Tracklist: 1. Intro / I Hope All Your Friends Die 2. Assasination Markets 3. Caucasian Big Man Power 4. Feminism Uberalles 5. Scram, Kidz! 6. Substitute Creature 7. Outro Total playing time 12:03 Maine hybrid punx empowered by the Bastard violence, makes you wonder how no band already made claims of instant ejaculation upon Alexander James Murphy's cold, metallic touch, how no non-cyborg organically dreamt up Burroughs-style phallic flesh-guns, machine-gun-hands, the morning shaving ritual resulting with resistors & transistors on the …
I know I'm late. Can't travel back in time, anyhow. If I had to, I'd say that 2010 took the cake in the sludge / slower department in general; bands like Thou, Harvey Milk, Cough, The Body, the new, improved version of Bastard Noise, and much, much more (and sure, I've missed some potentially ace / probably metal ones, e.g. the new Immolation, but I don't really care to hear about it unless it's grind). Not to worry, though, 'cause I've suffered through a great lot of blastbeats anyhow. Deliberately ignoring a l…
HASTE 1.1 /shiny grind - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - [downright first class stuff] Kill The Client - Set For Extinction Not as abrasive, intense, or catchy as Cleptocracy, but Kill The Client is certainly still among the top of grindcore today, so now's the time to decide whether they want to become another Phobia or broaden their area of destruction. Slow down, add some melody, etc.? Fuck no. And stop sludging it up. I'm just looking at bands like Noisear and GridLink trying to become the blastbeat. Bryan Fajardo…
HASTE 1.2 /emo - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - [to be honest, I’m not talking about the hairstyle] Loma Prieta - Life/Less The Life/Less 12" is a thrashin’ interpretation of screamo, preferring to crush, rather than take part in the bland, modern post-rock gimmick that many such bands settled into. But why are people calling this stuff chaotic as if bands like Orchid or Usurp Synapse never even existed. Sure, there are certainly many great bands today, but I’ve still not heard one able of holding a candle to …
SLOW DOWN AND DIE /winning a sludge contest is like - - - - - - - - - - - - - [making funny faces to adults / the ass- holes might not appreciate your work] Thou - Summit [posted] Madly prolific, inimitable, apocalyptically hopeful Louisiana sludge. Summit may not be as heavily catchy as Tyrant, but I'd rather focus on how awesome it still is. Coupled with the lyrics, Thou's sludge might sound like ruby red lava creeping down bleak NOLA streets, cleansing the city of cop, dope, and man all-together; crystal clear progressions erupt in…
Tracklist: 1. Yoku Irasshaimashita 2. Ikari 3. Tekii Ni Motodzuku Hanzai 4. Kiri 5. Inochi No Nai Total playing time 03:15 Heard 'em thanks to a radio show of Nigel's (his blog being Hipness as a Second Language )! ZaSKaE is a German non-stop blasting four-piece, with riffs akin to Hellnation doing a Commodore 64 SHMUP's fastcore soundtrack. The bandname is but an allusion to the name "Sasuke", the bandmembers remain anonymous, and Chikara (Japanese for "Power") is their short 'n' sweet debut, free for d…
Tracklist: 1. Heavy Hearted 2. Lay of the Landfill 3. Little Mountains We Move 4. Pale 5. Our Fathers Guns 6. A Bastard Behind the Eyes 7. A Sheep. A Well Total playing time 16:45 With a bandname like that, you better play some damn good bebop. Well, Kerouac’s a bit too heavy for such jazz, but I still like them. I’ll use this opportunity in order to take a dump into the genre pool; in an age where metalcore means utter shit like As I Lay Dying and Bring Me the Horizon (wait, the second one’s deathcore? no way! I insist that it’s less annoying…
Tracklist: 1. By Endurance We Conquer 2. Grissecon 3. Prometheus 4. Another World is Inevitable 5. Summit Revisited 6. Voices In the Wilderness Total playing time 51:08 "I must escape sentimentality; clear away these dusty, maudlin affections; turn my back on the corpse of the past; learn to accept the death of ideals. Everything has changed. Nothing has changed." - the lyrics that end "Prometheus" Madly prolific, inimitable, apocalyptically hopeful Louisiana sludge. Summit may not be as heavily catchy as Tyrant, but I'…