It's not too late to write at least one post for year 2008. Keeping it short, head to Torture Division 's site and see how their third demo of their first demo trilogy sounds. By the time of writing it isn't released yet, but it should be today. They know how to make a buzz. First two demos are absolute killers - if you're into Vomitory school of take-no-prisoners death-metal, this certainly is for you.
Rotten Sound - "The Effects" @ MySpace Taken from the forthcoming blast Cycles , due early 2008. Rotten Sound's grinding isn't that sharp anymore, but it's definitely more organic and breathing than it was on Exit . Mutagen - "Stabbed Through The Face" mp3 There's not much I know about Mutagen, except they're propably from the same town I live in and I know one of the members through a friend. I appreciate their blend of death metal: enough brutality, [...]
Cut City - "The Hanging Garden (a Cure cover)" @ MySpace
Doveman - ".... & Sunrise Medley" mp3 from the Doveman 's new album With My Left Arm I Raise The Dead .
Few months back I posted about Armour - the new Finnish heavy metal sensation, so to say. Their demo have now sold out, but it'll be re-released soon (also in China, which is definitely cool). All Armour studio tracks can be downloaded from their Mikseri.net site . Highly recommended, especially if you have a car to speed into the night ....
The Old Dead Tree - "Dive" mp3 Think Anathema, Opeth and older Katatonia - check, check, check. The Black Dahlia Murder - "What A Horrible Night To Have A Curse" mp3 What a horrible, malicious time for BDM to release a new album...
French Carte Postale's netlabel Tripostal offers a nice selection of electronic and instrumental music that at the same time offer sonic comfort for a bad day (bad life?) and also some serious independent musicianship and detailed composing. And as the netlabel principals go, all releases are free to download. The Oslo Deadtrash Project - "Across The Ocean" mp3 Un Atomne A Lob-Nor - "Birds" mp3 Hmm... Check out Lob-Nor (rip) mp3's at their website. French know their post-rock, I say.
Through The Eyes Of The Dead - "Failure In The Flesh" mp3 There are differences in a death growl. Through The Eys Of The Dead 's debut album ( Bloodlust , 2005) left me nauseous, because vocalist Gunnels multi-layered shrieks just watered down everything that was on the record. Now the band returns, but in a different form. New frontman Nate Johnsson owns such a great growl, that it is hard not to love it. He's not just screaming, he's truly delivering the hatred that is written in the lyrics. [...]
We Are Soldiers We Have Guns - "Songs That No One Will Hear" mp3 We Are Soldiers We Have Guns -"Damn Those TV Shows, Damn Them Straight To Hell" mp3 There's something equally essential in the song title as is in the song itself: these might well be the songs no one will hear, but those nobodies that do, appreciate them with love. Un-party music you listen to in an un-hurry day. We Are Soldiers We Have Guns and more lovely [...]
Goldenhorse - "Don't Wake Me Up" mp3 Don't wake me up from the 70's? Well whatever, you've got to love her voice. More about Goldenhorse at Chromewaves . Travis Morrison Hellfighters - "As We Proceed" mp3 Much better than the name suggests.
Death Breath - "Coffins of the Unembalmed Dead" mp3 And some new DB from Let It Stink at their myspace . "Giving head to the dead"... hmm. Not. There's also lots of cool mp3s at Relapse's download site that I've failed to notice earlier. Listen to them: Minsk - "White Wings" mp3 Unearthly Trance - "Permanent Ice" mp3 Coldworker - "They Crawl Inside Me Uninvited" [...]
Slayer - "Final Six" @ MySpace A new Slayer song, or an outtake from Christ Illusion session if you like it more that way, is up at their MySpace. Starts off like a grown-up "Spill The Blood", but then lands heavily on Slayer's 2000's sound. Hopefully this won't be the last new Slayer track ever. Vacant Coffin @ MySpace What is better than old school death metal? Old school grindcore! Finnish Vacant Coffin are soon releasing their take on the [...]
This is my most favourite day of the year. There no darkness in our small hours these weeks. In recent years I've learned to love the light and appreciate night more as an emotional experience. There's enough darkness in our years, so let's celebrate the summer we have here. Chang Ffos - "Iron Icon" mp3 Chang Ffos - "The Throne Of Sasquatch Ascending" mp3 Ever heard of Chang Ffos ? Me neither, but their sludge have enough buzz - or the [...]
Crystallic - "Severe Punishment" mp3 A long-lost Polish techical death metal album from the mid-90's? No - Watch Us Deteriorate is a debut album of Finnish techdeth act Crystallic. If you've ever thought Symbolic might be the best album ever, there's a slight chance you can listen through "Severe Punishment".
And This Army - "Blackbeard" mp3 Rarely, music I listen to paints an image of a city, its streets or other, should I say, man-made structures. Mostly my music is all about backing up what comes inside of me, soundtracks to emotions and current feelings. Of course there are exceptions, like Swedish Broder Daniel's Cruel Town , that spoke so clearly about a place and about leaving it for survival. It still was an album that gave notes to every cruel town there is and especially to those located give or take 1 [...]
Finnish official top 40 album chart is slightly schizophrenic. It's credibility was damaged earlier this year when rap artist Asa's unofficial mixtape Foetida entered the chart at #4. Beside netsales and hand to hand sales, this unofficial release was sold only at one record store. Not bad for a #4 record. Last week history was made by none other than Metallica. All 10 Metallica albums from Kill 'Em All to St. Anger were given a chart position ( link ), four of them at top 10. Reason for Metallica's sudden success can [...]
Turbonegro - Retox album stream
A new Entombed track at Candlelight USA's myspace Logh will play two shows in Finland in September . I'm especially happy to see them come to my hometown Jyväskylä and my homeclub Lutakko, on September 14. Just a few weeks ago I received a package from Trust No One , including last issue of Logh's four-part 73 series built around their The Raging Sun album. It's lovely that the set is now full, four years after the first part was released.
Danko Jones - "Play The Blues" mp3 Danko Jones - "Lovercall" mp3 Danko Jones - "Caramel City" mp3 It's 65 celsius degrees warmer outside than it was exactly 4 months ago. This weather suits Danko Jones ' masculine rock 'n' roll much better. It've been years since the last time I listened to Born A Lion and goddamit it still hits hard: "If the good Lord wants to strike me down tonight and I haven't found my true love I haven't [...]
Hebosagil - "Temple" mp3 When I write, I love to start describing a band by saying something like: "Imagine being hit by a train". I use figure of speech to describe the weight and velocity of music, so that you, a reader, would believe me that the band I'm talking about really is heavy metal music. In Hebosagil's case, it'd be an underestimation to say "Imagine being hit by a train". There is a short cut, no imagination required: just listen to their music and you are being hit [...]
Lupatarkastaja
No Church In The Wild
CHROMATICS "THESE STREETS WILL NEVER LOOK THE SAME"
Nas - Daughters
The Rains of Castamere by The National
DIIV "How Long Have You Known?" (OFFICIAL VIDEO)
Avicii – Two Million
Scissor Sisters’ “Baby Come Home” Video: Watch The Band Get Animated
Yellow Magic Orchestra edit from Chrome Canyon
Beck – I Just Started Hating Some People Today
