54R / Pornography - Split Tape Arcanegoat - De Profundis CD Autonomia - Necrologia Discografia 2002-2006 LP Bacchus - s/t LP Blood Patrol - From Beyond And Below LP Caged Animal - s/t 7" Cara Neir - Portals To A Better, Dead World LP Cara Neir / Ramlord - Split Tape Cementerio Show / L'Amico Di Martucci - Split 7" Coke Bust - Confined LP Coke Bust - Degradation 7" Coke Bust / Vaccine - Split 7" Column Of Heaven / Radioactive Vomit - Split 7" Condenada - Mother Tongue 7" Cowards - Hoarder LP Deafest - Through Wood And Fog Tape Death Engine - Amen 10" / Tape Death Mercedes - Sans Eclat LP Elizabeth - Insomnia 7" Elizabeth - Where Vultures Land LP Foken Rotten Noise - Wastedlands CD Gag - 40 Oz Rule 7" Great Falls / Pink City - Split Tape Harrowed - Into Inferno LP Injekting Khaos - s/t LP Japanese Women - Quality Control Tape Japanese Women - The Decline of Western Civilization IV 7" Japanese Women - Order Tape Japanese Women / Kamikaze Pilots - Split Tape Naked Incise - s/t CD Narsaak - Prasina 7" Ohmu - Hive Mind CD Passiv Dödshjälp - Kollektiva Mönster LP Permanent Ruin - Mas Alla De La Muerte 7" Primates - Control Salvaje 7" Rats Blood - Punks Is Mutants 7" Seven Sisters Of Sleep / Shamans Owl - Split 10" Slave - s/t Tape Straightjacket Nation - Cheap Kicks & 6 Song EP Tape Synthetic ID - s/t 7" Various - Does It Hurt? LP (Ruidosa Inmundicia, Sotatila, Dumbstruck and more)
Beg - s/t CD Bomg - Polynseeds Tape Bonesaw - The Illicit Revue CD Creation VI - Connection Pulse Tape The Death Of Anna Karina / Chambers - Split LP Deicide - When Satan Lives Tape Deicide - Serpents Of The Light Tape Desecrator - Subconscious Release LP Dropdead / Ruidosa Inmundicia - Split 7" Dropdead / Systematic Death - Split 7" Esoteric Youth - The Burden Of Living 7" Family Outing - Demo Tape Gaz-66 Intrusion - Halt Tape Getcold - Winter Demo 2013 Tape Getcold - s/t Tape Gowl - Buzzbox 7" Grime - Deteriorate LP Grimpen Mire - A Plague Upon Your Houses CD Hexis - s/t LP Hexis / Redwood Hill - Split 7" Iron Lung / The Process - Split 7" Jackals - No Solution LP Magic Circle - s/t LP Monolithian - One/Zero LP Monuments Collapse / Breag Naofa - Split LP Mozergush - Fairytale Alcotrips CD Necrocannibalistic Vomitorium / Reptile - Split CD Nightstick - Rock N Roll Weymouth CD Old Skin - Maere 7" Personnel - s/t 7" Psychofagist / Napalmed - Songs Of Faint And Distortion LP Resonaut - Sky Burial LP Robanera - Meco Discordia LP Schperrung - Hvor Tape Sete Star Sept / Nut Screamer - Split 7" Swinelord - Life Is Empty 10" Throat - Manhole LP Vom - Altered States LP
These two relatively youthful UK bands give me hope for the future of this little isle's scene. Sky:Lark! are a power trio making a healthy post-hardcore racket, like Shotmaker, Fugazi, Karp and the like. Heavy, twisty, weird song structures and riffing, all topped off with layers of angst. Meadows combine the slow with the fast to create a riffstorm of hardcore-tinged stoner rock that is catchy, heavy and very good for you. Hand screened covers, hand stamped labels, the works!
In 2014, the best punk scene in the world is in London, England, and the best band out of that scene is Good Throb. KY Ellie and the gang rage through eleven of the most acerbic punk rock cuts to be conceived in modern time, brimming over with true-life vitriol and the means to carry it out. Imagine the murderous passion of The Feederz clenched in the fists of Kleenex with a scratched-up Erase Errata picture disc jammed in a Vomit Visions sleeve and you're close to Good Throb, although there is no way to hypothesize Good Throb without truly bearing witness. Following two stunning 7" EPs, Good Throb annihilate the LP format with more tunes about moronic men, systemic misery and the many ways in which they can both get fucked. Rather than be the one to say it, I'll go ahead and wait until you hear 'Fuck Off' and consequently pronounce it the album of the year.
Accidente - Amistad Y Rebelion LP
Akaname / Lesbian's Fungal Abyss - Split 7"
Alerta - Demo Tape
Archaic - Noise In Your Head 7"
Arrest - Demo Tape
Belgrado - Siglo XXI LP
Burning Love / Fight Amp - Split 7"
Coffinworm / Fistula - Split 7"
Crisis - Kollectiv 2xLP
Dead Elephant / Rabbits - Split 7"
Defaite - Comme Des Rats 7"
Dephosphorus / Great Falls - Split 7"
Desecrator - Subconscious Release LP
Dopefight / The Fucking Wrath - Split 7"
Dukatalon / Rites - Split 7"
Flesh World - s/t LP
Framtid - Defeat Of Civilization LP
Framtid - Under The Ashes LP
Gattaca - s/t 7"
Geranium / Finisterre - Split 7"
Great Falls - Accidents Grotesque LP
Grimpen Mire - A Plague Upon Your Houses CD
Guerra Fria - Demo Tape
House Of Lightning - Lightworker LP
Hygiene - Public Sector LP
Jungbluth - Part Ache LP
Jungbluth / Callow - Split 7"
Lahdon Aika / Frogskin - Split 7"
Limp Wrist - 18 Songs LP
Mass - s/t Tape
Mauser - Isolation LP
Mob Rules - The Donor LP
Mr Peter Hayden - We Fly High 7"
Muerte - Demo Tape
Nadir - s/t Tape
Nightstick - Rock Roll Weymouth CD
Old Man Lizard / Earthmass - Split 7"
Perfect Pussy - I Have Lost All Desire For Feeling Tape
Pyramido / Union Of Sleep - Split 7"
Ragged Barracudas - s/t 7"
Rectal Hygienics - Cold Meat 7"
Red Right Hand - They Sang And Chanted For Hours CD
Sea Of Shit - s/t 10"
Sect - s/t LP
The Shitty Limits - Speculate / Accumulate LP
Siega - Demo Tape
Suma / Ultraphallus - Split 7"
Tellusian / The Swan King - Split 7"
Throat / Black Sun - Split 7"
Una Bestia Incontrolable - Observant Com El Mon Es Destrueix LP
Various - Incident At Ape Canyon CD
Ward - s/t LP
Whitehorse - Raised Into Darkness LP
Whitehorse - Fire To Light The Way LP
Whitehorse / Negative Standards - Split LP
Zyanose - Why There Grieve? LP
Following up their "Kingmaker" LP, the UK's Pine Barrens continue making their own take on black metallish hardcore rage which is hard to classify, but think Rorschach and Botch and you'll be close. Grinding Halt from the Netherlands unleash a longer track which combines everything they do so well, mixing all the good stuff from hardcore, punk, sludge and metal with some high pitched vocals on top. Got copies on clear and black and it has great artwork by Marald too. Wholesale and trade enquiries welcome!
Well, it's a particularly bad moment in human history, so what better time to announce the release of the Beg self-titled LP? Originally released last year as a limited CD by Hygiene Records out of the USA, this is finally out on vinyl.
Beg is a trio making intense grind metal of the very best kind. It's hard not to mention the "supergroup" thing What with Smith from The Afternoon Gentlemen on drums and Grief from Art Of Burning Water playing guitar, but I'm going to.
Those two bands are great reference points as it's twisted and complicated whilst still being furiously fast and heavy, bringing to mind both the old and new skools of grind. Beg show it's possible to make angry music without being bone-headed, and make complex music without losing the humanity.
This is limited to 250 or so on the blackest of black vinyl with screened sleeves.
ISOLATION TANK / ART OF BURNING WATER - Split 7" out now!
Isolation Tank is a duo that make that powerviolence stuff but are head and shoulders above a lot of the generic, jokey slop being churned out at the moment. Jack and Sam actually utilise discernible, catchy riffs and lots of cool time changes that keep it interesting. Think Hatred Surge and Iron Lung.
Art Of Burning Water continue their mission to annoy all and sundry with their slightly faster take on their usual off-kilter noise-rock with definite hardcore leanings, like a sped up Keelhaul partying with Motorhead. Three short ones from them also.
This is limited to 250 or so with hand stamped labels and a wraparound sleeve.
Been ages since I posted an update, sorry! Two new releases and a ton of new distro stuff for you!
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ART OF BURNING WATER
Living Is For Giving, Dying Is For Getting LP
Art Of Burning Water refuse to die despite being one of the most frowned upon bunch of noise making twats of the past 10 years. There is no machine behind this band and the UK 'underground' rock circle jerk has never approved them or championed them and they do not have friends in high places but do have high friends. You won't be told to check them out and they will not be seen high fiving the correct people in the correct places in order to further their way up festival bills with the correct bands. Art Of Burning Water are outsiders in the truest sense of the word and very proud to stand outside the circle of your love. Art Of Burning Water are a steroided immigrant noise punk outfit that does not need to be loved to live. Art Of Burning Water love what they do and therefore need not be loved for what they do. This is strong music by weak people. For fans of: Keelhaul, Rorschach, Voivod, Amebix, Godflesh and Motorhead.
Neato heavy and awkward post-hardcore that arguably sits alongside fellow youthful UK bands like Skylark, Plaids, Kind Eyes, Wooderson and Shield Your Eyes that have their roots in that 90’s US Gravity Records-esque (proper) emo scene. Jawbox meets Jerome's Dream maybe? Discordance and twistiness abounds with a quintessentially British oddness to it.
Abrasax - Demo CS
Abstracter - Tomb Of Feathers LP
The Austrasian Goat - Paved Intentions 2xLP
Baton Rouge - Totem LP
Birushanah / Drain The Sky - Split LP
Bitcho - Toybox CS
Brainshit - Escape Reality CS
Callous - Fucking Useless 7"
Charogne Stone - Basic Core Instinct LP
Condominium - Thug 7"
Day Of Mourning - Your Future's End LP
Dead Instrument - See Through Negative 7"
Devour - Insect Circuitry 7"
Dogmatist - Worn Out Welcome LP
Dogmatist - Figurehead 7"
Exit Hippies - Disgrace To The Corpse Of Elmo LP
Failures - Decline And Fall LP
Floor - s/t LP
Frau - s/t LP
Gasmask Terror - 17101961 7"
Gowl - Buzzbox 7"
Gowl - Blurr 7"
Gride / Turbokrieg - Split 6"
Grizzlyman - s/t CS
Harkonen - Hung To Dry 7"
Hatred Surge - Human Overdose CD
Het Droste Effect - We Are All Hallucinating CS
High Beams - Hallucination LP
Highgate / Venowl - Split CS
Holy Money - EgoDeathSludge CS
Human Mess - Follow You Home LP
Infanticide - Misconception Of Hope LP
Insomnio - Happy Loneliness LP
Jotnarr - Divide The Growth And Stone CS
Khunnt - Dead Eyes LP
Lotus Fucker - Forever My Fighting Spirit LP
Mansion - We Shall Live LP
Meth Drinker - Desperation / Loss 7"
Mort Mort Mort - Le Chant Des Sirenes 7"
Negative Standards - VI-XI LP
No Balls - Less LP
Norn - s/t CS
Nukkehammer - Soviet Rust Belt 7"
O - When Plants Turn Into Stones CS
Oak - II LP
Ofvitarnir - Stephen Hawking / Steven Tyler CD
Ofvitarnir - Nottin Vard CD
Ommadon - V 2xLP
Open Tomb - Dead Weight LP
PLF - Devious Persecution And Wholesale Slaughter LP
PLF / Dead Instrument - Split 7"
Pusrad - Erarre Humanum Est LP
Rajayttajat - s/t LP
Schtern - L'Etang Du Grenetier LP
Sed Non Satiata - Le Ciel De Notre Enfance / Daitro Split LP
See You In Hell - Jed LP
See You In Hell - Utok LP
Sete Star Sept / Anxiety Disorder - Split 7"
Sete Star Sept / New York Against The Beelzebu - Split 7"
Severed Head Of State - Marked For Death CS
Suffering Quota - s/t CS
Sunday Morning Einsteins - Kangnave CS
Svffer - s/t 7"
This Ends Here - Afterwards 7"
Thou - Heathen 2xLP
Tilts - s/t LP
Tilts - Cuatro Hombres LP
Transient - s/t LP
Transient / The Communion - Split 10"
Ulcerrhoea - Grind Over Minsk CS
Various - Hold Fast! CS
Vermin Womb - Permanence CS
Veuve SS - O.P.L.T. & O.S.C. 7"
Wake - False LP
Wake / Theories - Split 7"
Water Torture / Six Brew Bantha - Split 7"
Wild Rocket - Geomagnetic Hallucinations LP
Wits End - s/t 7"
Wolfbrigade - In Darkness You Feel No Regrets CS
Wyrdforge - Her Wings Unfold War CD
Crows from Dublin absolutely bring some of the most satisfyingly smart, crunchy hardcore I've heard in a long time. Ten songs of anger, power, mosh, breakdowns, singalongs that sound catchy and killer without being boneheaded in the slightest. I heard the singer once moshed through a wall, so I knew I had to help release it.
Some great reviews have come in already, here are some choice quotes:
"Clipped, heavy and hairy, the tracks get under your skin. There’s an immediacy about it that grabs you by the collar... There’s enough bile here to give even the mighty Dystopia a run for their money... An ability to quickly shift and lurch into angular sounding breakdowns helps make it all the more absorbing... Hardcore this enraged, bleak and heavy has to be appreciated. The fact that they’ve been able to keep the quality bar so high throughout is remarkable." - Metal Ireland
"This band pummels through ten songs full of rage. It’s not that difficult to maintain a crazy level of rage on only one side of a 7”, keeping it interesting for an entire LP, that’s something quite different. On Better of dead Crows shows you it can be done." - SWNK
"If you enjoy a good piece of genre mayhem then Crows Better Off Dead is something you need to check out. One of the best contemporary hardcore/punk bands the genre has to offer. This is an absolute rager." - Metal Injection
This is co-released with De Graanrepubliek in the Netherlands and Distro-y in Ireland, so if you live in Europe, it's probably best to get it from one of them.They both have a bunch of other cool records available too. www.degraanrepubliek.com distroyrecords.com
Crows are playing a couple of release gigs this weekend in Dublin and Belfast and will have the LP with them.
CLOCKED OUT - s/t LP is basically out now!
The band is out and about in Europe right now, see the remaining dates here: clockedout.tumblr.com/
JOTNARR - Burn And Bury LP is coming along nicely.
CD and tape versions should be out this weekend in time for Saturday's release gig at the Waiting Room in Colchester.
Listen to it here: superfirecords.bandcamp.com/album/burn-and-bury-lp
KIND EYES - It's OK, It's Not OK LP test pressings finally arrived, fingers crossed they are OK.
BOAK 7" is being turned into test pressings at the moment, that should not be too long.
HUMANS THE SIZE OF MICROPHONES - Discography LP has just been sent off to be turned into something real.
Newer distro stuff:
Alpinist - Minus Mensch LP
Alraune - The Process Of Self Immolation LP
Bastard Sapling - Instinct Is Forever 2xLP
Burnchurch - s/t LP
Christi - Cry 7"
Disculpe - s/t 7"
Forn - The Departure Of Consciousness LP
Geranium - s/t LP
Harda Tider / Night Fever - Split LP
Idiots Rule - s/t 7"
Iron Lung - Savagery 7"
Krallice - s/t 2xLP
Kykloopien Sukupuutto / Death Token - Split 7"
Morser - V LP
Nervous Mothers - s/t 7"
No Slogan - Daggers 7"
Ogre - The Last Neanderthal LP and 7"
Pertti Kurikan Nimipäivät - Oma Rauha 7"
Pig Heart Transplant - For Mass Consumption LP
Pleasure Cross - Wait For The End LP
Pyramido - Saga LP
Sickmark - s/t 7"
Slugz - s/t LP
Soma Coma - Dust LP
Svffer - Lies We Live LP
Thou - Ceremonies Of Humiliation 3xLP
Thou - Heathen 2xLP
Una Bestia Incontrolable - Nou Mon 7"
We Never Learned To Live / Human Future - Split 7"
White Wards - Cigarette Burns LP
Jotnarr (or more accurately JØTNARR, named after a type of monster from the film “The Troll Hunter&rdquo are a trio hailing from the fairly un-grim wastes of Colchester in the east of England.
Chris, Simon and Oli have all been plugging away in various bands such as Meadows, Mother Sky and Three Thrones (which are all still going concerns) before getting together in 2013 to jam what could be considered to be black metal, with its scathing, evil atmosphere, fused to a belligerently hardcore punk backbone, topped off with elements of screamo. Heavy, devastating and yet melodic.
Lyrics are concerned with human relationships with the natural world, environmental degradation, loss, grief and wolves. Their interests include King Diamond, Black Sabbath, and playing shows.
For fans of early Ulver, His Hero Is Gone and Wolves In The Throne Room.