Crust essential

So, absolutely essential split from two legendary hardcore punk/crust bands. No library is complete without this one split. What's that? You say you've heard this brand of crust more often than balls smacking against your ass? I just provide the links, so bear with me.

side disclose

side totalitar

EDIT: Might be vice versa, now that I think of it.

Merzbow

Merzbow is an experimental music project created in Tokyo in 1979 under the direction of musician Masami Akita. A household name in the world of experimental noise, Akita has released/produced over 200 records since 1980. Links to the few releases that I do have are down below. Enjoy.


EDIT: turns out I've just one release, entitled 1930.


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Heavy groovy sludge.One of those bands that are just impossible not to love.

bridges to burn
zoloft smile
blaze of obscurity

Mindflowers

I've just fulfilled a year-long dream by catching Have Heart live a few days ago at The Underworld, London. Just so happened to be their last ever UK gig.

So, today's post might not appeal to lots of people, as it contains an immense amount of technical wank. But no, this ain't no ordinary wank. It's prog-fusion wank. A Hungarian band with the extraordinarily gay name Mindflowers, surpasses all expectations that I might have had prior to listening to their album Improgressive. I'm really not going to go into detail with this "review", but I will say this. If you have a next-to-null knowledge of fusion and are keen on discovering new genres of music, this a fantastic album to start upon.

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credit to the guys over at jrfg.blogspot.com

Bohren & Der Club of Gore

Yeah, so I've been pretty busy lately and have barely had time to go online so here's my first post in a long time. This is a "black-jazz" act from Germany, very dark and very, very good.


Mediafire (pt. 1)
Mediafire (pt. 2)

100th post!

Superpost time! Enjoy this barrage of posts, all 4 of you that frequent this blog from time to time.

Russian Circles- Enter
Siege- Drop Dead
Sayyadina- Mourning The Unknown
Pavor- Furioso

Yann Tiersen

Man, oh man, Kylesa are one uber-fantastic band. Caught their gig in London yesterday, sound was super-tight, support bands were really good as well, including this one new band, Muswell. I asked them if I can post their EP, and they were pretty cool about it. So I'll give it a listen and should have a review handy by the end of the week.


Well, this isn't the sort of thing that you'd expect to find in such a blog, but I really do enjoy this album, so bear with me. Yann Tiersen comes up with some pretty interesting melodies and some very pleasing accordion parts in this record. Might sound a bit same-y to some, but fuck 'em, I like it. Also, Bruno was by far one of the worst comedies I've seen thus far in 2009.

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Lesbian

There, that should guarantee us an ass-load of hits.

So anyhoo, great band on HolyMountain that plays a brand of doomy psychedelic metal, if anything. The lengthy tracks might put you off at first, but have a bit of patience, sit through the entire album, and enjoy.

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sorry folks, this time there's a password involved: alternativekids.blogspot.com

Something special...

and definitely not too popular, Comus with what i think is their first full-length, First Utterance. Eccentric, sometimes freaky sounding prog-folk. Apparently this release has had an influence on Mikael Akerfeldt of Opeth, mainly because of a line in the track Drippy Drip. My Arms, Your Hearse. Pretty disturbing artwork for such an album. Either way, enjoy.

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