Celan - Halo

Celan is the brainchild of Ari Benjamin Meyers (Einsturzende Neubauten, Redux Orchestra) and Chris Spencer (of Unsane fame). They met in Berlin during an Unsane tour and immediately got interest in creating a project to combine and melt their completely different backgrounds (classical, avantgarde, industrial, noise and hardcore). Phil Roeder, Franz Xavier (ex-members of flu. ID) and Niko Wenner (guitarist extraordinaire from OXBOW) completed the line-up that recorded the debut album Halo in 2009.

(Taken from Last.fm)

This was one of the top releases in 2009! If you don't have it, grab it, I bet you will enjoy it!

[ Exile on Mainstream / 2009 / Hardcore / CBR@320 ]

Tracklist

01. Safety Recall Notice (00:45)

02. A Thousand Charms (04:28)

03. All this and Everything (04:30)

04. One Minute (03:37)

05. Sinking (04:44)

06. Weigh Tag (03:06)

07. Washing Machine (04:21)

08. Train of Thought (04:21)

09. It's Low (03:58)

10. Wait and see (03:41)

11. Lunchbox (12:41)

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Venetian Snares - Winnipeg Is A Frozen Shithole

Nine Straight to the floor hardcore gabber tracks on CD format. Likely
the most dance oriented release by Venetian Snares to date!

"Things will be much better for me once I move to Vancouver." Everyone
here in Winnipeg is born with these words ready to launch out off their
tongues from the first -50° school recess they get that very tongue
stuck to the zipper of their parka. This is my tribute to those people!
My love for their hate, this is Winnipeg science gabber! Is Winnipeg
really that shitty a place to live? Yes, it likely is. It's really
fucking cold and people still seem upset about Eric's Trip breaking up.
Sometimes I like to go out and listen to the Sisters of Mercy with like
5 other people that are scared to talk to each other. Mostly we stay
inside, sometimes go to Safeway and get some stuff, I like fruit salad
and cigarettes, but I can't smoke here anymore anywhere and not much
fruit grows here in the warm season, maybe crab apples or something.
Never really liked those and Al hates rhubarb with a passion. I hope to
die here under the wheels of a transit bus with a picture of Randy
Bachman on the side."

This is maybe his harshest and roughes album since today. It's more gabber and hardcore techno then breakcore or idm, but it has it's moment. If you're into Venetian Snares and want to see the dark side, come on over and take a peek.

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[ Sublight Records / 2005 / Gabber/Hardcore / CBR@320 ]

Tracklist

01. Winnipeg is Frozen Shithole (04:32)

02. Winnipeg is a Dogshit Dildo (03:53)

03. Winnipeg is Fucking over (06:25)

04. Winnipeg is Steven Stapleton's Armpit (02:52)

05. Die Winnipeg Die Die Die Fuckers Die (07:01)

06. Winniped is a mandatory Scat Feed (06:49)

07. Winnie the Dog Pooh (Not half Remix) (04:07)

08. Winnipeg is a boiling Pot of Cranberries (Fanny Remix) (04:21)

09. Die Winnipeg Die Die Die Fuckers Die (Spreading the Hepatitis Skm-Etr Style) (05:17)

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Nails - Unsilent Death

Nails are a 3-piece hardcore band formed by Todd Jones, formerly of Carry On, Terror and current member of Internal Affairs and Snake Eyes. They released ‘Obscene Humanity’ in summer 2009 on Six Feet Under Records.

(last.fm)

This is an awesome grind-/hardcore assault on your ears.

Tracklist
1. Conform
2. Scum Will Rise
3. Your God
4. Suffering Soul
5. Unsilent Death
6. Traitor
7. I Will Not Follow
8. No Servant
9. Scapegoat
10. Depths

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Dolcim - Guillotine Ride

As all screamo enthusiasts know, Dolcim contain two members that were in Cease Upon The Capitol, and the band formed pretty much as soon as CUTC broke up. I'm not a great fan of CUTC to be honest, I bought their records and I think I went through a period of thinking they were pretty great, but then I just got bored by them - they became below standard screamo to me. Even when I saw them at Trashfest a couple of years back I wasn't impressed. This is a pretty harsh start to the review, and I do still have their 7'' End Of History which I really like. But the point is that when I saw that Dolcim had formed I wasn't that bothered - I didn't expect much from them.

Fast forward a bit... when I finally got round to listening to them I was pleasantly surprised. And though it then still took me ages to get their demo, when I did a few weeks back I found it to be most fucking excellent. Three songs of awesome screamo still somewhat in the style of CUTC but new elements that made me enjoy it immensely. It's nothing out of the ordinary, but it is screamo done very well.

(Read more here...)

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Tracklist

1. Alvin Has Left The Building

2. Dolcim Twins Vs Olsen Twins

3. Marriage Is The Leading Cause Of Divorce

4. Brosef Stalin

5. Kiss My Grits 

6. Oedipus Complex With Mother Nature

7. H.M.S. Beagle

8. And So The Martyr Says, "Over My Dead Body!"

9. Senior Citizen's Kane 

10. Noah's Ark Was An Orgy

11. #7

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New Ethic / I Have Dreams / A New Kind Of American Saint

This is the story of one band from Tallahassee, Florida. The most well-known incarnation is probably the screamo outfit I Have Dreams, a band that was born from the ashes of New Ethic, when their guitar player Daniel died in a car accident.

“It was an attempt to cope with the pain everyone was feeling after Daniel’s death.”

New Ethic played their last show in August, 1998 with Daniel’s best friend Mike Hanson in his place, and it was about a month or two later that I Have Dreams started playing.
After I Have Dreams broke up, a new band called A New Kind Of American Saint was founded, which then played something I like to call "hardcore done right": short, aggressive and fun songs, with breakdowns used exactly the right way.

The three bands' released material combined lasts about 33 minutes, but these are definitely 33 well-invested minutes for every hardcore/screamo enthusiast. Oh, and do not expect a good sound quality. I Have Dreams seem to have went with the same recorders Ulver have used for their ultimate lo-fi sound on Nattens Madrigal.

(Taken from Tallahassee Music Scene and my brain)

New Ethic - Summer Demo '98
1. Dragon Slayer
2. Miracle Song
3. Never Give In


I Have Dreams - Three Days Til' Christmas


1. Three Days Til' Christmas
2. Countless Rooftops
3. In Good Hands
4. New Song (I Don't Imagine You and I Anymore)
5. Thank you so much for having the courage to help a friend change his life for the better


A New Kind Of American Saint - Take A Shit


1. Don't Let These Tight Pants Fool You, I'm All Heart Motherfucker
2. Interlude
3. There's Only One Rule In This Town (A.K.A. Knock, Knock, Knockin' on Mosh's Door)
4. Jesus Wasn't Straight Edge, but I Am


A New Kind Of American Saint - (unreleased) Split w/ Poison the Well
1. If it ain't shit, it ain't shit
2. The War Is Coming
3. Dont let these tight pants fool you...(alt version)

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Disfear - Misanthropic Generation

These new Disfear tracks made their way to the surface in 2003, with their Relapse debut ‘Misanthropic Generation’. ‘Misanthropic Generation’ was recorded at Studio Soundlab along with producer Mieszko Talarzyk (Nasum, Exhumed, Regurgitate, Krigshot, etc.).

Upon the release of ‘Misanthropic Generation’ and ‘Swedish Assault,’ Disfear snared several high-profile gigs. After adding Uffe Cederlund (Entombed) as their second guitarist, Disfear went on the Close Up Magazine-sponsored “Close Up Made Us Do It” tour with Entombed and fellow countrymen Raised Fist. This tour coincided with Disfear’s first ever cover feature in January 2004 (Close Up #63). The band also got to share the stage with d-beat originators Discharge in Umea, Sweden at Punkfest 7 in early March 2004. The band then embarked upon a spring European headlining tour, followed by their first US appearance as part of Philadelphia’s Pointless Fest along with Tragedy, Kylesa, Municipal Waste, and more.

(Read more at Last.fm)

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Tracklist

1. Powerload

2. An Arrogant Breed

3. Misanthropic Generation

4. Rat Race

5. The Final of Chapters

6. Never gonna last

7. Demons Demons Demons

8. 26 Years of Nothing

9. A Thousand Reasons

10. The Horns

11. Dead End lives

12. Desperation

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United Nations - United Nations

United Nations is an experimental punk supergroup whose roots go back to at least 2005 formed by Geoff Rickly, the singer/lyricist of the band Thursday.

Other artists rumored to be involved in the project most noteably include Daryl Palumbo of Glassjaw/Head Automatica fame along with Ben Koller of Converge. A handful of other names have also been mentioned: Chree (The Number Twelve Looks Like You), Eric Cooper (Kiss It Goodbye) Lukas Previn (Acid Tiger) Tom Keeley (Thursday) Jonah Bayer (The Lovekill).

Since Rickly is the only member whose primary band is currently not under contract, his name is the only one that can legally appear in press materials. Press photos of the band released in 2008 depict four people wearing Ronald Reagan masks, believed to be because of this reason. The only exception to this being when Daryl breifly mentioned being involved in the project to Punk News in 2005 (http://www.punknews.org/article/13238). Baring all this in mind, the official line-up is not well known.

The bands debut record entiled United Nations was released in September 2008 amid much controversy surrounding the original artwork and also the bands
name.

(Read more at Last.fm)

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Tracklist

1. The Spinning Heart of the Yo-Yo Lobby

2. No Sympathy for a sinking Ship

3. Resolutin #9

4. The Shape of Punk that never came

5. Model UN

6. My cold War

7. Filmed in Front of a live Studio Audience

8. Revolutions in Graphic Design

9. I keep living the same Day

10. Sublimal Testing

11. Say Goodbye to General Figment of the USS Imagination

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Coalesce - OX (EP)

Coalesce is a Kansas City based hardcore/metal band. Their music is characterized by strange shifting tempos, noise, groove, and boundless creativity paralleled only by the band’s peers in groups like The Dillinger Escape Plan and Botch.

The band began in January of 1994 and originally consisted of Jes Steineger (guitar), Stacy Hilt (bass) and Jim Redd (drums). During this time they played under the name Breach, however, when Sean Ingram joined as a vocalist later in the year, the members opted to change their name to Coalesce.

With their name and lineup solidified, Coalesce entered West End Studios to record a demo which was pressed to a 7” EP that rapidly sold out.

(More at Last.fm)

After striking back with OX earlier this year Coalesce now return with the OX EP. Enjoy the seven songs!

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Tracklist

1. Oxe to Ore

2. The blind Eye

3. Joyless in Life

4. To my ruin

5. Absent in Death

6. Through Sparrows I rest

7. Ore to Earth

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Kiss It Goodbye - She loves me....she loves me not

Vocalist Tim “Trim Swinger” Singer’s talking, screaming, bellowing vocal storytelling sat so nicely atop Kiss It Goodbye’s dynamic and explosive songcraft that drummer Andrew Gormley would later remark to Eclipse magazine that the screamer could effectively make “me throwing my drums around the room” sound good. Equal parts off-time warping and heavy crunching guitar play, Kiss It Goodbye’s music was pummeling enough to appeal to fans of Pantera, personal enough for the hardcore set, and mind-bendingly creative enough to jar loose the cynical “musician” types fond of bands like Voivod and Die Kreuzen.

(Read more here)

One of the most pissed off bands ever. Crushing hardcore with a lot of good breaks and stunning drum parts. Enjoy this badboy!

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Tracklist

1. Helvetica

2. Hartley

3. Fire Drill

4. What if

5. We will burn that Bridge when we come to it

6. Ammunition

7. Man Thing

8. Sick Day

9. Put your Head down and run

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Converge - Axe to Fall

Is it too soon to mention CONVERGE in the same breath as SLAYER and MOTORHEAD? The Boston foursome have perfected a formula which they've seldom deviated from over the years, but they're consistently fierce and exciting enough to make every album worthwhile. Their latest, Axe to Fall, continues Converge's habit of outperforming any metalcore band in listening distance, only this time they've thrown in more stylistic curveballs and mathier riffs than ever before. The payoff is 42 exhilarating minutes that fly by like an EP, plus a connecting force between MINOR THREAT and GREG-era DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN. Not to mention possibly the best album of Converge's career.

The phrase Axe to Fall works as both the album title and a warning of its contents: "Open only with a parental guardian present to pick the remains of your skull off the ground upon hearing this." The last thing you remember before blacking out could be drummer BEN KOLLER's fills giving way to the physics-defying riff of "Dark Horse" or the siren wail of KURT BALLOU's lead melody on "Effigy," but if you're lucky you'll make it at least to vertigo-inducing slide of "Losing Battle" or the tommy gun riff intro to "Cutter." JACOB BANNON's bark is one of the most expressive dins in metal today, and he'd be convincingly emotive even if Koller and eye-of-the-hurricane bassist NATE NEWTON didn't sound like they were hunting him down. Ballou is a different foe entirely–imagine having to come up with vocal lines to go with the instrumental versions of "Dead Beat" or "Reap What You Sow."

Axe to Fall is not specifically punk or metal, although it's head, shoulders and knees above most punk and metal bands. Plus, the two closing tracks indicate that there's a wealth of potential for Converge in a full album of dirges and murder ballads. Not so fast, though–Converge may sound like they could make a killer MARK LANEGAN record, but as Axe to Fall proves, they're far too important in metal for anyone to think about shifting gears. Best album of Converge's career? Maybe the best of 2009.

(Taken from here)

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Tracklist

1. Dark Horse

2. Reap what you sow

3. Axe to Fall

4. Effigy

5. Worms will Feed

6. Wishing well

7. Damages

8. Losing Battle

9. Dead Beat

10. Cutter

11. Slave Driver

12. Cruel Bloom

13. Wretched World

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