Mogwai - My Father, My King

Single 20 minute track. Completely instrumental. It's based on a Jewish prayer.

The Disciples of Zoldon - Blackened Theological Tome

One-man grind/death/black metal band. This shit is awesome. All this guy's releases are available on his website here.

Napalm Death - Time Waits For No Slave

I haven't even finished downloading this yet, but it's probably awesome. Link stolen from The_Hive

Minsk - The Ritual Fires of Abandonment

Tribal sounding psychedelic metal. Basically imagine a band that sounds like the 00s version of the title track off Through Silver in Blood.

Boris - Akuma no Uta

Boris is playing Sunday. I'm excited.
Happy Thanksgiving.

Don Caballero - World Class Listening Problem

Instrumental math rock awesomeness.

Oxbow - The Narcotic Story

Imagine if The Jesus Lizard decided to start writing bluesy songs.
Now imagine that they brought in a bunch of strings and added them to a couple songs.
NOW imagine that David Yow was a large black man and even more insane than he already is.
That's kinda what this sounds like.

Misery Index

Traitors


Discordia


Dead Sam Walking


So I recently discovered that I really, really like Misery Index. Traitors is easily going to be in my top 10 for this year, and Discordia and Dead Sam Walking are great too. Grindy, political death metal, it's awesome stuff.

Tusk - Get Ready!

Before there was Pelican, there was a grind band called Tusk.

Ugh

Long day. My brother is in the hospital, and has been for the last couple days. He's doing fine, but we don't really know how long it's going to take for him to recover completely. Could be a couple days, could be a couple weeks.
I haven't seen him since he's gone to the hospital. My parents are taking shifts staying with him. They're both completely exhausted. My mom's in rough shape especially. My dad seriously came close to breaking down over the phone with me the first day.
Even though we all know intellectually he'll almost certainly end up fine, it's still tough. There are obviously far worse things that could happen, but having someone so close stuck in a hospital with tubes sticking out of him just isn't a fun experience.
It's 7:30 on a Friday. I should be out having fun, but I just feel like curling up into a ball and shutting out the world.
I hope I never have to go through this as a parent.

Back Door Slam - Roll Away

Thanks to Bryan for sending me this album. Last.fm says:
Back Door Slam is an up-and-coming blues band from the Isle of Man, who formed in 2007. Their influences include Robert Cray (a track of whose their name is taken from), Stevie Ray Vaughan, Robert Johnson, Buddy Guy, and Howlin' Wolf as well as Rory Gallagher, Bert Jansch, and Mark Knopfler.

Basically, if you like rock, check this out.

The Tossers - The First League Out From Land

Celtic punk band from Chicago.

Fordirelifesake

Breathing Is Only Half The Function


Dance.Pretend.Forget.Defend


Detroit band that's playing their last show 11/28 at The Magic Stick. Tickets are $12 at the door. It's a Friday night. Yeah, they're pretty much pure Petitioning The Empty Sky-era Converge worship, but come out anyway, it'll be a good time.

Converge - You Fail Me

I realized I didn't have any Converge on here yet. So here's some Converge.

Gojira - From Mars to Sirius Re-Up

Because Sammy's a bitch, here it is again. Hopefully it'll work for those of you who couldn't get it the last time.

Hail of Bullets - ...Of Frost and War

Nothing flashy going on here, just straightforward, well executed war-themed death metal.

Comments

Plz to be haeving.

I know someone is downloading these, if I could get SOME kind of feedback it would be awesome.

At the Gates - Slaughter of the Soul

If you don't know, you should. One of the most influential metal bands/albums of the last 20 years.

Grails

Two most recent releases from this band, both put out in the last year or so. Instrumental rock with influences from stoner rock, post rock, and Middle Eastern music. Essentially they sound like what Explosions in the Sky might if they smoked a lot of (or more?) weed and listened to Middle Eastern music. The first is Doomsdayer's Holiday, which I recommend you check out just to listen to Reincarnation Blues, because that is a great song. The second is titled Take Refuge in Clean Living. Both are solid releases, check 'em out.

Trash Talk - Self Titled

15 minute long debut 'full length'. Quality hardcore punk.

Fugazi - Red Medicine

The best album by one of the best bands ever.

At the Drive-In - In/Casino/Out

Wikipedia says:
At the Drive-In was an influential American post-hardcore band from El Paso, Texas, that was active from 1993 to 2001. They were known for their extremely energetic and often violent stage shows, and their blend of Art Rock and Hardcore Punk made them one the most important bands of the modern day Hardcore Scene.

Also, this blog gets its name from one of the songs on this album.

Dälek - Absence

Rap for people who don't like rap. These guys have released music on Hydra Head and Ipecac, record labels known predominantly for their metal and hardcore releases. Definitely give it a listen, even if you don't normally listen to rap or hip hop, ever.

Nasum - Human 2.0

I've been listening to a lot of grindcore the last few days. In honor of that, here's one of my favorite grind albums.

Bluesong - Untitled Demo

Homegrown old school Detroit rock and roll. First saw these guys when they opened for the Muggs and I was blown away. Four songs of Sabbath-y, Jethro Tull-y greatness right here.

Balboa / Rosetta - Project Mercury

Split album by Philly bands Balboa and Rosetta. Balboa play spacey, proggy hardcore, Rosetta play spacey, proggy metal. Rosetta's half is fucking awesome. Balboa's is solid. The last track is both bands playing together, which is pretty cool. Listen to it.

The Angelic Process - Weighing Souls With Sand

HO
LY
SHIT
I'm three songs in, and this is one of the heaviest/coolest things ever. It's equal parts drone and industrial, kinda Nadja-esque, but far more accessible, and heavy as hell. This is awesome.

Bossk - .1 and .2

This is pretty much the entire recorded output of this band before they broke up. Two EPs, two songs on each, fifty some minutes altogether. A lot of Mogwai influence here, but with a lot more riffs thrown in. 95% instrumental, with a few metal vocals buried deep in the mix appearing. What little they released is very strong material, and it's a real shame they broke up so early in their career.
And they're named after a semi obscure Star Wars character, so they can't be that bad, right?

Brain Drill - Apocalyptic Feasting

This band is comparable to DragonForce in that both are over-the-top technical wankfests whose sole purpose is to show off how awesome they are at their instruments, and every song sounds exactly the same. Unlike DragonForce, however, Brain Drill keep things short (none of the songs are much longer than 4 minutes, and the album is just over a half hour long), and more importantly, they don't sound absolutely fucking stupid. They sound like death metal. Really noodly, weedly death metal. Despite that, it's one of my favorite metal releases this year.

God Is An Astronaut - All Is Violent, All Is Bright

Irish post rock/electronica band. Beautiful music, perfect to end a day to. One of my favorites.

So

I know I just said that I was sick of hearing about Obama. Oh well.
Maybe it's just the sore loser-ness of Republicans, bigots, and so on, but I get the feeling that, despite his appeals for unity, Obama will prove to be just as divisive as Bush, not by purposefully driving wedges between people, but simply because of his ideology and (though no one will admit this) his skin color.

Also, the Democrats are basically in the same position the Republicans were after the 2000 elections. They control both the executive and legislative branches; it's their turn to run things.

We all saw how well that worked out for the Republicans. Let's hope the Dems do better. These next 4 years will show whether the Democrats actually have the balls to stand up and get things done, or if they're cowardly and corrupt. Basically, if they're just politicians.

At least we don't have to worry about this lady running our country.

4 more albums

I am so completely sick of hearing the name 'Obama'. Seriously, can we find something else to talk about now? ANYTHING else?
Anyway, I'm bored and have nothing better to do, so here's 4 more albums that have absolutely nothing to do with each other.
Also, if you could please leave comments so I know that people are looking at/appreciating what I upload, that'd be great too.

Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra and Tra-La-La Band (aka A Silver Mt. Zion) - 13 Blues for Thirteen Moons

About half of Godspeed You! Black Emperor is in this band, and their early material sounds a good deal like that, but by the time this came out they had changed completely. Four songs, each 13-16 minutes long, 7 piece made up of guitar, stand up bass, drum, cello, and violin. They write sad fucking songs. If you ever have the chance to see them live, do it.

Russian Circles - Enter

Fairly new 3 piece post rock band from Chicago. Imagine a band that sounds like Stairway To Heaven, except written in the 21st century and without Robert Plant. That's kinda what this sounds like.

Kiss The Anus Of A Black Cat - If The Sky Falls We Shall Catch Larks

Belgian psychedelic/folk band. Ignore the stupid name, this is some very cool stuff. I really don't have any point of reference for this... maybe the bastard offspring of Iron and Wine and Pink Floyd.

The Black Keys - Rubber Factory

Two piece blues rock band from Ohio. I have yet to encounter anyone who has given these guys a chance and doesn't like them. They just kick ass.

As Eden Burns - The Great Celestial Delusion

I've listened to this 4 times in 2 days. It's the greatness.
Link stolen from m00k at Christ Almartyr

Trap Them - Seizures In Barren Praise

New Trap Them!

ISIS - Oceanic

It's 11:30 on a Monday. I'm tired as hell, but refuse to go to sleep when there's no school tomorrow.
Getting ready to see McCain get steamrolled.
Though Obama probably won't be much better.
At least he can't be WORSE.
I am just sick of hearing about this.
Anyway, here is my favorite album. Ever. Seriously. If you don't like it, fuck you. Albums like this are a big part of the reason why I bother to get up in the morning.
I do have to get up to turn on my ipod or stereo, after all.

Ethel - S/T

Mediafire likes me again! Yay!
Anyway, since I've been posting mostly metal, here's something decidedly not-metal. These guys are an experimental string quartet that shit all over your preconceived notions of what strings are supposed to sound like. Just listen to the first track and you'll see what I'm talking about.

Watchmen

The movie of this comic is coming out soon. There's no way the movie is going to be as good, because the comic is incredibly good, as everything by Alan Moore is (he also wrote the comic version of V For Vendetta). An excellent read, highly recommended.

Gojira - From Mars to Sirius

French progressive/death metal band. They have a new album out, but this one is better.

3 Albums

I've been listening to these albums a lot lately. Two of them are fast and grindy, the other is slow and droney.

Nadja - Desire In Uneasiness
Two piece from Canada. Extremely slow, extremely heavy wall of sound type stuff. Very meditative and relaxing. Listening to them is comparable to being slowly rocked to sleep by a grizzly bear.

Misery Index - Traitors
New album from these guys, first time I've bothered checking them out. So far, one of my favorite albums to come out this year. Left wing death metal/grindcore.

Trap Them - Seance Prime
Former Backstabbers Incorporated members. Basically a continuation of that band; fast, pissed off, and filthy sounding metal with lots of punk influence. Short, but very good.

Belphegor - Bondage Goat Zombie

For Austin. Mediafire is being a shithead, so here's a Rapidshare link for now. This album rips.

SHRED FOR SATAAAAAAAAAN!!!

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