The following are five noteworthy records released this year that I heard almost nothing about. Were it not for my love of discovering new music, I wouldn’t have known to get these. I had to really think about 5 good grind records from this year, as it seemed a sad year for new grind releases. …
Best Album Of The Year
…is Contagium‘s Archaic LP. The album contains 9 songs of pure aural bliss from these three Halifax punks. Contagium knows how to seek out a lumbering rhythm, and use it to plod along through a song until piledriving the speed at just the right moment, allowing chaos to ensue. The sparingly-used vocals are bleak and …
Anticipation
Here’s a preview of some of the records that I’m drooling over myself just thinking about. Some are out, and I don’t have a copy yet, and some have been announced as coming soon. 1. Suffering Mind self titled LP- I already heard the tracks, because Kuchar was nice enough to send me the mp3s …
Human Error / Black Hole of Calcutta split 7″
I received copies of this 7″ today for my distro, and I was curious to check out Human Error’s new stuff. I had heard a few songs quite some time ago, so I wanted to know if I would like them as much as I remembered, or more. What ended up happening, was that I …
Interview with Nashgul (Spain)
This interview was conducted sometime in Summer ’09 for Noise Reduction Zine #3, which hasn’t been printed. In celebration of Nashgul’s new LP, (that I received this week) I decided to post the interview. Enjoy! -Will BSP 1. The first thing that I want to ask is about your band name. Are you Lord of …
Total Wreck – Demo 09
Total Wreck – Demo 09 CD-R http://www.myspace.com/totalwreckva Thrash punk that isn’t snotty, a nice change! Lyrics are very ryhme-y. Well recorded, I dig this a lot more than a lot of the throwback hardcore stuff that is out here, so check these dudes out! -willfastcore N.E.K. vs. Septix tape http://www.karasukiller.com NEK side starts out sounding …
Ablach – Aon CD
I had seen the name of this band around, and thought they’d be a lousy black metal band, but I’m really glad about how wrong I was. Ablach are not a shitty black metal band, but instead a fucking headcrushing mess of crust/grind/death from Scotland. This CD features 13 songs in 19 minutes, not somethign …