The Crimson Electric - s/t

Stoner rock in the vein of Kyuss, Sgt. Sunshine, Elder, from ex-Mugwart folk. With vox reminiscent of Jonah Jenkins.


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Covenant - Nature's Divine Reflection

dymon said...

more amazing progressive rock jams by ex-death metal drummers please. thank you.

April 25, 2009 4:51 AM


progness

Ribspreader - Bolted To The Cross

dymon said...

more death metal please. thank you.

April 25, 2009 4:51 AM


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Ahkmed - Adventures Involving Nudity (2002)

These Aussies call their band's music "post-stoner rock". Comparisons can be drawn from Kyuss/older QotSA and Nirvana. I couldn't find album art larger than a thumbnail so I just put that Simpsons gif up instead (and the fact it goes so well with the track Samar).

If anyone has anything else by these dudes, please up.


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Big Business - Mind The Drift (2009)

The now trio returns with a new album. Release includes 3 bonus tracks.

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Uncanny + Wargasm + Obituary

Swedish Melodic Death Metal with different influences(Napalm Death, Godflesh) on a couple songs. They only released this one full length and then their Guitarist went on to Katatonia.

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Great Boston Thrash Metal. The vocalist is different sounding for me but I enjoy a lot. The first three songs on the listen link are off this album.


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My Personal favorite from these fellow Floridians. This CD crushes on every track, definitely their heaviest record. John Tardy is what monsters sound like in my nightmares.


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And has anyone seen Amon Amarth on this tour they're on right now? What's their setlist been like?

Zeke - Kicked In The Teeth (1998)

Rocknfuckinroll.


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Liholesie - Vast-Homeland

Speaking of music to ride a steed to, heres a repost of a excellent cd from the Belabor blog.

"This is not metal. In fact, it's not really ambient either. It's entirely folk based ambient. The lakes, the trees, the forests - this cd was meant to be played in vast open spaces. Harps, lutes, flutes, krigs, synths, tubas, obos, the beeps, the sweeps, and the creeps. This thing has em all.

Think the softer/softest side of Summoning if say Silenius was replaced by a member of Evol. Very cool and calming material. 7 tracks, 47 minutes."

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Graveland - Spears From Heaven (2009)

Fuck NS, lol @ Rob Darken, but yay for his musical output. Download and prepare your steed for battle.

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The Weed Tree + Angel'in Heavy Syrup

Here's that Espers - Weed Tree shiiiiiiiiiiit.

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So this is the band that the lady from Acid Eater, Toda Fusao, was in before (and maybe still now?) she joined up with Masonna. To be honest, outside of straight-up ambient (ala Windy & Carl, MGR, Eno, etc.) this is my favorite shoegaze-taken-to-the-max album. I guess it was released in '95, and I'm not sure of any further releases, but the guitar tone and the vocals on this album make me want to sit back, relax, and forget that both myself and time exist.


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Espers & Acid Eater

Espers - II

This is one of my favorite neo-psych/folk albums to date. In a phrase, it's just done right. Great acoustic work, good implementation of sparse electronics, and some really gorgeous female vocals.


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Acid Eater - Virulent Fuzz Punk A.C.I.D.

So Yamazaki Maso (AKA Masonna) got together with a bunch of friends and made a garage/punk/psych band. Its actually pretty listenable, considering Maso's past endeavors. Acid Eater is actually an extension of Maso's first efforts as a melodic music artist, Christine 23 Onna, a band formed with spacey guitar goddess Toda Fusao of Angel'in Heavy Syrup (maybe I'll post them later - they make a damn good go at spacier shoegaze). Both stayed on, and added a drummer and a bassist/synth to form Acid Eater. The really searing keyboards might turn off a few, but if you can get past that, the melodies are all there in full-on, over-driven, 60's rock/kind-of-Blue Cheer-y + a shit-ton of hallucinogens fashion. Reminds me of Mainliner at a circus or something like that.


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War - Why Can't We Be Friends? (1975)

I live in California and it feels like summer is here already. So in honor of sunshine, girls wearing less and fun, I have upped this classic. Yes, "Why Can't We Be Friends" and "Low Rider" are both on this so you can dance like a retarded kid who's been given a sparkler.

2 posts above an ENTOMBED album... Godfather is shaking.


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Los Natas - Nuevo Orden de La Libertad (2009)

New album from the Argentinian trio.

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Entombed- Left Hand Path (1990)

First and Best album by Entombed. Sounds like Dismember.
Edit: Thank Petya for the higher quality rip. Now listen and see why this is better than Wolverine Blues.

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Grails - Acid Rain (DVD) (2009)

Audio from the new Grails DVD. Includes music from music videos, a soundboard recording of a show in New York, various early material and the recording session of Latitudes.

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Animals as Leaders - Self Titled [2009]

Pretty wild instrumental heaviness. People will talk a lot of shit and shoot it down as 'wankery' and what not, but I believe this album sounds much more fluid and interesting than many of the more coveted instrumental tech albums. Thx to RuinerXL for the link.

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Slough Feg - Ape Uprising! (2009)

Slough Feg returns with their sixth full length.

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Obits - I Blame You One (2009) & Cross Apiece 7inch (2008)

So this is the new Rick Froberg project (dear stupid kids: lead singer of pitchfork/drive like jehu/hot snakes). It's nice to hear a rock n roll band that actually rocks. If you like anything Rick has done before and bands like The Wipers and Murder City Devils, you have good taste in music and will inevitably be drawn in by this awesomeness.

I also threw in the 7inch they released last year cause I have way too much time on my hands.


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Xela - In Bocca Al Lupo

sifting through bands on myspace, i found this one the other day, and was caught by an interesting photo and band name. the sound is open, atmospheric, and doesn't abuse distortion. it often treads to horror movie soundtrack territory (in a positive way). it's molded to an excellent structure by one man. this is what i imagine Wolves in the Throne Room would sound like if they were good and not juvenile. i don't yet have an album. if there's any flaw to the music, i'd say it's a tad oppressive and sinister. compelling stuff.


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KARP documentary

Taken from Seattle Weekly's Reverb section:

"Karp Documentary in the Works

By Hannah Levin in Grapevine, Music Video, News, Rock Star DeathsSunday, Apr. 5 2009 @ 1:03PM
New York-based filmmaker Bill Badgley (guitarist from Bellingham's Federation X) is finishing up a documentary on the late, great band Karp. Though they disbanded in 1999, the Olympia-based band has long maintained a small but fiercely loyal cult following that views them as a groundbreaking and influential act when it comes to brutally heavy and punk-informed hard rock.

Bassist Jared Warren went on to play in the Tight Bros From Way Back When and currently heads up Big Business. Karp's sonically ruthless and charismatic drummer, Scott Jernigan, died in a boating accident on June 10th, 2003. It was a shocking, tragic loss that hit the northwest music community very hard. At the time of his death, Jernigan was the drummer for the Whip, which included Warren and ex-Melvins bassist Joe Preston.

Here's the trailer for the doc; there's definitely not much to it, but just the prospect of this band getting their due has me thrilled:

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NOXAGT

One of my all-time favorite instrumental bands. Angular riffage/basslines with ambiance/noise layering.
The first 2 releases are drum, bass & violin. Then they lost the violin guy, and got someone on baritone guitar in his stead.


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Melvins/Lustmord

Kind of surprised I haven't seen this particular Melvins record on here before, but then again, I missed it when it came out.

This album runs like an Old Man Gloom record - song/noise/song/noise, etc.
All Melvins fans will enjoy it

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Y The Last Man: 11-17 and Transmetropolitan: 4-12

Sorry I haven't been around but for the occasional album, school/life has been a little weird. Anyway I think I'll start putting these in larger groups so it doesn't take forever for you guys. If the download times start getting too long let me know and I'll size them down again.

More Y, you pretty much know what to expect, sheer geniusitude.

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This is where Transmet starts to really get going in my opinion. The first 3 issues were a good hook but it doesn't get really good until the second story arc (included in this zip). More angry Spider Jerusalem! Yet this time (the arc I mean) there seems to be more of a purpose, instead of Warren Ellis ranting through Spider about how much he hates religion and a plethora of other things.


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UNKLE - Psyence Fiction (1998)

Most of you may have this already, as you should. But for the few who don't prepare to be stoked. Songs range from Failure-esque (Unkle Main Title Theme) to moody drum and bass (Bloodstain). I know most people will say that they would rather listen to Portishead or Massive Attack, but these dudes have been consistantly releasing win instead a good album here/there filled in by naptime. Mmmmmmmmmmmmdrugs.


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P.S. Would the guy who posted "Y The Last Man" finish it up? You left me hangin bro!

Ogre You Asshole : s/t

Noodly, complex Japanese indie rock / post-punk which reminds me pleasantly of Pinback and such-like.

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Jesus Crost - Tot

I dont know anything about these guys. I just kinda ran across them and figured you guys might like them. Its just some crusty grind. I hear pig destroyer with a little piss christ in there.


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Meltdown/Mantic Ritual - Executioner

This is a friend's band from Pittsburgh. For a while, they were called Meltdown, but when they came back from living in Hollywood I guess some legal shit went on and they had to change their name to Mantic Ritual. Anyway, they play some serious old-school thrash, chalk-full of killer riffs and killerer solos. They drink a lot of beer.

Note: This is the mastering for the Meltdown version of Executioner, and not the Mantic Ritual one. I've heard a few tracks off of the Mantic Ritual one, and it seems to sound a bit different from the Meltdown version... although I haven't actually asked any of them if it is.

Here's a ridiculous video they just did:

video was broken, removed - walmart goth

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Tiny Hawks- Fingers Become Bridges/People Without End

Sorry for the absence kids. More comics on the way but enjoy this radical band.

This is a band that is unfortunately on what seems to be indefinite hiatus. These guys play a really fucking amazing mix of The Minutemen with more "mathy" (ugh) riffs and such. Nothing I write about them will really do them justice so just fucking download it.

This is both of their albums.

Enjoy.



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Graf Orlock - Destination Time Today (2009)

heres the latest from this fucking awesome band

i don't like any band that sounds like this band
i only like this band because of their lyrics and samples
i don't care if a million other bands play this music, they have jurassic park and point break sound clips so this band is better, grindcore fucking sucks except for this one band
i was more excited for this release than ANYTHING else in 2009 and i don't care how stupid that is to say over a gimmick whatevercore band this is

best sample so far to me is the old guy speach from that wahlberg movie shooter, that guy was awesome, and that movie was better than slumdog millionaire
marky was awesome in it, like he is in EVERY movie

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The Company Band - Sign Here, Here and Here (2008)

Neil Fallon, Jess Margera, Rev. James Rota and some other dudes I don't care about play well produced groovy rock. This is only a 4 song EP.


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Harvestman - In A Dark Tongue (2009)

Steve Von Till returns with his second album.

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Alestorm - Black Sails At Midnight (2009)

voiceover version, BUT a great preview overall and the voiceovers themselves are funny as they are done in a pirate voice encouraging against piracy.

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Atmosfear (Japan) - Atmosfear

In their own words: 'Albert Ayler meets Darkthrone'. To me it sounds like smooth, mathy, psychedelia inflected instrumental rock with nice flow and atmosphere.


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Tiger Army - II: The Power Of Moonlite

I know Jed will behead me for this one, but I think this is a great album. It's really the only Tiger Army album I actually like, probably because it leans alot more into punk territory than psychobilly. There's definitely some country fried shit, but for the most part it's fast and not all honky tonky.


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Some Girls - Heaven's Pregnant Teens

Final album by Californian arty hardcore/occasionally powerviolence outfit. Had two drummers for a while. Super noisy, about a 7 on the chaos scale, all pretty short and punchy stuff. Closing track  "Deathface" alone is worth the price of admission. Their vocalist was in some other bands and has a hook for a hand. HE HAS A HOOK FOR A HAND.


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Black Sleep Of Kali

I ain't gonna lie....this is my band. This was recorded late last year and hasn't been officially released yet. It's 5 songs, but clocks in more like a really long EP. I figure there's plenty of fellows on here that can appreciate it.

I'll link the myspace to preview before downloading, but we're sludgy, riff oriented rock. If I had to compare to other bands, it's probably akin to bands like Goatsnake, The Sword, and maybe even a diet caffeine free Neurosis.

Post your thoughts on it, please.


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The Ducky Boys - Three Chords And The Truth

Street punk put of Boston, with plenty of nods to oi. This record is more melodic than their earlier stuff and makes for some really catchy songs.


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Teenenerate - Get Action!

Japanese garage punk from 1994. It sounds like it was recorded inside a trash can. The lyrics are in english, and if you can track down the lyric sheet, it's pretty funny. All in all a pretty fun listen.


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Propagandhi/I-Spy "I'd Rather Be Flag Burning" Split

Melodic hardcore/punk rock from both of these politically charged Canadian bands. Some of the best stuff ever done by either side.


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Jake Bannon - The Blood Of Thine Enemies

Just a single track here - was a 7" single or something like that, very limited run. First solo recordings from Converge vocalist/Deathwish inc co-founder/tattoo enthusiast Jacob Bannon. Dark and melodramatic little piece of music that i personally find rather charming. Apparently he's got a full album coming out some time this year called "Wear Your Wounds". But for now, this will have to do.


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Witchtrap

I've recently been seeing write ups of thrash/black metal acts from Columbia pop up every now and then - enough to make me think there's a bit of a scene down there. Anyway, I've been getting into it in the past year or so, and so far the best of the bunch in my opinion is a band called Witchtrap. They basically sound like a much faster Venom meets Morbid Angel or some shit.


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Nondor Nevai


I don't know really what to call this, but I read somewhere that the whole story behind this "album" is that the guy, Nondor Nevai, got pretty hammered, sat down at his computer, turned on a mike, and recorded himself sometimes singing with songs (generally with liberties taken with the lyrics, most often involving satan),and talking about shit that really makes no sense at all. I think I would describe this as "stream of consciousness karaoke", and its fucking weird, but really pretty funny.


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Dorothy raped? & Judy Garland "Speaks"

Alongside the original post is the 2-disc cd of Judy Garland "Speaks!", which is her in her old days being pissed off and ranting about her life and showbiz. Somber, at times hilarious, but overall a sad & fascinating look into Garland's life.

Ever since the first time I heard this on a special features disc i've desperately wanted the audio and just recently I managed to acquire it. This outtake is striking because of the truly haunting sobs Judy pulls off; every time I hear it I think that the flying monkeys just had their way with Dorothy or something equally horrific. There is a light piano accompanying Judy's sobbing rendition of Over the Rainbow and the tune takes on such a different aspect that I think Nick Cave would call it, "...a weeping song"


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Red Red Meat - Bunny Gets Paid (2009 remaster)

Remaster + demos from Sub Pop 90's grunge vets. Blues, fuzz distortion and feedback.


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DMBQ - The Essential Sounds From The Far East

The most obvious comparison point for the band is a host of mid-’70s rockers (think Hawkwind/Deep Purple on acid... or, uh, more acid than they were already on). While the Dynamite Masters love to kick out the 4/4 jams, they have also adopted a more rugged, psychedelic take on those huge, Bonham-esque stompers. Mirroring the modern Japanese psych/rock scene’s aesthetic abandon, nearly every song on The Essential Sounds From the Far East seems moments away from falling apart completely. The rhythm section is absolutely insane; a far cry from the bombastic stability of most ’70s rock groups, it recklessly scrambles around an otherwise traditional base of psychedelic blues. On the drums, exotic temptress (read: Japanes woman) China breaks into disorienting sixteenth note fills at the drop of a dime, directing the music’s tempo and flow to shaky heights. Perhaps most notable though, is the voice of Shinji Masuko. His guttural yelps are painfully Japanese, even when trying to impersonate his American forefathers. I’m going to go out on a limb here and call his lyrical antics endearing and pretty humorous, too. Masuko only reaffirms a common belief that balls-out rock music is best heard with a grain of salt. And even if being funny isn’t DMBQ’s real intent, every time one of their killer riffs or gravity-defying drum fills blasts through my speakers, I can’t help but grin. They are the band that Monotonix emulates most.


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Oh shit new Wolves in the Throne Room

I picked this up over on www.soundweave.blogspot.com, so give them a look, as they are a pretty decent music blog (if they bother to post...). Anyway, its fucking Wolves in the Throne Room, shut up and get it. Vinyl isn't out yet, but you can pick up the CD for 12 on Southern Lord.


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Pink Mountaintops - Outside Love (2009)

Solo (though with lots of guests) project by Black Mountain's lead singer; this is a similar mix of psych, stoner and indie, though mellower and maybe a bit more country than his main band. Good stuff.


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UNIVERS ZERO

Univers Zero's first 2 albums from 77 and 79. Very dark compositions from a Symphonic prog 'micro-orchestra' from Belgium. A fun stoned listen.

wiki: "Their early albums were almost entirely acoustic but with later releases their sound became more electric. In 1977 they released their first album 1313 on which the members played with a heavy rock and roll approach despite the fact that the instrumentation was largely acoustic. This is mostly due to the use of drums. Two years later the album Heresie proved to be even darker. Several reviews have cited it as the darkest album ever recorded.
Subsequent albums lightened the sound only slightly, but became ever more electric. Whereas early albums featured oboes, spinets, harmoniums and mellotrons their 1980s albums tended to rely more on synthesizer and electric guitar. Despite these changes their overall sound remained fairly consistent."

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Mainliner, Io, and The Birthday Party

Mainliner - Mellow Out


If there's anybody out there not familiar with these noisy heavyweights, Mainliner are a mini-super-group of sorts, comprised of Makoto Kawabata (guitarist of Acid Mothers Temple/Cosmic Inferno/etc.), Asahito Nanjo (vocalist & bassist for High Rise) and Hajime Koizumi (drummer for AMT, amongst other bands) from Tokyo. This album more or less defined what "over-driven" can mean, and is a serious slab of loud, in your face rock and fucking roll. Nanjo's vocals, juxtaposed against the rhythm (and especially Kawabata's searing solos) creates an eerie kind of atmosphere, kind of like a ghost trying to vocally break through an intense wash of quasi-hostile, incredibly dense psychedelic mist. Overall, phenomenal album.

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Io - The Willow Snag


Io were a Pittsburgh band in the early '00's. Generally regarded as post-hardcore, they fused enough intricate and noisy elements to really set themselves apart from a lot of the other bands coming out around that time. They, along with Pittsburgh's Crucial Unit, at least pretended to give the Steel City something to talk about/rally behind when it came to non-mainstream music, but unfortunately they played their last show together in 2004, at the now-defunct stinky, crust-punk/squatter shit hole that was 1877.

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The Birthday Party - Mutiny/Bad Seed


The Birthday Party were a post-punk band originally from Melbourne, Australia that started around 1976. The line-up consisted of Nick Cave, Mick Harvey, Rowland Howard, and Phil Calvert (future members of Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, These Immortal Souls, etc.). Their sound, especially on this album, is really quite slow and somber, but always with a tangible sense of tension writhing around somewhere in the background. I tend to like the Birthday Party more than the Bad Seeds, and perhaps it is because of this presence of uncertainty: tracks like Fears of Gun, Swampland, and Mutiny in Heaven really show Cave's aptitude at being anything but a Tom Waits styled crooner, instead evoking images of something, sick, desperate, deranged, or some combination of the three.

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Pines Of Nowhere - s/t (2000)

If you've had enough of bands where Mastodon is used as a comparison and you're into The Wipers and Hot Snakes, click and win.

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Devil Doll- The Girl Who Was...Death(1989)

I have a hard time describing this band so I'll stick with what the Metal Archives has: Avant-garde / Symphonic / Progressive with Rock and Metal Elements. I would say imagine Fantomas "Director's Cut" but slower and more Operatic. This was a random find for me and I thoroughly enjoyed it. This means nothing to me but maybe for some of you, Its a concept album based on the TV series "The Prisoner."

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The Devil and The Sea - Heart vs. Spine

Heart vs. Spine is a triumph of a debut record from start to finish. Everything about this release just punishes the senses with thick, memorable songwriting nailing it all together. TDATS are a tight unit in every aspect musically, with an ability to go from lean violent attacks to expansive, lengthier dirges without losing a bit of their edge and ferocity. I think this is a band that everyone is going to be hearing a lot more about in the near future. They’ve got all the chops needed to set the underground circuit on fire. Imagine a cross of Cavity, 16, Unsane, akimbo with just a slight pinch of early Mastodon and you’ll have an approximate mental portrait of the kind of damage this act dishes out. Heart vs. Spine is highly recommended on all counts.



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Manatees - Icarus, The Sunclimber (2009)

New CD from the Carlisle, UK "prog-sludge" group.

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Crippled Black Phoenix - 200 Tons of Bad Luck / The Ressurectionists & Night Raider (2009)

New CD from the UK "super-group" [ featuring members of Iron Monkey, Mogwai, & Electric Wizard. ] Posted here at the request of Godfather.

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Additional Box-Set

Limited edition 2 CD Box Set of out-takes and exclusive bonus material.

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The Dillinger Escape Plan - Under The Running Board (Reissue)

Now that they've decided to become JustinTimberlAphexTwin at regular intervals i find myself skipping tracks with these guys albums more and more often. But remember when they were brutal? Well i do, and apparently the good people at Relapse do, cause they reissued DEP's second EP with a fucktonne of extra songs on it. What you get here really is the original recording (all three songs of it) and then all those songs again live, and then half of Calculating Infinity live, and to top it all off it closes with the bitchinest cover of paranoid your pretty little ears ever done heard.


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Find Him And Kill Him - Cut Them to Pieces

Find Him And Kill Him musically are short, fast, loud, and noisy. No metal, no chugga, just blazing fast verses, thrashy blast beats, and great mid tempo mosh parts. The average song length on "Cut Them To Pieces" is forty five seconds, with the longest song on the record clocking in at a minute and five seconds. Musically, the group is akin to Infest, Charles Bronson and unit 21. I haven't been this satisfied with nine minutes and fifty-four seconds music in a long, long time.


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KARP - Live 5-24-1995 KAOS Radio, Olympia, WA

OH. SHIT.

01. Obstacle Corpse
02. Get No Toys (When You Pay the Money)
03. Connect 5
04. I'd Rather Be Clogging
05. See You at Lakefair
06. Meet Me in Lacy
07. Lorch-Miller
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Agoraphobic Nosebleed - Frozen Corpse Stuffed With Dope

In light of the new release....


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Beecher - This Elegy, His Autopsy

Ive been informed this is metalcore. Just Listen.


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BISON: QUIET EARTH

some pretty decent canadian doom/sludge stuff.
not sure if it's intentional, but I find the album cover hilarious.

they are playing in Brooklyn on the 18th at death by audio if anybody wants to check them out

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Einsturzende Neubauten - Halber Mensch

What do you mean you don't like EN? What are you deaf or something? No? Well then get this up you.

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Black Cobra - Bestial (2006)

Rather good sludge/doom album. Excellent live.

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Brutal Truth - Evolution Through Revolution

The new fucking Brutal Truth. It's everything you hoped it would be.


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Cursed - One

I doubt they need much of an introduction, but Cursed are recently defunct Canadian heavy weights. Members were in Left For Dead, The Swarm, Countdown To Oblivion, Haymaker, Acrid, Shallow North Dakota, etc.

This is their first record (hence the thought provoking name), and is their most raw and brutal sounding. The guitars will make your speakers sound like they're going to melt.


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Negativland - s/t

You can not review negativland.

Negativland reviews you!

but I'm assuming most people haven't a clue who or what negativland is. They are a avant-garde, punk, noise group that doesn't just play conventional music. they take sound bites and clip them together with fitting music to create a collage of sounds and thought that will leave the listener either wanting more or highly irritated



Negativland is Negativland's first album, released by Seeland Records in June 1980. Each copy of the album has a different cover. This required a small run of only 15,000 copies. Unlike all other Negativland albums, this album has no titles for the songs, just numbers. This is the rarest Negativland album, next to the misprinted Dispepsi albums and the U2 E.P.
This album was recorded when Mark Hosler and Richard Lyons were in high school and at the age of 17.

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Insect Warfare - World Extermination

One of the best grind bands in the last 10 years. They were from Texas. They played traditional, UK style grindcore, but turned up the bpms. In 10 more years, this album will be up there right next 'Scum' and 'World Downfall' as far as legendary grind albums.


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Colditz Glider - The Properties Of Light

Kinda like Behold The Arctopus, but replace fiending for crack and playing stupid looking guitars with drinking sangria with your significant other at the beach and actually giving a fuck about writing good music. This is their only album so far and they're taking so long to do anything else i cant help but wonder if they have actually broken up. 


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Agoraphobic Nosebleed - Agorapocalypse (2009)

New CD from the Springfield, Massachusetts grind band. With added third vocalist named Kat.

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Mammoth Grinder - Rage and Ruin

I can't believe that this hasnt been posted yet. Austin’s MAMMOTH GRINDER have unleashed a powerful debut album of blistering, thrashing hardcore punk fury. What’s most impressive about this young trio’s Rage + Ruin album is the subtle twists they add to what is normally a straightforward genre. Unique songwriting, timing and the occasional incredible "heavy" part really set MAMMOTH GRINDER apart from most burly/fast punk bands. Very heavy tuning, a dual vocal attack and air-tight stops & starts don’t hurt either. Definitely a band to keep an eye on, as they totally pummel live too.

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The Hextalls - Call It A Comeback

I'm not sure how many people will be into stuff like this, but...

The Hextalls are a Canadian band playing Ramones style punk rock. The lyrics could double as a full length comedy album. If you're into it, buy the record. It was just recently released on vinyl.


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Venomous Concept: Retroactive Abortion

fast, heavy & simple. I'm surprised no one has posted it on here before

Venomous Concept features Shane Embury (Napalm Death, Lock-up, Brujeria), Buzz Osbourne (the Melvins, Fantomas), Kevin Sharp (Brutal Truth, Damaged), Danny Herrera (Napalm Death)


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Weekend Nachos - Punish And Destroy

Chicago band bringing back the power violence thing. Down tuned fast crusty hardcore with awesome vocals. For fans of Infest, Discharge, Crossed Out, Ceremony, Youth Of Today, etc etc


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The Holy Shroud - Ghost Repeaters

The Holy Shroud were a band out of Halifax, NS, Canada who did the post hardcore/math rock type thing really well. They put out a full length on Level Plane, and did a split 7" with Hot Cross (download contains their song from the split). Members went on to form a bunch of other bands you can check out from their Myspace.


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Swallowing Shit - Anthology

Swallowing Shit were a grind band out of Canada. Here's what G7 Welcoming Committee says about them:

"Swallowing Shit was possibly one of the most extreme musical projects ever to come out of the prairie wasteland known as Winnipeg - unrelenting and hideous, their particular brand of political grindcore remains in a league of its own.

Swallowing Shit's last show occurred June, 1997, at the West End Cultural Centre in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Picketed and stormed by nearly 300 Christians angered by their smash radio hit "Pro-Abortion, Anti-Christ", the show signaled the end of an era in Winnipeg, as the band were subsequently banned from public performance by city council, citing an obscure and hitherto unenforced 103-year old civic ordinance criminalizing challenges to the authority of the Church within city limits.

Many of the ever-changing membership are still active in the Winnipeg music scene. Todd (guitar) plays bass for Propagandhi, Mike (vocals) sings for Head Hits Concrete and books shows in Winnipeg, Jahmeel (bass) is sings and plays bass in Projektor, and Cory (drums) continues to play drums for Malefaction."


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Abnegation - Verses Of The Bleeding

Abnegation were a band out of Erie, PA who were around in the mid 90's. They began and became popular as a hardline straight edge, vegan, pro life, enviromentalist, etc hardcore band, peaking by playing the legendary Cleveland Fest in '96. They released some records that were okay.

But their best record was their last, after they ditched the conscience and started playing death/black metal and singing about Satan. This is that record. They do a pretty sweet Venom cover too.

Members went on to play in Creation Is Crucifixion, Chapter, Brothers Keeper, etc.


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Behind 1's Back - We Hate To Follow The Rules

Stoned caveman death-sludge. Unrelenting de-tuned stomp and guttural vocals. The title track is a collabo with a noise artist which adds some nice variety of sound.

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Dub Trio - Another Sound Is Dying

If you hear the name “Dub Trio” and your first reaction is "I hate sublime", be prepared to be kicked squarely in the teeth. Another Sound Is Dying goes right for the throat from the very beginning, pounding a metal riff into your skull with a pissed off fervor that can only be found in . Yes, Dub Trio have their Jamaican influences, but on Another Sound they are definitely a kick-ass rock band. Each track has moments of ear splitting guitar, gut rumbling bass and, most memorably, innovative drumming that, more than anything, will bring to mind those dirty reggae riffs this band is associated with. Still, despite each player’s obvious strengths on their own instrument (huh huh), it’s the little studio magic moments that will stick with you, like on the pulsing “Funishment”, when some metallic computer noise from hell rears its head from the deep and right into your brain.If you like your music hard, heavy and truly innovative, you’ll enjoy this set.

Mike Patton does guest vocals on the only track with any.


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Black Elk s/t

The eponymous debut from Portland, Oregon's Black Elk is a raging, frothing-at-the-mouth eruption of damaged yet majestic destructo rock, seriously heavy and seriously catchy. A creeped out conglom of carnivorous charred hardcore punk, the sludgy power of primo Pacific Northwest tarpit rawk (think Karp, Melvins, and early Soundgarden as reference points), twitchy Midwestern noise rage somewhere between Am Rep circa-1991 and a more rabid Die Kreuzen, and a goatheaded psychedelic backwoods black mass/dance party risen to a fever pitch. Produced by Mike Lastra at Smegma Studios (Earth, Thrones, Jackie-O Motherfucker).


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Monotonix - Body Language

Here's my first post as a contributor here. Monotonix are arguably one of the top five current live bands. They are basically an over the top garage band from Tel Aviv. Im not really good at describing these things so here are some other peoples descriptions.



Unlike anything you've ever witnessed." - Washington Post"


Unforgettable and thrilling chaos." - Now Toronto"


You hit my girlfriend in the head with a trash can, and as much as i love her, you were still the best fucking band I've seen in ages. don't stay away from Raleigh long, ok?" - "Siobhan", Raleigh NC


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Flying Lotus - Los Angeles

This album has been posted on many blogs, but I don't care, I'm posting it here anyway because it's phenomenal.

This is allllllllllll beats, very very very very luscious beats. It's also a fairly dark album, very middle-of-the-night all alone dark. This guy is one hell of a producer.

Anyway, get this is you want something to chill out to.

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Locrain - Drenched Lands (

a lad from the band locrain emailed me asking his band to be posted here(yeah even with the fucking hope conspiracy being posted here)


here is a review

"Debut vinyl by a Chicago duo who spoon through the night mounted upon a guitar or a synth. It's a noisy piece of work, but the sonic textures are closer to rock (maybe born amidst the debris of a party Killing Joke had just left). The first side is a ride through a wind tunnel, the flip is like a more gracefully arcing dive into a pile of inflatable balloons shaped just like Fripp & Eno on the cover of "No Pussyfooting". But they don't pop when you hit them, they just blast you back into space with a bruise to show for your troubles. Go figure."

"LOCRIAN Local doom-drone duo Locrian recently released Rhetoric of Surfaces (Bloodlust!), their first proper CD after a string of cassettes and CD-Rs, and Greyfield Shrines (Diophantine Discs), their first vinyl LP, and both sound like the music you'd expect to hear piped into a museum of the exorcism arts. Looming monoliths of distorted synthesizer erode in slow motion while a brittle, hazy guitar line wavers slowly back and forth like a rusty weathervane creaking in the wind. And then: the voices. Disembodied howls rising from the devil's asshole. Greyfield Shrines is a single long-form composition—how long depends on you, since there's a locked groove at the end of side one—and its beautiful, eerie tones are matched by its beautiful, eerie packaging. It's pressed on tornado gray vinyl in an edition of 300 and the cover is a silver-on-black negative image of an abandoned shopping mall. On Rhetoric of Surfaces the title of the closing track, "Amps Into Instruments," serves as both statement of purpose and pithy thumbnail of the band's music—the better-known half of Locrian, multi-¬instrumentalist Terence Hannum, just pitched Continuum a proposal for a book about Earth 2. Indian headlines; Bloodiest and Locrian open."


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lucidreview pending

HE MUST BRING THE RAWKUS

TO ALL US MUTHA FUCKAZ.


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The Hope Conspiracy - Endnote

Another gem. Suck a fuck.

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Project Pat- Mista Don't Play:Everythang's Workin (2001)

Tired of Post- this, and -core that? Give this a listen. Mista Don't Play is a flawless rap album, a feat that is damn near unachievable in that genre of music. I suggest everyone gives it a listen. Project Pat is funny, the beats are the cream of their southern crop, and most importantly, it's fun to listen to.

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The Hope Conspiracy - Death Knows Your Name

I did it! I sucked Jed off real good like and in return he has bestowed me with the beautiful honor of blogging shit music. I have finally fulfilled my dream of becoming a real life Lucid Media blog-fag...So let's have at it!

This album is pure Hardcore magic. I have yet to tire of it since it's release in 2006. Possibly the best Hardcore album of the new millennium. None of this bullshit posturing modern Hardcore. Hope Con have been setting the bar good and high for years and few bands in the genre can hold a candle to them in my opinion. I can honestly say that I hate most all modern Hardcore and would go as far to say that 99.9% of it is a big joke but this band just has that special something and I love them. What can I say? They make my dick dance. So download this and tell me how much you hate it and me. It'll be fun. I'll be posting some of their other albums/eps as well. Nootch.

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Saviours-Crucifire

Saviours-Crucifire 2006
Almost like lo-fi version of mastadon, mixed with the sword, minus all the gay shit about both those bands. Except for the first song (total mastadon rip-off), there's plenty of good chuggy riffage goin on here. I like this album, but I'm not diggin their new shit (sounds to much like that noodling masto-crap)
Yes, it's former yaphet kotto members, but it sounds NOTHING like that pussy screamo shit. This album is metal

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Actors Turned Punks

Yaphet Kotto was a band that played from around '97 to '04. Last.fm says they're still together but I haven't heard shit from them for a while, so I assume they're defunct. Anyway, they've got that screamo/powerviolence-lite thing going on that bands like Saetia, Orchid and Pg. 99, and actually, if I remember correctly, a dude from Pg. 99 played (guitar?) with them. Their vocalist makes the craziest faces live.

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Etae are a still active band from one of the best cities in Japan - Hakodate. The area produces really quite a lot of pretty good punk/burning spirits hardcore, and these guys, along with Mustang, are in my opinion the cream of the crop. I remember when I first started listening to them I immediately thought that these guys could easily replace the boss music to any mega-man video game ever. The album cover posted is indeed for the same album I've posted for the music here, although they've taken some liberties with the title translation: "Hageshii inochi wo mikadasu yatsu ni tataki kaeshite yare" kind of means "Rotten to the Core", but it really means something like "We're gonna beat the fuck outta those bitches who don't like our 'tough' lifestyle."

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This is my friends' band - Ball of Flame Shoot Fire. They've been at it for a little while now, maybe 3 or 4 years, and finally just released their first LP, Jokeland. Definitely a bit of a departure from the previous two posts, these guys take a lot of influence from a lot of the weirder indie-rock going around today, Tom Waits, and even some rag time. I just wish that Batman was on here. Anyway, give it a listen and tell me what you think.

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Comics

I love comics. I started reading them again maybe 4 months back, starting with Sandman, and just want to say its fucking rad to have them being posted on lucid.

Arch Enemy - Burning Bridges(1999)

After having the flu for a week and having to go to the hospital, I have returned with one of my favorites. I believe this cd has some of the catchiest metal riffs I've ever heard and is solid all the way through. One of the best Melo-Death cds around. The one I posted has all 4 bonus songs, one's a Europe cover? yeah OK now.


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X-Men Origins: Wolverine

remember when this got talked about here and a few rational minds and i suggested it would be box office poison? well, i hope you didn't get your hopes up, because if you were aiming for anything other than a "laughably bad" movie experience, you'll likely be disappointed.

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A Place To Bury Strangers - A Place To Bury Strangers

A Place To Bury Strangers create heavy shoegaze noise, echoing the harsher tones of My Bloody Valentine, and the Jesus & Mary Chain.

Their debut is an atmospheric, feedback drenched collection of noise pop with a Wall of Sound influence hidden amongst the distortion.

I think.

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Codeine: The White Birch

Codeine: The White Birch

A nice rainy day album...

I saw that someone previously posted Barely Real so I figured I'd add this one too

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Blacktail - Styrofoam Island

Great recent noiserock band from Boston, on Jonah Jenkin's (Milligram, Only Living Witness, RawRadaRwaR, etc etc) label. They killed when i saw them open for Harvey Milk last summer. Also, one of the guys from Doomriders is in this band.. but I find that hard to believe because this band doesn't suck.

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when you see it

you'll shit bricks

Y:The Last Man issues 6-10 and Transmetropolitan issues 1-3

Here is more Y for you guys. I really didn't expect so many of you to enjoy it, so I was more prompt in getting these to you dudes. This is the whole next story arc.

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Next up is Transmetropolitan by a Mr. Warren Ellis (not the same as in The Dirty Three/Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds but a badass in his own right). I cannot comment on the series as a whole since I'm not quite all the way through yet, but what I have read has been great. Ellis writes great science fiction tinged stories closer to scifi weirdos like Philip K. Dick and the like. This series is about a gonzo journalist named Spider Jerusalem and all the bullshit he goes through to get a story. This comic is dark, violent, angry, funny and most of all intelligent. This isn't violence for the sake of violence and that to me is a good sell in an of itself.

Hope you guys dig it.

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Abandoned - Los Angeles, Motherfucker!!! (1985)

I got this from the dudes over at BORN IN THE BASEMENT. It's basically their out of print discog with the full length and demos. If you like thrashy 80's hardcore punk like Black Flag, Bad Brains and Circle Jerks featuring the lead singer of THE ADOLESCENTS, you should be stoked on this.


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Y:The Last Man issues 1-5

This is probably one of my favorite comic series of all time. The plot, the character development, everything is just flat-out perfection. To simplify the premise it's about a sudden disease/disaster that immediately kills off all the men of the planet leaving the women and one very unlucky guy named Yorick and his pet monkey Ampersand. I'd love to write more but I'd hate to accidentally give anything away. This comic is so fantastic, since it's completion I've shown it to 6 friends so far, three were comic fans already, and they absolutely loved it, the other three had never read a comic in their lives, and loved it just as much. It sounds a little scifi-ish and it is, a little, but it can also be very post-apocalyptic and survival-esque. Anyway I could write about this damn thing all night but I should stop and just let you guys enjoy the fucking book.

The other link will be to wikipedia, which I'm sure can explain the book a lot better than I just did.

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Comics

With permission from Jed I've decided to start posting some comics that I think will be worth your time. My point being is to bring more attention to this fantastic and unappreciated medium. Yes we live in the days of half-assed movie adaptations but if anything these serve as a disservice to the original art because as we all know, true quality adaptations are as rare as they come. So, the things I plan on posting will be things for everyone, not just fellow comic book nerds. If you've never read a comic in your life, and one of these sounds at all amusing, give it a shot, I think you'll be surprised. It's free after all, just make sure to support the writers/artists/companies that bring you these marvelous pieces of fiction, because even though it's easy and awesome to read these little ditties on your computer, it's no substitute for the real deal. When buying remember to support your local book and comic stores. Borders and Barnes and Noble don't need your money that bad, I promise.

Another note, many of these stories need time to develop, try not to jump to any conclusions after one or two issues.

So this first post will link you to the kind of reader you need to download to be able to look at these particular image files, very quick and small. I'll post this first since the issues I'm uploading to mediafire is going to take a bit.

Also I'd like to say if you are in any way affiliated with these books and would like them removed please get in touch and I will remove them immediately.

So the series I will be posting first will be: Y: The Last Man, SCUD The Disposable Assassin, The Maxx, Watchmen, Transmetropolitan, and other little things I have around my HD but not in that order. Be sure to let me know what you like and what you don't like, I aim to please. As I post each they will obviously have an adequate description. Stay tuned!

Enjoy!

*note* Mediafire is being a bitch and already took down my .cbr reader upload. So when you click "dl" it will just link you to the site of the guy that made the damn reader, it's free of course.

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iron lung - sexless // no sex

here have this or something

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Envy - Abyssal

On 'Abyssal', Envy introduce more accessibility to their intense post rock influenced hardcore. Ambient soundscapes underpinning rages of discordant noise, 'Abyssal' proves that the maturing transition from their hardcore roots and into the realm of intense post rock can be an easy one. Live, they're phenomenal, with crashing riffs, emotive vocals and tight rhythm section.

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Jello Biafra with D.O.A. - last scream of the missing neighbors (1990)

this sounds a lot like Jello Biafra singing for D.O.A.


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Comets On Fire - Blue Catheral

Comets On Fire are a band who are impossible to categorize. And why would you want to?

Released on Sub Pop, 'Blue Cathedral' is a trippy ride through 4 decades of rock n' roll with many comparing their heavy psychedelic noise to Hawkwind, MC5, Butthole Surfers, and a few in between.

'Blue Cathedral' displays depth and variety, incorporating heavy psychedelic jams with ferocious walls of noise

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The Phantom Band - Checkmate Savage

One of Scotland's brightest new exports, The Phantom Band experiment with tone and texture within the conventional confines of a rock band. With 'Checkmate Savage' they have produced an essential art-rock album with definite emphasis on melody. The band travel seamlessly through a maze of genres, with nods to blues, folk, and Captain Beefheart.

For me, the hypnotic percussion grouped with vocal harmonies and swamp rock guitar tones create a comforting late night record.

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The Mirimar Disaster - Volumes

Riff heavy progressive metal from the midlands. Fans of early mastodon will dig this.

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Gaji : 9pmatgfm

Gaji were a female fronted, mathy post-punk/post-rock group from Japan active in the 90's and early 00's. Rhythm driven, angular stuff (shades of Shellac maybe).

This is their 4th full-length (recorded live w/out an audience) and the songs, which are longer and less numerous than on previous releases, distill and emphasize the best parts of their sound. Case in point being the ominous bass-line, marching drums, jangling, wandering guitar and flattened, punchy rhythmic shouts of the second track, Sun Exhausted. Really good stuff which I would encourage people to give a decent listen to, as the sound can take a while to click.


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pre - epic fits

love these guys, crazy fun noise rock band from the uk, fronted by a Small Asian Girl™.
now's a good time to check em out, they've got a new lp coming out in a few months produced by Steve Albini™.

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Its late and I have nothing better to do

Just a few albums that have been in heavy rotation lately.

Defcon 4- File Under Fuck

Defcon 4- The Bad Road

Taipan- 1002: A Rock Odyssey

Black Oak Arkansas- Black Oak Arkansas

russian circles - enter

hey y'all, first time poster, thought i'd start out my career with a lil somethin special, the debut album of my fav post-rock band of a good long time in none other than APPLE LOSSLESS MOTHERFUCKER. that's right, FLAC you can listen to in itunes! what a crazy world we live in. enjoy. (i also put it up in vbr so you can enjoy it without being a slave to apple like me)

feel free to be a man like me and actually buy this, and/or pick up a copy of their second album, its even better. i mean they probably don't need it given that they've toured with tool and all that but i've got a soft spot for these guys. :3



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Isis - Wavering Radiant (2009) PREORDER

buy their first good album since oceanic

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ps use the coupon code "bday10" and you save 3$

Shotmaker - mouse ear (forget-me-not) [1996]

one of my favourite highschool bands. i posted their big 2 disc discography maybe a year ago but that can be a bit overwhelming and its nice to hear an album how it was intended to be heard, so here you go. a bit more polished and less screamy than their early stuff.


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The Fall....

The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall [1984]

This Nation's Saving Grace [1985]

Iconic post punk band, led by the ever vitriolic Mark E. Smith.

Uncompromising, stylistically edgy, and highly original; these two albums are the closest The Fall will ever get to retro-psych pop. Exploring a lighter, more song-oriented territory, and as such, are arguably the best introduction to the band's vast back catalogue.

Essential for everyone, especially if you wish to explore the most accessible side of The Fall.

Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall part1

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This Nation's Saving Grace part1

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Church of misery - Houses of the unholy (2009)

It's Church of misery, Download, simple as that.

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Heaven & Hell - Bible Black (single)

Can't wait till the 28th?

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Chrissy Zebby Tembo & The Ngozi Family - My Ancestors

I don't sleep particularly well at the best of times, but the transition between Daylight Saving Time to British Summer Time always cause me to struggle for the day.

So in light of the impending British Summer, here's some upbeat, fuzzy, sunshine pyschedelia form Zambia.

I discovered Zebby Tembo on a compilation a few years ago, choosing to source this album accordingly.

So should you.


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Dennis Wilson - Pacific Ocean Blue

As founding member and drummer of the Beach Boys, Dennis Wilson requires no real introduction.

As the first member of the Beach Boys to undertake a solo career, Dennis Wilson released 'Pacific Ocean Blue' in 1977 to immediate critical acclaim.

A record with punchy, yet sumptious production and pristine sound; Dennis Wilson developed his own talents on the back of hard work and raw emotion, not technical expertise.

The first time I heard 'Pacific Ocean Blue' felt like a revelation, affecting me more than any Beach Boys record ever did.

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Wool - Box Set

One of the finest purveyors of punk tinged anthemic hard rock; Wool released two fantastic records before disbanding unceremoniously. Associated with bands such as Scream, Drive Like Jehu, Fastbacks, Burning Airlines, and Foo Fighters.

I suppose this gives you a realistice idea of what to expect.

Hip people may listen to this whilst driving through miles of Californian desert in the convertible vehicle of their choice.

I have to settle for the A80 to Greenock

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Codeine - Barely Real

Featuring members of Come, and June of 44; Codeine are widely regarded as pioneers of the slowcore genre, typified by bands such as Low and Red House Painters.

A number of songs present on this mini-album, released prior to their second full length, were rejected by vocalist Stephen Immerwaher.

However, the shimmering guitar tone on this records makes it unquestionably my favourite release by this band.

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Robotosaurus

Sayra Bank Volume 1: Last Refuge Of The Exiled Man [2007]

Sayra Bank Volume 2: Trifornais [2007]

Manhater [2008]

Experimental grind from Australia; bringing to mind the usual suspects (Discordance Axis, Pig Destroyer, Daughters). Robotosaurus will always divide opinion amongst the metal community because it tends to be full of elitists. However, Robotosaurus provide some lovely dark, crushing, frantic noise for a Sunday afternoon stroll with your dog.

Here is their first two EPs and their debut full-length. I'd appreciate comments on this one as opinion is divided in my house.

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Sinaloa - Oceans of Islands

Sinaloa produce a sound which is extremely difficult to find amongst the standard post-hardcore set. Taking inspiration from early 90's emo such as Indian Summer, Fugazi, and Moss Icon; Sinaloa have created an interesting sound featuring intense rhythms and math rock guitar work. Sinaloa are a band who can be easily defined as 'arty', but haven't lost sight of hardcore's most important factors: passion and sincerity.

One of my favourite releases of 2008.

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Beat Happening / Screaming Trees split

Split release from lo-fi indie legends (and K Records founders) and one of the more interesting 'grunge' bands.

Fuzzy, meandering, indie rock treasures.

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Dead Meadow - Old Growth

With their fifth full-length, Dead Meadow gracefully bridge the gap between blues soaked stoner rock, and modern psychedelia.

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Acid Mothers Occasion

So I've seen Acid Mothers Temple/Inferno/etc., etc. any number of times (well, seven by last count, I believe), and every time they put on a totally rad show full of 20 minute bass heavy groove jams and un-fucking-believable guitar solo/freak-outs by the esteemed Mr. Kawabata, and a what time's left is sometimes given over to their crazy theremin temptress. Anyway, the point is, they never disappoint by themselves. A few times they've had some lack luster openers, but most of the time they've got a pretty killer line-up front to back, and this is what brings me to writing this post - way back in... the Fall of '05 (?) I saw them play a show in Northampton, Mass. with a band called The Occasion who have since broken up. They didn't have any merch as I recall, but I remember thinking they were kind of like some contemporary baby-type thing fathered by the Velvet Underground and The Doors. Real cool, fuck you kind of attitude. Anyway, I did my research online, or what I could anyway, and finally managed to come up with what I think is the full extent of their only release, what I assume is their S/T LP. I'd love to get any information at all on these guys, who they were, where I can pick up their stuff, so if anyone has any clues, let that shit rip.

In the meantime, here's that album, as well as the album AMT was promoting that evening:

The Occasion - Self Titled
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Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno - Iao Chant From the Cosmic Inferno
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