The end.

Due to life circumstance & mediafire removing almost 50 uploads in the past week, most of which by grindcore or anarchist bands that really don't care about money, I have no other choice to end this blog. To everyone that followed, I'm sorry. To all the bands, friends, supporters, etc. You're all awesome! I can't even describe how much gratitude I have to you all. I found some awesome bands and made some great friends running this for the past 3 years.

In all fairness, the 25 or so pending submissions, I will upload and review the albums, after that I shall ignore any submissions to the e-mail address. They may be able to fuck music sharing over the internet, but they will never stop tape trades, so if interested in trading your noise for the noise I create send me your address and some trades will go down.

P.S. Whoever if it even is a real person reporting all the mediafire files...you're a piece of shit.

Where Religion Ends 4/10/2009 - 4/07/2012

keep the filth & take it sleazy,
wayNe

Some things that's been bugging me.

Okay, I can understand if I just posted your bands project and you never knew and wanted it removed...I wouldn't do it out of principle but I'd still understand where you were coming from. Now the thing is, if you submit a release to us, and I post it, there's absolutely no way in hell it's being removed. YOU submitted it. Not me. It's foolish to do shit like that. I don't make money off of this, and I have had the opportunity to. I've been offered money to place ads, offered clothing, all sorts of shit. We've remained true to the spirit of the underground. If you or your label are trying to profit off of punk and metal or any of it's subgenres you can quite literally fuck off and go join Linkin Park or some other mainstream garbage band. Okay I got that off my chest.

The next thing is, I was going to start posting bands and projects from other genres, thinking it would be awesome. It's been a pain in the ass is what it's been. So I'm not doing it anymore. All of these artists want a review written without a download link. This blog has been in existence for three years almost and we've always provided a download link. We haven't always done reviews, mostly only do them on submitted stuff from artists.

So in lamens or lesser terms. If you submit it, it's not being removed, even if you report it to the file hosting site or whatever, I'll reupload it EVERYWHERE and post the download links all over the internet. So don't make this stupid request to me.

Secondly, use common sense, if your band doesn't resemble anything on this blog even in the slightest, do not submit your band. I'll either end up not reviewing it or if it's terrible writing a review saying how terrible it is. Which leads to the band members being mad, and me being mad because I had to listen to an album that I think sucks more than once. Let's not waste each others time.


Alright, well that's pretty much it.I'll be updating again soon.

Review: Black Dawn - Age of Reason - 2004

I'm not Willy Wonka, so I'm not going to sugarcoat anything. Firstly, this was sent to me in the mail, so I'm not posting this as a download, mostly because it's already costed the band for postage, which sucks. Secondly this album was monotonous and boring to me.

Every song sounded the same. There was no variety at all. It was hard to sit through 11songs that sounded so much alike. Granted I'm not usually into this type of metal. "Dangerous" finally broke the boredom cycle with a fairly long and much needed guitar solo. I can respect the talent musically and vocally. I would have liked there to be a little more variety musically though.

Black Dawn instantly reminded me of like the type of mainstream metal that was played on the radio during the late 90's and early 00's, think of like taking elements from Pantera, Fear Factory, Godsmack, etc. and mixing them up to create a new band. Which isn't necessarily the worst thing ever.

If you're a die hard metal fan you will probably really enjoy this album. The vocals are pretty much sung, no growls, screams, etc. The vocalist really reminds me of the guy from Godsmack.The guitars are primarily heavy, crunching, that intertwines with the bass. The drums are primarily typical rock/alternative metal style. No blasting, double bass here and there, just straight up playing.

In all honesty this was just really boring to me. Not one song really stood out to me as truly amazing. It was almost torture to have to review this because of the boredom factor.

Year: 2004
Country: United States
Genre: Metal

Album: Shokushu Goukan - Tissisnalajrak - 2011

So...I heard you like your grindcore spastic, short, and full of insane blasting. Well do I ever have a treat for you... Shokushu Goukan may sound like they're Japanese but they're not. This is just straight up brutal grind. Drums blazingly fast and full of blasts, guitars heavy and buzzing, and screams that literally sound like a ghost rape scene.

In the last couple of years there tends to be a pretty solid uprising in the grindcore genre after like a 7 year drought of garbage being put out by hipsters that thought Napalm Death was the most awesome shit they ever heard. So this was definitely a step in the right direction.If you're a grindcore elitist like me you're well aware that this type of band really died out in the early 2000's when assholes found out about it and started retarding it up with tech playing, 5 minute long epic blast ballads and started doing other misc stupid shit in the genre instead of keeping it raw, short, and full of aggression.

Some people that like the above latter bullshit will probably say this band sounds like so and so, but I say your favorite grindcore sucks then. Go back to listening to The Locust you fuck. This just goes to show you how aggressive this release is, this is obviously my most angry review ever.

Anyway, Shokushu Goukan's "Tissisnalajrak" clocks in at 17:40 in 27 songs. It's full of bizarre sound clips and generally chaotic.There's even a Star Wars clip in one song! The downside is that there are a lot of sound clips...and that kind of A.D.H.D.'d my ass a lot during listening to this regardless of how short the songs are. As far as musically goes this album is how I envision grindcore as a genre of music. The drums are relentless with blasts, only slowing down when one song ends until the next begins. The guitars heavy, distorted and a wall of buzzing. Feedback is the understatement of the year on this release. The vocals...well, there's a lot of vocal effects used, which I'm not usually a fan of especially since I prefer lo-fi, rawness in vocal production. Some how though this didn't really seem to effect my liking this album. It actually sounded awesome combined with the music!

If you're into grindcore especially old school sounding stuff this will be right up your alley. It's a very solid release. I'm extremely interested in a second release to see how it would measure up to this. Anyway get to downloading now!

Year: 2011
Country: United States
Genre: Grindcore

Download

Interview: Disease Process. "Its a Punk thing at heart but more realistically its because there is no other choice."

 I'm always excited when I find out about new grindcore. Especially Australian based bands. When I received an e-mail from Joel, I didn't know what to think except the name sounded cool. Little did I know that I was about to load the years best grindcore album into my media player. Yeah I said it. Anyway, these cool dudes took some time out to answer some of my questions....

WRE: Who's in the band and what are your duties? Since there's very little information online about you guys give us a little bit of background about the band and the members. Give us the who, what, when, where, and why of Disease Process.

Todd: The band is and will always be Joel on vocals, Jon on drums, Dave on bass and Todd on guitar. There might still be a band if one of us was missing but it wouldn't be DISEASE PROCESS.

WRE: How did Disease Process form?

Joel: Jon, Todd & I had been jamming in an avant-garde doom drone project called "Fill The Skies With Steel" but as we actually began writing songs as opposed to just improv jamming the tone took on a much more focused and aggressive stance. Needing a bassist to fill the sound out Enter Dave.. from there you have what Disease Process is today.

WRE: Have you guys been in any other bands? If so which ones?

Jon: During 2003 - 2009 I played bass then guitar for The Furor; black/death metal inspired by bands including Angelcorpse, Absu, anything crazy. I've also played in a number of other bands over the years. Cuntscrape, Hated by Humanity and Goatrapist to name a few.

Joel: Ten2Go, Agony, Death Grenade, Fill The Skies With Steel, Shotgun Wedding, Rhino Slumber.. along with many others.

Todd: Yeah like we said before Joel, Jon and I (Todd) were playing in "Fill the Skies", before that a few years earlier Joel and Dave were in a ska/crust band called "Ten2Go" (and so was Todd for about two seconds). And of course Jon was known as Killmachine in the black metal group "The Furor". Other notable bands members were in are - "Death Grenade", "Agony" and "Cunt Scrape". None of the bands we were in before touched DxP in style, this band is unique. Black metal, grind, crust punk are all on equal footing and it's evident when we gig that fans of all three styles are listening to what we are doing.

WRE: How did you come up with the name Disease Process?

Joel: It's the nature of mankind. Love or hate we are all a cancer on the face of this earth. Poisoned by greed and pride we relentlessly slaughter both habitat and self in hopes to appease the false prophets that we bow before.  As a species we are flawed, weak and intolerable.  We are the cancer.  Humanity is the DISEASE PROCESS.

WRE: Did you ever change the name before you came up with Disease Process?

Dave: No.

WRE: How long have you guys known each other/been friends?

Jon: I've known Todd since we were very young, although I lost contact for a number of years, in 2008 I caught up with him, unaware that we played music in similar scenes with the same musicians. I met the other guys in the last few years.

Dave: I've known Joel for around 6 years and I've known Todd 5 years. Jon i met 2 years ago.

Todd:  We have all known each other for fucking years. We are all mates, go out for dinner, go to each others houses and listen to music together, steal each others music!

WRE: You guys are from Perth Australia, how is the crust, grindcore, punk, and metal scenes there?

Todd: We have a really supportive scene everyone encourages everyone to get better (mostly by being amazing and everyone having to be just as good Hahah) the only thing I see wrong with anything is the fact that there is hardly any cross pollination at the moment.

Joel: Saying that there are some incredible bands like - SUFFER, WARTHREAT, MAXIMUM PERVERSION, THE HUNT, THE CRAW, NEGATIVE REINFORCEMENT, HELTER SKELTER, DROWNING HORSE, FOREIGN AIDS, and LIE CYCLE.

Jon: People are enthusiastic but identity can be a struggle. It's just my opinion but I think there should be more bands like Sadistik Exekution, Destroyer666 in Australia. Having said that I should mention that I come from a black metal background; I don't know much about the crust, punk or grindcore scenes.

WRE: Your lyrical content is anarcho in nature, do you feel the lyrics or music to be more important in Disease Process?

Joel: The music is as much a vessel for the words as is the words are a reflection of the music.

Todd:  It's one and the same, the vocals are another instrument! Sure they have the massive job of getting the theme of not only the song but also the band across but it's not a matter of lyrics vs music because they go hand in hand.

WRE: In correspodences between Joel and I he said a lot of lyrical content is also attacking the Proletariat, what is that exactly?

Joel: Hahaha, you must have taken me out of context. The lyrical content is not an attack on the proletariat but rather the truth and sorrow that lies in the hearts of the down trodden and disenchanted.  We are the proletariat. The Working Class. The low income earners. The scum that fuel our economy.

WRE: You also have lyrics attacking religion for their injustices, and corrupt government and people that support this, is that a global message?

Dave: Religion has no right in governing our world/countries; government should be about what's best for THE people, NOT what's best for my people.

WRE: Who writes your songs? Is it a group effort or is there one band member that does most of it?

Jon: We all have input in the writing process. I contribute more on arrangements, but if they let me play as many blast beats as I can get away with I'm happy.

Todd: Joel writes all the lyrics, Dave and I write the riffs, and Jon pretty much writes the structure. We all contribute I walk in and say this is what I've got, or Dave says it, and we play start playing riffs, Joel sits in the corner writing lyrics and saying things like I feel that it should go in this or that direction and Jon quietly blast beats away before stopping and saying that should be longer or we can move those parts around in a different order. And the best bit is the only person who ever goes "nah that is shit" is usually the person who comes up with the riff!

WRE: I know that American government is tyrranical and corrupt is it also like that in Australia?

Todd: I don't think the Aus government is corrupt per sè just ineffectual, I mean the decision makers just seem to revolve around useless issues and stands against pointless fear, fear which they and the media build up to support themselves, case in point- refugees. The average Australian is fucking terrified of a couple of hundred people every few months turning up in old leaky boats, apparently these people are dangerous criminals, what do we do? We lock them up, no charges because really they haven't done anything, every night on the "news" someone is bleating about stopping the boats and how the current govt. (doesn't matter which govt.) is a soft touch blah blah blah, it's all bullshit, it doesn't matter who you vote for they are all useless. So corrupt probably not, pointless definitely.

WRE: What other lyrical themes do you guys use in your songs? Do you see them changing ever over time?

Joel: Some more Eco & (Anti) Humanitarian issues. It is still the Disease Process that drives the lyrics. An overwhelming disdain for the arrogance of Human life and the careless and reckless impact that we have had upon our own inhabitat.  And as always the separation of church and state.

WRE: What bands are influential to you guys in the grindcore/hardcore/black metal/punk scenes? Is there any bands from other genres that you guys consider influential to your music and lyric writing for Disease Process?

Todd:  I don't really know how to answer this, I don't say I want to sound like this or anything like that, I just write what I like to hear. I think you can hear touches of what I listen to, bits and pieces of guitarists and bands that I grew up with, but mostly what influences me is music I definitely don't want to sound like hahaha. seriously? I dunno I just wanna make the best music I can, the guys in the band, the bands at our rehearsal space- warthreat, suffer these are who influence me.

Jon: For Disease Process I take inspiration from a certain style of black metal drumming found in such bands as Enthral, Satyricon, early Dimmu Borgir and combine it with the aggression of grindcore and punk.

Joel: El - Ahariah. Disguster. Avulse. there is some incredible raw & punishing Black Metal coming out of the US at the moment. But locally bands like SUFFER, WARTHREAT, DROWNING HORSE, FOREIGN AIDS, and THE HUNT.

WRE: Is there any literature, other types of artwork, or people that have been influential in shaping the message that the band has?

Todd: absolutely- Richard Dawkins, Peter singer, Nietzche, Robert Browning, John Milton, Edward Munch, Marquis de Sade, Troma, David Lynch, and Reed Ghazala.

Joel: William Godwin, Louis Theroux, Emma Goldman, Aleister Crowley, Werner Herzog, Clive Barker & Virginia Bolten.

WRE: What's everyone's current favorite band?

Jon: I've been listening Taake a lot lately, their latest album 'Noregs Vaapen' has proved to be particularly enjoyable. Absu are still causing my understanding of reality to shatter in the evidence of their latest work, once again they have not disappointed with 'Abzu' this year. Faith No More have been given attention lately too. Aphex Twin, Suicide, Goblin ..

Dave: Dancehall Satan.

WRE: If you had to describe Disease Process in 5 words what would they be?

Todd: Brutal, honest, uncompromising.

Jon: I wouldn't, I'd join together 10 words as one so I could communicate my ideas with 50 words or less, it would be a lot easier.

Dave: Angst, equality.

WRE: What are your current plans?

Todd: I just want to keep writing music, get better keep pushing ourselves to go places with our music we haven't been before and to play stuff that no one has heard before! right now our next release is a split 7" with Massgrav from Sweden, which I'm really looking forward to releasing should be out fucking soon!! Then after that it's back in the studio for our 12".

WRE: Do you guys play live often? If so what was your favorite show you've played and why? What was your least favorite show?

Todd: Not as often as some bands but enough, I know that playing live is meant to almost be the be all of playing in a band but at this stage I am really happy with how we are going. But the favorite so far would be Bastardfest,Not as often as some bands but enough, I know that playing live is meant to almost be the be all of playing in a band but at this stage I am really happy with how we are going. But the favorite so far would be Bastardfest.

Dave: Favorite place to play is 208. its a house that has had punk shows in the lounge room since i can remember.. at least 10 years, favorite show Bastardfest!

Jon: We play every once in a while. I'm not interested in gigging constantly, all the shows have been good though. Bastardfest recently was a highlight.

WRE: Was your self titled cassette self produced or did you use someone else to produce it?

Todd: We recorded the album with Brett at Sound Suite studios, our home as a band. We practice a couple of times a week there. Brett was our first and only choice. We have recorded with him so much he knows us he knows our band and he knows our sound. I know one take, home 4 track recordings are punk but I don't give a shit about that. We have up to six guitar tracks, the same amount of vocal tracks even the drums and bass have more than one track per song. When we play live it is no nonsense full speed ahead and fuck you if you get in our way, on the recording we wanted some fucking big sound so...record a big fucking sound is the answer and Brett did a great fucking job, he always does.

WRE: Is the DIY ethic important to Disease Process as a band?

Joel: Its a Punk thing at heart but more realistically its because there is no other choice. We all have full time jobs, lives, family's. There is no rock star dream just cathartic audio expression & good friends.

Todd: Of course DIY is important, we are punks hahaha, we record our own demos on the four track (even if we didn't do the album that way) in the studio and at joels place. We found out the costs to do everything, we released the album on my label Rest in Punk, Dave (bass) designed the cover layout, we even cut out the covers by hand on the kitchen table hahaha. Is there any other way to release an album?

WRE: Have you found the internet and blogs beneficial to helping the spread of your message and music?

Jon: Yes, of course. The internet has exposed everything really. I feel it is now the responsibility of the musician to focus on creating something worth downloading for free and to hope that music fans will appreciate it enough to want to make a purchase.

Joel: Very much so. the network of blogspots is incredible. Tape trading for the digital age. We as a band will always endevour to post all releases on both our offficial site : http/diseasexprocess.blogspot.com for free & on our band camp for a minimum cost : http/restinpunkrecords.bandcamp.com  For digital releases but any physical releases can be purchased from Todd restinpunkrecords[at]gmail.com

WRE: Do you guys have any plans to go on tour in the future?

Todd: Fuck yes, we have already been invited to tour pretty much all of south east Asia (Indonesia, Malaysia from Johor Baru to KL up to Penang then across to Singapore) with a few friends of ours over there which will hopefully be next year fingers crossed. Also because of the split with Massgrav I'd really love to do Sweden, Finland, Norway and Russia but the cost is gonna be massive from Australia!

WRE: In e-mail correspondence Joel had told me some of the new material is going to be a little different. How do you guys approach growth and writing new material?

Todd: Our new songs are getting a lot more complex, we are really starting to push the mix of crust punk vs black metal the d beat vs the blast beat. Also whilst our old songs are fast the new ones are 50 times faster and longer. And I really think we aren't doing it consiously it's just a natural progression.

WRE: Do you guys have any advice for people wanting to start their own band?

Jon: Don't worry about fitting inside the box or emulating your favourite bands/the scene whatever. This is a distraction from your goal to create something interesting. Just keep refining your music until it sounds good, pay attention to the flow of the song structure when writing, if anything tastes bad, chances are it just needs a bit of ironing out - don't throw the baby out with the bathwater plus if all else fails, blast beats.

WRE: What are your guys thoughts on the global society we are all living under?

Joel: To the lesser extent you and I are lucky! At least our governments offer the guise of a democratic office, they lie cheat and steal but all behind closed doors baring the occasional media bating. The weight of oppression we feel bares nothing of that does someone living in a tyrannical totalitarian and sometimes hostile situation.

Todd: It's a fucking sad state of affairs we live in today. This world is fucked and let's be honest only about 10% of the world is responsible. We live in capitalist world and we are all guilty, we all buy in,... 80 dollar bullet belt! Friends in Malaysia live on less than that for a week, food rent - everything. We are destroying the world bit by bit.

WRE: I humbly thank you guys for the interview. Do you have any final words, comments, thoughts, websites we should check out?

http://suffersuffersuffer.blogspot.com
http://www.thehuntperth.blogspot.com
http://www.drowninghorse.blogspot.com
http://www.warthreat.blogspot.com
http://negforce.blogspot.com
http://www.myspace.com/thecrawsuck
http://skeltahelta.blogspot.com/
http://www.myspace.com/deathgrenade
http://www.myspace.com/filltheskieswithsteel
http://diseasexprocess.blogspot.com

WRE: Once again guys, I thank you! Keep the filth & take it sleazy!

Tour: THOU

So you never heard of Thou? Maybe you have and maybe you haven't. I was lucky to actually find out about this band while they were relatively still unknown except to uber underground kids and people that happened to see them roll through their town while going to see a different band. I actually found out about them through hellkontroll... Anyway they are from NOLA(New Orleans Lousiana) they are heavy, full of despair, and they cover a shit load of Nirvana and Black Sabbath tunes(which fucking rules) I may or may not ever post their albums. They post everything they release on their website. I'll probably write some reviews soon and see if they'll post it on their site. They are very active in the underground and relentlessly play shows/tour. Speaking of tours this amazing band is currently in the middle of one, so I'm posting the dates. Go fucking see these guys. I am actually going to try and see them three times in December. This is a full U.S. Tour over 4 months, pretty sick! This is all straight from their site.

OCTOBER DATES:

10.01 - Nashville, Tennessee - Little Hamilton | 1318 Little Hamilton Avenue | eight pm | Tyler (615 519 9644)
with: THE BODY, BRAVEYOUNG, NO CHRISTMAS, and ADAM.

 

10.02 - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - Kopec's - 3523 Penn Avenue | seven pm | Adam
with: OLD ACCUSERS, BLOOD RED, and GLOWWORMS.

 

10.03 - Ithaca, New York - The Space at Greenstar | 700 West Buffalo Street 14850 | eight pm | Bubba (607 592 6204)
with: SUN SPELLS and LUX CARENTES.

 

10.04 - Syracuse, New York - Badlands | 1007 E. Fayette Street | seven pm | Weston
with: BLACK THROAT WINDS and HUNGER PAINS.

 

10.05 - Boston, Massachusetts - Museum School | 230 Fenway | nine pm | Jack and Jonah
with: DRAIZE, SKVLT, and THE PROSELYTE.

 

10.06 - Wallingford, Connecticut - secret show | meet at Redscroll Records | 24 North Colony | Carlos (203 314 8344)

with: THE BODY and SEA OF BONES.

 

10.07 - Dover, New Hampshire - Kaleo Coffee | 83 Main Street in the Janetos Plaza | seven pm | Spencer
with: THE BODY, VAAST, and CONDENSED FLESH.

 

10.08 - Manhattan, New York  - ABC No Rio | 156 Rivington Street | three pm | Spencer
with: THE BODY, ALKAHEST, and ARGONAUTS.

 

10.09 - Baltimore, Maryland - Golden West Cafe | 1105 West 36th Street | nine pm | Adam

with: THE BODY and FULL OF HELL. 

 

10.10 - Raleigh, North Carolina - King's Barcade | 14 West Marlin Street 27601 | nine pm | Ryan
with: THE PROSELYTE and MAKE.

 

10.11 - Athens, Georgia - Daniel

with: THE SKELETONS and HOT BREATH.

 

NOVEMBER DATES:

 

11.06 - Knoxville - Poison Lawn | Michael & Zach

 

11.07 - Poughkeepsie, New York | The Loft | 6 Crannell Street

with: BLACK TUSK, MONSTRO, MAGGOTBRAIN, and FENRISMAW.

 

11.08 - Albany, New York - The Basement

with: BLACK TUSK and MONSTRO.

 

11.09 - Baltimore, Maryland - Sonar

with: BLACK TUSK and MONSTRO.

 

11.10 - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

with: BLACK TUSK and MONSTRO.

 

11.11 - Rochester, New York - Montage Music Hall

with: BLACK TUSK and MONSTRO.

 

11.12 - Cleveland, Ohio - Now That's Class

with: BLACK TUSK and MONSTRO.

 

11.13 - Chicago, Illinois - Ultra Lounge

with: BLACK TUSK and MONSTRO.

 

11.14 - St. Louis, Missouri - Fubar

with: BLACK TUSK and MONSTRO.

 

11.15 - Memphis, Tennessee - Hi Tone

with: BLACK TUSK and MONSTRO.

 

11.16 - Little Rock, Arkansas - Downtown Music

with: BLACK TUSK and MONSTRO.

 

 

DECEMBER DATES:

 

12.05 - Tallahassee - The Farside | 803 Railroad Avenue 32310 | nine pm | Tony

with: FALSE and KHANN.

 

12.06 - St. Augustine - Danny

with: FALSE.

 

12.07 - Sarasota - Spinach (941 685 7482)

with: FALSE.

 

12.08 - Melbourne - Cassette House | 1008 E. Strawbridge Avenue 32901 | Shane

with: FALSE and ARC & PANTHER.

 

12.09 - Orlando - Will's Pub | Scott

with: FALSE and SIX DEAD HORSES.

 

12.10 - Miami - Chris

with: FALSE and 440.

 

12.11 - Ft. Meyers - Cool Hand Luc's | 2040 Collier Avenue | Nevin

with: FALSE.

 

12.12 - Tampa - Dan

with: FALSE, MERCHANDISE, and NAZI DUST.

 

12.13 - Gainesville - Wayward Council | Rick

with: FALSE.

 

JANUARY DATES:

 

01.06 - Ft. Worth - Rick

with: THE BODY

 

01.07 - Albuquerque - Derek

with: THE BODY

 

01.08 - Las Vegas - Yayo | Andres

with: THE BODY

 

01.09 - Oakland - First Church of the Buzzard - Yosef

with: THE BODY

 

01.10 - Portland - Backspace | Ryan

with: THE BODY, COWER, and CHASMA.

 

01.11 - Portland - matinee house show | Michelle

with: THE BODY and NUX VOMICA.

 

01.11 - Seattle - The Black Lodge | eight pm | Mike

with: THE BODY, MARROW, and BREAG NOAFA.

 

01.12 - Olympia

with: THE BODY

 

01.13 - Salem - Nate

with: THE BODY

 

01.14 - Berkeley - Gilman | 924 Gilman Street | Will and Jon

with: THE BODY, NEGATIVE STANDARDS, and SWAMP WITCH.

 

01.15 - San Francisco

with: THE BODY and KOWLOON WALLED CITY.

 

01.16 - Santa Cruz - Pioneer | 105 Pioneer Street | eight pm | Nick

with: THE BODY

 

01.17 - Los Angeles - The Smell | Sean

with: THE BODY

 

01.18 - Tijuana - Isaac

with: THE BODY

 

01.19 - Rosarito - Isaac

with: THE BODY

 

01.20 - San Diego - Isaac

with: THE BODY

 

01.21 - Phoenix - Greg (602 639 2621)

with: THE BODY and RITUALS.

 

01.22 - Las Cruces - The Trainyard | 102 Conway Space 3W | Cade (575 635 5177)

with: THE BODY

 

01.23 - Dallas - John

with: THE BODY

 

Album: VEINEN - Summon Your God - ???

Year: ???
Country: Sweden/Lebanon
Genre:Black Metal

I don't recall if this was submitted via e-mail or left as a link in the shout box. All I know is lately we've been lacking on the black metal here at the blog. Come uber kvlt black metal bands? What the fuck? Submit your stuff. One of my favorite genres. I also can't remember what year this came out in either so if you know that please comment. Also from what I read this was based out of Sweden and Lebanon? If I'm wrong please correct me.

So if you ever tried to research this band on the internet you're probably at a loss for the little bit of content that you will find. Between the couple of sites lik etheir myspace and last.fm site it doesn't offer much. This isn't odd though, a fairly common occurence for underground bands. Perhaps in time underground bands will take time off from making bad ass tunes, touring/playing shows to write extensive biographies for blog/zine writers. ha ha ha...probably not though.

Well what I can tell you from the name is that this is total Von worship. That right there should tell you how awesome this shit is, unless you don't listen to Black Metal, in that case you are probably even more confused. So a brief explanation is in order. Von is a uber underground U.S. Black Metal band formed in 1988. They broke up a couple of years later with a handful of demos circulating amongst the Black Metal scene at the time. To come back and reissue some of these. During all these years they have gained a kvlt following and many bands have risen up in the same style of manner that Von delivered, some times even more brutal than Von themselves. Many bands have cited Von as a major influence world wide. They continue to have a huge following. Veinen here being one of them, they actually got their band name after one of the founding members of Von "Jason "Veinen" Ventura. Von actually grew on me because my first introduction to Black Metal was purely based on extremely raw black metal.

Veinen didn't quite capture the rawness of Von on this release, but they did happen to capture the same intensity and speed, just with a cleaner production. I think it's because Von had an almost lo-fi type of sound and this doesn't. It's definitely a great E.P. They would have made Von proud with this. I feel that this release stayed more on the thrash/punk side of the fence when it came to guitar playing.Maybe it's the type of distortion, I dunno. Kind of monotonous guitar playing, not very Black Metal based. It's actually kind of cool, because it's not the typical type of stuff that Von worship plays. But the vocals are tormented echoing screams, the drums are relentless in blasting, only slowing during break downs. If you are really into Von these guys will be right up your alley. There's really not much more to say, except download this!

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Album: Charlie Don't Surf - Dripcore - 2010

Year: 2011
Country: Serbia
Genre: Hardcore

This is Charlie Don't Surf's entire discography. There's no real point in posting a review for a discography. If you're a fan of hardcore of any kind this will be right up your alley. A lot of the songs take on a fastcore type of hardcore. They are from Serbia. Unfortunately our first Serbian hardcore band is that of a discography....that's a little sad. Calling Serbian bands....submit your stuff! Download this. You won't be disappointed!

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Tours: Skeletonwitch Tour Dates

Skeletonwitch has a new album coming out in October, these are the confirmed tour dates they have so far for their upcoming tour to support the album.

• Sep 30 Sunshine Theater Albuquerque, NM
• Oct 01 Gothic Theatre Englewood, CO
• Oct 02 Sokol Underground Omaha, NE
• Oct 03 First Avenue Minneapolis, MN
• Oct 04 House of Blues Chicago, IL
• Oct 05 Pop's East St Louis, IL
• Oct 06 The Roxy Oklahoma City, OK
• Oct 06 Roxy Oklahoma City, OK
• Oct 08 Jackpot Music Hall Lawrence, KS
• Oct 09 The Sceneary Wichita, KS
• Oct 10 Rogue on Dickson Fayetteville, AR
• Oct 11 Hi Tone Cafe Memphis, TN
• Oct 13 The Southgate House Newport, KY
• Oct 14 Ravari Room Columbus, OH
• Oct 15 The Union Athens, OH
• Oct 19 The EARL Atlanta, GA
• Oct 20 Tremont Music Hall Charlotte, NC
• Oct 21 Europa Brooklyn, NY
• Oct 22 Rocks Off Concert Cruise Aboard The Jewel / CMJ New York, NY
• Oct 23 Johnny Brendas Philadelphia, PA
• Oct 25 Peabody's Cleveland, OH
• Oct 27 The Pyramid Scheme Grand Rapids, MI
• Oct 28 Belvedere’s Pittsburgh, PA
• Nov 12 Montage Music Hall Rochester, NY
• Nov 13 The Opera House Toronto, Canada
• Nov 14 Club Soda Montreal, Canada
• Nov 16 The Webster Hartford, CT
• Nov 17 The Chance Theater Poughkeepsie, NY
• Nov 18 Starland Ballroom Sayreville, NJ
• Nov 19 Wally's Pub Hampton, NH
• Nov 20 Jaxx West Springfield, VA
• Nov 21 The Orange Peel Asheville, NC
• Nov 22 Lincoln Theatre Raleigh, NC
• Nov 23 House of Blues Myrtle Beach North Myrtle Beach, SC
• Nov 25 Revolution Fort Lauderdale, FL
• Nov 26 The State Theatre Saint Petersburg, FL
• Nov 27 Freebird Live Jacksonville Beach, FL
• Nov 29 Emo's East Austin, TX
• Nov 30 Diamond Ballroom Oklahoma City, OK
• Dec 02 Mesa Theater & Club Grand Junction, CO
• Dec 04 TOP DECK Farmington, NM
• Dec 08 Knitting Factory Concert House Reno, NV
• Dec 09 Knitting Factory Concert House Boise, ID
• Dec 10 Knitting Factory Concert House Spokane, WA
• Dec 11 The Republik Calgary, Canada
• Dec 12 The Starlite Room Edmonton, Canada
• Dec 14 Pyramid Cabaret Winnipeg, Canada
• Dec 16 The Wheelhouse Cedar Falls, IA
• Dec 17 Barrymore Theatre Madison, WI
• Dec 18 The Intersection Grand Rapids, MI
• Jan 11 Underworld London, United Kingdom
• Jan 12 Underworld London, United Kingdom
• Jan 13 Arts Centre Colchester, United Kingdom
• Jan 14 Waterfront Norwich, United Kingdom
• Jan 15 Roadmender Northampton, United Kingdom
• Jan 16 Academy 2 Birmingham, United Kingdom
• Jan 16 O2 Academy 2 Birmingham Birmingham, United Kingdom
• Jan 17 Rescue Rooms Nottingham, United Kingdom
• Jan 18 Moho Live Manchester, United Kingdom
• Jan 19 Corporation Sheffield, United Kingdom
• Jan 20 02 Academy Newcastle, United Kingdom
• Jan 21 TUNNELS Aberdeen, United Kingdom
• Jan 22 The Cathouse Glasgow, United Kingdom
• Jan 23 Beat Generator Dundee, United Kingdom
• Jan 24 Cockpit Leeds, United Kingdom
• Jan 25 Central Station Wrexham, United Kingdom
• Jan 26 Sugar Mill Stoke, United Kingdom
• Jan 27 White Rabbit Plymouth, United Kingdom
• Jan 28 The Fleece Bristol, United Kingdom
• Jan 29 Joiners Southampton, United Kingdom
• Jan 31 West Coast Bar Margate, United Kingdom
• Feb 01 St Sauveur Lille, France
• Feb 02 La Laiterie Strasbourg, France
• Feb 03 Ninkasi Kao Lyon, France
• Feb 04 Ferrailleur Nantes, France
• Feb 05 Nouveau Casino Paris, France

Album: Evolved As None - Selftitled E.P. - 2009

Year: 2009
Country: Finland
Genre: Grind

Evolved As None bring some intense, raw, straight up grindcore from Finland. There is pretty much little to no information online about them which isn't strange for a lot of underground grindcore bands. I ave no idea how many members of the band there are. I'm guessing based on the little bit of information online that this is their first release, which was a cassette tape limited to 50 copies.

This E.P. is harsh, abrasive, insane, raw, and blazing fast. The drummer is relentlessly killing it with blasts. The guitar playing is basically a distorted wall of buzzing noise. The vocals are a trade off of screams kind of similar to what Spazz used to do. Except they are a lot more intense.

This E.P. is straight up pandemonium from beginning to end. They deliver 8 songs in 7:13 of some crushing grindcore, the only time it lets up even for a second is the moment of silence between songs. No breakdowns here buddy. This is purely for getting your ass handed to you and your head grinded in. Audio warfare, a blitzkrieg of grindcore on the unsuspecting border that is your mind.

If fast paced, raw, grindcore is your thing than you'll need to check out Evolved As None. Download this E.P. now!

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Album: Aver - Selftitled - 2011

Year: 2011
Country: Australia
Genre: Grunge/Stoner/Jam band/post-hardcore/experimental

Aver e-mailed me, they are an independent, Australian, experimental, grunge, ambient, stoner, post-hardcore, alternative, 4 piece, rock band. This has elements of the early 90's alternative rock that I grew up on. You know like Nirvana, Bush, Stone Temple Pilots, Red Hot Chili Peppers, etc. The only thing is Aver mixed in some instruments not necessarily used by those bands. There's moments of tribal drum beats played with didgeridoo. This is a unique submission. They didn't just smash genre boundaries in heavy music, but also in various other genres such as tribal music. They blended them together to create something new. It's a really trippy album. Imagine Enya after smoking a bunch of weed while listening to Black Sabbath and The Melvins giving birth to Nirvana in the middle of a drum circle and you have Aver. They some how took the abrasiveness of heavy music and turned it into beautiful music, with groovy melodies. At time even the screaming goes perfectly with the music, as well as the singing. I'm reminded of so many different bands while listening to this album.

The most strange things is I don't understand how bands like this go unsigned, when they are creating amazing, different, talented music. But they'll sign some mediocre shit that is singing about bullshit and aren't even really good musicians or even artistic at that. It blows my fucking mind. If I had a label, you bet your ass Aver would be one of the first acts signed. Seriously one of the most amazing rock bands I've heard in sometime.

Some notable tracks on the album are "Real Eyes" which is an almost grungy type of punk tune, but like that late 70's/early 80's punk. It has moments of experimental soft rock during the chorus, it's a nice constrast. "Anti Matter" which starts out almost depressing with djembe and psychedelic guitars, picks up in what I can only describe as a Sonic Youth on drugs type of song, it sneakily gets heavy momentarily to go back into a haunting melody with vocals just as haunting."Stoneage Wasteland" painted an image in my mind of a desolate scenery, with tumbleweeds rolling by, so haunting, to making that all melt away with a heavy interlude of rock madness.

I guess that's a perfect way to describe Aver, you can spend a lot of time trying to figure out what genre of music they play, which is a waste of time as far as I'm concerned. Or you can enjoy these songs that will paint images in your mind with haunting, groovy, at some times heavy, tunes that you surely won't forget for some time. The best part is they are allowing us to check it out for free! So download this now!



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Album: Kindergarten Hazing Ritual - Because Reality is Shit - 2011

Year: 2011
Country: United States
Genre: Grind

 I remember it like it was yesterday, even though it was 10 years ago when I stumbled across a project that would change the way I viewed grindcore forever. The first song I ever heard by this project was "Jen Has Herpes and Gonorrhea" that still remains one of my all time favorite grindcore songs ever. I proudly own Kindergarten Hazing Rituals entire discography between hard copies and mp3s, besides anything that hasn't been released yet.I'd argue anyone for biggest fan too. He's branched off into many other genres, even was in another grindcore band that played live shows and nothing in my opinion has compared to the psychotic intensity of Kindergarten Hazing Ritual.

This one man project is by far the most interesting, bizarre, insane, roller coaster ride ever to hit one man and e-grind projects. This is even better than Agoraphobic Nosebleed as far as I'm concerned. The songs are a combination of metal based grindcore filled with 8 bit mayhem and sound clips from various television shows, and movies, intertwined with screaming vocals.

There are elements from other types of music in this. There's techno, breakcore, metal, hardcore, sludge,post-harcore, it's just all brought together into grind. It's almost impossible to explain in words how awesome this project is. In order to get a full effect I'll use two stories that are 100% true to illustrate my point....

One time I was tripping on acid with a bunch of metalheads and we were listening to grindcore. I suggested we pop in a Kindergarten Hazing Ritual album, it was actually brand new and Monster had just sent me the hard copy in themail, I was super stoked to listen to it.We made it a whopping 7 songs before these uber brutal metalheads had to tap out. "We need tot urn this off, I'm getting scared." was actually uttered by one person. And another said"This is freaking me out, I'm having an anxiety attack."

On another occasion someone got their ass beat because they broke the case and ripped the cd booklet from one of Kindergarten hazing Ritual releases. The parties involved won't be mentioned.

Because Reality Is Shit is full of video game music, grinding insanity, nerd references, inside jokes, misogyny, and hatred and disgust towards the absurd shitty things in life. This is a reoccurring theme in all KHR releases. KHR continues to push the envelope in the e-grind/cybergrind community. I have yet to see a band in the genre that not only has lasted as long but continues putting out amazing material also.

I like every track on the album, which isn't surprising. I have always liked every track on every KHR release, I have even appeared on a previous album on a hidden track where I talk about uber kvlt black metal. Some of the more notable tracks on the album are "A Stripper Named Gertrude" which is a clusterfuck of grind and 8-bit insanity featuring Venture Bros.(At least i think it's this show) sound clips, very explosive. "I Hope Some Dude From A Black Metal Band Takes a Picture of You After You Blow Your Brains Out" the vocals on this tracks are the most bi-polar shit ever, you think your girlfriend is bad? This sounds like 4 different vocalists on this track, and it's not. The music is just as intense, with bone crushing guitars and blast beats that sound like a machine gun on speed. "I've Lost My Library Card, I'm in a K-hole, I'm a Prick" is just straight grinding until the jerk you to the right, 8-bit turn it takes, into an ambient sound scape while a sound clip plays, right back into grinding your fucking mind into a mixture of both. The vocals sound like an argument between a group of people. "The Christine Chubbuck Anniversary Special" (in case you never heard of Christine Chubbuck go here) The vocals are some great screams, with an almost death metal type of guitar playing, backed by the intensity of blasts that will crush your pathetic soul into dust. "Cannabis Mutants From Outer Space Washed My Dishes Yesterday, I Thanked Them and They Gave Me Free Tickets to a Michael Jackson Concert" stayed pretty noise-grind with a punk overtone. Reminded me of an artistic version of Sore Throat.

You'll never meet a bigger Kindergarten Hazing Ritual fan than I am. This isn't going to be for everyone. If you're sick of the same old shit in every genre then this will be for you. If you're cool listening to the same cloned as shit by every band you may not like this. I believe in music being artistic and bands should differentiate themselves from the other bands in their genres. This has been done by Kindergarten Hazing Ritual. So snap the fuck out of it and download this right now.

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News: VICTIM album release!

This was e-mailed to me a couple of days ago:

"We, VICTIM, have an album launch gig this Saturday 1st October in London

This is an all analogue release: it was recorded onto two inch tape, mixed down to half-inch tape, then edited by hand into a new master tape, then cut direct onto a DMM copper at Abbey Road through an analogue mastering desk.

SORRY NO FILES NO DIGITAL STAGE NO DIGITAL VERSION = NO DOWNLOAD, NO UPLOAD. JUST A RECORD. NOT SORRY

Our music is a shocking, original and ultra extreme mix of heavy metal, thrash, death, also black metal, and various influences such as Butthole Surfers, punk, classical, shoegaze, art/noise.

This is all pulled together by our friend and producer for this project, Mayo Thompson. He is the man behind The Red Krayola, the legendary 60s psychedelic band, and he was also the house producer at Rough Trade in the 1980s, working on Raincoats, The Fall.

LP FOR SALE AT KONZERT - OR at http://www.onlinevictim.com after Oct 1.

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VICTIM THUS
Utterly ungraciously ugly uniquely unpleasant Ur-Heavy Metal that summons the ghost of every torturer's mother. An abnormal and beastial feast. Since listening on a crunchy leper-winter morning to bull-frogs fucking in the mist, a decade has stretched out with gladiatorial guitar onslaughts, unearthly screams and slave steamship metal drums - deafening priest and virgin alike as they squelch into the claw of the lion, smashing ice on a hell-bound cess-pit, setting fire to a hoary witches glowing ember, breaking the back of a pact with a card-sharp's mistress (at the end of the last night of World War II)
THUS, Car Crash, Pub Fight, Iron Fist: breakers of the Styxian rowlock, fucked-up brothers with no arms, bring only the unholiest METAL to disgrace the stage and studio and below us. And now the moment of cauterizing truth and debilitating lies (simultaneously) THUS

THE FIRST VICTIM ALBUM THUS
Conceived with twisted love and supreme hate in a torture chamber in the depths of Edinburgh's damp freezing underworld Chamber... pools of greasy water flowed through the magnetic spools... in another era. Then 4 years of painful and fruitful gestation later and the undying child awaits its long awaited birth from its mother's proud wound THUS
Recorded as all METAL has to be onto two inch tape. Produced by the living godfather of music Mayo Thompson. Mastered direct from tape onto copper at Abbey Road. Formed onto Vinyl at an ancient EMI factory.
Fuck digital Fuck computers Fuck you"

This sounds like it's going to be killer!

Album: Szeol - Wzrok I Wizj A - 2011

Year: 2011
Country: Poland
Genre: Sludge

Remember when I posted Szeol's demo last year? Well if you don't you can click that link. It was some of the most interesting, experimental, gloomy, depressing, miserable, and sorrow filled sludge I have ever heard. Well they upped the ante here with their newest release.

They managed to create some of the most chaotic sludge I have ever heard. Distortion learned everything it knows from this release and raped the guitars. With ambient effects to create a sound that is torturous to anything with the least bit of happiness. The vocalist sounds like he's trapped in a cell screaming so loud that it's echoing off the corridor walls into a microphone. Sometimes the fellow band members offer their cries for help to the deaf hallways of pain and isolation also. The drums bellowing, heavy like those being played by ancient warriors before they march into war.

Szeol was already becoming my favorite sludge band, but this sealed it for me. This is the heaviest, most creative, pain filled sludge release ever. To me this makes Dystopia look like Disney Land and Eyehategod look like a prozac prescription. They have managed to revolutionize the genre with their releases.

Some notable tracks on the album are "Przytomnosc" if you look this song up in the dictionary the definition is "heavy" The vocals are insane! and the drums and guitar work are noisy, fast, and tear shit the fuck up. "Ofiarowani matrycy" begins with dogs yelping and a bizarre, eerie amibient guitar with toms before bellowing massive amounts of feedback and explodes into a psychotic episode of hatred and pain.

Just a masterpiece in the sludge genre. I can't comprehend how this band isn't more popular. Like I said it's some of the most avant-garde, progressive sludge out right now. If you can manage to escape the crippling grips of your depressed life I suggest you click the download link and prepare to get crushed by this release.

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Album: Moribund Scum - Into The Void Live @ Nexus Braunschweig 6-23-11 - 2011

Year: 2011
Country: Germany
Genre: Grind

Ros from Government Power Abuse e-mailed me saying he had a new project. Since Government Power Abuse fucking ruled I definitely had to check this out. I had no idea Ros was going to grind my mind! I was expecting hardcore and got grindcore. That's a pretty sweet deal if you ask me! This is a live recording of some heavy, fast, sloppy, noisy ass grindcore from Germany.

 Moribund Scum is a three piece, two guitarists and a drummer. The guitars are a tornado of buzzing noise with heavy riffs, at times only to slow down to go into a whirlwind of insanity and what can only be described as a tantrum of hate filled vocal screams.

I love this type of grindcore live, it's more hardcore punk based rather than metal. Not to say that the metal based stuff is bad, because I love stuff like Repulsion and Terrorizer. It's my favorite because it's noisier, they don't focus so much on production. It's all about blasting, heaviness, and speed.

This live album was just relentless and judging from the song titles there is some socio-political lyrical content, for instance songs like "Redneck Execution" shows hate towards your typical redneck assholes. "Into The Void" is almost a noisy sludge track with how heavy it begins just to suck you into a clusterfuck of grind. They cover an EoM song "Without Consent" and slay it!

I'd hate to say it, but I think I may be liking Moribund Scum a lot more than Government Power Abuse. Both are great bands. But Moribund Scum would have me destroying a venue if I saw this live. Get this now!




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December 31, 2011 - Moribund_Scum@web.de, Everywhere(must be an online show?), Germany

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Album: TOAD - Rotten Tide - 2011

Year: 2011
Country: United States
Genre: Black n Roll/Rock/Black Metal/Post-Harcore/Metal

We always try and bring you unknown and different bands here at WRE. Stuff that normally would not get any recognition anywhere else. So I proudly present TOAD to you.

TOAD which stands for Take Over And Destroy is a 6 piece from Arizona. They have crafted a unique sound which can only really be described as rock n roll with black metal undertones, which is coined as black n roll. They e-mailed me with Rotten Tide, which is truly a unique E.P. in it has the heaviness of rock with the eerie atmosphere of black metal. The music borders some where between hard/heavy rock and hardcore with organs and intricate guitar work with black metal screaming vocals.

Usually whenever a band has any black metal influence I prefer for it to be on the raw side. TOAD didn't necessarily use the raw aspect but I still found myself rocking out to this anyway. It's really the perfect blend of post-hardcore rock and black metal. And they didn't retard it up with theatrics and over dramatization that a lot of modern black metal acts do.

This E.P. starts out with "Midnight Hunger", a very clean sounding black metal guitar riff, very atmospheric start to the album, which becomes shattered by the heaviness of another guitar and drums, and very wet sounding screaming. Very dark sounding, but very light at the same time, almost as if the atmosphere is battling during the song. It doesn't stop there either. This type of battle continues into the second track "Pale Nimbus" which has a sound clip of someone out of breathing, then goes into some pretty fast and black metal riffing, only to speed it up with the second guitarist and drummer blistering in over screams that would make lungs collapse. I really dig the echo effect they used on some parts of the vocals during that track. The third track "Embody The Ghost" is named almost perfectly because the entire song sounds like a haunting, especially the very beginning with the organ playing with guitar. This continues on with "Morning Disgust" My favorite track has to be the last one "Necrophatic Vatican" It's like Black Metal hardcore, with gang vocals and all. Very evil sounding.

I always love receiving stuff like this. It's just out of the norm and very different. If you're a fan of avant-garde or just simply anything done out of the norm with black metal TOAD will be for you. I'm really loving this E.P. It's an atmospheric masterpiece. Watch out for these guys, they got some big plans in the future!

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Album: Agent Patogen - CONSECUENCES OF HUMAN NEGLIGENCE - 2011

Year: 2011
Country: Romania
Genre: Grindcore

This is another obscure, no information on the internet about them grindcore band from Romania. 10 tracks clocking in at just over 20 minutes. I couldn't even find out how many band members were in this band.

Upon first listen I was like what the fuck is this? Cookie Monster grindcore? The vocals seemed boring. There was guitar solos. Nothing made sense from the description in the e-mail. I'll admit I'm a grindcore snob, elitist, purist, whatever you want to call me. Whatever. But after quite a few listens this has really grown on me.

This isn't your typical brutal grindcore I suppose. There's like groove parts like porngrind, but the subject matter isn't porngrind. Some songs border on thrash even because of lack of blast beats. There's even guitar solos in some songs. I think it's even a drum machine or electronic drums too. I can't tell, like I said there's almost no information on this band online.

I mean I can kind of see how it's grindcore-esque but I'd classify this along the lines of metal punk really. Or at least call it avant-garde grindcore. The vocals are so over dramatic and ridiculous, that I actually dig them now, even though they can seem mundane at times. It's like a uber brutal death metal singer trying to sing in guttural screams. It actually has me cracking up a little bit.

The guitar work is fairly decent. Even the solo parts are really cool. The drums and guitar are drown out kind of by the vocals. The parts that are actually blast beats are really good.

Some tracks that really stand out to me are "Post Nuclear Civilization" it starts out blasting and crazy as fuck, then goes into an almost reggae type of guitar playing to a guitar solo. It's really interesting. "Sikness Planet" is pretty fast tempo'd and breaks out into a pretty wicked solo also. "Consecuences Of Human Negligence" starts out with a pretty cool drum intro and goes into total insanity, buzzing guitar, blast beats, and even...YEP! you guessed it another solo...just a very chaotic song.

This is by far one of the strangest projects ever submitted to be posted on the blog. But it's worth the listen, so check it out. This is our first Romanian band posted!


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Album: C.R.A.C.K. - erspectivas Sombrias (outlook grim) - 2011

Year: 2011
Country: Brazil
Genre:Crust/Grindcore

This band is living in a lot of obscurity. The only information I have found on them is that they are a Brazilian 4 piece, formed in 2010 that plays crusty grindcore. Their influences are Ratos de Porão and Napalm Death. This is their first release, which is pretty damn awesome for a freshman effort. It clocks in at 16:25 with 11 songs.

This is in the vein of a more metal type of grindcore. Which isn't necessarily my favorite but this is a pretty decent album. Chaotic, noisy, blastbeats out the ass. It's pretty much any grinders wet dream. Some songs start out slow and explode into insanity. Vocals are pretty much just raw screams, sometimes there is dual vocals trading off. The guitar is insane at certain points on this release, almost sounds like a bee buzzing.

Overall it's an excellent output for a first album, I can't wait to see what else these guys can do. My only gripe is at certain points the album gets slow during songs and I feel it lasts too long. Sometimes 10-20 seconds. Other than that it's as perfect of a grind album as it could possibly be. My favorite part is the vocals and drums. The guitar parts aren't all they're cracked(haha) up to be.

But don't let me decide for you, if you like old Napalm Death and crusty grind you'll probably really love this album. So get to downloading!

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