Thursday, April 30, 2009

Lord Mantis

heaviest doom. ugliest sludge. unholiest black metal. add in high pitched vocal shrieks and you get lord mantis. features the drummer from indian and the ex-guitarist of nachtmystium.

Sunday, April 26, 2009

Dÿse




Dÿse - Dÿse (Exile On Mainstream)











german duo featuring just guitar & drum. mix of post-hardcore (i guess), stoner, and psych moments, maybe even a math rock undercurrent. maybe that's right, maybe it's not. loud, repetitive killer guitar work, and pounding drum beats, that's what i know for sure. i'm not sure what genre it is, but it is a must listen. i eagerly await something new from these guys (which apparently should come in autumn).

dl

Monday, April 20, 2009

new ramesses ep

ramesses was formed by tim bagshaw and mark greening after they left electric wizard in 2003. a much better band than post-breakup electric wizard in my opinion. anyway here's their latest ep, limited to 200 copies so get yours while they last! if anyone has their recent split with unearthly trance, please don't hesitate to send me a link. DOOM OR BE DOOMED!

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Law Of The Rope



Law Of The Rope - Beasts Will Have You CS [2008, Not Not Fun]








black metal from a label that specializes in experimental/noise acts. and that's exactly what it sounds like. downtempo experimental black metal. not quite as weird as say Furze, but a bit off the beaten path for BM. vocals buried under distortion, creepy samples, strings & synth moments. pretty grim & interesting stuff.

DL

Northern Sludge

hebosagil, a really great finnish sludge band recently put up their first ep and full lenght from last year up for free at their website. their sound is very similar to eyehategod, with a hint of electric wizard style fucked up psych doom thrown in.

here's their split with another great new finnish band, viisikko from last summer. viisikko remind me a lot of the seminal finnish hardcore band radiopuhelimet (esp. their 90s album jäämeri), both in their sound and general attitude. maybe their northern hometown oulu has something in the air or the water that makes you a bit twisted and weird, as viisikko, radiopuhelimet, hebosagil and a huge amount of other awesome bands (terveet kädet from tornio) are from near there.

Hebosagil & Viisikko - Split CD
(2008, Lambada)
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Thursday, April 2, 2009

Agoraphobic Nosebleed & Crom,

quickpost, two splits.

syphilitic vaginas and abigail are both japanese thrash metal/hardcore bands and both very good at what they do. "4 metal punk trax from ABIGAIL including covers of Bathory and Nunslaughter. 5 new SYPHILITIC VAGINAS tracks... among the most destructive Japanese style metal punk madness let loose this side of the millennium."

agoraphobic nosebleed are a legendary grind band (as i'm sure you all know). crom are a hyborian sludge/grind band. both are very fucking awesome and its about time they do a split. enjoy.


Abigail & Syphilitic Vaginas - Split LP
(2009, Rescued From Life)
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Agoraphobic Nosebleed & Crom - Split 7''
(2009, RSR Records)
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