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1. • ChrisSD
   • Bit of an odd PR shizzle - the name bit I mean. I think their name ain't half bad, compared to some!
   • [19:29 on 28/02/08]
2. • Kunal
   • New distro stuff, complete with uninspired descriptions:
     
     
     
     B'Son / Crowskin - split LP (Vendetta)
     Utterly destructive doom drone from these German bands!
     
     
     
     Catena Collapse / La Quiete - split 7" (Adagio 830)
     Classic emo / screamo split with bands hailing from Norway and Italy!
     
     
     
     Glockenspiel - Enspiel CD (Krayon)
     Excellent instrumental rocking in a post vein from these ex-Quickspace dudes! Improv-y, jazzy, melodic, superb!
     
     
     
     Graf Orlock - Destination Time Tomorrow 10" (Vendetta)
     Blazing "cinema grind", a.k.a. melodic and fast tech-metal with tons of samples and ludicrous packaging!
     
     
     
     Gruel - Demo CDR (n/a)
     Leeds supergroup of nice doomy noise, like a trancy Hawkwind meets Swans!
     
     
     
     Minion - Out Of The Carnage LP (Vendetta)
     An offshoot band from the seemingly dormant Morser, this is in a similar vein, though even more metal if that's even possible!
     
     
     
     Mount Logan - s/t LP (Vendetta)
     Utterly destructive doom drone from this German trio!
     www.myspace.com/mountlogan
     
     
     
     Perth Express - Harrow And Wealdstone LP (Vendetta)
     New release from the Germanic raging hardcore metallers, like His Hero Is Gone meets Mastodon!
     
     
     
     Thin The Herd - Mournful And Overcast LP (A Wrench In The Gears)
     Excellent raging d-beat crust hardcore with male and female vocals and loads of groove in a gatefold sleeve!
     www.myspace.com/thintheherd
     
     
     
     Year Of No Light - Nord 2xLP (E-Vinyl)
     From the French metal underground comes the colossal dirgecore of YONL!
     www.crucialblast.net/mp3/03-year_of_no_light-nord-traversee.mp3
   • [17:17 on 07/03/08]
3. • Kunal
   • Even newer distro stuff!
     
     
     
     Against Empire / Iskra - split LP (Mangled Ankle)
     Two West Coast USA bands playing powerful crustcore thrash with plenty of anticapitalist bite, together with a massive booklet!
     
     
     
     Amen Ra - Mass III 2xLP (Sound Devastation)
     The stunning debut from these euro sludge masters! Great gatefold packaging for this double vinyl release!
     
     
     
     Bongzilla - Nuggets CD (Barbarian)
     The insanely dope obsessed band collect all their singles, splits and compilation tracks!
     
     
     
     Die Kreuzen - Cows And Beer 7" (Barbarian)
     The classic hardcore band that went on to do stuff on Touch And Go!
     
     
     
     Leval Blessing - s/t CD (Barbarian)
     This tech grinding death machine lay down 10 tracks of angst ridden brutality. Comparable to Dying Fetus, Martyr AD or The Dillinger Escape Plan!
     
     
     
     Liturgy - Dawn Of Ash LP (Barbarian)
     Ex-Disgorge and Broadequin metal that is massively fast, brutal and thundering!
     
     
     
     Massgrave / Think Don't Pray - split 7" (Mangled Ankle)
     Couple of Canadian bands here chucking out some quality crusty grind for you!
     
     
     
     Niden Div 187 - Imperium CD (Barbarian)
     Reissue of blasting black metal from Sweden. Features members of Dawn. Originally released on Necropolis and out of print for a few years. This CD has the 'Imperium' LP and their 'Towards judgement' MCD!
     
     
     
     The Pirate Ship Quintet - s/t CD (Sound Devastation)
     A neat UK band doing some sweet post-rock! This 7-piece (?) is string led and dabbles in Mogwai and Explosions In The Sky styled sounds.
     
     
     
     Protestant / Get Rad - split 7" (Barbarian)
     Two DIY hardcore Milwaukee bands here! GR = full throttle punk by ex-High On Crime / Since By Man / Seven Days Of Samsara / Kung Fu Rick dude! P = ex-no one really, but still awesome crustified hardcore!
     
     
     
     Skitsystem - Allt E Skit CD (Barbarian)
     The legendary Swedish d-beat band compile their older material!
     
     
     
     Sons Of Alpha Centauri - s/t CD (Sound Devastation)
     A UK band that jam in a whole load of songs onto their debut instrumental stoner rock album!
     www.myspace.com/sonsofalphacentauri
     
     
     
     Underthreat - Deathmosphere CD (Barbarian)
     Newest full length of melodic Swedish inspired death metal by this veteran Colombian band living in Milwaukee. In the tradition of At The Gates, this has it all, great melodies, blasts, harsh vocals, solos, but without any mosh or slam!
     
     
     
     Warfair? - Earmageddon LP (Mangled Ankle)
     An Arizona band that take cues from Excruciating Terror, Warsore, and early Napalm Death!
     
     
     
     Zonderhoof - s/t CDEP (Sound Devastation)
     Excellent instru-metal action from Wales! This is what you wished Capricorns sounded like!
     www.myspace.com/zonderhoof
     
     
     www.superfirecords.co.uk/store.html
   • [13:10 on 09/03/08]
4. • Kunal
   • yeah:
     
     
     
     Gehenna - The War Of The Sons Of Light And The Suns Of Darkness LP (A389)
     Available for the first time on vinyl, this LP compiles all of Gehenna’s early demos, 7″ material and also includes two bonus tracks that were hidden in the original CD version released over a decade ago. Fans of Integrity, Catharsis and Enetewak take note!
     
     
     
     Goddam Ox / Haddonfield Illinois - Split LP (Deadwood)
     West Midlands represent! GO start out subtley before building to Corrupted-esque crushing doom and noise! HI are ex-Esquilax noisery! Think Goblin, Gristle and the like.
     
     
     
     Pulling Teeth - Martyr Immortal LP (A389)
     Picking up where the Vicious Skin 10" left off, PT are back with a new 12 song LP. Keeping the Integrity meets Left For Dead vibe alive, but with more Slayer and Entombed influences thrown in the mix.
     
     
     www.superfirecords.co.uk/trade.html
   • [17:10 on 14/03/08]
5. • Kunal
   • Some new distro records!
     
     
     
     Daitro - Laisser Vivre Les Squelettes LP (PurePainSugar)
     A modern French emo hardcore classic!
     
     
     
     Kidcrash - Jokes LP (PurePainSugar)
     Great album by this Olympia band in a gatefold sleeve. Emo in the vein of Daïtro, Red Scare, Off Minor and Braid!
     www.purepainsugar.com/mp3/Kidcrash-Parrots_just_dont_understa...
     
     
     
     Sinaloa - Ocean Of Islands LP (PurePainSugar)
     Often compared to the distant early nineties scene of Vermin Scum, Dischord, and Gravity Records, Sinaloa brings the fire of that era's DIY punk and combines it with a grown-up sensibility.
     www.equivalents.org/eqwp/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/04-seek-h...
     
     
     
     Slomatics / Agent Of The Morai - Split CDEP (Calculon)
     Sludged out Irish instru-stoners bring three epic tracks, while the Leeds Iron Monkey acolytes bring up another couple of songs!
     
     
     
     What Price Wonderland - Thirty With A Wink LP (PurePainSugar)
     The young UK 90's emo throwbacks unleash their debut album of tricksy-turny hardcore, just how it should be done!
     www.myspace.com/whatpricewonderland
     
     
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     Some gigs coming up too!
     
     
     TAINT / KEN MODE Euro Tour
     
     Taint = the UK's premier hardcore stoner fusionists!
     Ken Mode = Canadian tech-metal wizards using healthy doses of AmRep rock
     
     22 March - Carlo Levi, Liege (Belgium)
     23 March - Negasonic, Aalst (Belgium)
     24 March - tbc, Copenhagen (Denmark)
     25 March - Kafe 44, Stockholm (Sweden)
     26 March - Kungen, Sandviken (Sweden)
     27 March - tbc, Rostock (Germany)
     28 March - The White Trash, Berlin (Germany)
     29 March - Le Romandie, Lausanne (Switzerland)
     30 March - tbc, Geneva (Switzerland)
     31 March - Electric Sound System, Gigors (France)
     1 April - Le Sonic, Lyon (France)
     2 April - Passagers du Zinc, Besancon (France)
     3 April - Le Glaz'Art, Paris (France)
     4 April - Laplace, Caen (France)
     
     www.myspace.com/taintuk
     www.myspace.com/kenmode
     
     Taint will have copies of both their albums on CD and 2xLP. They're also in a number of distros across the world. Get in touch to find out which one is nearest you.
     
     
     
     
     END THE AGONY / MONGOLIA UK Tour
     
     ETA = Brighton cathartic Dystopia-esque hardcore, ex-Cat On Form!
     Mongolia = Irish instru-metal stoner action, feat. Easpa Measa people!
     
     20/3 Brighton - Studio 284
     22/3 Nottingham - Chameleon w/ Mob Rules, Cold Snap
     23/3 London - The Grosvenor w/ Mob Rules
     24/3 Bristol - The Junction w/ PHV, Tractor
     26/3 Bradford - 1in12 Club w/ Toxic Waste, Threads, Mob Rules
     27/3 Edinburgh - Henry's w/ Threads, Cheap Purple
     28/3 Glasgow - O'Henry's w/ Threads, Black Channels
     29/3 Leeds - The Packhorse w/ Mob Rules, Broken Arm
     30/3 Manchester - Klondyke Club w/ Threads
     
     www.myspace.com/endtheagony
     www.myspace.com/hailmongolia
     
     We're doing a 7" with End The Agony soon in collaboration with some other labels (not in time for this tour unfortunately).
     
     
     
     
     Some gigs coming up in Bristol, UK:
     
     March 22nd - Lords / Bilge Pump @ County Sports Club
     March 24th - Tractor / Mongolia / PVH / End The Agony @ Junction
     March 27th - Burial Hex @ Cooler
     March 29th - Ramesses / Obliteration / Salute @ Croft
     April 3rd - Geisha @ Junction
     April 5th - The Heads / Big Naturals @ Attic
     April 16th - Whitehouse @ Croft
     April 18th - Merzbow / Flower-Corsano Duo @ Croft
     April 20th - Boris / Growing @ Cooler
     April 20th - Attack Vipers / Plague Sermon @ Junction
     April 28th - aPatT / Chops @ Junction
     May 14th - Genghis Tron / Nachtmystium / Zoroaster @ Croft
     May 17th - Pissed Jeans @ Croft
     June 5th-8th - Venn Festival
     July 4th - Clockcleaner @ Junction
   • [19:32 on 20/03/08]
6. • Kunal
   • New stuff for the weekend!
     
     
     
     Amber Asylum - Garden Of Love CD (Paradigms)
     San Francisco's Amber Asylum return with their first new recordings in nearly five years . Five dark, brooding chamber works of misanthropic resonance and chilling emotional beauty. A blackened neo-classical masterpiece following their previous recordings on Relapse and Neurot as well as their acclaimed collaborations with Neurosis, Swans and Jarboe amongst others. Just under half an hour of new recordings, featuring the bonus soundtrack recording, "Serenade".
     
     
     
     Birchville Cat Motel - Gunpowder Temple Of Heaven CD (Picadisk)
     Birchville Cat Motel is the project of New Zealand's Campbell Kneale, who since the 90's has been establishing himself as the leading voice of this generation of NZ sound artists. A single 40 minute long-form piece that keeps building and unfolding. Heaven for drone-noise enthusiasts!
     
     
     
     Gnaw Their Tongues - Reeking, Pained And Shuddering CD (Paradigms)
     Harrowing, apocalyptic bestial ritual music from the deepest, darkest cellars of the Netherlands. Avant black metal, agonising funeral doom and blackened experimental drone noise stab forth again and again until all the blood is spilt and total carnage is all that remains. Pure dread put to music. Recommended for disturbed folk into Abruptum, Khanate, Axis Of Perdition, Swans and Univers Zero.
     
     
     
     Hijokaidan - Polar Nights Live CD (Picadisk)
     Hijokaidan has since 1979 been one of the leading voices in Japanese noise music. Starting out with a broad line-up of performers, eventually in the course of the 80-ies the Hijokaidan sound became easily identifiable with the shredding guitar-sound of band-leader Jojo Hiroshige and the high-pitched piercing voice of Junko. Few noise acts have such an instantly recognizable (and intense) sound.
     
     
     
     Incapacitants - Burning Orange CD (Picadisk)
     Incapacitants are veterans and originators of Japanese noise. This captures some of their rare live shows outside of Japan, described by them as the highlights of their career.
     
     
     
     Jarboe - Seeress 7" (Paradigms)
     The A-side is a beautiful piano and vocal piece by Jarboe, with accompanying guitar from collabroator Nic Le Ban. The B-side introduces her new free-collective, The Sweet Meat Love And Holy Cult. The result being a 10-piece mantric improv freak-out. Fantastic. We're sure Jarboe needs no introduction to most after her heritage with Swans and her acclaimed solo works.
     
     
     
     Oren Ambarchi / Lasse Marhaug - Split 7" (Picadisk)
     A collaboration really. Not something for strict followers of Oren’s friendly subdued sine-guitar throb, nor Lasse’s harsh wall of electronic sound, but definitely one for those whose preferences fall in the noisier end of the electro-acoustic composition improv spectrum.
     
     
     
     Titan - Untitled CD (Paradigms)
     A very special untitled debut release from Brooklyn, NY krautrock mystics, TITAN. Cascading kosmische freakout in three parts over 45 minutes - shimmering mind expansion like a heavy, solar tapestry of Ash Ra Tempel, Klaus Schulze and Zombi. Immense.
     
     
     www.superfirecords.co.uk/store.html
   • [15:01 on 22/03/08]
7. • Kunal
   • Tons of new distro stuff this week, so I'll just list it:
     
     Baroness / Unpersons - Split CD (At A Loss)
     Bastard Noise - Three Dollar Date 3" CD (Housepig)
     Blutch - Materia CD (At A Loss)
     Child Abuse / Miracle Of Birth - Split CD (Lovepump United)
     Coptic Light - s/t CD (No Quarter)
     Craw - Map Monitor Surge CD (Cambodia)
     Culver - Hand Of Ice CDR (Basses Frequences)
     Darsombra - Eternal Jewel CD (Public Guilt)
     Destructo Swarmbots - Clear Light CD (Public Guilt)
     Fear Falls Burning / Birchville Cat Motel - s/t CD (Conspiracy)
     Fear Falls Burning / Nadja - s/t CD (Conspiracy)
     Fistula - Idiopathic CD (Shifty)
     Gastr Del Sol - Twenty Songs Less 7" (Minority)
     Genghis Tron - Cloak Of Love CDEP (Crucial Blast)
     Gerritt / John Wiese - The Disappearing Act CD (Misanthropic Agenda)
     Growing - Live 2xLP (Conspiracy)
     Guapo - Great Sage, Equal Of Heaven CD (Tumult)
     Isis - Celestial 2xLP (Conspiracy)
     Jesu - Conqueror 2xLP (Conspiracy)
     Kayo Dot - Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue CD (Robotic Empire)
     Loaded For Bear / Bizarre X - Split CD (Hip Kid)
     Merzbow / Nordvargr - Partikel II CD (Cold Spring)
     Minsk - Out Of A Center Which Is Neither Dead Nor Alive CD (At A Loss)
     Monarch / Elsyium - Split CD (Shifty)
     Orodruin - Epicurean Mass CD (Psychedoomelic)
     Orodruin - Claw Tower CD (Psychedoomelic)
     pg.99 - Singles CD (Reptilian)
     Robedoor - Rancor Keeper CD (Release The Bats)
     Rue - s/t CD (Shifty)
     Stinking Lizaveta - Scream Of The Iron Iconoclast CD (At A Loss)
     Swarm Of The Lotus - Torrential pic disc 7" (Reptilian)
     Swarm Of The Lotus - When White Becomes Black CD (At A Loss)
     Ultralyd - Throb And Provision CDR (Utech)
     Unpersons - IV CD (Life Is Abuse)
     Unpersons - III CD (At A Loss)
     Vialka - Curiosites Des Costumes Populaires LP (Maloka)
     Wormwood - Starvation CD (20 Buck Spin)
     Yeti - Volume Obliteration Transcendence CD (Life Is Abuse)
     
     www.superfirecords.co.uk/store.html
   • [12:59 on 29/03/08]
8. • Kunal
   • Loads of new stuff again!
     
     Black Sister / Gama Bomb - Split 7" (Problem)
     Boxed In - 2001-2005 CD (Crime Scene)
     Ceephax / Acid Quiff - Split LP (Kitchen Dweller)
     Circle - Andexelt CD (Tumult)
     Crom - The Cocaine Wars 1974-1989 LP (Zhengaya)
     Give Me Back Zine #1, 2, 3
     Hip Cops / Gate - Split 7" (To Live A Lie)
     Honey Ride Me A Goat - s/t 10" (Kitchen Dweller)
     Honey Ride Me A Goat / Mothguts - Split LP (Kitchen Dweller)
     Integrity - Salvation's Malevolence CD (WD Sounds)
     Marzuraan - Five Years Worth Of Fuck All CD (At War With False Noise)
     Poostew - Misericordia 10" (Midnight Manhunt)
     Pulling Teeth - Vicious Skin CD (WD Sounds)
     Raven's Creed - Militia Of Blood Sacrifice 7" (Land O'Smiles)
     Raw Radar War - Double Equals LP (Land O'Smiles)
     Seppuku / Mutant Ape - Split 7" (At War With False Noise)
     Sloth - A Whole Other World Of Fun CD (At War With False Noise)
     Unearthly Trance - Eleven Are The Voices 10" (Land O'Smiles)
     Various - Pharmacopoeia 5x7" (Land O'Smiles) - with Coffins, Deadbird, Fistula, Fossegrimm, Kongh, Misanthrope Project, Noosebomb, Raven's Creed, Raw Radar War and Witch Lord
     Violent Arrest - s/t 7" (Deranged)
     War All The Time / The Horror - Split 7" (Zandor)
     War All The Time / Whole In The Head - Split 7" (Crime Scene)
     Weakling - Dead As Dreams CD (Tumult)
     
     www.superfirecords.co.uk/store.html
   • [19:23 on 06/04/08]
9. • Kunal
   • Here we go again!
     
     Breed - s/t 7" (TVG) - japanese fastcore of the highest order
     Corrupted - Nadie LP (Throne) - the legends of doom with a rerelease of a 1995 ep
     Disnihil - s/t LP (Chronic Death) - ace u.s. downtuned pummelling hardcore punk
     From The Ashes - Heading For Dystopia 7" (TVG) - blasting swedish grind in the nasum vein
     From The Ashes / A Den Of Robbers - Split 7" (I Hate Humanity) - swedish and belgian grind niceness
     Kent Brockman / Edora - Split LP (TVG) - sweet international thrash madness
     Monarch - 666 2xCD (Throne) - fairly oop female fronted corruptedness from france
     Monarch / Grey Daturas - Split LP (Throne) - french doom and aussie freeform psych rock
     Retaliation - The Execution LP (Fast And Furious) - totally ripping grindcore
     The Serpent Bearer - #1 Zine - w/ wolves in the throne room, caina, paradigms recs and more
     The Shitty Limits - Espionage 7" (Dire) - 60's garage, 70's punk, 80's hardcore, yeah
     Sick Of Talk - Raked Over The Coals 7" (Chronic Death) - new york band into infest and black flag
     Spazz - The Jeb EP 7" (?) - good old spazz this time with guest vocalising
     Thee Vicars - Let Us Play 7" (Dire) - youths doing a super vintage sounding garage racket
     
     www.superfirecords.co.uk/store.html
   • [18:27 on 11/04/08]
10. • J Parker
    • Shouldn't this be in the For Sale section??
    • [22:53 on 11/04/08]
11. • Kunal
    • Is there a for sale section?
      
      And again!
      
      The Assailant - Nurse pic disc 7" (Init) - seattle tech metal chaos with daniel danger art
      Diskonto - Watch Us Burn CD (Crimes Against Humanity) - ace swedish crusty d-beat
      Diskonto - Diskontography CD (Crimes Against Humanity) - more ace swedish crusty d-beat, 63 tracks in all
      Empire! Empire! - Year Of The Rabbit 7" (sncl) - lovely twinkling mineral-esque emo
      Final Draft - s/t 7" (Give Praise) - rampaging despise you style powerviolence
      Frogskin - s/t LP (Vuohi) - crushing and heavy eyehategodisms from finland
      Meneguar - Strangers In Our House LP (Release The Bats) - new york band somewhere between mission of burma and the replacements
      An Owl Of Justice / It's Broken - Split tape - discordant hardcore meets party thrash
      Phoenix Bodies / Raein - Split 7" (Init) - us italians emo violence attack
      Sinaloa - Ocean Of Islands LP (PurePainSugar) - excellent emo in the late 90's style
      Since By Man - Pictures From The Hotel Apocalypse LP (Init) - originally on rev, this is converge style hardcore to the max
      The Skull Defekts - Skkull CD (Release The Bats) - pure scandinavian electronica coldness
      Ten Grand / Meth And Goats - Split 7" (Init) - two great mathy indie rawk bands do battle
      Thrak - s/t 7" (Give Praise) - raging neanderthal powerviolence
      Unholy Grave / Black Sister - Split 7" (Problem) - the japgrinders return with hungarian metallers in tow
      Various - Trapped In A Scene CD (625Thrash) - inc. iron lung, insect warfare, endless blockade, in disgust, hatred surge and more
      Warmer Milks - Let Your Friends In CD (Release The Bats) - black metal and skate punk tinged noisery
      Wolfpack - Allday Hell CD (Crimes Against Humanity) - ace melodic swedish d-beat hardcore
      
      www.superfirecords.co.uk/store.html
    • [14:44 on 19/04/08]
12. • Kunal
    • new jams:
      
      Antillectual - Waves 7" (Square Of Opposition) - tight strike anywhere style netherlands punk!
      The Endless Blockade - s/t 7" (Fuck Yoga) - canadian killing machine, early works!
      Goslings - Spaceheater / Perfect Interior CD (Crucial Blast) - reissue of husband and wife duo's indie psych ur-drone!
      Iron Lung / The Endless Blockade - Broadcast Negativity Split LP (Fuck Yoga) - live radio sessions from these powerviolence bands!
      Nadja - Desire In Uneasiness CD (Crucial Blast) - all new stuff from the dual bass monolithic droners, with real drums this time!
      Skullflower - Orange Canyon Mind CD (Crucial Blast) - more brain scorching psych droning from matt bower!
      Wildildlife - Six CD (Crucial Blast) - crunchy riffage over celestial fx and gang vocals!
      Yo Man Go - Life Lessons 7" (Square Of Opposition) - pissed jeans, off minor and rambo peeps do lifetime style punk!
      
      www.superfirecords.co.uk/store.html
    • [11:24 on 26/04/08]
13. • Kunal
    • hiya:
      
      Experimental Dental School / Blown Paper Bags - Split 7" (Cragstan Astronaut) - devo esque noise pop, lovely sleeve
      Find Him And Kill Him - Cut Them To Pieces LP (16OH) - ripping hardcore punk originally on HCNL
      Gramercy Riffs - Demo CDR - notts supergroup of ace hardcore
      Grinding Halt - Sprookjeshof LP (De Graanrepubliek) - new release from dutch powerhouse, ex shikari
      In Disgust - Reality Choke 10" (16OH) - west coast grind violence, totally devastating
      Loser Life - I Have Ghosts And I Have Ghosts LP (16OH) - excellent born against style hardcore
      Short Fast And Loud #19 - comes with Insect Warfare / Flatigious Idiosyncracy In The Dilapidation split 7"
      Various - Trapped In A Scene CD (Give Praise) - restock, has iron lung, endless blockade, xbrainiax, threatener and loads more
      
      
      and here are two reviews from that issue of SF+L:
      
      Army Of Flying Robots - Life Is Cheap
      Debut full length by a UK band that has been active for the last decade, and that's a long ass time in this mad world called hard fucking core. Epic moody build ups, raspy growled vokillz and a sweet production all lend to the menacing yet melodic feel of AOFR. Relevant well written and thought out socio-political lyrics that don't come off as preachy regurgitated shit, add to the full delivery, is this music for the thinkers? Perhaps, or maybe it's music that will just get all the lazy assed apathetic punx thinking? Who knows, take it how ya like, all I know is that AOFR bring to mind bands like Orchid, Die Kreuzen, Palatka, Rorschach, Uranus and Swans. This ain't for the poseur wimps, so outta the way fuckwit!
      
      Jinn - s/t
      Newcastle's best kept secret is out on the loose and bringing on the brutality full fucking force. Jinn defy being pigeonholed into just one boring genre by sheer range. This album will appeal to the grind-freaks, metal-heads, H/C punks and even those into doom and gloom and noisy rock. To say Jinn shows multiple personalities is putting it lightly. This entire album, track after incredible track holds the listener's attention with the thought of "holy shit, what's coming next?" from beginning to end. There are some definite nods to bands like Motorhead, At The Gates, Neurosis and even some early N.D., weird comparisons since none of the above mentioned sound anything alike. But that's Jinn, different and uncompromising; they are not letting any set genre define their sound, they are too busy creating the ballistic beast that is their music. This has been spending a lot of time on my stereo.
    • [11:55 on 03/05/08]
14. • Kunal
    • Loads of stuff this time round...
      
      Bossk - I & II 2xLP (Garden Of Exile) - young uk band doing the whole post metal thing
      Capsule - Blue LP (Robotic Empire) - insane time shifts and spastic riffing from florida, comes with free cd
      Cursive - The Recluse 10" (Robotic Empire) - cool looking pic disc with album and rare songs
      Dysrhythmia - Barriers And Passages LP (Eyes Of Sound) - sweet technical instru-metal from behold the arctopus peeps
      Dystopia - s/t LP (Skuld) - totally essential variable speed attack from the crust punk metal legends
      Framtid / Seein' Red - Split 7" (Hate) - japan vs netherlands thrash attack
      Growing - Dry Drunk On Woman CDR (Nail In The Coffin) - reissue of oop drone 7"
      Humanfly / Queen Of Swords - Split LP (Eyes Of Sound) - leeds pelican-esque monsters battle noisery from trencher members
      Isis - Panopticon 2xLP (Robotic Empire) - their third album on blue vinyl
      Kayo Dot - Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue 2xLP (Robotic Empire) - epic post rock metal stuff, got it on cd too
      Nightmare - Scatterraw LP (Hate) - japanese hardcore legends' newish album
      The Ocean Fracture - The Sunmachine And The Ocean CD (Eyes Of Sound) - young scottish post metal troupe
      Railsplitter - Sunday Morning At The Church Of The Head Crushing Riff CD (Urchin) - title says it all, think eyehategeod
      Riddle Of Steel - Got That Feelin' LP (Robotic Empire) - red vinyl for this post hardcore with classic rock elements trio
      Skitkids - Besoket Vid Krubban LP (Hate) - totally rampaging swedish punk hardcore, deranged but catchy with it
      Skitkids / Nightmare - Split 7" (Hate) - sweden vs japan thrash attack
      Skitsystem / Cyness - Split 7" (Unsociable) - dark swedish crust hardcore metal battles german old school grind
      Torche - In Return 10" (Robotic Empire) - beautiful stop gap release for the stoner doom popsters, with free cd
      Torche - s/t LP (Robotic Empire) - the first album from the ex-floor stoner doom popsters
      Tragedy - s/t LP (Skuld) - the ex-his hero is gone mob's first album
      We Are Carnivores - Well Wisher CD (Eyes Of Sound) - youthful uk trio's jagged hectic post hardcore
      
      We also have some copies of the excellent Oaken Throne zine. These are square-shaped and cover a lot of doom and black metal.
      Issue 5 features Asunder, Caina, Coffins, Harvey Milk, Moss, Portal, Wold and more, and also has a CD with a number of these bands on it.
      Issue 4 features Black Boned Angel, Graves At Sea, Nachtmystium, Thralldom, Villains, Wolves In The Throne Room and more.
      More info - www.benwestdesign.net/oakenthrone
    • [16:31 on 09/05/08]
15. • Kunal
    • some new stuff...
      
      Algernon Cadwallader - Some Kind Of Cadwallader CD (Be Happy) - philadelphia towers members get all melodic and indie-rocky
      Black Pyramid - s/t 7" (Electric Earth) - class bit of stoner hardcore from massachussetts
      Eternal Elysium - Mysterious Views In Stone Garden 10" (Electric Earth) - has the songs from the split with black cobra plus one more jam
      Family Man - s/t LP (Behind The Scenes) - black flag-esque anarchic hardcore from atomgevitter members
      Guapo - Twisted Stems 7" (Dot Dot Dot) - vinyl version of aurora borealis release, weirdo uk troupe do something a bit different
      I Am Above On The Left - s/t CD (RAIG) - mighty first album from this russian don caballero-esque instrumental outfit
      KK Null - Anima Motrix CD (Dot Dot Dot) - zeni geva bloke with more solo stuff, electronics / noise / whatever
      Motherfathers - Kolchak CD (RAIG) - slowed down, abrasive noiserock from russia
      Running For Cover - Dark Well LP (625Thrash) - nasty infest worship, brutal powerviolence
      Seven That Spells - It Came From The Planet Of Love CD (RAIG) - a croatian acid mothers temple? why not?
      Skullflower - Desire For A Holy War CD (Utech) - some of matt bower's harshest guitar drones yet
      Tigrova Mast - s/t CD (RAIG) - croatian postpunk psyche prog something or other insanity
      Won James Won - The Hollow Grail CD (RAIG) - russian band's 5th album, taking in cabaret voltaire, pigface and throbbing gristle
      
      www.superfirecords.co.uk/store
    • [16:39 on 17/05/08]
16. • Kunal
    • new stuff:
      
      Akedeia - Only Sick Music Makes Money Nowadays CD - his hero is gone meets orchid in slovenia
      Birdflesh - Alive Autopsy / Trip To The Grave CD (Razorback) - marvellous swedish loopy grind compiling early stuff
      Caina - The Heart Of The Master LP (Grief Foundation) - screen 1-sided lp of ambience from this profound lore artist
      Coffins - Mortuary In Darkness CD (Razorback) - killer death sludge from japanese ex-dot(.) dudes
      Coldbringer - Lust And Ambition LP (Sabotage) - from ashes rise and other portland folk try their hand at naked raygun-esque punk
      The Day May Lost / Dreams Are Free Motherfucker - Split 7" (Force Fed) - two uk bands doing ace thrash grind stuff
      Dead Sea Fucking Scrolls / Hangover Heartattack - Split 7" (Force Fed) - totally spattered grind powerviolence from these two
      Herodishonest - When The Shit Hits The Man LP (Sabotage) - latest album from the finnish hardcore heroes with a sense of humour
      Needful Things - Dead Point CD (Khaaranus) - deadly euro grind in a napalm death / rotten sound vein
      The Now Denial - Mundane Lullaby LP (Sabotage) - newest album of their high kicking rocking d-beat
      Rammer / Maniak - Split 7" (Grief Foundation) - blazing canadian metal meets phillipines black metal
      Weekend Nachos / Chronic Bleeding Syndrome - Split 7" (Force Fed) - brutal powerviolence from both these american bands
    • [12:26 on 24/05/08]
17. • Kunal
    • new stuff:
      
      Battletorn - Terminal Dawn CD/LP (Mad At The World) - heads down, zero bullshit, raging hardcore metal punk
      Corrupted - Paso Inferior LP (Vendetta) - legendary jap doomsters rerelease the vinyl version of this album
      Merzbow / Shora - Split CD (Bisect Bleep) - jap noise legends battles epic french tech metal
      Skullflower - Pure Imperial Reform CD (Turgid Animal) - live radio set in collaboration with culver
      
    • [11:05 on 31/05/08]
18. • Kunal
    • distro stuff update:
      
      B'Son / Crowskin - Split LP (Vendetta)
      Circle - Earthworm CDEP (No Quarter)
      Circle - Andexelt CD (Tumult)
      End The Agony - From The Lungs 7" (SuperFi)
      Floor - Dove LP (No Idea)
      Floor - s/t LP (No Idea)
      Four Hundred Years - The New Imperialism 10" (Day After)
      From Ashes Rise - Nightmares LP (Havoc)
      Graves At Sea - Documents Of Grief CD (20 Buck Spin)
      Heavy Winged - Blacc Lust CD (Three Lobed)
      Heavy Winged - Feel Inside CD (Archive)
      Ire - What Seed, What Root? CD (Crimethinc)
      Krigshot - Till Vilket Pris Som Helst CD (Communichaos)
      Leviathan - Verrater 2xCD (Tumult)
      Man Is The Bastard - D.I.Y.C.D. CD (Deep Six)
      Melvins - Lysol CD (Boner)
      Milligram - This Is Class War CDR (Traktor 7)
      Misery Index - Hang 'Em High 7" (Garden Of Exile)
      Nadja - Desire In Uneasiness CD (Crucial Blast)
      Noxagt - The Iron Point LP (Load)
      The Obsessed - Lunar Womb CD (Meteorcity)
      The Psychic Paramount - Live 2002 The Franco-Italian Tour CD (Public Guilt)
      Rammer - Incinerator CD (Shifty)
      Skitsystem - Stigmata LP (Havoc)
      Swarrrm / Dimlaia - Split 10" (SuperFi)
      Tarantula Hawk - II LP (Neurot)
      Taste Of Fear - Discography CD (Throne)
      Villains - Getting Cheap / Rampage And Ruin 7" (The Ajna Offensive)
      Warboys - Too Drunk To Skate 7" (Keep Screaming)
      Yeti - The Man With The Lamp LP (Little Mafia)
      
      
      You may have noticed a new SuperFi release in there...
      
      
      
      END THE AGONY - From The Lungs 7"
      
      End The Agony, as you may have already guessed, are not a happy bunch. This Brighton guitar-and-drums duo (now expanded to a trio since the recording of this 7") served time in awkward post-hardcore heroes Cat On Form, but with ETA, they've gone more primitive, creating a dirging, depressing type of fierce noise-rock. The stop-start song structures are deceptively simple, and totally effective. "From The Lungs" is a split release with Opiate and Tadpole Records, and the band themselves. Listen to the band at www.myspace.com/endtheagony
    • [21:06 on 18/06/08]
19. • Kunal
    • new amazingness (mostly Canadian for some reason):
      
      Bookburner - s/t 7" (16OH) - excellent new man is the bastard worship
      Darkthrone - Panzerfaust CD (Moonfog) - a black metal classic
      Epoch Of Unlight - The Continuum Hypothesis CD (The End) - swedish metal thru the grinder
      Giant Squid - Metridium Field CD (The End) - heaps of isis and pelican vibes going on
      Immortal - Battles In The North CD (Osmose) - another black metal classic
      Immortal - Pure Holocaust CD (Osmose) - yet another black metal classic
      In Disgust - Reality Choke 10" (16OH) - already legendary grind hardcore from LA, a la despise you
      Jarboe & Justin K Broadrick - J2 CD (The End) - swans, godflesh, jesu people team up
      Loser Life - I Have Ghosts And I Have Ghosts LP (16OH) - totally great born against style hardcore punk
      Nadja - Skin Turns To Glass CD (The End) - more drone doom double bass noisery from canadian duo
      Poser Disposer - You Don't Count 7" (Unrest) - totally blazing (in more than one sense) rocking grind
      Poser Disposer - Waiting To Inhale LP (Unrest) - totally blazing (in more than one sense) rocking grind
      Poser Disposer / Massgrave - Split 7" (Unrest) - canadian killing machines try to outgrind/smoke each other
      Satyricon / Enslaved - Split CD (Moonfog) - demo days captured here
      Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - In Glorious Times CD (The End) - bizarro mr bungle / toolisms here
      Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Grand Opening And Closing CD (The End) - more bizarro mr bungle / toolisms here
      Ulver - Blood Inside CD (Jester) - unclassifiable black metal lgends go more esoteric
      Voivod - Katorz LP (The End) - legendary prog metallers with their fourth gatefold album
      
      
      Nice review of The Death Of Her Money here: www.aversionline.com/blahg/2008/06/23/the-death-of-her-money-...
      
      Tractor interview here: www.hellridemusic.com/forum/showthread.php?t=17772
    • [17:57 on 23/06/08]
20. • Kunal
    • new!
      
      Aldebaran - Dwellers In Twilight LP (Blind Date)
      Bickle's Cab - Forests Of Grey LP (Pain Of Mind)
      Cave Canem - s/t 7" (Pain Of Mind)
      Cave Canem / Fractura - Split 7" (Trujaca Fala)
      Crom - Hot Sumerian Nights LP (Blind Date)
      Half Makeshift - L'Anse Amort CD (20 Buck Spin)
      Karnvapen Attack - Kunst Und Unkunst LP (Trabuc)
      The Keep - s/t 7" (Titan Heists)
      Piazza Dropout - s/t 7" (IFMH)
      Piazza Dropout / Teenage Angst - Split 7" (Pain Of Mind)
    • [18:23 on 27/06/08]

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