No Qualms (Florida, USA) - No, You Calm Down! (2011)
Tracklist: 1. Thirst 2. Tied Down 3. Unimpressed 4. Power 5. First Cop 6. Own? 7. Church 8. Grenade 9. Scarred 10. Dark Clouds 11. No Qualms My man Alex sent me this powerviolent as fuck mates' of his band a while ago (his link beneath; also, apparently members of Khann, Republicorpse, aaand...), and I've no qualms about my No Qualms experience. "A band of failed musicians lashing out at the society that won't listen to them," in short, but other than that, they keep on thrashing and that bass sometimes sounds like the…
Shaken Baby (Belgium) - Phantasmagoria (2011)
To be honest, I might've grown quite tired of d-beat a relatively long while ago, but Shaken Baby is certainly more than just another one of, you know, those . Both fast and swampy, barely dissonant, rhythmically often unpredictable, with a finely woven modern vibe `a la His Hero is Gone or some less obvious band like that, but if it ain't punk I don't know what it is + nice drumming courtesy of Jasper, who is also know as cover artist & brother of the man behind the guitar - Owen - whom you also probably remember for the at le…
China Syndrome (Belgium) - Demo (2008)
[anticover] Tracklist: 1. Covered in Shit 2. Feast 3. Cancer 4. Nationwide Mindfuck 5. Black Clouds 6. Cut and Paste Reality More d-beatery from the Owen (Kasatka) camp, still keeping it interesting. ''But how?'' you might ask. ''How does one keep a band heavy on the d-beat interesting?'' Blastbeats, what else. Yet, despite the addition of the mystical blastbeat, the greasy riffs and composition in-general make China Syndrome the most traditional of the bands in this series; I'm talking about Shaken Baby (on…
Days of Desolation & The League of Mentalmen (Belgium) - Split 7" (2010?)
So Belgium's got at least two very different bands. Days of Desolation deliver two gloomy, metallized chunks of d-beat driven determination, very tight in performance, all-out melodic or not at all, a bit epic in sound (can't quite pinpoint why, but track two, ''Malignancies'', reminded me of the excellent Suicide Nation from Arizona / might be the clean parts). The League of Mentalmen, on the other hand, sport a filthy as fuck guitar-distrotion that would make Dream Theater sound sloppy and/or cool. Nice shit violenc…
Kasatka (Belgium) - Demo (2008)
[anticover] Tracklist: 1. Filth 2. Harbinger 3. False Gods 4. Depredation 5. Pastey White Lies (Machine Gun Romantics) You better remember the first cephalappearance of Kasatka! If not, do click . So here's the two-thousand-and-eight demo, obviously, and it's a great thing for those who were left wanting more (thrashing, play-time, attention...) after the decisive piece of thrash that Scene Slaughter was. Yup, seems like I said most of it in the relevant post, but I'll throw some keywords for the new ones: thrash, fastcore, punk as…
![Cannibal Ox [USA] - The Cold Vein [2001]](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3FeW8NXsiGd02osGjlAMTjjLvgYBgf08NWLU2_0QaxxTE3JS6pKfgf7hHU2NpPb89YPfCvvn1-NwGRET5YnklmUQHUU50fEGpc1rG0gWotm93M16GJlqCZksj2muRdVQTr013kl2RLOpE/w100/cannibal_ox_the_cold_vein_cover.jpg)
