Dawn Of Tears - Descent (2007)

Melodic Death Metal with a really polished, well produced sound surprising for a band that's not on any label. It sounds like most finnish/swedish meloDM bands, but better. Also, these guys are from Spain, and the singer sounds like Chuck Schuldiner mixed with L. Ben Falgoust II. Some parts remind me of Sentenced. There's some opera vocals that gay it up a bit. I don't know how to write this shit, here you go.

Status: Active
Contact: http://www.dawnoftears.com/
Rock if you like: Death - Amorphis - Insomnium

Track listing:
1 - Blaspheme Natured Messiah
2 - The Pit and the Pendulum
3 - Lost Verses
4 - Poisoned Minds, Shattered Hearts
5 - Echoes of Eternal Life
6 - Invisible Worlds of Madmen
7 - Bleeding Away
8 - Uncertain Life
9 - Blood on Verona
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No Trigger - Canyoneer (2006)

Canyoneer is the Debut CD for the Central mass 5 piece known as No Trigger. They Play good old fashioned Punk rock influenced heavily with 80s hardcore. If you like it fast loud and angry, you will dig this.

Status: Active
Contact: http://www.notrigger.org/
Rock if you like: Good Riddance - None More Black - Fury 66

Track listing:
1 - The (Not So) Noble Purveyors Of The Third Or Fourth Coming
2 - Neon National Park
3 - My Woods
4 - Fish Eye Lens
5 - owner Operator
6 - The Honshu Underground
7 - Bust Tropical
8 - You Said It
9 - Hail Mary Leakey
10 - Attack Of Orion And The Left Arm
11 - More To Offer
12 - Tundra Kids
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Legion Of The Damned - Malevolent Rapture (2006)

"Absolutely convincing death/thrash/black metal that not even the most hardened, jaded fan of extreme metal can deny. This band erupts out of Holland after spending several years perfecting their art in the rehearsal room. With precision riffing, super-tight drumming, memorable riffs, a vocalist somewhere between Abbath, Schmier and Mille Petrozza, and a killer groove within all that violence, Legion Of The Damned will fry your mind."

Status: Active
Contact: www.legionofthedamned.net
Rock If You Like: Sodom - Slayer - Kreator

Tracklisting:
1 - Legion Of The Damned
2 - Death's Head March
3 - Werewolf Corpse
4 - Into The Eye Of The Storm
5 - Malevolent Rapture
6 - Demonfist
7 - Taste Of The Whip
8 - Bleed For Me
9 - Scourging The Crowned King
10 - Killing For Recreation
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Legion Of The Damned - Sons Of The Jackal (2007)

"Slay the weak, burn the innocent, decapitate children, mutilate a priest and sodomize the motherfucking pope. This is what we expect from the Legion Of The Damned, and it is how they make you feel. Beware the Sons Of The Jackal!!!"

Status: Active
Contact: www.legionofthedamned.net
Rock If You Like: Sodom - Slayer - Kreator

Tracklisting:
1 - Sons Of The Jackal
2 - Undead Stillborn
3 - Avenging Archangel
4 - Death Is My Master
5 - Sepulchral Ghoul
6 - Seven Heads They Slumber
7 - Infernal Wrath
8 - Atomocide
9 - Ten Horns Arise
10 - Diabolist
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Legion of the Damned - Feel the Blade (2008)

"Apart from the blatant thrash and death sound of the album, there’s also a healthy dose of black metal hatred thrown in here, which I also think is very beneficial to the atmosphere. Overall, “Feel the Blade” is fucking fast and furious, but it has some mid-tempo ravage her pussy slowly moments that are so filled with grit that it even makes the music more aggressive. This is impressive shit."

Status: Active
Contact: www.legionofthedamned.net
Rock If You Like: Sodom - Slayer - Kreator

Tracklisting:
1 - Nuclear Torment
2 - Nocturnal Predator
3 - Slaughtering The Pigs
4 - Slut Of Sodom
5 - Feel The Blade
6 - Expire
7 - Warbeast
8 - Disturbing The Dead
9 - Obsessed By The Grave
10 - Reapers Call
11 - Last Command(bonus)
12 - Mask Of Terror(bonus)
13 - Chronic Infection(bonus)
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This Is Hell - Misfortunes (2008)

After touring relentlessly, This Is Hell is releasing their sophomore album 'Misfortunes'. Trustkill Records have made a small glimpse into this album possible with the release of the 'Cripplers' 7", featuring the new song "Infected." Still the same great straight forward Hardcore.

Status: Active

Contact: http://www.thisishell.org/

Rock if you like: Ruiner - One Dead Three Wounded - Another Breath

Track listing:

1 - Reckless

2 - Infected

3 - Disciples

4 - In Shambles

5 - Realization: Remorse

6 - Without Disclosure

7 - Remnants

8 - Resuscitate

9 - Fearless Vampires

10 - You Are The Antithesis

11 - End Of An Era

12 - Memoirs

13 - Last Days Campaign

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NineIronSpitfire - Seventh Soul Sacraficed (1996)

Dischordant, chaotic, noise-core from Seattle in the vein of Deadguy. Features members of the late, great Undertow and future member of Kiss It Goodbye. Scary.....

Status: Inactive
Rock if you like: Kiss It Goodbye - Eyelid - Botch

Track listing:
1 - Far Too Familiar

2 - Exectution

3 - Read Between The Lines

4 - Less Than One

5 - Undone Lead Poisoning

6 - Oblivian

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Undertow - Everything (2004)

At a time when grunge was "in", these boys made their own noise and laid the tracks that every hardcore band in WA has followed since. Untainted, unspoiled, and uncomprised. This collection includes all of the essential material from one of the founding fathers of Seattle straight edge.

Status: Inactive
Rock if you like: Turmoil - NineIronSpitfire - Ensign

Track listing:
1 - Delusion
2 - Control
3 - Noose
4 - Sixteen Twenty Three
5 - Everything
6 - Kill
7 - Never
8 - At Both Ends
9 - Taken
10 - Escape
11 - Instinct
12 - Apology
13 - Buried
14 - Cedar
15 - Thrown Back
16 - Where Do We Go
17 - Pin
18 - Sink
19 - Taken
20 - Cedar
21 - Words Of Fire
22 - Pin
23 - Cutting Away
24 - Stalemate
25 - Instinct
26 - Thrown Back
27 - Torn Apart
28 - Building
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Another Breath - Not Now, Not Ever (2004)

Two years in the making, the debut release from up state New York's ANOTHER BREATH is finally here. Recorded at God City Studios with Kurt Ballou of Converge fame, the release is well worth the wait. At times taking cues from the lyrical urgency of Strike Anywhere and the intense delivery of Give Up The Ghost, the vocals serve as any awakening for those of us lulled to sleep by the routine of our daily lives. Musically the band takes it's roots in hardcore punk and builds upon them with layered guitar harmonies and a definite rock n roll influence to create a much more complex sound rarely found in most young hardcore bands today.

Status: Active

Contact: http://www.myspace.com/anotherbreath

Rock if you like: One Dead Three Wounded - The Hope Conspiracy - American Nightmare

Track listing:
1 - Token

2 - Racing A Fading Image

3 - Rotting

4 - Cilo

5 - Passing The Torch

6 - Surfacing

7 - 17 Minutes

8 - Truth In Television

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Akuma - Shrouds Of The Final Nothing (2007)

Australian Hardcore/Progressive/Metal Band. This is my first contribution, forgive me for any failures.

Status: Active
Contact: http://www.myspace.com/akumaband
Rock if you like: Ekkaia - Burst - Envy

Track listing:
1 - I Would
2 - Insurrection
3 - Way Of The Warrior
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Children Of Gaia - I Pray To Watch You Bleed (2004)

Brazillian metal powerhouse Children Of Gaia finally put out their menacing debut on Liberation Records. The long awaited full length will not disappoint you in any way. This is heavy, fast and powerful.

Status: Active
Contact: http://www.myspace.com/childrenofgaia
Rock if you like: Disembodied - The Luddite Clone - Most Precious Blood

Track listing:
1 - Feeding The Fire
2 - Straightedge Revenge
3 - I Pray To Watch You Bleed
4 - The Prison
5 - Sentence
6 - Conviccao
7 - A World Outside My Own Mind
8 - The Cross
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21 Lucifers - In The Name Of... (2007)

All right nothing new here, just well executed, well played tight as a nuns arse.
Enjoy!

Status: Active
Contact: http://www.myspace.com/21lucifers
Rock if you like: Liar - The Haunted - Benighted

Track listing
01. In The Name Of...
02. Violence
03. Art Of Chaos
04. Greed Spreader
05. Die Dead Gone
06. Hate Will Prevail
07. Hope Fades
08. Perfect Hell
09. Broken
10. Kill or Blood
11. Manmade Misery
12. Surprise! Youre Dead!
13. Killing at Will
14. Where Apathy Dwells
15. Self Pollution
16. Quid Pro Quo
17. 5 Infernal Years
18. Retaliation
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Sentence - War (2002)

Italy is proving once again that they have more than vino and pasta. Sentence's debut 'War' is one for the ages. Their style is influenced by such acts like Arkangel, Madball and Merauder and is one brutal assault on your senses. This release will be the ultimate soundtrack for people that love to dance violently but never forget that hardcore is all about the message.

Status: Inactive
Rock if you like: Strongarm - Disembodied - All Out War

Track listing:
1 - War Begins
2 - To React
3 - Bloody September
4 - One Life Taken
5 - Words Of Silence
6 - Another Strife
7 - The Shy Kiss Of Destruction
8 - Shades Of Salvation
9 - Spell Of Death
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Primal Age - A Hell Romance (2007)

Primal Age is back with their 2nd album 'A HEll Romance'. They play a brand of pissed off metal that has the smallest hint of hardcore. This is a very energetic, emotional and a thoroughly angry release.

Status: Active

Contact: http://www.primal-age.com/

Rock if you like: Turmoil - All Out War - Disembodied

Track listing:

1 - When Man Loses Himself Forever

2 - Genesis Of Our Salt End

3 - A Hell Romance

4 - Chimera Dominion... (Verse Alpha)

5 - ...Tragie Prophecy (Verse Omega)

6 - Kiss Sentence For Your Funeral

7 - Suicide Intervention To Cherish The Grace

8 - Feed Your Life With Precious Words

9 - Against The Grain

10 - Behind A Wall Of Beauty

11 - Questioning The Essence

12 - Sermon Through Bright Concerns

Tracks 1-6
Tracks 7-12

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Lost Soul - Chaostream (2005)

This album will fuck your skull and shit it out quicker than you can say "HAIL SATAN". Lost soul has captured a sound monstrous enough to wake the dead and help demons rise. "Chaostream" is a perfect album for people who crave massive destruction. Download and proceed to head bang you neck into taffy.

Status: Active
Contact:http://www.lostsoul.pl/
Rock if you like: Morbid Angel, Vader, Aeon

Tracklisting:
1. The World of Sin
2. Godstate
3. Death Crowns All
4. Shameful Race
5. The Hidden Law
6. Mortal Cage
7. Christian Meat
8. Angel's Cry
9. The Birth Of Babalon
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Pessimist - Blood for the Gods (1999)

Pessimist is a well rounded Death Metal band that knows how to play the right style. Great guitaring and the drumming is rhythmic. "Blood for the Gods" is a fresh look to old-school death metal.

Status: Active
Contact:http://www.myspace.com/pessimist
Rock if you like: Path of Possession, Suffocation, Immolation

Tracklisting:
1. Century of Lies
2. Unspeakable Terror
3. Psychological Autopsy
4. Demonic Embrace
5. Mens Rea
6. Whore of the Undead
7. Unborn (Father)
8. Tunnel Rats
9. Wretched of the Earth
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Incarna - Spires Deceased (2008)

Incarna is a five-piece metal band from Oxfordshire UK. They combine elements of crust, metal and some mathcore. Spires Deceased is a great debut Ep showing lots of promise, especially for such a young band.

Status: Active
Contact: http://www.myspace.com/incarnaband
Rock if you like: Back When - Harlots - Skycamefalling

Track listing:
1 - Crystal Diety
2 - Hallowed Plagues
3 - Church States
4 - Secular Flood
5 - Nietzsche 1883
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Living Hell - The Lost And The Damned (2007)

Boasting a rich musical history, New England adds to its ever-flourishing hardcore community with Living Hell's debut full length, "The Lost And The Damned." This Connecticut/Boston hybrid's take on hardcore is one that reflects the hardened, metal tinged sound of bands like Judge, Ringworm, and Cro-Mags. Living Hell's intent was to make "The Lost And The Damned" an album that blends the heavier, metal infused side of hardcore with a faster New York influence.

Status: Active

Contact: http://www.myspace.com/livinghellhc

Rock if you like: Eyehategod - Cursed - Integrity

Track listing:

1 - The Resurrection

2 - Madbrothrax

3 - Condemned

4 - Mask Of Sanity

5 - Vermin

6 - Everything

7 - Parable Of A Madman

8 - Fall From Grace

9 - Malleus Dei

10 - End Of Eternity

11 - Drawn To Chaos

12 - King Of Kings

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My Own Grave - Unleash (2006)

MY OWN GRAVE are from Sundsvall (Sweden) and play fast, unforgiving death metal with elements of black and thrash metal. The band has been active since the beginning of 2001. Unleash is their debut full length which recieved rave reviews.

Status: Active
Contact: http://www.myowngrave.com/
Rock if you like: Entombed - Obituary - The Black Dahlia Murder

Track listing:
1 - Unleash
2 - From The Ashes
3 - Into Pieces
4 - Spread The Plague
5 - Where Carnage Reigns
6 - Backdraft (Drowning In Fire)
7 - Sheltered By Inferno
8 - Soulstorm
9 - Heathen Divinity
10 - The Beyond
11 - Theme For The Dead
12 - Strangled By Life
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Iniquity - Five Across The Eyes (1999)

Iniquity are a Danish death metal powerhouse. They were around from the early 90s Until early 2002. Even though they got very little recognition outside of Europe they very well deserved it. Five Across The Eyes is one of their earlier releases and is a great display of their talents.

Status: Inactive
Rock if you like: Benighted - Decrepit Birth - Year Of Desolation

Track listing:
1 - Inhale The Ghost
2 - Surgical Orbs
3 - Sidereal Seas
4 - Random Bludgeon Battery
5 - From Tarnished Soil
6 - Reminiscence
7 - Pyres Of Atonement
8 - The Rigormortified Grip
9 - Forensic Alliance
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Crowns Of Kings Split W/ Price For Pain (2007)

Two of the Northeast's hardest working up-and-coming bands combined forces on this eight-song split. Crowns Of Kings come from Connecticut and play a rough style of hardcore akin to bands like Death Before Dishonor and Terror, and even boast ex-members of Terror. Price Of Pain hail from Boston and also feature members of Death Threat and crank out tunes similar to that of Death Threat and Madball.

Status: Active

Contact: http://www.reaperhardcore.com/

Rock if you like: Death Before Dishonor - Wisdom In Chains - Terror

Track listing:

1 - Crowns Of Kings - Intro
2 - Crowns Of Kings - 618

3 - Crowns Of Kings - Same Old

4 - Crowns Of Kings - Lifeline

5 - Price For Pain - In Your Blood

6 - Price For Pain - The Blizzard

7 - Price For Pain - Thanks For Shit

8 - Price For Pain - Chopping Block

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Breathing fire - Years of lead (2007)

Hot off the heels of their well received demo, ex members of XfilesX fuck shit up, snarling, spitting and not best pleased, a scathing record.

Status: Unknown
Contact: http://www.myspace.com/breathingfireho
Rock if you like: Cursed - Eyehategod - Infest

1 - Short Leg
2 - Cara Al Sol
3 - Sb140
4 - Target Face
5 - Aguiero
6 - Great. Silence
7 - Capo Morra
8 - Super Siege
9 - Wsrd
10 - I Wanna Be Your Dog (The Stooges cover)
11 - Hit Machines
12 - Hntr127
13 - Diet333
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Brain Drill - Apocalyptic Feasting (2008)

"Listening to Brain Drill is an experience akin to that of having your face blasted off by a horde of ADD-inflicted ogres. Forget the Necrophagist, or Psycroptic brand of flowery, fret-wankery, this is Technical Death Metal of the sickeningly brutal variety. Imagine, if you will, old-school Cannibal Corpse brutally dissecting Spawn of Possession and you’ve got a vague idea."

Status: Active
Contact: http://www.myspace.com/braindrill
Rock If You Like: Necrophagist - Dying Fetus - Decrepit Birth

Tracklisting:
1 - Gorification
2 - The Parasites
3 - Apocalyptic Feasting
4 - Swine Slaughter
5 - Forcefed Human Shit
6 - Be Consumed By The Dead
7 - Revelation
8 - Bury The Living
9 - The Depths Of Darkness
10 - Sadistic Abductive
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Reign Supreme - American Violence (2008)

Reign Supreme are one of the heaviest/hardest metallic hardcore bands to surface from Philadelphia in over a decade. Led by former Blacklisted member Jay Pepito on vocals, they wield the same devastating musical hammer as bands like Crowbar, Terror, and Integrity. Yet come out swinging with a conviction and rage unlike anyone before them.

Status: Active
Contact: http://www.myspace.com/reignsupremehardcore
Rock if you like: Blacklisted - Crowbar - Donnybrook

Track listing:
1 - American Violence
2 - Apostle
3 - To A Dead God
4 - End Of An Era
5 - Faithless
6 - A Ghost In This City
7 - Iscariot
8 - Only War
9 - Pray For Mercy
10 - Something In The Way
11 - Still Unbroken
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Year of Desolation - Year of Desolation (2007)

Year of Desolation’s self titled album is a force to be reckoned with. This band plays a great hybrid of thrash and melodic death metal. All of the musicians are very skilled players. The highpoint of this album is that it does not let up on intensity for one second. The punishing drums and the melodic leads that float above the thunderous rhythm section make this cd a worthy post.

Status: Active
Contact: http://www.myspace.com/yearofdesolation
Rock if you like: Benighted, Malevolent Creation, Vehemence

Tracklisting:
1. Elitist Death Squad
2. Running The Gauntlet
3. Suffer Thy Nemesis
4. Erasing Your Existence
5. The Economy Of Excess
6. Forged In The Flames Of Malcontent
7. Gorge
8. 539
9. The Cleansing
10. Consume The Destroyer
11. All In Vain
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Systral - Black Smoker (2000)

"The 2nd full length from this German killing machine. Featuring ex & current members of German legends Acme and Morser. Innovative & the damnest rock n’ roll influenced grindcore you’ll ever hear. Imagine (early) Entombed and Bolthrower on a long night of drinking & debauchery in the studio with Motorhead & this is what you might come out with. Straight metallic grind fury, with doses of tongue-in-cheek lyrics & riffs. Brutal, innovative, & intense."

Status: Inactive
Rock If You Like: Acme - Nasum - Watchmaker

Tracklisting:
1 - Roll The Dice
2 - Black Smoker
3 - The Great Death n Roll Swindle
4 - Damage & Betrayal
5 - Evil Engine
6 - Weed Eater
7 - Fire Walk With Me
8 - Disaster Must Come
9 - Along The Lines
10 - Worldmaster_One For The Crowd
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Harakiri - Reverence For Madness (2000)

"If you've, over the course of the band's nearly six-year existence, managed to miss or even dismiss Harakiri, listen up…er, read on: this is not just "another technical deathgrind band." Yes, they are what you could call fairly "technical" (I prefer articulate), though they lean to the deathlier side of deathgrind. But you see, it is in Harakiri's emphasis on IMPACT, along with a collective sense of balance and songcraft that you shall find a band that towers over 95% of today's DM acts and can hang with the rest." NOTE: this is their first, self released album. It is a bit hard to find.

Status: Active
Contact: http://www.myspace.com/therealharakiri
Rock If You Like: Leng tch`e - Misery Index - Commit Suicide

Tracklisting:
1 - Immortalized Through Infamy
2 - Brief Excercise In Programmed Isolation
3 - On Anti-Natural Morality
4 - Become Abomination
5 - Sympathetic Sorrow
6 - Enslave
7 - Mecca Of The Sick Ones
8 - Mirror Mirror
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Miles Away - Rewind, Repeat (2007)

Coming from the land down under can prove to be a hindrance for hardcore bands seeking international attention. It wasn’t until recently that Australia was given any thought from the rest of the world’s hardcore community. The primary band responsible for opening those eyes is Miles Away.

Status: Active

Contact: http://www.myspace.com/milesawayhc

Rock if you like: Another Breath - Comeback Kid - With Honor

Track listing:

1 - 100 Yen

2 - Window Seat

3 - Sailors Grave

4 - Wake Up

5 - Cranford Ave

6 - Voices

7 - Rising Sun

8 - Excursion

9 - Brainwashed

10 - Outrage

11 - Safe As Houses

12 - Affadavit

13 - (Rewind, Repeat...)

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Reveal - Through The Eyes Of Perfection Evolution Dies Slowly (1999)

Amsterdams Reveal played a brand of metalcore that was both artistic and heavy. The put out various releases through European label Goodlife Records. Through The Eyes is dark, maniacal and thought provoking.

Status: Inactive

Rock if you like: Botch - Eleven Thirty-Four - Kiss It Goodbye

Track listing:

1 - CRC

2 - Finally

3 - Reflection

4 - The Seventh Song

5 - Contempt

6 - Blind

7 - Some Reward

8 - Arise

9 - Battlefield

10 - Evil Empire

11 - It Takes More

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Celebrity Murders - Time To Kill Space (2005)

Filthy and overcrowded to the point of insanity, NYC's bleak political and social realities have always shaped the music, lyrics, and lives of the punk bands that inhabit it. CELEBRITY MURDERS are simply the latest to scream back. This 17-song debut is a product of their relentless live shows and frenzied rehearsals in a city that won't let you sleep. The music is heavy, fast and ugly. NYC is falling apart, here's the soundtrack.

Status: Active

Contact: http://www.myspace.com/celebritymurders

Rock if you like: Backstabbers Inc. - Cursed - His Hero Is Gone

Track listing:

1 - Proxy Violence

2 - Bad Credit

3 - Total Fucking Overload

4 - Suddenly: Vermin

5 - Railed!

6 - Victim Culture

7 - Return Of The Leper

8 - Vomitorium

9 - War On The Telephone

10 - Learning To Love Capitalism

11 - Today The Bathroom, Tomorrow The World

12 - My Grandmother The Race War

13 - All Hail, Glacier!

14 - Shit Miracles

15 - Postpartum Exorcism

16 - The Headache

17 - Get Digested

18 - Untitled Track

19 - Untitled Track

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No Apologies - Survival (2007)

Formed in the winter of 2005, No Apologies emerged from the depths of the Australian hardcore scene. Their lack of agenda, insistence on playing solid songs and live show integrity has not only won them a zealous local following but respect and friendship among their peers.

Status: Active
Contact: http://www.myspace.com/noapologieshc
Rock if you like: Blacklisted - Ruiner - American Nightmare

Track listing:
1 - Crushed
2 - Alone
3 - Survival
4 - Dust
5 - Believe
6 - Nothing
7 - Mandala
8 - Dying To Live
9 - Reality
10 - Can't Won't
11 - No One
12 - Succumb
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Lights Out - Overload (2005)

Light Out are a young bay area band that are fast, angry and honest. Overload blazes through 11 tracks in just under 17 minutes. Bay area thrash/hardcore at its best.

Status: Inactive
Rock if you like: Trash Talk - Outbreak - Breathe In
Track listing:
1 - Trapped
2 - Pass You By
3 - Learned Nothing
4 - Wont Survive
5 - Just Like You
6 - Level
7 - No Way
8 - The Top
9 - What Goes On
10 - Unbalanced
11 - Consequence
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Majhas - Stepping Into Character (2003)

"Mahjas features ex-members of Burn It Down and Ice Nine. This record is seriously off the hook...in a very good way. Super abrasive and heavy with no generic chugga-chugga "metalcore" riffs. File under the same company as classic bands like The Jesus Lizard or Dazzling Killmen- in other words, all the good stuff that labels AmRep or Touch And Go used to put out."

Status: N/A
Rock If You Like: Burn It Down - Unsane - Anodyne

Track Listing:
1 - Stepping Into
2 - Workman's Comp
3 - Nola Heat
4 - Fistfights In Motion
5 - Kick It To Sleep
6 - Intermission
7 - Forget It All
8 - Tragedy's Muse
9 - Quick Breath Before Dying
10 - Double Life Sentence
11 - ...Character
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Behind Enemy Lines - The Global Cannibal

"The Global Cannibal" is the second release from Pittsburgh's Behind Enemy Lines. Featuring ex-members of Aus Rotten, React, The Pist and Penance, this is ideal for fans of Aus Rotten, Conflict, Icons of Filth, Amebix, Tragedy, and Motorhead, among others. Featuring 12 tracks, just shy of 30 minutes total length, "The Global Cannibal" is thematically influenced by the current political GWBush (mis)administration.

Status: Active
Contact: http://www.wearebehindenemylines.com/
Rock if you like: Discharge - The Pist - Penance

Track listing:
1 - The Global Cannibal
2 - What Did We Expect
3 - Advancing The Cause
4 - As Long As Im Safe
5 - Hooked On Christ
6 - Cycle Of Violence
7 - Self-inflicted Extinction
8 - Her Body, Her Decision
9 - The Army Of God
10 - The Politics Of Hunger
11 - Non-lethal Weapons
12 - Light It Up
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Misura - The Subtle Kiss Of A Sledgehammer (2001)

"The title says it all, folks. Virginia is a state that's supposed to be for lovers; apparently no one let Misura in on the movement, as this ferocious quintet take their home state's slogan and leave it in the dust. The latest 11 tracks from these barons of brutality find the band hitting as hard as Hatebreed ("Empty Footprints," "Finally") but at the same time, finding a melodic stride in a very metal kind of way. Don't worry, hardcore kids, they can still grind it out with the best of them ("Targeting My Greatest Weakness"). For a potent shot of East Coast hardcore, check out the no frills audio destruction that Misura causes."

Status: Not Active
Rock If You Like: Hatebreed - Buried Alive - All Out War

Tracklisting:
1 - Flesh to Stone
2 - Empty Footprints
3 - Dark Skies Ahead
4 - End of Time
5 - Glassfist
6 - Finally
7 - Today I Died
8 - Targeting My Greatest Weakness
9 - River Runs Red
10 - Vertigo
11 - Tomorrows End
12 - Bonus Track
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Acacia - Untune The Sky (1997)

Untune The Sky is 5 tracks of bleak, uncomfortable, brutal and crawling mid-90s hardcore before "metalcore" was the norm. From start to finish this is a destructive wall of noise. This was one of the first releases put out by Canadian hardcore label Goodfellow Records.

Status: Inactive

Rock if you like: Bloodlet - Unfold - Maharaj

Track listing:

1 - Splitting The Soil

2 - Chaste

3 - Second SKin

4 - Bludgeon

5 - Closing Circle

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Decrepit Birth - Diminishing Between Worlds (2008)

Decrepit Birth is a modern style death metal band, building upon the blocks of the early 90's death metal scene. Diminishing Between Worlds is the 2nd full length and is a brilliant display of their brutality. Another outstanding release by Unique Leader Records.


Status: Active
Contact: http://www.decrepitbirth.com/
Rock if you like: Hate Eternal - Disgorge - Dying Fetus

Track listing:
1 - The Living Doorway
2 - Reflection Of Emotions
3 - Diminishing Between Worlds
4 - Dimensions Intertwine
5 - The Enigmatic Form
6 - A Gathering Of Imaginations
7 - Through Alchemy Bound Eternal
8 - ...And Time Begins
9 - Await The Unending
10 - Essence Of Creation
11 - The Morpheus Oracle
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Benighted - Icon (2007)

Benighted Is a great addition to the Brutal Death Metal family. "Icon" gives a different but creative aspect the next generation of Brutal Death can accomplish. While they reach other genres and keeping it all brutally destructive, Benighted pulls no stops making music for murder. With this cd release, I wont be throwing in the towel for this genre for a long time as long as this band keeps recording.

Status: Active
Link: http://www.myspace.com/brutalbenighted
Rock if you like: Beheaded, Decapitated, Aeon

Tracklisting:
01. Complete Exsanguination
02. Slut
03. Grind Wit
04. Saw It All
05. Forsaken
06. Smile Then Bleed
07. Pledge of Retaliation
08. Icon
09. Human Circles
10. Invoxhate
11. The Underneath
12. Blindfolded Centuries
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Cursed - III (2008)

Canada's Cursed are back with their 3rd full length of angst filled hardcore. III is as angry emotional and raw as anything they have ever done. If you are a fan of the Eps and first 2 Lps then this is right up your alley.

Status: Active
Contact: http://www.yourfuneral.com/
Rock if you like: The Swarm - His Hero Is Gone - Left For Dead

Track listing:
1 - Architects Of Troubled Sleep
2 - Night Terrors
3 - Magic Fingers
4 - Antihero Resuscitator
5 - Friends In The Music Business
6 - Into The Hive
7 - III
8 - Unnecessary Person
9 - Hegel's Bastards
10 - Dead Air At The Pulpit
11 - Gutters
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Birds Of Prey - Sulfur And Semen (2008)

Southern metal super group Birds of Preys' Sulfur And Semen transcends geographical boundaries by also transcending musical boundaries - it's too fast for sludge, too grimy for death, too precise for punk and way heavier than the current crop of retro-rock revivalists.

Status: Active
Contact: http://www.myspace.com/birdsop
Rock if you like: Entombed - Slayer - Disembodied


Track listing:
1 - Bleed Blister Or Cum
2 - Show Him The Ground
3 - Mentoring The Mongoloids (Return To The Attack)
4 - Turning Big Rocks Into Little Rocks
5 - Murder The Homeless/Burn The Upper Class
6 - Where Black Lungs Don't Breathe
7 - Live Halo
8 - Satisfy The 45
9 - To My Victims' Families
10 - Overfucked And Underage
11 - Liquor Blisters
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Paint It Black - New Lexicon (2008)

It's gritty, thunderous, and ugly, just the way hardcore punk should be. "New Lexicon" marks the band's first recording with new drummer Jared Shavelson (Hope Conspiracy, None More Black) and boasts guest vocals from Jeff Pezatti (Naked Raygun). An aggressive clarity with a thick low-end up front (think Bad Brains' Roir sessions). Feedback, bass booms, and cymbal crashes are twisted into haunting ambient interludes and serpentine waves trailing behind the buzz saw riffs.

Status: Active

Contact: http://www.paintitblack.org/

Rock if you like: Good Riddance - Kid Dynamite - Bad Brains

Track listing:

1 - The Ledge

2 - Four Deadly Venoms

3 - We Will Not

4 - Past Tense, Future Perfect

5 - Missionary Position

6 - White Kids Dying Of Hunger

7 - Gravity Wins

8 - Dead Precedents

9 - The Beekeeper

10 - Check Yr Math

11 - So Much For Honour Among Theives

12 - New Folk Song

13 - Saccharine

14 - Severence

15 - Shell Game Redux

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Trash Talk - Plagues (2008)

Trash Talks Plagues is comprised of six violent anthems to the diseased and destructive survivors of a dead world. Plagues is Trash Talk's dizzying soundtrack to the impending and unavoidable apocalypse. With every explosive note, they delve deeper into that bleak vision.

Status: Active
Contact: http://www.myspace.com/trashtalkfu
Rock if you like: Siege - Red Handed - Lewd Acts

Track listing:
1 - Scatter
2 - Babylon, CA
3 - Flood
4 - Manifest Destiny
5 - Lepers To Feed The Lepers
6 - Kill The Snakes
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Total Devastation - Wreck (2006)

New and old elements meet in the music of Total Devastation: harrowing death metal aspects combine with machine-generated and sampled sounds while the whole thing is crowned with brutal vocals. The more mellow and laid-back parts bring the dynamics and variations of mood. The way for the band has been illuminated by the likes of Morbid Angel, Carcass, Autopsy, Entombed, NIN, SYL, Ministry, Neurosis and Laibach among others.

Status: Active
Contact: http://www.totaldevastation.org/
Rock if you like: Rotten Sound - Entombed - Benighted

Track listing:
1 - Some Random
2 - Aware
3 - Collision Course
4 - The Great Revelation
5 - Surveillance
6 - Twitcher
7 - Unsung Hero
8 - High Standard
9 - Massive Manmade Burning
10 - Way To Better
11 - Wreck
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Imperial Sodomy - Demolished (2004)

Imperial Sodomy is what Brutal Death Metal is meant to be. "Demolished" is one of the few albums which does this genre justice. Romain Goulon (Orfist) can be described as a metronome from hell. His sure power and Precision on the drums move this music to the next level. The guitar work is groove orientated mixed with low-tone shredding. Brutal Death fans will enjoy this cd.

Status: Active
Contact: http://www.myspace.com/imperialsodomy
Rock if you like: Disavowed - Decrepit Birth - Arsebreed

Tracklisting:
1. Cool Shit
2. Castrated
3. Suicidation
4. I Hate Humans
5. Disfigured Lacerator
6. Flesh Corruption
7. Mortal Unleashed
8. Chaos And Muscles
9. Death Forge
10. Death Is All
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Hellnation - Dynamite Up Your Ass (2002)

"Building on more than a decade of hyper-thrashing mastery, Hellnation continue to take their sound further to the extreme. While other bands are concerned about "maturing" and "expanding", Hellnation are hellbent on trying to find the musical equivalent of reaching out and smashing your windpipe. Listening to this album is what it must feel like to have a heart attack-violent, frightening and suffocating-except like the colonoscopy and the smashed windpipe, you'll enjoy it."

Status: Inactive
Rock If You Like: Jaws - Threatener - Extortion

Tracklisting:
1 - Dynamite Up Your Ass
2 - Game Of Death
3 - Um Bando De Filhos Da Put
4 - I Love Punk I Love Thrash
5 - Cold Sweat
6 - Dengve's Mosquito
7 - Punk For Dummies
8 - Easy Sell
9 - Ride With Me
10 - This Is Progress?
11 - Glory Days
12 - Martyr
13 - No More Favors
14 - Not Smooth Jazz
15 - Outsider
16 - Drinking With Friends
17 - Army Of God
18 - Sign Up
19 - When In Rome
20 - Best Behavior
21 - Again And Again
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Hellnation - Cheerleaders For Imperialism (2000)

"If your favorite part of songs is the blast beat then you will want to marry Hellnation. The songs are nothing but full on speed bursts. The only thing that can top this is another Hellnation release. Power violence that is on speed that is on a different kind of speed. Beyond fast music and people yelling into microphones... what more could you want. Either you like this kind of music or you will."

Status: Inactive
Rock If You Like: Extortion - Crossed Out - Threatener

Tracklisting:
1 - Barricade
2 - Against the Grain
3 - Charged Up
4 - Not Free from You
5 - Your a Joke
6 - Punk or Cop
7 - Selfish Shit
8 - I Live My Life
9 - No Truth
10 - Politics
11 - Nightmare
12 - Fucked up Mess
13 - Greedy Motherfucker
14 - Aaron Pryer
15 - No Fan of Cops
16 - Not Laughing
17 - College Town Revolutionary
18 - Fuck the Kids
19 - Shut Up
20 - Shit Society
21 - No Manion
22 - Cherrleaders for Imperialism
23 - Tunnell Vision
24 - Scared Fuckup
25 - Pave Your Grave
26 - Consumer Might
27 - Advice
28 - Economic Survival
29 - Kiss of Death
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Unmeciful - Unmercifully Beaten (2006)

"Merciless; Relentless; Severe; Cruel and pitiless are some of the words used to define Unmericful. As a band Umnerciful come across as completely tyrannous. They remind me of a group of marauders who swoop into a village or town. All buildings are burned, all men are killed, all women are raped, and all children are made into slaves. Left in the wasteland is a gigantic smoldering flame that has been stoked by the corpses of residents who were fortunate enough to die miserably."

Status: Active
Contact: http://www.unmercifulmusic.com/frameset.htm
Rock If You Like: Devourment - Visceral Bleeding - Dying Fetus

Track Listing:
1 - Masochistic Rampage
2 - Cast To Flames
3 - Unmercifully Beaten
4 - Mass Execution
5 - Retribution
6 - Shotgun Sodomy
7 - Legion Of Sickness
8 - Seething Darkness
9 - Catatonia (Live)
10 - Shotgun Sodomy (Live)
11 - Legion Of Sickness (Live)
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Threatener - The Hammering (2003)

"Threatener plays a brand of punk stripped of all the unnecessary - mosh parts, emo crap, clean parts, intros, etc., and gets straight to the killing. This record is a raw, relentless fury of blastbeats and over-the-top blown out vocals. Drawing influence from early 80's thrash bands such as Negative FX and Larm, Threatener proves they can easily hold court with the kings of thrash and maybe teach the old-timers a thing or two."

Status: Active
Contact: http://www.deerhealer.com/threatener/
Rock If You Like: Jaws - Crossed Out - Extortion

Track Listing:
1 - Isolation King
2 - Latrine Animal
3 - Societal Runoff
4 - Warpath To Recovery
5 - Human Junk
6 - Punishment Line
7 - See You In The Hospital
8 - It's Ok(koro)
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Man Is The Bastard - Sum Of The Men (The Brutality Continues (1996)

Man Is the Bastard were a pioneering hardcore punk band who contributed the name, and perhaps also the ethos, to the punk subgenre known as power violence. This is the Rerelease of their first album.

Status: Inactive
Rock if you like: Pissed Happy Children - Bastard Noise - His Hero Is Gone

Track listing:
1 - Freak Machine
2 - Prune Belly
3 - Skull Crusher
4 - Starvation Cage
5 - Death's Dirge
6 - Tank Killer
7 - Thug
8 - Bloated Subhumans
9 - Idget Child
10 - Kai La
11 - Son Of A Thug
12 - Infibulation
13 - Man Is The Bastard
14 - She Boar
15 - Man
16 - Foreign Children (Iraqi Slaughter)
17 - Pigeon-holed
18 - Users
19 - Remember Thy Creator
20 - Priapism
21 - Beast God Rape
22 - Pig Kingdom Come
23 - Sensory Perception Overload
24 - Unilateral Cob
25 - Alone With Labor
26 - Hempire (The Ruler's Deception)
27 - The Roller
28 - Protein
29 - I Can Sense Your Cheese
30 - Think Tank Killer
31 - New Toilets For Tomorrow
32 - Untitled
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Amagortis - Pre-Natal Cannibalism (2008)

Amagortis is a Brutal Death Metal band from Switzerland (Düdingen). Their latest release "Pre-Natal Cannibalism" is a step from their debut album "Abominable". Cannon-like double bass with death-ripping guitar riffs makes this cd more brutality and leaving no survivors in its wake. Amagortis has a long road ahead them but with this release, they have no problems marking their territory in Brutal Death.

Status: Active
Contact: http://www.amagortis.ch , Myspace
Rock If You Like: Devourment, Deeds of Flesh, Vile, Arsebreed

Tracklisting:
1. Pleasure Chest
2. Overdose Per Hole
3. Shatter the Spinal Chord
4. Severed In the Cemetery
5. Chainsaw Ass Massacre
6. Fecalphallus
7. Teabagged To Death
8. Undescribable Butchery
9. Pre-Natal Cannibalism
10. Odious Discharge
11. The Uncured Sickness
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