Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Monday, November 9, 2009
Gaza - He Is Never Coming Back (2009)

Gaza are back with their 2nd full length. He Is Never Coming Back is more heavy, hate fueled music that you've come to expect from this Utah based 5 piece.
Status: Active
Contact: http://www.myspace.com/gaza
Rock if you like: Coalesce - Kid Gorgeous - Engineer
Track listing:
1 - How It Is. How It's Going To Be
2 - The Kicking Legs
3 - Bishop
4 - The Biologist
5 - Windowless House
6 - He Is Never Coming Back
7 - Canine Disposal Unit
8 - The Anthropologist
9 - The Meat Of A Leg Joint
10 - The Astronomer
11 - Tombless
12 - The Historian
13 - Carnivore
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Jaks - Here Lies The Body Of Jaks (2005)

Here lies the body of Jaks. The Midwest horror show from the past, brought up to date for those who have missed all that existed before Celebration, Love Life, and Sea of Tombs. This collection brings all of the sick recorded material to the table on one disc: Hollywood Blood Capsules CD, 7"s, as well as rare compilation tracks.
-Three One G records
Status: Inactive
Rock if you like: Past Lives - Arab On Radar - Blood Brothers
Track listing:
1 - Carnation
2 - Damn Bloodsuckers
3 - Dumbwaiter
4 - Black Paper
5 - Cock Of The Walk
6 - The Conversation Lags
7 - Spitmudd
8 - Del Chimneys
9 - Spider
10 - Fidgecake Pismire
11 - Merrily Gore
12 - Master
13 - Shake
14 - Alamo
15 - Cavity
16 - Bomb Pop
17 - Ed's Steakhouse
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Thursday, October 22, 2009
The Red Chord - Fed Through The Teeth Machine (2009)
Before grinding, technical, mathy metalcore was cool, The Red Chord were cranking out chaotic records on DIY labels and continue to blaze trails with "Fed Through the Teeth Machine," which finds the band's exemplary musicianship perfectly complementing Guy Kozowyk's vocal tirades about the ills of society.Status: Active
Contact: http://www.theredchord.com/
Rock if you like: The Dillinger Escape Plan - The Tony Danza Tap Dance Extravaganza - The Nicea Room
Track listing:
1 - Demoralizer
2 - Hour Of Rats
3 - Hymns And Crippled Anthems
4 - Embarrassment Legacy
5 - Tales Of Martyrs And Disappearing Acts
6 - Floating Through The Vein
7 - Ingest The Ash
8 - One Robot To Another
9 - Mouthful Of Precious Stones
10 - The Ugliest Truth
11 - Face Area Solution
12 - Sleepless Nights In The Compound
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Friday, October 16, 2009
Prideswallower - Lifeswallower (2007)

Six crushing songs from Louisville's Prideswallower featuring members of Kodan Armada/In Tongues. Prideswallower takes the legacy of late 90's Seattle sound and sends it through the monsterous amps and feedback laden soundscapes that dominate the Louisville hardcore sound in recent years. The result is sure to make your ears bleed and your heart pound.
Status: Inactive
Rock if you like: Nirvana - Young Widows - Fugazi
Track listing:
1 - Prideswallower
2 - Timeswallower
3 - Youthswallower
4 - Lifeswallower
5 - Nerveswallower
6 - Flyswallower
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No Friends - Self Titled (2009)

So THIS is what happens when you lock Tony (Municipal Waste) and Sam, Richard, and Alex (New Mexican Disaster Squad) in a cement mixer! Right on!! No Friends seethes and boils with the same unbridled fury that defined mid-80's hardcore while also drawing strongly on the melodic elements pioneered by Dag Nasty and Descendents. Cynical, misanthropic, and critical, this record exists in the grey area between a punch to the throat and a desperate hug from an old friend.
Status: Active
Contact: http://www.myspace.com/wevegotnofriends
Rock if you like: Kid Dynamite - Minor Threat - Shook Ones
Track listing:
1 - Intro
2 - Set In Your Ways
3 - Never Ending Fight
4 - Broken Windows
5 - Have You Ever Heard Aspirations?
6 - We've Got No Friends
7 - Sans Opinions
8 - Black Hearse
9 - Material Addictions
10 - Clean Up Crew
11 - Loaded Question
12 - Outro
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Living Hell - Oblivion (2009)

Oblivion, Living Hell’s second album, is a clear and definitive progression from their debut record The Lost And The Damned. Combining hardcore, punk, thrash and black metal, Oblivion is truly a unique and moving record.
Status: Active
Contact: http://www.myspace.com/livinghellhc
Rock if you like: Eyehategod - Cursed - Integrity
Track listing:
1 - Sin Of The World
2 - Blessed Are The Dead
3 - Demonic Assault
4 - A New Skin For An Old Demon
5 - Oblivion
6 - 122112
7 - Amidst The Wolves
8 - Gods Undone
9 - Seething Envy
10 - Leviathan
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Track listing:
1 - Sin Of The World
2 - Blessed Are The Dead
3 - Demonic Assault
4 - A New Skin For An Old Demon
5 - Oblivion
6 - 122112
7 - Amidst The Wolves
8 - Gods Undone
9 - Seething Envy
10 - Leviathan
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Neurothing - Murder Book (2009)

Neurothing brings a weird blend of death metal, hardcore, and thrash. This is one of the few bands that you can't just put your finger on one style, the music is just morphed into a strange mix of everything. Download and hear for yourself.
Status: Active
Contact: Myspace
Rock if you like: Gojira - Meshuggah - ??????
Tracklisting:
1. Hope
2. Kill It
3. Hands of Death
4. High Pain Threshold
5. My Cell
6. Raskolnikov
7. Railroad Track
8. Infinity
9. King Rat
10. More Than Time
11. Last Page Has Begun
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Naumachia - Black Sun Rising (2009)

Naumachia fuses Melodic Black/Death Metal with a more industrial sound much like Shadows Land. Its a weird twist with synthesized guitars and tempo to the brutal death genre but they do it well enough to not be annoying. For those who liked the Shadows Land cd I posted before, this cd is up your alley.
Status: Active
Contact: Myspace
Rock if you like: Shadows Land - Behemoth - Vader
Tracklisting:
1. Inward Spiral
2. Egomaniac Frenzy
3. Mortification Study
4. Voreristic Life Abuser
5. Fornicatrix
6. Iconography of Pain
7. Sedated Daimona
8. Abreaction
9. Act of Renunciation
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Kiana - Abstract Entity (2009)

Hailing from Finland, Kiana revives the melodic death metal style with many accessible factors: catchy chorus parts with clean/death vocals, chugging low end guitars and melodic hooks that fall within the tradition of many Swedish/Finnish bands.
Status: Active
Contact: Myspace
Rock if you like: Diablo - In Flames - Soilwork
Tracklisting:
1. Greed
2. Beloved Addiction
3. Heartburn
4. Scars
5. Son of the Dawn
6. Psychotic Drama
7. Brother’s Keeper
8. Reflections
9. The End
10 Worries Turned To Dreads
11. Sickness In Me
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Fleshworks - The Deadventure (2009)

Old school death metal from Germany, Fleshworks gives it to you straight forward and heavy as all hell. They don't mess around with trying to impress you with their skills, they just play brutal death.
Status: Active
Contact: Myspace
Rock if you like: Old Hypocrisy - Bolt Thrower - Incantation
Tracklisting:
1. Shadows
2. Cannibal cave
3. The inside desease
4. We are the dead
5. The cleansing
6. Hungry are the damned
7. For the weak and for the wounded
8. Blood sculptures
9. The awakening of the ghoul
10.The fall of the (USS)Indianapolis
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Thursday, October 8, 2009
Skeletonwitch - Breathing the Fire (2009)

"Skeletonwitch is a Blackened Thrash Metal band formed in 2003. The band formed in Athens, Ohio by Nate Garnette (Guitar), Scott Hedrick (Guitar),Chance Garnette (Vocals), Eric Harris (Bass), Derick Nau (Drums)."
Status: Active
Contact: Myspace
Rock if you like: Toxic Holocaust - Warbringer - Goatwhore
Track Listing:
1 - Submit To The Suffering
2 - Longing For Domination
3 - Where The Light Has Failed
4 - Released From The Catacombs
5 - Stand Fight And Die
6 - The Despoiler Of Human Life
7 - Crushed Beyond Dust
8 - Blinding Black Rage
9 - Gorge Upon My Soul
10 - Repulsion Salvation
11 - Strangled By The Unseen Hands
12 - ...And Into The Flame
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Monday, October 5, 2009
Belphegor - Walpurgis Rites: Hexenwahn

"Belphegor emerges as one of the most extreme line ups to ever come out of the blackened death metal scene. The band members themselves describe their hellride as “Supreme Death / Black Metal Art”.
Formed in 1993 originally under the name Betrayer, the band became popular in the metal scene, their lyrical themes being gore, blasphemy and satanism. Their first album “The Last Supper” was released by Lethal Records, the two following albums by Last Episode (now known as “Black Attakk”) which they called a “rip-off label” afterwards. After releasing their live album “Infernal Live Orgasm” on their own label Phallelujah Productions, they signed on Napalm Records, but as they said afterwards, this label didn’t support them enough and they were “fed up with this respectless treatment”. Now the band has signed on Nuclear Blast and released a new album, “Pestapokalypse VI” IN 2006." -last.fm
Status: Active
Contact: Myspace
Rock if you like: Marduk - Behemoth - Dark Funeral
Track Listing:
1 - Walpurgis Rites
2 - Veneratio Diaboli - I Am Sin
3 - Hail the New Flesh
4 - Reichswehr In Blood
5 - The Crosses Made In Bone
6 - Der Geistertreiber
7 - Destroyer Hekate
8 - Enthralled Toxic Sabbat
9 - Hexenwahn - Totenkult
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Converge - Axe To Fall (2009)

With classic metal enjoying resurgence as bands like Mastodon introduce a new generation to the majestic riffage of Sabbath and Zeppelin, it is only right that one of the bands responsible for that resurgence, Converge, should offer up their most accessible album to date. With their new album, Axe to Fall, coinciding with their national tour with Mastodon, Converge are set to find the wider audience that the band, as pioneers of post-hardcore, so richly deserve. Formed in Salem, MA, in 1990, Converge are to modern metal what the Ramones were to punk, with albums like Jane Doe and You Fail Me considered touchstones of the genre. Axe to Fall takes the band’s maverick attitude to new highs; with leader Jacob Bannon finding searing melodies amidst the chaos of chords that is their hallmark, while the band’s sound finds richer textures and deeper hooks than ever before. Nothing of the old Converge is sacrificed; everything is gained, in what may come to be considered the band's masterpiece.
Status: Active
Contact: http://www.convergecult.com/
Rock if you like: The Dillinger Escape Plan - Curl Up And Die - Botch
Track listing:
1 - Dark Horse
2 - Reap What You Sow
3 - Axe To Fall
4 - Effigy
5 - Worms Will Feed
6 - Wishing Well
7 - Damages
8 - Losing Battle
9 - Dead Beat
10 - Cutter
11 - Slave Driver
12 - Cruel Broom
13 - Wretched World
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The_Network - Bishop Kent Manning (2009)
Taking lessons from the school of Coalesce and Bloodlet, The Network finally captured their full essence at God City Studio with engineer/producer Kurt Ballou. The album title and theme is based on a short story by a member of the band about greed, regret, life, blind faith, death and consequence.Status: Active
Contact: http://www.myspace.com/thenetworkmetal
Rock if you like: Coalesce - Burnt By The Sun - Deadguy
Track listing:
1 - From Holy Water To Holy Wars
2 - Following And Failing
3 - Your Own Personal Time Bomb
4 - Service With A Smile
5 - Telethons For The Rich
6 - Paranoid Deserter
7 - Easter Just Stopped Showing Up
8 - Corpse Paint
9 - You Fucking Fakes
10 - Kent Manning
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Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Iron Wolf

Pretty awesome melodic thrash with some crust punk influences. These guys added me on myspace a while back and I offered to post some of their stuff on here. Here are a few tracks off their demo that was released earlier this year. Check 'em out, and if you like it, buy the CD here.
Status: Active
Contact: Myspace
Rock if you like: Tragedy - From Ashes Rise - Bolt Thrower
Track Listing:
3 - Rex Rgis Casus
4 - Ambitions of Empire
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Doomriders - Darkness Come Alive (2009)

"Boston’s DOOMRIDERS are sonically antisocial and undeniably unforgettable as they come. DOOMRIDERS are comprised of a stellar lineup featuring Nate Newton (Converge, Old Man Gloom), along with longtime friends Jebb Riley (There Were Wires, Disappearer), Chris Pupecki (Cast Iron Hike), and Chris Bevalaqua (Hallraker). The demon child of their collective unhealthy obsession with Classic Rock, Hardcore, and Skateboarding, DOOMRIDERS are a rare beast in today’s music world. Their soulful no frills approach conjures the spirits of Thin Lizzy, Entombed, and damn near every evil in between. Making DOOMRIDERS approach one Hell of a rebellious and exciting musical ride." -last.fm
Status: Active
Contact: Myspace
Rock if you like: Saviours - Trap Them - Lords
Track Listing:
1 - Fade From Black
2 - Heavy Lies The Crown
3 - Bear Witness
4 - Knife Wound
5 - Come Alive
6 - Night Howler
7 - Crooked Path
8 - Lions
9 - The Equalizer
10 - Night Lurker
11 - Jealous God
12 - Mercy
13 - Night Beckons
14 - Blood Avenger
15 - Bloodsucker
16 - Untitled
17 - Rotter
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Saturday, September 5, 2009
Disembodied - Psalms Of Sheol (2009)

Disembodied's "Psalms of Sheol," a collection of rare, out of print and unreleased material will finally see the light on Prime Directive Records. Thirteen song from one of the heaviest, darkest and most innovative hardcore bands of the 90's, re-mastered by the band to sound louder and heavier than ever. Includes the Confession 7", Existence in Suicide MCD, compilation tracks, unreleased songs, and a cover of Metallica's "Creeping Death".
Status: Active
Contact: www.myspace.com/ifgodonlyknew
Rock if you like: Martyr AD - Chokehold - Unbroken
Track listing:
1 - Eochian Prayer
2 - Epilogue
3 - Scratch
4 - Burning Cupid
5 - Feel
6 - Confession
7 - Expressionless
8 - Scorn
9 - Shattered
10 - Asura
11 - Invisible
12 - Existence In Suicide
13 - Creeping Death
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Dying Fetus - Descend Into Depravity (2009)

One of the most infamous and influential death metal bands of the past 10 years, Dying Fetus pummel and pound their signature-style brutality into the worldwide landscape with the subtlety of full-fledged war. Descend into Depravity takes Dying Fetus to new sonic levels, and is easily the bands finest hour.
Status: Active
Contact: http://www.dyingfetus.com/
Rock if you like: Misery Index - Origin - Cold Worker
Track listing:
1 - Your Treachery Will Die With You
2 - Shepherd's Commandment
3 - Hopeless Insurrection
4 - Conceived Into Enslavement
5 - Atrocious By Nature
6 - Descend Into Depravity
7 - At What Expense
8 - Ethos Of Coercion
DL
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Baroness - The Blue Record (2009)

"Baroness plays an eclectic brand of heavy metal, embracing the ferocity and sharp technique of new-millennium metal but with melodic accents and intelligent guitar work that suggests the influence of indie rock and post-punk bands." -last.fm
Status: Active
Contact: Myspace
Rock if you like: Kylesa - Torche - Mastodon
Track Listing:
1 - Bullhead's Psalm
2 - The Sweetest Curse
3 - Jake Leg
4 - Steel That Sleeps The Eye
5 - Swollen and Halo
6 - Ogeechee Hymnal
7 - A Horse Called Golgotha
8 - O'er Hell and Hide
9 - War, Wisdom and Rhyme
10 - Blackpowder Orchard
11 - The Gnashing
12 - Bullhead's Lament
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