Friday, June 30, 2006

Dalek - "Distorted Prose" from LP Absence on Ipecac Recordings via Southern Records
"..filled to the brink w/ bruising beats, spitting rhymes and mammoth production."

Thursday, June 29, 2006

Architects - "You Don't Walk Away From Dismemberment" via In at the Deep End
"Well intense, emo-edged all out raaawwwkk"

Wednesday, June 28, 2006

The Police - "Message in a bottle" via Dziesmas (via TTM&R)
"Classic 80's" (Mp3 no longer available)
Mogwai - "Hunted by a freak" via Take the music and run!
"Glorious downbeat blinding space rock."
Howard Dully - "My Lobotomy" via Damn Interesting
"Howard Dully, the boy who underwent the procedure at age twelve, is now a fifty-six year old bus driver in California who has spent his life feeling "like a freak, ashamed." He is tortured with thoughts of how the operation altered his mind and his soul. His story, called "My Lobotomy," describes his exploration into the history of Dr. Freeman's operations, and more specifically, his own. It's an amazing listen."

Tuesday, June 27, 2006

Southern Records First Podcast via Southern Records!
"Thrill to the voyeuristic sounds of Mike Patton's new project, Peeping Tom !! Float away on a cloud of Charlambides !! Feel threatened by the brooding paranoia of the Paperchase !! Vent with Carla Bozulich !! Relive the Melvins Don't Look Back show in all it's camouflaged glory!! Revel in the world premiere of the new William Elliott Whitmore album!!! Deliver some Bad News From The Stars with Hawnay Troof !! Witness the electroxotic chemistry of Alias & Tarsier !! "
Todd - "Black Skull" via Southern Records
"Pulverising keyboard, drum machine and smash guitar all laced together in a clusterfuck of damaged dance metal ala Men's Recovery Project, NICE! NICE! NICE!"
Leviathan - "Courtship of the Disgarded" via Ideologic
"....completely enveloping, totally fucked black metal." Source: Rate Your Review
Pelican - "Last Day Of Winter" via mp3maniaco
"...a sort of aural roller coaster."

Monday, June 26, 2006

Isis - "The Beginning And The End (Remix VENETIAN SNARES)" via Visions
"Mentalist super breakbeat screaming doom metal mingingness,,,"
Mobb Deep - Shook Ones (Pt. 2) ( Instrumental) via Kornaz
"Classic bare bones minor key chilled hip hop....."
Isis - "Carry" via Kornaz
"Crushing..."

Thursday, June 22, 2006

Thrones - "Suckling" via Southern Lord
"..stumbling heavybeat walls of thunder." Source : Rate Your Music
(Supporting Isis on tour in UK. See you in Cardiff butty!)
Boris - "Farewell" via Southern Lord
"....taking the varied textures of ambient drone, psychedelic and experimental rock, and dirty noise metal and folding them into a single mind-blowing post-rock stew."

Wednesday, June 21, 2006

Ocean - "First Reign" (long clip) via Important Records
"..slow ancient doom harnessing the deep low end drone of Sunn 0))), Burzum's screams, the crushing heaviness of Buried At Sea, and even the art rock of Mogwai."
Merzbow - "Track 3" (long clip) from Minazo Volume One via Important Records
"..tribute to the beloved male elephant seal who lived life in captivity at a Tokyo aquarium."
LEE RANALDO - "Ambient Loop For Vancouver" via Important Records
"....quasi-religious drone, a sacred work that is as sedating as it is chaotic. Totally brilliant modern improvised guitar work."

Monday, June 19, 2006

Beverly Hills Cop – Axel Foley via 101 free MP3s
"80's synth-core 'lektro filmscore rip-up.."
Men At Work – Land Down Under via 101 free 80's MP3s
"Superb 8o's dreamy reggae."

Friday, June 16, 2006

Relapse Records Podcasts

Click HERE for a direct download - April
Click HERE for a direct download - February
Click HERE for a direct download - January
Click HERE for a direct download - December
"These podcasts include over 45 mins each of Extreme Relapse Metal from our top artists."
Dillinger Escape Plan - "Unretrofied" (Radio Edit) via Relapse Records
"Mathcore mentalists do chilled out track."

Thursday, June 15, 2006

Leng Tch'e - "Clarity denied"
Leng Tch'e - "Glamourgirl concubine" via deathmetal.be
"some of the most devastating grindcore on the planet today. Hooks that sink into your brain accompany some of the fastest and most extreme grind to emerge in years as Leng Tch'e prove that grindcore can continue to evolve, while staying true to its formative roots. This is the new sound of extreme"

Wednesday, June 14, 2006

Dwighty vs. Shaw - "War in Iraq 2" via Deathmatch
"Neo-Nazi takes on Neo-Hippie."

Tuesday, June 13, 2006

Dokaka - "Angel Of Death" via Krucoff
"...cover of Angel of Death (Slayer) by beatbox genius Dokaka."
Slint - "Nosferatu Man" via Krucoff.com
"...dark, minor key songs, starting with slow, clean guitar lines and building to huge, distorted climaxes..." Source: Rate Your Review
THE ANS SYNTHESIZER - "1""
THE ANS SYNTHESIZER - "2""
THE ANS SYNTHESIZER - "3" " via Bldg Blog
...sounds "like travelling through the Oort Cloud or the Kuiper Belt – glitting slivers of distant white light and vast, nebulous spaces populated by inchoate radioactive matter."

Monday, June 12, 2006

sunn 0))) - "It Took The Night To Believe" via Southern Lord
"..sounds like the tectonic movements of the Terran crust, recorded long enough to back the grumbles of the solar system itself and what seems to be the chance hearings of mutilated voice boxes caught on a microphone buried deep underground, before eternity is allowed to continue its journey.." source:Rate Your Review

Friday, June 09, 2006

Thursday, June 08, 2006

The Berzerker - "No one wins" via Earache Records
"...grind obliteration...blasting drums, violently charged vocals, ungodly industrial rhythms and ear-piercing guitar riffs"

Wednesday, June 07, 2006

Merzbow - "Tapedada"
Merzbow - "Helgasdeath"
Merzbow - "Minuszero" via Wrek
"...the most important artist in noise music."
Artificial Memory Trace - "Chrozoom"
Kazumoto Endo - "Death to Art-Fags" from Coalescence Compilation on Alien8 Recordings
"from ambient to electro acoustic to field recordings to harsh noise."
Merzbow - "Lyon's Wake" via Alien8 Recordings
"..thickening skeins of distorted electronics against patches of silence."
Sigur Ros - "Saeglopur" via Merdus
"The piano intro then the crushing guitars..."
Autopsy Kitchen Records Player Click the link to check out bands such as Superchrist, Stalaggh, Darkness Eternal. Pure DM.
MGR- "I" via Dumb Nostalgia
"With Mustard Gas & Roses (MGR) , guitarist Mike Gallagher (of renowned dirge architects ISIS) unveils a compendium of sparse ruminations culled from years of underground musical experience".
Final - "Sorry"
Final - "Confusion" via Neurot Recordings
"..serves as an undefinable and experimental interpretation of Justin Broadrick's more recognised music ; encompassing the brutal and the dark to the beautiful and the melodic."
Red Sparowes - "Like The Howling Glory Of The Darkest Winds, This Voice Was Thunderous And The Words Holy, Tangling Their Way Around Our Hearts And Clutching Our Innocent Awe" from Every Red Heart Shines Toward the Red Sun via Neurot Recordings
"...is the first mp3 to be made available from the upcoming album to be released on NR in September.
Go forth, and download!" "Lovely track...>"
Made out of Babies - "Ire Fire"
Made out of Babies - "Swarm" via Neurot Recordings
" ...a slithering pit of churning, caffeinated noise-rock reminiscent of the glory days of Steel Pole Bathtub, Unsane and Silverfish."
Isis - "Constructing Towers" from SGNL>05 via Neurot Recordings
"SGNL>05 is a seething whisper to the mechanized roar of the companion full-length, Celestial (released by Escape Artist Records).

With forays into dynamic extremes and stirring ambience, SGNL>05 is the next step in the evolution of ISIS... an unparalleled aural experience..."
Thee More Shallows - “I Can’t Get Next To You” via Lupatarkastaja
"Good example of how to turn an upbeat, supposedly happy song into beautiful, downbeat version."
Solitune - “Declawed Indoor Cat” via Lupatarkastaja
"Brilliant track, off Solitune’s O.K. Rewind album."

Tuesday, June 06, 2006

Isis - "From: Sinking, To: Drowning" via Earfarm
"terror and beauty collide....wall of guitar...slow motion....uhhh...I like this song"
Broken Mouse via linkbunnies
"This Guy wants a new Mouse NOW!"

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