Wormrot (Singapore) - DEMO (2007)
Tracklist: 1. Propagrinda 2. Condemnation 3. Bombastard 4. Raging Bullshit 5. Wall of Shit 6. Freedom to Act 7. Violate the Dead 8. Mass Disruption 9. Evolved Into Obliteration (Insect Warfare) Total playing time 7:31 A Wormrot demo of variable yet integral quality with an all-around fat greasy big chainsaw sound. Right off the bat they glow as this harsh, tight, ace grind band doing an Insect Warfare cover for the closer. I generally find the likeness to IW more apparent here than on Abuse , especially in particularities like the vocal stylin…
Wormrot (Singapore) - Abuse (2009)
Because we better jump on the fucking grindwagon ( yeah , really ), I'll grace the vast interplains with another one of those pseudo-reviews of mine. Wormrot's debut, fittingly titled "Abuse", abuses the shit out of your ea... Ah, fuck it. Listen, everything that all those other guys already said is more-or-less true. Most notable is Fitri's drumming, who's obviously something like Bruce Lee's and Chuck Norris' unbearably manly child. I tell you, right off the first track you're caught in a tom-storm yelli…
Insect Warfare (USA) - World Extermination (2007)
I guess they lost the battle, like we all eventually do, but no one will ever forget Insect Warfare. At war with grindcore, they paved their way through brick, metal, scenesters & false grind. Thankfully, Insect Warfare never had a penchant for subtleties. When World Extermination came out, the World's heartbeat sped-up a little, owing to the master-blastbeatery present. That sort of intense, relentlessly fast chugga chugga is a rare find, even in grindcore. And hey, I heard they sucked many an ass on this recent UK tour, but I dunno, …
The Atomic Bomb Audition (USA) - Light Will Remain (2008)
Tracklist: 1. Tracing the Ecliptic 01:26 2. Copernicus: apogee 05:09 3. Copernicus: perigee 13:55 4. The Fifth Wizard 01:24 5. We Speak to the Revelator 08:21 6. You Are the Sun & the Moon 01:39 7. Reseda: books of blood 19:55 Total playing time 50:23 Copernicus takes-off like an aural demolition ball going ballistic on a discordant axis, shrugging off the stardust, oceans spat out sparkly slick, peeling off the atmosphere, crust, grind, lithosphere, asthenosphere, mesosphere, till the heart of the jam throbs eerily but securely on its own…
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Heartwork [JPN] - Anything Dry EP [2002]
Gosh, I thought "burning spirits hardcore" meant serving fancy alcoholic cocktails you set fire to alongside paper dinnerware, nothing like combining my love for scorpions and japanese angst.
Some lumberjack fronted Isis in the smoke o' Dälek
Isis, Dälek, and Transitional played in Teatar &TD, Zagreb, Croatia this Monday. I went with a friend. At 14:15 we boarded a bus, rode to the highway, jumped over a fence, hitched a ride, and come 16:00 we were in Zagreb. As we empirically found out, the tickets were already sold out everywhere except at the venue's cash desk. Before the gig started, all five hundred and fifty were gone and you could see, hear, and feel people with desperate mad eyes looking to buy one. Lucky for us, we came early, no problem, beer and schnaps. Transit…
The Anal Treatment XXX-Perience (Greece) - Inhuman Anal Exploration (2009)
Tracklist: 01/GOD SENT YOU...BIZZARE EMVOLON 02/INHUMAN ANAL EXPLORATION 03/DIRTY GRANNY RAPE 04/RECTAL PTOMATOPHAGY 05/TSIBOUK-AUNAN 06/PRO-SPERMA GEUSIS MALAKIA 07/DILDOSTABBED 08/EMETOLAGNY 09/EUKOILIA 10/URBAN DECAY 11/PIT OF SHIT 12/SEVERE KREATOPATHIA 13/POUTSOPHOBIA 14/PEOTHILASMOS TRISKATARATOS 15/CUM TSUNAMI 16/SATANISTYSIS 17/LARYNX ATERMONOS 18/SKATOSOUPA 19/EVIL LUST 20/AUNANISMOS TAXYTATOS 21/THE FANG OF SLOAN Total playing time 37:13 The Anal Treatment XXX-Perience went to extremities, musically, and, well, in all other ways, to…
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Shikabane [JPN] - Ego and Desire [2000]
Hello, there. How have you been doing? The lagging on this side of the street is quite terrible but amongst dodging unscrupulous and oblivious drivers, cyclists and pedestrians, breathing in huge amounts of magnetic fields residue and kicking out crack whores out of my spacious volkswagen, it could always be worse. At least I don't have to cross that said street to get double imperial IPAs. Lyrics and their english transilations are included in here. Rosemont Petite-Patrie represent, y'all.
Iron Lung (USA) - Comedy Hour Live (2002)
Tracklist: 1. Only Death 2. Untitled 3. Nails 4. Untitled 5. Bonesaw 6. Untitled 7. Modified For Arm Abduction 8. Untitled 9. Storage Unit 10. Untitled 11. Iron Lung 12. Untitled 13. Arc Lamp 14. Untitled 15. Cervical Laser 16. Untitled 17. Chest Assessment 18. Untitled 19. Placement Six 20. Untitled Total playing time 19:01 The incredible Iron Lung stand-up comedy act! Most of the tape consists of comical bandmember & audience talk (this constitutes all the tracks tagged with "untitled"), briefly interrupted here and there by a …
Discordless (Romania) - 148 Light Years (2009)
Discordless is a Romanian no-genre project. They put out 148 Light Years on the Asiluum label quite recently, the second release after their debut EP, five years ago. Alongside the regular, physical CD , they also decided to make it available for free over the internet (like, a metaphysical CD?), hence this post, stemming aaaaall the way from my electronic inbox. It was described to me as "...a collective effort of Marius Costache (noise), Ana Roman (piano), Costin Chioreanu (guitar), Jeno Havelaar (noise), and Razvan Raduta (drums). Pr…
Sex Machineguns (Japan) - Ignition (2002)
Tracklist: 1. Bousou Rock 05:02 2. Hoojirozame No Higeki 04:05 3. Kengai Na Watashi 04:17 4. Sokoni, Anata ga... 05:22 5. Siren 04:28 6. Spice 04:16 7. Akuma No Keshin 05:13 8. Nichiyoubi 04:07 9. Gyakufuu 04:31 10. Natu Demo Samui 03:50 11. Yajuu Ni Naritai 05:05 12. Sashimi To Wasabi 05:15 13. Yonaoshi GOOD VIBRATION 03:44 Total playing time 59:15 One with love for all you satanic wrong-doers in make-up. KICKASS HEAVY META-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-L for the little Japanese schoolgirl in each and every one of us that just wants…
Cellgraft (USA) - Revenge (2009)
Tracklist: 1. Rotting In Defecation 2. Anal Abscess 3. Revenge 4. Intestinal Collapse Total playing time 01:54 Apparently, those Cellgraft guys put up more free stuff. However, this is their "very old material, worth a listen if you like Carcass, Repulsion, or any old school death metal influenced grindcore." Yup, definitely worth a listen, no matter how short it might be (under 2min, actually). After looking at the songtitles, I humbly decided that the lyrics don't interest me too much on this one. Same sound, all good. (Media…
Bad Actor (USA) - Portrait of Finality (2009)
Tracklist: 1. The Kracken of Normandy 2. Sinister Smoke and Smolder 3. Through the Blue 4. A Man of Ideas 5. Shaking Hands Through Doorways 6. Searching for Serenity 7. Oleg 8. As Meredith Explodes 9. Triangular Room 10. Ralos Total playing time 32:47 I got an email featuring Bad Actor's LP as my - get this - "reward for supporting heavy metal." Am I missing something? They're a five-piece from Orlando, FL. They enjoy krakens, leviathans in general, and long walks on the beach. Oh and Mastodon. There's really not too much…
Cellgraft (USA) - Cellgraft (2009)
Tracklist: 1. Fabrication 2. Devolved Through Dependency 3. Blind Exchange 4. Corrupted Imagery 5. Construct Isolation 6. Eugenics 7. Sick With Rage 8. Reality Of Hell 9. Forced Tradition 10. Life Torcher 11. Soil 12. Erosion 13. Molded Clay Total playing time 07:12 Get this gulf coast name-dropping trio. Hey, I guess it's like Tampa's Insect Warfare, with an Assücking edge, which means that it's a sharpened, or, uh - to put it realistically - blunted version. Punk rock, man. This one's a tape, only 300 copies I believe, but th…
John Coltrane (USA) - Ascension (1965)
As a listening mind, you'd think God was dead and Coltrane is - at best - also dead thus ascending in a flurry of failed resurrections, maugre all those silent angelic balls of light in badly rendered Hollywood shitstorms. You'd think that he finally found his cartridges empty in some muddy pit following the stench of a drunkard - God or not, by then it was all the same - so I chose to follow his (foot/blue)prints in a way deemed societally wrong. And I have found an unchristian god with no capitals teeming with emptiness in everything…
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Noisear [USA] - Pyroclastic Annhiallation [2007]
This is a team post because Justin spilled some coffee on the insert. Thanks y'all for the south[west]ern hospitality. Later, Valérie, and thanks for the postcard. Observe nomadic beehives sprinkle against oily parking lots, because this is pretty much all I can think of that I brought, whether I would wonder which way whispers washes wisdom, there is no other reason why we telecast hours of television.
John Coltrane (USA) - A Love Supreme (1965)
They call this one the one. Coltrane comes pretty close to the title - you know, it's as much as we could ask of any man / woman. Even that asshole Bono likes it, but for god's sake don't let it put you off. Coltrane's prayer levitates in-between God's giant and smaller steps and the unquestionable unknown chaos that had spiraled downward from the heavens into his prophetic fingers and mad lips. It is the vinyl spinning 'twixt his buttcheeks, the most beautiful excrement propelled by a raging flush through the toilette…
John Coltrane (USA) - Impressions (1963)
Impressionist music, this jazz, sure. I can tell because I see all the nervous, unhappy brushstrokes and composition such as to make one unable to understand which way to listen, from where, what angle, how to position one's ears that grow older and wiser with every note anyway. It's like walking a long long walk, when you have loads of time to think and you inspect the environment thoroughly. At one point all the ground is obviously blue and there are patches of grass on the clouds. At another point you're the blue thing and below…
John Coltrane (USA) - Coltrane (1962)
Listen to Tunji. How do you describe that shit? I mean, how do you describe the atmosphere? I'll tell you how - goddamn cyberpunk, Blade Runner or something, 6 years before Dick wrote the first one off his drug-crazed mind, 20 years before Scott screened his best movie ever, 22 years before Neuromancer mindfucked sci-fi like a giant mecha fucking up the unhappy contra-cultural rollercoaster hurtin' for a soulmate, 32 years before the unmistakable Global Communication seventy-six-minutes-fourteen-seconds-long imagist scene straight back…
NOISM (Japan) - Brutality and Complexity DEMO (2000)
Tracklist: 1. Deaf and Deafer (2000) 04:05 2. Those who insist on the relativity of values are self-contradictory (2000) 03:34 3. P (2000) 04:00 4. Utsu [Depression] (1999) 01:40 5. Sou [Mania] (1999) 01:09 Total playing time 14:31 Well, the title says it all. To cut the story short, NOISM is a Japanese (although I believe one of 'em's in the US now) cybergrind (two-man) band with but one goal in mind, that is, creating the most brutal music imaginable through extreme technicality. I also posted Brutal Autonomy back in July, 2008 (cli…
Buried at Sea (USA) - She Lived for Others but Died for Us 12" EP (2004)
Tracklist: 1. She Lived for Others but Died for Us 11:26 2. White Nigger (Eyehategod cover) 05:02 Total playing time 16:28 I'll just leave this sludge here. If you think it's going slow anyway, listen to this, man. Sharing a member with Minsk, BVRIED AT SEA know their slow shit. Vocals buried in feedback and distortion, "She Lived for Others but Died For Us" is perhaps nowhere near as oppressive as a pissed-off Corrupted, but it's a huge, monolithically dark thing. It's when you face a giant squid, alone, 3 miles belo…
Corrupted (Japan) - Live (20th - 21st century)
Have a load of awesome, almost official Corrupted live recordings. 1995 - Live at Shinjuku Loft, Tokyo, Japan Recorded 04-29-1995 at the Shinjuku Loft, a popular venue in Kabuki-Cho, Tokyo. The tracks are untitled. Part of the Loft Project , the place opened in 1976. It has two stages that can fit 500 or so people. ダウンãƒãƒ¼ãƒ‰01 (Mediafire) 1997 - Live at WFMU, New Jersey, USA Recorded 10-02-1997 at the WFMU station in East Orange, NJ. WFMU is a (as they call it) hype-free non-commercial radio station funded by an annual on-air fundraising maratho…
Sawchuk (USA) - Summer Demo (2009)
Tracklist: 1. It Comes 2. Rust Belt Pride 3. Old Friend 4. Uncertainty 5. Stand and Fight Total playing time 10:08 Submitted by Matt. Sure, the HxC might stand for hockey, but it's all good as long as there's enthusiasm, I say. Although the whole gang decisively shouts words in your face, Michigan's Sawchuk like their hardcore raw and old-school - no tough guy breakdown bullshit. Think Have Heart and all that. So if that's your kind of deal, better do Matt and the rest of the band a favor and have a listen. Lyrics are included …
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