Ed Gein - Bad Luck (2011)

Ed Gein are back with their 3rd aural assault on the planet. Ed Gein is fast, feral, and furious as fuck. Total insanity and politically/socially fueled lyrics accompanied by a mix of tech-metal, grindcore, and metalcore. Bad Luck is 11 tracks of classic spastic grind that Ed Gein are infamous for.

Status: Active
Contact: http://www.myspace.com/edgeinband
Rock if you like: Pig Destroyer - As The Sun Sets - Phoenix Bodies

Track listing:
1 - Intro
2 - Wage Slave
3 - The Wraith
4 - Bullet Dodger
5 - Captain Shit
6 - Into The Fire
7 - She Creeps
8 - Moth Collection (Into The Freezer)
9 - The Spectacle
10 - VIP's
11 - Wasted Life
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Flood Peak - Filling Flasks (2011)

Flood Peak are a very young band out of the Bay Area. Although this is their first release, they are not new to the scene. Flood Peak features ex-members of Apiary. Filling Flasks is 5 tracks of heavy, emotional and groove oriented metal. This Ep is over far too soon and leaves the listener wanting more.

Status: Active
Contact: http://floodpeak.bandcamp.com/
Rock if you like: Engineer - Architect - Botch

Track listing:
1 - Meandering
2 - Closed Seas
3 - Scattering Crowds
4 - Dust Breeder
5 - The Waiting
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Universal Order Of Armageddon - Self Titled (1996)

Universal Order of Armageddon were an American post-hardcore band, active in the early to mid 1990s. They formed in September 1992 and by early 1993, after quickly gaining a small but devoted following, they were recording and touring the East Coast. Known for their extreme short chaotic performances, sometimes resulting in complete destruction.

Status: Inactive
Rock if you like: Antioch Arrow - Born Against - Kiss It Goodbye

Track listing:
1 - Visible Distance
2 - Switch Is Down
3 - Stepping Softly Into
4 - Clear Set
5 - Benedict
6 - No Longer Stranger
7 - Flux
8 - Symptom
9 - Painfully Obvious
10 - Close To Far Away
11 - Entire Vast Situation
12 - City
13 - Four Measure Start
14 - Mud
15 - Fence Song
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Engineer - Crooked Voices (2011)

Down and dirty, blue collar, DIY metalcore in a similar to Breather Resist or Deadguy and a beastly live show is what garnered Engineer a reputation as a tour de force in the underground scene. On "Crooked Voices" they combine the aggression of Blacklisted and Cursed with the heavy drone of SunnO)) or Isis to create truly diverse final product.

Status: Active
Contact: http://engineer.bandcamp.com/
Rock if you like: Coalesce - Botch - Achilles

Track listing:
1 - The Idiots Theme
2 - Shape Shifting
3 - Bruised Blue Collar
4 - Kid Killer
5 - Drunk On Blood
6 - Scavenger
7 - Curse Of The Common Man
8 - Vicious Voice
9 - Starving Artist
10 - Prepared For The Worst
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Book Of Black Earth - The Cold Testament (2011)

Formed in 2003 from the ashes of Teen Cthulhu, Seattle, WA's Book Of Black Earth bring a blasting, grinding, blackened death metal to their 3rd release, The Cold Testament. Although Book Of Black Earth are relatively new, these songs sit comfortably alongside far more experienced and noteworthy bands in the genre. And unlike most death metal, The Cold Testament is precise and over soon enough to leave you wanting much more.

Statust: Active
Contact: http://bookofblackearth.blogspot.com/
Rock if you like: Thou - Absu - Northless

Track listing:
1 - Weight Of The World
2 - Cross Contamination
3 - Antarctica
4 - Irritating Spectre
5 - Termination
6 - Research And Destroy
7 - Road Dogs From Hell
8 - I See Demons
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Ghost Town - Calamities (2010)

Hailing from the Gold Coast of Australia and still moderately young, Ghost Town have rose to both local and international recognition having toured extensively since their inception. Having released their debut full length album ‘Calamities’ in 2010 on Dead Souls Records Ghost Town have received an endless wave of positive reviews detailing the bands aggression and energy on the stage. ‘Calamities’ is 11 tracks of aggressive metallic hardcore punk in the form of pissed off poisoned youth.

Status: Active
Contact: http://www.myspace.com/thisisghosttown
Rock if you like: Trap Them - Tragedy - His Hero Is Gone

Track listing:
1 - Into The Night
2 - Calamities
3 - Towers
4 - Awakening
5 - Across The Desert
6 - Floods
7 - Grove Of Darkness
8 - Ethereal
9 - The Storm
10 - Gray Matter
11 - The Abyss
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Khann - Erode (2011)

Khann has an unabashed, frenetic vibe reminiscent of the un-bastardized roots of the '90s screamo genre. At its softest, there are shades of These Arms Are Snakes and Fugazi, and at the most intense, there are similarities to Mastodon or the cleaner moments of Converge.
-RevHQ.com

Status: Active
Contact: http://khannmusic.blogspot.com/
Rock if you like: Kylesa - The_Network - PG. 99

Track listing:
1 - The Gate
2 - Implosion
3 - Destitution
4 - Heroic Dosage
5 - Appollo
6 - Reflection
7 - Downward
8 - Erode
9 - Dark
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The Black Dahlia Murder - Ritual (2011)

Michigan's oddball sons of molten melodic death metal The Black Dahlia Murder return stronger than ever with their fifth thrashing opus, "Ritual", which boasts the band's patented mixture of Swedish-influenced thrash and black metal with blasting fury and crushing American muscle. This is probably their best material since Miasma. Surprisingly terrific!

Status: Active
Contact: http://www.myspace.com/blackdahliamurder
Rock if you like: The Red Chord - Darkest Hour - Through The Eyes Of The Dead

Track listing:
1 - A Shrine To Madness
2 - Moonlight Equilibrium
3 - On Stirring Seas Of Salted Blood
4 - Conspiring With The Damned
5 - The Window
6 - Carbonized In Cruciform
7 - Den Of The Picquerist
8 - Malenchanments Of The Necrosphere
9 - The Grave Robber's Work
10 - The Raven
11 - Great Burning Nullifier
12 - Blood In The Ink
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Origin - Entity (2011)

A torso-opening evisceration of nihilistic deathgrind bloodshed and massive bone-smashing brutality from some former members of CEPHALIC CARNAGE and ANGEL CORPSE. Eleven flesh-tormenting tracks that sear, slash and slay with triple vocal vomit, jackhammer percussion and homicidal, ugly guitar riff dismemberment. Instinctually, one recoils.

Status: Active
Contact: http://www.myspace.com/Origin666
Rock if you like: Suffocation - Hate Eternal - Decrepit Birth

Track listing:
1 - Expulsion Of Fury
2 - Purgatory
3 - Conceiving Death
4 - Swarm
5 - Saliga
6 - The Descent
7 - Fornever
8 - Committed
9 - Banishing Illusion
10 - Consequence Of Solution
11 - Evolution Of Extinction
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