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SWARRRM (Japan), ゆめをみたの - i dreamed... + The [re]Birth of Cephalochromoscope
You may not know this, but Swarrrm is the reason why Cephalochromoscope exists in the first place (as for the term itself, read some Philip K. Dick and get back to me). Swarrrm is also the reason why me and Orfee exchanged the first of our many, many emails (since 2008) and jumped straight into the creation of our own sentimental sketchgrind. And if Nino Rota came to be reincarnated in Japan (Kobe, to be exact), where he then developed an insatiable appetite for blastbeats at a far too early age, perhaps we could get to hear another band of …
Swarrrm & Force (Japan) - Chaos Pack Split 7'' (1999)
Tracklist: Swarrrm 1. Despair 03:37 2. Irritate 02:03 Force 3. No Ending 03:40 4. Nothing 01:24 5. Evil Monkey 01:02 Total playing time 11:46 Another split with Swarrrm joining forces with Force this time (haha, joining forces with Force, get it?). Swarrrm is Swarrrm while Force is pretty awesome heavy and crusty death metal. They remind a little of Hellchild, and that's not just because Tsukasa Harakawa does the vocals. Eiichiro Suzuki (another Hellchild member) plays guitar. But anyways, it's a pretty cool release. DISCLAIMER: U…
Immortality & Swarrrm (Japan) - Split (2005)
Tracklist: Immortality 1. Sword 05:25 2. Survive 04:36 Swarrrm 3. Tuzukazu 03:48 4. X 03:14 Total playing time 17:06 + Video Tracklist: Immortality - Quality of death 4:29 Swarrrm - Venom 3:49 Thanks to Orfee . Obviously the last Swarrrm post was not the last Swarrrm post since I got this split release so unexpectedly soon in my e-mail, so all thanks go to Orfee! This release is pretty cool 'cause it features two live videos of both bands (though I think Swarrrm are rehearsing) which Orfee provided too. Oh and Immortality are a Ja…
Swarrrm & Atomic Fireball (Japan) - Split (2001)
Tracklist: Atomic Fireball 1. The fictitious self 04:12 2. Sincerity 06:56 3. The ceaseless doubt (live) 05:31 Swarrrm 4. Freeze 02:41 5. Limit 02:18 6. Impossible 02:19 7. Struggle 04:34 Total playing time 28:33 Yet another split, with Swarrrm and Atomic Fireball this time. We all know about Swarrrm while Atomic Fireball unleashes some heavy and quite dissonant stuff. Their vocalist kinda reminds me of Tsukasa Harakawa from Hellchild but at the same time I'm not sure. There's a few of these Japanese guys that sound similar yet ve…
Escape from New Cephalochromoscope
Just to link to some musically related posts on other blogs (and keep a few promises). The new Muga album, "There is Nothing Eternal Exists", in all its Engrish glory, is now on Crustmas . I remember some guy asking about it in the shoutbox ages ago, but that aside I know that many Cephalochromoscope visitors love Muga. Zero linked to our Muga/Swarrrm split some time ago too, in this Crustmas post , precisely. Now, I might as well mention this if I confused some Swarrrm fans with my comments on that Crustmas post (as in, what the he…
Swarrrm & Narcosis (Japan & UK) - Split 7'' (2003)
Tracklist: Swarrrm 1. Leave me alone 03:15 2. Uselesss 02:04 Narcosis 3. Hit it again it is still alive 01:08 4. Screaming I hate you while... 00:54 5. King of a mountain of shit 00:40 6. Broken finger stranglehold 02:53 Total playing time 10:54 Swarrrm with Narcosis of England. Great grindcore. Narcosis is fast as fuck and I like 'em, but some people... don't. How surprising is that? DISCLAIMER: Use SOULSEEK to find [out of print] digital audio files. We are in no way affiliated; it's just the best and easiest way. None of ou…
Swarrrm & Muga (Japan) - Split (2007)
Tracklist: Swarrrm 1. Venus 2. Don't Cover a Head 3. Tragedy 4. Junk man Muga 5. Intro 6. 悲憤 7. 随意と苦悩 8. 因縁生起 Total playing time 31:35 I believe this was released on CD, so it's fairly long in comparison to the other stuff I posted. For those unfamiliar with Muga - great Japanese metallic hardcore/crust in the vein of (I'd say) Tragedy. Sorry about the last three tracks, I've had no luck finding the correct titles. (EDIT: Thanks to both rost and caf for the tracklist! I guess caf's is correct since it has no strange sy…
Crowpath & Swarrrm (Sweden & Japan) - Split 7'' (2007)
Tracklist: Crowpath 1. Cleansed in Chlorine 04:49 Swarrrm 2. Smallman Have Bigmouth (Venom 2) 05:24 Total playing time 10:13 For those who don't know: Crowpath is a Swedish tech-death/whatever/kickass band. An abrasive wall of (totally awesome) noise. Something to look out for is the originality of the cymbalwork by Eric Hall. Swarrrm's side sounds like Swarrrm. It's one of those songs with a crazy-Japanese-guy-screaming-and-crying part. This 7" is pretty easy to find too - directly from the Crowpath Homepage (in Sweden) or t…
Swarrrm & Fugaku (Japan) - Split 7" (1999)
Tracklist: Swarrrm 1. Invisible Wall 01:41 2. Actuality 02:43 3. Soundless 04:27 Fugaku 4. Juatsusatsu 03:31 5. Truth or Lie? 01:30 6. Gekitou 03:36 7. Asyl 02:48 Total playing time 20:16 I guess you can't go wrong with a Japanese grindcore split release. Swarrrm sounds like... well, Swarrrm, while Fugaku play the sloppy and raw badly produced crust/grindcore everyone loves. With solos. DISCLAIMER: Use SOULSEEK to find [out of print] digital audio files. We are in no way affiliated; it's just the best and easiest way. None of our ol…
V/A - Grind Osaka (2003)
Tracklist: Condenado a Muerte 1.Hoja De Los Dioses 2.Bida Chingada 3.Rebolucion Red 4.Divided Grief Burns You 5.Rasing Chains Keep Twining 6.The Absurd Means To Survive Your Life Godie 7.Are You Ready XXck - Distopia 8.Blind Slave Maggut 9.Morbid Play 10.Tear Into Dismemberment Corpse 11.Dissected A Warm Human Bodies Uniq 12.Forest Shower 13.Repititition Of A Betrayal 14.Big Pickles Diborce 15.Civil Defence 16.Dope Despot 17.廃人トナル 18.Rotten Apology Swarrrm 19.Spiral Bateren (伴天莲） 20.崩壊 21.日向 22.情報 Rinne no Hebi (轮回之蛇） 23.憑 - 鵺鼬 - 黄泉銃 - 磔 Me…
V/A - Terro-Rhythm Vol. 3 (2004)
Tracklist: Swarrrm 1. Agitate Propaganda 2. Venom 3. Hurricane Protess 4. Jibun No Te Kara 5. Aku Naki Senretu Conga Fury 6. Think About Death 7. Change 8. Seek For Love 9. Self-Absorption 10. Love Power Life 11. Poor Leaders 12. The Time Has Passed 13. Memories Protess 14. Kitai Wo Koero 15. Koe Ga Umareru Conga Fury 16. Fox Woman's World 17. Money Makes The More Go 18. Death Of Soul 19. Your Personal 20. Idol Worship Life 21. From Hiroshima To The Future 22. What Have We Seeked After Yes, another compilation. And yes, it includes Swa…
Cephalochromoscopin' 'round the world
Did you break my goddamn cephscope, Barris? So back in April I thought that people didn't appreciate Swarrrm nearly enough. I made this blog and posted a shitload of Swarrrm. Then Orfee contacted me with even more Swarrrm (and other, awesome music), and we even started a totally punk overseas collaboration, but now's not the time to be talking about that. In any case, this blog made me very happy musicwise. But the reason I'm posting this is 'cause another fine lad joined us! Namely, bullet hell loving Davydd Grimm. So yeah, Ca…
0100 The year 2010 through a Cephalochromoscope (Part 2/4)
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…
Swarrrm & Bloodred Bacteria (Japan & Germany) - Split (2002)
Tracklist: Swarrrm 1. Blame 03:22 2. Broken 01:54 3. Amnesia 04:41 Bloodred Bacteria 4. Intro The pit/Tumult thanks 02:17 5. Exit mars 01:29 6. Out of the cooked city 01:30 7. Eliminated 01:50 8. Burn me down 00:34 9. IOU 00:25 10. Natural born bacteria 00:30 11. Blackbath 01:16 Total playing time 19:48 Japanese grind meets German grind on this one, and it kicks ass. Swarrrm starts it off very nicely with a short piano intro (yeah, a piano intro) before their usual noise kicks in with the piano still following for a while which…
Minitel (Canada), seriously into Discordance Axis + Bandcamp Friday
I might have been offline for a while but I guess I always kept rotating about a discordant axis, as apparently many still do to this day and age. Present day, present time. Namely, Minitel is a grindcore band of blatant, unabashed, downright wonderful DxAx worship, and aesthetically they're like a digital runaway band straight out of Serial Experiments Lain (the anime series; take note of the cover art, as well as their use of samples) or some other Japanese creative interpretation of technology-induced alienation, with no trace of the s…
Self Deconstruction (Japan) - S/T (2011)
Tracklist: 1. Self Deconstruction 2. The Anger Which I Wait For 3. Delusion, Confusion and... 4. Superficial 5. Present 6. Hypocrite Total playing time 4min 52sec Self Deconstruction was formed in February, 2010, after Kuzuha "left ... Sete Star Sept" because "many troubles happened in December, 2009." First, he recruited Hiroto for blastbeat duty, and after a while the two of them got Shimano + Kubine as male / female mic assault duo, making for today's line up. "Our music style is FREE STYLE GRIND." Well, it…
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Cephalochromology Class I: [AB]Use of Tags
This time around, I just want to remind you all of some of the bands that have inspired Cephalochromoscope in the first place. Why? Because the last DxAx-centered post seems to have been back around... December, 2008. Damn! So Cephalochromoscope is actually pretty old. We've never really noted the blog's birthday or anything of the sort; I just checked and the first post fell on April the 19th, 2008, which means that, in less than a month's time, the blog will be, uh, four years old. Anyhow, that first post was all but interesting;…
Swarrrm (Japan) - Chaos & Grind EP (1998)
Tracklist: 1. No Worth 02:43 2. Swarrrrm 03:21 3. Just Before Die 04:08 4. Insane 02:11 5. Life For Yourself 04:02 Total playing time 16:25 As far as I know, this is the first Swarrrm EP released, and they were already a unique band with a highly recognizable sound. As the name suggests - chaotic and noisy grindcore with traces of melody + various other genre influences incorporated. I really like the audibility of the bass guitar. DISCLAIMER: Use SOULSEEK to find [out of print] digital audio files. We are in no way affiliated; it's jus…
White Eyes (Germany) - Beastmode (2009)
I don't know why anyone but me would remember so I might as well note that I raved about German (somewhat experimental) grind outfit White Eyes around the time they released their only full-length effort, Beastmode (as far as I know, the only other release that followed was their 2012 split with perhaps the highest peak of Australian grindcore, i.e. The Kill) . Believe it or not, I stumbled upon them like I did with countless great bands, tracing the footprints of Discordance Axis in the collective web of blastbeats, as I often did, to gr…
Atka (Germany) - Six Pieces Of... 3" CD (2007)
ATKA is the sort of mad, no-borders grind that I cannot help but love. There's dissonance that will appeal to the Damage Digital, Maruta, Crowpath fan + a bellowing groove behind the blastbeat reminiscing of Discordance Axis + unnerving, melodic wing-spreading somewhat akin to Swarrrm, even a part where they sound like a melo-death band that somehow manages not to suck + mathematically merciless deliverance of the whole package. This is original, modern, hellishly urgent grind at its shiniest, surgically precise chaos done absolutely right…
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