INIT FEST

Init Fest is this weekend and if you are able to get there then please do, Sinking Steps, Rising Eyes will reunite for this one time only! Follow all news on INIT's twitter, join their facebook, buy their albums and stuff. Be safe.

Oh yes, read this interview with Steve INIT.

Kickball - Huckleberry Eater

Okay this band is really mad awesome, and I couldn't find this album anywhere for a while so like holler dude.

Probably my favorite singer guy ever, really cool delivery.

Download suckas.

Perversor - Cult Of Destruction

Check it if you liked Demon Metal, this is mad grimy too. Hatestep bitches.

Download.

Ampere - Like Shadows sampler

The kitten gurus just put up more songs from their upcoming album. It's all quite screamo, check it oot.

Perversor - Demon Metal EP

This is some gnarly arse blackened death metal that came out last year, very oldschool. Grimy as fuck.

Check it oot.

Thinking of making a Purevolumexcore mix

You know what I mean, you should know what I mean...
12 tracks or something. Featuring seminal... uh... emo acts like A Distant Memory and Cross Town Rivals.

Demeanor - The Slugs Throne (2010 omg late 2 da party)

Demeanor is a two piece from Kentucky, consisting of a vocalist/guitarist and a drummer. An extremely talented two piece that sounds like a complete band. Their sound is thick and layered; heavy as that guy who died fused to his couch in Ohio.

Everywhere I've looked Demeanor has been referred to as a "harcore/grind based act"... in other words, they're a gray area band. This release is 12.6 minutes of mind-raping post blackened sludge-grind, with a misanthropic atmosphere to give Kierkegaard a run for his money. That sounds dumb as hell, I know, and it was kind of the point. Trying to describe Demeanor as hardcore or grind is just silly, it's far too out there, but it's brilliantly cohesive and distinct in feel. One moment you've got an epic "post black metal" sounding riff, and the next moment the song's three times faster and dissonant as all hell, the prime example of this being the ending of the first track A Stable Life, A Bright Future.

Download.

Kaddish - Kaddish

Kaddish is yet another post rock styled skramzo band from Scotland. Very quality.

Download.

Lies Of A Murderer - Bodies Of Water EP

So like, I'm in a metalcore band with some friends and we did this demo in like two takes each and it's really cute. Stay Rasta.

Download.

The Saddest Landscape & We Were Skeletons

Don't feel much has to be said, everyone knows TSL and WWS at this point. It's a great listen for real. I really like the album art... and I cropped it to 420x420 pixels.

Download.

Various Artists - The Machines (1990 - 1993)

I'm really lazy and slow when it comes to wanting to upload something for other people to hear, more or less I have given up on blogging because I figure everyone else does it and does it better than me! I should have just given up on this a long time ago and let Mappy deal with it. Anyways, enough of the shit I just posted, you probably didn't even realize that there are two dudes using this blog anyways. Onto the post:

This is such a good fucking documentation of independent music in the early 90's, lots of East Coast in this. Simple Machines did a 6 EP thing documenting stuff they felt was not going to be welcomed on other labels. The end result were some of the best EP's ever put out, the end result of that was this really amazing compilation. A little bit of Emo, a lot of indie, anthems, Jenny Toomey. Here's the tracklist:

For more info you can scope it out on the Simple Machines site.

Various Artists - The Machines (1990 - 1993)

Salt The Wound - Kill The Crown

Salt The Wound has always been a band that was slightly ahead of the ("deathcore") pack, but a bit too cliche to listen to regularly. Then Ares came out, and they really showed their ability, except Kevin (vox) started doing this really bad attempt at brocore vocals, where his voice just fucking cracked embarrassingly every .5 seconds. Anyway, this album is like Ares, but with heavy Darkest Hour influence, no brocals, and minimal brees. Very catchy, you're moshin.

Download.