10/31/2008
Etiquetas: away
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(0) comments10/30/2008
>TRACKLIST
01. Disbelief
02. The Hate The Hollow
03. Disgrace
04. Neglect
05. Obituary
06. A Smaller World
07. Free Us From...
08. Disowned
09. Asleep
INFO
The Hate The Hollow is a killer crust punk/hardcore album from a little known Milwaukee band. Protestant takes the grit and grime of early crust bands like Amebix and infuses it with the technicality and raw power of modern hardcore. The result is an intense storm of grinding riffs, raging vocals and suffocating bass lines.
If Converge had pared back their more melodic moments and focused more on a DIY aesthetic, they might have sounded something like Protestant. Its not all blood and dirt here though. There are some slower tracks like “Obituary” that centers on slithering math-rock riffs before the chugging maelstrom kicks in. Moments like these add balance to the fist-clenching madness of the affair and gives Protestant some ample room to push their sound further.
Like most hardcore albums, The Hate The Hollow passes by like a flash flood, leaving you feeling abraded and disoriented in a very short period of time. It delivers intensity in spades while still balancing things out with its sophisticated compositions and doom-inspired atmosphere. For its crushing density and piercing emotions, The Hate The Hollow is one of the top hardcore albums to sneak under the radar. Keep your eyes open for these guys.
The Rock Blogger
LISTEN: Al Carrer
Etiquetas: Crustcore, protestant
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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
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(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
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(0) comments10/26/2008
Coma - S/T
Split - Nada X Liberar & Worst Case Scenario Part#1
Split - Nada X Liberar & Worst Case Scenario Part#2
Etiquetas: Coma, nada x liberar, re-upload, request, worst case scenario
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(0) comments10/23/2008
TRACKLIST
01. Prelude to Amber Pays the Rent
02. Stop Talking, Let's Fuck
03. A Wilderness, Except by Sight
04. Cocktown and the G Boys
05. Sportsfister
06. Theme From Diana
INFO
This hour-long, six track monolith follows Geisha into a psychedelic black storm, their blown-out and raw rock infused with a bone-rattling recording and covered in a thick sheen of white noise and gritty distortion.
As with their previous album, the spirit of seminal noise rock / sludge rock (think Cherubs, Melvins, My Bloody Valentine’s Isn’t Anything for coordinates) is combined with violent, chaotic noise and tainted with blurred VHS cassette visions and vague allusions to BDSM, and then jammed through an orgone accumulator, forming a ferocious, crushing rock beast that reveals it’s powerful hooks and melodies underneath the churning distorted bass rumble and sludgemetal riffage , blasts of psychedelic drone-noise and corrosive skree, percussive pummel, and deranged singing. The sound is immense, and the first five tracks on Die Verbrechen Der Liebe deliver Geisha’s in-the-red heaviness and hooks in surplus. “Prelude To Amber Pays The Rent”, “A Wilderness, Except By Sight”, “Sportsfister” - every one is a crusher.
But then Geisha pull out the monstrous thirty-minute, thirty-five second closer “Theme From Diana”, and the tone changes completely. This track is a re-working of a “metal percussion” set that Geisha originally performed live several years ago, and it begins as a slowly building fog of voices and effects and shimmering metal that blooms into an expanse of droning, fx-heavy guitar, looping samples, cosmic effects, and improvised percussion. It’s a kind of rumbling industrial dronescape that stretches out forever, until suddenly in the last few minutes the drifting drones and psychedelic guitars and sampled voices suddenly explode in an immolating nuclear blast of overdriven, speaker-annhilating noise and the track immediately, terrifyingly changes shape into a monstrous lumbering noise-metal dirge that bulldozes out of your speakers, whooshing Hawkwind effects swooping overhead, the band knotted together into a white-hot blast of ultra heavy riffage, distortion, and a wall of percussive force. “Diana” is one of the most crushing pieces of music that I have ever heard from Geisha, like some majestic and brutal conglom of Swans, Skullflower, Merzbow, and Burmese forged into a destructive space-metal supernova.
Bcore
LISTEN: Stop Talking, Let's Fuck
Etiquetas: noise rock, Rock, sludge
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(0) comments10/21/2008
TRACKLIST
01. Zero-Positivo
02. Lobotomia
03. Lobotomy
04. Real Activists Listen To Manu Chao
Info
Putos jefes.
LISTEN:Real Activists Listen To Manu Chao
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(3) comments10/19/2008
Del cielo - Us vs Them (fixed)
Del Cielo - Wish and Wait
Inoren Ero Ni - Grönholm
Trigger Travis - The Zoo
Diablo - seiseiseis part #1
Diablo - seiseiseis part#2
Etiquetas: del cielo, diablo, inoren ero ni, re-upload, request, trigger travis
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(0) comments10/18/2008
TRACKLIST
01. Knit and Trash
02. I'm a Ninja
03. Schweden verpiss dich
04. No Time
05. Hit the Fall
06. Stay in School
07. Fight Yourself
08. I Love Television
09. From Fuckface to Duckface
10. Dieannas
11. Kamikatze Attack!
INFO
This 3 Riotgirls from Sweden delivery you a brew of early eigthis hardcore in your ass punkrock. Heavily influenced by bands like DRI, Black Flag, Circle Jerks or Discharge. 11 songs in 12 ½ minutes, but they never use the feeling for great riffs and melodic songs.
Dirtyfaces Records
LISTEN: I'm a Ninja
Etiquetas: hardcore, kamikatze, Punk, punk rock
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TRACKLIST
1. Depart (I Never Knew You) ft John Darnielle
2. Bones To Pick
3. Thorn Bird II
4. Walking Distance
5. Telling the Hour
6. Run Rabbit Run
7. Geography
8. Arctic
9. Stranger
INFO
Bellafea call Chapel Hill, North Carolina – a small college town famed mostly for its booming, influential 90s indie rock scene – home. The rich, independent music history and their subsequent Southern upbringing play obvious roles in structuring their individuality. Bellafea teems with the punk spirit of local townies Superchunk, while the trialing dissonance of Polvo shine through in their string parts. There is an earnest aggression in their music, perhaps channeled from their struggles with the vastly conservative Southeastern United States – the patriarchal, Bible-belt countryside where they grew up. There is resistance, and there is also a secular nod to their heritage and its inevitable and inspiring impact on their songwriting.
Cavalcade could be Bellafea’s “call to arms”. Recorded over two years during multiple sessions with Chapel Hill engineers Brian Paulson and Nick Petersen, focused on the ideas of plurality and layers, friends and enemies, dedication and rejection, decoding the feeling of fight. Bellafea’s urgency and battle cry is apparent; well-known for their captivating sold-out hometown performances, they have gained the loyalty of local musicians/friends John Darnielle (Mountain Goats), Dave Laney (Milemarker), Ben Davis (Sleepytime Trio, Bats & Mice), Daniel Hart (Polyphonic Spree, St. Vincent, John Vanderslice), Eric Moe (Zegota) who all – along with a choir of friends – lend a hand on their debut full-length.
Southern Records
LISTEN: Depart (I Never Knew You) ft John Darnielle
Etiquetas: Bellafea, Indie, noise rock, post-punk
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TRACKLIST
01. The Change is Complete
02. 64k Brain in a 128m World
03. Million Memories
04. Pursuit of Certainy
LISTEN: 64k Brain in a 128m World
Etiquetas: deathcore, noisecore, Under the pledge of secrecy
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(0) comments
TRACKLIST
01. Schrodinger's Cat
02. Winter
03. Consent
04. Collapse
05. On Nature
06. Worldview
07. The Long Dance
08. Confinement
09. Hive
10. Tunnels
11. Master
12. Harm
13. Organism
15. Room
16. Moderation
17. Producer Of Grain
18. Ceaseless Noise Of Machines
19. Beyond The Spectacle
20. Torture
INFO
Running For Cover’s ‘Human Ruins’ 7” was an unexpected powerviolence gem and this long-overdue follow-up hits the exact same mark, a 20-track system purge of unwavering disgust and despair that doesn’t quite know who to turn the gun on first. Though the brunt of their attack consists of thick, gnarled, painfully heavy riffage and bitter, bellicose rants, strange melodic twitterings and wandering Eric Wood-inspired basslines writhe semi-heard beneath the relentless cudgel blows, forcing the listener to stay on a caffeine-tweaked state of alert rather than slip into the droop-lidded complacency engendered by so many of the tiresome fastcore blunderers following in their wake.
collective-zine
LISTEN: Schrodinger's Cat
Etiquetas: fastcore, power violence, Running For Cover
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(1) comments10/14/2008
TRACKLIST
1. Dark Corners
2. Witch Sister
3. Dimmer Suns
4. Old Leprechaun
5. Gatemaster
6. Footprint of a Fire
7. Rust in His Sleep
8. Pearl Lake
9. The Milk of the Cosmos has been Spoiled
10. Star Wormwood
11. Ceolacanth
12. Snakes of the Earth
13. Double Dare
INFO
Possibly the most devastating Reptilian Records release to date, the sound of a charnal-house being leveled by a fleet of Sherman tanks during rush hour traffic. More than hyperbole, that accurately describes this album’s sonic devastation. Fresh on the charred heels of the split 7” with Medic, also on Reptilian, TRIAC continues its scorched earth policy with Dead House Dreaming, 13 no-nonsense tracks where grindcore, sludge, and thrash intersect. Captured with demanding clarity, depth, and target-practice accuracy by Chris Camden @ Ultrasound, Dead House Dreaming holds court with dynamic arrangements and well-honed song craft. Blake’s vocals are an authoritative bark, commanding respect above the distorted fray. TRIAC clearly gives a damn about raising the bar in extreme music beyond the usual bullshit posing, blood n’guts, speed trials, and triple-picked riff retardation. They’ve done it with Dead House Dreaming, elevating themselves quite a few gutter levels above the majority of grind bands content to wallow sheepishly in formula. Like Pig Destroyer or Soilent Green, TRIAC can stop the speed gears on a dime, shift into haunting experimental noise passages, 80’s thrash, full-on riff metal, or the kind of raw and ugly sludge favored by Glazed Baby or Buzzoven. Dead House Dreaming concludes with a respectfully noisy cover of Bauhaus’ “Double Dare”, and on the last note, it’s apparent there’s not a note wasted in this perfect album. Cover art torn from nightmares and translated into paint by artist Stephen Kasner.
Reptilian Records
LISTEN: Gatemaster
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(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
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(2) comments10/12/2008
TRACKLIST
01. J. Edgar Hoover
02. Comics as the modern mythology
03. Great disasters
04. Why drive when you can be driven
05. A legacy of bad decisions
06. F = ma
07. Disney bad
08. Las dolores
09. Onehundredjohns
10. Rush hour for commitment
11. Men of silence
LISTEN: Great disasters
Etiquetas: Rock, Screamo, suchi rukara
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(0) commentsComity - The Deus Ex-Machina As A Forgotten Genius
Etiquetas: comity, re-upload, request
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(0) comments10/07/2008
TRACKLIST
01. Le Grand Wazoo
02. Ichtriol
03. Rhodamine
04. Sixplusone
05. Expellant
06. Lyrics Are Never More Important Than The Music
07. Route 27
08. Hymen
INFO
"Oh, good," you're saying to yourself. "Weird instrumental rock from the Czech Republic." Even better (sigh), it's music that its makers call "compost rock," which turns out to be a pretty apt term: imagine a large pile of musical influences that includes everything from electronica to psychedelia to hardcore to prog, and that slowly collapses in on itself, producing a warm, fragrant, unified whole. Frankly, it's probably a good thing that this music is instrumental, since it's hard to imagine what kinds of words or sung melodies could go along felicitously with the strange, faintly dubwise "Le Grand Wazoo" or with "Sixplusone," which features synthesized marimba and ends up sounding like a cross between Dinosaur Jr. and Birdsongs of the Mesozoic. "Ichtriol" doesn't go much of anywhere and doesn't offer much fun along the way, but "Rhodamine" cooks nicely and "Hymen" features both a fun 5/4 time signature and spooky, Pere Ubu-flavored synthesizer noises -- and if there's one thing today's world could use more of, it's spooky, Pere Ubu-flavored synthesizer noises (though whether it needs more songs titled "Hymen" is open to debate). Not bad at all.
Rick Anderson, All Music Guide
LISTEN: Le Grand Wazoo
Etiquetas: C, dub, Indie, instrumental, math rock, Post-rock
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(0) comments10/05/2008
Ôkban - Hiperestesia
Logical Nonsense - Expand The Hive
Black Ships - Low
Ambulance - the end of our time
Plastic Priede - Discography part #1
Saidiwas - all punk cons
Etiquetas: ambulance, Black Ships, Logical Nonsense, ôkban, Plastic Pride, re-upload, request, Saidiwas
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(5) comments10/02/2008
TRACKLIST
01. The Last Fifty-Eight Quatrains of The Seventh Century
02. Nail, Nail, Nail
03. All Those Wrists
04. Manbeam
05. Tidepool
06. Towing Anchors
07. Depths
08. Smear Merchant
09. All The Sons Are Fading
10. Carve Up and Give Away
11. Tiny Bomb
12. Something To Do With Death
INFO
They've only been together for a year and a half, but the Burlington, Vermont band Romans is moving fast. Their debut album is only 23 minutes long, and they cram a lot into those 12 songs.
When All Those Wrists kicked off, I was afraid it was going to be another generic metalcore CD. There are some of those elements, but fortunately Romans is much more than that. In addition to standard metalcore, they also have songs that are heavy and sludgy, and even a track or two that's spacey and progressive.
Romans has all the pieces in place. They are a really new band, and All Those Wrists has bursts of good songwriting and originality. They just need to focus more on the things that make them different from the average metalcore band, and write songs that are a little catchier and more memorable. They are off to a good start, and I look forward to hearing them progress.
HeavyMetal About
LISTEN: Depths
Etiquetas: hardcore, math metal, noise core, Rock, Romans
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(0) comments10/01/2008
TRACKLIST
01. Bring me back my ball before I start crying and go tell my mom
02. Do you remember that dream you told me about last spring
03. I always knew it was gonna happen to you before this summer
04. Much better when you smile and wink an eye before you leave
05. This is not my cup of tea, but I'll get along with it. Just trust me
06. The seal and the ball ain't always the same, don't you understand?
07. I love it when you take me to the beach on your brand new motorbike
08. Please let me get you a new turntable. You are spoiling all my records
09. Melting ice all over the place. This is the warming age and I'm not ready
10. There's no time, here it is: the onion's rebellion
11. Happy birthday Aaron. This is your present. Put your shoes and dance
12. Walking the dog by the pool I realized that I'd missed something
INFO
The Rebel Orthodontics are Llovio y Yael. Father and daughter. Guitar and drummer. They are in Ibio (Cantabria). They give micro-songs and micro-shows.
Birra y Perdiz
LISTEN: Much better when you smile and wink an eye before you leave
Etiquetas: Alternativa, instrumental, microrock, The rebel orthodontics
