Heathen Shrine - Subterranean Realms Of Gravitation (2010)

Heathen Shrine are a 3 piece Death Metal band out of Portland, OR. They play a brand of Metal that is blistering fast and technically proficient. Blending elements of Black Metal, Thrash and Traditional Death Metal make them very hard to pigeonhole into one genre.

Status: Active
Contact: http://www.myspace.com/heathenshrinepdx
Rock if you like: Revocation - Origin - Quo Vadis

Track listing:
1 - The Caster Of Stones
2 - Where Heathens Dwell
3 - Irregular Plane Figure
4 - Tomb Of The Black Wizard
5 - I Am Rasputin
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Hardcore Maniacs 5 - All About Friends (1997)

Again we don't normally post compilations. But this is a classic. This is the original source of the great cover of Rock Lobster by Botch. It's got some really good songs by some great bands. If you like the excursion comp check this one out too.

Status: Inactive
Rock if you like: The Excursion Compilation

Track listing:
1 - CR - Moss
2 - Botch - Rock Lobster
3 - Impel - Call It What You Will
4 - NineIronSpitfire - Dead
5 - Screwjack - Artifact
6 - Threadbare - Vitality
7 - Coalesce - Cutting Away
8 - Indecision - Slave
9 - Trial - Crucified
10 - State Route 552 - Jumpin' Someone Else's Train
11 - Jough Dawn Baker - Five Twenty Four
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The Excursion Records Compilation (1996)

So we here at The_Hive usually don't post compilations but today i was digging around in my desk and found this gem. It's got some really great older Northwest bands. It's got a little bit of everything from Hardcore to Indie Rock to Punk to Metal. You gotta check it out.

Status: Active
Contact: http://www.excursionrecords.com/
Rock if you like: Underground Music Of Any Type

Track listing:
1 - Red Rocket - Let Down
2 - State Route 552 - Standards
3 - Hutch - Jack London Hotel
4 - Serpico - Double Negative
5 - Ten-O-Seven - A Disappointment
6 - Brand New Unit - City
7 - Serpico - Rain
8 - Ten-O-Seven - Backwards In The Rain
9 - Undertow - At Both Ends
10 - Botch - Inch By Inch
11 - Slowsidedown - Flaming Arrow
12 - Jayhawker - Discontent
13 - Jough Dawn Baker - Bridgework
14 - NineIronSpitfire - End Of Everything
15 - Lit - Souvenir
16 - Trial - 500 Years
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Your Highness Electric - The Grand Hooded Phantom (2008)

The band was formed in early 1998 under the original name Christiansen in Louisville, Kentucky. The band molded into what is now Your Highness Electric in early 2005. The music they play is cloudlike and omnipotent. Heavy and clear, like fresh spring rain that leaves one feeling refreshed and invigorated. Cutting riffs and calculated wails resuscitate the stale shells of human ghosts that ambulate among their kind without a light to guide them.

Status: Unknown
Contact: www.myspace.com/yourhighness
Rock if you like: At The Drive In - Mars Volta - The International Noise Conspiracy

Track listing:
1 - Ain't No Not
2 - Our Albatrosses
3 - Man And Doublewise
4 - Wine Red Lips
5 - Handing Out Hairlips
6 - We Kentuckians
7 - The World's Biggest Necklace
8 - Bearskin Love
9 - Army Green
10 - Apocalypse Town
11 - Bob.Sugar.Sex.Magic
12 - Picture That With Teeth
13 - Carnal Knowledge
14 - Know Gods, Know Masters
15 - Le Titout
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Faithealer - Bound And Chained (2008)

Bringing a dark, doomy and sludgy approach to their hardcore with trading male and female vocals, Faithealer bring seven tracks to this debut release. Members have done time in bands like Hatred Surge, Mammoth Grinder and Total Abuse. Out on Inkblot records.

Status: Unknown
Contact: http://www.myspace.com/wearefaithealer
Rock if you like: Weekend Nachos - Mammoth Grinder - Mind Eraser

Track listing:
1 - Pointless
2 - Disgusting
3 - Homes
4 - Bound And Chained
5 - Never Sleep
6 - Obsessed
7 - Fear Of Hatred
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The Men Behind The Sun - Semen And Goats Blood (2010)

The Men Behind The Sun are a 2 piece lo-fi grind band out of the swamps of Mississippi. They play short, fast and pissed off songs. Definitely not for the faint of heart.

Status: Inactive
Contact: http://www.myspace.com/themenbehindthesun
Rock if you like: Charles Bronson - Spazz - Holy Molar

Track listing:
1 - Traceless
2 - Fraternal
3 - Teabag
4 - Rohwer
5 - Gladhander
6 - Code
7 - Variant
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The Recession - Time, Arithmetic & Other Elementary Subjects Not Well Learned

A dude emailed me about posting his friends' band's full length up on here. I'm enjoying it so far, buy it if you like it. "Heavier than your grandma; Louder than her T.V.; More pissed than gramps looking for the remote."

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

Track Listing:
1 - Justification For A Roman Holiday
2 - The Few Quadriplegics That Learn To Fly
3 - Masterpiece Theatre
4 - Spearitual
5 - These Thoughts Have Wives And I Am Not Married To Them
6 - Night Shift
7 - Paradigm Shift
8 - Reciprocal Determinism: Nothing Reveals No Thing
9 - Unsilent
10 - The Suicide Bomber Blew Himself Up Today

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Vermin (Nld) - Define : Divine (2009)

Slam death metal at its finest. Tons of blasts, grooving riffage, and guttural vocals.

Status: Active
Contact: http://www.myspace.com/verminnl
Rock if you like: Drawn and Quartered - Arsebreed - Disavowed


Tracklisting:
1. Inferiorganism
2. Define : Divine
3. Imminent Perfection
4. Synthetic Reality
5. I Walk Among You
6. Idolize The Poisonous
7. Nucleus
8. Surrounded By The Silent
9. The Inner Anomaly
10. Supremechanism

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Shaded Enmity - Like Prayers on Deaf Ears (2009)

I really like this band more than most other people. It could be because the members are from three bands I like: Serpens Aeon, In Memorium, and Inquinok. Fast, hard charging guitars and cannon drums. A good listen...

Status: Active
Contact: http://www.myspace.com/shadedenmity
Rock if you like: God Dethroned - old In Flames - In Memorium

Tracklisting:
1. Beneath Her Wretched Sky 04:26
2. The Perfect Incision 04:06
3. Like Prayers on Deaf Ears 04:29
4. Sick Breeding 04:33
5. Her Gorgeous Eye 05:13
6. Pleasure of Desire 05:04
7. Adventures in Suicide 02:01
8. The Last to Perish 04:36
9. The Ones That Take the Fall 05:10
10. Just a Silence 05:23
11. Never Laid to Rest

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Scourged Flesh - Welcome to the End of the World (2009)

Even though they are christian, they play some good old school death metal. Enjoy

Status: Active
Contact: http://www.myspace.com/scourgedflesh
Rock if you like: Grave - Bolt Thrower - Kreator

Tracklisting:
1. Death and Destruction
2. War Machine
3. Chains of Slavery
4. Shadow Storm
5. Extinct
6. Waves of Disaster
7. Napier
8. Episodes of Hate
9. Blood on Thy Hands
10. Unleashed

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Natron - Rot Among Us (2009)

Technical Death Metal with a touch of thrash. Dead Beat has one very catchy riff that I can't get out of my head.

Status: Active
Contact: http://www.myspace.com/natronband
Rock if you like: Dew Scented - Anata - Napalm Death

Trcklisting:
1. Rot Amongs Us
2. Dead Beat
3. Bullet of God
4. Prime Cuts
5. Heads are Rolling
6. Enthroned in Repulsion
7. Only Living Witness
8. Planet Corpse
9. Roadkill
10. The Infection Theme
11. Backyard Graveyard

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Murder Therapy - Symmetry of Delirium (2009)

Brutal Death from Italy. Fast, chaotic, good.

Status: Active
Contact: http://www.myspace.com/murdertherapy
Rock if you like: Origin - Fleshgo Apocalypse - Hour of Penance

Tracklisting:
1. The Scourge
2. Extra-Ordinary Perfect Machine
3. Staring at the Zodiac
4. Tales of the Bizarre
5. Equilibrium
6. Two Shots in Colebrook
7. Hidden in Lies
8. Asymmetry
9. Delirium

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Mass Infection - The Age of Recreation (2009)

I like this type of brutal death metal. Fucking murder and destruction. A good dl for those wanting pure brutalness.

Status: Active
Contact: http://www.myspace.com/massinfection
Rock if you like: Imperial Sodomy - Prostitute Disfigurement - Devourment

Tracklisting:
1. Enslave the Earth
2. Furious Annihilation
3. Savagery Incarnate
4. Enthralled in Deception
5. The Vulture's Disposition
6. Fragments of Existence
7. Aggressive Supremacy
8. Aftermath of Hate
9. Equal to Slime

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Goats - Collective Unconscious (2005)

From Japan, very different sound but still heavy. I couldn't figure out what types of bands that this band sounded like. It's up to you to make the comparison.

Status: Active
Contact: unknown
Rock if you like: maybe hellchild - ???????? - ???????

Tracklisting:
1. The Worth
2. Congenitatiness
3. No Discretion
4. What's a Meaning
5. In a Corral
6. The Sign of Death
7. For Your Livin'
8. Glimmering
9. Collective Unconscious

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Dismal Lapse - Eon Fragmentation (2009)

Formely known as bled, they changed the name and the bassist to form Dismal Lapse. Technical death metal that is played well enough to enjoy.

Status: Active
Contact: www.myspace.com/dismallapse
Rock if you like: Severed Saviour - Deeds of Flesh - Odious Mortem

Tracklisting:
1. Addicted To Tomorrow
2. Impurities
3. Clipping the Wings Of Hope
4. The Light That Cast No Shadows
5. August 6th, 1945
6. U-235
7. Tetra Hydra Cannibinol
8. Divide and Devour
9. Before Our Eyes
10. Beyond the Endless
11. Eon Fragmentation

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BoroW - Reflection in... (2009)

Death Metal from Russia, it's brutal, fast, and heavy.

Status: Active
Contact: http://www.myspace.com/borowww
Rock if you like: Cannibal Corpse - Behemoth - Debauchery

Tracklisting:
1. Reflection In... (Intro)
2. Goad of the goat of god
3. Maniac
4. Hatred
5. Vermin of the putrifying states
6. Knackery in the old factory of painty dolls
7. Interlude
8. The Patron Ov Slaves
9. Incest yourself
10. Knowledge of Ancestor
11. Blue Suide Shoes (Elvis Presley cover)
12. ...Reflection Out... (Outro)

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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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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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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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