Real Life Ugly (Texas, USA) - Manifestación (2023)
U-G-L-Y You Ain't Got No Alibi What's more exciting and appealing than professional wrestling? From Mexico's lucha libre to Canada's Hart Foundation, the cowbell kickoff of clean kayfabe competitive combat is for some the height of entertainment. It's a modern amalgam of clashing gladiators in a crowded coliseum and a Greek tragedy holding spectacle in an encircled amphitheater, brought to life in your home's living room like an in-ring telenovela. The conflict between larger than life baby-faces and sinister hee…
Noisy Neighbor (Texas, USA) Self-titled EP (2018)
Covet Thy Neighbor's Noise After my divorce my first apartment was a one bedroom on the ground floor. The apartment itself wasn't bad. It was newly renovated and spacious for the price. My first full day there was raddled by a gentleman hammering in the apartment above me. Hammering something. Constantly. This continued most weekdays. On the weekends his wife did what I could only audibly deduce as step aerobics. At 6 AM. Without fail. Every Saturday and Sunday. It wasn't that bad in the grand scheme of things, but fuck lady…
Kaliya (Texas, USA) Self-titled (2015)
Nagaz Wit Attitudes I actually had to do some leg work to obtain this album. Even though Kaliya hail from my home of DFW, I some how missed show after show. Even a show in which my band was suppose to open for them was cancelled due to overbooking by the venue. Eventually I caught up with the band opening for Aborted on a predominately metal bill. Their merch table was largely ignored, save for the over flow of metal-heads from neighboring tables who used the Kaliya spread as a place to set their drinks down. I think I was the only one…
MOUTH BREATHER (Texas, USA) - Welcome to the Hellmouth (2020)
The problem with fast 'n' noisy music is that there is no problem, but there are only so much adjectives to describe it as such. Sure, I'd have it easier if there were less kickass bands to check out, yet having it easy is hardly the point of life. As the old saying goes, life sucks and then you die, at least for us mortal working folk, so maybe the best you can do is to get all powerviolent about it, something like the four Texans who call themselves Mouth Breather. Welcome to the Hellmouth is no-nonsense grindviolence in the sen…
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