I love it when I stumble on to shit like this! A drunken night rummaging through the interwebs looking for something to jam on led me to this little lovely. This right here is prime, grade-a, cellar dwelling fuzzed fucked filth. This sublime cluster fuck of blackend crust doom punk and closet production comes courtesy of New Hampshire trio Ramlord. First off, sweet fucking name fellas! Secondly, sweet fucking riffs! Their din is reminiscent of acts like From Ashes Rise, Tragedy/His Hero Is Gone (especially in the vocal department), Disrupt, Perth Express, Noothgrush and even some Buzzov*en. My first listen was in the form of there new split with Dallas Texas' Cara Neir. A single 10 minute track of sheer disgust and brute force. Starting off with a dire two minute plus doomed out death march, Affliction of Clairvoyance erupts in a ferocious d-beat maelstrom just to bring it back to a crawl. Then amping it up again into a torrential black metal inspired crescendo . It's pretty awesome. Then came the four song 7 minute piss in the eye of their split with Condensed Flesh. Released last year, this side of Ramlord sees them deliver the the good in no frills all thrills fashion. It's crusty as fuck and straight to the point. It too is pretty awesome. The only fault that I can find with these recording lies within Affliction. While I love the grime the production (or lack there of) provides, the drum sound on this track bothers me at times. I gotta say that the snare sounds like it was recorded at the bottom of a well. Oh well. See what I did there.. Even with that one minor criticism, Ramlord are one hell of a band. I will be watching these guys closely.
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Saturday, October 6, 2012
Thursday, August 23, 2012
His Hero Is Gone- Fifteen Counts of Arson (1997)
I'm parting with some of my vinyl collection, including some color variants of this album. I've listened to it 5 times already this evening making sure they're all fit to sell, so I figured, why the fuck not post it?
Fifteen Counts of Arson is one of my favorite albums of all time and I objectively believe that it's one of the greatest punk rock albums ever recorded...and it's not even my favorite His Hero Is Gone record, Monuments To Thieves holds that distinction. The order in which I rank those two will surely be objected to by some, but I think that just about all of their fans can agree that His Hero Is Gone managed quite a feat in having produced not one, but two all time greats of the genre. Pardon me if I get a little too self-involved with this one, His Hero Is Gone was one of the most important bands in my musical evolution.
I was 13 years old when this record came out, though I don't think I heard it until the following year (1998). At that point I was starting to move beyond punk rock and hardcore staples like the Dead Kennedys, Bad Brains and Black Flag. Bands like Discharge, Crucifix and Crass had given me an ethos to go along with my (just barely) teenage angst. But 1998 would prove a huge year for me musically. I would hear two bands that expanded my palate and completely changed the way I listened to music. One was Botch, though that's a story for another time, the other was His Hero Is Gone.
I imagine I must have downloaded it from the FTP site that some guys who posted on a message board I frequented ran, as that's where much of my music discovery happened in those early days of file sharing. Somehow I came into possession of a few MP3s, including "Professional Mindfuckers," "Sterile Fortress" and "Epidemic." I know that the phrase "blew my mind" is overused, but that's exactly what happened, my mind was fucking blown.
It was dark. Darker than Discharge or Rudimentary Peni (who I also loved at the time) and certainly had none of the levity of the latter. It was fast. I had heard some fast hardcore, but I had never been exposed to a blast beat before this record. It was slow. Sludge would later become my genre of choice, but this was my first exposure to the grimy stomp that's part and parcel of the genre. But most of all, it was heavy. Not the type of heavy that a bunch of meatheads would stomp around to at a hardcore show, but the kind of heavy that made you want to throw up the claw and bang your fucking head. It's almost solely responsible for sending me barreling down a musical path I might not have stumbled across otherwise and almost fifteen years later, Fifteen Counts of Arson remains one of my favorite albums of all time.
Fifteen Counts of Arson is one of my favorite albums of all time and I objectively believe that it's one of the greatest punk rock albums ever recorded...and it's not even my favorite His Hero Is Gone record, Monuments To Thieves holds that distinction. The order in which I rank those two will surely be objected to by some, but I think that just about all of their fans can agree that His Hero Is Gone managed quite a feat in having produced not one, but two all time greats of the genre. Pardon me if I get a little too self-involved with this one, His Hero Is Gone was one of the most important bands in my musical evolution.
I was 13 years old when this record came out, though I don't think I heard it until the following year (1998). At that point I was starting to move beyond punk rock and hardcore staples like the Dead Kennedys, Bad Brains and Black Flag. Bands like Discharge, Crucifix and Crass had given me an ethos to go along with my (just barely) teenage angst. But 1998 would prove a huge year for me musically. I would hear two bands that expanded my palate and completely changed the way I listened to music. One was Botch, though that's a story for another time, the other was His Hero Is Gone.
I imagine I must have downloaded it from the FTP site that some guys who posted on a message board I frequented ran, as that's where much of my music discovery happened in those early days of file sharing. Somehow I came into possession of a few MP3s, including "Professional Mindfuckers," "Sterile Fortress" and "Epidemic." I know that the phrase "blew my mind" is overused, but that's exactly what happened, my mind was fucking blown.
It was dark. Darker than Discharge or Rudimentary Peni (who I also loved at the time) and certainly had none of the levity of the latter. It was fast. I had heard some fast hardcore, but I had never been exposed to a blast beat before this record. It was slow. Sludge would later become my genre of choice, but this was my first exposure to the grimy stomp that's part and parcel of the genre. But most of all, it was heavy. Not the type of heavy that a bunch of meatheads would stomp around to at a hardcore show, but the kind of heavy that made you want to throw up the claw and bang your fucking head. It's almost solely responsible for sending me barreling down a musical path I might not have stumbled across otherwise and almost fifteen years later, Fifteen Counts of Arson remains one of my favorite albums of all time.
Buy it:
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Wolfbrigade- Damned (2012)
Conversation with a wall:
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"Yeah, I heard it."
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"It's rather disappointing."
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"I can't say I was a huge fan of Nerve Damage either, so it wasn't entirely unexpected."
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"I'm not sure what they were thinking. It's more Amebix than Discharge, which would be totally cool if it were well done."
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"And what's with the production, it sounds super thin and shitty."
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"Yeah."
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"Well, at least Wolfbrigade still rules."
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Masakari- The Prophet Feeds (2010)
Cleveland, Ohio in the house! When I think of Cleveland and hardcore, I think of two things: H100s and 9 Shocks Terror. Masakari...don't sound like either of those bands. They are however, big fans of His Hero Is Gone and Tragedy (who happen to be two of my favorite bands of all time) and it's pretty obvious when you listen to their music. Dark, crusty, D-beaty goodness and like HHIG, Masakari are as adept at playing at grindcore speeds as they are at sludge pacing. Don't really think I really need to say much more than that. Highly recommended.
Masakari recently made their entire discography free on bandcamp. If you're smart you'll grab the rest of it when you head over there to download this album and if you're not a dick you'll throw them a few bones. Make sure to check out the cover they did of the entire Fight Back Ep by Discharge. It fucking rules!
Masakari recently made their entire discography free on bandcamp. If you're smart you'll grab the rest of it when you head over there to download this album and if you're not a dick you'll throw them a few bones. Make sure to check out the cover they did of the entire Fight Back Ep by Discharge. It fucking rules!
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