho potencial por delante.
Chus Maestro
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8th Of September - Dead People Only
Etiquetas: 8th Of September, metal, noise, Screamo
