Released on CD by Trendkill Recordings and on LP by both Throatruiner Records and Wooaaargh, this vicious split sees Denver, CO's Clinging to the Trees of a Forest Fire teaming up with French act Nesseria to offer up four tracks of uniquely gnarly grind apiece. Clinging to the Trees of a Forest Fire starts things [...]
The latest from Roses Never Fade is this limited edition, self-titled, three-song 7" from Neuropa Records. This outing sees the collaborative project debuting a new lineup where Nick Brewer and Matt Shack from Pale Creation are joined by Nathan Opposition from Ancient VVisdom. One of the band's most somber tracks to date, "When the Light [...]
Another relatively new one from A389 Recordings is this killer split between Cleveland legends Ringworm and Australia's Mindsnare. The label refers to the Ringworm tracks as "two new/unreleased crushers from the vaults", and while I don't really know the specifics behind that statement, I will say that these songs hit me a little harder and [...]
Another relatively new one from A389 Recordings is this killer split between Cleveland legends Ringworm and Australia's Mindsnare. The label refers to the Ringworm tracks as "two new/unreleased crushers from the vaults", and while I don't really know the specifics behind that statement, I will say that these songs hit me a little harder and [...]
The last time I wrote about Parallax's "Mediums & Messages" was in 2009 (and it's rightfully become one of the most popular posts in the blog's history), so this makes three. The occasion being that Kitchen Now! Records is reissuing the long out of print CD on vinyl, and for its release the band is [...]
I believe "The Aftermath of Your Bright Beings" is the (Self-released?) debut from French act Battle of Britain Memorial, delivering a combination of intense "screamo" with "post-rock" flourishes. (Or is it "post-rock" with intense "screamo" flourishes?) Most of the compositions are dominated by slow, spacious clean passages with tactful uses of those "post-" types of [...]
Another excellent band from Richmond, VA, Bastard Sapling's latest - the four-song, 40-minute full-length "Dragged From Our Restless Trance" - should be available on cassette at some point in the relatively near future from Forcefield Records. Each side of the cassette contains one "shorter" track followed by a 12+ minute monster, and the band is [...]
From Crack Nation comes "Vertical Mass Grave", the debut full-length from Chicago trio Czar. This 10-song, 43-minute affair marks my first exposure to the group (who released a prior EP in 2009) and their incredibly interesting amalgamation of influences. This is another one of those bands that manages to blend a ton of different styles [...]
From Crack Nation comes "Vertical Mass Grave", the debut full-length from Chicago trio Czar. This 10-song, 43-minute affair marks my first exposure to the group (who released a prior EP in 2009) and their incredibly interesting amalgamation of influences. This is another one of those bands that manages to blend a ton of different styles [...]
"From Birth to Soil" is the self-released debut full-length from Chicago's Hunters, offering up eight tracks in a surprisingly compact 35-minute timeframe. Their style is an intriguingly high-energy form of sludgy, rocked out metal with ultra gruff vocals (occasionally accented by some higher sneers) that somehow manages to avoid being pigeonholed into any particular genre. [...]
From Richmond, VA comes the self-titled full-length debut from Windhand (compliments of Forcefield Records). And let me tell you... I'd put this right up there with Electric Wizard in terms of just fucking superb, unstoppable doom. The songs range from five to 10+ minutes and are all powerfully ominous, heavy as hell, and aside from [...]
Originally released in 1999 by East Coast Empire, "Twilight Haunt" remains the lone full-length from Cleveland's Pale Creation - now re-released in a limited edition vinyl run by the always excellent A389 Recordings. I've spoken about the band's underrated status and unique approach on several occasions here in the past (five times since 2005, in [...]
Of the many NYHC bands that have rightfully achieved a certain "legendary" status, I still feel like Leeway just doesn't get talked about enough. All of their records have been out of print forever, none of it's available digitally, and that's just a damn shame. I absolutely worship "Desperate Measures" and have gushed about it [...]
Another winner from A389 Recordings, this 12" offers up three songs apiece from Seven Sisters of Sleep and Children of God. Seven Sisters of Sleep kicks things off with about 14 minutes of their crawling, dingy doom/sludge infused with a subtly crusty hardcore/punk energy. The tracks are a little longer this time out so they [...]
"Weightless" is the sophomore full-length (compliments of Prosthetic Records) from most impressive instrumental act Animals as Leaders. It's funny, because I was listening to a lot of Cacophony a few weeks ago and started thinking, "Man, there's not a lot of super flashy, technical shredding stuff around these days that's focused more on the melodic [...]
"When the Revolution Comes, Everything Will be Beautiful" is the latest full-length outing from Wisconsin trio The United Sons of Toil (released by Phratry Records and Sacred Plague Records), offering up nine tracks in 42 minutes, self-described as "precision Midwestern noise rock delivered by populist theoreticians". Citing their musical influences as relating to the Touch [...]
Well, what do you know? Divebomb Records, my favorite active record label, is finally warming up to the mp3 era with a few digital-only releases, among the first of which is the "Not on My Watch" EP from New Jersey's For the Love Of... This material was originally self-released by the band in 2009 and [...]
From Duplicate Records comes the sophomore full-length from excellent Norwegian death metal act Execration (it's supposed to be coming out in the US on Vendlus, but their website has stated such with no specific details for some time now). While 2008's "Syndicate of Lethargy" was somewhat more straightforward and in your face, it's now obvious [...]
From Fuck Yoga Records comes this intriguing Noothgrush release containing material that was recorded in 1994 shortly after the band formed, and apparently only released on "a handful of cassettes" back in the day. Whereas the band is now well-known for punishingly heavy doom/sludge with vicious, snarling vocals; this five-song, 44-minute collection offers a really [...]
The self-titled debut from Charred Walls of the Damned really surprised the hell out of me last year (even making my "best of" list for 2010), so I was psyched to see them keeping active by already following up with "Cold Winds on Timeless Days" (once again from Metal Blade Records). If you're unaware, the [...]
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