XYOUXSMELLXLIKEXPASTEX: August 2010

Saturday, August 28, 2010

Blasphymartyr - Mon Côté

Mon Côté
1. Disharmonious Latitude
2. ...And Harmony Escapes
3. Hello, Longitude (Erik)
4. Benadryl: Please Stop Now, Kthxbai

Female vocals? Track two riff/drums courtesy of my dude.

Oh ya, this is my half of a split with this one dude, and such. A brief summary:

NOW WATCH ME WALK THE CAMEL ON TOP OF YOUR FUCKIN HEAD, THE ARABS TRADE ME OIL, AND MAKE DEALS, HORSES RUN AT YOU IN THE DESERT, 100 DEGREES.... I DONT NEED WHEELS

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Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Depravity - Galvanizer

Seriously one of the most awesome, cheesy osdm albums ever. This is sinister, with cheesy keyboards, and standard '80s death metal sloppiness. Great album when you just want fun oldschool death metal.

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Depravity is probably one of the most listenable oldschool death metal bands ever. They're sufficiently doomy. They have guttural vocals. They have sinister black metal influenced tremolo segments. They have oldschool metal "evil" sounding keyboards. They have a competent metal drummer, this early in the extreme metal scene.

Depravity is one of my favorite bands ever, if you haven't, look back in our archives for Silence Of The Centuries by Depravity, as it's they're most mature album ever. In fact, my favorite death metal album ever.

Friday, August 20, 2010

Thank God - For Pregnant Virgins

I bought this five months ago or so for $3, or maybe it was 3 months ago; something about the number threee (3 e's). I had slept on this band, noticed some reviews on this release for the past year or so but for a while I was letting myself sleep on Screamo/Hardcore releases, boy was that a mistake. This band reminds me of Antioch Arrow, they are fast and sloppy with lyrics that only meth addicts will appreciate. This is really intense and although the main vocalist is not a shrieker, there is some shrieking going on and it's magnificent. A must. They have 3 splits (Life At These Speeds, Tigershark, Monarcs and Deepslauter), maybe some tapes, some cdr's, and a new album out named Ice/Age but I haven't caught a glimpse of it anywhere I frequent (online and off, not going to google search) and I don't want to buy anything online either... Let me know if it's a good one.

Thank God - For Pregnant Virgins
http://www.mediafire.com/?69880te0habl5pg

apple NOT ASTEROID - Until The Sun Burns Out

Lots of things happened in between 2003 - 2007. THE SCENE was super popular for some reason, bands were imitating both new and old underOATH and real skramz/chicken violence and fake screamo were basically one and the same for some areas of the world. One area was Chino Hills, California which gave birth to the legendary apple NOT ASTEROID (and A Static Lullaby). This band was so definitive that they are mentioned on underOATHS wikipedia page as being a big influence. This band is one of those that I consider screamo that others would consider post hardcore and so on and so forth; basically they sound like underOATH's the Changing of Times album with less production. They have two EP's, one of them being this one, and a full length that I cannot find for some fucking reason. Oh well, god bless purevolume. Speaking of God Bless, this is a xChristianx band.

apple NOT ASTEROID - Until The Sun Burns Out
http://www.mediafire.com/?ulxr8dd695ngg0m

Kanaris - Kanaris

Kanaris happen to be legendary in the unknown screamo realm, you probably have never even heard of them and do not care. Why are they unknown? I don't know since their sound has been imitated constantly over and over until we got something like Touche Amore, La Dispute and Suis La Lune it seems. I mean sure screamo by the turn of the century became watered down metalcore of all kinds, but the genres blur too much to care (you can hear New Brunswick influences). I'm done telling jokes, kind of. Seriously, Kanaris generally sounds like an Iron Maiden influenced skramz (and jamz) band. There are two more EP's but they're all the same songs that are on here just recorded differently.

*funny story: when I first met Mappy (online) he was telling me about his bands and how neat they were so I sent him Kanaris mp3's telling him that it was my band. trolled/pwned.

Kanaris - Kanaris
http://www.mediafire.com/?mwdzw2j5jzw

The 1985 - Nerve Eighty

Existing from 1996 - 2000 and generally well liked. Even though their sound is compared to Arab On Radar they have this charm that Arab on Radar do not have, maybe it's their mysterious name or their groovy song structures. I find that most will have trouble understanding the lyrics, and most will go straight for the noisy guitars. The band is like an LSD fueled trip through a wasteland, a pit stop in the middle of nowhere. It gets hot and you're hallucinating because of the heat and LSD, soon your mind loses control and "It's My Antennae" (the definitive Emo anthem) is blasting through your speakers.

The 1985 - Nerve Eighty
http://www.mediafire.com/?miqgyn2wtjt