Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Amsvartner - The Trollish Mirror EP


I randomly bought this off of Amazon for less than
one dollar one say day, and I was quite pleasantly
surprised when I received it. Basically, this is a Black Metal
CD, but with much more accelerated musicianship, which is
impressive, seeing as how the musician's were averaging about
the age of 16 (I believe) when this was recorded back in 1996-97's
So yeah, it's good, and the first song always gets stuck in my head..

download

Sunday, June 27, 2010

Mayhem - Live In Leipzig

This is probably one of the most infamous black metal cd's
of all time, solely because it features one of the most infamous
black metal vocalist's of all time, this being one of the very
few recordings featuring Dead on vocals before he blew his brains
out with a shotgun.... but that's another story, look it
up on Wikipedia or something. Anyway, this is a recording of
a live show Mayhem did in Leipzig, Germany circa 1990.
It's definitely very raw, but features a wonderful collection
of Mayhem's early (and best) songs.

download

Saturday, June 26, 2010

Misery Index - Retailiate



Death metal/Grindcore. This band features some
ex-members of Dying Fetus, and rip's through these songs
in a similar ultra-fast and punishing way.

download

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Gorgoroth - Twilight of the Idols (In Conspiracy with Satan)


This CD is just ridiculously awesome. It's so intense and
evil, especially the absolutely terrifying and insane (and often distorted)
vocals. This cd was written mostly by members of the band
other than Infernus, who is the usual composer, which definitely makes
it a tad bit different then most of their other music, but still as equally
great. You definitely want to hear this

download.

Sunday, June 20, 2010

Protestant - The Hate, The Hollow


Raging, Crusty Hardcore/Punk from Milwaukee, WI.
One of the best bands in the state right now, and their
guitarist always does really amazing artwork for the band, and
other bands related, like Northless.

download this.

Friday, June 18, 2010

Neurosis - Times of Grace


Heavy as fuck Sludge/Post-metal. One of the pioneers
of this style of music, and they do it beautifully. Also, I guess
if you play this cd at the exact same time as the Tribes of Neurot
cd released at the same time, they sync up, which is cool I guess,
if you can figure out how to do that....

download

Veil of Maya - All Things Set Aside


This is Veil of Maya's first CD, and it is their best by a long shot.
It's much rawer, and real sounding, and I liked this vocalist better,
and its actually a Death Metal cd, not the trend-y metal they're
playing now.

download

Barbarian Lord - Demo


Barbarian Lord = Powerviolence
these guys really rip through this cd. 6 songs in < 5 mins.
they fuckin' rule

download.

Sunday, June 13, 2010

Lost in Bazaar - Here We Are Dropping Our Anchor In Fertile Ground


2nd release from the Turkish Screamo band, Lost In Bazaar..
and yeah, these guys totally rule.

Altered State - Longinus demo


7 tracks of heavy, ripping Hardcore. These guys are
actually fairly original and refreshing in comparison to
a lot of modern hardcore bands, and according to
their Myspace they love juice, and juice is always cool.

download

Craft - Total Soul Rape


Black metal with more of a classic Thrash-y style.
It's fast, raw, and even steps up the guitar work
from the usual black metal bands.

download it here.

Friday, June 11, 2010

Tusk - The Resisting Dreamer


Sludge/Post metal with hints of Screamo. Think kind of Isis meets
Circle Takes the Square. This CD has a great mixture of chaos & melody.

download here

Monday, June 7, 2010

Taake - S/T


Norwegian Black Metal. They were banned from Germany
because Hoest painted a swastika on his chest,

The cd face looks like christmas trees,

and they make some great music.

downloaddd this shitt.

Saturday, June 5, 2010

Immortal - Damned In Black


Immortal's been kickin' out the black metullzz for like
the past 20 years now, and I don't think there is anything
of there's that I don't enjoy. They go more for the fantasy aspect
VS the evil aspect, and I really like that. Kind of just makes the music
into some cool dreamscape, and that's one of my favorite things
about Black Metal..

get it.

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Accident Jacket - 2 Songs

Accident Jacket was a devastating Hardcore/Metalcore
band from Appleton, WI in the early to mid 2000's. They
played at the first local show I ever went to, and actually used to
play in my town a lot for a little while. They were another huge
inspiration to me to be in a band, and play the music I did/do.
Their members have went on to be in a lot of different bands
all around Wisconsin, and elsewhere. These are two songs
from later on in their run as a band.

download!


Savior For A Fallen Hero - S/T EP


Sludge-y, Metallic, Grinding Hardcore from Milwaukee. Since
they put this out they changed their name, and their
line-up. Nonetheless this is a really good EP, and probably
contains one of the longest held single note bass riff ever.

download it