Horrific - Your Worst Nightmare (2009)

der Slasher Dave of the excellent Acid Witch returns on Razorback with some neato 80s/death metal riffage. Where you too busy ballin to post this one ax?

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High Dependency Unit - Metamathics

Awesome psychadelic/rock/experimental group. This album reminded me a bit of wildidlife's in that it starts out with a fairly straight-forward and catchy rocker before heading for far more experimental pastures.


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Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing

Awful names all around, but I like the tunes, which are a pleasing mix of pretty, hypnotic ambient sounds and simple beats with abrasive noise.


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Ten Grand - This Is The Way to Rule (2003)

Post hardcore form Iowa. If you like At The Drive In, Circus Lupus and the stuff _socrates_ posts, you'll probably dig this.


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Legend: Director's Cut (Tangerine Dream score)

This will be my 2nd film post and probably my last as there are much better things to post, but i'm making an exception in this case. All the hullabullo boils down to this being the best damn fan-restoration i've ever seen; its the closet one can get to seeing it in theaters when it was released. Legend back in the day had wonderful Tangerine Dream soundtrack that was shown theatrically in the US before Jerry Goldsmith was called in to do a rather unspectacular score which has been on DVD ever since and thus why this had to restored by fans. In the comments i've put the password/links required to compile this awesomeness and i'd suggest a service like Jdownloader to grab them all.

Finally, here are both the official & bootleg soundtracks courtesy of Vinnie Rattolle

Tangerine Dream official
TD bootleg

There Will Be Blood (2007)

Howdy anon.

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Uruk-Hai - Lost Songs From Middle-Earth (2008)

Uruk-Hai is one of my favorite Tolkien-related bands as the man's output is 90% Middle-Earth and the only real sad thing is that his stuff is nigh-impossible to find. Anyhow as I state in the tags this stuff sounds exactly like Summoning would if they never had guitars or vocals. And to drive the point home even further, all the liner notes on this album are written in Dwarvish; YES.


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Dragonslayer (UK)

Excellent remastered copy of this UK band's only material. About as classic heavy metal sounding as they come.

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Alex North - Dragonslayer (1981)

Nobody makes this kind of greatness anymore aside from the LOTR films and they already made the best Hobbit movie already so no hope on that front in my eyes. Anyhow I like North's score to Spartacus more naturally, but this is a close second. Not as awesome as the Dragonheart score by Edelman, but then again not much is.

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Smog - Wild Love

This is Smog/Bill Callahan with some of his best songs. At times sparse and noisy but always on point. Saw this guy open for Joanna Newsom and he was fantastic, which is rare when you see a dude playing guitar and the live "experience" is pretty much entirely based on how well you're familiar with the songs he's playing, but with him it didn't matter.

Also this contains the song "Bathysphere" which I'm pretty sure is one of the best songs ever written, no shit. Cat Power covered it and it's pretty much her only particularly great song, go figure.

Get itttttttttttt


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anonymous comments.

thought i'd enable it for a while and see what happens.

Wildildlife

This dangerously innovative band sounds like.. everything. From the Melvins to the Pixies to Pink Floyd. Heres their recently remastered and re-released EP w/ the download card of demos that came with it.... and their full length for good measure.

Edit: I fucked up.. I didnt notice the Drongolet Demos was missing a track. So, thats fixed, and yet another demo surfaced since then called Ice&Juice Demonstrations. Recorded back when they were just called Wildlife.

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i'd be her friend

tired of browsing the internet and not coming across pictures of scantily-clad women? i feel you, brother. here's a blog i started with erotic images, that while treading toward classy, isn't quite work safe. mainly, this post is an attempt to get it into google's search engine. interested?

i'd be her friend, my other, other blog.

THRONES - Live @ Roadburn 2007

Every single Roadburn bootleg is floating around online except Thrones, and Volt. I'm fixing that now. I had to do some finagling with my recorder, but the end result is the best sounding Thrones bootleg I've ever heard. The crackling here and there was already on the recording.

1. Manmtn
2. Nuts & Berries
3. new song!
4. Ephraim
5. Trmph Lfe (new song)
6. The Anguish of Bears
7. Obolous

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Disappearer - The Clearing (2009)

I apologize in advance for the 2 posts in one day. Debut full-length from this Boston act.

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GIFTS FROM ENOLA - From Fathoms 2xLP pre-order

great band
great label
pre-order it now before they...they probably won't sell out but definitely buy one


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King Bong - How I Learned to Stop Worrying And Love The Bong

come on give their name a break they're italian
alberto from the band sent me an email asking me to put this up on here
probably not the most impossible task to guess the type of music they play
surprisingly good for the weednameband genre
actually, pretty good no matter what genre
think earthlessbongzilla

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Blackwaves - 0130 (2009)

New CD from yet another "post-something" band from Hamburg. Silk-screened LP limited to a pressing of 300.

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The Smugglers - selling the sizzle (1995)

i saw these guys open for NoMeansNo about 10 years ago and it remains one of the best overall shows i've seen. bought this cd after the show and i just have to listen to it every year when the weather gets nice. very fun and well played rock and roll songs that surely won't be for everybody but thats OK. and that will be then end of my drunken sunday posting spree.


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Thanatos - realm of ecstasy (1992)

some old school Dutch death metal for you, with lots of nice slow parts.


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Sacrifice - soldiers of misfortune (1990)

some classic canadian thrash metal for you. i also posted their 'forward to termination' album a long time ago so feel free to search for that.


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John Doe & The Sadies - country club (2009)

John Doe from X teams up with Toronto's Sadies for a bunch of classic country standards and a handful of original songs. it works quite well.


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I Spy - perversity is spreading... it's about time! (1997)

i saw a Swallowing Shit album posted here so might as well put this up too. Todd did vocals and guitar here before Swallowing Shit and before Propagandhi. this is a short discography of their few releases and their old split with Propagandhi. 'Fuck the Border' from 'Today's Empires, Tomorrow's Ashes' was originally intended to be one of the last I Spy songs, so that gives you a basic idea of what this sort of sounds like. the musics pretty good but its barely enough to make up for the embarassingly bad album artwork.

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North of America - elements of an incomplete map (1997)

from the fine city of Halifax, Nova Scotia. the debut album/EP from one of my favourite high school bands. i guess it sounds like Polvo and Pavement and Fugazi all mixed together.

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Elder pre-order

Pre-order the new vinyl release of Elder's Meteor City debut self-titled album.

Pre-orders at www.electric-earth.com or email us at electric-earth@skynet.be




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Y The Last Man 18-25

You guys know what to do.


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Standby Red5 - And I Will Move The Earth

this is a GREAT ep
i've listened to it 4 times today and it still hasn't gotten old
i guess explosions in the sky is starting to influence alot of acts
and i guess thats not the worse thing that ever happened i guess
maybe i'm selling this band short with the eits comparison but its definitely the sound this album reminds me of
its 4 songs and they're something you should listen to if you're gonna listen to four songs today, great music with xylephonic help
perfect music to run to


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Gnaw Their Tongues - An Epiphanic Vomiting of Blood

gnaw their tongues is some kind of weird experimental black metal / noise hybrid thing, fucking EVIL music. it's pretty harsh but still kinda recognizable as bm. check this out if you're looking for something to fall asleep to and have nightmares (and possibly headaches). plus the band is called fucking "gnaw their tongues". these guys don't fuck around.


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Burning Star Core - Challenger (2008)

You'll either love this or hate it. Here's a good review I found by someone better than me...smoke some bowls.

Burning Star Core’s Challenger strikes me as an exacting homage to the soundscapes of horror films from, oh, about 30 years ago. Although never harsh and in fact often pretty, it is deeply unsettling stuff, a mindfuck for sure. Indeed, the sort of horror film to which the album seems to allude is neither the slaughterfest nor the zombie movie, but the mentally punishing and ultimately unresolved sci-fi psychodrama – The Thing or Solaris, for instance.

I say soundscapes rather than soundtracks because there is, crucially and threading its way through the album, the second-order detail of aged VHS tape causing sustained tones to modulate in and out of tune (especially on the title track and the excellent "Mysteries of the Organ"). No one with more than 10 years of home-viewing experience would fail to recognize the association and, given the horror score’s propensity for drones, such fluctuation is particularly audible. In that case, Challenger is not so much about horror movies as it as about watching them, or remembering having watched them, or remembering having heard oneself watch them.

The notes mention very few production details, but it seems likely that C. Spencer Yeh (BXC’s lone permanent member) edited vocal samples, field recordings, and organ, among other pieces, largely eschewing his primary instrument, the violin. (Oddly, the last track, "Un Coeur de Hiver," borrows its title from a French film about a violinist.) Each song builds methodically, its samples accruing toward a point of dark tension before cutting out abruptly. These are not narratives in any sense.

"Mysteries of the Organ," for example, adds a second, equally melancholy organ at about a minute and a half in, opening the track up to an even fuller grandeur that chugs toward its ending without climax or fulfillment. Like the gooey dehiscence of the dichromatic planet leaking Technicolor slime on the front cover, there is a sense of rupture that runs in only one direction – the entropic, from which there can be no return. This is, of course, how effective horror movies operate. By unleashing something without specifying the extent of its destruction, that destruction envelops the viewer in its infinitude, which is why we can’t sleep at night.

By Ben Tausig


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Longmont Potion Castle - Vol. 7 (2009)

I received 2 emails. One of which was thanking me for the LPC albums posted on Lucid in the past and it contained a link to the new album (which I didn't even know existed). The other was thanking me for the LPC albums posted on Lucid in the past and it contained a request for the new album... So here it is. It is a very funny listen and includes calls to Eddie Money, Alex Trebek and Rick Derringer. Much thanks to Ishiro Honda for the linkage.


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MOSS - Tombs of the Blind Drugged

Bleak, hateful, grimm, kvlt, crushing and more cliche doom adjectives. Bran new EP from Moss, get them while they last. Thanks darkbackwards!


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recent lucid complaints

i told people to post less shit, but you have to realize of the 30 bands that you like, everyone has all their albums

so when you guys say lucid should post better music we are in a no win situation because if i upload an unearthly trance record all you non-constructive anti-intellectual dullards already have it so basically i'm uploading some bands album just so people can see their logo and high five me?

i can't make kylesa make a new album every 4 weeks and post it on here
maybe you guys can go crazy and take a shot on some new music, or don't fuck it who cares

try and compose yourselves on here if you don't like an album its not up to you to go out of your way to tell us that you're not going to download it and we should post more things you like, its not "your blog". most of you guys couldn't wrap your minds around the notion that we posted a comic book on here, i didn't see anywhere where it said "music fans have to download" the backlash from it was amazing, i got 6 fucking emails from people saying "what is this nerd shit" when you get in that situation you realize there are some men you just can't reach, so you get what we got here last week. there's a small percentage of you that are just unpleasable pieces of human shit and i'd sooner fucking expire than change a thing on this site to make you happy

however i would like to cater to those of you who actually break the mold and have ideas now i know some of you just want what you want and you don't know how to express that other than sobbing like toddlers on your keyboards, but alot of you have good ideas, so other than me begging baroness to record again what would you guys like to see?

i have a shit load of folk/indy music i'm not posting because i figured no one here downloaded the last will oldham cd i posted but its basically all i've been listening to lately

also to everyone who asked (both of you) yes i have a twitter, but there is nothing interesting going on it, i use it to follow shaquille o'neal and rachel starr

The Lounge Lizards discography

John Lurie is a face some might recognize from Jarmusch films and before he was in/scoring them, he was in this marvelous little band. Started as Lurie's brand of 'fake jazz' and gradually morphed into the snizz-snaz of cool jazz. Recommend if you like: Jim Jarmusch soundtracks, Tom Waits, Yoko Kanno, etc

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Live From the Drunken Boat
Big Heart Live in Tokyo
No Pain for Cakes
Voice of Chunk
Live in Berlin
Queen Of All Ears

Ambulette - Lottery (2006)

if you're anything like me you're really good at playing basketball and jerking off in a stand up shower stall, thats the best when you jerk off to your ex girlfriend, because its amazing to still fuck her even though she fucking hates your guts now

and if you're anything like me, you were completely in love with the girl from denali, i've never seen the bitch but her voice makes me ache, her voice is angelic its white fucking light, her voice is so good that it makes you actually think that the time you rubbed your dick on the sunkist soda can and let angela scalmernero drink it was the wrong thing to do just because that red headed dick tease shares a genre with the broad from denali. she so fucking wanted it though, i took her fucking water skiing suck my dick you hoodrat no one was ever gonna take you water skiing

i'm also too lazy to do any research into denali to find out they broke up and the girl from denali made another band 4 years ago, this is that band and they had the great idea of sounding EXACTLY like denali pretty much saying to all the previous members of denali, hey fuck you, kinda like when steve perry put out the solo album during the height of journey and it sounded exactly like journey and he played journey songs live and shit



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Third Eye Blind - Red Star EP (2008)

I have a soft spot for this band since their first release and Stephen Jenkins can still write great rock songs. Apparently there is a new full length, but I haven't found it yet.


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Oranssi Pazuzu - Muukalainen Puhuu (2009)

Debut album from the Finnish psychedelic black metal act.

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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


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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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The Iron Point
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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.

Enjoy

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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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scrabble getting pretty intense

keep it pg please!!!

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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