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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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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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Brother Juniper - Demo (2009)

Brother Juniper are a great young hardcore band out of Middle America, Indiana. They combine many different elements to create a very unique and interesting sound. Brother Juniper utilize complex song writing and angst ridden vocals to round their self titled, self released demo. Don't miss the train on this one.

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Status: Active
Contact: Myspace
Rock if you like: Coalesce - Burnt By The Sun - Converge

Track Listing:
1 - Attack of the Sodomites
2 - An Ironically Narrow Definition of "Animal"
3 - The Stomach, The Knees
4 - These Colors Don't Care
5 - I've Been Saved, So Fuck You
6 - Dirt

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Lewd Acts - Black Eye Blues (2009)

Lewd Acts' brand of raw noise reeks of true soul and stunning originality. Opting to embrace their pre-1988 punk and hardcore influences, they shun metal tendencies of today's hardcore scene. Vocally crooning and sonically winding their way through each song in ways that are continuously moving and exciting.

Status: Active
Contact: http://www.myspace.com/lewdacts
Rock if you like: Ceremony - Cruel Hand - Trash Talk

Track listing:
1 - Know Where To Go
2 - Wide Black Eyes
3 - Nightcrawlers
4 - You Don't Need Me
5 - I Don't Need You
6 - Who Knew The West Coast Could Be So Cold
7 - Penmanship Sailed
8 - Young Lovers, Old Livers
9 - Rot Gut Charlie
10 - My Father Was A Locomotive
11 - Nowhere To Go
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Crippled Black Phoenix - 200 Tons of Bad Luck (2009)

Crippled Black Phoenix is a post-rock band from the UK featuring members of Electric Wizard and Mogwai. The band has described their own songs as “end of time ballads." It's kinda like the post-rock blues.

Status: Active

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

Rock if you like: Grails, A Whisper in the Noise, Astra

Track listing:

1 - Burnt Reynolds

2 - Rise Up and Fight

3 - Time of Ye Life / Born for Nothing / Paranoid Arm of Narcoleptic Empire

4 - Wendigo

5 - Littlestep

6 - Crossing the Bar

7 - Whissendine

8 - A Real Box of Cheer

9 - 444

10 - A Hymn for a Lost Soul

11 - A Lack of Common Sense

12 - I am Free, Today I Perished

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Volturyon - Blood Cure (2008)

Hailing from Sweden, the debut album from Volturyon lives up to the bands of the region. Technical, heavy and full of killer riffs, this album might melt your face twice.

Status: Active

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

Rock if you like: Decapitated, Necrophagist, Bloodbath

Track listing:

1 - Naked Blood

2 - Forever Suffer

3 - Blood Cure

4 - Unorthodox Spawn Deleted

5 - Phantasm

6 - Invert Birth

7 - Initiate the Killing

8 - Drenched in Human Sludge

9 - Addicted to Cadaverine

10 - The Way of the Slay

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Alpinist - Minus.Mensch (2009)

Alpinist is a Screamo/Crust four-piece band from Münster, GERMANY.

Status: Active
Contact: Myspace
Rock if you like: Ekkaia - Fall of Efrafa - Madame Germen

Track Listing:
1 - Nighttime Poet Daytime Dead
2 - Schalterhygiene
3 - A Is For Army of Slaves
4 - Rost
5 - 2te Klasse Bahnabteil
6 - Amuse Yourself To Death
7 - Delta Flood of Ignorance
8 - The Charme of Dominating
9 - From Groveling to Running in Less than a Second
10 - This Song Will Not Save Your Life
11 - Outro

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Battle of Wölf 359 - The Death of Affect (2009)

"Battle of Wölf 359 are a down tuned, heavy hardcore band from the UK (London, Kent, Sheffield and sometimes Moscow). They blend metallic riffs with eerie melodies and offer up critique on science, religion and the political system often finished off with tongue in cheek sci-fi imagery and samples." -last.fm

Status: Active
Contact: Myspace
Rock if you like: Alpinist - Loma Prieta - Louise Cyphre

Track Listing:
1 - Marty O.D.
2 - Cyberdine
3 - Surveiller
4 - Beneath the Paving Stones...
5 - End Times
6 - The God Particle
7 - Anfal
8 - Glenfield

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Cloudkicker - The Map Is Not The Territory (2009)

Cloudkicker is a one man instrumental project out of Columbus, Ohio. From an interview: “It costs me absolutely nothing to create the music. Zero dollars. I record all the guitars and bass straight into my laptop and program the drums using this one sequencing program, then I mix and master everything myself. The only thing that costs money are guitar strings, but I have a full-time job so it’s no big deal.”

Status: Active

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

Rock if you like: Animals as Leaders, Periphery, Scale the Summit

Track listing:

1 - Hold On

2 - Tip Your Van Driver

3 - Seriosity

4 - The Map is Not the Territory

5 - Ever Thus to Deadbeats

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Goes Cube - Another Day Has Passed (2009)

” Goes Cube write songs the way that Helmet and Quicksand used to, with compact shocks of riff and scrappy melody, loose strings and pneumatic heaviness”. -last.fm

Status: Active

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

Rock if you like: Helmet, Quicksand, Handsome

Track listing:

1 - Bluest Sky

2 - Grinding the Knife Blade

3 - Restore

4 - The Only Daughter

5 - I Hold Grudges

6 - Saab Sonnet

7 - Goes Cube Song 30

8 - Back to Basics

9 - Goes Cube song 57

10 - Urbana-Champaign

11 - Victory

12 - Another Day Has Passed

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A New Silent Corporation - Everything Is Exactly As It Seems (2009)

A New Silent Corporation is a six-piece post-rock band from Thiene, Vicenza, Italy. The band claims their influences bands like Mogwai, Isis, Callisto.. etc. Epic post-rock compositions make this Italian band's debut albm worth many listens, often combining electronic elements to layer the already entertaining rhythm section.

Status: Active
Contact: http://www.myspace.com/anewsilentcorporation
Rock if you like: Mogwai - Isis - 65daysofstatic

Track listing:

1 - Time Discipline

2 - Hiver

3 - Will Noise

4 - Reprise

5 - WOTGG

6 - Maple

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Metavari - Be One Of Us And Hear No Noise (2009)

"Hailing from Indiana, Metavari balance their Midwestern sensibilities with an eager desire to create music that is consistently breaking up their own new ground. Metavari are an instrumental rock-quartet who combine nuances of both electronic music and post-rock. The contrast of undeniably digital elements like laptop programming along side organic rock arrangements and vintage equipment create a multi-layered landscape of sound that has given the act national attention. " -last.fm

Status: Active
Contact: Myspace
Rock if you like: 65daysofstatic - Telefon Tel Aviv - Gifts From Enola

Track Listing:
1 - Kings Die Like Other Men
2 - Shimmer Marina
3 - Twilight Over Akaishi
4 - The Priest, The Shore, And The Wait
5 - Be One Of Us And Hear No Noise
6 - Io, Apollo, And The Veil
7 - Cerulean
8 - Maedchen
9 - Story For A Song Without End
10 - Pacific Lights

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Code - Resplendent Grotesque (2009)

"An experimental Black Metal band featuring members from England and Norway. The current line-up consists of Aort (guitar), Kvohst (vocals) and Viper (bass/backing vocals), with Alsvid (drums) and Andras (guitar) as live members. So far they have released two albums: 2005’s critically acclaimed Nouveau Gloaming, and Resplendent Grotesque in June 2009. Also known as < code >." - last.fm

Status: Active
Contact: Myspace
Rock if you like: Dodheimsgard - Manes - Solstafir

Track Listing:
1 - Smother The Crones
2 - In The Privacy Of Your Own Bones
3 - The Rattle of Black Teeth
4 - Possession in the Medicine
5 - Jesus Fever
6 - I Hold Your Light
7 - A Sutra of Wounds
8 - The Ascendent Grotesque

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Deadmen - Demo (2009)

Formed in the summer of ‘08. Includes current and ex-members of: Demiricous, Lair of the Minotaur, Whiskeytits, Suicide Note, Salvation, Angelville, Red Shadows, Coffinworm, The Dream Is Dead, and The Retreads.

Status: Active
Contact: Myspace
Rock if you like: Sweet Cobra - Black Tusk - Black Panda

Track Listing:
1 - Been There Still There
2 - Whiskey Vs. Wine
3 - These Gods Have No Eyes

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Putrid Pile - House of Dementia (2009)

"Putrid Pile is an american brutal death metal band formed in Wisconsin U.S.A by Shaun LaCanne (previously of Num Skull). Influenced by acts like Cannibal Corpse and Dying Fetus he immediately set out to create some of the most intense, sickest, and guttural death metal around." -last.fm

Status: Active
Contact: Myspace
Rock if you like: Devourment - Guttural Secrete - Abysmal Torment

Track Listing:
1 - Intro
2 - Dead
3 - Involuntary Suicide
4 - God of Degradation
5 - Post Coital Satisfaction
6 - Blood Runs Red
7 - Your Nightmare Reality
8 - The Ingestion of Human-Kind
9 - Fecal Frenzy
10 - Waste of Flesh
11 - The Face of Death
12 - 25 Cromwell Street
13 - The Gorebox

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Burial Ritual - Tower of Silence (2009)

"Formed in the winter of 2005, BURIAL RITUAL is a unique blend of old school death metal, black metal, and thrash that few in their home state of Wisconsin have attempted in recent years. With a desire to produce heavy music that listeners of all metal genres can appreciate, BURIAL RITUAL's sound has evolved heavily over the years from a "death 'n' roll" style to darker, faster and more melodic. Their first EP release in 2007 entitled 'Last Rites' was but a taste of what the band was capable of, and after very positive reviews much anticipation began to build about what their next release would be like, and soon after 'Tower of Silence' was announced."

Status: Active
Contact: Myspace
Rock if you like: Despondency - Disinfect - Embedded

Track Listing:
1 - Tower of Silence
2 - Blood Feud
3 - Sectarian Death Squad
4 - Cannibalistic Tendencies
5 - Atop the Funeral Pyre
6 - Benedicts Last Breath
7 - Fantasy of Rape
8 - The Gathering Storm

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EDIT: APPARENTLY THE GUITARIST IS A HUGE JUGGALO FAGGOT. LISTEN AT YOUR OWN RISK.