Nostra Monte - I Am A Romantic

Another old local treat, my God this EP makes me nostalgic. I'm not really feeling what these dudes are up to right now, but they're really into it so more power to them. This EP is pretty cool slow paced skramz, lots of influence from the French scene. Awesome vocals. The quality is poor, I should probably message George and see if I can buy this but I'm lazy. This shit is mad NAFY.

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Contrived - Dead Air Verbatim

Contrived is a pretty cool guy, eh plays melodramatic music and doesn't afraid of anything.

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http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?0yynwzm15oy

hello everyone! i guess this isn't even close to being considered a gift... but i really wanted to share it, i can't say i really know why and as i think about it there has to be absolutely no reason at all. it's not the type of mix you kids who listen to pure guitar based music will like, heck, i'm going to assume a lot of you won't like any of this. it's a large heaping helping of electronica or 'nu disco' as i've heard a few of these artists called, and i really enjoyed these songs. it took me two days to put it together, to make it what some call 'perfect'. i, at the very least, hope that i got near to perfection as i possibly could without sacrificing any soul and meaning. the message in each song doesn't have to apply to any of you, it could very well be that the song is just a fat dance hit or that it works so good at the given time i applied it to the mix. at any rate, i believe this is truly enjoyable. a good one for a picnic or a drive to the beach...

1. passion pit - i've got your number
2. cold cave - the trees grew emotions and died
3. the golden filter - solid gold
4. chromatics - healer
5. holy ghost! - hold on
6. weird tapes (memory cassettes) - asleep at a party
7. junior boys - count souvenirs
8. section 25 - sakura
9. theives like us - your heart feels
10. zombie zombie - before night falls
11. kap10kurt - mission complete (symbolone remix)
12. black devil disco club - i regret the flower power
13. data - rapture (pacific remix)
14. inflagranti - escapade
15. mgmt - kids (soulwax remix)
16. panthers - thank me with your hands (mstrkrft remix)
17. unsexy nerd ponies - 1986 valerie

http://www.divshare.com/download/7086018-055#

War From A Harlots Mouth - Falling Up Stairs

Okay, what makes this band stand out? Absolutely nothing. They're basically the new Number 12 Looks Like You, except instead of mostly metallic metalcore with grind influence from the start of the decade, it's deathcore with grind influence from the end of the decade. For some reason, it's apparently "grind jazzcore" but fuck that shit, it's deathcore.

Good deathcore mind you. The song Keeping It Up Rules because it's like a Rifles At Recess song shrunk to one minute in length.

Linky

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Death Breath - Stinking Up The Night

Some old Swedish homos playing death metal. Oldschool as fuck. Nick from Entombed & Robert from Runemagick, heil.

Linky

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Knut - Challenger

Knut is pronounced, "Ka-noot," don't ask me, they're faggoty Swiss folk. Anyhow, Norma Jean? Botch? Fuck that shit, throw some juice in the freezer and put that in your milk.

Basically, really really krieg sludge influenced metalcore album from 2001. The best, the best, the best!

linky

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With Blood Comes Cleansing - Golgotha

By request, here's some Christian deathcore. Kind of like Rifles At Recess meets Despised Icon with oldschool death metal riffs... and all for the glory of Christ!

linky

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Ooh Do I Love You Compilation

Released on Care Core records, or whatever fucking record label put this out, In 1996. Showcasing some of the scenes current big name hit makers, The Promise Ring, Sarge, Rainer Maria, The Dismemberment Plan, Braid and even no namers such as Supporting Actress, Roscoe P. Soultrane, Helen, Sideprojects, Chester and Mary Me playing total mushy love songs that make you feel completely cute on the inside from the first go. Really, this is a pretty intense comp and you have to wonder where a lot of these bands ended up at, some of them are even GREAT! The Cap'n Jazz cover song done by The Promise Ring (featuring Vocals from Tim Kinsella himself) really sets the tone of the rest of the albums, the two disc set, if you will. It's completely fast paced, hyper active, melodramatically charged punk at its finest. Songs by Campanula Blue add a little heavier twist to the mix along with Playstation (I can't tell if this track is real though, all the rest seem to have an identifiable quality and this one is just whacky, but the lyrical content and music seem VERY serious), Palilia adds a really low fi tangent into it, hell all breaks loose though within the first few tracks when Roscoe P. Soultrane plays their brand of soulful 3rd wave ska but it's Jarbaby's track 'i Love A Parade' that screams 'HELLO PLAN IT X, DID YOU FORGET ABOUT ME?', it's pretty much the grandfather to all those acoustic acts that ended up on everybody's Ipod after Juno was released. But it's really interesting when you hear Speed The Day's cover of The Supremes song 'You Can't Hurry Love', it's so bad that it's good in a very good way, complete with female vocals. I love it, just listening to it makes me happy. The comp ends with the Kinsella's covering their own song, ha. Have a blast putting this on and enjoy yourself. Drink some tea, doodle some funny characters fighting the XMen, have a blast.

Ooh Do I Love You Compilation - 1
Ooh Do I Love You Compilation - 2

Through The Eyes Of The Dead - The Annihilation Of Expectation

My favorite melodic death metal release ever. My favorite metal drummer ever. My favorite metal guitarist ever. My favorite metal vocalist ever.

Enjoy!!!

linky <3

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I haven't posted in a while, so here's another oldschool death metal goodie. Altar vs. Cartilage - Ex Oblivione/The Fragile Concept Of Affection+

This also has Cartilage's demo, as well as two bonus tracks of them from the re-release of the split.

Cartilage is another, AMAZING Finnish death metal band. They have a very distinct guitar style, the only two other bands to really pull off anything like it well are probably Job For A Cowboy and Thrown To Belial, and in those cases, those rare occasions that make you forget that there are way too many gimmicks going on. Basically, buzzsaw-esque tremolo picking and very groove oriented stomp parts... but before stomp parts were dedicated to tuffguys.

Altar is one of the better Swedish DM bands from the early '90s, but GODDAMN that scene was generic.

Oh, and it was produced by Dan Swano, which means he recorded it to sound right for the music, not to be as cleanly produced as he was capable of. The fuzzy production really suites the oldschool Scandanavian sound.

Linky:
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=88869e896c1e1070111096d429abd360e04e75f6e8ebb871

Panthers

Ripping, Revolutionary, Motherfuckers! I don't know why you would or could hate this band with this fucking stigma 'Fuck off pussy ass Jake!' They take what orchid had and made it more flexible and danceable, more booty shaking and rocking, more drug talk less I'm one sad bitch talk (haha orchid lyrics are so creepy 'I Still Shake When I See You And I'm Not Alright', haha). This band pretty much brightens up my day and if I listen to this while I'm driving I usually wanna go past the speed limit and drag a few porkers into a high speed police chase while smoke a fat blunt and drinking Jim Beam out of the bottle while my passengers smoke some fat ass bag of crack and I'm talking about all the fools I fucked up the night before while I'm getting a blow job and someone is video taping it all on their black berry. It's basically songs about being A bad ass and not giving a shit, all the while trying to make some sort of internal change. High gut wrenching post punk (proto punk) sounds that very much were birthed by Drive Like Jehu and the Stooges, they end up turning heads with deliciously gratifying and heavy as fuck stoner rock sounds on Things Are Strange but then they re tune their guitars and scratch their hairy balls again for 'The Trick'. If you weren't a fan of Orchid then fuck it, this sounds NOTHING like them. Up on here is most of what they got, Are You Down??? is a definite ball buster in which you'll wish you heard of sooner than later but whatever man, at least you're enjoying it now (one of the songs is scratched but the rest of the album is pretty fucking fantastic sounding, the copy that i ripped it from messed up on that song... sorry); Let's Get Serious adds lots of fuzzy fucking distortion and gorgeous dreamland sounds that scathe into your brain for hours on end with catchy fucking lyrics that you may or may not interpret correctly; Things Are Strange redoes two of their older songs and gives you a Pink Floyd-esque journey into being a fucking bad ass; The Trick combines everything from Let's Get Serious and Things Are Strange to give you a metal classic that risks being too rocking at times but goddamn you just can't rock enough. And y'all better get the way amazing 'Goblin City' mixes, with the song redone done by the Holy Ghost! and Run Roc. By the by if you get an official mix of that 'Thank Me With Your Hands' tune redone by MSTRKRFT then lemme know, I had it once but alas... alas. FYI they are now a defunct band.

Panthers - Are You Down???
Panthers - Let's Get Serious
Panthers - Things Are Strange
Panthers - The Trick
Panthers - Golbin City

- Manuel

Vermillion Sands

Some more Garage music this time but from Italy! This is one very nice little 7" that's oh so delightful. It's one girl who does a good job being the ring leader of this little group of garage pop aficionados and a bassist, a drummer and a fuzz guitar specialist who are all from their own respective and amazing bands (Movie Star Junkies being one)... fuck it, just call this Garage Country, respectively.

Vermillion Sands - Mary 7''

- Manuel