to the birthday faggot

nothing says happy b-day than a bad recording of a sabbath song that she probably doesn't like as much as me featuring ozzy dressed like steven segal, iomi looks like a plumber from 1986 mastic long island. but thank god this is my blog and she's a faggot. love you pincess please don't make it to 27.

Bohren Und Der Club Of Gore - Mitleid Lady EP (2009)

The German quartet contribute a song for the Southern Records Latitude Series.

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The Jam Session - När Mörkret Väller Över (2006)

The third full length from the Swedish quintet.

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FINALLY

funniest sketch comedy show ever coming out on dvd
yessssss
THE STATE 7/09

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RIP THE KING OF POP

Everything Comes And Goes: A Tribute To Black Sabbath (1997/2005)

A tribute compilation released by Temporary Residence Ltd. of experimental rock, folk, and electronic bands reinterpreting classic Ozzy-era Sabbath songs.

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Mudy on the Sakuban – Kidnie (2009)

The quartet from Japan returns with a second "mini-album".

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exciting news

lucid will be conducting its first interview!!!
and what better person to have for the first interview other than GLEN DANZIG!!!!!!!

look for the update in early july

Seven Kingdoms - Brothers of the Night (2007)

Really decent power metal that slipped under my radar when it was released. Drawing their lyrical inspiration from the American Tolkien, Kingdoms play power metal that with thrash influences that remind me at times of the better parts of 'Night of the Stormrider'. Solid listen.


A Song of Iced Earth and Fire?

Miasma - Changes (1992)

Part 2 of my Miasma series. Early 90s death metal from Austria. Vocalist is fucking evil.
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The Human Quena Orchestra

Scary industrial from ex-Creation is Crucifixion. For fans of Halo, Swans, etc. Go to their site and buy their stuff from Crucial Blast... and I think they need help on a few dates for the July tour.


the politics of the irredeemable 2009
means without ends 2007
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zu - live 5-27-2009 barcelona, spain

Decent quality recording. drums, sax, and bass making a racket live.


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Melk the G6-49

2 albums from this drum & bass duo from Indianapolis. They have a good Noxagty-Karpy thing going on. While both albums are pretty strange.. Glossolalia has more rock, and s/t is a little more experimental.


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Miasma and the Carousel of Headless Horses - Perils(2005)

"Miasma & the Carousel of Headless Horses are a British instrumental quintet that plays dark, antiquated sounding music encompassing elements of Eastern European folk, avant-rock, broken-down calliope music, and neo-classical film composition. More a trip to an anachronistic world of neo-baroque psychedelia than a simple study in diced-up ecclecticism, the music on Perils sways between lush chamber orientated melancholia, apocalyptic bombast, and epic ghost train high-drama. Featuring members of Guapo, Aethenor, Chrome Hoof and Cathedral."

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Brain Banger-Yellow Belly

This is the side project of the Young Widows bass player. nothing spectacular, but good if you're into this style of rock music


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Churches Burn - Adversary

If Buzzoven's entire discography ganged up on Electric Wizard's Supercoven, beat the piss out of it, ate it, shit it out, and let it ferment in the sewer for a month. Sludge.


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Cliff Martinez - Solaris OST (2002)

Jed's re-post reminded me of this album. Great for sleeping. Kinda has that Radiohead's "Backdrifts" thing going on with that rubbing your dick on a KAOS pad sound, but with elegance and grace. Like the film, you will need drugs to enjoy.

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band of the taoist association of wudang mountains - the mysterious charm of wudang

i've been debating whether or not to post this, hands down the most relaxing music in the world
i listen to it all the time when i sleep
and basically no one knows about this stuff
its the music rza makes beats out of
ever see a kungfu movie where they play slow music that sounds like it comes from under water?

a chorus of what sounds like a Nepal village playing traditional music
i have no idea where i came across this
this is the most relaxing perfect music to read or sleep or slowly fuck your hand thinking about emma watson

and its fucking amazing

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anyone have anything else like this?

Sleep - Live @ ATP The Fans Strike Back, May 10 2009

great quality boot. buy the dvd when its released. holy mountain was recently remastered and reissued on vinyl and cd with a bonus track. please buy it also if you have money.

tracklist:
1. From Beyond
2. Proceeds The Weedeon
3. The Druid
4. Some Grass
5. Aquarian
6. Evil Gypsy
7. Nain's Baptism
8. Cultivator
9. Inside The Sun
10. Holy Mountain
11. Dragonaut
12. Antarcticus Thawed


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Magnolia Electric Co. - Josephine

guys seriously stop posting so much
well i figured i'd take 10 minutes to stop looking for the miley cyrus bj pics and post something
i've been listening to this a lot recently along with the new calexico and for some reason still elton john
i can't really hype this album up, either you like molina and his work with songs ohia and mag elec or you're just some fucking jerk off who is hitting refresh waiting for kylesa to record again
morgan freeman fucked his grand daughter
the world is a pile of asshole
listen to this while you hide yourself from its fucking decaying light of horse shit


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the Complete Soundtracks of Akira Kurosawa

This is a boxset that was released in '91 and contains selected music from every one of his films. If you've ever seen Yojimbo then you have an idea of the greatness of thats in contained here-in. They just don't make them like they used to.

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disc I
disc II
disc III
disc IV
disc V

Ringing Bell (1978)

One of the darkest children's movies ever made just also happens to be one of the most METAL. Very rare find and its a fine shame that this is wallowing in obscurity while dreck like Bambi get bluray treatment.

thanks to Anime Hell

WOLF!

haha

so a jew an albino and a fat bitch walk into a bar...


Jeffrey Ross - No Offense - Live From New Jersey (2008)
Jim Gaffigan - King Baby (2009)
Lisa Lampanelli - Long Live The Queen (2009)

forgot a black dude
Katt Williams - Its Pimpin Pimpin (2009)

never forget
Mitch Hedberg - Do You Believe In Gosh (2008)

GLAZED BABY

GLAZED BABY was born in 1991 to rock the world. Dale, Josh and Andy were determined to ride the biggest sound possible out of their aimless existence in New England. This need propelled the three through four years of relentless touring and recording. The trio's Handgun and Karmic Debt, recorded with Tim O'Heir and Squeeze the Tail, Suck the Head, recorded with Steve Albini, are testimonials to their awesome rock & roll power.

This great sonic weight proved to be too much for Josh, who left the band to join the Unsane. Joel promptly came to the rescue and his addition was celebrated by a victorious tour of America. Later in the year, Josh returned to the GB fold in time for a 3 month tour and to record the band's second monster LP, Atomic Communists.

Shortly thereafter, Josh and Joel left for Kansas City to join Season to Risk and Shiner. To coincide with this blow, the band's label, Red Decibel, folded. The elixir that would heal GB's rock & roll soul came in the form of Dave and Scott. The new incarnation of GB rehearsed for one week before smashing huge audiences to paste on a nationwide tour with Zeni Geva and Today is the Day.

A few months and short jaunts later, Glazed Baby entered Six Finger Satellite's Parlour to record songs over the holidays. Ringing in 1997 with a new album nearly completed, the members of GB wend their separate ways to form other successful touring and recording combos. The band briefly reunited in 1999 to release it's final LP, Ancient Chinese Secret, a fitting document of the world's heaviest band.

During it's career, Glazed Baby shared the stage with Helmet, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Surgery, Jawbox, White Zombie, Tar, Tool, Fight, Smashing Pumpkins, Tesco Vee, The Laughing Hyenas, The Jesus Lizard, Unsane, Pearl Jam, GWAR, 13, Buzzoven, EyeHateGod and Nirvana.

Big Smoonya 7" 91
Dead Men Don't Feltch 7" 93
Handgun EP 93
Horsey split 7" 94
Karmic Debt 94
Squeeze the Tail, Suck the Head EP 94
Atomic Communists 96
Ancient Chinese Secret 99

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Zu - Carboniferous

Drums, bass and sax. This band is fucking excellent.. more bands need to have song titles like "Tom Araya is our Elvis".
WARNING: Watch for falling Mike Pattons

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to the top because this is easily my favorite 2009 release so far

Villains - Lifecode of Decadence (2009)

2nd LP from these filthy fucks


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Grief - Live In Kiev (2008)

hey look what i found.

Tracklist:
1. No Escape - 4:38
2. Polluted - 10:08
3. One Of Those Days - 4:02
4. Fleshpress - 9:04
5. Fucked Upstairs - 8:05
6. Predator - 7:11
7. Ruined - 11:30
8. I Hate The Human Race - 4:39

Recorded live at DK KhimVolokno, Kiev, Ukraine, 13 Nov 2008.


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Lykathea Aflame - Elvenfris (2000)

or "the Good, the Great and the fucking Great"

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White Buzz - Book of Whyte

This band listens to their OM... one might say too much.


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Church of Misery vinyl

Did anyone else order Houses of the Unholy off of Rise Above? And has anyone still not received it?

Ulver - Live at Maihaugsalen (2009)

Bootleg of the first live Ulver set in 15 years at Lillehammer, Maihaugsalen in Norway.

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Keelhaul - live 1.31.2009

NEW. SONGS. new album out August 4th


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parody songs

never ever funny

Doomgasm

Black Math Horseman - Wyllt

The Wounded Kings - Embrace of the Narrow House

Subrig Destroyer - Rode Asunder EP

Eibon - s/t

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Harum Scarum - Mental Health

All female crust punk from portland. they lost a member and subsequent albums lost part of their appeal. i don't know if they're still active, but this first album of theirs is an excellent crust/punk record. i've also typed out the lyrics and included them in a file.



Caught in between someone else's lies and mine. This world makes sense about none of the time. I've learned everything backwards, hateful... my head is spinning out of control. I can't even see anymore. Not what is self-inflicted by fear. My sleep is broken, I can't even breathe. My sanity a token, inside and outside... by the the absence by the pain, by the absence by the pain. They say I've gone mad they give me pills to clear my head... cuz doctors know best... I can't trust myself... in the name of mental health.

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Top 5 1st-Gen Shoegaze Albums

"1st-Gen" meaning any/all groups formed prior to '93. These aren't listed in any specific order, but all fit somewhere in my top 5 list (although My Bloody Valentine and Slowdive are omitted, due to their position as leaders of the genre).


Catherine Wheel (formed '90) - Ferment (released '92)



Catherine Wheel are one of the best examples of the breadth that the shoegaze genre could achieve. While they surely have a very textured sound, often enough with that swirly/heady kind of vibe that shoegaze often gives off, they are also a very progression-conscious, sometimes even rock-oriented, band - there is movement in their music in addition to the haziness that a lot of other bands contained in this category are content to simply get lost in.

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Chapterhouse (formed '87) - Whirlpool (released '91)



Chapterhouse remind me a bit of a mix between The Jesus & Mary Chain's less-abrasive moments and Ecstasy & Wine-era By Bloody Valentine, meaning that there's a bit of a 60's-pop/playful kind of vibe accompanying the (occasionally) cacophonous background music. Altogether, its not at all harsh (as my evocation of The Jesus & Mary Chain may suggest), and I say "remind" because there is far more to this album than what I just said (the vocals in particular I think are quite good).

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The Ecstasy of St. Theresa (formed '90) - Sussurate (released '92)



With the exception of The Jesus & Mary Chain (from Scotland) The Ecstasy of Saint Theresa are the only group in this list that falls outside of England... and they are from Czechoslovakia (never saw that one coming). Their sound is a bit like Catherine Wheel's, in that each song has a rather definite progression/s, and I'd say that they are even more into the fusion of shoegaze and rock/indie than Catherine Wheel was - so much so that at times I'm pretty sure Dinosaur Jr. is their backing band. But despite their best attempts at incorporating something that was a bit different into a genre that was, at the time, very rigid, they can play as rigidly as the best of them (track 2 is a wonderful example of that). Almost drone-y, their meditations on distortion, paired with Katerina's almost ghost-like vocals, The Ecstasy of St. Theresa would be one of my top picks for accompanying a hallucinogenic experience.

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The Jesus & Mary Chain (formed '83) - Psychocandy (released '85)



These guys are pretty well known, but compared to MBV and Slowdive, they still fall to the wayside it seems. Which is unfortunate, because these guys are basically a perfect combination of MBV distortion and composition and Joy Division rhythm and, maybe half the time, vocals. And they're loud, too. In my opinion, these guys blow MBV out of the water when it comes down to sheer abrasive-ness... yet somehow it comes off as very mellow.

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Lush (formed '88) - Split (released'94)



Lush borders on Cocteau Twins territory at times. That's probably the first thing to get out of the way. They have a very prominent rhythm section, and quite a few vocal melodies going on, with some very trebly guitars contrasting the bass. Distortion wise, they're nothing to gawk at, and so with what I've just said I feel like these guys are a good example of the transition that shoegaze started going through around this time ('94/'95) - it got pop-ier, less distorted, but still has a distinctly distant kind of sound... perhaps that's due to the rather high female vocals, the very-low-presence/high-treble guitar, or the repetitive but not-highlighted use of crash cymbols, but there is something unmistakably shoegaze-y about this album, and its a real killer (especially track 3).

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Týr - By the Light of the Northern Star (2009)

Put simply this is one of the best albums Týr has ever made. Somewhat akin to Amon Amarth if one replaced the word viking with pagan and substituted Týr's unique blend of progressive rock/viking metal for the death metal. Not much else to be said except that this album is very much Crom approved.

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Thou - Through The Empires of Eternal Void [LP] + (2009)

Thou cover Black Sabbath. Thou cover Nirvana, Minor Threat, Agents of Oblivion & play some originals. Ep's included:
- Through the Empires of Eternal Void EP
- Degradation of Human Life EP
- Baton Rouge, You Have Much to Answer For EP

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Alestorm (2009)

Best pirate album of the year.

RIYL: Running Wild, Finntroll, Muppet Treasure Island, Hook, Pirates, The Pirate Movie, Swashbuckler, drinking, Secret of Monkey Island, Errol Flynn, etc.


Black Sails
At Midnight

Zoroaster - Voice of Saturn (2009)

these guys appear to be no fun
i don't know how people could be so angry, they're angrier than i was after i watched CRASH for the first time, they're angrier than i was after my friend told me burn notice the spy show on the usa network was "interesting"

eyehategod is a great place to start when describing this band, unearthly trance/ehg.
i've listened to this album a shit load lately, and i loved dog magic, but i can already say this album eclipses that album several times over

track 3 skips for a second for me, or at least it does in my itunes. i love this fucking album
i can't wait to buy it
i can't wait to sit in my room listening to this and punching everything

ps i shan't be posting the new coalesce because if you want it you like shitty music and if you already have it you know it sucks

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