Saturday, May 30, 2009

Funeral Mist - Marantha



Review

Somewhat experimental or avant garde black metal, I guess. Has its share of blastbeats, but throws some other elements in.

DL

Friday, May 29, 2009

The Suicide Machines - Destruction By Definition



If the first song doesn't have you dancing like an idiot, your inner teenager is dead.

DL

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Geisha - Die Verbrechen Der Liebe



Post-music.
I recommend at least giving a listen for the simple fact that I can't name another single band that sounds like this.
If I had to describe it, I'd describe it as sounding like Lightning Bolt, Mogwai, Black Sabbath, and maybe Merzbow getting in a fight.

DL

Monday, May 25, 2009

Sunday, May 24, 2009

Warcollapse - Defy!



Crusty, grindy punk. Somewhat reminiscent of older Napalm Death. It's fast (or occasionally doomy), raw, and pissed off.

DL

Saturday, May 23, 2009

Minsk - With Echoes In The Movement Of Stone



New.

DL

From Monument To Masses - On Little Known Frequencies



New. Active, un-boring post rock. It's really good.
Track 7 is misspelled, it should be 'Let Them Know It's Christmastime'.

DL

Friday, May 22, 2009

Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions



New.
You know what to expect from this band.
Great if you like this kind of stuff.
Terrible if you don't.

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Thursday, May 21, 2009

Monday, May 18, 2009

Narrows - New Distances



To absolutely no one's surprise, this doesn't even come close to comparing to any of Botch's material, but it's still rather enjoyable.

DL

Saturday, May 16, 2009

Friday, May 15, 2009

Machetazo - Mundo Cripta



metalreview.com:

The more I listen, the more I realize that guitarist Rober Bustabad (also of Banished From Inferno) is the star of this particular horror show. His riffs are sick and simple, and his guitar tone is positively nasty—it’s thick, almost dripping something vile, sharp without being thin, viscous without being muddy. There are really no new additions to the gore-grind bag of tricks here, but this is done so expertly, so passionately, so violently that it doesn’t matter. You know the drill. Death metal riffs meld seamlessly with grinding blastbeats… Below vocals growled and occasionally rasped in a Carcass-y midrange… Alongside ominous samples from what I’m assuming are Spanish language horror films (no hablo, I’m afraid)... Riffs like the simple three-note repeated run in "Altares De Lo Macabro" twist and turn and ooze without overpowering the listener with sheer blunt force, and then riffs like the pounding intro to "Exstatis Nauseabundo" smash your skull like a hammer. It’s give and take; it allows you a second to breathe before it punches you silly… Even as it sits strictly within the proscribed framework, Mundo Cripta is akin to the slasher film that manages to transcend its own limitations, manages to scare the piss out of you without relying solely upon cheap shock tactics amidst predictable machete-wielding stock characters. Put differently, it’s the "Halloween" to a lesser band’s "Silent Night, Deadly Night."
Good ‘n’ bloody ‘n’ bloody good, this one is. Gore metal doesn’t get too much better than this, kids.

DL

Thursday, May 14, 2009

Belphegor - Pestapokalypse VI



Austrian blackened death. If you don't know, you should.

DL

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Altar of Plagues - White Tomb



Post-black metal? If you've heard Wolves In The Throne Room, you have a pretty good idea of what this sounds like. And if you like that band, you'll probably like this one.

DL

Friday, May 8, 2009

Dishammer - Vintage Addiction



Discharge + Hellhammer.
Raw Spanish punk/metal about drugs, disease, and Satan. Fun stuff.

DL

Monday, May 4, 2009

Operation Ivy - Energy



More formative, moderately-challenging to find ska/punk.

Wikipedia:
Energy is the only full album released by the hardcore punk/ska punk band Operation Ivy. It has been cited as one of the most important albums of the ska punk genre. Energy was released twice, the second time with the addition of eight tracks. The original release (1989) was only nineteen tracks (the first nineteen listed below) and released only on Vinyl and Cassette. The 1991 CD release added tracks from other albums. Tracks twenty through twenty-five were originally on the Operation Ivy EP Hectic, while the tracks "Officer" and "I Got No" were taken from the Turn It Around compilation. In 2004 Hellcat Records re-released the nineteen track version as a 12" LP picture disc.

DL

Sunday, May 3, 2009

Choking Victim - No Gods, No Managers



Sole full length of the ska/punk band that turned into Leftover Crack.

wikipedia:
No Gods, No Managers is the only full-length studio album by American hardcore punk band Choking Victim. The album was released in 1999 through Hellcat/Epitaph Records and re-released on LP format by Epitaph in 2004. Being the sole full-length album of Choking Victim, it became hugely popular in the punk scene. It inspired many nascent bands, and the band members of Choking Victim went on to form other bands, most notably Leftöver Crack.

The tone of the album is largely dark and pessimistic, with lyrics and artwork containing Satanic imagery. The cover does not contain a barcode, presumably in accordance with their staunch anti-capitalist message, and is decorated with various satanic and anti-Christian symbols. However, a later pressing includes a barcode on the back cover.

DL

Saturday, May 2, 2009

The Exploited - Beat The Bastards



A punk band signed to Nuclear Blast. If you listen to this, it makes sense.

DL

Friday, May 1, 2009

Ignominious Incarceration - Of Winter Born



teethofthedivine.com:
Musically, Ignominious Incarceration play a sort of melodic but still relatively brutal and technical death metal. The only real comparison in the balance I could think of was maybe a cross between Sweden’s Aeon, Vehemence and Woe of Tyrants, though don’t quote me on that and the band has cited Decapitated, Behemoth, The Black Dahlia Murder and Beneath the Massacre as some of thier favorite acts -so maybe thats more reliable. That being said, the naysayers will say some of the dual melodies and solos do have a certain modern death core ‘wanna be European’ presence (i.e “Savior”, ‘Solitude”, “Dynasty Damnation”) and the production from Scott Atkins (UK metalcore act Sylosis) is awfully polished. But on the whole, when taken as a single entity, the back bone of the music is far more death metal structured- there are no breakdowns, no uber noodly blast beats, no pig squeals (Andy Wardle has a fairly standard mid level scream/growl), just well done melodic death metal with a beefy edge and some very cool solos (”Deeds of Days Long Gone”), though not quite total shred fests like Woe of Tyrants and their ilk.

DL