saturday night and I'm feverous

local act SALOME: slow. heavy. female-fronted. doom.

Salome - Salome (66.6 MB)


next is Fall of Efrafa, a heavy, crusty, experimental post-hardcore, post-rockish band whose unique music is based upon "a re-imagining of the mythological and political overtones in the book "watership down" by Richard Adams, focusing their efforts in forwarding atheist/animal rights ideologies". long, heavy, dark, almost depressive stuff. here are the first two of the three-part set entitled "The Warren of Snares", as well as the track "Tharn":



Fall of Efrafa - Owsla
OWSLA (meaning warrior or defender), the first record, created the narrative of an unnamed society in the final throws of a war against mankind. A society that still clings to the dwindling beliefs of its elders, yet struggles to break free of stagnating ideology.



Fall of Efrafa - Elil
ELIL (meaning enemy, or predator)was their second full length and dealt with these beliefs, and the oppressive reign of religious indoctrination. In this chapter, the society finally overthrows the rule of their god, Frith.



The final chapter, which they are currently writing, is called INLE (meaning both death, and the name of a deific character within the societies beliefs) This is the final recording effort of Fall of efrafa, and also the end of the trilogy. It will deal with hope in the face of death. (Fall '09 Release)



Fall of Efrafa - Tharn

many thanks to Seeeing Red for everything.




what better way to finish off your Saturday than with 3 Way Cum?
one of my current favorite crust punk bands, these releases take a load of metal influence and shove it down the throat of crust punk, taking their sound to a very dirty, crushing edge.



3 Way Cum - The Last Cumshow <-- fav 3 Way Cum - Battle of Opinions

Anarcho Double Feature

Two hardcore punk bands from Scandinavia.



Artist: Beyond Pink
Album: Jedan Dva, Jebla Te Ja
Genre: hardcore punk, riot grrrl

Some of the most pissed off girls I've heard, this is one energetic, angry, yet more up-beat album.

DOWNLOAD





Artist: EPÄJÄRJESTYS
Album: S/T
Genre: crust, hardcore punk

Just a damn good, heavy release all-around.

DOWNLOAD

SKRAMZ

Enjoy some screamo I just uploaded to Moonstruck


faaags


ARTIST: Suffocate for Fuck Sake
ALBUM: Discography
NATIONALITY: Sweden
GENRE: Post-Rock/Screamo

Suffocate for Fuck Sake
Blazing Fires and Helicopters...


ARTIST: Daïtro
ALBUM: All LPs and whatever else I find
NATIONALITY: France
GENRE: Post-Rock/Screamo

Des Cendres, Je Me Consumme
Laissez Vivre Les Squelettes
Split with Sed Non Satiata


ARTIST: Single State of Man
ALBUM: Single State of Man
NATIONALITY: Germany
GENRE: Post-Rock/Screamo


Single State of Man

Five for the price of none.

Band: Whitehouse
Place of Origin: UK
Album: Asceticists
Year: 2006
Genre: Power Electronics

The kings of the power electronics world, nothing is slowing down Whitehouse. Asceticists was a new release when I first heard it, and it blew me away. It's by no means as raw from start-to-finish as Bird Seed, but it's still a fantastic piece. Highly recommended for anyone looking to get into noise.

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Band: White Mice
Place of Origin: Providence, RI
Album: Assphixxxeatateshun
Year: 2005
Genre: Noise

White Mice have always been an impressive display of loud, unrelenting noise. Their live performances are distinct for their strange, terrifying mouse costumes with glowing red eyes, and abrasive live electronics. This album certainly does the group justice, and is a cute display of their creativity (Even the title alone should be exemplary of that).

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Band: The Exciting Trio
Place of Origin: Chicago, IL
Album: In Chicago There is Willy
Year: 2004
Genre: Jazz, improvisation.

I was just given this album last night as a birthday gift from my father. I haven't listened to the whole thing yet, but what I have heard is refreshing, catchy, enjoyable, and most importantly (as promised) NEW! Here's a write-up from the label 482. "No, The Exciting Trio isn't a typical guitar group. On the trio's debut recording, In Chicago There is Willy, the band tends toward dry melodicism, gentle pacing and cool abstraction, touching equally on jazz and post-rock, while lining their music with bits of electronic sound...this CD is a promising start for a young band." — Aaron Steinberg, JazzTimes

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Band: Forcefield
Place of Origin: Providen
Album: Lord of the Rings Modulator
Year: 2003
Genre: Noise

Another strong noise album that I was attracted to for its cute title. The album was released after the Forcefield collective broke up. It has a lot of great harsh noise contrasted by interesting tonalities created via a ring modulator. Give it a shot.

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Band: Various Artists
Place of Origin: Chicago, IL
Album: Document Chicago: New Jazz and Improvisation
Year: 2003
Genre: New Jazz and Improvisation

Another birthday gift, I haven't gotten the chance to listen to it yet so this will an adventure for all of us together. It features a lot of great Chicago jazz artists, including the previously posted Exciting Trio, The Treehouse Effect, and Jon Doyle.

Mediawin

Remember to buy it if you like it!

Keep off the grass

So here we go, I've got quite a haul for you of stoner shit. Just because I wanted to post that pic which my cousin sent me from his time overseas with the Air Force. I think I'll start the list off which a link to one of my personal favorites: Acrimony's Hymns to the Stone. The album has a driving groove to it, that it just perfect for the genre. Big influence on stoner doom metal, and stoner rock in general Acrimony came out of Wales in the 1990's. It's funny to me that the song Hymns to the Stone wasn't released until their 1997 release. Next I have Om's Conference of the Birds, which is another favorite of mine (particularly Flight of the Eagle), it's a 2 song album both songs are very long, and it sounds like chanting. It's got a meditative sound to it, I've been interested in doing an experiment with Om about the reaction of someone stoned to the music. It took me a while to find a working link, but I did it, the third on the list is Electric Wizard's brilliant album Dopethrone. Honestly, I'm so glad I found it because I wasn't impressed with Supercoven, so I was weary to get this and Let Us Prey. Dopethrone is a must have for a good stoner collection. I will finish off with Bongzilla's album Gateway, it's a pretty good album, it sounds real similar to their previous releases, a very consistent band, and keeps with the theme of it all. As always, I encourage you to purchase all of these albums.

Acrimony- Hymns to the Stone
Om- Conference of the Birds
Electric Wizard- Dopethrone
Electric Wizard- Let Us Prey [Remastered]
Bongzilla- Gateway

On a separate note, America has a new president. Sen. Barack Obama was elected last night to become President Barack Obama, we have a challenge ahead of us, lets just pray for the better. Hopefully things won't go over too badly. And if they do we can always tear down the capitalist American infrastructure and make something better in the rubble. You know, whatever works.