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DazD - st LP (Fuck Yoga) 13 € V/A - FREAK POWER 12" + zine (Fuck Yoga) 13 € HOODED MENACE / ANIMA MORTE - Split 7" (Doomentia) 6 € CLAWS - Absorbed in the Nethervoid LP (Doomentia) 14 € RAVENS CREED - Albion Thunder LP (Doomentia) 14 € NUNSLAUGHTER / RADIOLOKATOR - Split 7" (Doomentia) 6 € Joy Division - Inside The Line (Fanclub) 10 € Derrida - Vastakirjoituksia LP (div.) 10 € Horror, The - Spoils of War LP (Zandor) 10 € Dark Buddha Rising - Entheomorphosis DLP (Post-RBMM) 16,50 € Unearthly Trance / Volition - Winter Split 7" (Wolfsbane) 7 € Oresund Space Collective - Dead Man In Space LP (Pariah Child) 17 € Plague Upon The Living - Robeman dreams Tape (Noise for Satan) 4 € Extreme Noise Terror - Law of Retaliation LP (Power it Up) 10 € WOLFSDUISTER - Altaar 7" (droehnhaus) 7 € Agathocles - Mincer LP (Power It Up) 10 € White Hills - Heads On Fire LP (Rocket) 15 € Gnod - st LP (Pariah Child) 13 € Ocean Chief - Den Förste LP (Electric Earth) 13 € Sink - The Process LP (Rusty Crowbar) 13 € Nux Vomica / Kakistocracy - Split 7" (To Live a Lie) 4 € Gruel - st 2LP (Feast of Tentacles) 14 € Morne / Warprayer - Split LP (Alerta Antifascista) 10,50 € Kylesa - Static Tensions LP (La Familia) 10,50 € Wreck of the Hesperus / De Novissimis - Split 10" (Stitchy Press) 10,50 € G.I.S.M. - Detestation LP (Fanclub) 13 € Thou / Mohoram Atta - Split LP (Feast of Tentacles) 11,50 € Zodiac - st 10" (7degrees) 9 € Thou / Leech - Split LP (Vendetta) 11 €
Coming soon:
Loinen - Doctrines of Desolation#4 Tape (Kult of Nihilow)Tile - st 7" (Kult of Nihilow)MOUNTAIN WITCH - Scythe & Dead Horse LP (droehnhaus)GISM - Document One LP (Fanclub)Sloth - Falafel 7" (Limited Appeal)Moss - Eternal Return LP (Superfi)Martyrdöd - Sekt LP (Farewell)Snowblood - Third DLP (Superfi)
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Ufo Gestapo - st LP (Streaksrecords) 12 € »
Seems like Marseille is the real Neuschwabenland. Out now is the s/t vinyl rerelease of the first Ufo Gestapo CD that came back in the days on Calculon Records.
This first part of the trilogy has more of the cosmic Korg-synths but still extra desperate vocals and violent as a horde of angry aliens devastating your flat. Again the music dwells between Doom and Hardcore, gloomy slow parts alternate with short outbursts of fast HC-Parts.
This was of course worth a vinyl edition and comes with a great silkscreened real LP 350g cardboard jacket, completely new artwork. There is a limited version of 125 copies in acidic nicotine ellow vinyl and an inlay matching the vinyl. The rest of this 359 copies press comes in black vinyl and b/w inlay.
Check one Song:
Mercy's Hole
12 Euro a copy!
Thick 350g cardboard gatefold, 4 colored inlay.
last handfull transparent vinyl left.
Autopsy-esk, filthy and gloomy Doom/Sludge with a weaving drum work. Mental Funeral Doom from Dublin.
übergreat gatefold LP with art by Glyn Smith. www.scrawled.co.uk
limited to 548 copies, 150 handnumbered clear vinyl.
Blood ist Liebe !!!
Soundsample of "Stop the Black Coffins":
Stop the black coffins Snippet
12 Euro a copy!
4 Copies left
The Whorehouse Massacre - IV: The Death Tree LP (Streaksrecords)
Thick 350g cardboard, professional mastering at "The Exchange" UK, 8 paged booklet. IV: The Death Tree is as you may guess the fourth album of Willy P.s (Canada) solo project.
This has it all: Sludge, Industrial, Noise, but occasional haunting, almost melodic moments. Inspired by the murders of Robert William Pickton this is a sick nightmarish Lucio Fulci soundtrack. Rotten hopelessness and perdition dominate the album, adding blends of violent, grinding outbursts. lo-fi black metal aesthetic, but still produced healthy.
The superb artwork for the coversleeve and the 8-paged booklet is from Scott Stearns and transports perfectly the misanthropic brutality. Dip into the sick world of Willy P.
416 copies pressed, 100 handnumbered on mint green wax.
Stunning artwork from Scott Stearns.
b/w in good Streaks tradition.
soundsamples here:
Face Down in Blood
A Place Best Forgotten
11 Euro a copy!
RESTOCK of 3 copies, last chance to get this milestone for all that came too late.
Sludgy, hypnotising and deep Industrial Doom from Nottingham with members who have been involved with such bands as Pitchshifter or Taken by Wolves. 4 songs of grief and dispair in 50 minutes, creating a very unique gloomy atmosphere with amazing chord changes.
Think of early hypnotic Peaceville or Earache Industrial back in the days mixed with doomy Sludge and deep growls.
Faye Coulman (Sandman magazine) says:
"Hordes of Satan are an unforgiving, atmospheric assault of unholy doom metal played with high-volume and hypnotising intensity. The grinding depth of the bass evokes an intriguing aura of death, equivalent to the sight of a grisly mass murder scene. The blood-curdling death grunts of "Joseph" would indeed make the perfect horror soundtrack. Their unique brand of doom metal is as intoxicatingly potent as a triple shot of absinthe on a bitter winter's night."
MP3:
snippet_pacifist.mp3 (4 MB)
snippet_joseph.mp3 (4 MB)
As well here a small restock from a distro
I traded copies back then. get it!
Aquarius Records Review:
It makes sense and everything... Finland is dark and cold, with a winter that is bleak and inhospitable, forests, and huge expanses of frosty tundra, but it still seems impossible, or at least extremely unlikely, that there can be a seemingly neverending stream of gloriously depraved doom that continues to emanate from our favorite far away land. But who's complaining? Not us that's for sure. We can't get enough frozen Finnish weirdness, especially when it's of the doomy and sludgelike variety. And Loinen is most certainly both sludgelike and extremely doomy. But that's not nearly all.
Loinen (parasite in Finnish) traffic in "nihilist sludge core" and while that may be true, they do manage to add some interesting little sonic twists to what could be just another tarpit trudge through a downtuned wasteland. Which is not a bad thing, not at all, we could happily spend the rest of our days wrapped in a pair of headphones, crawling through a sonic wasteland as black as pitch, but when a band can create a bleak landscape that manages to transcend the typical, we're all the more thrilled. The core sound is of course familiar, crumbling downtuned and ultra distorted guitars, churning riffs, pounding drums, and the glacial groove of dual bass crunch and drum pound makes up the framework of this whole disc, but Loinen, take a few liberties. One is a strange flair for the dynamic, no static slow motion riff trudgery, instead, the guitars, crunch and grind, stop and start, allowing lots of space to seep in, and building strange rhythms out of the doom. Very reminiscent of Dutch hypno-rockers Gore at times, with the churning looped vibe and the hypnotic repetitive arrangements. But the weirdest part of Loinen's doom-iverse is the vocals, a haunting croon, like some impossible mix of Scott Walker and Urfaust, sure there are howled demonic shrieks, but they spend most of the time buried way down in the mix, coming to the surface here and there, but it's those creepy soulful vocals that add an unexpected dimension to Loinen's doomy dirges. Turning some tracks into expansive epics that almost sound like some sort of doom metal Swans. Plus they even cover obscure Finnish punk legends Terveet Kadet! Awesome!
Packaged in an eye popping gatefold, all scrawled black and white madman illustrations, the sort of art you'd expect to see on the wall of a cell at an insane asylum, a tattooed figure, a toothy grimace, all sorts of crosses and clouds, little beasts and lots and lots of text. Cool.
MP3:
raiskattu_sydän.mp3
musta_jumala.mp3
metalrage.com:
Grindcore, goregrind, mincecore, whatever! Agathocles play grind, nomatter how anyone wishes to label hem. Loud stuff equals good stuff in the happy fluffy world of grindcore, and so I can tell every Agathocles or general grind fanatic: rest asure, ‘Mincer’ is another kickass symphony by the Belgians. The stuff we’re used to: short bursts of energy with low rumbling guitars and oldschool Carcass style of singing.
One of the coolest things about Agathocles is their frequent “surprise element” in the form of a hardcore breakdown, a happy riff or other assorted gleefullness. Not just an unending rant of blastbeats. It keeps their albums a bit of an edge a lot grind-clones fail to fuel their sound with. Speaking of sound: it’s nice and murky. Sounds like 100% kickass basement quality to me, which happens to be a nice setting for a grind album.
Ooh, let’s not forget the underlying social and political thematics. Mixed up with great classics such as "forced to masturbate". Not that you will be able to understand a single word, but then again it is one of the charming aspects of underground music and one of the reasons for my Napalm Death fetish.
Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/agathocles12
Insane Society:
Brazilian 80`s punk legend ARMAGEDOM is back with a bit more of their deathcore poison. This is their 3rd album and comes with 15 new songs of an agressive and dirt old fashioned hardcore nowadays with a more heavy and crusty touch.
Myspace:
ww.myspace.com/armagedom
WIFAGENA::
8 songs and every single one a gigantic monster who seems to grow constantly on the way by the tides of the Death/ Black Metal, Sludge/ Doom/ Drone and Hardrock.
It shakes your teeth on edge, your stomach and surrounding innards look distraught in view of this mighty roller that threatens to wear down everything. The mood tips ! Quiet tones, acoustic guitars with minimalist support of the percussion and the one or other discreetly arranged sample, weave a sound carpet which invites you to stay and relax. But only for a short time and the monster is back - inexorably, immensely and, demanding! Who feels fine in the (Death) Metal of the 90th, knows about Sludge/ Doom/ Drone and didn..t forget about the old from the 70th gets one..s money..s worth. This 1st album of BLROW is a must- have and guaranteed ground breaking.
Comparisons to other great bands can be renounced confidently. The protagonists themselves know about their job. They neather follow any trend nor need to prove anything to themselves. Furthermore the still play in bands like WOJCZECH, IDIOT SAVANT and WHOS MY SAVIOUR.
mastered in march 2009 by Mell Dettmer, Seattle/ USofA (SUNN O))), BORIS, Kinski…)
Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/badluckrideonwheels
Conspiracy:
A single 43-minute composition / symphony (broken into five tracks for easier access) from Japan's drone druids that goes from etheral to crushingly heavy and everything between. Stark in contrasts and attention to texture." Some bands are fly-by-night operations, garnering instant fame, critical acclaim and shattering all album sales expectations within their first couple years of operation. You've seen 'em before - they're certainly here today, everyone's darlings tomorrow, and merely relegated to curbside refuse service just before the end of the week. Boris is certainly not one of those spontaneous success stories. Though the thunderously heavy and melodic Japanese experimental rock outfit has only very recently been introduced to American ears - most notably via its groundbreaking 2006 release, Pink - the trio has been steadily grazing its unique sonic turf for well over the past decade. And the release of its latest full- length endeavor, Smile, will force the boundaries of Boris' already-expansive repertoire -which features nearly a dozen albums - into new extremes. This is the LP version of the cd released in 2005.
Crucificados:
hyper destructive violence from both .. a dual assault from feedback warriors burmese and pure negativity from potop .. burmese annihilate everything before them with a lethal blast of low frequency skree tantrums, cough syrup drenched blastbeats, whitehouse worshipping noise and demonic free improvised violence .. think khanate, dropdead, merzbow in an earth shattering, widow making basement deathmatch .. potop from macedonia deliver 2 long tracks full of negative guitars, tectonic grooves and sadistic vocals .. bad music for bad people .. expect powerviolence without the fast bits, combined with the torture of burning witch. yeah, pretty heavy stuff .. limited to 500 copies, silkscreened covers
Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/burmeseisdead
Doomentia:
CLAWS started in early August of 2008 as one-man project when Lasse (HOODED MENACE / ACID WITCH / PHLEGETHON) wanted to start a Death Metal band highly influenced by the cult Swedish death metal band Crematory from the early 90's, as well as other rotting and cryptic sounding bands such as Derketa, Nihilist, and Incantation. This style of death metal is very rare today and Lasse felt he could have fun writing some very raw, heavy, and utterly haunting songs in this way! Fans of early 90's Death Metal will salivate over this 9 song platter of cryptic darkness with themes of decaying terror, cobwebbed mausoleums, shambling zombies, demonic ghosts, forgotten cemeteries, and morbid creatures that are not of this Earth!
Death Metal was meant to be underground and this is what CLAWS is all about...what lies beneath is where Death Metal TRULY lives!
Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/clawsshred
Relapse:
Old-school death/doom metal LIVES!! Japan's Coffins have brought back the horrific sounds of this destructive form of metal with their debut album. This is one of the supremely heaviest albums ever, and will easily bring back memories of classic acts such as Winter and Autopsy. Features morbidly wonderful cover artwork by death metal legend Chris Moyen. Get your copy of this bonecrushing doom masterpiece now!
limited repress!
somewhere:
First vinyl pressing ever for this 1995 cd-only EP. Re-mastered sound combined with a brand new artwork designed for a gatefold sleeve specially by cult japanese phographer Kyotaka Tsurisaki!!! And to top it off, the record comes with a fold-out poster! This is one of Corrupted's first recordings, being one of the world's seminal Sludge bands / recordings. No need to introduce them anymore I guess... Those who want to freak out will be able to play Corrupted at their SLOWEST ever reducing the turntable speed at 33 rpm... haha. A cult release by a cult band on a tiny homemade label...
www.lowcut.dk:
Dark Budda Rising is a new psychedelic DOOM band from Finland and one of the coolest bands that I discovered in 2009. I also have their first double LP called Ritual IX, which features one LP with two totally amazing DOOM, psych, Kraut rock tracks and the 2nd LP of strange drone dark drone music.
Anyway, this is also a double vinyl made in 500 copies with cool artwork and thick vinyl. Again, the band takes you out on album side dark psychedelic trips unlike any other band that I can think of. They are for sure influenced by the Finnish band, Circle but throw in some of the slower DOOM sounds. What can I say.. Amazing stuff and only released on vinyl. You can hear some of the bands stuff on Last.fm but they don’t even have a myspace page of real web site. Total underground but worth digging up if you like bands that make album long side mind journeys...
http://www.varjotila.org/dbr/
nothing to add to Crucial Blasts words, incredible album !!!
CRUCIAL BLAST:
Killer apocalyptic hardcore from Serbia! This band is pretty wild; they bring together weird occult themes and imagery, their album art full of esoteric sigils, woodcut artwork, and surreal paintings from Jason Barnett, the lyrics exploring themes of anarchism, paganism, and earth magick, while the music is a mix of grim post-punk dirges a la Amebix/Killing Joke, psychedelia, and violent hardcore rituals, and also list Japanese maniacs GISM and cult Swiss metallers Hellhammer as influences. At first, Dazd start things off with a wasted doomed crawl, the opening track all stomping old school doom metal in the vein of Pentagram and Sabbath, heavy bluesy riffing creeping over reverb-drenched drums while screams echo in the distance; but the second track sets the tone for the rest of the album, beginning as a gloomy instrumental hardcore dirge, heavy winding bass and skronky, Ginn-esque guitar matched with droning riffs and spacey synthesizers, eventually starting to sound like a faster, more feral version of Amebix.
From there, the album travels through fast hardcore punk fronted by snarling slobbering screams and delirious chanting, stretches of electronic noise and droning synths and Hawkwindian space fx, pounding metallic sludge, galloping old school metal, D-beat driven thrash, finally arriving at the wailing tribal punk dirge of "Duboko Duboko" where the band digs into another Killing Joke-esque jam with Hammond organs and emotional weeping vocals. Strange and unpredictable occult hardcore bound in amazing surreal imagery - Dazd are highly recommended for fans of brutal left-field HC.
Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/dazdthecult
somewhere::
Amazing LP here from Finland. At first this came across as modern Finnish hardcore along the lines of DROWNING NATION or HERO DISHONEST...from the artwork to the bands style. But as this powerhouse outfit plowed through blazing tune after blazing tune i heard distinct homage being paid to legends SAIRAAT MIELET, one of the best Finnish bands ever. Yeah, not totally under that veil but it became clear and everything was in place: ripping fast hardcore, dark guitar harmonies and a singer whose voice melts steel at 20 paces!! These guys even translated their whole lyrics sheet into English, revealing really deep and intense lyrics on classic punk subjects, but taken to the next level. One kick ass fucking disc released by no less than five Finland hardcore labels.
Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/derrida666
www.metal-temple.com:
The wait for the THE DEVIL’S BLOOD debut is over. And the expectations are in high level. The main reason was the bombastic masterpiece, the previous year’s "Come, Reap" EP, being so good that it seemed very difficult to be approached. Well, to end this once and for all, yes, the Holland’s magicians are not a pyrotechnic. They have it. "The Time Of No Time Evermore" is in the same quality level, only this time the great songs are more (the previous EP included four cuts and a cover) and the pleasure is bigger.
Their music still has the occult elements from COVEN and BLACK WIDOW but here we have something bigger. THE DEVIL’S BLOOD are miles away, they drunk their blood, took the ancient power and left a havoc behind them. I still believe that they have a lot of N.W.O.B.H.M. influences. In some parts the crystal riffs have something from DEMON, a little of WITCHFYNDE and ANGELWITCH. Here is where a lot of metalheads will find common points with this band. All the above have been sewed and create a solid body under the guidance of Roky Erickson’s guitars as their main influence.
Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/thedevilsblood
weird split artwork and musicwise. I like this LP a lot!
Boue:
TOAD from Arizona, play a raw and energic punk hardcore with some modern rock'n'roll, that remember me the old MURDER CITY DEVILS (RIP). They sound like a dirty criminal !
www.myspace.com/deathtotoad
DRONE THRONE next issue after the demo, release 4 new songs of sludge / stoner with the anger of Evil beast in the lineage of Sleep and Bongzilla.
www.myspace.com/dronethrone
Throne:
The final recordings. Several years in the making, Dystopia part ways with a final full length album that is as essential as their previous ones. If you dig their sound, you'll find it intact here. If you dig their lyrics, you'll agree with what's written in here. If you dig their punkish-collage type layouts and mind-blowing intros, you'll go ape here. This is a band that created their own style and kept true to it until their last ever recording, presented here. Dystopia need no comparisons, on the contrary, most of today's bands owe them a couple of riffs. Dystopia were one of these bands you either love them or hate them. We love to hate together with them.
Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/dystopia
Electric Earth:
Crushing and destroying everything in its path comes this album of these psychedelic doomers.
This is the vinyl version of their highly acclaimed debut full length album released earlier this year by MeteorCity. The artwork is re-coloured and the album is re-mastered for vinyl cutting by Mell Detmer (Sleep, Earth, Boris,…) Comes in a heavy gatefold sleeve and pressed on 180 gr heavy vinyl.
Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/beholdtheelder
www.globaldomination.se:
19 songs of buttfuckingly brutal grind crust. That’s “Law of Retaliation”, the new album from English legends Extreme Noise Terror. I think it has been something like 7 or 8 years since the last I heard of ENT, and boy have they been missed. No one provides such a destructive assault on the ear drums quite like these fellas. Everything is so fucking desperate and fast, you can’t help being overwhelmed by it all. Don’t you even try to bang your head to the tempo or you’ll bleed your brain out of your nose, I assure you. (...) As the world is corrupted and crumbles before failed financial institutions, greed and the putrid feces that is humankind, Extreme Noise Terror thrash us with the only good kind of terrorism; the sonic one.
Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/extremenoiseterroruk
Finally the debut album of the Finnish sludgemonster is out! Crawling ballsdeep in mud, Frogskin delivers three songs in forty minutes. While sucking influences from such acts as EyeHateGod and Electric Wizard, they have still managed to create a very unique and filthy soundscape of Finnish hatred.
Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/frogskin
Back in Stock!
Classic Japanese hardcore: brutal, metallic and more than a little unhinged. Most of the lyrics seem to be in English, though you would be hard-put to decipher much more than a few words gleaned from the song titles. Most find this record either completely amazing or completely overrated. Essential listening.
-GEOFF W.
Matze:
Kenne die Originale leider nicht und da die vorherigen Volumes auch nicht, aber das hier macht Geschmack auf mehr. Tim Hecker, erster Remix. Sphärischer Klangteppich, der auf was grosses zusteuter, aber irgendwann dann halt einfach fertig ist. Ambient eben, nie mein Ding, geht aber dennoch gut rein. Dudes you can trust Remix von I won't come back alive startet auch mit waberndem Ambient, bis auf einmal das Schlagzeug einsetzt, einen unbewusst kopfnicken lässt und dann so dermassen die Schraube anzieht um dann in einem extrem tanzbaren (!) EBM track zu münden mit Gitarren, schwer zu beschreiben.... der Track ist der Gewinner der Scheibe! Geil! Das Nadja Remix noch spaciger und längster Song der LP, lässt einen schweben bis, ja bis einen eine krachige Sludge/NoiseRock Wand aus den seligen Träumen reisst und das knallt extrem!
Crucial Blast:
Board Up The House Remixes Vol. 5 is the final installment of the five-volume remix series that has been produced in co-operation between Genghis Tron and five labels (Relapse, Lovepump United, Anticon, Temporary Residence Ltd., and Crucial Blast), and features a myriad number of artists reshaping and reimagining various songs off of Genghis Tron's 2008 album Board Up The House (Relapse Records). Each volume is pressed in a run of 1,000 copies on colored vinyl that ties in with the sleeve art. Board Up The House cover artist, Jon Beasley, has provided each remix album with alternative artwork.
The Crucial Blast entry in the Board Up The House remix series features Tim Hecker (Mille Plateaux, Alien8, Staalplaat, Fat Cat) turning the title track "Board Up The House" into a fuzz-entombed bliss-scape, Aidan Baker/Nadja's fifteen-minute glacial vision of "I Won't Come Back Alive", and another remix of "I Won't Come Back Alive" rendered as a blur of distorted electro by Dudes You Can Trust, which is the solo project of Michael Sochynsky from G-Tron taking a heavy mangle approach. This remix platter is easily the most distortion-laden entry in the series!
Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/genghistron
BadAcid Magazine:
"...a melting pot of free tribal drumming, Hawkwind swirl, Krautrock pulse and Sun Ra scrunge, Gnod are less of a band and more of a cosmic collective.. heavily percussive and bass led, covered in reverb and delayed guitars.. everything working in unison towards a climactic explosion, or shimmering off into the distance.."
Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/gnodgnod
Rerelease of this Debut Album. hm, hard to describe... Post-Rock definitely, I hear a mix of The Cure and Souveniers Young America. Recommended!
Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/godisanastronaut
Hells Headbangers:
Their debut album finally on vinyl! From the deepest pit of Hell crawls the GRAVEWURM. Not to be confused with those Italian fag-goth wimps, these Americans pick up with "Ancient Storms Of War" or "Black Candles" where HELLHAMMER and SODOM did not dare to continue after their first demos. For those of you in the know...buy or die. For those not...thou shalt rot!
Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/gravewurm
Throne:
First vinyl pressing ever!
After the successful vinyl release of Grief's “come to grief” last year (which sold out in a few months), Throne Records is releasing now the other Grief album left unissued on vinyl format to date.
“...And man will become the hunted” was the farewel album from this essential band in the Doom Metal genre, released originally on CD in 2000 by Pessimiser Records.
All the artwork comes from the original Eric's canvas and illustrations.
))))) Limited to 666 copies worldwide, one-time pressing
))))) Gatefold sleeve, printed inside out over the rough side, with black inked paper bags
))))) Quality 180gr. heavy weight vinyl
Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/cometogrief
self discription:
destructive storms and evil winds are they an evil blast, herald of the baneful storm an evil blast, forerunner of the baneful storm they are mighty children, ancient ones heralds of pestilence throne bearers they are the flood that rusheth through the land.
Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/gruel23
http://www.rockmetalbands.com:
The German Depression play a grindcore with some death metal influences and have a long experience on their shoulders, even if just a full CD, "Chronische Depression", released, one year ago, while the Spanish pathological grinders Haemorrhage are less old than the former, though Morbid Rec. has already disgorged 3 legendary CD's for them, besides some Mini-CD's and EP's, and, last but not least, a massive live activity. D. sometimes remind of early Napalm Death, like in "Defaced", and some death m. traces are left and well recognizable, listen to "The Battle", whereas the following "An Autumn Blaze"'s got 2 deadly accelerations, and different extreme vocal styles, thanks to 2 growlers and founder mastermind/polyinstrumentist Kai's screams. Very brutal and well recorded, the 11 songs also feature Agathocles' "Enough"'s cover. The crazy gore-grinders from hot and dry Spain don't need any introduction; enough to say they're the first extreme Spanish act signed by a foreign label; H. display 12 tracks from their best gigs in their mother-country to satisfy our thirst for their impending new album, "Morgue Sweet Home". I had to turn up my hi-end knob to the 'midday hour' to enjoy it, cos the recording is good, yet very low, but you'll fast forget this small defect when hearing the 5 huomourous nice guys, also helped by their funny pronunciation of English. I prefered H's side, not only because of the well-performed covers from Carcass, Impetigo and Regurgitate, but also owing to the fighting spirit sweating out of the songs, proving they are at the top of their career. How higher can they arrive? And how much GORE can you take???
Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/haemorrhage
Plus One magazine:
Made up of four parts former Voorhees bods and one post Imbalance person, The Horror's impeccable hardcore credentials are only matched by the unrelenting ferocity of their sound. Creating the kind of head down, punch through walls punk that somehow still makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand on end, in spite of how jaded and long in the black tooth you are, their adherence and subtle supercharging of old school pit principles is rage-inducingly effective. Fifteen songs, twenty seven and a bit minutes of elbow charging classic hardcore is what you get, and we love it.
Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/thefukkinhorror
Featuring members of Philadelphia's LICKGOLDENSKY, JAVELINA's sound embodies the massive, sludgy nature of BUZZOVEN and EYEHATEGOD with the raw hardcore intensity of HIS HERO IS GONE and the straightforward nature of HIGH ON FIRE all wrapped up into one. Vinyl is limited to 500 copies ( handnumbered ) and comes on thick 180gr. wax!
Bootleg of the Warsaw Demo and studio outtakes.
1. Inside The Line
2. Gutz
3. At A Later Date
4. The Kill
5. You're No Good For Me
6. At A Later Date
7. Shadowplay
8. Atrocity Exhibitiom
9. Something Must Break
10. Passover
11. New Dawn Fades
12. Love Will Tear Us Apart
managed to get some sealed copies of this bastard from 1998!
colostomygrab-bag.blogspot.com:
Southern fried sludge. Done. If you ever had an attraction towards the likes of Eyehategod or Cavity, you know, the kind of blackened slow motion dirges that were built on ungodly bottom end, and some dude screaming like a man possessed atop the racket, then this one is up your alley. Members were/are in: Avail, Alabama Thunder Pussy, Birds Of Prey, Hail!Hornet, Axehandle, and The Mighty Nimbus.
Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/kilarava
great LP for fans of Flipper, Toadluiquor and the likes!
Limited Appeal:
edition of 306 of which 55 of the records are on colored vinyl: Live 8 song LP, professionally recorded at their first show in 20 years in 2007. The record centers are hand stamped. Record jackets are stenciled and hand numbered. EXCELLENT sound quality.
Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/kilslugofficial
20 Buck Spin:
Savannah, Georgia’s Kylesa return with their fourth full length album Static Tensions. Static Tensions marks album number two for Kylesa with their 5 piece, 2 drummer lineup after 2006’s monumental breakthrough Time Will Fuse Its Worth. And after three years the band is now able to fully utilize the many percussive possibilities that such a lineup provides, immediately apparent on the blistering opening track "Scapegoat".
Static Tensions also sees Kylesa further progressing with their songwriting, both in terms of the psychedelia suggested on the Time Will Fuse… LP and the sheer brute force and memorable structures they’ve become known for over the course of their 3 albums and several EPs. The at times blackened death metal feel of "Said And Done" and the piano-laced, middle-eastern tinged "Running Red" highlight this diversity of sound, yet at all times it remains distinctly Kylesa. The percussion heavy "Unknown Awareness" is perhaps the most emotionally heavy tune the band has ever written.
Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/kylesa
www.cosmiclava.com:
As I already mentioned, MORNE is one of the most promising new crust bands from the USA. Fortunately, their heavy sound is no tepid rehash of the 80's where bands like Sacrilege, Amebix, and Discharge redefined the genre of hardcore punk. That doesn't imply a complete absence of this influences, but they've been interlaced in a clever way. Especially the non-cheesy use of keyboards in connection with heavy, filthy riffs create a menacing, overwhelming atmosphere. We have here now a new self-released split album, featuring three new tracks and it's also for the first time that Jeff Hayward (ex-Disrupt, ex-Grief) can be heard on the new recordings. The demo was simply brilliant, but the new songs drop with the weight of an anvil through my speakers. 'To Rust' is an apocalyptic mid-paced opener of epic proportions followed by 'Truth Is Light' and 'Mirror' where the band increases the speed. MORNE's strong metal influence is very evident in 'Mirror' and it fits just perfectly to their brutal sound. Currently the band is working on their much-anticipated debut album that will consist of re-recorded tracks from the demo plus one new song. Alicia Morgan of the band 13 and Kris Force, who is best known for her work with Amber Asylum, Swans and Neurosis will participate as guest musicians. The album will be released on Feral Ward Records and I can only give you the advice to watch out for it. WARPRAYER is a new band from Bristol, UK, who deliver five tracks of dirty, back-to-basics crust punk with crunchy guitars and pissed-off melodies. In comparison with MORNE the band is less spectacular, but they have their shit together. This is an all over good split CD that is also available on vinyl from Alerta Antifascista, and definitely one of my favourite releases in 2009.
Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/mornecrust
Vinyl Reissue of this 2001 classic!
Metal Archives:
....When all is said and done Mourning Beloveth have created a masterpiece that has been very well received in the doom community and in my humble opinion one of the best doom albums in the last 5 years. I highly recommend this record to all fans of metal....
Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/mourningbeloveth
Amazing LP version of the tape bootleg from 91 when legendary NAUSEA played with Concrete Sox, Assasins of God and many more a show in Lodz, Poland.
This LP comes with
- a heavy glossy sleeve
- a thick glossy folded insert with high quality live pics from that show and all lyrics
- a heavy booklet with 6 interviews fron that time, one in french, one polish and 4 english ones, for example one from Maxumum RocknRoll
- a high quality reprint from the poster of that show
aaaargh, buy it !!!!!!!
Sound quality is really good, heavy and thick!
I found that pic in the web and does actually not represent how much dedication has been put in that boot!
Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/nauseacrust
Lords of Metal:
Ocean Chief from Sweden has been around within the doom metal scene for a while now. They released a couple of splits and in 2004 and 2006 they released two full-lengths with songs that most of the time were well over ten minutes. On this, high quality, vinyl release on the relatively new Belgian label Electric Earth we again find three long songs. Still you can consider these songs as quite short compared to the material from their past.
The band plays very heavy doom that reminds quite a lot of the American act Sleep. Super heavy, threatening down-tuned doom that sounds a bit like the music we know from acts like The Obsessed and the likes. Due to the very heavy sound it surpasses the aforementioned acts and therefore it comes close to Sleep. Ocean Chiefs delivers a nice slab of music put on the market in a great way by Electric Earth. Heavy vinyl, a nice cover and a poster. A class release!
Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/oceanchief
300 copies made, great LP!
Gary Hill / Music Street Journ:
It really combines Hawkwind-like elements with modern sounds. We get shades of jam-band music, even jazz and some points earn comparisons to early Pink Floyd. All in all this is a consistent (and fully improvised) recording from one of the greats of modern space rock.
Track by Track Review
High Pilots
This rises gradually up with space keys and guitars weaving the sound and creating a definite Hawkwind like atmosphere. After a time it works out to a more full arrangement and there are jam band elements in the mix, making this feel a bit like the love child of The Grateful Dead and Hawkwind. It intensifies at times and also takes on some definite jazz-like qualities at points as they continue to make their way down this space roadway. Around the eight minute mark the guitar leads us out in a new journey that’s got some more modern rock elements but also feels a lot like very early Hawkwind. It shifts eventually back more towards the earlier sounds and space keys dominate at points. This is quite a tasty piece of music that really hearkens back to early Hawkwind while still maintaining a modern sound. Towards the end they wander into more pure psychedelia for a while.
Space Jazz Jam 2.2
It’s interesting that this actually leads off the second side of the LP because it really feels like it stretches out from the previous cut. It has a more open and purely spacey sound. The Hawkwind leanings are still here, but tempered with elements closer to early Pink Floyd. There is some Traffic in the midst here, too – bringing some hints of jazz –as the title suggests. A cool jazz meets space guitar solo emerges later and takes the cut into some tasty territory. It works through some changes and alterations, but all of them are incremental and organic and this piece glides through space at a modest pace. It also includes a section that feels like a modernization of very early Hawkwind.
Dead Man in Space
This is a sound effects and spoken word section that feels very much like something from Hawkwind.
Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/oresundspacecollective
At War With Flase Noise:
First full-length album from Andy Lippoldt AKA Persistence In Mourning, after a couple of EPs and a split 7" with funeral doom legends Worship. The Undead Shall Rise is a concept album on a zombie attack, following our protagonist on fleeing the zombie hordes on the A side (which ends with him being bitten), and deals with his transformation into an undead on the B side. It's a hokey concept, but does it work? YES IT DOES! There's a real soundtrack feel to the record, with funeral doom dirges interspersed with noisey, unsettling moments and fractured spoken word. Reminiscent of doom legends Thergothon on the more "conventional" pieces, but in my opinion the stuff he's doing on this record is a million miles ahead of anyone in the genre right now. It's a very downbeat record and captures the spirit of utter hopelessness and despair (what I can only assume the "zombie" concept is allegory for) perfectly. Features a host of guest musicians (including Ganzmord, M. Warjomaa from Aarni and B.Baphomet from By The Horns) who serve to each stamp their own unique talents onto the music. Proud as hell to be unleashing this on the world, this is one of my favourite At War releases yet.
250 copies, each copy includes a blood-stained "last note" from the album's protagonist.
Myspace:
www.myspace.com/persistenceinmourning1
read somewhere...:
Formed in Orange County California in 1990, Phobia has been punishing ears with their murderous sociopolitical grinding noise assault for a full decade. Dealing out their savage combination of the energy and ideals of hardcore punk mixing it with the power and brutality of early grind, Phobia has shared the stage with a diverse mix of bands over the years such as Chaos U.K, Grave, Napalm Death, Detestation, Neurosis, Deicide, Final Conflict, Corrupted, Assuck, Spazz, Exhumed, Immolation, Disassociate, Darkest Hour, and Mayhem to name a few.
Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/phobiagrindcore
Interpunk:
Seventeen more tracks from Southern California’s grind masters. Political and angry, with an earache assault of brutal noise to back it up, Phobia doesn’t disappoint with this ragin’ assembly of power violence tracks and deep vocal growling.
Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/phobiagrindcore
Doomentia:
The 39 minutes of hate-filled, Venom-influenced bile and Hell-hammered thrash rip through your speakers and take you back to the glory days of bullet-belts, faded denim, black leather and cheap cider! Recorded at the renowned Moot HQ Studio in Nottingham.
Ravens Creed is:
Steve Watson - Guitars (ex IRON MONKEY / CEREBRAL FIX / CONSUMED / HELVIS / DESECRATOR)
Jay Graham - Drums (ex-UNDERGROOVE / SKYCLAD / RETURN TO THE SABBAT and former session drummer for TONY IOMMI)
Ben Ward - Vocals (ORANGE GOBLIN)
Frazer Craske - Bass (ex SABBAT)
THE TANKS ARE FINALLY ROLLING.....GATHER YOUR SANDBAGS TO DEFLECT THE BLAST!!!!!!
Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/wwwmyspacecomravenscreed
Chris Chandler, All that is he:
In the vein of such classic doom acts as Saint Vitus, Witchfinder General and the mighty doomfathers of the genre, Black Sabbath, this band has made bpm-meters move into deeper depths than ever thought possible. Their combination of painfully slow, ultra heavy riffage and the clean vocals of Albert Witchfinder was a long-awaited treat for fans of old and new doom alike. This is a pure conjuration of ancient downered Sabbath, as summoned by Count Raven, Vitus, early Trouble or Pentagram.
Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/reverendbizarre
Vinyl ReIssue of this Sludge/Doom/HC bastard. Scott Stearns artwork, famous for his works for The Whorehouse Massacre, hehe.
Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/zeerue
Recommended! Pitchblack and Doomy, no neo-Sludge bullshit here.
Blinddate:
ultra doom. 5 songs of very slow, epic and thick music with freightening dual vocals. this album absolutely thrills and pushes you on the next rack to crush your mangy head. project with members of Aldebaran, Yob, H.C. Minds etc..
R.I.P. !
total mayhem of 33 minutes
Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/shadowofthetorturer
Rusty Crowbar:
There is obscure and then there is Obscure. The difference is subtle, but when you hear Sink, you know the limit between obscure and Obscure has been surpassed. The Process is a beast that drags you below the surface and lets you gasp for air just enough to keep conscious and experience the horror. Monumental wall of sound built from demented vibrations, violent distortion, wailing feedback, reverberating clashes and almost choral (in)human voices echoing in your mind like amplified painful memories; and when the wall collapses, the undertow pulls you deeper into paranoid and disturbing surroundings filled with static drones, scorching electrical trills and gravely impressive Obscurity that defies mental health. You may never reach back to the surfaceÉ This is not a sludge record. This is not a drone record. This is not an experimental record. This is The Process.
180g vinyl, cardboard insert, limited run of 250 copies.
Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/sinktheprocess
Metal-Archives:
The is something about Portland Oregon that is consistently pushing it's underground scene to make some of the most catchy, brutal, grinding , multi -vocal goresoaked death metal mayhem ever heard. Lets face it! Bands like Engorged, Lord Gore, Frightmare, Fornicator, Bung, and Whore all come from the same area that is Portland. Splatterhouse is another outstanding death/thrash/grind band that pushes forward with the oldschool grind of Repulsion, and Terrorizer along with the classic american death metal feel of Impetigo, and Autopsy. I can even hear a tough of that old "Bay Area" thrash sound. The vocal assault is like that of the legendary Impetigo and classic Carcass. Highly recommended to fans of Carcass, Impaled, Lord Gore, Frightmare, Engorged, Ghoul, and General Surgery.
Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/splatterhouse
Noisy and hard Metal-Poppunk, hahaha.
You know the deal. Fantastic Album. These guys never go wrong.
great album of both. Thou deliver again very high quality in their appreciated style, Leech with Black Metal that has it own approach too.
Violent and very good mastering on this LP, especially the Thou side slays.
Vendetta:
Another killer release from Vendetta, once again combining two ugly, brutal, slow and heavy bands, this time from the U.s.. Southerners THOU come with thick slugde-core that doesn't fear occasional hymnical moments and quiet interludes before falling again into an abyss of black, hateful slowliness. Virginia-based SALOME instead serve stripped-down stark sludge-doom and prove that it needs no more than drums, a guitar and a vitriol-filled voice to deliver nothing but pure hatred.
Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/thouband
allthatsheavy:
Originally intended for an EP release on Rise Above back in 1991, this was scrapped in favor of waiting for an album that never came. The band (brainchild of Justin Oborn) changed their name to Eternal, who eventually evolved into the band we now know as Electric Wizard!
Perkoro:
Heavy as fuck, these guys from Hagen/Germany love to worship SABBATH. Influenced from the classics of both metal and hardcore, UNION OF SLEEP blend the two together seamlessly while throwing in some good old fashioned stoner/doom and of course a whole bunch of rock 'n' roll. Sometimes they rock out like shit, but still keep the pace slow. A genre of riffs, with grate and dirt, spit, all taken into directions, angles, and awkward spaces. Rhythm and bass that flows like a rolling river, sometimes rapid, sometimes heavy, thick, and melodic, but always moving forward. These albums are laden with vocals that can haunt, entrance, or enrage, with angry lyrics and very low attitude. This record contains 4 brandnew songs as well as 4 songs from their 1st Demo (re-mastered). If you love relentless heavy music, dirty and loud - this full-length is for you! LP comes with 350gr thick inside-out cover, and inlay. For fans of SLEEP or DOOMRIDERS. Be afraid, be in awe - UNION OF SLEEP is a journey worth taking.
Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/unionofsleep
Blinddate:
Moloch - lighnting strikes twice (Rorschach)
On Pain of Death - troops of doom (Sepultura)
Golden Gorilla - absentee debate (Unbroken)
Aguirre - like weeds (His Hero is Gone)
Loss - the fog (Goatlord)
Thou - well fed fuck (Born Against)
Shadow of the Torturer - judgement of the dead (Pagan Altar)
Hey Colossus - institutionalized (Suicidal Tendencies)
Total mayhem of 43:28 minutes.
brings back the times of the 90s old school compilation like "Left Back, Let Down", Reality Comp. and so much more, reaching from Grind an Powerviolence to Sludge!
Fuck Yoga:
An international compilation featuring extreme hardcore/ grind/ noise bands. All songs are unreleased. Bands featured are:
BURMESE (supreme punishing noise), APARTMENT 213 (cult hateful hardcore), JUDAS (frantic metallic hardcore), BRAIN DEAD (heavy fast/slow hardcore), BUD JUNKEES (scummy stoner trash), SENATA FOX (fast scandi trash), MONSTERS OF POT (melted minds), WADGE (freaky hawaii-themed grindcore), SETE STAR SEPT (bizarre grindcore), WARFAIR? (crusty wargrind), ATENTAT NA SLUH (animalistic noisecore), NIHILIST COMMANDO (harsh noisecore), CRIME DESIRE (uplifting occult hardcore), HATRED SURGE (very aggressive hardcore, shaun/ COLD SWEAT on vocals), IRON LUNG (ultra violent hardcore), POTOP (BIG BLACK/ SWANS medley), MAKUA VALLEY BLAST TEST (mutant hardcore), DE NOVISSIMIS (cathartic sludge/ grind).
The zine has interviews with THE ENDLESS BLOCKADE, APARTMENT 213, BURMESE and SETE STAR SEPT + horror movie talk by Colin M. Tappe (CRIME DESIRE/ LIFE IS A RAPE) and an in-depth analysis of IN A GLASS CAGE. 36 pages, add-free.
Pitchfork:
If you're going to play this kind of gritty garage-bred psychedelia, it stands to reason you should lay it on thick, but maximalism takes on a whole new meaning in White Hills' "Glitter Glamour Atrocity". Among its key ingredients: motorik-mined grooves, cool bass drone, raw-wire monotone riffery, liberally-applied space noises, the lupine hiss of overzealous wah-wah pedals, and sampled radio broadcasts of 9/11 prognosticators and finger-waggers. All of that over feedback squalls and the barest traces of threatening, spitting vocals-- and that's just a part of this eight-minute freakout. It should have been 45 minutes longer. I can't think of a single excess they've left out, nor one they should have.
Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/whitehills
Crucial Blast:
The band released this EP as a handmade CD-R that has been sold at shows over the past year, but the songs on Peas Feast are so cool that we wanted to give this a proper vinyl documentation, and have been remastered for vinyl by Scott Hull at Visceral Sound. The record will be pressed on yellow wax with black splatter in an edition of 1,000 copies, and will also come with a digital dropcard that will allow you to download the tracks from the Peas Feast EP as well as a digital-only EP titled Drongolet Demos that has a bunch of unreleased tracks from Wildildlife.
The Peas Feast vinyl features four lengthy songs, starting with the zonked ultraheavy sludge and atonal, barbed wire guitar freakouts of "White Eyelidz" which goes from crushing glacial metal to drunken bassloaded punk rock in the bat of an eye, and then moves on to the pop genius of "Violent". "Violent" is the catchiest song these guys have, starting off slow with plaintive FX-soaked vocals swimming over pulverizing sludge metal riffage - think Harvey Milk but waaaaaay more freaked out and poppy and mutated by unnameable effects boxes....the hook here is so catchy it gives me a toothache, it's like hearing the saddest old alt rock song ever being played by Corrupted, complete with vocal harmonies. But then comes "Shining Son", another amazingly catchy pop song, still heavy but way more upbeat and driving, more noise rock than sludge, with a big burly bass riffs and ecstatic guitars that strafe the sky until the sludge rears it's head again, a massive swampy riff that rises up and flattens everything towards the end. MASSIVE. And then the final song, "My Song", formerly an acoustic song that appeared on Wildildlife's self titled debut 10", another amazing pop gem, but this time damaged and drunken sounding, the pop hook molten and oozing, the vocals a desperate howl, slow and sludgy and creeping but still unbelievably catchy and exuberant as it trails off into an almost Mammatus-like psych rock coda. Although this early material is more immediate and raw than the band's debut album Six, the music is crushing, catchy and totally spaced-out. On Yellow vinyl with black splatter in a run of 1,000 copies.
Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/wildildlife
now words to waste. political turbo speed violence with hooks and german vocals.
recommended!!!
Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/yacopsae
10inch
Moloch - st 10" (Feast of Tentacles/Shifty) 9,50 € »
coffeeandcompany.blogspot.com:
Moloch are an amazing hardcore/metal band from Nottingham. Their sound brings to mind old German metal bands from the 90s like Acme and Carol or the despondency of someone like Dystopia, but with that fuzzed out, sludgey, Sabbath/Eyehategod thing at times too. Ex-members of Braindead plus folks from Army of Flying Robots.
Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/molochscum
okay, if you have good drugs available, keep them till your order of this 10" and the Church of Misery - Denis Nielsen arrives and have an evening ranging from Astronaut to Massmurderer. I bet you'll like it!
Aural Innovations:
This is a very interesting split 10" with two cool Finnish bands. It is made in only 500 copies on thick vinyl. One side is Mr. Peter Hayden and this is eerie and cool spacey instrumental psychedelic music with a lot of moods and textures. For sure some Kraut rock and Circle influences in the last track. Galactika start very slow and spacey and slowly builds up like a lot of post-rock stuff, but then it really takes off and you head out into Ash Ra Tempel territory. This is a really cool and spacey track. I look forward to hearing where both of these bands are heading off to next, even deeper space perhaps?
Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/mrpeterhayden
Stitchy Press:
Finally after many twists and turns this record is ready to be unleashed, featuring two of Dublin's heaviest bands: Wreck of the Hesperus, filthy-sewer-sludge-stripped-down-raw-doom and De Novissimis, a powerfull wall of dual vocal crust doom with added blast beats. The recordings on this album are exclusive one-off tracks and have already become rare.
This might be one of the heavist Irish records ever released!
7degrees:
5 Tracks of intense raging Hardcore from Bremen/ Germoney! A furious bastard of 90’s Bremen HC, early 90’s US-HC ala Rorschach, Uranus etc. and a healthy dose of Metal in a timeless modern outfit. Dark and heavy!
Great German lyrics about us - the shaved ape! Comes with a 12-pages booklet!
Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/zodiac
7inch
EVIL ARMY - Under Attack 7" (Hells Headbangers) 5 € »
Hells Headbangers:
2 new thrash attack hits. Some of the very best REAL thrash around these days. For fans of old SLAYER, D.R.I., old METALLICA ("Kill 'Em All" era).
newest 7inch of Haare after the amazing tape on Kult of Nihilow on the really passionate and dedicated label Hellville.
While only a press run of 100 copies, there is a full color sleeve and overall a nice packaging.
Doomentia:
And from the grave, they rise. Yes, they. Musically wise, ANIMA MORTE and HOODED MENACE may seem to have little to do with each other: whereas the first one is an instrumental quartet from Sweden recreating with vintage keyboards the purity of 80’s horror movies soundtrack - think ZOMBI switching obsessions and focusing on Italian giallos instead of John Carpenter’s – HM is on the surface a far more vile beast, a truly putrid death/doom band celebrating the long dead spirit of the cursed Templars, aka the Blind Dead, with gurgling vocals (courtesy of PHLEGETHON / CLAWS / VACANT COFFIN Lasse Pyykkö) and heavy-as-fuck six strings from Hell. But both of them were bred on unholy grounds. And both have crossed the Styx, seen the other side and came back to tell the tale. Spooky I hear you say? You haven’t heard anything yet…
Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/hoodedmenace
sludge/doom/bongcore, both from Finland.
old school finnish hardcore crust on Battle of Disarm - Ryujis D.I.Y. label.
uhm, difficult one to describe: PostRock, Folk, Doom, Funeral, Space.
I love it.
Interesting (in a positive way!), spacy and gloomy. 500 copies.
Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/mrpeterhayden
sadly overlooked and broke up southern sludge band near EyeHateGod.
Ben Hogg / BEATEN BACK TO PURE:
We all knew this day was coming sooner or later, and it has finally arrived. After extended periods of lethargy and smoking. The chronic underachievers MUGWART have called it a day. Don't look so surprised, those of us who knew them barely batted an eye at the news. Face it, for what little effort that was exerted on their behalf they whipped out some good riffs and songs. They got out of it, 10X more than they put in. What more can you ask. It's not a sad day. I'm sure Charlie is drinking either way. Raise your glasses and rush out to purchase every piece of MUGWART merch you can touch. Brothers in the epidemic and drunks one and all. I'm signing off for MUGWART for the last time. Eat shit.
Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/gutterdrone
great gatefold 7"
Doomentia:
NUNSLAUGHTER with previously un-released demo tracks originally featured on the unreleased "Seven Deadly Sins" 2005 demo circulated only to close contacts. These two songs eventually were re-recorded for the 2007 "Hex" album.
RADIOLOKATOR with their unique sound originating from the old school 80's/90's Czech thrash metal scene exclusively recorded one new song plus a cover of cult band KRYPTOR.
This split 7" commemorates NunSlaughter's European tour through the city of Ziar nad Hronom in Slovakia with support from RADIOLOKATOR. The band gathers members of the most active Czech metal bands LAHAR, GRIDE and AVENGER.
Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/nun666slaughter
trouble on your system:
This is the split 7" between Kakistocracy and Nux Vomica released sometime last year...a joint effort between To Live a Lie and Humdinger Records. Kakistocracy are an anarcho crust punk outfit from North Carolina who play an aggressive yet melodic style of punk with political lyrics. Their counterparts, Nux Vomica, play a metallic blend of crust originally from Baltimore, Maryland though now based out of Portland, Oregon. Members of Nux Vomica also played in Wake Up on Fire, a sludge/crust outfit from Baltimore. If you'd like, you may check out their S/T 12"...it's a fucking great listen. Both bands contribute 2 tracks to this split.
Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/nuxvomica2
40 minutes of soulcrushing funeral doom from Finland.
50 tapes made.
Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/plaguefin
Split 7 inch between Reverend Bizarre ( R.I.P.) and the Hardcore veterans Kuolema.
Handnumbered edition of 117 copies. The records are hand stamped and stenciled.
The songs on the single are:
Sloth of Bears
Go Lay Down
A Melancholy Egg of French Black Metal has Hatched (but not for american fukkers)!
Thistle
Limited Appeal:
The latest Sloth single on Limited Appeal Records.
Hand number in edition of 150 copies. The records a hand stamped and stenciled
The songs on the single are;
Gibberish
PSA
Scared Straight (the Musical)
Spakle Job
More Gibberish
Prelude
Bad Mood
At war with false Noise:
New 7" that I'm incredibly chuffed about! Sharing a split 7" with one of my favourite bands is the highlight of doing all this stuff so far, could only be eclipsed by maybe Maiden letting me go on tour with them, or perhaps Peter Gabriel playing some flute on our next record. Anyway, I digress. Seven short tracks of weirdness from Sloth; creepy, odd atmosphere to these and in a similar vein to the more obtuse approach of recent EPs they've been coming out with. Some great sub-stoner riffs in there and some ridiculously high-pitched screaming going on. Another winner. One long, claustrophobic and ultra-heavy track from Seppuku, not a million miles away from the recent split 7" with Mutant Ape, but more cohesive. Snails-pace riffing, unholy sarcofagous shrieks and sub-bass low-end. All in tribute to one of the most amazing women ever, Lina Romay.
Full-colour thick card sleeves and sturdy PVC wallets. 200 copies, split release with Sloth.
new sloth split 7" with weluvpot. there were 200 black vinyl made.
Sloth vs. Ganja Grind
Limited to 325 Copies
This 7" brings together 2 previously unreleased tracks from America's Sourvein (Black cloud Revelations) & Great Britain's Blood Island Raiders (Phobia).
Myspace:
www.myspace.com/sourvein13
Calculon:
This 7" was originally released in June 2007 but because of the piss poor vinyl quality we had to send it back and start again from scratch. It's now sounding and looking exactly the way it should for its August 2007 re-release. We are asking that anyone who had a first press and is unhappy with it contact Calculon Records for a free replacement.
This is over 14 minutes of the most evil thick sounding sludge / doom you will ever hear pressed to heavyweight black vinyl.
Taunt simply describes them selves such: After some appearances in different projects back in the days, Taunt was formed early 2006 to play slow and primitive sludge. Their track "I" is a recent recording and pushes their bleakness even further than before.
Stumm formed in Turku in the autumn of 2003 to play slow, primitive and hateful sludge. Influences are not limited to sludge alone, but range all the way from punk/hxc/crust/grind and death/black/doom metal to drone/post-hardcore and death industrial/power electronics. Their track "2x6" was recorded at the same time as their debut EP and follows their distinctive sound.
Recommended! Industrial with rhythms and a lot to discover.
Another professional release from tape label Skrot Up.
Skrot Up:
Like previous Italian creators of murky electronic soundscapes (think Maurizio Bianchi and Mauthausen Orchestra) Rome's Thetlvmth sound like they gave some actual thought as to what goes where, when it comes to industrial noise. Instead of the aforementioned's cold and clinical approach, Thetlvmth travel through a warm and vibrant score, lit up by rays of bright yellow distortion, and circuit boards soaked in battery acid, with heavy clanking mechanical rhythms finding their way into the tracks here and there, as well.
Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/thetlvmth
Wolfsbane:
a collaboration between Unearthly Trance (NY) and Volition (UK). These two heavyweights will team up to pay homage to one of the greatest doom death metal bands ever!! WINTER!!! Unearthly Trance recorded an amazing version of Servants of the Warsmen, and Volition recorded an extremely heavy version of Eternal Frost.
Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/wolfsbanerecords
Problem Rex::
3 brand new tracks from The Japanese grind masters Unholy Grave, 2 new thrash metal hymns from Black Sister including an Anti-Cimex cover in Gaelic! 500 only
Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/problemrecordsuk
somewhere:
... the debut EP from Portland punkers WARCRY... With all the hype about "D BEAT" floating around at the moment...seems like most have missed the mark...WARCRY nailed it. Lets see if anyone notices this slab of perfectly charged punk in the Swedish DISCHARGE tradition... features members of TRAGEDY, FROM ASHES RISE, BACTERIA, HELLSCHOCK, REMAINS OF THE DAY... ETC.
Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/156769692
limited to 100 copies
Droehnhaus:
Wolfsduister is Ritualistic Ambient in the name of the Unholy master, Lucifer. A strong individualistic entity created by E.S. to pull souls into the void of darkness so they can be reborn as a free Wolf. All rituals are performed and recorded at night, and strong advice is to experience this occult music at the same moment it was created, when the shadow falls upon the world, silence takes over and your senses become fully aware of the true side of life, at midnight.
Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/wolfsduister
Endzeit Elegies:
WORSHIP - "Baumvater"
PERSISTENCE IN MOURNING - "Of Once Living Stone"
A conceptional EP, 2 songs about the primal theme "Wood". Cover by Gustavo Sazes, who also designed the "Dooom" Digipack. Grab it now, before it's sold out.
CD
Stumm - I CD (BlindDateRecords/Aesthetic death) 9 € »
Crucial Blast:
Just looking through the grim black-and-red booklet for this CD clues us in that this is going to be an unfiltered stream of negative energy, from the creepy cover image of the little boy curled up, fetal-position style in a corner, to grisly images of substance abuse, suicide, and homelessness.
Grim shit.
It doesn't get lighter when this CD unfurls it's four songs across 35 minutes of RAW, primitive, massively heavy Finnish DOOM, with thick and filthy syrupy riffs churning over and over again, slow and snail-crawling, sometimes stripped down to a single powerchord banged out ad infinitum, a nihilistic sludge feast that references the points between Eyehategod, Grief, Melvins, and Khanate (James Plotkin from Khanate actually mastered I).
Spattered with feedback and hoarse tortured howling over spare, planet-shaking drumming, these four tunes are super slow, saurian numbers that sometimes pause to hang in mid-air before crashing back to earth.
Fans of monstrous ultradoom like Fleshpress, Corrupted, Moss... etc., can't go wrong with this one. (crucial blast)
Daredevil:
This record is incredibly intense and if it doesn't put Virginia's bastard sons Vog on the map then the music world may very well be deaf. Vog hover somewhere in between punk, sludge, stoner rock, noise, psychedelic rock, grind, death and black metal, taking little bits and pieces from each genre and stitching them together into ugly, purely evil jams that I can only liken to Acid Bath most directly.
Vog though really don't sound exactly like Acid Bath except in just a few aspects. The vocal performance on this record is a bit like Dax Riggs in that it is all over the map ranging between intense screams that absolutely rage atop the music with some death growls adding more vitriol and even a bit of clean crooning that sounds great and incredibly ominous especially in the context of sprawling epics like "Like the Sky Above" and "Man of Action" which switch tempos up between eerie, suffocating sludge and more punishing metal with clean vocals adding a ton of dementia to the slower parts. The former of these two songs keeps getting noisier and freaked out as it keeps going as the pace slows to that of pure, plundering sludge with crazy effects seeping through the layers of sound like patterns coming through the floor on a good trip.
In fact this whole record is like being on drugs without actually taking anything and that is a pretty high compliment. I just like how this record is all over the place never giving you a chance to compose yourself or figure out what they are going to throw your way next. They bring much faster speeds and in your face vocal assaults on tracks like "Stepping Stones of Humane Survival" and "Odin's Will" which are near grind in their intensity but still draw a certain amount of influence from sludge and punk, whereas album closer "Whatever Works" finds them bringing a straight-up southern groove to the forefront with some fast metallic punk coming in later for more intensity. The band is incredibly tight overall; I still can't get over how insane the vocal performance is. It really hi ts me on a lot of levels and the guy has got a tone that is just completely over the top and unrelenting and the rest of the band is on top of their game as well. The riffs just keep coming and they are always changing in speed and style which keeps things busy enough to suit the aptly pummeling rhythm section as the drummer has plenty of chances to go completely nuts on the kit. This is damn fine stuff overall and there's not one track that even drags on this record.
If you dig Acid Bath then definitely check out Vog, they take that whole sound and step it up a notch and add so many of their own nuances to it. Here is to hoping that these guys will get picked up by a label soon because there is no way in hell that this amazing full-length can stay unreleased for long. If you dig sludge but are looking for something a bit more insane and off the deep end then Vog should definitely be worth your time. This is going to go down as one of my favorite records of the year for sure so check it out! Highly recommended! 7/7 - JS
Superb album
noiseville:
This is the debut release from NY's WICKED KING WICKER. It is one of the most brutal doom drone metal CDs you will ever hear. The band has been building a following of fans quite rapidly and the metal press is starting to weigh in on where this band is going.
Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/wickedkingwicker