Plebeian Grandstand – Lowgazers

Posted on 13 March, 2014 by Edgar

Es tiempo de hacer un lado las melodías armoniosas que han aparecido en este blog últimamente, y creo que no hay mejor anfitrión para esto que Plebeian Grandstand. Para todos aquellos que no tienen ni puta idea de esta banda francesa, pero gustan del hardcore caotico de la forma mas oscura y agresiva posible, Plebeian Grandstand ha incluido el black metal y sludge a la mezcla para crear ser los que son ahora.

Después de su aclamado debut álbum, plebeian grandstand se situó en la cima, de la cual el baterista decidió bajar y entro a remplazarlo el baterista de Stuntman. Los cambios son sinónimo de progreso, al menos para mi y para esta banda. El sonido no ha cambiado mucho de rumbo, solo se volvió mas agresivo. Imagina si Celeste se juntara con Botch y de paso se llevan a Rorcal como invitado sorpresa.

Como ya es costumbre en Throatruiner Records, puedes descargar completamente gratis este album acá: http://store.throatruinerrecords.com/bands/plebeian-grandstand

O bien, si lo que quieres escuchar sin tener que descargar para hacer una compra inteligente, ve directo a bandcamp: http://music.throatruinerrecords.com/album/lowgazers

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Review: Hexis – Abalam

Posted on 13 December, 2013 by Edgar

Hexis es una banda activa desde el 2010, oriunda de la capital de Dinamarca, Copenhague. En la primera catorcena del 2014 saldrá “Abalam”, el cual incluye 13 temas y sera editado por Halo of Flies en U$A y MUSICFEARSATAN de Francia. Tal vez algunos son ajenos a esta banda y este álbum hara que cambie ese estatus, a lo largo de su trayectoria como banda han editado varios ep’s y splits, para ser sincero, no los había escuchado con la debida atención, sabia quienes eran y que era lo que hacían, mas no había puesto tanta atención por que llego el momento que todos esos proyectos “blackened” sonaban iguales.

Ahora, el significado del titulo “El demonio Abalam es rey del infierno y el asistente de Paimon. Toma posesión del cuerpo humoano para fomentar al humano lujuria, contamina a los seres humanos durante la posesión y la única manera de escapar es la muerte”. Una vez teniendo en claro el significado, podría pensarse que es un concepto, desde el arte hasta las liricas que son igual de oscuras, hablan de desolación, posesiones y la muerte como el único camino para salir de este mundo.

Hexis carga con uno de los sonidos mas oscuros de Dinamarca, sin duda, y esto es por su esfuerzo en mezclar el hardcore, black metal y sludge metal, para sonar como uno solo, al estilo de Celeste, pero con su toque personal y logrando el objetivo de hacer de esos tres géneros, uno solo. Después de haber escuchado el álbum completo -dos veces-, siento como si su sonido haya taladrado mi cabeza, ese aturdimiento que no llega a ser molesto, todo lo contrario, un placer culposo, que no pasara de una jaqueca, estaría mejor escucharlo una y otra vez hasta que quede poseído.

Por el momento, no hay ningún sitio donde puedas escuchar el álbum completo, al parecer las pre-ordenes empiezan hoy. Así que aquí les dejo una canción extraída de Abalam y los links para ordenar.

Pre-ordenar//Halo of Flies (USA) o MUSICFEARSATAN (Francia)

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Northless – World Keeps Sinking

Posted on 4 December, 2013 by Edgar

Northless es el tipo de banda que no puedes etiquetar, ni mucho menos encerrar en una caja de sonido. En el 2011 sacaron álbum titulado “Clandestine Abuse”, este tenia grandes influencias industriales sin dejar el doom metal abandonado, se decidieron a crear un álbum de alto grado de creatividad, uno de los mejores de ese año, sin duda (en su bandcamp lo puedes escuchar completo). Después de eso, les perdí la pista y el día de hoy me encuentro con “Wolrd Keeps Sinking”, su mas reciente entrega editado por Gilead Media y Halo of Flies, ambos sellos norteamericanos.

Tras escuchar las primeras dos canciones, uno se va haciendo de la idea que Northless a cambiado de rumbo -de nuevo- y de que forma, han regresado a su formula anterior que es básicamente sludge metal/doom metal. Canciones igual de pesadas y ruidosas que en sus discos pasados pero esta vez con un toque mas melodioso y progresivo, ellos mismos explican su nuevo sonido “the members of this group have combined their own influences and personally diverse musical backgrounds into a concoction of progressive, dooming sludge metal”. Si estas en busca de nuevas texturas y sonidos dentro del doom, he aquí un disco que no puedes dejar ir.

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Regarde Les Hommes Tomber- S/T

Posted on 4 February, 2013 by Edgar

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Regarde Les Hommes Tomber comes from Nantes, France, their first lp will be released around march, meanwhile two songs are up on bandcamp and you can pre-order the record from LADLO. Searching for more information about these guys, found their name comes from a french film of 1994 ¨Regarde Les Hommes Tomber¨ (See How They Fall), anyway, don’t find information about their previous/side projects, that its not of much importance and i know, just wondering who they are cause their skills to write music sounds like they have played for years on this project. Listening this two tracks makes me anxious to listen the complete album, this project creates music influenced by black metal, sludge metal and post-hardcore, played to the most dark and loud way possible. Keep an eye with this band, highly recommended.

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Your Highness – Blue Devils

Posted on 4 December, 2012 by Edgar

Origin: Belgium

Tracks: 3

Label: Highness Records

¨Your Highness hails from the ports of Antwerp. These regal Belgians emerged from a punk-hc scene with a huge DIY-spirit, which shaped the band’s character to what it is today. In 2009, they recorded a 3-song demo at Studio 195. One year later, they dropped a hammer called “Cults ‘n’ Cunts”, a full cd/lp recorded and mixed by Epic productions and mastered at New Alliance East. These royal tunes got released with the help of Hammerheart records and received great reviews all over the world. Testimony to this statement was the willingness of both Doomstar bookings and Ruffstuff bookings to work with the band. Your Highness played tons of shows in Belgium, UK, Netherlands, France and Spain with the likes of Acid King, Saviours, Fucked Up, Today is the day, Weedeater, Diablo Blvd, Drums are for Parades and many more … Just recently, Antwerps finest stonerband unleashed “Blue Devils”, their new EP, recorded once again with Epic productions and mastered at New Alliance East. Released as a free Digital Ep and 10″ LP.Your Highness is a five-piece stoner/sludge metal band from Antwerpen, Belgium¨ Copy-paste from their website, i’m in hurry, gotta go work but this three-track ep is definitely worth to listen, recommended.

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Hush – Untitled I

Posted on 19 November, 2012 by Edgar

Origin: United States

Genre: Ambient / Doom / Noise / Sludge metal

Label: Unsigned

Hush comes from Albany, New York and this is their first album recorded. It’s not easy describe music that haves a variety of genres getting mixed, but their main idea focuses on sludge metal with doom metal, its metallic but not technical like Admiral Angry or Black Sheep of Wall, at times it sounds similar to that kind of bands but these guys offers something like Thou, not with the highly post-rock influences, but you clearly hear some ambient/drone passages that turns atmospheric.

If you like the bands mentioned above, you should check out this guys, its worth the listen.

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BLCKWVS – 0150

Posted on 19 November, 2012 by Edgar

Origin: United States

Genre: Post-metal / Sludge metal

Label: This Charming Man Records | Per Koro Records

BLCKWVS or BLACKWAVES, how you want to call this germans, they come back with a new album released through the german label This Charming Man Records. This new output includes 8 songs, ranging from 3 to 5 minutes each track, they give us a solid wall of sound on each one.

Their music lands into the same sludge metal/post-metal they have been doing, easily you can compare their sound with bands like Neurosis, Tephra or to the old Omega Massif. Like i said before, these guys create a wall of sound on each song even if its instrumental almost all the time, there’s some parts with vocals and even samplers to make this more darker.

By the way, if you want to get their sold out discography, their record label has released a limited box discography including 5 Lp’s, posters and stickers, if you want to get this hurry up, only 75 were made.

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Leechfeast – Hideous Illusions

Posted on 18 September, 2012 by Edgar

Origin:Slovenia

Year:2012

Genre: Doom metal / Sludge metal

Tracks: 4

Label: Self-released | Shitpiece Records | Ulterior Tapes

Leechfeast comes from Slovenia featuring members of Paperplanecrash, ex-Melete and Acrid Sunday. Their sound is down-tuned, noisy and heavy as fuck, the album starts with a sampler of an exorcism (?) and then smartly the song starts with a heavy down-tuned riffage with an aggressive vocal, their music reminds me to bands like Grief, Moloch or Thou, definitely the bands will catch your attention, highly recommended.[Band request]

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Eagle Twin – The Feather Tripped the Serpent Scale

Posted on 28 August, 2012 by Edgar

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Origin:United States

Year: 2012

Genre:Doom metal / Sludge metal

Tracks: 6

Label:Southern Lord Records

So, this guys released a new album few weeks ago, if you haven´t heard nothing about these guys, you should get into this dark duo. Eagle Twin comes from Salt Lake City and they were formed around 2007, their debut album was released in 2009 (The Unkindness of Crows), its a mind blowing record… their new stuff in the veins of their debut lp, a master piece you can´t miss.

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The Body – Self-titled

Posted on 21 August, 2012 by Edgar

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Origin:United States

Year:2012 (re-released)

Genre: Doom metal / Sludge metal

Tracks: 7

Label:At A Loss Recordings

This album was first released around 2004, it was out of print for a lot of time, in the beginning of 2012 it was re-released by At A Loss Recordings. ¨Nine minutes of crashing cymbals/percussion built upon by slowed samples all over one constant riff accented by distortion. Repetitive grooves with shrieked vocals lead to interludes of piano and upright bass bowing takes the listener to tracks of the sludged-out and the chaotic, instrumental breaks ending with a behemoth 14 minute closer!. If someone is missing this album, get it now, highly recommended.

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Northless / Light Bearer split

Posted on 14 August, 2012 by Edgar

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Origin: United States | United Kingdom

Year:2012

Genre:Post-metal / Post-rock / Sludge metal

Tracks: 3

Label:Alerta Antifascita | Halo of Flies | Moment of Collapse

¨With the song “Celestium Apocrypha: Book of watchers” Light Bearer finally set new sign of life that lasts for nearly 22 minutes. The name is taken from the Book of Enoch, a non canonical chapter of the original Jewish scriptures. It is a play on what was deemed necessary to appear in the final canon, how whole sections of religious scripture were rejected, despite the so called authenticity of that which remained. Texts that were considered ham fisted or contrived or instances of repetition from other chapters and its political or societal influence limited. The content is carried over part of the band’s concept, a metaphorical story about the dawn of enlightenment, based upon a number of interpretations of the Judaea Christian version of the casting out of Lucifer and the fall of man from the book of genesis. The story is an intrinsic part of the mythological narrative of humanity, the subjective concept of good and evil. Musically you should be prepared for distorted soundscapes, heavy guitar riffs, mystic vocal-arrangements guided by a strong voice and an emphasized union of drum and bass lines All those ingredients lead into an uplifting interaction of skilful played instruments that defines Light Bearer’s own version of today’s Post-Hardcore. Another strike that succeeded on full scale. Northless contribute two new songs for this split. Their first recordings since the “Clandestine Abuse” album and it shows growth and depth as well as the well forged rage and inherent sadness they’ve become known for musically. Northless play heavy despaired down-tuned sludge metal, that sometimes cut loose in very little moments of melancholy just to pulverize everything that stands in their way. Unbelievable powerful if you regard that Northless is a three-piece band.¨ fron MoC.

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Latitudes – Individuation

Posted on 10 July, 2012 by Edgar

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Origin:United Kingdom

Year:2012

Genre: Post-metal / Sludge metal

Tracks: 8

Label: Shelsmusic

“Since the devastatingly beautiful yet crushing release of their 2009 album ‘Agonist’, Latitudes have proved themselves to be one of the best contemporary metal bands out there, so it is no surprise that ‘Individuation’ is met with eager anticipation. Opening track ‘Hyperstatic Forge’ shows elements of the heaviness portrayed in ‘Agonist’, as does the latter half of ‘Individuation (Telos)’. ‘Shapeshifting’ and ‘The Glacial Body’ are also absolutely superb. The overall sound of the album isn’t as mighty as its predecessor, but more than makes up for this in terms of technicality and song structure.”

Source: Black Epiphanies in Slow Motion.

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Posted on 10 July, 2012 by Edgar

VophoniQ – Cosmogonie

Origin: France

Year: 2012

Genre: Ambient / Electronic

Tracks: 11

Dawn Records

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Earthrise – Eras Lost

Origin: United States

Year: 2012

Genre: Post-metal

Tracks: 11

Unsigned

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Mercy Dar – S/T Ep

Origin: United States

Year: 2012

Genre: Post-hardcore / Post-punk / Shoegaze

Tracks: 3

Unsigned

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Bastard of the Skies/Catatomic Split LP

Origin: United Kingdom

Year: 2012

Genre: Doom / Sludge metal

Tracks: 7

Speaks Volumes Records

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Maelstrom – The Passage

Origin: France

Year: 2012

Genre: Post-metal / Post-rock

Tracks: 5

Unsigned

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We Had A Deal – Dialectics

Origin: Germany

Year: 2012

Genre: Post-hardcore / Screamo

Tracks: 15

Farblos Rec | Heads Down Rec | Middle-Man Rec |
Walking Is Still Honest | Digital.kunstrasen

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Eschar – Elements

Origin: United Kingdom

Year: 2012

Genre: Post-metal / Post-rock

Tracks: 5

Unsigned

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Church of Wolves – Kentucky Fried Jesus

Posted on 8 July, 2012 by Edgar

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Origin:United States

Year:2012

Genre: Doom | Psychedelic | Sludge metal

Tracks: 3

Label:Unsigned

This is the first Ep by Church of Wolves, “Kentucky Fried Jesus” has only three songs, playing crushing doom/sludge metal, it sounds really dark all the negative riffs played, they also lands into atmospheric sounds, throwing psychedelia in the minimalist sound, a record you shouldn’t let go if you are fan of the genre. I would like to see this on vinyl or cd, it deserves a physical release, until that happens, the band has upload the complete ep and can be downloaded as pay what you want. Highly recommended

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Titan – Burn

Posted on 24 June, 2012 by Edgar

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Origin:Canada

Year:2012

Genre: Hardcore / Post-metal / Sludge metal
Tracks: 10
Label: Hypaethral Records | React With Protest

What can i say about this record? In the past days this record have been reviewed by other blogs and people have been talking about it, anyway, “Burn” is almost an hour long, as always their sound is darker and heavier, love it. European friends, support them in their upcoming tour.

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Cowards – Shooting Blanks and Pills

Posted on 9 June, 2012 by Edgar

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Origin: France

Year: 2012

Genre: Black metal / Hardcore / Sludge metal

Tracks: 6

Label: Throatruiner Records | Hellbound Records

This is not the american hardcore/sludge band, it’s about the french band, they’re releasing their debut release through Throatruiner and Hellbound Records. Their music sounds black metal influenced at parts, but they keep playing something between Hardcore/Sludge metal. Listen carefully the album and spread the hate, highly recommended.

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ITheUnlord – Praise The Most Death

Posted on 7 June, 2012 by Edgar

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Origin: Germany

Year: 2012

Genre: Hardcore | Sludge metal

Tracks: 10

Label: Unsigned

[Band request]

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Romero – Couch Lock Single

Posted on 26 April, 2012 by Edgar

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Origin: United States

Year: 2012

Genre: Doom | Sludge metal | Stoner metal

Tracks: 2

Label: D.I.Y | Grindcore Karaoke (Digital)

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Romero comes from Wisconsin, they released their debut 7″ in sept/10’… a lot of time has passed, now they present 2 new songs released as tape by the band and digitally by “Grindcore Karaoke”. their music is on the same direction as their debut, a bit less stoner rock influenced and more into the heavy and metallic riffages, have been enjoying both tracks but i think it’s time for see a full length. Extra info you should know, the tape comes with 3D artwork/poster and 3D glasses, but it’s limited so hurry up. Highly recommended.