Ripped Off Face - We Are The State

This album is available for free and by a band named Ripped Off Face, and yet it's still well written metal and not mindless brutal death bullshit. Check it out.

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Battlefields

I'm seeing this band tomorrow. I listened to them for the first time today. They're pretty good. They sound like what you would expect from a band on Translation Loss (home to Mouth of the Architect, Rosetta, and Irepress).

Entourage Of The Archaic (Single)
Stained With The Blood Of An Empire

Snapcase - Designs For Automotion

More 90s hardcore, but of the upbeat, punky variety.

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Knut - Bastardiser

Late 90's Hydra Head release. Dark, slow to mid paced sludge/hardcore.

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Do Make Say Think - You, You're A History In Rust

This music is so warm and simple and happy, it makes me want to cry right now.

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Bongripper - Hippie Killer

Our dear friends at Blogger decided to delete my Last House On The Left post due to its copyright infringement, but apparently did not take issue with the other 120 or so posts on this blog.
Alright then.

Anyway, here's some cool doom/sludge/post-whatever from Chicago. Mostly instrumental. Heavy and riffy, not all that atmospheric.

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Giant Squid - The Ichthyologist

New Giant Squid. It's really, really good.

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Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard - The Dark Knight OST

I'm not normally a fan of soundtracks, but this one is enjoyable.

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Pig Destroyer - Terrifyer

Pig Destroyer changed my life.

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Converge - When Forever Comes Crashing

I really don't know why people love Petitioning The Empty Sky so much. Other than 'The Saddest Day', it's pretty mediocre. This is their best pre-Jane Doe album by far. Much noisier and more chaotic than their later material.

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Book of Black Earth - Horuskopus

Crusty, riffy death metal, sure to get your head a-bangin'.

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Irepress - Sol Eye Sea I

New Irepress

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Facebreaker - Dead Rotten And Hungry

Death metal about zombies. They live up to their name. They like Grave a lot.

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Isis - In The Absence Of Truth

Their latest and least metal release. It still has glimpses of heaviness (especially in Holy Tears), but this is mostly a post-rock release. It's still good, just not as good.
Now all I can do is wait for Wavering Radiant (May 5). Aaron Turner apparently noted in an interview that recent recordings have sounded too 'clean,' so hopefully it'll be better.

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Isis - Panopticon

By this point Isis have basically left the sound of Mosquito Control and The Red Sea behind. This album takes the progression towards atmosphere and quieter passages a step further.

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Isis - Oceanic

Their best album, and my personal favorite album ever. It retains some of the heaviness of their earlier work, but with more emphasis on the quieter, clean passages that will become more prominent in the next two albums. Basically it's the best thing ever.

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Isis - Sgnl>05

Could best be described as Celestial Part Two, both musically and thematically. An extremely underrated release in my opinion.

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Isis - Celestial

The album where they begin to incorporate more atmospheric/post-rock elements into their music. The focus is still mostly on the sludge side, but the music is less straightforward this time around.

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Isis - The Red Sea

More heavy, sludgey type stuff, more great.

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ISIS - Mosquito Control EP

Because I'm already shitting myself over the idea of a new full length, I'm going to spend the next few days uploading most of ISIS's discography.

Once upon a time, ISIS used to be heavy as fuck.

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Adai - ...I Carry

This great little EP is the debut by Adai, a two piece sludge/post-metal from Colorado. It's a riffier take on the genre than normal, more comparable to Russian Circles than the typical Cult of Neur-Isis cover band. It was produced by Kurt Ballou, so you know it's good.

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Reel Big Fish - Turn The Radio Off

Classic (third wave) ska album.
It took me more than two minutes to find a decent link to this album, which is entirely too much time.

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Coffins - Buried Death

Japanese death/doom. It's pretty heavy.

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Flogging Molly - Within A Mile Of Home

I'm on a binge of this stuff.

For those who don't know, Flogging Molly and Dropkick Murphys play a subgenre known as Celtic punk, which is essentially punk rock with traditional instrumentation (acoustic guitar, mandolin, accordion, fiddle, etc.) in a combination that works way better than it should. Also, they often sound like pirates with eye patches, parrots, and mohawks.

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Dropkick Murphys - The Warrior's Code

More Celtic punk greatness.

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Yyrkoon - Occult Medicine

More quality death metal from France. Pronounced ear-koon. Reversed World is a beast of a song.

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Flogging Molly - Float

Newish Flogging Molly, by which I mean it's the only thing they've put out in almost a year.

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Mumakil - Brutal Grind Assault

What exactly do you think it sounds like?

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Ayat - Six Years Of Dormant Hatred

Punky, pissed off black metal from Lebanon. They hate Allah just as much as black metal bands from western countries hate Jesus. Their singer goes by the stage name 'Filthy Fuck'.

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Wolves in the Throne Room - Malevolent Grain

New WITTR. It's great, what do you expect? Vinyl rip (since it's a vinyl-only release), so the sound isn't the greatest, but it's not too bad.