I mean, yeah, it's silly but I'm sincerely very pissed off and disappointed about the Super Bowl. Also there will be no NFL for months, which also makes me sad. Whatever.
You know what else annoys me? All of the great Megaupload links that are just flat-out gone forever. Thanks, again, assholes. I'm just going to find more ways to "steal" independently produced music. Try and stop me.
Here's something you may like
Absvrdist hail from San Antonio and sort of remind me of Spazz. Their release Illusory is three songs clocking in at maybe around five and a half minutes. It's good.
Yes.
-W.F.
Showing posts with label Grindcore. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Grindcore. Show all posts
Monday, February 6, 2012
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Submission Blow-out, Pt. 1
I'm editing a longer Kanye West post right now and I decided I shouldn't do two non-metal posts in a row. So, instead I'm going to promote a band from whom I received a submission. More on the way, for that matter. Speaking of which, to all the bands who have submitted so far, thanks a lot for the consideration. I really appreciate that!
Homicide hail from Brazil and playing, loose, punkish Death-Grind. Total Decay, which was recorded in 2007 ,will apparently find it's way on an upcoming split. Contained within you will find vicious blasting, a monster bass-tone, and harsh dual-vocals. There are also plenty of time changes and groovy cut-time sections, but my favorite songs, "Scurvy" and "Calamity and Terror," are for the most part full-speed-ahead assaults. There isn't a lot else to say. This will fit right into your grindcore collection, next to Wormrot, Brutal Truth, and Disrupt.
Take some time out of your day and jam on this independent band
Official Myspace
Total Decay
-W.F.
Homicide hail from Brazil and playing, loose, punkish Death-Grind. Total Decay, which was recorded in 2007 ,will apparently find it's way on an upcoming split. Contained within you will find vicious blasting, a monster bass-tone, and harsh dual-vocals. There are also plenty of time changes and groovy cut-time sections, but my favorite songs, "Scurvy" and "Calamity and Terror," are for the most part full-speed-ahead assaults. There isn't a lot else to say. This will fit right into your grindcore collection, next to Wormrot, Brutal Truth, and Disrupt.
Take some time out of your day and jam on this independent band
Official Myspace
Total Decay
-W.F.
Monday, November 7, 2011
Realm of Chaos
Another frustrating Sunday. Were the lows not so low, I don't think the highs would be quite as high. Football season.
Here's something worth revisiting.
What I really enjoy about Realm of Chaos (1989), by the one and only Bolt Thrower can be summed up in a few features. First, the sound, even today, is heavy enough to flatten a human being into paste. Not to use a buzz word that is often utilized for retro and period death metal, but the sound is "cavernous" and is a perfect compliment to Karl Willetts apocalyptic soothsaying. The guitar is appropriately reverbed out and the tone is appropriately muddy and thick.
Stylistically, what's really interesting here is that while it's unmistakably Bolt Thrower playing Bolt Thrower-isms -- those distinctive riffs, that certain rhythmic emphases -- there are features of their playing that would gradually be ironed out by ...For Victory, five years later. One such feature is the loose, frantic blast sections that aren't all that unfamiliar to their contemporaries Carcass and Napalm Death, which nods to the primordial soup that all three came from. Also in Realm, between the riffs that are, again, so unmistakably Bolt Thrower originals, the album is replete with vestigial thrash riffs that wouldn't sound out of place on Seasons in the Abyss, not even mentioning the atonal, whammy-abusing, squealing solos.
Eventually the songs got a bit slower and more triumphant and the leads became a little more consonant. This is a great "throwback" (awful, awful, awful pun) from a band who I've never heard a single bad song from. The 'Thrower. While it's not my favorite, this album is definitely worth a spin and not a bad place to start if you've never listened to them. They're still around. Go see them! Buy some albums?
Title track, live 1991
Fantasy War Nerds
-W.F.
Here's something worth revisiting.
What I really enjoy about Realm of Chaos (1989), by the one and only Bolt Thrower can be summed up in a few features. First, the sound, even today, is heavy enough to flatten a human being into paste. Not to use a buzz word that is often utilized for retro and period death metal, but the sound is "cavernous" and is a perfect compliment to Karl Willetts apocalyptic soothsaying. The guitar is appropriately reverbed out and the tone is appropriately muddy and thick.
Stylistically, what's really interesting here is that while it's unmistakably Bolt Thrower playing Bolt Thrower-isms -- those distinctive riffs, that certain rhythmic emphases -- there are features of their playing that would gradually be ironed out by ...For Victory, five years later. One such feature is the loose, frantic blast sections that aren't all that unfamiliar to their contemporaries Carcass and Napalm Death, which nods to the primordial soup that all three came from. Also in Realm, between the riffs that are, again, so unmistakably Bolt Thrower originals, the album is replete with vestigial thrash riffs that wouldn't sound out of place on Seasons in the Abyss, not even mentioning the atonal, whammy-abusing, squealing solos.
Eventually the songs got a bit slower and more triumphant and the leads became a little more consonant. This is a great "throwback" (awful, awful, awful pun) from a band who I've never heard a single bad song from. The 'Thrower. While it's not my favorite, this album is definitely worth a spin and not a bad place to start if you've never listened to them. They're still around. Go see them! Buy some albums?
Title track, live 1991
Fantasy War Nerds
-W.F.
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Discovered in my Spam Folder
Scion keeps pumping out releases, strangely enough. Newest to the cabbage patch is Wormrot, who will join Magrudergrind, The Melvins, and Enslaved as a new member of a theoretical group I refer to as the "Artists Least Likely To Be Heard Playing From a Scion."
"Yeah man, I prefer their split with I Abhor, though....do you ever get the feeling we're driving a piece of cheddar cheese?"
If you're new to Wormrot, they play quick and dirty grindcore, sans bass. The results? Terrific. I don't know what else to say but you can spare five minutes to listen to Noise, as long as you don't mind subliminal suggestions geared towards making you purchase box-like vehicles that make you look like an ecstasy dealer. Support your importers of grind.
Noise
while we're at it
Abuse LP
still sans my own computer and digital music library (and worldly pleasure). More whining to come.
-W.F.
"Yeah man, I prefer their split with I Abhor, though....do you ever get the feeling we're driving a piece of cheddar cheese?"If you're new to Wormrot, they play quick and dirty grindcore, sans bass. The results? Terrific. I don't know what else to say but you can spare five minutes to listen to Noise, as long as you don't mind subliminal suggestions geared towards making you purchase box-like vehicles that make you look like an ecstasy dealer. Support your importers of grind.
Noise
while we're at it
Abuse LP
still sans my own computer and digital music library (and worldly pleasure). More whining to come.
-W.F.
Monday, July 11, 2011
Heavier than Your Favorite Band
Special thanks to Crustcake for hosting this here image (which could very possibly be from an Insect Warfare show, for all I know).
Considering how long I've had this puppy going, it's downright shocking I've never posted about Hatred Surge, who I just love. Starting as a one-man (I don't know if that's actually true, I just heard that) powerviolence project helmed by Alex Hughes (above, bass, ex-Insect Warfare (?)), 'Surge pumped out a load of splits and eps, a stunning full-length and is currently riding on the recent release of a split with another Texas group I enjoy and admire, Mammoth Grinder.
During this time there have been line-up changes, notably with vocalists. Currently, Rahi, the former vocalist of the now defunct (you guessed it) Insect Warfare is on board, which has introduced a whole new level of throat-scraping lows and sent the band somewhere into the neighborhood of unabashed death grind.
That being said, as much as I love the current incarnation of the band, I do miss their prior vocalist, too.
Considering how much this band has changed since it began, it's great how no matter what release you pick up, you will still probably want to punch a wall when you're listening. Pick this shit up and support these amazing, independent musicians. KILL!
Mammoth Grinder Split 12" from Cyclopean Records
Mammoth Grinder Split 12" BANDCAMP - preview
EP 2005 download (thanks to Fugitive Equilibrium)
Hatred Surge myspace
-W.F.
Friday, May 20, 2011
SFL/LLS Music Podcast, Vol. 1
Here just in time for the Tribulation, when all of us lost souls will be tormented in fire and all the good Christians will be beamed up into the heavens, is the first edition of this fine blog's podcast.
Remember, when you die, the only place you're going is straight into the ground. [LINK]
-W.F.
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