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Friday, September 28, 2018
The Festival of Dead Deer
Before there were Moving Units, Year Future, and Ground Unicorn Horn, there was Chris Hathwell, who plays in all three and there was his great, doomed punk band The Festival of Dead Deer. They were great because the noise they made could melt steel and boil blood, and they were doomed because they reared up fast, spat out beautiful music, then vanished into the ether. Their album The Many Faces of Mental Illness (ThreeOneG) gives us 14 faces of mental illness in 44:57 minutes of frantic, stained-to-nothing vocals, sludgy razor sharp breakdowns, and song structure that bucks from one extreme to the next. We see guitar leads as attacking snakes, drums that co-opt hardcore's blast beats and R&B's submarine groove. It has all the screaming beauty of Gravity's catalogue, the kind of angularity a million bands have since tried for, in turn turning the very idea of angularity (or at least the search for it) into a joke. This record isn't a joke. It's not a half-ass screamo cash in or a trend-searching fashion parade. Take all your preconceptions and theories of what punk is and flush 'em down the fucking shitter. This is the sound of bones crushing to dust. Love it or get out of the way and pretend you're not afraid to look the thing in the eye.
The Spleen Position
01 Before Narcolepsy
02 Hunting
The Appendix Position
03 Limited Edition of Zero
04 Inner Planetary Reasoning
01 Before Narcolepsy
02 Hunting
03 Limited Edition of Zero
04 Inner Planetary Reasoning
05 What Makes Sense
06 Basura Blanca
07 My Name's Explicit
08 A Controlled Response
09 In Fifty Words or Less
10 Episodes
11 Rated Are
12 The Coming of Going
01 The Festival of Dead Deer - Monotones
02 The Festival of Dead Deer - Stagnant
03 The Crimson Curse - Psycho 75
04 The Crimson Curse - Funeral Empire
Wednesday, September 26, 2018
Ritual Mess
Four-piece screamo band from Amherst, Massachusetts featuring Jayson Green (Violent Bullshit, Panthers, ex-Orchid), Will Killingsworth (Ampere, Failures, Vaccine, The Toll, Won't Belong, No Faith, ex-Orchid, ex-Bucket Full of Teeth, ex-Laceration), Andy Skelly (Ampere), and James Clarke. Ritual Mess play a style of music that incorporates elements of hardcore punk and screamo within their sound. Musically, Ritual Mess' sound harkens back to Gravity records / 90's San Diego emotive hardcore.
01 F+
02 Pig Island
03 Gnomes of Zurich
01 Actualize the Taste
02 Formal Apology
03 #7
04 The Last Shout
05 Emma
06 Prison Too
07 Ritual Blood Pact
08 Interiors
09 Screw the Strand
10 Vile Art
11 Wasting
Monday, September 24, 2018
Love Like... Electrocution
Love Like… Electrocution began in January 2002 in Melbourne, Australia. The released an EP and an album and also a split EP with This Night Creep. They split up in 2005.
01 We Only Fuck To Black Sabbath Vol. 4.
02 The Truth Of The Matter Is I Am Satan And On The Guitars We Have The Devils. This Is Devil Music.
03 We've Built Our Tombs And Now We're Sleeping In Them.
04 Das Plague (French For Germans).
05 Hunger Like Numb Toes On An Oslo Sidewalk.
06 With Horses In Her Eyes, She Spat Like A Wildcat.
07 The Graduate Walks WIth A Distant Gait.
08 The Tropics Of Cancer, Capricorn And A Smashed Face.
09 This Charade Has Lasted Well Past The Curtains Fall.
10 Tips For Avoiding The Clap. 1. I Wouldn't Piss On A Scorpion If It Was On Fire.
11 I May Have Cried A River For Him But He's No Depardieu.
01 With Horses In Her Eyes, She Spat Like A Wildcat
02 Hunger Like Numb Toes On An Oslo Sidewalk
03 Das Plague (French For Germans)
04 This Charade Has Lasted Well Past The Curtains Fall
05 The Tropics Of Cancer, Capricorn And A Smashed Face
06 The Graduate Walks With A Distant Gait
01 Love Like... Electrocution - Love Always, Your Dearest Klaus Kinski
02 Love Like... Electrocution - Drowning, In A Sea Of Pressed Shirts And Conscientious Suntans
03 This Night Creeps - Channel Surfed Our Way To Epilepsy
04 This Night Creeps - Surfboards In Indian Country
05 This Night Creeps - Untitled (Missing Track)
Sunday, September 23, 2018
Grace Gale
The members of Denver based Grace Gale decided it was time to try something new. As a band, they have charted a course and set sail with one singular destination: a hardcore band with the partying sense of Mötley Crüe, and the wholesome likability of Ranger Rick.
Whether it's doing lines of coffee in its powder form off blonde bombshells (or soccer moms depending on what time of day it is) or explaining the life cycle of the Northern Icelandic Tree Owls to 4th graders, Grace Gale will continue to rock until one of them is dumb enough to fall in love. But let's all hope they're too smart for that.
01 Tijuana Vs. Albuquerque
02 Chairman of the Nessie Alliance
03 I Don't Know How to Put This ... But I'm Kind of a Big Deal
04 Part Time Gravedigger, Full Time Scumbag
05 From Arik to John
06 James Caan, Make Yourself at Home
07 Apres Moi Le Deluge
08 There's Nothing Honorable About This Discharge
09 Six of Hearts
01 Pack Mentality
02 Kick Rocks
03 Fairweather...
04 Don't Ask Don't Tell
05 Brown Bottles
06 I Hate You Tenessee
07 La Matanza
08 Bad 4 Good
09 New Campaign...
10 The Clinic
Gospel
GOSPEL is a progressive metal band from Brooklyn, New York with former members of HELEN OF TROY, THE STATE SECEDES, and I AM THE RESURRECTION consisting of Adam Dooling (vocals, guitar), Sean Miller (bass), Jon Pastir (guitar, keyboards) and Velvet "Vinny" Roseboom (drums).
They released one album "The Moon is a Dead Planet" on Level Plane Records in 2005 that was produced by CONVERGE's Kurt Ballou at God City Studios.
They disbanded in December of 2006.
01 Gospel - Congratulations...You've Hit Bottom!
02 Gospel - Ghost & Gun
03 Gospel - What Means Of Witchery
04 Kodan Armada - Coppers!
05 Kodan Armada - Death Wears a Necktie
06 Kodan Armada - Say Something!
01 Opium
02 Paper Tiger
03 Your Electric Surge Is Sweet
04 Ghost N' Gun
05 Redemption Fills
01 Congratulations...You've Hit Bottom
02 Yr Electric Surge Is Sweet
03 Golden Dawn
04 Paper Tigon
05 And Redemption Fills the Emptiest of Hearts
06 Opium
07 What Means of Witchery
08 As Far As You Can Throw Me
Friday, September 21, 2018
Bionic Ghost Kids
Okay so I love all types of music, even dancy, screamy electronic music.
The Bionic Ghost Kids were founded in 2004 by two members of the band Everest. During a break from Everest they produced the first songs in a secondary studio. On programmed drums synthesizers and guitars , they laid out the vocals and shred it. The result is a mixture of post-hardcore and electro , paired with elements from the dance and pop sections.
The album "Horror Show" follows the concept of a horror movie . Thematically, it's all about zombies, vampires and similar creatures. The lyrics tell the story of a small town plagued by evil and of the last surviving couple and their tragic end. They also released an EP in 2011 that I have included.
01 Welcome to the Horrorshow
02 Poison Ivy
03 Soundtrack For Violence
04 Save the Last Dance
05 Vertigo
06 Buried Alive
07 Wrapped in Plastic
08 The Living Dead
09 Horrorshow
10 Tarantulas Attack!
11 Rise Of the Monster
12 Kill the Pain
13 Delusion
14 The Professor
15 Day Of Reckoning
16 Requiem
17 The Show is Not Over
01 The End
02 This Girl is a Vampire
03 Save My Soul
04 Embrace Me
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