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Band:SONIC BOOM SIX
Album:RUFF GUIDE TO GENRE TERRORISM - DELUXE EDITION
Label:REBEL ALLIANCE
Format:CD
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
DELUXE Reissue of the critically acclaimed debut album from Manchester’s SONIC BOOM SIX.
The first 1000 units come in a full color embossed digipack, featuring four bonus audio tracks, a never released documentary film bonus on disc and amazing new artwork by original artist Steve Kitchen. A must have for both new and old fans of the band, but don't just take our word for it...
“capable of writing frantic anthems to rival anything coming out of the US” Kerrang! KKKK
“If there’s any justice in the world ‘The Ruff Guide to Genre Terrorism’ should escalate Sonic Boom Six into the hearts and minds of punkers, hip hoppers, ska heads and anyone with a taste for innovation countrywide. Superb.” Big Cheese! 5/5
“a pleasant respite from the hefty majority of today’s copycat releases. Nicely done.” Rock Sound 8/10
“‘The Ruff Guide to Genre Terrorism’ is not only the best album released so far this year, but the most important UK album since ‘Civil Disobedients’.” Punktastic.com 5/5
“Sonic Boom Six succeed in bringing something genuinely exciting and fresh to the table with their potent mix of about every underground (sub)genre conceivable - utterly worth everyone’s while” Europunk.net 4/5
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Band:THE SKINTS
Album:LIVE,BREATHE,BUILD,BELIEVE
Label:REBEL ALLIANCE
Format:CD
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
Scorching debut album from East London Ragamuffin’s. Thinks Steel Pulse meets Lily Allen meets King Blues with the spirit of Sonic Boom Six. This is a killa first full length release and will be supported by a 20 date UK tour as main support to SONIC BOOM SIX running from the 6th October to 25th October taking in major academy venues as well London Garage, Wedgewood Rooms in Portsmouth etc……Radio support already lined up from Hew Stephens and Mike Davies at Radio One.... The "Live.Breathe.Build.Believe" headline tour starts in London on 12th November ending on December 4th. Initial 1000 copies in gatefold digipak with 10 page full color booklet
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Band:KRALLICE
Album:DIMENSIONAL BLEEDTHROUGH
Label:Profound Lore
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
Acclaimed initially because Krallice were considered the black metal brainchild of guitar wizard (and one of the top 50 fastest guitar players of all time, according to Guitar World magazine) Mick Barr (Ocrilim, Orthrelm etc.) and Colin Marston (Gorguts, Dysrhythmia, Behold… The Arctopus, Byla etc.), the band have transcended such a genre and created a distinct and unique sound of their own with their eponymous self-titled debut album. Black metal influenced of course, yet progressively tinged with many reference points to both musicians’ other works, Krallice’s debut album became quite a force within the scene that it even prompted SPIN magazine to deem them one of the top 5 metal bands to watch (Krallice’s debut was also the number two album on singer-songwriter Ryan Adam’s top nine best albums of 2008 list!), along with acclaim in all the major metal magazines around, as Krallice’s debut pretty much found its way on many year-end best of lists (such as in media outlets like Decibel, Terrorizer, and Pitchfork). Krallice would then hone their guitar gymnastics over that blackened shroud on the live front, making a reputation for their searing live performances and finding themselves touring with such acts as Wolves In The Throne Room. Quickly wasting no time in conjuring new material, Krallice’s epic follow-up, “Dimensional Bleedthrough” takes what the debut displayed, and has multiplied it by ten. A more involved, intense, and transcendental experience, “Dimensional Bleedthrough” is a surging 77 minute epic jaunt where insane counterpoint rhythms battle it out with melancholic layered melodies through an intense progressive blackened audial shroud; the album pretty much has more of everything and basically pummels the listener to submission through the overwhelming musicality and skill that the band portray. Nonetheless, “Dimensional Bleedthrough” will solidify Krallice’s position as one of the most important bands in metal today.
Reccomended for fans of Wolves In The Throne Room, Nachtmystium, Voivod, Weakling
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Band:WORM OUROBOROS
Album:WORM OUROBOROS
Label:Profound Lore
Format:CD
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
Bay Area ambient chamber dark rock act WORM OUROBOROS, which have been hailed as the best new Bay Area act to emerge this past year, have completed work on their self-titled debut album. Featuring members that have helped shape legendary Bay Area acts as THE GAULT (one of the greatest acts to ever emerge from the Bay Area) and AMBER ASYLUM, along with featuring members from down-tempo Bay Area death metal act WORLD EATER (not too hard to pinpoint who they are influenced by), Worm Ouroboros will bear familiar ground to those familiar with Amber Asylum and especially The Gault, since Worm Ouroboros bassist/singer Lorraine Rath (who also supplied the stunning artwork that will grace the album packaging, and who was likewise responsible for the stunning artwork that graced the debut HAMMERS OF MISFORTUNE album “The Bastard”) was the one who shared songwriting duties with John Gossard (ASUNDER/WEAKLING) in The Gault respectively. Also Worm Ouroboros conjures a sound picture reminiscent of classic 4AD acts as THIS MORTAL COIL and THE COCTEAU TWINS, just leaning more on the doomy edge of course. Where very delicately woven crafted structures counteract with segments of distorted down-tuned heaviness, it is through this interaction of the two opposing styles that help mould the ethereal and stretching atmospheric vibe of Worm Ouroboros where the drifting and floating aura creates a unique and special enigmatic presence. -
Featuring Lorraine Rath who was the main songwriter alongside John Gossard (ASUNDER/WEAKLING) from the legendary Bay Area act THE GAULT who were one of the best acts in the underground to emerge from the Bay Area and also played an integral part in writing AMBER ASYLUM’s “Still Point” release. - For fans of the aforementioned The Gault and Amber Asylum alongside acts like Asunder (and doom metal in general), and classic 4AD bands like THIS MORTAL COIL and COCTEAU TWINS.
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Band:PHANTOM FAMILY HALO
Album:MONOLITHS...
Label:KARATE BODY
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Psych/Garage Reissues
Phantom Family Halo‘s follow-up finds the group exploring boundaries beyond the usual, and embracing the epic, building on their previous LP, The Legend of Black Six. Visit myspace.com/thephantomfamilyhalo
“I’m also right blown away by the catchy and compelling, all-purpose psychedelia of The Legend of Black Six by power trio The Phantom Family Halo. I say ‘all purpose’ because this stuff is useful and should be available by the vat on prescription ...” — Julian Cope, Head Heritage UK
“Everything from Krautrock, meat-and-potatoes prog garnished in hazy post rock, and the sludgiest of the Velvet Underground’s moments simmer and waft in the air like cigarette smoke. Rays of vintage organs glimmer and slither while the melodies and vocals are just downright disturbing.” —Chris Pacifico, The Daily Copper
“Think Syd Barrett jamming with Hawkwind or the 13th Floor Elevators in the height of the Krautrock frenzy, or The Birthday Party subdued to play a rendition of “‘The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway.’” —musicremedy.com
• Features members of Sapat, The For Carnation.
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Band:LES SAVY FAV
Album:PLAGUES AND SNAKES
Label:Rococo
Format:7\\\\\\\" VINYL
Genre:Alt Rock
The 2nd and Last in the Australian series and Rococo's first picture disc. 2nd single to support Les Savy Fav’s Aussie Tour. Limited to 1000 copies on stunning Picture Disc
TRACK LISTING - 1. Wake up a Snake / 2. Raging in the Plague Age
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Band:ALEXIS GIDEON
Album:VIDEO MUSICS
Label:African Tape
Format:DVD
Genre:Rap/Hip Hop
Alexis Gideon, is an American musician, animator and filmmaker from Portland, Oregon. After his first two releases Welcome Song (2007 Sickroom Records) and Flight of the Liophant (2007 Sickroom Records), Alexis Gideon has switched gears with his creation of his animated/claymated video opera Video Musics inspired by traditional Hungarian Mythology and Folk Tales. Video Musics is both dazzling and baffling. So, did he make this DVD made for our children or for us? Both, probably. His stories of the origins of mythical halflion, half-elephant creatures or of the time-travelling princess Zuska are likely to appeal to anyone when told in such a delightful and joyous way. His animations are a drunken mixture of the lo-fi, the hi-fi, near schizophrenic frivolity, childlike naivety, and the odd wink to Louis Bunuel or Jean Cocteau. Gideon soundtracks this mad visual concoction with his own equally bizarre take on hip-hop, tying his wobbling grooves and warbling synthesizers together with these fantastical narratives. Whilst Gideon may be well off the beaten track, eschewing both traditional children’s narrative style and the mores of contemporary hip-hop, his naïve charm and the depth of his imagination are enough to seduce any viewer.
• On tour over Europe in November 2009 (shows with Great Lake Swimmers, Dan Deacon, Shelley Short)
• Riyl : CLOUDDEAD, THE RESIDENTS.
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Band:WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM
Album:LIVE AT ROADBURN 2008
Label:ROADBURN
Format:LP & DVD
Genre:Black Metal
When Wolves in The Throne Room were invited to play the Roadburn festival 2008 nobody expected that they would be one of the main surprises. From the first note till the last the Green Room was packed and in full anticipation of the ferocious mix of ambient sounds and aggressive black metal that the four piece brought to the stage. The band even got asked back to play the Roadburn festival again in 2009. This release captures a band at their peak in audio and video (the DVD is included with the album). Both audio and video were remixed and remastered for this release.
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Band:WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM
Album:LIVE AT ROADBURN 2008 CD/DVD
Label:ROADBURN
Format:CD & DVD
Genre:Black Metal
When Wolves in The Throne Room were invited to play the Roadburn festival 2008 nobody expected that they would be one of the main surprises. From the first note till the last the Green Room was packed and in full anticipation of the ferocious mix of ambient sounds and aggressive black metal that the four piece brought to the stage. The band even got asked back to play the Roadburn festival again in 2009. This release captures a band at their peak in audio and video (the DVD is included with the CD) album). Both audio and video were remixed and remastered for this release.
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Band:CHURCH OF MISERY
Album:LIVE AT ROADBURN 2009
Label:ROADBURN
Format:CD
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
Roadburn Records is proud to present that everybody’s favourite Japanese stonersludge outfit Church of Misery will release their 2009 nightshow at Roadburn on CD and LP on our label. The night was recorded in multi track and will be mixed and mastered by Marcel van de Vondervoort of Torture Garden Studio fame who also was at the helm for the Wolves in The Throne Room live album. After releases by Wolves in the Throne Room (2008) and Year of no Light (2008), Church of Misery Live at Roadburn 2009 will be the third installment in our live series.
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Band:STONE AXE
Album:STONE AXE lp
Label:ROADBURN
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Classic Rock/Metal
In between writing Songs for Future Gods, Mos Generator singer/guitarist Tony Dallas Reed started up a second project, Stone Axe. Switching from vocals to, uh, everything else (he’s credited with all instruments on this two song 7”, with Dru Brinkerhoff handling vocals), Stone Axe is focused on recreating the classic rock sound of the early ‘70’s. We’re talking about those English bands that staggered out of the pubs and defined a genre by playing from the heart. If Mos Generator’s “Godhand Iommi” is a tribute to the Sabbath guitarist, Stone Axe pays homage to Free, Small Faces, Deep Purple, Thin Lizzy and more.
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Band:STONE AXE
Album:STONE AXE
Label:ROADBURN
Format:CD
Genre:Classic Rock/Metal
In between writing Songs for Future Gods, Mos Generator singer/guitarist Tony Dallas Reed started up a second project, Stone Axe. Switching from vocals to, uh, everything else (he’s credited with all instruments on this two song 7”, with Dru Brinkerhoff handling vocals), Stone Axe is focused on recreating the classic rock sound of the early ‘70’s. We’re talking about those English bands that staggered out of the pubs and defined a genre by playing from the heart. If Mos Generator’s “Godhand Iommi” is a tribute to the Sabbath guitarist, Stone Axe pays homage to Free, Small Faces, Deep Purple, Thin Lizzy and more.
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Band:YEAR OF NO LIGHT
Album:LIVE AT ROAD BURN 2008
Label:ROADBURN
Format:LP AND DVD
Genre:Alt Rock
The French doomy postrockers Year of no Light got general critical acclaim of their demo quoting them as being “The Cure playing sludge”. Combined with live reviews becoming more and more encouraging, the band were compelled into the writing new tracks that ended up being recorded at Playrec studio under the direction of Serge Morratel in the fall of 2005. The debut Nord has been released in 2006 to much acclaim. Live at Roadburn was recorded at the famous Roadburn Festival in 2008. For the last song the band was joined on stage by Fear Falls Burning for 20 minutes of doom/drone mayhem. Included in the gatefold of the album is a dvd of the same concert.
Year Of No Light bring an amazing set of songwriting chops to the songs, a heavy, chugging metallic monster that channels both gloomy atmospherics reminiscent of The Cure, and crushing Neurosis-inspired dirgecore, heavy, raw, and lumbering, but at times extremely beautiful and epic. To us, YEAR OF NO LIGHT seems to orbit the guitar-heavy early 90's alt rock of bands like Swervedriver and Dinosaur Jr., The Cure and My Bloody Valentine, just as much as it draws from the arty, crushing metallic post-hardcore pioneered by Old Man Gloom and Neurosis. (Amazon.com)
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Band:GOMER PYLE
Album:IDIOTS SAVANTS
Label:ROADBURN
Format:DOUBLE VINYL LP
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
Gomer Pyle play heavy, groovy rock with a lot of psychedelic atmosphere added. By 2007 enough material has been written to produce a full length album Idiots Savants. The album contains a diverse range of styles and moods; Heavy Stoner, Doom, Tripped Out soundscapes and some more regular song based material. All recorded with studio trickery by longtime friend and studio freak Danny Gras. This album is the mind-boggling headphone trip that you`ve always wanted to experience. A perfect soundtrack to long distance road trips. The vinyl contains 2 extra tracks of the first Gomer Pyle EP. Part of Roadburns back cat!!
"Comparisons with 35007 and Astrosoniq impose themselves and it can not be denied, there are similarities. Fortunately not that many it becomes too obvious, Gomer Pyle is undeniably a spacerock/stoner band like the other two, but by no means a slavish imitator. Somewhere in the distance echoes can be heard of the early Pink Floyd combined with krautrock-like trance." (Stonerrock.com)
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Band:OBLITERATION
Album:NEKROPSALMS
Label:FYSISK FORMAT
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
OBLITERATION is a young Death metal band from Kolbotn (home of Darkthrone, Aura Noir, Lamented Souls among others), Norway. They started out in 2001 and have ever since left a trail of destruction behind them with HELLBLAZING gigs and rock solid releases. Obliteration got the honor to be the youngest band EVER to play at the Inferno Festival in 2005. OBLITERATION released the "Total Fucking Obliteration" 7” on Duplicate records soon after, and several gigs followed, with bands like Aura Noir, Dismember, Waklevren, Old, Sabbat(uk), Shining among others, and several festival appearances(Hole in the Sky, etc.). In 2006 OBLITERATION were asked to sign with cult label Tyrant Syndicate, a sub-label of Peaceville records, which is run by Nocturno Culto of Darthrone. OBLITERATION released the debut album "Perpetual Decay" in may 2007 which got great reviews worldwide, and a UK tour with doomsters Ramesses followed. Now in 2009 OBLITERATION have finished the recording of a fresh new album, ready to be unleashed upon this earth. "Nekropsalms" is a cosmic blend of old school death metal mixed with the best elements from doom, punk, thrash and old school black metal, and after 8 years, OBLITERATION have finaly found their own repulsive style.
"The talent and sound of Obliteration has morphed from a ferocious jackal on the debut album to a BRONTOSAURUS of vibes and wonder! STAMPEDE!" -FENRIZ of DARKTHRONE
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Band:QUARTZ
Album:LIVE QUARTZ
Label:Krescendo
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
Released in 1980, ‘Live Quartz – Count Dracula And Other Love Songs’ (to give it its full title!) rattled few cages but entertained many upon its original release. Here was one of Britain’s hardest working acts – a band that would go on to play the Reading Festival a total of three times and would tour as support to UFO, Iron Maiden, Gillan, Saxon and Rush – doing what they did best in front of a highly partisan audience. In short, Quartz rocked! On a good night, it was a brave band that would take the stage after Quartz had done their thing. Lacking finesse it may well have been, but when Quartz did the job at hand that job stayed well and truly done. As live albums go, ‘Live Quartz – Count Dracula And Other Love Songs’ is one of the more memorable ones.
First Ever Time On CD - Listen and believe.
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Band:DARK STAR
Album:DARK STAR
Label:Krescendo
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
For many, Dark Star is little more than a footnote in the book that is to be called ‘The History Of The NWOBHM’, a band warmly remembered for one outstanding track that quite rightly features regularly in lists made the world over of the greatest ever NWOBHM tracks. Understandable though this slightly blinkered attitude is, it is also wide of the mark by quite some way… Check the album out and you’ll see that it isn’t all just about ‘Lady Of Mars’. Opener ‘Kaptain Amerika’ with it’s cold war message, the stomping ‘Backstreet Killer’ and the anthemic ‘Rockbringer’ all ably show just how good a band Dark Star were. For many, though, the crowning glory is and will always be ‘Lady Of Mars’ Difficult to argue with, really…Fist time on cd too!
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Band:HELLANBACH
Album:NOW HEAR THIS
Label:Krescendo
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
Two words spring to mind when you listen to Hellanbach’s debut album ‘Now Hear This’, and those two words are…Van Halen. The cocksure attitude on display is highly reminiscent of the initial impact that Van Halen showed back in 1977 when their astonishing debut album first hit the stores. We hadn’t heard anything like it before and they knew it! That same “we’re gonna do exactly want we want and there’s nothing you can do about it” bravado runs through the grooves of ‘Now Hear This’ and although by this time we had heard something like it before, we hadn’t heard anything like it from a British band. Nearly twenty five years after its release, the excitement that accompanied this album’s arrival is still evident. Undoubtedly one of – if not the – finest British hard rock debuts of the 80’s, ‘Now Hear This’ still manages to sound fresh, urgent and important on it's first ever cd release.
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Band:HELLANBACH
Album:THE BIG H
Label:Krescendo
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
Hellanbach’s debut album ‘Now Hear This’ was always going to be a very difficult album to follow. And so it proved to be…. Neat records were keen to capitalize on the debut album’s healthy sales by getting the band’s sophomore effort into the shops with as little delay as possible. So, holed up in Neat’s Wallsend, Tyne & Wear studios, work began on what was to become ‘The Big H’. ‘The Big H’ is a fine album in its own right. Is it as good as ‘Now Hear This’? Probably not, but that isn’t the point. Hellanbach’s star shone briefly but ever so brightly. What this bunch of north easterners proved beyond a shadow of a doubt was that, given determination and inspiration, it was possible to compete on a budget with the best that America had to offer, and compete well at that. Many have followed in their footsteps with varying degrees of success but Hellanbach were the first, and that counts for a lot..First time on cd.
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Band:DIVIDING THE LINE
Album:AT LEAST IT`S NOT LIGHT
Label:A Wolf At Your Door Records
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
Since forming in 2006, Dividing The Line have toured extensively, rocking venue after venue throughout the UK and Europe. Along the way they found themselves sharing stages with such high profile acts as Enter Shikari, The Used, and Bring Me The Horizon. Their devotion to their live performance combined with the release of their debut EP ‘Foundations’ rapidly gained the band an army of devoted fans and a reputation as one of the UK’s biggest underground acts. Now in 2009 the band prepare to release their debut full length album ‘At Least It’s Not Light’ that boasts their most mature and atmospheric material to date. The record offers an amalgamation of styles and diversity rarely heard within the current UK rock scene.
28 date UK/Euro tour supporting Confide (USA )in October / Nov 2009 - Over 1.4 million plays on MySpace - For fans of: Thrice, Underoath, Biffy Clyro
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Band:TRUCKFIGHTERS
Album:GRAVITY X
Label:FUZZORAMA
Format:CD
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
Re- release of a true Stoner classic!! Truckfighters is probably the best live band on earth, combined with the best songwriters in today’s music. Everyone who claims the opposite should go and see them right now! The hard part for the band was to capture the feeling from the live shows in the recording of this album. After all, it is the shows that have built their huge popularity among the fuzzlovers. After over 250 liveshows all across Europe and 2 European tours together with Fu Manchu almost everyone with a little sense of good music k nows who Truckfighters is. It’s all about 13 songs and 67 minutes of pure Swedish fuzz-rock! A classic album among stoner/hardrock fans all over the world. An epic album!
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Band:WHILE HEAVEN WEPT
Album:VAST OCEANS LACHRYMOSE
Label:Cruz Del Sur
Format:CD
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
Since 1989, While Heaven Wept have not only contributed to the very definition of Epic Doom Metal, but with each release have continued to push the boundaries of the genre and in fact have developed a sound uniquely their own; incorporating elements of Baroque, Romantic, 20th century Classical, Cosmic Music, Dark Progressive, Darkwave, Doom, and various styles of metal their sound is very distinctive, very different, yet strangely familiar. With 2009's "Vast Oceans Lachrymose," While Heaven Wept offer their most diverse release to date, containing all of the hallmarks of the "WHW sound" but the songs are far more progressive and aggressive than anything they've released previously. Clearly a natural evolution from their critically acclaimed 2003 album "Of Empires Forlorn," it is obvious WHW have no intention of stagnating musically nor playing music that isn't anything less than sincere - no Doom for the sake of Doom here.
For fans of Candlemass, early Fates Warning, Rush etc. • The missing link between 'Awaken The Guardian' and 'No Exit' ... The album fans of early Fates Warning have been waiting 20 years for!
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Band:WHILE HEAVEN WEPT
Album:YOU WILL BLEED
Label:Cruz Del Sur
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
"You Will Bleed" is Handful of Hate’s 5th full length album, a new chapter from one of the most extreme Black Metal bands ever. Carnality and infamy drowned into a gruesome and explicit act of hate. A mature, powerful and fast as well tribute to the old and underground Black Metal tradition. From the past to the nowadays scene the cult is alive and it has never been so intense and grim. Handful of Hate was formed in 1993 by Nicola B. After three full length albums, various EPs and 7’’s, in 2005 the band signs to Cruz Del Sur Music, releasing “Gruesome Splendour” in late 2006. The original line-up split in 2007, but it took Nicola only few months to bring back the band to life with new members; the band took the road again to promote its name playing several shows and festival across Europe. In early 2009 Handful of Hate enters one of the best metal studio in Italy, Studio 73, to record their brand new album entitled “You will Bleed” to be released worldwide by Cruz Del Sur Music in Nov 2009.
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Band:VARIOUS ARTISTS
Album:EVERYBODY JIVE TO THE LONDON ROCK
Label:PSYCHIC CIRCLE
Format:CD
Genre:Rock And Roll/Psychobilly
In the mid 1950s, while the Western World was still immersed in the aftermath of World War Two, a new concept was discovered. This concept, stroppy and rebellious, was the teenager. Up till then you were a child until you became an adult. One minute you were in short pants, the next you were smoking a pipe. Now there was an intermediary stage, during which you could experience the nascent pleasures of adulthood without having to succumb to its more mundane disciplines. These new teenagers needed new idols. They couldn’t relate to the polite swing of the dance bands. Some found modern jazz a bit too esoteric, while, to be honest, the heart-throbs of the early 50s mostly looked like they were in their early 50s! Suddenly a wild, new sound from the USA was being broadcast over select airwaves. Singers with exotic names like Jerry Lee, Elvis, Buddy and Gene were strutting their stuff. Hollywood was beginning to embrace this movement, and, over in The UK, jazzmen, dance band members, crooners and hopeful kids were suddenly buying guitars, greasing back their hair and rockin’ like there was no tomorrow. Here’s a selection of what was happening in the basements and coffee bars of Britain at that most wonderful and innocent of times. We’ve got lids to be flipped, joints to be rocked and rugs to be cut. So what are you waiting for?
TRACK LISTING 1. JIMMY CRAWFORD: Long Stringy Baby 2. CAL DANGER: Teenage Girlie Blues 3. DANNY RIVERS: I Got 4. ART BAXTER & HIS ROCK ‘N’ ROLL SINNERS: Rock You Sinners 5. TOMMY BRUCE & THE BRUISERS: I’m On Fire 6. WEE WILLIE HARRIS: Love Bug Crawl 7. RICKY JAMES: Bluer Than Blue 8. ROY YOUNG: Big Fat Mama 9. TONY CROMBIE & THE ROCKETS: London Rock 10. DERRY HART & THE HARTBEATS: Come On Baby 11. MIKE SAGAR & THE CRESTERS: Deep Feeling 12. DANNY HUNTER & THE GIANTS: Make It Up 13. TERRY DENE: Next Stop – Paradise 14. DON LANG & HIS FRANTIC FIVE: Red Planet Rock 15. VINCE EAGER: Five Days Five Days 16. 1. DEAN WEBB: The Rough & The Smooth 2. CLYDE RAY: Steady As A Rock 3. JANICE PETERS: This Little Girl’s Gone Rockin’ 4. SHARKEY TODD & THE MONSTERS: Cool Gool 5. JIMMY MILLER & THE BARBECUES: Sizzlin’ Hot 6. DICKIE PRIDE: Frantic 7. DUFFY POWER: Whole Lotta Shakin’ 8. BILLY SPROUD & THE ROCK ‘N’ ROLL SIX: If You’re So Smart 9. TERRY WAYNE: Slim Jim Tie 10. VINCE TAYLOR & THE PLAYBOYS: Jet Black Machine
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Band:VARIOUS ARTISTS
Album:MUSIC FOR MENTALISTS
Label:PSYCHIC CIRCLE
Format:CD
Genre:Psych/Garage Reissues
Perhaps the first question should be why? For what warped reason did some misguided record executive think that any of the music contained within this compilation was worth releasing on a commercial basis? Whose twisted vision saw these tracks racing up the charts? In fact, who thought that anybody, apart from those with an equally cracked view of the world, would rush to their local disc boutique to snap up even one of these bizarre items? But then again, perhaps it doesn’t really matter at all, and we should just be grateful that these skewed slices of strangeness were pressed up and are still to be found lurking in dark corners of dust-shrouded record racks, charity shops, boot fairs and flea markets. Mick Dillingham has devoted many years of vinyl hunting to unearthing the obscure, the peculiar, and in some cases the downright disturbing. Here, Psychic Circle is delighted to present a selection of his personal favourites. Thrill to a Yiddish version of Rock Around The Clock, groove to a song about aliens landing in Northampton, sit open-mouthed at the late Michael Elphick’s deeply worrying paean to kidnap and date-rape (it can’t be, can it?), weep along with the moving tribute to Sefton, the cavalry horse blown up by the IRA. Emotions you never knew you had will be brought to the surface. Will it change your life? Probably not, but it will bring some unusual and welcome colour into it. Please join me in thanking Mr. Dillingham for his tireless endeavours in seeking out hidden gems that would otherwise have remained undiscovered. Michael, you have brought us Music For Mentalists and we salute you.
1. LAURA HUXLEY: Introduction 2. LINDA JARDIM; Energy In Northampton 3. BALSARA & HIS SINGING SITARS: Boots 4. REGINALD BOSANQUET: Dance With Me 5. CADBURY’S SINGERS: Come Into The Warm 6. DAVID McCALLUM: Communication 7. MICKEY KATZ: K’nock Around The Clock 8. SWINGIN’ THOM: The Weakling In Thom McCann Shoes 9. RUSTY GOFFE: Music Man 10. ROSEBUD: Arnold Layne 11. MARTIN HARVEY: It’s A Leicester Fiesta 12. AL HIRT: The Monkees Theme 13. STEVE BOWLEY: Jingle #3 14. RENE & RENATA: It’s A Lovely Day 15. JIM BOWEN: Jim Bowen Rap 16. HYLDA BAKER: Substitute 17. XAVIERA HOLLANDER: My Attitude To Sex 18. MAVIN JAMES: Together In Iceland 19. EDD BYRNES: Like I Love You 20. DAVID CARRADINE: The Chicken Song 21. PAUL DAMIAN: How To Say Llanfair… 22. PAUL FREES: Let It Be 23. JOHN COLLIER: Saturday Night Suit 24. PETER ANTHONY: Song For Sefton 25. JOE LOSS: Steptoe & Son 26. MICHAEL ELPHICK: Gotcha 27. TINA HARVEY: Tina’s Song 28. BERT LANDERS: Peppermint Twist 29. THE BARCLAY SUPERGROUP: Barclay Girls 30. CATHY BERBERIAN: I Want To
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Band:GNAW THEIR TONGUES
Album:FOR ALL THE SLAVES A SONG OF FALSE HOPE
Label:BURNING WORLD
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
"For All The Slaves..." takes GTT in a direction that mixes in more pleasing sounds with his usual miasma of horror and suffering. Sound comparisons might be made with Esoteric, Stalaggh and Abruptum but the music of Gnaw Their Tongues is a chaotic tapestry riven with sickness and evil that is unique in the world of extreme metal. Spoken word samples and literal screams of despair comingle with doom and post-industrial soundscapes while sweeping orchestral gestures are subsumed by layers of manic black metal psychedelia. Just as there are no accurate comparisons for GTT, there is also no way to avoid the psychological impact of this record. It will find your vulnerabilities and punish them mercilessly. Prepare to enter darkness of the mind... a Burning World back catalogue release.
• 9 out of 10 points in Terrorizer Magazine January 2009
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Band:THE AUSTRASIAN GOAT
Album:PIANO AND STUMP
Label:BURNING WORLD
Format:DOUBLE VINYL LP
Genre:Black Metal
Beautifully packaged double LP from the French funeral black purveyors. Features unreleased tracks, the Void EP, compilation tracks, and tracks from yet to be released splits! Included are also some news songs that TAG recorded in the autumn of 2008. French one-man project The Austrasian Goat compiled old cd-r and 7”-tracks on Piano & Stump, a double vinyl album.
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Band:GNAW THEIR TONGUES
Album:ALL THE DREAD MAGNIFICENCE OF PERVERSITY
Label:BURNING WORLD
Format:DOUBLE VINYL LP
Genre:Black Metal
All the dread magnificence of perversity is Gnaw Their Tongues most accomplished work to date. His magnum opus, all that is GTT comes together on this double album. The three tracks on side D are exclusive to the vinyl version of this monster. Available domestically for the first time- a Burning World back cat release. • CD Release by Crucial Blast (USA)
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Band:ISRATHOUM
Album:MONUMENT OF BRIMSTONE
Label:BURNING WORLD
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Black Metal
In the wake of the second wave of black metal or “norsecore”, if you will, Israthoum was formed in 1992 in Portugal under the Tolkien-inspired name of Grendel, by drummer Arvath and guitar player Arluth Dhu. Soon after Voxinferi a.k.a. Israth and his psycho shrieks joined as vocalist. “Monument of Brimstone” isn't anymore held in the confines of harsh norsecore only, Israthoum has grown to display melancholic folkish tendencies usually connected with the early Emperor/early Borknagar tradition.
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Band:CHILD ABUSE
Album:CHILD ABUSE
Label:Rococo
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Metal
"Not far from what a band might literally sound like if it were stuck spinning inside of a clothes dryer, Brooklyn trio Child Abuse certainly knows how to make a racket. But, like many current acts that display metallic tendencies with a post-modern touch (such as one-time tour mates The Locust and label mates like Health and Indian Jewelry), Child Abuse revels in the craft that underlies its work... Not far from what a band might literally sound like if it were stuck spinning inside of a clothes dryer, Brooklyn trio Child Abuse certainly knows how to make a racket. But, like many current acts that display metallic tendencies with a post-modern touch (such as one-time tour mates The Locust and label mates like Health and Indian Jewelry), Child Abuse revels in the craft that underlies its work." - NY Press Limited to 500 copies.
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Band:BLOODYMINDED
Album:PHASES 3
Label:Rococo
Format:TRIPLE 7\"
Genre:Avant-Garde
I know what you are thinking, “What is this thing?” Or maybe, “Why does it exist?” Why does a beautifully packaged triple white vinyl 7-inch box-set, containing some of the rawest BLOODYMINDED tracks ever captured on tape, or MiniDisc, in this case, even fucking exist? And lord knows, there are a few preceding raw BLOODYMINDED live recordings, that much is certain. And why are these four basement bruises bookended by such seemingly high-fidelity studio fuckery? Well, let’s talk about it, for a minute. The band went out on tour in August 2006, in support of our “Magnetism” CD, along with some friends: Demons, Graveyards (sometimes Burning when C. Spencer Yeh would appear), and Lambsbread. Each night, we played four songs off of the then-still-new album. Those would be the middle four cuts that appear here. The strange thing about those “Magnetism” tracks (and boy, did they ultimately prove to be ultramagnetic that night, but who knew?), unlike most core BLOODYMINDED songs, is that they have no discernable lyrics, per se, so that always leaves a lot of room for vocal improvisation… or a bunch of screaming, moaning, shrieking, and whatnot. In this particular case, these four works of art were recorded live on August 8, 2006, at Spooky Action Palace, in Saint Louis, Missouri. We had played there before and we were as comfortable as you can get in the humid basement of a house in a Midwestern town, during a tour that saw 100- degree temperatures pretty much every day. That particular night was special, as BLOODYMINDED, which has members scattered not just around the country, but across the globe, had a pretty extraordinary line-up. Über-fan Nicole Chambers had been brought into the fold to play synth and to handle the live mix for that tour. Xavier Laradji flew in from Toulouse, France, to play synth, to add some Froggy vocals, and to take in as much Americana as he could that summer. Isidro Reyes, who could not go with us on that tour due to “other commitments,” made t he marathon there-and-back drive from Chicago to Saint Louis, just for this one god damned show. Pieter Schoolwerth was on loan from New York, specifically to break synths, snap microphone cables, and keep things as lively as possible. And me, Mark Solotroff, I drove the car, I screamed, moaned, shrieked, sweated, etc. Weird, indeed. Three guys who are among my very closest friends and brothers, and one chillingly silent girl, putting on some mileage and attempting to stir things up, night after night (except Isidro on all but this one night. Damn.). Again, why did this thing get made? Why these songs? Because, it is absolutely the most pure example of how out of control this thing could get, given all of the right/wrong circumstances: a heat-wave; vintage analog synthesizers getting beat to hell on a nightly basis; non-existent PA systems; wound-up audiences of various sizes; blood, sweat, and maybe some tears. And basements. Basements do make a difference. So, what about the first and the last tracks? Well, following the pattern set with the “PHASES : ONE” cassette and the “PHASES : TWO” CD – and I do love patterns, of course – the “PHASES : THREE” parts seek to offer a different process, whereby songs, audience outbreaks, and incidental moments during a show, find their way into a disorienting mixture of sound and texture, blended up and damaged, as if run through an audio In-Sink-Erator, and then get lovingly re-assembled for maximum fidelity (almost). And why “Magnetism,” why these song titles, and why the moon imagery? I have answered that before. My mom – and – it all really happened. Do we learn? Apparently not. For the record, lest you think that this is some sort of low-fidelity mess more suited for a vomit-encrusted cassette tape, the studio processing on "PHASES : THREE (PART ONE)" and "PHASES : THREE (PART TWO)" and pre-production for all six songs was completed at Conservatory, Chicago, Illinois, September 2007, and mastering was skillfully completed by Salvatore Dellaria at Eightysevenwest Recording, Chicago, Illinois, September 2007. Trust me, crank it up and you will feel like you are in that basement at that show. Limited to 300 Custom Made Boxsets White Vinyl
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Band:HELLBASTARD
Album:THE NEED TO KILL
Label:SELFMADEGOD
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
The classic, influential UK crossover metal/crust band Hellbastard is back with all guns blazing and has released the new album The Need to Kill. Often cited as being the band who created the crust punk/metal wave of the early 1980s, these Brits flex their wide-ranging musical muscles on The Need to Kill by including everything from a banjo, whispered vocals, clean guitar and soundscapes to neck-break speeds, distorted crunches and breakdown stomps. They haven’t forgotten where they came from: in addition to the 10 new vibrant thrash/hardcore songs on The Need to Kill, the band has included 6 rerecorded Hellbastard classics. The album doesn’t stray far from the milestone Natural Order album Earache Records put out back in 1990, either. The Need to Kill demands to be heard with a crisp, big sound that’s signature Hellbastard. This is a must-have for all fans of the first wave of British crust/metal/punk and bands like AMEBIX, CONCRETE SOX, DEVIATED INSTINCT, and AXEGRINDER.
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Band:HELLBASTARD
Album:ECO WAR
Label:SELFMADEGOD
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
The UK crossover metal/crust band Hellbastard is back with 5 new songs including a rerecorded track from 1986 and a raging Slayer cover! As opposed to the album The Need to Kill, Eco-War is a mostly mid-paced and more focused beatdown of metal/punk/crust. Eco-War isn’t just a rehash of The Need to Kill: if you can’t imagine an organ on a Hellbastard record, prepare to have your ears opened. Featuring an additional guitar player added to the lineup, the EP has its own approach and shows another side to the influential, classic Hellbastard sound. Think of a unique mixture of the legendary Brit-crust of AMEBIX, CONCRETE SOX, DEVIATED INSTINCT, and AXEGRINDER paired with more modern metal like LAMB OF GOD.
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Band:DEMENTED ARE GO
Album:TANGENITAL MADNESS
Label:FURY RECORDS
Format:CD
Genre:Rock And Roll/Psychobilly
Finally available again ! "This is good. Really, really good, far better than Orgasmic Nightmare in my opinion. The studio production is really good. And the songs are good, I even like the Intro better than the intro from O.N. Some of my favorite songs are on here, which is a bit redundant because most of Demented Are Go's songs are my favorite songs. But anyway, songs like 'Brand New Corpse', 'Gambling Queen, 'Zombie Stalk' and 'The Chase' make this one a winner in my book. I always wanted to hear what 'The Chase' sounded like on CD, and it sounds good. Also, a Jimi Hendrix cover, and you can tell when it gets there, that it is no normal song. I can never get enough Demented Are Go. It's starting to get to the point where it's hard for me to find Demented Are Go stuff I don't have, I'm not sure how much of it there is, but when it does come out I'll be all over it." Josh K
Trying to determine just when and how Demented Are Go started is not an exact science as the band members themselves admit that their memories are not all that good, but we do know that by 1982 the band were up and running. Guitarist Dick Thomas (no relation to Ant) helped pull the whole thing together, having been in a lot of bands before Demented, he knew how to get things moving. Demented Are Go had their first release on the 1984 Nervous Records compilation album 'Hells Bent On Rockin' but it was not until about 18 months later that their album 'In Sickness And In Health' was released on ID Records. A few years on the band members could be found all living in the same squat in London with no electricity - this would have been around '87-88-ish. They started writing songs acoustically, by candle light. These songs surfaced - again on ID - as the album 'Kicked Out Of Hell'. Tours of Germany and mainland Europe followed and Demented Are Go found themselves playing at punk gigs as well psycho events. Sparky started living at various big organised squats and existing on diet of drugs and alcohol......
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Band:T.S.O.L.
Album:LIFE,LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF FREE DOWNLOADS
Label:DC-JAM RECORDS
Format:CD
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
“Life, Liberty & the Pursuit of Free Downloads”… Originally released as a free download to their fan club a few months back, this collection is now available on Limited Edition Picture Disc LP. TSOL celebrates their 30th anniversary in-style, and with a record that will please their longtime fans… and make a few new ones along the way. Formed in 1979, and hailing from Long Beach, CA, T.S.O.L. (short for The True Sounds of Liberty) has been a permanent fixture on the Southern California Hardcore scene for three decades. They have a reputation for their varied albums, covering many of the dark nooks and crannies of punk, deathrock and horror-punk. This new release returns to their hardcore roots, and the scene that they helped create. This LP will be the only physical format available. There will not be a CD version of this released.
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Band:TORTUGA
Album:KINGS OF ALBANY
Label:ANCHORS AWEIGH
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
Created from the ashes of November Coming Fire and Bossk, Tortuga is one of the best bands coming out from the north of England which sounds like a killer mix between Converge and Botch. In a time where any band basically sounds the same, Tortuga had the strength of tryin something original and less common.
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Band:WHISKEY REBELS / HANOVER SAINTS
Album:SPLIT CD
Label:Downtown Academy
Format:CD
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
This is the release that got things started in 2001 at The Downtown Academy. Since then, the WHISKEY REBELS have released full-lengths and splits on GMM Records, TKO Records, and People Like You Records ( Germany ), and have logged tens of thousands of miles on US and European tours. The songs on this split remain staples of their live set. HANOVER SAINTS have called it a day, but leave behind a loyal fan base nationwide, as well as full-lengths and splits on GMM Records and Facedown Records. For fans of: Cock Sparrer, Cro Mags, Cockney Rejects - Originally released in 2001, this classic split record showcasing Sacramento’s finest is available again.
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Band:SUBURBAN THREAT / REVENGE
Album:CD SPLIT
Label:Downtown Academy
Format:CD
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
Continuing The Downtown Academy split series is a hardcore punk collaboration between SUBURBAN THREAT and REVENGE. SUBURBAN THREAT first made waves back in the early days of TKO Records with their debut full-length “American Punk” and has also appeared on TKO’s Punch Drunk compilations and GMM Records’ Skins & Pinz compilations. REVENGE is a project in the spirit of mid-80s New York hardcore bands like the Cro-Mags, Warzone, Agnostic Front and Judge. Featuring members of Pressure Point, Suburban Threat and Whiskey Rebels. For fans of: Agnostic Front, Cro Mags, Judge Originally released in 2005, this classic split record showcasing Sacramento’s finest is available again.
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Band:PRESSURE POINT / MADHOUSE DISCIPLES
Album:PP / MD SPLIT
Label:Downtown Academy
Format:CD
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
Next in The Downtown Academy split is a pairing of Oi! stalwarts PRESSURE POINT with up & comers MADHOSUE DISCIPLES. PRESSURE POINT has been a fixture of the American Oi! scene for over a decade. They’ve established themselves on the top of the genre with releases on GMM Records and TKO Records, as well as multiple appearances on the Hellcat Records’ Give ‘Em The Boot compilations. MADHOUSE DISCIPLES classic sound blends Oi! and rock & roll, and will soon release their debut fulllength on The Downtown Academy. For fans of: Blitz, Rancid, Anti-Heros, The Last Resort Originally released in 2006, this classic split record showcasing Sacramento’s finest is available again.
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Band:VARIOUS ARTISTS
Album:DEATH OR GLORY FESTIVAL 2005
Label:Downtown Academy
Format:DVD
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
Death Or Glory Festival was a short-lived but much-storied Nor Cal punk, Oi! and hardcore fest. This DVD documents where it all started. Featuring 25 of the best bands in the scene, including: The Forgotten (BYO Records), Pressure Point (GMM Records), Killing The Dream (Deathwish Inc), Angel City Outcasts (Sailor’s Grave Records), Hanover Saints (Facedown Records), Sinking Ships (Revelation Records), Monster Squad (Charged Records), The Havoc (Punkcore Records) and many more Key markets: Sacramento, San Francisco Bay Area, Northwest, Los Angeles, Chicago, Boise •
Originally released in 2007, this documentary chronicles the two day Death & Glory Festival 2005 in Sacramento, and features 25 of Northern California’s finest punk, hardcore and Oi! bands. • Universal/Wotldwide DVD coding.
FEATURES PERFORMANCES BY: MONSTER SQUAD / WHISKEY REBELS / HANOVER SAINTS / ANGEL CITY OUTCASTS / THE FORGOTTEN / PRESSURE POINT / THE HAVOC / THE VEX / SUBVERT CITIZENS / AMERICAN STATIC / RED TAPE / SUBURBAN THREAT / REVENGE / MADHOUSE DISCIPLES / SINKING SHIPS / KILLING THE DREAM / ROSARY / LOS DRYHEAVERS / THE ABUSE / CRISIS / DCOi! / DES KONTROL / CALL TO ARMS / PLEAD THE FIFTH / RESILIENCE
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Band:RUNNIN RIOT
Album:BOOTS AND BALLADS
Label:Rebellion Dirty Old Man
Format:CD
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
4th album by Belfast's top oi band, 11 brand new songs picking up where their previous ones have left off. Top quality in your face oi punk with snarly vocals in a strong Belfast accent.
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Band:VARIOUS ARTISTS
Album:INTERNATIONAL UNDERGROUND TRIBUTE TO JOHNNY CASH
Label:Rebellion
Format:CD
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
The finest in Oi!, Punk and Hardcore Underground bands pay tribute to the “Man in Black”. Johnny Cash has been an inspiration not only to rock’n’roll and country bands all over the world but also to Oi!, Punk and Hardcore bands from the underground.
TRACKLIST 1. Strongarm & the Bullies: Don’t take your guns to town 2. Judasville: Delia’s gone 3. Reno Divorce: Guess things happen that way 4. Peter Pan Speedrock: Ghostriders in the sky 5. Emschekurve 77 feat. Gunter Gabriel: San Quentin 6. Discharger: The city of New Orleans 7. The Pug Uglies: Folsom prison blues 8. 7er Jungs: Long black veil 9. Dead50’s: Understand your man 10. Southern Way: The highwayman 11. Couchdrivers: Thing called love 12. Banner Of Thugs: Redemption 13. Social Combat: Country boy 14. Springtoifel: Cafe gitterblick (I got stripes) 15. Floffgirl: Tennessee flat top box 16. Hateful: The man comes around 1. Toxpack: Wanted man 2. The Regulars: Ring of fire 3. Vortex: Jackson 4. Sweet Poison: The ways of a women in love 5. Get Out: I walk the line 6. Subculture Squad: Thirteen 7. Superaction: I will rock n roll with you 8. For The Fame: I still miss someone 9. Badlands: Get rythem 10. Confuse The Cat: Devils right hand 11. Razorblade: San Quentin 12. Riot Company: There you go 13. Barry Lewis: Hurt
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Band:TEMPLARS
Album:OUTREMER
Label:Rebellion
Format:CD
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
From the mean streets of Brooklyn to the Long Island burrough comes the explosive, hard hitting sounds of multi cultural Knights of Acre, the mighty Templars. The secret society Priory of Scion has long been a background supporter of the evil genious, Dr. Phil Templar, busting out pure brickwall Oi! Since the battle of Hastings in 1087 AD. No longer limited to the confines of the street rock underground, the Templars latest release "Outremer" finds the lineup in stride, picking up right where they left off. Having played to sold out ravenous crowds from California to Atlanta to NYC, any Templars CD has become a must for any true fan of honest straight foward street punk.
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Band:TEENAGE REHAB
Album:LET`S BE ENEMIES
Label:JAILHOUSE
Format:CD
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
Recorded and Engineered by punk legend Joe Queer, this album features 17 tracks of their best material to date. Let's Be Enemies, starts where 2008's "Goodbye Sanity" leaves off and expands on a lot of the same thematic elements. Impossible to accurately shelve into a particular sub genre, the album goes from short and fast hardcore, to pop punk sing along’s, with even an occasional pop love song thrown in for good measure. • Touring the U.S all summer and fall, with European tour scheduled for Summer 2010 • Advertising in Maximum Rock n’ Roll, Razorcake, Bombshell zine, Big Cheese, Ox Fanzine, and many more • First full length album since 2005’s “More Than A Job” • Promotions with Interpunk, and Punkradiocast in the works • European Release contains an extra bonus track not available in the U.S • Guest spots from Joe Queer and Wimpy Rutherford (the original Queers Line-up)
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Band:CARDIAC KIDZ
Album:GET OUT!
Label:RAVE UP
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
Southern California Punk pioneers!!! Started in 1974 as ‘Glass Onion’, they were based in San Diego. During the glorious years, the ‘Kidz’ performed with the cream of the local punk bands of that era, such The Penetrators, The Dinettes, DFX2, Hitmakers,The Standbys, Gary and the Blind Dates, The X-Terminators and more... The guys released also two great records in 1979, the amazing single ‘Get Out/Find Yourself a Way’ and ‘Playground’ 7" EP. The Cardiac Kidz are featured on two ‘Killed by Death’ compilation albums which seemed to solidify their place in the historic annuals of the history of US Punk Rock. They just recently granted an interview to San Francisco's Maximum Rock'n’Roll magazine. Buy or Die!!!!! Be fast, only 500 copies available!!!!
TRACK LISTING 1.get out 2.find yourself a way 3.monday afternoon 4.mary young 5.love can't be blind 6.oh yeah 7.punkette 8.future shock 9.breakout 10.bit of your love 11. no you don't 12. more DT 13. paper towel
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Band:THE NERVEBREAKERS
Album:HIJACK THE RADIO!
Label:RAVE UP
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
Texas punk rock gods definitive collection! Killer unreleased studio tracks + a great sound quality live show recorded in 1979. Great photos and definitive liner notes written by George Gimarc, the author of " Punk Diary ". Essential!
TRACK LISTING 1. Hijack the radio 2. my girlfriend is a rock 3. why am I so flipped? 4. my life is ruined 5. I love your neurosis 6. everything that is right 7. strange movies 8. I’ve got a problem 9. a part of my love 10. what do you want from me? 11. stepping stone 12. let’s fall apart 13. I wanna kill you
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Band:THE ACTION
Album:SLASHING WHITE HOT!
Label:RAVE UP
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
The Action, one of Canada’s first punk bands, formed in Ottawa in 1977. Their style combined early American and English punk like The Ramones, The Sex Pistols, and The Vibrators with rock influences such as The Rolling Stones’ guitar attack and The Allman Brothers’ dual-guitar and slide-guitar leads, which, combined with provocative lyrics and an untouchable stage show, made The Action a musician’s band. The Action was chosen to open for The Ramones in 1978 and helped spearhead punk across Canada when they supported The Stranglers on that band’s first North American tour the same year. This collection covers The Action’s short but wild career from 1977-’78: their debut 12-inch (which includes the cult classic “TV’s on the Blink”) and a recording for a never-released follow-up EP, plus smokin’ live tracks recorded at the infamous Rotters Club in Ottawa, Canada.
TRACK LISTING 1. TV's On The Blink 2. Downtown Boy 3. So The Strange 4. Success Without College 5. Seafood Mama 6. Mr. Holmes 7. Let You Down (All The Way) 8. Arena 9. No Applause 10. Darts 11. Mr. T 12. Zona Rosa
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Band:THE SHITDOGS
Album:WORLD WAR 3
Label:RAVE UP
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
Baton Rouge (Lousiana) ramonish long haired punks maniacs. Their discography is well know in the "Killed by Death" fans area. This collection include their mega rare "History of Cheese" EP, the 2nd one "You Bet!", unreleased cuts and the amazing track "Not Responsible" that apperead only on "New Orleans Necessary Experience" compilation in 1981. Absolutely a must!
TRACK LISTING 1. Not Responsible 2. Reborn 3. Raw Meat 4. killer Cain 5. World War III never ended 6. Bloodcot 7. Saucers over Singapore 8. Nikita banana 9. Calling mr.moto 10. it’s disposable 11. Can Opener 12. The Devil’s Hand 13. TV Stupid 14. Don’t hide Radorblades 15. Cockroach 16. Moons
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Band:THE DAWGS
Album:OUTSIDE OF TIME
Label:RAVE UP
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
The Dawgs were born in Beverly, Massachusetts, ( just north of Boston ) in the late 1970's. INspired by sixties garage bands and local idols Real Kids, the band recorded a killer three-song EP on Greenline Records in 1979. After this ‘classic’ 7”, the band released a first full album on Star-Rythm Records and one anthology on New Rose Records. Now, finally in 2009, this amazing band is still available on Lp with the best selection ever that includes lotsa of great unreleased studio stuff + their immortal hits!!!! Absolutely a must for every Boston rock’n’roll fan!!!!! Be fast, this record burns!!!!
TRACK LISTING 1. Hit the Fan 2. A Shot of your Love 3. Silohoutte 4. Outside of Time 5. Feed Me 6. Babylon City 7. Long Long summer 8. Jack’s on Drugs 9. Lost in Love 10. Love on the Levee 11. Paper Moon 12. Who’s she loving tonight 13. Main Street USA
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Band:WARM JETS
Album:WANNA START A WAR
Label:RAVE UP
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
Philadelphia’s punk rock finest band! Started in 1977, the band was really popular at the ‘The Hot Club’, one of the main punk venues in USA in ‘those’ years. They had a punk ethos, but laced with a potent pop mentality and a big sense of pure theatricality that reminded one of suck disparate outfits as Sparks, The Weirdos, Lance Loud’s Mumps and The Dickies, not to mention The Monkees! Unfortunately the band recorded only one acetate and few studio tracks that you can find in this anthology that contains the best production of their unlucky career!!! Pure US punk genius, grab this!!!
TRACK LISTING 1.wanna start a war 2.never felt like this 3.warm jets 4.stepping 5.my girl 6.I love it 7.scooter pie 8.baseball player 9.here comes the warm jets 10.scooter pie 11 you're a cree
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Band:THE READYMADES
Album:SAN FRANCISCO : MOSTLY ALIVE
Label:RAVE UP
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
The Readymades were one of the most influential West Coast Punk and New Wave Bands. Produced by Sandy Pearlman (The Clash "Give 'em enough Rope") and courted by Jon Cale of the Velvet Underground. Their single "Electric Toys" was the only independent record to be in regular rotation on KSAN who also broadcast a live half hour of their music. They played with Blondie, Patti Smith, Nico, The Stranglers, The Police, The Talking Heads, Roxy Music and DEVO amoung others at such venues as the Cow Palace, Oakland Coliseum, Starwood, Winterland and the Mabuhay. It's best to tell the Readymades story through quotes from the press. Starting in 1977 and ending in 1979. This anthology contains all their recordings, studio unreleased, demos and more. A true jewel that give us a picture of those glorious days!!!! •
TRACK LISTING 1. 415 Music 2. After the Earthquake 3. Electric Toys 4. Supergirl 5. The Heretics 6. Tin Pan Alley 7. Hurry Up and Go 8. Edge City 9. Spy 10. Taxi Driver 11. Living in the Movies 12. You can’t Live without the USA 13. Trying to Grow Up 14. Terry
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Band:THE SENIOR ALLSTARS
Album:HAZARD
Label:LIQUIDATOR MUSIC
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Reggae/Dub/Ska
For a lot of people, The Senior Allstars bring to mind the successful times of Dr. Ring-Ding & The Senior Allstars, when the internationally renowned act played all over Europe and released countless records. But for ten years now, the five musicians from Münster have devoted themselves to their favoured kind of music -- purely instrumental, Jamaican-influenced sounds. Rolling Stone awarded their previous release, "Come Around" (2008), 4 1/2 stars, calling for an "obligation to listen closely”, and their new album deserves no less: "Hazard" is based on familiar Senior Allstars ingredients -- instrumental reggae, dub elements and ska. Even more than its predecessors, "Hazard" succeeds in creating an amazingly dense, atmospheric sound. The twelve songs -- all of them original compositions by the group’s musical mastermind and composer, Markus Dassmann -- evolve on the basis of haunting riddims and gritty musical themes. In addition, the Senior Allstars invited three comrades-in-arms from days gone by who have enhanced the tracks with wind section parts and additional solos.
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Band:WARRIORS
Album:UNITE THE SCENE
Label:Rebellion
Format:CD
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
Formed in late 1981 out of the ashes of The Last Resort,who after encountering one too many punch ups decided reluctantly to call it a day. This version of The Warriors recorded “Horrorshow” for Oi Oi Thats Yer Lot LP and “Wicked Women” for the United Skins LP before splitting up a year later. After reforming in 1995 for a supposed one off gig, the band recorded The Full Monty, Noizy Bollox, Bad Guys and Cross to Bear albums with Saxby on Vocals and Arthur Kitchener on Bass, and various guitarists and drummers included ex and current members of Deadline, Cocksparrer, Argy Bargy, Gundog and others before splitting up again in 2002 when Arthur decides to retire from punk/oi Saxby didnt have much luck with another band until Feb 2007 when a chance meeting at a gig in Kent put the Warriors back together with a new line-up which is still gigging and has just recorded a brand new album entitled Unite The Scene. Unite The Scene is the 5th album release by The Warriors and is the first to include the new line-up. 15 tracks of quality streetpunk, 11 brand new tracks, a re-working of Horrorshow and 3 bonus tracks.
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Band:EVERYTHING ON RED
Album:ROTATOR
Label:Lockjaw
Format:CD
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
EVERYTHING ON RED come out of Staffordshire with the intention to make you smile, make you dance and make you think. A punk rock band with a bit of difference; Everything On Red have managed to integrate a synth into their writing with ease. Not quite the shoe-horned affair it is with many other protagonists of the usually gimmicky genre. The lads have cherry picked their influences from various sources; bands like Cursive, Brand New and Minus The Bear have all helped them on their way. However such is the unique sound of the band it’s impossible to say they have ripped anyone off. Rotator is the band’s first full-length after their first self-titled EP gained excellent press in 2008. Full of triple pronged vocals, frantic verses and massive hooks that just beg you to stand up and sing along. All the elements of a great punk rock band are there, its not going to scare off the purists but Everything On Red bring enough to the table to be stood up and counted.
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Band:BULL SEE RED
Album:A GIRL CALLED MURDER
Label:Lockjaw
Format:CD
Genre:Alt Rock
The band have been together barely a year but have already forged a sound which is unique and cuts a clear path all of their own. Yet another band to bust out of the thriving South-West scene BSR have taken their influences from all over the spectrum, bands like Smashing Pumpkins, Refused and Bad Brains - mixing the new and old together, making something which would be at home around the Fugazi punk era or rocking with the best of the modern UK indie scene. ‘A Girl Called Murder’ is the bands’ first release, a mini album which showcases both the personal and political nature of the song writing, and mixes the melodic, progressive and the satisfyingly heavy. Their debut mini-album was recorded at Mighty Atom Studios in Wales Produced by Joe Gibb (Funeral For A Friend, Million Dead) and Paul Reeve (Muse) After a very successful Spring tour Bull See Red are upping sticks and getting back around the country in November.
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Band:PURE SOUNDART
Album:BYE BYE BEAUTY
Label:Lockjaw
Format:CD
Genre:Alt Rock
Pure Soundart are back with their first full-length album Bye Bye Beauty. After their cracking debut EP ‘emo is dead’ was released on Lockjaw in 2007 the band have been away and written an incredibly complex and exciting album. Influenced by the likes of Brand New and ….And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead., Pure Soundart have managed to create something exciting, full of rage, sadness and beauty. They have achieved a heavy sound without resorting to screaming just using powerful vocals and huge guitars. The album is influenced by their own personal experiences most of them not good ones, this comes through in the songs and the words but its never depressing, haunting at times…yes. The album was recorded over 10 long months, which does help explain the epic and well polished finish this album has. You can easily get lost in this album, it embraces you from all sides and doesn’t let go. After successful shows in the UK before the band is planning on coming back and doing it all again in the near future.
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Band:DEFCON
Album:NEON NIGHTS
Label:Lockjaw
Format:CD
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
Defcon have taken the pop punk genre and made it their own, formed in 2006 in Austria they have crafted their own brand of emotional and uplifting punk rock. Neon Nights is the bands’ first full-length bringing together all their experiences from the last few years. The new album has received great press over in Europe so far and the band is now looking to the UK to continue to roll with this success. The 6 piece uses the old double-vocal-attack to great effect with a combination of melodies and harsher vocal patterns to get their kicks. At times they sound like a more grown up New Found Glory and other times it treads into hardcore Refused style territory. There is always a hook to grab hold of, a guitar part to stir the soul, and enough variation to keep your interest throughout. Defcon are rarely without a show and get on the live stage at every opportunity, the band have played with some of the highest profile bands of the punk rock world including A Wilhelm Scream and Boysetsfire. They are currently planning their large-scale UK invasion to go hand in hand with the release.
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Band:PARACHUTES
Album:THE WORKING HORSE
Label:Lockjaw
Format:CD
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
The European music scene rarely experienced such a hard working band as the Parachutes. Since 2004 the five-piece from has cruised more than 300 times all over Europe. No matter if they deal with ramshackle or narrow stages in small and muggy youth centres or large concert halls, they play them all - no distance is too far for them! Sweaty and with a dirty smirk on their bloodied faces, they’re raising their fists against all music-butchers and are not afraid of their own development. Along with their powerful live presence, the previous longplayers “Vultures” (Redfield, 2008) and “And I won’t stop until you’ve lost everything you ever loved” (Lockjaw, 2006) have established their standing as one of the greatest bands in European´s hardcore-music scene.
If you rattle through the list of bands with which the Parachutes have shared a stage, it’s like reading a “Who Is Who” of the international emo-, screamo, hardcore-, whatever-scene, which just speaks for the band’s variety as well as: Underoath, Taking Back Sunday, Rise Against, Silverstein, The Used, From Autumn To Ashes, Caliban, Callejon, Alesana and so many others that you’d need too much space to name them all.
With their third longplayer “The Working Horse”, the Parachutes are presenting themselves with a rougher, dirtier, darker, but also more mature sound. From the first second on the eleven songs pump adrenaline through your veins. Intensive and enriched with a load of rockappeal, the Parachutes are fielding their new horse.
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Band:MURDER FM
Album:ANTHEMS FOR THE USED
Label:Glasstone
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
MURDER FM are about to leave a nice little scar on the music world with their killer debut ‘Anthems For The Used’, produced by Norman Matthew and mixed and mastered by US platinum selling producer, Beau Hill (ALICE COOPER, RATT, LOST BOYS SOUNDTRACK, INTERSCOPE RECORDS FOUNDER) who initially enlisted MURDER FM’s Vocalist/Songwriter, Norman Matthew as a songwriter before encouraging him to form a new project. Taking pride in being a voice for those that don’t have one, with dark and truthful lyrical content and a crushing sound, MURDER FM is rock music with something to say. MURDER FM (from El Paso, Texas/LA) have already opened for KORN, THE USED, DOPE, I AM GHOST, RED and BURN HALO. The band features Norman Matthew from NEVER 3NOUGH (w/Keith & Trevor of 18VISIONS) and J6 (PRONG touring bassist) was in Psycho Plague(w/Elias Andra of JULIEN K) MURDER FM excude the rock and rebellion of Guns N’ Roses & Motley Crue, the darkness of HIM and The Cure, the electronic beauty & aesthetics of Depeche Mode and Nine Inch Nails, and the no holds barredness of Marilyn Manson. MURDER FM have achieved much exposure including Front Cover of EDGE Magazine plus Feature Interview. 'One Step Closer' has been played over several radio stations in the US, internet radio stations VH1 Satellite Radio with “Rowdy Ron” and on the BBC Radio Stoke on the Subculture show with Rob Adcock in the UK. MURDER FM will be shooting the video for the First single 'As Beautiful As You Are'.
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Band:BENG BENG COCKTAIL
Album:FROM THE SWALLOW TO THE BOTTLE
Label:PUMPKIN RECORDS
Format:cd
Genre:Reggae/Dub/Ska
22 TRACKS OF ACOUSTIC SKA FROM ONE OF FRANCE’S BEST UP AND COMING BANDS. ALL BEING IN WELL ESTABLISHED PREVIOUS BANDS AND HAVING THE BACKING OF BEER RECORDS IN FRANCE HAS SET BENG BENB UP FOR A BIG YEAR.
• THE BAND ARE TOURING THE UK FOR THE WHOLE OF AUGUST AND WILL BE PROMOTING THE ALBUM SELLING POINTS - a must for fans of LEFTOVER CRACK
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Band:DCOi!
Album:FALL BACK PLAN
Label:Downtown Academy
Format:CD
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
First of all, it’s pronounced ‘decoy’. Now that we’ve got that cleared up, let’s get down to brass tacks. They tour constantly. They make wildly offensive merch and put out 7-inches on their own label. They’ve shared the stage with 7 Seconds, Circle Jerks, Monster Squad, Allegiance, Leftover Crack, and piss on any lines that still separate the hardcore scene from the punk scene. This is hardcore punk.
For fans of: Reagan Youth, Circle Jerks, Monster Squad.
Originally released in 2007, this classic record showcasing one of Sacramento’s finest is available again.
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Band:DER BLAUE REITER
Album:NUCLEAR SUN
Label:BLACK RAIN GMBH
Format:CD
Genre:Industrial/EBM
DER BLAUE REITER returns with its third full-time album "Nuclear Sun". Each of these skillfully done compositions are made of powerful percussions and majestic neo classical passages full of pain and sadness performed by Sathorys Elenorth & Lady Nott (Narsilion, Lugburz, Ordo Funebris & Endless Asylum). This new musical chapter is inspired by one of the biggest nuclear disasters of our times: The Chernobyl disaster. You can feel the crying of our past, the legacy of humanity behind the desolation of the ghost town of Pripyat... where dreams are just a legend and death is the darkest reality... A perfect soundtrack that offers an homage to all victims that fell under the sky of "Nuclear Sun".
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Band:DEXY CORP
Album:FRAGMENTATION
Label:BLACK RAIN GMBH
Format:CD
Genre:Industrial/EBM
"Download pain, it's time to plug my hate" DEXY CORP_ is the new rising IndustrialRock-hope from France. Intense brutality has ever been used by many bands as an accoustic stylistic device. But most of them used this to such an extent that it got more and more a banalized and boring phrase. DEXY CORP_ managed it to re-invent this brutality for themselves in order to raise the bar in the IndustrialRock genre. But they do not rest on their laurels - they go one step further. Uncompromising songs with a skillfully done songwriting and use of instrument do not just invite the listener - they wrest him from his world into a completely new and strange universe in which dreadful and menacing future visions merge with a cold and categorical rejection of today's society. Ultra heavy industrial guitars and vertiginous arrangements will not leave any time to rest and dwarf everything else before. Whoever admires bands like Die Krupps, Ministry or KMFDM will love DEXY CORP_! But be careful: Use at own risk!
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Band:XENTRIFUGE
Album:CONVERTING INFINITY
Label:BLACK RAIN GMBH
Format:CD
Genre:Industrial/EBM
The awakening of Xentrifuge began in 2005 eventually bringing the well recieved debut album "Light extinguished" on NoiTekk Records in 2007. Now, 2 years in the making, Xentrifuge is reborn and unleashes the followup to "Light extinguished" with their latest arsenal of audio weaponry known as "Converting infinity". Xentrifuge has built "Converting infinity" with high energy, raw emotion, and pure rage resulting in a innovative form of Dark Power EBM. Combining harsh synths, crushing noise, tormenting vocals with brutal beats all set in a cold dark atmosphere, "Converting infinty delivers to the dance floor and the moshpit alike. From the opening track "Dormant" the listener is given the sense that mankind is lost and fallen. This topic along with self annihilation, curse of religion and many other dark realities are echoed throughout the album till the final track "Immune". Xentrifuge's "Converting Infinity" is made of relentless Harsh Industrial built to please all fans of Hard edge electronic music. Xentrifuge continues to wage war against an already dying future.
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Band:JAGER 90
Album:DRISCHNE SKASAL
Label:ELECTRIC TREMOR DESSAU
Format:CD
Genre:Industrial/EBM
Electronic Body Music : Electronic Body Music, EBM, is a music genre that emerged in the early 1980s and is dominated by sequencer lines, impulsive rhythms and slogan-like vocals. EBM is basically characterized by minimalistic structures and is said to be powerful and energetic. Most important is its danceability and in-artificial hardness. With the growing popularity of this music style, a subcultural youth scene evolved, which had its revival in the past years in some parts of Europe, especially in Eastern Germany. Jä|ger 90 : Jäger 90 is a musical duo from Rostock that has been founded in 2005 by Thoralf Dietrich (vocals & program) and Stev A. (drums), Vigo Stahlmann recently replaced Stev A. Their musical roots reach back into the early 80s. Especially the sound of DAF and EBM (see above) shaped the body-conscious sound of the three CDs published up until now: „Harte Zeiten“ (own production, 2005), „Total Debil“ (own production, 2006) and „Muskeln und Küsse“ (Electric Tremor Dessau, 2007). The protagonists don't give a shit, if this kind of music already existed or not. Thoralf Dietrich is also known for his activities in his side projects and for being the singer of the DAF.Partei (with Robert Görl).
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Band:ONIRIC
Album:CABARET SYNDROME
Label:Caustic
Format:CD
Genre:Alt Rock
Oniric is an italian project founded/started in 2005. Oniric was formed / founded by Carlo De Fillipo and GianVigo (Gianpiero Timbro). From the start their first spotanious and artistic meeting the resulting compositions where ethereal, dreaming and inspirational. The combination of Carlo's Sad Chords and smooth dark sound and GianVigo's sonorous and contemplative melodies in the first works created an intimate and nostalgic feel. After a very long and intensive period of live shows and with the collaboration of Simona Giusti in recording sessions and also after several radio broadcasts the Duo were signed to the Caustic Records label at the begining of 2009. The dream like journey now begins with the release of "Cabaret Syndrome". The first Album by Oniric is a melodic exploration dressed in a nostalgic style, touched by the penetrating veil of decadence. Both Apocalyptic and futuristic-retro Folk atmospheres combine into the air as if to open celestial gates while passing over them before vanishing into the Ether caried on the air of long forgotton times.... This release is a must for fans of Spiritual Front, Argine, Rome, Calle della Morte, Ordo Rosarius Equlibrio und Novalis deux…
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Band:VIGILANTE
Album:LIFE IS A BATTLEFIELD
Label:BLACK RAIN GMBH
Format:DVD
Genre:Industrial/EBM
Vigilante is one of the most important and heaviest Industrial bands from South America. Its powerful beats and strong lyrics were released in several countries around the world like Russia, Germany, Chile, Argentina and even Japan. Vigilante has shared stage and colaborated with bands like Nine Inch Nails, Die Krupps, Agonoize, VNV Nation and Hocico among others. Watching this DVD will let you know a little more about the history of the band. Get soaked up with the power and energy of its live performances and a sound that will blow your ears. This release also includes an Extra CD with all the live tracks from the DVD in High Definition Audio, a very special remix from the legendary band Die Krupps and 2 new songs from the highly anticipated new Vigilante album "The New Resistance". DVD: - Powerful live tracks recorded in High Definition Video. - All video clips from the previous albums "The Heroes code", "Juicio Final" and "War of Ideas" and some extra clips with exclusive footage. - Galleries with pictures of live performances, studio sessions, tours, etc. - A documentary with the history of Vigilante from their beginning. EXTRA CD: - Stunning live audio tracks recorded in High Definition Audio. - 1 special Die Krupps remix of the Vigilante hit "Still Alive" - 2 new tracks from the upcoming album "The New Resistance" (including "Prison Break" featuring Claus Larsen from "Leaether Strip")
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Band:TRUTH WE DEFEND
Album:YOUTH ARMY
Label:GIVE PRAISE RECORDS
Format:CD
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
Fast and raw youth crew styled hardcore from Istanbul, Turkey. Energetic and sincere. Six rippers from a far corner of the globe. Not unlike Vitamin X or Justice. Truth We Defend took a little break and is now recording all new songs. This CD really captures the forefront into the TWD music base. All the way from Turkey, and it seems that they are more serious and try so hard to make a change in their scene with a positive message, you would think they were from California.
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Band:FRANKIE HILL
Album:SEVEN PLY DISCOGRAPHY
Label:GIVE PRAISE RECORDS
Format:CD
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
Skateboard thrashers from France come back to destroy with the discography that collects it all. Fast punk hardcore with some mosh parts and crunchy vocals... tied in with lyrics about thrashing and skating, with diy and raw recordings! Listen and shred the deck, comes packed in a 7" jacket with some stuff from Frankie's history. These folks were a short-lived band, but really got the word out! This started up when skatecore and powerviolence just started to mix! A good piece of History!
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Band:WPI / DUKE NUKEM FOREVER
Album:WPI / DNF SPLIT
Label:GIVE PRAISE RECORDS
Format:CD
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
WPI are a good mix of punk rock 'n' roll with reggae breakdowns and hardcore vocals combined with fast thrash breaks to keep it all mixed together. Duke Nuk'em Forever are over the top thrash raging at 100 miles per hour with plenty of hooks and fast spit vocals that are angry as hell. Both bands rip it up with ultra fast music and lyrics!
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Band:ANALENA
Album:INCONSTANTINOPOLIS
Label:Moonlee
Format:CD
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
ANALENA is back! Five years after their highly acclaimed album Carbon Based, Croatian/Slovenian quartet returns on the music map with a burning torch. And it is obvious that ANALENA has not fallen asleep on the past trophies, but it is always heading forward to the new sounds, new challenges, new adventures. Their brand new one is entitled Inconstantinopolis, released by their own record label – Moonlee Records. ANALENA is a celebration of DIY (do-it-yourself) ethics in full force, since they manage, record, release, promote and distribute their music by themselves.
ANALENA is not one of the many, on the contrary, ANALENA is the one and only, with its unique and uncompromising approach, skillfully floating from postpunk and powerpop through galaxy of noise all the way to rock and hardcore. Therefore it is hard to compare ANALENA to other bands, but other bands are often compared to ANALENA. This says a lot by itself. Therefore leave references aside and let yourself guide through Inconstantinopolis. Watch out over stroking female screaming, sharpened by repetitive guitar slicing and fatten by well oiled bass, which doesn’t fall out of precise and thundering drums. Don’t miss well hidden melodic tunes, neither crazy guitar interplays. Let yourself float between atmospheric and energetic, uncompromising and dreamy, precision and chaos, playfulness and tension, since it is concise and well balanced mix indeed. ANALENA strikes again - “like a fire”
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Band:ANALENA
Album:INCONSTANTINOPOLIS LP
Label:Moonlee
Format:CD
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
ANALENA is back! Five years after their highly acclaimed album Carbon Based, Croatian/Slovenian quartet returns on the music map with a burning torch. And it is obvious that ANALENA has not fallen asleep on the past trophies, but it is always heading forward to the new sounds, new challenges, new adventures. Their brand new one is entitled Inconstantinopolis, released by their own record label – Moonlee Records. ANALENA is a celebration of DIY (do-it-yourself) ethics in full force, since they manage, record, release, promote and distribute their music by themselves.
ANALENA is not one of the many, on the contrary, ANALENA is the one and only, with its unique and uncompromising approach, skillfully floating from postpunk and powerpop through galaxy of noise all the way to rock and hardcore. Therefore it is hard to compare ANALENA to other bands, but other bands are often compared to ANALENA. This says a lot by itself. Therefore leave references aside and let yourself guide through Inconstantinopolis. Watch out over stroking female screaming, sharpened by repetitive guitar slicing and fatten by well oiled bass, which doesn’t fall out of precise and thundering drums. Don’t miss well hidden melodic tunes, neither crazy guitar interplays. Let yourself float between atmospheric and energetic, uncompromising and dreamy, precision and chaos, playfulness and tension, since it is concise and well balanced mix indeed. ANALENA strikes again - “like a fire” VINYL LP VERSION - ALSO AVAILABLE ON CD.
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Band:HOT IQS
Album:HOUNDSTOOTH
Label:Rococo
Format:7\" VINYL
Genre:Alt Rock
Y'know, I get a LOT of new records. It takes a lot to grab me by the balls. This record does it, in spite of itself. It has "early '00s mainstream garage rock revival" written all over it, but fuck it, the hooks are great. Good luck not humming it all day. Great debut from these Denver popsters.
Limited to 500
TRACK LISTING 1. Houndstooth 2. Iggy Pop
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Band:LAKE OF DRACULA
Album:SKELETAL REMAINS
Label:Rococo
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Alt Rock
Between 1995 and 1997 Lake Of Dracula forged a singular approach to dissonant, minimalistic rock music pre-dating both the neo-”no wave” nostalgia trip (popularized by bands like Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Liars) and the current noise rock insurgence (led by Lightning Bolt and Wolf Eyes) by years. based in Chicago, LOD was a veritable midwestern underground super group featuring James “Marlon” Magas (Couch, Magas), Weasel Walter (The Flying Luttenbachers, XBXRX), Heather M. (The Scissor Girls), “The Manhattanite” (a.k.a. Al Johnson from U.S. Maple) and Jessica Ruffins (Jaks, Sea of Tombs). Skeletal Remains is a compilation of unreleased and rare tracks from 1995-1997. Originally released on CD by Savage Land in 2006, this is the LP reissue. “Skeletal Remains” collects previously unreleased material and rare compilation and single tracks Remastered by Weasel Walter
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Band:FILM NOIR
Album:I HAD A VERY HAPPY CHILDHOOD
Label:le son du maquis
Format:CD
Genre:Alt Rock
After a first sampler and many live acts pointed out, Film Noir is coming back with the f inal version of their first album. I Had A Very Happy Childhood is the final step to a work that receives excellents feedback from rock magazines as well as worldwide bloggers. Formed in June 2007 around the singer and musician (guitar and keyboard) Oan Kim, the band proposes a percussive music, leaded by guitarist Alex Choiselat, Bass player Benoît Berraudeau (ex-Object), and percusionist of Assen Tzankov The result is a A tale in spiral, with influences as varied as Radiohead,Jazz Butcher, Tom Waits and Pikov (sharing the stage with Jacques Higelin).
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Band:PHARAOHS
Album:SQUASHED AGAINST MY WALL
Label:all aboard records
Format:CD
Genre:Alt Rock
When vocalist/guitarist Jake left HPR a little under a year ago,the future of the band was left hanging in the balance. However, the remaining three members would not give up so easily. Changing their name to 'Pharaohs' and finding a new guitarist, they ditched the distorted cacaphony of past releases and concentrated on a more melodic style whilst retaining the complex guitarwork that aided their establishment in the UK music scene. 'every songs its own smart, quirky story, and that Pharaohs have created one of the best independent British rock records of recent years. Very special stuff. 'MODERATE ROCK 'Squashed Against My Wall' is a glorious track..wonderfully catchy in the blink of an eye.' PUNKTASTIC.
• Video for the single 'Squashed Against My Wall' to be featured on music websites/e-zines. • UK tours planned for November and December. • Physical flyering by the All Aboard Records street team. • Banner ads to be taken out on punktastic.com, dailydischord.com and alterthepress.com. • Online promotion through forums, facebook, twitter, myspace and newsletters. • Radio play on Kerrang radio, XFM, Radio 1 and 6 • For fans of: Minus The Bear, Foals, Bloc Party • Exposure piece on Rocksound • Several successful releases under the previous name HPR • 'Squashed Against My Wall' was Steve Lamacq (Radio 6)'s track of the week
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Band:NERVOUS BREAKDOWN
Album:NERVOUS BREAKDOWN
Label:GIVE PRAISE RECORDS
Format:10\\\" VINYL
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
Nervous Breakdown are back from Germany with another whip of fast and raging hardcore. Fast and heavy melodies bring together a old school flair. Complete with plenty of circle-pit breaks and fast blasts. Thrown on-top of socially and scene focused political lyrics. Nervous Breakdown members are also in countless numbers of German fast hardcore and powerviolence grind bands... shredding the way for German thrashcore!
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Band:NO MANS SLAVE / I RESIGN
Album:SPLIT TOUR SINGLE
Label:GIVE PRAISE RECORDS
Format:7\\\" VINYL
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
Made for their Summer '09 Tour! No Mans Slave is back with even more pulverizing music! Complete with catchy breaks and powerviolence infused blasts, these new songs do not let down. I Resign is new out of Oklahoma City with more of a hardcore approach to the powerviolence spectrum. Fast and over the top, but with some ties into the melodic hardcore feel. This really is all over the place, appeals to the most radical of earring aids!
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Band:NO MANS SLAVE
Album:SIEGE MENTALITY
Label:GIVE PRAISE RECORDS
Format:7\" VINYL
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
No Man’s Slave from Oklahoma bring a few elements to the table. Fast and anxious vocals over ripping thrashcore. Fast and blasting beats, in the same vein as Thrak. Combining stop-and-start powerviolence breaks with some catchy fastcore parts and shout-alongs. This comes together to bring you a furious ear blasting. No Man’s Slave are a very hard-working band to stand out in the fara- way Oklahoma area, brutal and honest.
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Band:OPERATION EAT SHIT
Album:OPERATION EAT SHIT EP
Label:GIVE PRAISE RECORDS
Format:7\" VINYL
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
9 tracks in 11 minutes of early 80’s sounding hardcore with a real punk edge from France. Fast, raw, snotty, and loaded with catchy riffs and hooks. Put this in with a band somewhere along the lines of Sunpower musically, but with more of a early hardcore sound. This is a combination of their two split 7″s on one record. This band collects members from other French bands as well, they know how to carry the scene since some of the members have been doing this since the 80’s!
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Band:RUN RIOT
Album:BREAK MIRRORS
Label:GIVE PRAISE RECORDS
Format:7\" VINYL
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
Five Tracks of youthful and energetic punk/hardcore out of Cleveland. Mosh friendly but spastic, shouted vocals and a pissed off vibe. With songs like "I Don't Hate Religion, I Just Hate You" you know what you’re in for. These guys have since disbanded as a band, but they played all up and down the East Coast as well as playing regaular weekend shows in Ohio. These folks had a “I Don’t Care What you Think Attitude…” and it showed in there Live Shows and through the intensity of their music and lyrics.
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Band:STREETCLEANER
Album:MOTHER CURSE
Label:GIVE PRAISE RECORDS
Format:7\" VINYL
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
Streetcleaner are a brutal blastcore band from the Texas area. Musically raging along the lines of powerviolence and stop-and-go blasting, combined with angry spitted vocals. This brings to mind bands like Severe, and more crucial to-the-point blasting bands. This band dwells in the same area as Hatred Surge, and newer Powerviolence bands, so they come right to the point in influence.
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Band:TODESKULT
Album:APATHY
Label:Eisenwald
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
Todeskult finally release their second album, "Apathy" incorporating six tracks of cruel Black Metal Art. Expect nothing but dark black art walking the edge between inner torment and total loss of emotions. Two worlds disgust and apathy. The band was formed in 2005 and came out with a demo-tape in the subsequent year. Soon after new songs were written and their first full-length-album. "Als die Farben älter wurden..." saw the light of day in spring 2007. Even if promoted quite sparsely the record earned positive feedback from the underground press. In the meantime Todeskult have played several live appearances and proceeded to create new material. "Apathy" was recorded under the guidance of L`Hiver (Winterblut) in 'Zum guten Ton'-studio again. The CD booklet comes with special paper, printed on rough paper stock.
"Bleakness, hate, misanthropy and neglect are all present in the Todeskult and it is not a place for fragile minds to dwell. If that sounds like your cup of arsenic enter, otherwise you would be best advised to flee". Metalteam UK
"Apathy is a good way to stifle any even partially available summer feeling in the bud immediately". - 5 out of 6, heavy hardes zine
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Band:WOODS OF DESOLATION
Album:SORH
Label:Eisenwald
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
Simply titled "Sorh" (meaning Sorrow in Modern English) this new EP (with Desolate of Austere on vocals) features 3 tracks + intro of Raw, Atmospheric Black Metal from one of the most underrated Australian bands. A new path has been carved for Woods of Desolation, the cold void growing ever closer, unveiling the only true answer: "Misery will await, alike the seasons and the tide, So Shall Death await" Woods of Desolation is a band that doesn't stray far from the beaten path, but they apply the formula better than most bands on the list of the so called depressive/atmospheric black metal. This is truly a moving work, one that will be remembered for its sheer emotion and deep atmosphere !
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Band:AUSTERE
Album:ONLY THE WIND REMEMBERS
Label:Eisenwald
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
DELUXE DIGISLEEVE MCD REISSUE OF AUSTERE EARLY WORKS ! Austere present here 2 long tracks which have been taken from the split release with UK's Lyrinx and were recorded in October - 2007. The sound here is of a bleak angle and showing the band in its most tourtured state. With a progression in sound and musical formula from their first public album "Withering Illusions and Desolation" although the recording was still taken care of by Desolate, the band has managed to achieve a reflection from deep within. The effect of these two songs was dragging along in this range rarely so intensively, so authentically. Mood driven music with an evident feeling of despair, This is the rising of the grey dawn! Feel the chords of melancholia sink in like the crimson through thy veins... This re-issue comes with a carefully designed and deluxe digisleeve package with a printed inner-pocket !
“Definitely a great bleak and grim offering!” (metalcrypt.com)
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Band:KILTE
Album:ABSENCE
Label:Eisenwald
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
Kilte from Belgium stand for great mix of melancholic and depressive doom/black metal with gloomy atmospheres. This conceptual piece of art features a ten minute opus, and two re-recorded demo tracks, with a cleansed line-up and an improved sound. In 25 minutes, "Absence" takes you into three different dimensions of complete melancholic and misanthropic emptiness. A devestating sound with one message: "The world's true beauty lies within the darkness of our absence." During failures with the initial CD publishing the real master never saw the light of day, so now the real material is finaly available in the way it was supposed to be + 2 bonus demo tracks which show clearly how the band has evolved over time !
Re-release of sold out record with improved layout, original master and bonustracks ! - Recomended to fans from Abyssic Hate to Burzum and gloomy doom layed black metal ! - Features Member of well known underground act Trancelike Void.
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Band:WARFECT
Album:DEPICTING THE MACABRE
Label:MY KINGDOM MUSIC
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
WARFECT was founded by Håkan Karlsson in 2003 and is based in Uddevalla, Sweden. Håkan (rhythm guitar) was soon joined by Fredrik Wester on lead guitar and vocals, Kristian Martinsson on bass and Mattias Kern on drums. The two demos "Beyond Control" (2006) and "In Command" (2007) were followed by the recording of the debut album "Depicting the Macabre" which is set for a November 2009 world-wide release by My Kingdom Music. A must have for those into bands of the early days of Thrash Metal like Sepultura, Slayer and Metallica.
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Band:WARFECT
Album:SKYDANCERS
Label:MY KINGDOM MUSIC
Format:CD
Genre:Classic Rock/Metal
Nhorizon was born in 2004 from the meet of keyboardist Fabrizio Muratori and guitarist Massimo Castri. During all the 2005 the band, found a good drummer, did a lot of jams and instrumental songs, they also did some auditions to find the other 2 members. In 2006, finally they find permanents singer and bassist, Lorenzo Ticci and Simone Cantini. A first five song's demo is released in 2007 under the "Oneiric Tales" name and had a good feedback on the web and out. The first full album "Skydancers" is out in 2009, and finally after some changes Nhorizon is again on the road with the new entry Alessandro Brandi at drums! And the story continues...It's something that every Stratovarius, Dream Theater and all general metal/rock fans will enjoy!
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Band:JUGGERNAUT
Album:WHERE MOUNTAINS WALK
Label:Subsound Records
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
The Juggernaut born in Rome during winter 2006. From Its five members comes the idea of producing a grave and gloomy sound, able to synthesize the language of metal, the violence of hardcore and the imaginary of gothic. A long experience acquired in other as constructive as different bands brought them to work on a timbric research generating a fascinating wall of sound, where every note seems to find its place in the representation of an avalanche that everything submerges, and in the desolating dusts emerging from that. Devotion for having things down to a fine art suggested them a careful work of arrangement and filing, so that violence of form could contain a more refined expressivity, giving space to ethnic instruments and original colours. Rabid and wistful works, dust and snow, Opeth meet Neurosis, overshadowing mountains and the Mediterranean sea scent, Mastodon arranged by Ennio Morricone.
RIYL: Opeth, Cult of Luna, Mastodon, Neurosis, Mr. Bungle.
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Band:TOMMYDEEPESTEGO
Album:CHRONOPHAGE
Label:Subsound Records
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
Post-hardcore, sludge, doom and stoner, balanced with delicate and soft clean moments. Without a singer, the music plays the leading role, getting in its every single part an unique meaning. The perfect soundtrack for a special day. Tomydeepestego give the birth to their second child after some tours around Europe, and sharing the stage with bands like Fu Manchu, Cult of Luna, Red Sparowes, This Will Destroy You, God Is an Astronaut, and Cancer Bats, during the promotion of the first full-length, Odyssea.
• RIYL: Pelican, Russian Circles, Mogwai, Isis, Cult Of Luna, Neurosis, God Is An Astronaut
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Band:NEVERBORNE
Album:IN ABSENCE OF FEAR
Label:Glasstone
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
NEVERBORNE write adrenaline-soaked metal that combines melody & brutality, harmony and chaos, hope & despair. NEVERBORNE, originally hailing from South Africa, now reside in Surrey (UK), and their 5 track debut EP 'In Absence Of Fear' was produced at Surrey's THIN ICE STUDIOS by Karl Groom (Dragonforce, Hammerfall). NEVERBORNE have featured in Zero Tollerance, Devolution Magazine, on the Underground City Show on the Belgium radio station Quartz FM amongst many web stations such as Top Rock Radio. South Africa's most prolific rock DJ over the past 2 decades, Barney Simon, has been consistently playing tracks from 'In The Absence Of Fear' on his weekly rock show on Tuks FM. NEVERBORNE's mini album features elements of punk, rock, death, and hardcore. DEVOLUTION magazine describes NEVERBORNE as "blistering underground UK metal that isn't afraid to delve into different sub-genres for inspiration." In that respect, NEVERBORNE are a diverse writing force.
For Fans of: In Flames, Nightrage, Mors Principium Est, Cipher System, Unearth, Evergrey, American Head Charge, Chimaira, Dark Tranquillity, Fields of the Nephilim, Lamb Of God.
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Band:ABANDON
Album:THE DEAD END
Label:Blackstarfoundation
Format:CD
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
Written and rehearsed for three years, recorded live in the end of 2005. Vocals recorded fragmentarily during the following years due to constant storms of adversity. Finally completed in the spring of 2009, our over 100 minutes long double album THE DEAD END has really taken its toll on us. This will be a posthumous release for our singer Johan Carlzon who passed away last december. We're confident that the lyrics, vocal delivery and artwork on this album will stand as a proud monument of his unique talent and person. From working with very barren sonic landscapes on our last album In Reality We suffer (recorded in 2002), we really tried to push things forward this time with new member Mehdi Vafaei's pump organ adding a thick and mournful voice to the mix and letting us write with greater freedom. We gave it all on this one. Johan will be remembered!
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Band:JESSAIAH
Album:ET TU, HOPE
Label:Blackstarfoundation
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
One of the most interesting bands in Sweden right now is Jesaiah. Complex hardcore from Stockholm in the likes of Converge, Dillinger Escape Plan and some very interesting additional Post rock parts to this heavy mixture of Hardcore and Metal. In other words relievingly uncompromsing, but playful at the same time The guitars are violated, they whistle and scream begging for help. But maybe this is what keeps them so good... ...Their more mellow parts, have a sense of melody and atmospheres added to them that make them more special and get out of the same patterns all the time. ...Smart riffs, good ideas, brutal beatdowns and good mixture of the best elements available.... ...There's a lot of potential here!
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Band:WEAPON
Album:DRAKONIAN PARADIGM
Label:AJNA
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
WEAPON! Rusted nails that claw out of your skin; intoxicating stench of pigs' blood from the womb of the matriarch; paradox of life, deliverance to death: such is the enigma of WEAPON. Canadian outlaws deliver their first full length after a demo and 2 Eps on obscure underground/cult labels. The album, Drakonian Paradigm had already been slotted for “Metal Album of the Year” by Zero Tolerance and Metal Maniacs as early as January of ’09!
Vital release for antinomian Black Metal fans who want something unique- yet fundamentally Black Metal! Lyrically deep and musically elite, Weapon's approach to Black and Death Metal is far above beyond the mundane.
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Band:NEGATIVE PLANE
Album:ET IN SAECULA SAECLORUM
Label:AJNA
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
NEGATIVE PLANE reinvents the superstitions and fears of times when evil ran rampant in villages and churches- slowly spreading amidst the incense and futile prayers of the parish.
"Where in the Hell did you find this obstinate error of a band? They sound just like a band is not supposed to sound these days, fucking genious! For sure the first time in years I've gotten impressed by a band which I have not even heard of before. I'm almost upset." E./Watain
"...satanic black metal steeped in the primitive '80s traditions… the challenging, maze-like arrangements, strange melodies and bizarre chords set Negative Plane apart from the many uninteresting bands..." The End Records
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Band:ACRIMONIOUS
Album:PURULENCE
Label:AJNA
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
A tool to transcend consciousness to the most obscure realms of the subconscious, a trumpet that claims man’s futile carnality and doom… ACRIMONIOUS from Greece returns with their first full length reeking of things Swedish and serpentine. First time available in the UK. RIYL - Watain, Dissection, and Necrophobic.
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Band:ANGER AS ART
Album:DISFIGURE
Label:OSM Records
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
Anger As Art is back with their third full release. Steve Gaines of Abattoir, Bloodlust and Bitch fame is back and he has a brand new band behind him. Made up of ex Abattoir and Hirax members, Anger As Art brings back the old school in metal. The record is angry and as we remember…anger is good.
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Band:PERSISTENSE
Album:IN BLOOD AND HEART
Label:Deity Down
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
Hailing from The Netherlands, PERSISTENSE (not a spelling error but a contraction of 'to persist' and 'intense') was founded in the year 2000. Initially the band’s musical direction was firmly Thrash-rooted, but with personnel changes the band’s style changed into a more powerful, dynamic and intense kind of metal, watermarked by decent song structures, meaningful lyrics and groove in abundance. Some traces of Thrash still remain but also references to classic Heavy Metal can be found in the twin leads. Meanwhile, the vocals are a crossbreed of aggressive Hardcore and Death Metal sounds.
Prior to their debut full-length ‘In Blood And Heart’ the band released an eponymous mini (2005) and a promo (2008). The latter resulted in a deal with DEITY DOWN RECORDS. The band played with a.o. Devious, Dead by Dawn, Xystus, Demia, Pleurisy, and The Dying. PERSISTENSE opened for Testament at the world famous Dynamo Club in Eindhoven, Netherlands in 2009. They also did a small tour together with Dimension 7 in their Infinite Madness era.
• RIYL: Lamb Of God, Pantera, Machine Head, Testament.
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Band:VERMIN
Album:DEFINE:DIVINE
Label:Deity Down
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
“Define : Divine” is the successor to the 2006 debut “A Nihilistic Swarm” by Holland’s VERMIN (not to be confused with the Swedes of the same name). The new album reveals that the band has become an even tighter unit than before, since this time virtually every member was involved in the writing process. On “Define : Divine” VERMIN ’s mix of brutal, twisted US Death with grim, gloomy breakdowns and progressive touches just became creepier, darker, more threatening and more atmospheric than ever before.
• RIYL: Cannibal Corpse, Morbid Angel, Immolation, Meshuggah
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Band:POTENTIAL THREAT
Album:A NEW THREAT LEVEL
Label:OSM Records
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
Potential Threat SF is a Bay Area cross over thrash metal band that has been around since the 80’s. Their style is a perfect mix between bay area thrash and NY/HC. Powerful riffs, baselines and insane drums .In addition, the CD sports some intense vocals that remind you of Sick Of It All and the likes - A perfect Mix between NY/HC and Bay Area Thrash
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