Monday, November 24, 2008
Transistor Transistor - Ruined Lives (2008)
Screamo / Rock / Hardcore / Noise
Transistor Transistor’s splatterpunk sonics crossbreed blasting, Refused-style guitar riffs with vocal hooks welded out of impure noise. End result? Completely mosh-worthy, albeit unsurprising screamo rock.
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Enter Shikari - “We Can Breathe In Space, They Just Don’t Want Us To Escape” [SINGLE]
Metal / Hardcore / Trance Electronica
Fun one-off single from British “Nintendocore” rockers Enter Shikari is pure, off-your-ADHD-medication energetic fun, with lyrics scraping at the place of humanity in the cosmos. End result: you, dancing in your chair like Gary Brolsma.
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Fear Before - Fear Before (2008)
Experimental / Metal / Noise-Pop
Long having shaken out their scene hardcore sillies, Aurora, Colorado’s Fear Before the March of Flames now birth music equal parts metal, industrial, and pop, and fire it straight at experimental and noise-pop fans. And all without the last half of their name!
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
The Arusha Accord - Nightmares of the Ocean EP (2008)
Technical Metal / Prog
Not for the faint of heart, the music of The Arusha Accord is heavy like a calculus exam, and does justice to all those folks who like to compare heavy metal to classical music.
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Dead Child - Attack (2008)
Refreshing Filicide
Sweet Chariot
Never Bet The Devil Your Head
Twitch of the Death Nerve
Screaming Skull
Rattlesnake Chalice
Eye To The Brain
Armies Up Ahead
The Coldest Hands
Angel of the Odd
Wasp Riot
Black Halo Rider
Lowdown dirty sludge-rock from sometimes members of math/slow rock progenitors, Slint. Dead Child is about as far from Slint’s ultra-minimalist creep as music can be, and that’s sort of [...]
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Dance Gavin Dance - Dance Gavin Dance (2008)
That’s no moon…
Alex English
Buffalo!
Me and Zoloft Get Along Fine
The Robot With Human Hair Pt. 3
Hot Water On Wool
Hot Water On Wool (Reprise)
Uneasy Hearts Weigh The Most (feat. Nic Newsham)
Caviar (feat. Chino Moreno)
Rock Solid (feat. Matt Geise)
Burning Down the Nicotine Armoire Pt. 2
Reprogramming Mental Preprogramming
Skyhook
People You Know
They say never judge a book (or by extension, an [...]
Friday, May 30, 2008
From First to Last - From First to Last (2008)
Hallelujah, the whining is gone.
Monday, August 27, 2007
Emanuel - Black Earth Tiger (2007)
Fang Shui
Whiteflag (intro)
Cottonmouth
Anathamatics
My Antapex
Scenotaph
Phobos
Abandonment Star
Let Them Die
Year of the Pig
Forever
Whiteflag (Reprise)
With a title variously described as sounding like a Mortal Kombat finishing move, a pose Jet Li might strike, or a post-apocalyptic robot terminator shaped like a feral cat, the press kit for “Black Earth Tiger” stresses one thing above all others: this ain’t your [...]
Sunday, April 1, 2007
Genghis Tron - Dead Mountain Mouth (2006)
The warlord’s ghost in the machine
The Folding Road
Chapels
From The Aisle
Dead Mountain Mouth
White Walls
Badlands
Greek Beds
Asleep On The Forest Floor
Warm Woods
Lake Of Virgins
This is basically the sound of tuning an FM radio from inside a 1980s mainframe. A soundtrack to uploading Genghis Khan’s consciousness to digital memory. [...]
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain (2006)
Explosions in the Sky above the Swamp of Sadness
Limbs
Falling Snow
This White Mountain On Which You Will Die
Fire Above, Ice Below
Not Unlike The Waves
Our Fortress Is Burning… I
II - Bloodbirds
III - The Grain
An American metal band influenced by heavy European guitar music that doesn’t sound like Iron Maiden or In Flames? With a “Loveless”-inspired album cover? [...]
