bio: asilo is a sludge crust three-piece band from buenos aires, argentina. their members (nacho dp: drums / manuel: vox - bass - analogue devices / sebaxxxtian: bass / vox) played and still play in underground bands from the underground metal scene, like voightkampff, gran cuervo, milica, etc. we've released our first split with tzara (post hardcore, with manuel playing bass), including a live song from our very first show live in april 2011. Nowadays we are releasing this second split with fraccion george best, from chile, with two songs each band... this split cd will be releasing in chile and ecuador too.
En la semana he tenido la oportunidad de escuchar algo de material nuevo que se me hizo relevante y que poco a poco estaré subiendo a este espacio, algo de lo mas interesante y que no he podido dejar de escuchar una y otra vez, ha sido este disco, que nos lo entrega la banda estadounidense, que desde Tenesee trae una fuerza tremenda y variedad de influencias musicales muy diversas, entretenidas y sobre todo las mezclas entre estas muy bien logradas. De primera mano, a mi me parecieron una mezcla bastante buena entre el post-rock y un metal ambivalente que podría llamar agridulce, obviamente decantando en un post-metal de calidad, hasta ahí la concepción y el desentramado del disco, pero conforme avanzaba, oyendo de principio a fin este trabajo en una noche de tráfico intenso y lluvia en esta ciudad caótica, me daba cuenta que pasaba muy por encima de esta simple clasificación genérica, ya que las atmósferas estaban llenas de pinceladas de detalles referentes a sus no pocas influencias.
Test Their Logik’s debut album, recorded, produced, and mixed by Illogik and mastered by Metalworks Studios (known for producing hip-hop acts such as Drake, DMX, and K-OS), “A” is uncompromising in both message and sound. This slick Digipak offers 11 new songs and 3 bonus tracks in just under an hour—it's a lyrical explosion in the face of authority and oppression, a sonic boom in the ears of big brother, and a no-holds-barred escape into rebellion. Ushering in a new era of subversive anti-authoritarian hip-hop, Test Their Logik delivers clear methodical rhymes alternating with rapid-fire lyrical assaults over dark bass- and synth-heavy beats. The album begins with a lyrical experiment never tried by even the most renowned lyricists: a full song only using words that start with the letter A. This title track sets the bar high for what comes next: everything from confrontation to reflection, to dancing, to imprisonment, and liberation.
SLUDGE-METAL/HARDCORE. Sludge fiends FISTULA have pulled themselves up out of the gutter they call home and hooked up with Patac Records to release the "loser" album. It's very dark and sad, heavy, tuned low. The 6 song record features the band’s trademark sickening guitar tone, agonized vocals, and wretched attitude, worshipping as always upon the bloodstained altars of CELTIC FROST, GRIEF, WINTER, EYEHATEGOD, and BUZZOVEN.
ing for "Every now and then I'll find a surprise package of records from Matt/No Idea waitme on my porch-This is how I was introduced to the Witches 7" and became a fan of Salinas Records. I eventually put on a show for the band and found out they were both great people and live band. Now a Witches CD/LP later, here I am getting to work with Cara Beth Satalino (Witches) and Marco/Salinas together on Cara's 2008 recording. It has been remixed, remastered, and comes to you with new artwork in 12" 45 form pressed on recycled mixed color vinyl. These are songs recorded before Witches, some of which would become band songs. Very stripped down but each song offers different dimensions with subtle changes in instrumentation. Now that both Witches and Cara are active I look forward to seeing what comes next. 
A 1 song LP of epic metal, blackened crust, and doom infused ‘core. A package of equally epic proportions that includes a full color cover, a full color 24×36 poster, and 12 page booklet!
“The band blends thrash and extreme metal, Swedish-influenced melodic death, and a good bit of chaotic hardcore. The pace is relentless, and the songwriting solid.”
5 epic tracks coming out to 45 minutes of doom laden psychedelic thunder made to split wide the mind of any mortal with the deranged taste of the unknown..classic!
It has been 8 years since Wolves in the Throne Room’s much mythologized genesis. Over the course of 3 studio albums and hundreds of live performances the band has slowly boiled away the prima materia of Black Metal to distill a unique essence. The transmutation reaches a new level with the completion of Celestial Lineage the clans’ new Astral Black Metal document. In contrast to the bleakly hypnotic architecture of 2008’s Black Cascade, Celestial Lineage expands into a more expansive and visionary territory. Although it is obviously inspired by European Black Metal, Wolves in the Throne Room create music that is intensely local in it’s orientation. Certainly, Celestial Lineage is a manifestation of the northwestern landscape, but it also arises out of an underground West Coast tradition formed by successive generations of psychic crusaders: Theosophists, beatniks, the Grateful Dead, Neurosis, the back-to-the-land movement, satanic hippies, tree-spiking anarchist punks. The resulting music invokes a misty dream world. Rain drenched specters looming at the edge of the wood. Echoes from the Astral Plane. Ancient cedar deities robed in moss. A glimpse of a bronze-domed temple among the firs. Celestial Lineage was written and recorded over the course of the first six months of 2011.
The Weaver brothers worked with Producer/mystic Randall Dunn (Earth, Boris, SUNN 0))), Cave Singers, Bjork/Omar Souleyman), with whom the band has developed a close relationship since their first collaboration on 2007’s Two Hunters. 3 songs are bejeweled by Jessika Kenney’s liturgical choir and solo voice. Aaron Turner (ISIS) also contributes orations to the maelstrom.
Sarabante is a hardcore/crust band from Athens, Greece. “Remnants” is the bands debut release. The band was brought to the attention of Southern Lord by Brad Boatright of From Ashes Rise. This makes perfect sense as Sarabante has a similar burning intensity that can be heard from those legends. One of the primary focal points of the group is their consistent execution of infectious melodies. This cd is limited to 1,000 machine numbered copies. For fiends of: Tragedy, From Ashes Rise, Neurosis.
Fear of musical routine. Will of pushing back boundaries with a classical rock instrumentation. Astounding violence executed in one of the most distinguished ways. Incredibly meticulous attention to detail. With so much selection criteria, very few could pull this all off whilst harnessing a consistent sound. And if there’s one band that has always sweat blood and water to access there in the midst of bands like Starkweather, Breach, 
SOFY MAJOR side:
glitchy ambient blended with post rock elements.
The Finger Print discography is getting harder to find, so I did some digging. With a little window cleaner my old scratchy copy of the CD made for some good ripping. As far as my personal canon goes, Finger Print were one of the delectable treats that lured me into the rabbit hole of nineties hardcore. Things would never again be the same for me, and I rather like it that way. Claw your way through the tangle of FP's jack-hammering drums, metallic dissonance, winding melodies, and curdling screams, and you'll find four regular guys, hacking their own rambling and fugitive path to the same vague place you hope to one day end up too. Like many acts of the decade, their path went somewhere inward, exploring the place of the individual among the shape-shifting and ghoulish menagerie of the political realm. Whether or not they ever found what they were looking for, I cannot say, but this 19 track document suggests to me that the journey was well worth it. There's nary a single throw-away (other than the awfully recorded live tracks at the end), and unlike many hardcore discographies, I am always riveted by this one from beginning to end. Speaking of the end, the final three studio tracks revealed a slightly new direction for the band, smoothing the jagged metallic edges to more elegant contours. Members would continue in this direction in the band Jasemine, who sadly only released four songs.
Yeah,this is how the story goes...When an idea begins,nothing can stop the force of it. Hot Potato Syndrome are the members of different bands from the city of Athens (Gr) who came together and decided to explore the call of the wild and the mentality of those who succumb to it.A music place where one can quite possibly find one's self,but also discovering the dark possibility that we might find our own strange nature,working always as a team. What about follow us in the groove side of our musical experience................
4th full lengh of Finlands PHOENIX FOUNDATION continiues with a row of HUSKER DU influenced melodic punk rock that comes again very solid and well done. The theme is again on the melancholic side of "things" and itä's not a record you listen to when you just have a good time. Maybe more the opposite. I love it. - Artwork is amazingly simple but beautyful. Crafted by Mr John Yates at Stealworks.
CRONE representa la incursión de (Jeff Caxide (Ex-ISIS) en paisajes sonoros ambientales, del proyecto unos meses en la toma de que fue inspirado en parte por más de una década realizando en todo el mundo. Con contribuciones de algunos amigos de edad y la influencia de la elaboración de la ficción y el cine tanto como luminarias sonora Tangerine Dream y Vangelis, Endless Midnight es seguro a la banda sonora de su vida en su más apático y melancólico. La oscuridad de un viaje de DMT. La sensación de temor y asombro que sólo el mejor cine de ciencia ficción puede provocar ...
Their MySpace is entitled "paltorture" ... then necessarily, it's a little worried. Because the underground black death of hell, it's going five minutes. Good at the same time, it M_ (yes that's more like hype) eh, so it was perhaps irony and it is much easier to understand. Otherwise, Pal we knew, before receiving it, nor Eve nor Adam is originally from Toulouse and delivers music to the image of the artwork of her and out your mouth. Sludge or a mixture of punk and metal noisecore playing snipers on Prototype Records label, specializes in Southern prods structure 'that tear the mouth much as it should (see: Bone Dance, Dear Catastrophe, Snakecharmer, Sofy Major, Stuntman) . And Pal, nothing wrong, why it is served.
HARDCORE FROM ALEMANIA
Cult British underground heavyweights AMEBIX recently parted company with Alternative Tentacles Records after 26 years. The band has decided to step up to the challenge of releasing its own work and has founded Amebix Records in conjunction with Easyaction. They are releasing the new album and back catalogue under the new label while Profane Existence will continue to manufacture and sell the band's work as high-quality vinyl releases, with global distribution through Cargo Records.
Light bearer formed in 2010, from the ashes of UK post metal and hardcore bands [ Fall of Efrafa ] and Dungeons. The band is an all encompassing art/music/narrative project, based around a story written by their vocalist Alex, who drew influence from the writings of Philip Pullman’s ” His dark materials ” trilogy, John Milton’s Paradise Lost, and the Book of Genesis. The band play a mixture of melodic post hardcore, progressive metal, post rock and ambient atmospheric drone, The songs are structured specifically to follow the narrative and therefore peak and trough in equal measure, mixing screamed desperate vocals with sung passages.
The story is split into four main parts, Lapsus, Silver Tongue, Magisterium and finally Lattermost Sword. The narrative begins with the metaphorical casting out of the protagonist Lucifer, an angel so loyal and in love with god that he could not submit when asked to bow before humanity, personified as Adam.
For this act he is banished from heaven into the cold stigeon wastes below. Here he questions the Allfather – an entity who claimed the universe as his own. In doing so he realises his master has lied, and vows to reach out from his desolate prison and become his namesake –to pass on the torch of free will to all life in the multiple universes.
The story continues in Silver Tongue, Magisterium and Lattermost Sword in which the torch is borne by the metaphorical Eve – the mitochondrial ancestor of humanity, her rejection of the will of the false god and the attempted rebellion against Heaven, her role and the role of the prophesied second Eve. The establishment of the church and the eventual culmination and war against the patriarchal god.
Alongside the four releases are planned EPs and split records, beginning with “Beyond the infinite, the assembly of god” – an elaboration of the introduction to the first album. A second narrative runs through records not included in the four main parts, which deals with the natural formation of the universe and the evolution of life.
Heavy, technical and panicked UK power trio channelling the Melvins, Keelhaul and Zeni Geva into your suffering brain.
I just started working with the Bulgarian band Mental Architects and will mix and produce their first full-length record. They’re recording the album themselves in Bulgaria, but it’s been a collaborative process from the get-go. To prepare, for instance, we’ve been exchanging videos, demos and sound clips. In this way, I’ve been able to see and comment on their set-up, micing techniques, signal path and environment in which they’ll be tracking the record. This has been great for tweaking certain elements and understanding how the whole thing is coming together. It helps that these guys are very proactive about their band and music. They’ve been a pleasure to work with, and I’m really inspired by their dedication and innovative approach to their art. I love the new demos, and I’m really looking forward to mixing this new record.
THIS IS THE WEBSITE YOU WILL BE ABLE TO BUY THE NEW CD FROM. http://nostalgiablackrain.seesaa.net/
THAT WEBSITE IS RUN BY THE DRUMMER WHOSE NAME IS ‘CHEW’ AND I EMAILED HIM AND HE SAID HE WILL HAVE MORE INFORMATION ABOUT PURCHASING THE CD WITHIN THE NEXT FEW DAYS.
CHEW ADVISED ME THAT THE PRICE WILL BE 1500 YEN EXCLUDING SHIPPING. 1500 YEN IS BETWEEN 15-20 DOLLARS IF WHETHER YOU ARE IN AUSTRALIA, AMERICA OR CANADA. IF YOU LIVE SOMEWHERE ELSE, FIGURE IT OUT YOURSELF. I RECOMMEND BUYING THE CD INSTEAD OF DOWNLOADING IT FROM ONE OF THE MANY AWESOME BLOGS THAT HOST THIS TYPE OF MUSIC BECAUSE I THINK THE LEAD SINGER HAS LEFT AND IS NOW INTO COSPLAY SO HE PROBABLY NEEDS MONEY SO HE CAN BUILD WORKING REPLICAS OF VOLDO (FROM SOUL CALIBUR)’S KNIVES AND MASK.
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This being my first impression of Brainoil, I have to say that I absolutely loved this filthy sludge right from the beginning of “Death of This Dry Season.” The guitar work is phenomenal, straightforward, bluesy, melodic riffing. The drumming is steady and punishing and I am quickly falling in love with this band. I like that the vocals don’t stand out over the rest of the music. Everything is set equally and I think that is a killer trait that no enough bands harness. “Gravity Is a Relic” is set to a faster pace, but it is still sludge. I love the charging riffing and pounding drumming. I love the quality of these recordings. I love the atmosphere to the tracks adding that element of misanthropy to the overall album.
HARDCORE. A remarkable cross border collaboration: SMASH DETOX is Ishiya and Souichi (FORWARD), Mukai ( JUDGEMENT), Zac ( WORLD BURNS TO DEATH) Iizawa (TETSU AREI). You'll get 2 powerful songs that take elements of the intense hardcore sounds of each of their classic Japanese and American Hardcore bands, but combined to a new and unique whole. Created with intense focus and effort, this recalls many of the classic Tokyo hardcore-punk 7"s of the late '90s, but also has the unmistakable mark of Texas Powerhouse hardcore.
