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Rue - ST
Rue's killer debut from a few years back is showing up on our shelves for the 1st time - I don't really have a good reason as to why we didn't stock it before, but if yer a junkie for the whole Shifty Records spectrum of gnarly, hardcore-influenced sludge metal and gooey slomo violence, then this'll be right up yer alley if you haven't been turned onto Rue as of yet. Rue is also another band made up of multiple members of C-Blast faves Fistula, specifically Corey and Bahb, who play drums and bass respectively on Rue's debut. This is a whole 'nother beast though - while Rue does delve into some supremely sludgy and slow crawls through the muck that will plaster huge grins across the mugs of any discerning sludgecore freak, these guys are generally a more fast-paced and swingin' affair, each song busting out brutal mid-paced riffage schooled on Celtic Frost and Black Flag's My War, blisteringly pissed off sludgepunk assaults laced with bonecrushing breakdowns, unexpected time changes and multiple singers spewing bloodcurdling roars and ripped-throat shrieks. Bludgeoning heavy, with an abundance of killer riffage (some of which almost has a 70's classic rock vibe, albeit massively distorted and downtuned), but they also keep things interesting when singer Jeff Fahl occasionally breaks off into slurred melodic singing that remind me a little of Dax Riggs from Acid Bath, which gives Rue a melodic edge that I wasn't expecting the first time I heard this. Rue inhabit a sightly rockier, more high-energy corner of the sludgecore sound, but this is gonna appeal to anyone into sludgy, doomy, crusty heaviness like Acid Bath, Eyehategod, Cavity, Bongzilla, Sofa King Killer, Rwake, Mistress, and Iron Monkey. Features more of Scott Stearn's killer satano-metal scrawl art too, which I can never get enough of. |
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The Whorehouse Massacre - IV LP
Thick 350g cardboard, professional mastering at "The Exchange" UK, 8 paged booklet. IV: The Death Tree is as you may guess the fourth album of Willy P.s (Canada) solo project. This has it all: Sludge, Industrial, Noise, but occasional haunting, almost melodic moments. Inspired by the murders of Robert William Pickton this is a sick nightmarish Lucio Fulci soundtrack. Rotten hopelessness and perdition dominate the album, adding blends of violent, grinding outbursts. lo-fi black metal aesthetic, but still produced healthy. The superb artwork for the cover sleeve and the 8-paged booklet is from Scott Stearns and transports perfectly the misanthropic brutality. Dip into the sick world of Willy P.
416 copies pressed, 100 hand numbered on mint green wax.
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Tangorodrim - Justus Ex Fide Vivit
Pure, Unholy Black Metal from Israel! After their "Unholy and Unlimited" album released on Southern Lord in 2005 this filthy horde hibernated and shape-shifted into a new more vicious beast. Recruiting ex-Rabies Caste drummer Terno Graderz they regressed into a more primitive animal for this their 4th studio album. Justus Ex Fide Vivit is raw alcohol-fueled Black Metal colliding violently with disgusting Punk Rock. Layout/design by Seldon Hunt!
• This release is under exclusive vinyl license from Southern Lord Records. Vinyl version includes A2 poster and postcard.
• One time pressing of 500 copies / 12"LP / black vinyl |
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The Austrasian Goat - ST
It doesn't really matter what one would say about a release such as The Austrasian Goat; the factor that plays a key role in favor of this — and other releases filed under the black / doom sub-genre — is that this niche is incredibly sparse and almost barren; a wilderness of bands, so-to-speak, in comparison to the over-crowded black metal and doom metal scenes in general.
The Austrasian Goat generates suffocating ambiance; it is monotonic and circular; it is partly organic and partly synthetic in sound and delivery (the drums are obviously programmed, the aura of the album is industrially-cold...). The vocals are mostly a tad less than the typical high-pitch black metal screams; incoherent, torturous and wretched.
The experience of sitting through the whole of the album is summoning thoughts of filth and uncleanliness that both stick to the mind and the body — as if you just have spent too much time in the company of a rotting corpse; the aural grime of the sounds seem to cling and soil the body and soul. |
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Nostromo - Ecce Lex
The audio equivalent of a serial killer. Underestimate it for a second and you're dead.
Mix in equal parts Grind riffing, Hardcore breakdowns and high pitched screeching, turn it all up to 11 and you get NOSTROMO. It's an extremely volatile mix and it has to be handled with care, otherwise it will just come out as one giant mess, snubbed and ignored by all factions, but when done properly, it will be embraced by all and well, NOSTROMO got it right.
A high-pitched tone starts, not unlike the small drizzle that gets on your nerves, but also serves as a tornado warning. Sure enough, "Rude Awakening" more than lives up to his name as it erupts into a savageness that is rarely met. Even a track like "Sunset Motel" which is infused with a high dose of melody, at least in comparison to their other tracks still has a thick, heavy layer weighing down over it. Instead of it being straight out brutality, it just weighs you down over the course of the track.
There are a couple of shorter interludes to help break up the chaos into more manageable sections, such as "End's Eve" and most of "Turned Black" and I can appreciate the effort that is put into that, but ultimately it doesn't really help the disc any and often times it can kill the momentum that they had building. Being the extremely aggressive band that they are, though, NOSTROMO are able to rebuild that momentum and push it even further, so I guess this wasn't much of a concern on their part and hey, they're nice little interludes.
More than just your average crossover, NOSTROMO blur the lines with their ferocious Hardcore/Grindcore attack |
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Monarch / Grey Daturas - Split 12"
Two respected underground heavyweights pair up on 'Dawn Of The Catalyst'. Australia's Grey Daturas have built a solid following over the last few years through constant touring worldwide with artists like Neurosis, Wolf Eyes and Yellow Swans (having also released splits with the latter two). Their combination of Sonic Youth style guitar-improv freakouts with more detuned doomed ambience and all out noise has attracted fans from all dank corners of underground music. France's female-fronted Monarch is that country's entry into the slo-mo nihilistic utterly oppressive doom genre where they've distinguished themselves from their peers in both sound and aesthetics. On 'Dawn Of The Catalyst' each band contributes one extended track, both veering to the more experimental, droning, lurching side of their collective personas. A split to be felt more than simply heard, it requires full volume and full bass frequencies for maximum effect. |
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Exhale (Swe) - Prototype
SEE ALSO CD ALBUM
Sweden is the Walhalla of the European grindcore scene. But with the tragic loss of Miezsko and Nasum the Swedish scene also lost its main export product. Of course there are a lot more bands that have the capabilities for an international break through. One of them is Exhale. The band was given birth in 2004, so a relatively new outfit you could say. Though two years later the lads knock on our door with a first full length album, called 'Prototype', out on Emetic Records (the label that also released stuff from Haemorrhage, Eyehategod and lots of other bands). From the first moment 'Prototype' sets the tone by opening up with a raging tempo, and to be honest, it keeps on going like a high speed train. Exhale seems to be one of those bands that like it fast an brutal, without any remorse. Keep on listening to it, since it's a quite catchy release. You could describe the sound as Dying Fetus meets Rotten Sound. Vocals vary from a hardcore alike scream to guttural deathmetal vocals. Something fans of European grindcore will appreciate a lot. |
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Deer Creek / RawRadarWar - Split 12" Vinyl
This awesome split features Boston's brutalizing RawRadarWar and the punishing heaviness of Denver's Deer Creek. RawRadarWar is fronted by former Only Living Witness and Milligram vocalist Jonah Jenkins in his most ferocious persona yet. RawRadarWar occupies Side A of the LP with an epic cut of scathing, rumbling Sludge Doom and two tracks of dark, ambient noise-scaping. Side B features four desolate doses of the heavy from Deer Creek. The CD version features two bonus ambient noise tracks from RawRadarWar and three "Mammon" Demo tracks from Deer Creek. The vinyls come on black/red mixed vinyl and are limited to only 500 copies. The CD's are limited to 1000 copies. Features original "Doom Tornado" artwork and layouts by Paul Vismara. |
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Drug War - Aim High
Limited edition one time pressing of only 500 copies on heavy vinyl!
20 tracks of Way heavy Boston sludge punk from some of the dudes that brought you Milligram |
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