ENFOLD "no coming home"

POST-HARDCORE. * RECORD STORE DAY exclusive 16.4.2011 * ENFOLD was a German hardcore band that existed between 1995 - 2001. They released a couple 7"s and broke up straight after releasing this full-length in 2000. Members went on in THE NOW-DENIAL and a couple to neglect indie-rock bands, like TOMTE. ENFOLD were arguably one of the best German live bands around that time, and this master-piece with 14 recorded songs finally does them justice. Intense, angry and beautiful - these guys are in it with their hearts. A nice coverversion round off the whole record. Limited to 40 handnumbered items with a silver screenprinted and foil coating cover, a lyricsheet and a printed discobag.
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Get Rad " choose your own adventure "

We're now taking pre-orders for the upcoming 7" EP from Milwaukee, Wisconsin's GET RAD, entitled Choose Your Own Adventure, which will be out in a few weeks. This new 7" follows up last year's I Can Always Live LP (Gilead Media/Hyperrealist) with five new amazingly catchy tracks of fast, energetic and abrasive hardcore from members of Herds, High on Crime, Seven Days of Samsara, Since By Man, etc.

Limited to 500 copies, with 376 on a black/dark grey vinyl and 124 on varous colors of vinyl. It will come packaged in a two-color silkscreened chipboard cover (preview mockup above) and an 8 page Choose Your Own Adventure-styled booklet with artwork/illustrations by Matt Gauck. This is being released as a collaborative effort between Get Rad, Perpetual Motion Machine Records and Halo of Flies Records.

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( ) " false xmas"

NEW-WAVE/INDIE-ROCK. ( ) is the vinyl debut of MERCHANDISE's David Vassalotti's pet project. How do you pronounce it? "false xmas" was originally released as a seldom-heard tape on Cult Maternal, but now the 2 tracks found its way on vinyl. This particular ( ) record finds David channeling NEW ORDER through a more lo-fi lens with even worse vocals reciting emotionally devastating prose. These 2 songs make up what is a perfect pop single. The band is called "( )" or "parenthesis".

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LUMBER LUNG

SCREAMO-HARDCORE. The very 1st vinyl release from this emotional hardcore band from Santa Barbara/Goleta. Frantic, explosive, vulnerable lyrics discussing a range of human feelings and emotions such as selfishness, empathy, anxiety, apathy and depression. Three color letter press chipboard jackets with inserts printed on muslin cloth. This self-titled LP feature 9 songs (including rerecorded songs from "demo 2010" and "the exuberance of a robust people"). In the vein of YAPHET KOTTO, TORCHES TO ROME and CITY OF CATERPILLAR.

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NOW DENIAL " fuck now denial"

HARDCORE. Beware - don't mix them up with the German THE NOW-DENIAL. After a debut 7", 2 full-lengths, and almost 10 years of continually banging heads, Boston's NOW DENIAL are stronger than ever with this dynamic 5 dynamic tracks. "fuck now denial" explodes with thunderous rhythms, urgent riffs, and doomed-out metal. The epic songs bring to mind influences of everyone from BARONESS to BORN AGAINST to BOTCH.
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Desesperanza

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KICKING SPIT "psychrockbullshit"

POST-HARDCORE/PUNK. KICKING SPIT is an American band influenced by alternative and rock 'n' roll combining elements of hardcore-punk and noise-rock. Melodic guitar solos, droning vocals, feedback, extreme volume and the loud-quiet dynamic. Take everything you love about '80s hardcore, and mix it in a blender with HÜSKER DÜ and DINOSAUR JR. and you've got a pretty good idea of what KICKING SPIT sounds like. The songs are really catchy and definitely have an early '90s feel to them.

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STARKWEATHER SPLIT OVERMARS

Overmars have released numerous recordings over the last few years (many of which have been reissued by the Crucial Blast label). Their brand of ominous, expansive musical darkness is breath taking. A bleak and barren mix of doom, metal tinged punk, and experimental hardcore. Bringing to mind the sonic damage of later era Swans and Neurosis, while harboring a contemporary heaviness unlike anything else out there today.

Starkweather's legacy within aggressive music is legendary. Recorded at the same time as their highly praised "This Sheltering Night" album, their contributions here show a creative force at their most powerful. The complex "Armed Memory" shows Starkweather as tortured, jagged, and frantic as they've ever been. While their 14 minute epic closer "Nightmare Factory" is a layered metallic dirge of catastrophic proportions, dizzying and disorientating in its hypnotic ebb and flow.

Together Overmars and Starkweather have created an unclassifiable, paranoid journey into the artistic abyss, proving that aggressive music still has much to offer. No end is in sight as bands like these continue to reach down deep into their souls to explore such uncharted creative waters.

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Boris-Live in Japan DVDRIP

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LE DEAD PROJET "Keep On Living"

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Od Vratot Nadolu " Mercury"

Od Vratot Nadolu's album "Mercury" is out now LP and CD. They are a Macedonian bass and drums duo that make mutant hardcore in a noisy Man Is The Bastard meets Zeni Geva manner.


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Strike a Match " Demo [2011]"

HARDCORE PUNK EXCELENTE

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VICIOUS BRICKS demo

HARDCORE-PUNK. A pro-made cassette by VICIOUS BRICKS, a hardcore-punk band from Florida. Maniacal vocals, very distorted guitar and bass. Music similar to early hardcore bands like NEGATIVE APPROACH, YDI and SSD but with the vocals and production of bands like DISCHARGE or DISCLOSE.

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J. MASCIS "several shades of why"

ALTERNATIVE-ROCK. It's hard to believe that after 25 years of squalling guitar rock with DINOSAUR JR and a slew of other bands, J. Mascis is just now releasing his 1st proper solo album, and that it's a laid-back acoustic record. After listening to "several shades of why", it's even harder to believe he hasn't explored this format more often. His maximum rock 'n' roll six-string shredding morphs exceptionally well into this album's earthy, forlorn picking, and Mascis' lazy, stripped-bare backdrop of acoustic guitars and cellos and jingling tambourines is pure magic. Several guest musicians drop in to lend a hand on the album (including BAND OF HORSES, BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE, A SILVER MOUNT ZION, BLACK HEART PROCESSION etc.), but no one comes close to stealing the spotlight from the veteran Mascis on this affecting collection of solitary ballads.

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BUZZOVEN "Revelation: Sick Again "

SLUDGE-METAL/HARDCORE. "revelation: sick again" is classic BUZZOVEN, replete with blistering SABBATH-ian riffing, throat torn eulogies to the narcotically oppressed and monumental gutter dwelling dirges. Over the course of the album's 8 tracks, the untidy trio unfurl their tentacles reaching into the dim recesses of human existence to pull forth yet another grizzled portrait of life gone horribly wrong. Previously available only to bootleg diehards and internet trolls in inferior incarnations, this long lingering blackened gem has finally been disinterred for the world at large and properly presented in all its ragged filthy glory. LP includes a MP3 download card.

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Jack And The Bearded Fishermen " Places To Hide "

Jack and the bearded fishermen son comenzando con ese nombre una banda atípica. Pese a las referencias al vello facial nos los imaginaríamos más haciendo folk indie que la mezcla de sludge, rock alternativo y stoner que practican. La banda bebe mucho de la estela de bandas como Torche, Kylesa y a su vez, de los referentes de estas bandas, pero tal vez la sorpresa la den destellos vocales poco aceptados en el género, melódicos que aunque no abundan, recuerdan a bandas de metal de las que triunfaban en los últimos 90.

En "Scenario" ya nos sorprenden fusionando las guitarras y el tono oscuro de las bandas de la escena de Georgia con una voz y melodías más templadas, si bien la mezcla se decanta por esa oscuridad con tono psicodélico, más actual. En "Roam Until the End" continúa este fragil equilibrio, pues un riff triunfante se introduce en una canción de aires post-grunge y progresivos, también al borde del post-metal.

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Birds In Row "Cottbus"

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Too straight forward and too filthy to get back to the so-called hardcore fanbase that bloomed on Modern Life Is War's grave, too kind to belong to the crust/sludge scene, the three hardworkers from BIRDS IN ROW seem to avoid their city as much as labels.Then you can still wonder where do they take place between Modern Life Is War, Kylesa or Cursed. The first ones for the guts unpacking and their heartbreaking spleen, the second for their punk roughness and their abilities to enlight dirt and the last ones for the urging adrenalin discharges.But it is certainly not that. It is hardcore as it is supposed to be played. Period. With passion, deprived of any splendor and made so they can go stuff some asphalt half of the year.And yet, according to the 3000 miles they're dealing with in a twelve months time, if you haven't seen them less than 20 miles from your home, it can only mean two things : you have no friends, or no taste at all. And if there's not much we can do about the first reason, we can sure work on the other one. 
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The Poison Arrows " Newfound Resolutions "

On the surface, Chicago’s the Poison Arrows sound cold and mechanical, exhibiting an almost robotic precision that’s damn well uncanny. But then you press your ear a little closer and things start to unravel. Harmonies peek their heads out from behind corners; melodies creep along slowly before bursting unexpectedly into view.

Former Don Caballero bassist, Patrick Morris, anchors the music, his jarring, off-kilter bass lines coiling themselves around Adam Reach’s thunderous drums. Ex-Atombombpocketknife front man, Justin Sinkovich, provides the voice, his wiry guitar and abstract keyboards coloring the oftentimes bleak atmosphere with flashes of sonic radiance and bits of textural noise. It’s beguiling stuff, that rare breed of music that can lull you into a trance even as it’s punching you in the gut. This is indie rock for the thinking person — smart, decisive, calculating — but with an indomitable hardcore punk spirit raging at the center.

Standing at over 70 minutes, Newfound Resolutions can be an overwhelming listen. It’s dense, dark, difficult. But if you stand back and allow the details to seep in, let the album work its considerable magic on you, you’ll find that for all of its tension and tightly-wound intensity, there’s a whole lot of beauty to be discovered as well.

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Cloaca " Lassitude"

Praise for Cloaca‘s Lassitude from San Francisco’s aQuarius Records: Lassitude is the very first release from the just launched UK label Lone Vigil, and is the debut of black industrial post metal doomlords Cloaca. Both the label and the band are fronted by Chris Naughton, he of doomsludge masters Atavist and neo pagan black metallers Winterfylleth, but Cloaca is a whole different beast than either of those two outfits, and while most descriptions peg Cloaca as ‘experimental industrial doom’, that might be a bit misleading.

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Looking For An Answer – Split The Suffering Split The Pain

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