Pulling Teeth - Funerary (2011)

Pulling Teeth are back with another monsterous full length release, Funerary. Funerary is 12 tracks of the anger driven metal sound that Pulling Teeth are known for. This may be the most complete and mature sounding material to date. This may be album of the year for 2011, don't miss out.

Status: Active
Contact: http://www.pullingteethmd.com/
Rock if you like: Lewd Acts - Trash Talk - Tragedy

Track listing:
1 - A Bitter Harvest
2 - From Birth
3 - Extinction
4 - Brain Drain
5 - The New Dark Age
6 - Grudgeholder
7 - Plastic Tombs
8 - Funerary
9 - At Peace
10 - Whispers
11 - Waiting
12 - August 29
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Spearhead - Theomachia (2011)

Spearhead are a blackened Death Metal band out of the UK. Forming in 2005, Spearhead are veterans and Theomachia is a great display of how they have evolved into a force to be reckoned with. Theomachia is 11 tracks of blast beats, ear bleeding solos, driving rhythms, and demon-like vocals. Don't miss out on this gem.

Status: Active
Contact: http://www.myspace.com/spearheadofficial
Rock if you like: Angelcorpse - Morbid Angel - Misery Index

Track listing:
1 - Eschatos
2 - The Lie Of Progression
3 - Kshatriya
4 - Perdition Tide
5 - Polemos Pater Panton
6 - Praesagium
7 - Herald The Lightning
8 - Prey To The Conqueror
9 - Autocrator
10 - The Slake The Thirst Of Ages
11 - Aftermath
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Social Suicide - Broken Pilgrims (2010)

Social Suicide are a hardcore band out of Norway. They play a blend of both chaotic and melodic hardcore. Broken Pilgrims is both fast and technical. Blending both elements, Social Suicide, seem to have found a great niche in an over saturated genre.

Status: Active
Contact: http://www.myspace.com/socialsuicideweb
Rock if you like: The Ghost Inside - Comeback Kid - Another Breath

Track listing:
1 - Mail From The Watchtower
2 - Death Of The New Kings
3 - Harlots And Prophets
4 - Broken Pilgrims
5 - Martyricon
6 - Fallen Angels
7 - 5th Man On A Dead Mans Grave
8 - Let The Waves Come
9 - Enemy Cave
10 - Rodeo III
11 - The Last Martyrs
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Swingin' Utters - Here, Under Protest (2011)

After 7 long years Swingin' Utters are back with another studio album, Here, Under Protest. Comprised of 14 tracks Here, Under Protest drips with the signature punk revival/country/Irish folk sound that has sustained SWINGIN’ UTTERS as one of the most successful independent punk bands of their time. As always the song structures on each track reflect the UTTERS’ advanced degree of musicianship through a fabric of clever guitar work, well timed hooks, and captivatingly interwoven vocal melodies.

Status: Active
Contact: http://www.myspace.com/swinginutters
Rock if you like: The Clash - The Bouncing Souls - Rancid

Track listing:
1 - Brand New Lungs
2 - Taking The Long Way
3 - Bent Collector Of 1,000 Limbs
4 - Kick It Over
5 - Good Things
6 - Sketch Squandered Teen
7 - Heavy Head
8 - (You've Got To) Give It All To The Man
9 - Time On My Own
10 - Lepers, Thieves, And Whores
11 - Blindness Is Kind
12 - Reds And Blues And Beggars
13 - Scary Brittle Frame
14 - Effortless Amnesiac
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Superstatic Revolution - Goodbye Mr Wanton (2005)

Goodbye Mr Wanton is a massive explosion of riffage, destroying the boundaries of metal music into an extended version of anger-driven modern heavy rock. SR construct with furtive grinds, unexpected turns and notes, desperate screams and gigantic emotions, transporting the mind on a high musical progression level.

Status: Inactive
Rock if you like: Coalesce - The Minor Times - Engineer

Track listing:
1 - Last Night Bicarbonate
2 - Color And Fragrance
3 - Both 28
4 - Like The Patron Saint
5 - The Lone Son
6 - For Someone With Sufficient Motive
7 - Doctor Larry Inx
8 - James Walker Cover
9 - Originally Recorded In 1997
10 - Flashlight Only Clouding The M
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Such Gold - Pedestals (2010)

Such Gold are back with their 2nd Ep. Pedestals is 6 tracks of positive Hardcore that will have you singing along. Drawing influences from all genres of music Such Gold seamlessly blur the lines between Hardcore and Punk.

Status: Active
Contact: http://www.myspace.com/suchgold
Rock if you like: Stretch Armstrong - Daggermouth - Comeback Kid

Track listing:
1 - Cut Rides
2 - Sycamore
3 - The Brass Tax
4 - So Close
5 - Gut Rot
6 - Pedestals
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Lebanon - Overdose/ Overload (2011)

Lebanon are a crust influenced death n roll band out of Portland, OR. Featuring members of From Ashes Rise and Hellshock. Overdose/Overload is 2 track Ep that gives the listener just enough to tide them over until a full length is finished.

Status: Active
Contact: http://www.myspace.com/nwophc
Rock if you like: Motorhead - Entombed - From Ashes Rise

Track listing:
1 - Overdose/ Overload
2 - Never Surrender
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Among The Missing - Cease To Exist (2007)

Among The Missing were a very short lived Sludge-ish metal band based out of England. They combined a couple of different genres within the underground scene to develop a unique sound that is extremely difficult to pigeonhole. Cease To Exist is ATMs final release and was put out by the very fine Withered Hand Records.

Status: Inactive
Rock if you like: Bloodhorse - Entombed - Indian

Track listing:
1 - Hymn
2 - Fable
3 - 95% Concentrate
4 - Mitre Square-Element Of Change
5 - Among The Mything
6 - Brian Blessed Are The Meek
7 - Knights Of The Sun
8 - Finsbury Park
9 - Trembling Before
10 - Cease To Exist
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Needful Things - Tentacles Of Influence (2011)

Needful Things are a grindcore band out of the Czech Republic. Needful things are a very precise technical grindcore band that execute every song, every riff with exacting definition. Tentacles Of Influence is 19 tracks of some of the finest grind you will ever hear. Enjoy this record and don't be left in the dark on one of the best releases of 2011.

Status: Active
Contact: http://www.myspace.com/needfulthingsgrindcore
Rock if you like: Kill The Client - Brutal Truth - Nasum

Track listing:
1 - Intro
2 - Constricted
3 - Fallen In Darkness
4 - Deprogrammed
5 - Predator
6 - Worshipper Of God
7 - Money In God's Hands
8 - Collateral Existance
9 - Narrator
10 - Corrupted
11 - Decision Points
12 - Party For Killers... Massive Killing
13 - End Of Your Life
14 - Remains Of Life
15 - DNA Freak Number
16 - One Day Hero
17 - Mask Of Arrogance
18 - Firewall
19 - The Mass
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Carpathian - Wanderlust (2010)

After two years of touring the world, Carpathian have returned with their most soulful and pensive effort to date, the "Wanderlust" 7" EP. Recorded in their home of Melbourne, Australia by Drew Parsons, the effort was shipped over to the States where Jay Maas (Isolation engineer) handled the final mixing duties. From the first ringing notes, it's apparent that Carpathian have grown into a darker and more reflective band since the release of "Isolation."

Status: Active

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

Rock if you like: Comeback Kid - Modern Life Is War - Reign Supreme

Track listing:
1 - Wanderlust
2 - Ironheart
3 - Monochrome
4 - Shadowplay
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Vultures 2012 - Bare Your Teeth (2011)

Vultures 2012 are a death n roll band out of the Seattle area. They play fast crust laced rock n roll with a precision that sets them apart from all Entombed rip offs. Bare Your Teeth is Vultures debut and will surely leave you wanting more.

Status: Active
Contact: http://www.myspace.com/vultures2012
Rock if you like: Entombed - Motorhead - Black Breath

Track listing:
1 - Live To See Them Fall
2 - Killing Everything Around Us
3 - Bare Your Teeth
4 - Everyone's Your Stepping Stone
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Bubonix - Please Devil, Send Me Golden Hair (2007)

Please Devil, Send Me Golden Hair is the debut release from Germany's Bubonix. Bubonix play a style of punk/ hardcore/ rock n roll that is very hard to pigeonhole. They draw many different influences from all over the board to create a unique feel to their music.

Status: Inactive
Rock if you like: At The Drive-In - Boys Night Out - The International Noise Conspiracy

Track listing:
1 - Kaputt & Weiter
2 - Fashion Tattoo
3 - Corazon Vivo Vida
4 - Remontes
5 - Fuck Love
6 - Kabhi Khushi
7 - Quick
8 - Never Forget
9 - Snakebite
10 - Free Love On Rugen
11 - Code Azuro
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Indian - Guiltless (2011)

INDIAN lets loose a glorious, down-tempo din on Guiltless, their third full-length and first for Relapse. The band's droning-doom demolishes listeners with colossal riffs, drums that pounds like hammers and blackened and absolutely tortured vocals. INDIAN's brand of doom is severe, and Guiltless offers no respite.

Status: Active
Contact: http://www.myspace.com/indiandoom
Rock if you like: Akimbo - Knut - Nostromo

Track listing:
1 - No Grace
2 - The Fate Before Fate
3 - Guiltless
4 - Guilty
5 - The End Of Truth
6 - Supplicants
7 - Benality
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Y - Pseudo Youth... Human Cesspool (2000)

Pseudo Youth... Human Cesspool is a sort of b-sides and comp track collection for Germany's grind faction, Y. Y pump out 40 tracks on this release which includes one of their harder to find Ep's, Ali Bomaye. Pseudo Youth also includes two previously unreleased tracks, Who's Right? and Deceptive Faces.

Status: Inactive
Rock if you like: Phobia - Repulsion - Siege

Track listing:
1 - Ready To Rumble
2 - Granatenarsch
3 - Es Geht Welter
4 - Cabriolet
5 - Schall & Rauch
6 - Identity
7 - Rock
8 - Honeymoon
9 - Bocki Blank
10 - Perspektiven No 1
11 - Wahrheit In Ketten
12 - United & Numb
13 - Wustensturm
14 - Dahlhausen
15 - No Future '96
16 - No One Here To Ease The Pain
17 - Alles Wird Gut
18 - Gruner Herbst
19 - 269800
20 - Hope
21 - Autoprease
22 - Am Gurtel Oder Wo Auch Immer
23 - Intro
24 - Blut & Eisen
25 - Are We More?
26 - High Fallen Down
27 - Your Turn
28 - Who's Right?
29 - Deceptive Faces
30 - Pseudo Youth
31 - Dance The Apocalypse
32 - Obliteration Work
33 - Guilty
34 - Godkind
35 - Words Against Fists
36 - Sieh Es
37 - InTrust We Crust
38 - We Kill Everything
39 - Where Is God?
40 - The World Or Me
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Among The Missing - Disorder Of The Templar (2005)

Based in London Among The Missing mix Black Flag style dirty hardcore with sludgey guitars and doomy riffage to produce a fine chunk of noise. The album 'Disorder of the Templar' was released in 2005 on Withered Hand Records.

Status: Inactive
Rock if you like: Bloodhorse - Entombed - Indian

Track listing:
1 - Flee Thee Tower
2 - Nordic Warrior
3 - Catacombs
4 - No Claw Draw
5 - Spider Web
6 - Cobra
7 - Ten Pounds Of Fuck
8 - The Sleepwalker
9 - Retribution In Burtons
10 - Warlord
11 - Take A Drag
12 - Untitled
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Y - Global Player (2001)

German grindcore outfit Y were very short lived but made great waves within the scene. Global Player was Y's final true full length. 17 tracks of some of the best grind/ powerviolence ever.

Status: Inactive
Rock if you like: Phobia - Repulsion - Siege

Track listing:
1 - Erfolgstrainer
2 - Augusta P.
3 - Frei
4 - Lass' Uns Druber Reden
5 - Ganzkorperrasur
6 - Paradise Island
7 - Zu Lang
8 - Gemutsmensch
9 - Massendefekt
10 - Alter Reifen
11 - Kleingartner
12 - 80 Perverse
13 - Spezialzuchtgesellschaft
14 - More Bananas For The Punx
15 - Bombenstinmung
16 - Tod In Der Provinz
17 - Global Prayer
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No Friends - Traditional Failures (2010)

This hardcore supergroup are back with a follow-up to their blistering 2009 s/t debut on No Idea Records. Their raging 80's hardcore tendencies are still fully intact and even more focused than on their previous effort. This 6 song EP (which rips by in right around 8 minutes) harkens back to 80's hardcore with an equal nod to each coast. Fans of Dag Nasty, Minor Threat and Bad Brains will be equally as pleased as those that lean more towards the western approach of the Adolescents, Black Flag and Descendents.

Status: Active
Contact: http://www.myspace.com/wevegotnofriends
Rock if you like: Kid Dynamite - Minor Threat - Shook Ones

Track listing:
1 - A Look Ahead
2 - Letter Of Apology
3 - Permanent Black Eye
4 - Armed To The Teeth
5 - Control Freaks
6 - Traditional Failures
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Gridlink - Orphan (2011)

While made up of musical luminaries who have proved their mettle in other much lauded musical outfits , this is hardly a necessary qualifier in the face of a ferocious musical accomplishment such as Gridlink's Orphan. While possessing the energy, aggression, and overall focus of its predecessor (2008's Amber Grey), the songs contained herein provide an ever denser and more nuanced musical assault combining short bursts of accelerated thrash, blinding passages of helicopter blasting, monochromatic smears of near-noise, and the alien howls of singer Jon Chang.

Status: Active
Contact: http://www.myspace.com/gridlink
Rock if you like: Discordance Axis - Brutal Truth - Kill The Client

Track listing:
1 - Dar Al-Harb
2 - Orphan
3 - Deliverables
4 - Scopedog
5 - Red Eye
6 - Cargo 200
7 - Thorn Farmer
8 - Embers, Blood And Treasure
9 - I Accept Your Last Wish
10 - Hearts
11 - Flatworlder
12 - The Last Red Shoulder
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Ghostlimb - Infrastructure (2011)

Ghostlimb are back with their 3rd full length, Infrastructure. Infrastructure is 12 tracks of pissed, heavy and fast hardcore. Just like their older releases, Ghostlimb pack as much punch into each song as they can possibly muster.

Status: Active
Contact: http://www.myspace.com/ghostlimb
Rock if you like: His Hero Is Gone - Graf Orlock - Catharsis

Track listing:
1 - Construction
2 - Concrete
3 - Extreme Duress
4 - Biota
5 - Reduction
6 - Asphalt
7 - Unending Ache
8 - Incomplete Works
9 - Traverse
10 - Substructure
11 - Eight
12 - Plastic Surgery
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Ribspreader - The Van Murders (2011)

Ribspreader are back with their 4th full length release titled The Van Murders. Ribspreader's grasp of death metal is all that is filthy, extreme, gory and hateful to the fullest without the music losing vicious catchiness and outstanding quality. Their lyrical themes revolve around death, blood, gore and anti-christianity exclusively.

Status: Active
Contact: http://www.myspace.com/ribspreaderofficial
Rock if you like: Suffocation - Carcass - Angel Corpse

Track listing:
1 - The Begining Of Their End
2 - The Cleaner And Mr Filth
3 - A Morbid Journey
4 - Sick Minds Think Alike
5 - Going To LA
6 - Scilicon Valley Of Death
7 - Slaughterhouse On Wheels
8 - Cadaver Disposal
9 - This Is The Ribspreader
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Black Haven - Harmbringer (2011)

Black Haven are back with their 3rd release to date, Harmbringer. This time around Black Haven take a more southern metal route to get to the same great crust hardcore sound they've displayed on both of their previous releases. It's a very unique twist and Black Haven execute it perfectly.

Status: Active
Contact: http://www.myspace.com/blackhavenhc
Rock if you like: Cursed - Entombed - His Hero Is Gone

Track listing:
1 - Lucifer
2 - The Beyond
3 - Wolfen
4 - Worship
5 - Harmbringer
6 - Carvings
7 - A Town That Dreaded Sundown
8 - Lazarus
9 - Blood
10 - Knell
11 - Zwarte Vlaghe
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Meek Is Murder - Algorithms (2011)

Meek Is Murder is the solo project of Mike Keller, former guitarist of The Red Chord. Keller considers bands like Me And Him Call It Us to be a big influence in MIM's sound. The fast, off-timed, technical riffs add solidification to this claim. Currently, Frank Godla is on drums with Sam Brodsky on bass.

Status: Active
Contact: http://www.myspace.com/meekismurder
Rock if you like: Kiss It Goodbye - Dissolve - Playing Enemy

Track listing:
1 - Hello World!
2 - Return Void
3 - Algorithms
4 - Recursions
5 - (Null)
6 - Hope Springs Eternal (Spaghetti Code)
7 - Sundowners
8 - Foo
9 - Dining Philosophers
10 - Garbage Collector
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Y - A Black Sheep Is Still A Black Sheep (2000)

Y are a German grindcore band that play a very distinct brand of grind. They play fast, angst driven lo-fi grind that is very reminiscent to early Napalm Death. A Black Sheep... is one of their final releases and is 6 tracks of brilliantly crafted grind that will leave you wanting more.

Status: Inactive
Rock if you like: Phobia - Repulsion - Siege

Track listing:
1 - Mencere
2 - Schalk I'm Nacken
3 - Parkbankgeschichten
4 - Movenpick 1 2 4
5 - Abi '90
6 - Toilets
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Total Fucking Destruction - Hater (2011)

Total Fucking Destruction are back with their 3rd full length release, Hater. Hater is 27 tracks of old school grind. Hater picks up right where their split with Agoraphobic Nosebleed left off.

Status: Active
Contact: http://www.facebook.com/tfdgrind
Rock if you like: Brutal Truth - Napalm Death - Repulsion

Track listing:
1 - Weaponization Of The Mega-Self
2 - Crypto Apoptosis
3 - Hate Mongering Pig Pandemonium
4 - Everything You Need But Nothing You Want
5 - 7 Billion Imaginary Deaths
6 - It's Only Attitude
7 - Murdernumber
8 - I Not Pose
9 - If 9 Became 6
10 - Repeat Repeatedly
11 - Dudehammer
12 - Thrashadelphia
13 - Green Fire
14 - Time Theft
15 - Nekropunk
16 - The Sunrise Is A Lie
17 - Meat Without Feet
18 - Attack Of The Supervirus 2049
19 - Attack Of The Supervirus 4863
20 - Attack Of The Supervirus 33a.d.
21 - Greenbleeder
22 - Tony Hung Himself
23 - Lovegrinder
24 - Battle Command In Future War
25 - A Cold And Lonely Place
26 - Farewell Kiss
27 - Human Is The Bastard
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Necropmorph - Grinding Black Zero (2011)

Necromorph are a 5 piece grind band out of Germany. Grinding Black Zero is their latest release. 14 tracks of punishing in your face grindcore. A brilliant mixture of fast Swedish tunes, Grind/Crustcore & Death Metal.

Status: Active
Contact: http://www.necromorph.net/
Rock if you like: Nasum - Leng Tch'e - Misery Index

Track listing:
1 - Nautic Noise
2 - Idiotus Maximus
3 - Convicted To Breath
4 - Serve To Lead
5 - Exclusive Suffering
6 - Diary Of A Disease
7 - Brainless
8 - Shot
9 - Stagnation
10 - When A Whisper Breaks A Neck
11 - Panic Worldwide
12 - Necroville
13 - Forthcoming Emancipation
14 - Black Zero
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Keitzer - Descend Into Heresy (2011)

German grind juggernaut, Keitzer are back with another great album. Descend Into Heresy is 10 tracks of punishing metallic grind that will leave your ears numb. Keitzer are extremely creative within the genre, and always seem to keep things fresh. This is one of those "don't miss" releases.

Status: Active
Contact: http://www.myspace.com/keitzer
Rock if you like: Misery Index - Nasum - Coldworker

Track listing:
1 - Descend Into Heresy
2 - The Fallen
3 - Redemption
4 - Gifts Of Doom
5 - Betrayal And Desolation
6 - Wrath
7 - Chains
8 - Circles
9 - Rock 'N Roll Damnation
10 - Your Last Days
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Misery Index - Heirs To Thievery (2010)

The infamous Baltimore/DC grind axis unloads another salvo in the form of Heirs to Thievery, their long-awaited new album. A tremendous step-forward for the band on both the songwriting and production fronts, Heirs to Thievery propels the band to the forefront of the international death metal scene. As The Carrion Call, The Spectator, Plague of Objects, and the title track all underscore, Heirs to Thievery is the most ferocious and memorable MISERY INDEX album to date.

Status: Active

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

Rock if you like: Dying Fetus - Coldworker - Cephalic Carnage

Track listing:
1 - Embracing Extinction
2 - Fed To The Wolves
3 - The Carrion Call
4 - Heirs To Thievery
5 - The Spectator
6 - The Illiminaught
7 - The Seventh Cavalry
8 - Plague Of Objects
9 - You Lose
10 - Sleeping Giants
11 - Day Of The Dead
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Braindrill - Quantum Catastrophe (2010)

Brain Drill hail from the hippie wasteland of Santa Cruz, CA, but play angry, spiteful, technical death metal in the vein of death innovators Cannibal Corpse, Nile and Suffocation.

Status: Active
Contact: http://www.myspace.com/braindrill
Rock if you like: Suffocation - Dying Fetus - Cephalic Carnage

Track listing:
1 - Obliteration Untold
2 - Beyond Bludgeoned
3 - Awaiting Imminent Destruction
4 - Nemesis Of Neglect
5 - Entity Of Extinction
6 - Mercy To None
7 - Monumental Failure
8 - Quantum Catastrophe
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This Routine Is Hell - The Verve Crusade (2011)

This Routine is Hell is a hardcore punk band from Utrecht, the Netherlands inspired by the likes of Minor Threat and Paint it Black: Fast, Energetic and Sincere. Frustrated by the drag and the fakeness of the world around them they speak, well actually scream, from the heart and mean every goddamned word that they say. The words tell the story of a few pissed off teenagers with a bunch of critical minds and a love for loudness beyond measure.

Status: Active
Contact: http://www.thisroutineishell.com/trih/
Rock if you like: Paint It Black - Ceremony - Lewd Acts

Track listing:
1 - The Gate
2 - Tied Down (But Comfortable Enough)
3 - Manufacturing Consent
4 - Crossed Fingers
5 - Crooks & Robbers
6 - The Verve Crusade
7 - Make Haste
8 - The Weight Of Defeat
9 - Hear. See. Speak?
10 - Question Everything
11 - The Desperate Sway
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Kruger - For Death, Glory And The End Of The World (2010)

For Death, Glory And The End Of The World sounds like the coup de grace of a four-album discography that has seen the Swiss quintet emerge from the post-metalnoise-whatever-you-call-it vortex initially born from bands such as Neurosis, Converge, Tool or Unsane. On the menu, shellacking mid-paced grooves turn into epic double-kick charges, while bourbon-soaked microphone torture reply to thick riffing wreckage; well, the usual shredding Kruger stuff – with slightly more direct songs, though. Kruger's swaggering anthems are raging like a hound barking at your face, waiting to go for your throat.

Status: Active
Contact: http://www.kruger.ch/
Rock if you like: Breach - Neurosis - Towers

Track listing:
1 - The Ox
2 - Return Of The Huns
3 - Anthem Of Pretend Glory
4 - Villains
5 - Centre
6 - Our Cemetery Is Full Of Strangers
7 - Muscle
8 - Dukes Of Nothing
9 - Turpitudes
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