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鞠螺千世 [kiKURAChiyo] (Canada/Croatia/Japan) - sketchgrind (2010)
鞠螺千世 (KiKurachiyo) no. 2, much faster and noisier and goddamn sketchy (open the blue schematic above for the tracklist counting ten minutes & forty-four seconds). I can't promise that you'll like it, even if you liked Satan Samurai ¤REC Pirate Force , 'cause, while it's still punk as fuck, it has gone a bit into the abstract and came to be with a somewhat specific approach in the first place, one that we dubbed "sketchgrind" ('cause I'd rather use a term made-up a bit less predictably than post-grin…
His Hero Is Gone-"Monuments to Thieves"-USA1997
What up folks , its been a minute since I done posted up. I saw that Wedge gave me a thumbs up on my 9shocks post so it inspired me to post something. uh, yea. Ok, I don't think Ive posted this before, or I hope not. His Hero Is Gone were one my favorite bands ever and this is the album I like the best. These guys later became Tragedy, which I'm not into as much. What I liked about HHIG is that the combined elements of various "extreme music" styles into their punk rock, better than a lot of other bands who have tried. T…
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Mortalized (Japan) - Absolute Mortality EP [no. 1] (2003)
Tracklist : 1. Destruction (Adagio) 2. Dark Side 3. Speed Satan 4. Rapture Total running time 4:29 Notice how it's not absolute morality - it's mor t ality! Fuck Christmas, anyhow, and especially masses, be they white & holy or black & upside down. But Mortalized is certainly one of the best grind bands to ever exist, owing to the uncompromisingly disciplined approach building upon the concept of speed and Satan. If grind strives for over-the-top speed inside of a physical possibility (sticks in hands, I mean), the whole asp…
Assück (USA) - Misery Index (1997)
Tracklist: 1. QED 2. Salt Mine 3. Corners 4. Dataclast 5. Blight Of Element 6. Talon Of Dominion 7. Unrequited Blood 8. Wartorn 9. Sum And Substance 10. Riven 11. Reversing Denial 12. Lithographs 13. Intravenous 14. A Monument To Failure Total running time 15:10 Assück is a band that pushed grind where it hadn't been, to places it didn't know how to reach, no matter how incredible it may seem today that people in the 90s didn't really comprehend that relentless blastbeating could get you, well, anywhere! The trademark thing about A…
Mortalized & Guilty Connector (Japan) - Concerto for Harsh Noise Grind #3 (2006)
Tracklist : 1. Babylon, Burning 2. Parallel 3. A Planet 4. Work For Ever 5. Home, Sweet Home 6. Beer Can 7. Untitled Total running time 7:51 I remember when Burek of Terror Noise Audio (& the stochastic Flying Teapot ) told me all excited about how he found some Mortalized / Guilty Connector collaboration on soulseek. My reaction was the only possible reaction, i.e. "Fuck yes," and you can add an exclamation mark to that. So it's been posted over at TNA for a while now, but the repost of such a beauty can only create the opp…
Parade of the Lifeless & Noisear (USA) - SPLIT 7" (1999)
Tracklist : Parade of the Lifeless 1. Doug Flutie Loves His Kiddie Porn 2. Myriad Mindset Noisear 3. Surgeon General 4. Free to Maim 5. You Must Comply 6. Morrocan Hash Block 7. Shorty Shit Stain Total running time 10:47 If this 7" ain't a match made in Heaven, I don't know what is. Or it could've been that, at least, if the Noisear side had, well, better quality recordings. That said, kickass grind is kickass grind. Parade of the Lifeless isn't anywhere near as insane as on the 2000 jazzgrind masterpiece The Anatomy of a …
Insect Warfare (Texas) - Gulf Coast Infestation DEMO (2004)
Tracklist : 1. But Now You Die 2. Hurricane Death 3. Amphetamine Psychosis 4. Negative Appeal 5. Death To False Grind 6. At War With Grindcore Total running time 10:25 The first Insect Warfare demo is but a recording of a rehearsal where Beau gives a lecture on how "haircuts make not a band grind". For the general idea (I do like impressionism), here are all the nice words from the songtitles: 1. Die 2. Death 3. Psychosis 4. Negative 5. Death 6. War Keep Death to False Grind Alive! (Mediafire) I've always had a thing for demos, a…
Noism (Japan) - ± (2008)
Tracklist : 1. Man-I-C 02:03 2. DTM 01:30 3. Zaporojets 02:07 4. Death-Meta-Logic 02:04 5. BPM 01:31 6. Noismetal 01:31 7. No, Cuts and Drag 01:34 8. Computer Illiterate 02:02 9. Yesism 02:12 10. I'm Not in a Band 01:03 11. Noist 01:34 12. Adhdhda 01:54 Total playing time 21:38 Crucial Blast infamously (re-)released this one in 2008 (so that's the new cover above), a very goddamn chaotic construct, a flurry of noise on the first of all listens. Well, unless you already heard it. Noism was already featured on Cephalochromoscope with on…
Rise Above & Machetazo (Japan & Spain) - Split 7" (2000)
Tracklist : Rise Above 1. Forward 2. Discord 3. Stand Point 4. Scientific Abuse Machetazo 5. Abducción 6. Humillado y Descuartizado Por Mongólicos 7. La Flema Total playing time 10:38 If a Japanese band called "Rise Above" doesn't ring a bell (i.e. instant grind-mind Napalm Death songtitle associations), let memories be refreshed! They released one of the goddamn best, noisiest, most destructive grind albums ever back in 2001 (as a 3" CD, at that), I Love To Relax . Orfee posted that one back in May of 2008, and he came bac…
Hellnation (USA) - Dynamite Up Your Ass 12" (2002)
Tracklist : 1 Dynamite Up Your Ass 00:39 2 Martyr 00:26 3 Game of Death 00:59 4 No More Favors 00:25 5 Um Bando De Filhos da Puta 00:26 6 Not Smooth Jazz 00:46 7 I love Punk I love Thrash 00:41 8 Outsider 00:32 9 Cold Sweat 00:39 10 Drinking With Friends 01:01 11 Dengue's Mosquito 00:27 12 Army of God 00:52 13 Punk For Dummies 00:48 14 Signup 00:29 15 Easy Sell 01:10 16 When In Rome 00:18 17 Ride With Me 00:42 18 This is Progress ? 00:32 19 Best Behavior 00:18 20 Glory Days 01:12 21 Again and Again 00:50 Total playing time 14:12 Fastcore …
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the Dreadful Eardrum Assault a.k.a. Teizoku Komaku Bohkoh [CAN] - Occultist for the Nullified [2007]
After listening to this recently I'm considering changing my project's name to "the Playful Eardrum Assault a.k.a Yuugiteki Komaku Bohkoh" [PxExA] because for one, I'm not nearly as comfortable strutting around a DEA t-shirt anywhere in the united states as I was In Canada, it's just not happening. Drawn of the download [mediafire].
Jesus Egg & Grimsby (USA) - Split CDr (Year Zero)
Tracklist : Jesus Egg, Tracks 1 - 12 Grimsby, Tracks 13 - 23 Total running time 16:25 Big thanks for the release go to Kunal of SuperFi Records , as he's the one that sent it in! That said, Kunal also awesomely put out the Swarrrm / Dimlaia split, a fact that takes me way, way back (well, alright, a year and some), when Sgt. Batguano of the excellent Fugitive Equilibrium ripped the 10" for me 'cause I hadn't yet heard it at that point. Yeah, time is an asshole for so many reasons . The actual asshole might be me, though. But…
Nano Machine (Jap) - Gemini (2005)
#1 - Spin #2 - Floating #3 - Fly And one day we may buy it, but now it remains a download.
Kasatka (Belgium) - Scene Slaughter Mini CD (2010)
Tracklist : 1. Lemons 2. Cosmetic Pandemic 3. Empathy/Disability 4. Orifice 5. Surpassing the Boundaries 6. Proposition Jock Abolition 7. Scene Slaughter Total running time 4:34 Belgium's own Kasatka start it off with a short Army of Darkness sample, a tidbit certain to make quite a few of you jump. Next thing you know, they blast the fuck away. I'll skip right to the point and point out that the band pretty much kicks (i.e. thrashes ) all sorts of ass. They are, at once, a cute killer whale (known to display aggressive behavior towa…
Rat Corpse (USA) - S/T (2010)
Tracklist : 1. Survival Of The Worst 2. Hope This Hate (Will Never Heal) 3. Jumbled 4. My Craft Is Crap 5. Living With Yeti 6. Dirty Frenzy 7. The Ballad... 8. PS I Hate You 9. Hate You Like A Hurricane 10. My Two Dads Total running time 22: 54 "For fans of The Locust, Melt-Banana, Butthole Surfers, Wolf Eyes, Boredoms, UFO Or Die, Big …
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Mortalized [JPN] - Absolute Mortality #2 [2004]
I hear there's some funky good grindcore on this blog [some of the time], I also hear every single form of life in this galaxy think that MCDs are cute and it don't get any cuter than MCDs with pentagrams on them. Absolute downliability [mediafire].
Gods of Grind & Gate (Japan) - Split (2007)
Having babbled far and wide about Gate (who provide their tracks as a duo on this particular split, Kobori + Otake) in the post of their three demos right here , I dedicate this post to Gods of Grind, a four-piece from Nagano doing it just right despite owning a somewhat pompous bandname. I found it most interesting how they have exactly one (!) mid-paced, thrash part (on "Scum Members) to these (in total) six tracks of music, the drummer (Sunohara) not really tending toward the whole thrashing part of the deal. What he does instead is si…
324 (Japan) - DEMO Tape (1997)
Tracklist : 1. Lowest Level 2. New Rotation 3. MOC 4. Melting Way 5. Cobalt 6. Glenghost Total running time 8:15 Continuing the War on Ignorance About Grind Demos ™, here's 324's 1997 tape, a release just as excellent as anything that came later, really, a thing not that surprising considering the near-identical line-up. However, notice the info on the cover! Masao Yamamoto, certainly among the most continuously resolute vocalists in punk, did not only yell here, but also played bass. Rumor has it, though, that 324 lost one of their me…
Gate (Japan) - This is Fuckin' Grind (2001) & Two More Demos
Gate is a Japanese grind band. Plain fact considered, I understand that it is fairly questionable whether I should even continue writing, but humour me, or do this . The buzzsaw duo (currently, that is, being a guitarist / vocalist + blastbeater, although basses were known to be slapped) hails from somewhere in the Tochigi Prefecture of Japan, the proper place to go for shrines and temples , with a total population around half the population of Croatia (how's that for a bloody obscure country? I mean, I certainly wouldn't know). Back …
Phone Home (USA) - S/T EP (2010)
Tracklist : 1. Meds 2. Cozy Attack 3. Two is a Crew 4. Panda Here's the super-nice, chill as fuck "debut of the Vallarelli brothers of suburban and urban New York." The Michael of the bros is on synths + keys, while the John is on the kit, and together they Phone Home and yell like a much bigger band. Seems like enjoying punk rawk is a requirement for all things Cephalochromoscope. They do that too, irrelevantly. Fairly difficult to tag (/unnecessarily pigeonhole), contrasting the minimalist number of band members, the music (and…
Jesus Egg (USA) - Erm, some presumably newer stuff (around 2004)
Tracklist : 1. Track 1 2. Track 2 3. Track 3 4. Track 4 5. Unorthodox Transaction 6. Track 6 7. Track 7 Total running time 4:02 I'm not really gonna say whether I enjoy this more than version 1.0 , but it's some newer stuff and it is obvious that the band has tightened up heavily . If I must trace their grind / metal / punk lineage in order to define Jesus Egg's sound, bluntly put, both releases / demos come from Discordant Axis' orbit, yet, as they got older, the band tended to do things from a more Human Remains angle. A g…
Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 1(Xbox 360)
Hello, Ceph-chums. There now follows a review of this game, written by a man who grew up clutching a Megadrive. Indulge me, I'm extremely bitter. I waited all morning, I did. I couldn't find any information on when Xbox Live Arcade updates the game catalogue, and vaguely remembered Rez being released around 8.30am, so I waited. Did some writing, drank a lot of tea, refreshed the Marketplace, repeated. As it turns out, they update at 12pm dead these days, so at 12.03 I had a lovely, pristine download of Sonic 4: Episode 1 booting up, pr…
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