Karma to Burn - Discography

Karma to Burn is an American instrumental stoner rock band. The band was formed in 1994, in Hicksville, WV (actually Morgantown, WV, though this was a running joke also reflected in bios of the band on other Web sites).

Their instrumental album Almost Heathen is widely regarded as on par Kyuss’ Welcome To Sky Valley and Monster Magnet’s Spine of God, as one of the defining albums of the stoner rock genre, although the band themselves referred to their style as malternative.

The band was renown for their live performances and former Kyuss singer John Garcia was a big fan and even tried to sing with the band, however this didn’t bear much fruit as he did not have the time to become a full-time member and Karma to Burn itself wasn’t sure his voice fitted in their music.

Karma To Burn refused to give their songs ordinary titles, instead referring to them by numbers, which allegedly made it easier for a dyslexic band member to read setlists.

The group quietly disbanded in 2002 after bassist Rich Mullins left to play full time in Speedealer.

The band reformed in 2009.

(Taken from Last.fm)

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Regular Studio Albums

Karma to Burn - Almost Heathen (2001)

Tracklist

1. Nineteen

2. Thirty Eight

3. Thirty Four

4. Thirty Seven

5. Thirty Nine

6. Thirty Six

7. Thirty Three

8. Thirty Five

9. Five

10. Forty

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Karma to Burn - Wild, Wonderful...Purgatory (1999)

Tracklist

1. Twenty

2. Twenty Eight

3. Thirty

4. Thirty One

5. Twenty Nine

6. Thirty Two

7. Twenty Five

8. Twenty Six

9. One

10. Three

11. Seven

12. Eight

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Karma to Burn - Karma to Burn (1997)

Tracklist

1. Ma petite mort

2. Bobbi, Bobbi, Bobbi...I'm not

3. Patty Hearst's Closet Mantra

4. Mt. Penetrator

5. Eight

6. Appalachian Woman

7. Twenty Four Hours

8. Six-Gun Sucker Punch

9. Thirteen

10. (Waltz of the) Playboy Pallbea

11. Twin Sisters and half a Bottle

12. Six

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Eyehategod - Discography

Eyehategod (also abbreviated and referred to as EHG) is an American sludge band from New Orleans, Louisiana who are known for their dark, sludgy riffs combined with equally dark lyrics. Like many sludge metal bands, Eyehategod draw on both stoner rock / doom metal influences as well as hardcore punk. Formed in 1988.

Eyehategod have noted Melvins, Black Flag, Saint Vitus and Black Sabbath as key influences to their sound. This, combined with heavy, detuned, and bluesy riffs dominate the band’s sound. They are combined with walls of feedback and distinctive tortured vocals to create a truly misanthropic vibe.

While Jimmy Bower was busy playing drums for Down, rather than sit on their laurels, the other 4 members of Eyehategod formed a side-project called Outlaw Order (abbreviated to OO%). The band released a limited edition 7” EP in 2003 called Legalize Crime, which has since been rereleased on CD with a bonus live track and is available through Eyehategod’s webstore. The criminal theme is apparently because at the time of formation, all 5 of the members were on probation, and have consistently been in trouble with the law. Marc Shultz is currently serving a prison sentence and so has been replaced by Justin Grisoli. The band have recorded their 13 track debut full-length and will release it sometime soon, they are “waiting for a label worth a fuck”.

(Taken from Last.fm)

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Regular Studio Albums

Eyehategod - Preaching the "End-Time" Message (2005)

Tracklist

1. Methamphetamine

2. Serving Time in the middle of nowhere

3. Sabbath Jam

4. Age of Bootcamp

5. I am the Gestapo

6. Jackass in the will of God (Live)

7. Revolution Revelation (Live)

8. International Narcotic

9. 36 Beers and a Ball of String

10. Turn troubled Tables

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Eyehategod - Southern Discomfort (2000)

Tracklist

1. Ruptured Heart Theory

2. Story of the Eye

3. Blank - Shoplift

4. Southern Discomfort

5. Serving Time in the middle of Nowhere

6. Lack of almost everything

7. Peace thru War (Thru Peace and War)

8. Depress

9. Dopesick Jam

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Eyehategod - Confederacy of Ruined Lives (2000)

Tracklist

1. Revelation - Revolution

2. Blood Money

3. Jack Ass in the Will of God

4. Self Medication Blues

5. The Concussion Machine Process

6. Inferior and full of Anxiety

7. 001%

8. 99 Miles of bad Road

9. Last Year (she wanted a Doll House)

10. Corruption Sheme

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Eyehategod - Dopesick (1996)

Tracklist

1. My Name is God (I hate you)

2. Dogs Holy Life

3. Masters of Legalized Confusion

4. Dixie Whiskey

5. Ruptured Heart Theory

6. Non Coductive Negative Reasoning

7. Lack of almost everything

8. Zero Nowhere

9. Metamphetamine

10. Peace thru War (Thru Peace and War)

11. Broken down but not locked up

12. Anxiety Hangover

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Eyehategod - Take as needed for Pain (1993)

Tracklist

1. Bland

2. Sister Fucker Part I

3. Shop Lift

4. White Nigger

5. 30$ Bag

6. Disturbance

7. Take as needed for Pain

8. Sister Fucker Part II

9. Crimes against Skin

10. Kill your Boss

11. Who Gave her the Roses

12. Laugh it off

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Eyehategod - In the Name of Suffering (1992)

Tracklist

1. Depress

2. Man is too Ignorant to Exist

3. Shinobi

4. Pigs

5. Run it into the Ground

6. Godsong

7. Children of God

8. Left to Starve

9. Hostility Dose

10. Hit a Girl

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Split EP's

Cripple Bastards / Eyehategod - Split

Tracklist

1. Cripple Bastards - Self Zeroing

2. Eyehategod - I am the Gestapo

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Anal Cunt / Eyehategod - Split

Tracklist

1. Anal Cunt - Killing yourself to live

2. Anal Cunt - It's Allright Sabra Cadabra

3. Eyehategod - Sabbath Jam

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Mouth of the Architect - Discography

Mouth of the Architect is an American atmospheric sludge metal band from Dayton, Ohio, creating music influenced by and similar to Neurosis, Isis, Pelican, Cult of Luna, and various post-metal bands.

The band formed in 2003 with the lineup of Jason Watkins, Gregory Lahm, Dave Mann, Alex Vernon and Derik Sommer.

They released their first album Time & Withering in 2004 to positive reviews.

Soon after the band released a split with label mates Kenoma in 2006, their second album The Ties That Blind was released in August, and featured Brent Hinds of Mastodon on guest vocals on one track. To support The Ties That Blind, the band toured extensively around the United States, first with These Arms Are Snakes in late 2006, then with 400 Blows and Unsane in May and June of 2007.

Their latest album, Quietly, was recorded after Lahm in turn left the band, with Vernon returning alongside newcomer Steve Brooks to jointly handle guitars and vocals, with Kevin Schindel providing bass. Soon after the release of the album by Translation Loss Records, Vernon left yet again, with Schindel filling the guitar void.

Schindel, Vernon, and Brooks have been members of the band Twelve Tribes at various points in the past.

Current lineup consists:

Jason Watkins - vocal, keyboards, samples;
Steve Brooks - guitar, vocal;
Kevin Schindel - guitar, vocal (Dead Blue Sky, Twelve Tribes);
Dave Mann - drums (Rune).

(Taken from Last.fm)

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Regular Studio Albums

Mouth of the Architect - Quietly (2008)

Tracklist

1. Quietly

2. Hate and Heartache

3. Pine Boxes

4. Guilt and the Like

5. Generation of Ghosts

6. Rocking Chairs and Shogtuns

7. Medicine

8. A beautiful Corpse

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Mouth of the Architect - The Ties that Bind (2006)

Tracklist

1. Baobab

2. No one wished to settle here

3. Carry on

4. Harboring an Apparition

5. At Arms length

6. Wake me when it's over

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Mouth of the Architect - Time and Withering (2004)

Tracklist

1. A Vivid Chaos

2. Soil to Stone

3. Heart Eaters

4. The Worm

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Split EP's

Mouth of the Architect / Kenoma - Split (2006)

Tracklist

1. Mouth of the Architect - Sleepwalk Powder

2. Kenoma - The Nature of the Empire

3. Kenoma - 1913

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Black Math Horseman - Wyllt

Call it ambient post-doom. Call it alchemic psych-rock, only without all those annoying freeform guitar freakouts. Call it “pure spirits by ritual dismemberment.” Either way, Black Math Horseman is Sera Timms (bass/vocals), Ian Barry (guitar) Bryan Tulao (guitar) and Sasha Popovic (drums). They are from Los Angeles. Their debut album, Wyllt, was recorded and produced by desert guru Scott Reeder (Kyuss, Unida)

(Taken from Last.fm)

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Tracklist

1. Tyrant

2. Deerslayer

3. A Barren Cause

4. Origin of Savery

5. Torment of the Metal

6. Bird of all Faiths an none / Bell from Madrone

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Totimoshi - Discography

Totimoshi was formed in Oakland, CA by singer/guitarist Tony Aguilar and bassist Meg Castellanos in November 1997. After a slew of 6 drummers-some lasting longer than others, Luke Herbst joined the band in Febuary 2005.

(Taken from Last.fm)

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Regular Studio Albums

Totimoshi - Milagrosa (2008)

Tracklist

1. Sound of the Horn

2. Fall and Bound

3. El Emplazado

4. Last Refrain

5. The Seeing Eye

6. Milagrosa

7. Forver in Bone

8. The Whisper

9. Gnat

10. Little Bee

11. Dear

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Totimoshi - Ladron (2007)

Tracklist

1. Ladron

2. In Virgo

3. The Dance of Snakes

4. Gods of Earth

5. Viva Zapata

6. A weighted Line

7. To the Fire

8. The Hide

9. These Meanings

10. The drunken Sun forever watching

11. The Shame

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Totimoshi - Monoli (2003)

Tracklist

1. Vader

2. The Pigs are Shemin'

3. Fancy Pants

4. Light lay frowning

5. The Hero released from Fright

6. Make your Day

7. The Skies over monolith Mountain

8. Possum

9. You Know

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Totimoshi - Mysterioso (2001)

Tracklist

1. Float

2. Screwed

3. Cellophane

4. The Bleed

5. Dirt Farmer

6. Vitreol-A

7. Oblivion

8. Horselaugh

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Torche - Meanderthal Demos

Presently based out of Atlanta, Georgia, USA and Miami, Florida, USA, Torche have been playing together since 2004 following the disbanding of long-time sludge veterans Floor. The band has since gone on to release two full length records and has toured with Mogwai, Kylesa, Isis, Jesu, Boris, Pelican, Harvey Milk .

In early 2007, Torche’s “S/T” CD/LP was remastered and re-issued with a bonus track in the states by Robotic Empire and in Europe by Rock Action (Mogwai’s respective label). In 2007 they also released “In Return” CDEP/10” on Robotic Empire.

(Read more at Last.fm)

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Tracklist

1. Triumph of Venus

2. Grenades

3. Pirhana

4. Speed of the Nail

5. Sandstorm

6. Healer

7. Across the Shields

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Master Musicians Of Bukkake - Totem One

The Master Musicians of Bukkake are a loose-knit posse of Seattle-based musicians performing collective ceremonial music, far removed from category and pushing well beyond the “outsider” fashions of those willing to settle for less.

They are signed on Sun City Girls’ Abduction label.

(Taken from Last.fm)

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Tracklist

1. Bardo Chikkhai

2. A Mist of Illnesses

3. In the Light of the Sonaran

4. People of the Drifting Houses

5. Shism Prism - Adamantos

6. Cascade Cathedral

7. Eaglewolf

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House of Broken Promises - Using the Useless

If we were to compile a list of all that’s useless in modern rock music, we’d be here for days. In fact, it’d probably be easier - and quicker - to rattle off the few undeniably great things roaring up from the underground. Take Indio, California’s HOUSE OF BROKEN PROMISES. With their Small Stone debut “Using the Useless” this trio is leading the charge against mediocrity and watered down tepidness.

Formed from the ashes of the late, great, and woefully underappreciated Unida (which also featured John Garcia of Kyuss fame), HOUSE OF BROKEN PROMISES is a no-holds-barred double shot of classic hard rock. You can’t write riffs like the ones found on “Blister” and “Highway Grit” without them being part of your DNA. You can’t lay down grooves like those on “Walk on By” and “Obey the Snake” by accident. You have to feel ‘em in your bones. And that’s exactly what you get with HOUSE OF BROKEN PROMISES. Guitarist Arthur Seay, bassist/vocalist Eddie Plascencia, and drummer Mike Cancino are so in tune with what makes a rock song rock harder and better, it’d be scary if it wasn’t so awesome. When these three get together and play, they lay waste to the has beens, wanna bes, and hipsters, and they say in no uncertain terms, “This is how it’s gonna be.”

(Taken from Last.fm)

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Tracklist

1. Blister

2. Obey the Snake

3. Physco Plex

4. Highway Grit

5. Justify

6. Torn

7. Buried Away

8. Broken Life

9. Walk on by

10. Ladron (Spanish Version)

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Magrudergrind - Magrudergrind

Magrudergrind begins with 30 seconds of feedback as if to remind the listener that this shit is supposed to be noisy. Magrudergrind is noisy, it's loud, it's fast, it slows down just enough in just the right places, it sounds alive, it's littered with samples, it is everything I want grind to be.

Drummer Chris Moore handles the grind exceptionally well on Magrudergrind's self titled Willowtip Records debut. Moore easily juggles formidable blastbeats, punkish two-steps and straightforward rawk when necessary and his effortless flow between tempos works to the band's advantage. But it's Moore's ability to retain careful phrasing amidst the chaos that truly makes his drumming special. All the while, guitarist RJ Ober matches these dynamic shifts with his own blurry, down-tuned power chords, doom-like passages and abrasive-yet-catchy hooks. "Lyrical Ammunition For Scene Warfare" bounces between all-out chaos and a so-good-it-hurts riff you'll be humming for days. Vocalist Avi Kulawy jumps out of grind's usual, mid-range throat shredding just enough to keep things interesting and liberal, well-chosen doses of movie dialogue adds a layer of socio-political awareness a cut above grind's sophomoric identity.

The record itself sounds fantastic. It doesn't hurt that it was recorded by Kurt Ballou then mastered by Scott Hull, a dream team of extreme sound. The snare hits are crisp, the doubled guitar tracks are muddled into a wall of sound thick enough to cover for their lack of bass player. The end result is a surprisingly easy listen (for a grind record) that seems to do all the little things right, an easy choice for my Top Ten this year.


Audio: 8.5/10
Physical: 7/10

(Taken from Crustcake)

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Tracklist

1. The Protocols of Anti-Sound

2. Pulverizing Hate Mongers

3. Rejecting the Militant Promise

4. Assimilated Pollutants

5. Abuse of Philanthropic Self Gain

6. Fools of Contradiction

7. Heretics

8. Bridge Burner

9. Cranial Media Parasite

10. Excommunicated

11. The Price of living by delinquent Ideals

12. Built to Blast

13. Lyrial Ammunition for Scene Warfare

14. Rise and Fall of Empires Past

15. Heavier Bombing

16. Martyrs of the Shoah

17. Unknown Track

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Brutal Truth - Evolution through Revolution

After 12-years of relative inactivity, at least in terms of releasing albums, our favourite headfuck grinders Brutal Truth are finally ready to unleash their eagerly awaited fourth full length, the utterly insane “Evolution through Revolution”. After being lucky enough to have witnessed a few of these songs at last years return live performances, hopes were high (excuse the pun) for the release of this album, but after so many years could the band hold up just as well on record as they did on stage? Fucking damn right they can.

It takes less than a second for you to feel the full brunt of Brutal Truth’s arsenal as “Sugardaddy” quite literally explodes through the speakers, unleashing those unmistakable disjointed blasts and monstrous grooves, insane guitar/bass acrobatics and Kevin Sharpe’s primordial roars like they have never been away. Referring back to 1994’s “Need to Control” in terms of the mammoth production job and song structuring, tracks like “On the Hunt”, “Attack Dog” and the ball-breaking title track hack away at the limbs relentlessly, while more experimental moments on tracks “Detached” and “Semi-Automatic Carnation” give the album the extra depth and charge needed for the faster, more typically Brutal Truth tracks to explode with increasingly violent force. Of course, you can hear the jazzy/spazzy vibes of “Sounds of the Animal Kingdom” creeping through in many of the guitar riffs and vocal phrasings, but whereas “Sounds…” came across a bit too flat in the production stakes, this album more than makes up for with its thunderous, almost inhuman/superhuman delivery. With the many reformations from metal bands in recent years it is refreshing to hear one that has actually come back in better form than ever, actually living up to the inevitable hype by putting a lifetime of dedication and passion into every single note, beat and vocal line.

Re-inventing the grindcore wheel to keep turning and crushing in ways you probably thought impossible, “Evolution through Revolution” once again sets Brutal Truth quite literally thousands of miles above their contemporaries. What with this, the new album from Agoraphobic Nosebleed and the amazing new album from Napalm Death, it becomes clear that the future of our beloved grindcore scene looks very fucking good indeed.

(From "Archaic Magazine")

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Tracklist

1. Sugardaddy

2. Turmoil

3. Daydreamer

4. On the Hunt

5. Fist in Mouth

6. Get a Therapist Spare the World

7. War is good

8. Evolution through Revolution

9. Powder Burn

10. Attack Dog

11. Branded

12. Detached

13. Global good Guy

14. Humpty Finance

15. Semi-Automatic Carnation

16. Itch

17. Afterworld

18. Lifer

19. Bob Dylan wrote Propaganda Songs

20. Grind Fidelity

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Aldebaran - From forgotten Tombs

ALDEBARAN is a band that bases its stylings on antiquated and modern human horror. Aldebaran’s music can be described as crushing blackened doom. Aledebaran features members from HC MINDS, Splatterhouse, Tusks of Blood, OKHA, etc…

(Taken from Last.fm)

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Tracklist

1. Pleasures of War

2. Astoroth

3. They bend the Tress and crush the Cities

4. The Obscene

5. Aldebaran Red

6. Tower of Famine

7. The Ghoul (Pentagram Cover)

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Ancestors - Of Sound Mind

It’s funny that L.A.’s Ancestors initially formed as a stoner-metal jam band in 2006. The idea sounds so uninspired. Presumably, they wanted to fuse massive Black Sabbath-styled riffs with The Grateful Dead’s loose sense of song structure, a combination that, in concert, would have wandered aimlessly at maximum volume. But with artists like The Melvins, Sleep, and Neurosis already having claimed similar territory, I’m not sure what Justin Maranga (guitar, vocals), Nick Long (bass), and Brandon Pierce (drums) could have added. Thank goodness the trio grew bored with this direction and decided to expand their sound to include organ (Jason Watkins) and keyboard/electronics (Chico Foley). Not only did the resulting quintet incorporate a wider range of instruments and influences — King Crimson, Karl Stockhausen, Miles Davis — but they also found new ways to explore familiar terrain. Here’s the irony: the band that began as a trite retread of metal’s recent history spends most of their latest release, Of Sound Mind, asserting themselves as one of the genre’s next pioneers.

Intended as a double LP on vinyl, the new album consists of four long pieces bracketed by shorter instrumental interludes. “Mother Animal,” the first of the longer pieces, begins with a monumental guitar homage to Sabbath, complete with doom-laden lyrics that reference pagan rituals: “Slowly the season brings release/ From the famine of the beast…/ August has come/ Harvest has begun.” The song continues along well-established patterns; low-tuned guitars weave through pastoral passages, while Maranga screams indecipherable phrases. Up to this point, Of Sound Mind sounds like every other psychedelic metal album out there, but then, unexpectedly, the tempo slows and Watkins’ organ moves to the foreground. With this shift, the band confounds all expectations. It’s a radical choice in such a guitar-oriented genre, but having the organ take the lead is undeniably refreshing. Soon after, Maranga abandons the standard metal growl for a cleaner intonation, and what started as an obvious Black Sabbath tribute ends with an elaborate trip into progressive rock territory.

(Read more at tinymixtapes.com)

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Tracklist

1. From Nothing
2. Mother Animal
3. Not The Last Return
4. Bounty Of Age
5. A Friend
6. The Trial
7. Challenging
8. The Ambrose Law

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Vindensång - Terminus: Rebirth in Eight Parts

Vindensång is the main musical endeavor of multi-instrumentalist and amateur audio-engineer, J. Neblock, who has been creating music with an emphasis on capturing and reproducing atmosphere and emotion through the use of sound since the band’s conception in May of 2005. The band now also includes long-time conceptual contributor and session musician, D. Hussar (Äldresjäl), as the second permanent member to the line-up. Musical influences for the project are greatly varied, and the newer material reflects the influence from Atmospheric-Rock, Neo-Folk and Dark / Drone-Ambient, while also being heavily influenced by Drones, Metal, and experimental sound manipulation. The first official release, entitled “Themes of Snow and Sorrow” was released in February of 2006 and the “Themes of Snow and Sorrow” Demo was strictly an ambient release, with layers upon layers of sound samples and synthesized atmosphere. The debut full-length album, entitled “Terminus: Rebirth in Eight Parts…” was released on December 16th, 2008.

(Taken from Last.fm)

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Tracklist

1. Prologue: The Advent of Autumn / From Infinity

2. A Place where Sand meets Fog

3. Return my Flesh and Bones to the Earth

4. Ashes and Memories

5. Dusk into the Glow of Nightfall

6. Fading Light

7. The Origin: The Point of Return

8. Epilogue: At Winter's End / To Infinity

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Wormwood - Starvation

Sludgy metal from Seattle, WA, with gothic synth-dirges buried in an avalanche of highly saturated bass and thundering percussion. All members contribute with vocals that span a wide range of scary growling. Crushing and ugly, but with enough atmosphere and songwriting talent to keep it interesting.

Band members are Larry Perrigo and Pat Freed, both on bass and vocals, Lara Haynes on keyboard and vocals, with Pete Jay and Brandon Fitzsimons on drums and percussion/samples/vocals respectively.

(Taken from Last.fm)

Myspace

Tracklist

1. Passages of lesser Light

2. Release from Expectation

3. Finite

4. As you bind, so are you bound

5. The Towering Outdoors

6. Last Night I dreamed that somebody loved me

7. No true Altruism

8. Starvation

9. Gluttony

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Panopticon / Lake of Blood - Split

Panopticon
Panopticon is a one-man atmospheric black metal band from Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America which holds anarchist beliefs. The band was formed by Austin Lunn in 2007, and in early 2008 he left his other band Anagnorisis to focus all his attention on Panopticon. The band’s releases are the 2008 self-titled album, the 2009 album Collapse, and split albums with Wheels Within Wheels and Lake of Blood; several other releases are forthcoming. The band is influenced both by early BM like Darkthrone and Mayhem and by crust bands such as Amebix.

(Taken from Last.fm)

Lake of Blood
All being said the band need to tighten up as musicians, but their overall delivery and approach hints at something far deeper and truer than so called US black metal like Abigail Williams and more along the lines of a more melodic and organic, less chaotic, corpse painted and spiky Averse Sefira mixed with Wolves in the Throne Room.

(Taken from teethofthedivine.com)

Another fresh split record from this week. I allready posted the 09 record by Panopticon some weeks ago. Enjoy this split now.

Panopticon

Lake of Blood

Tracklist

1. Panopticon - Haunted America

2. Panopticon - La Passione Di Sacco & Vanzetti

3. Lake of Blood - Eternal in my domain

4. Lake of Blood - Lake of blood (Live)

5. Lake of Blood - Eternal In My Domain (Live)

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Thou / Salome - Our Enemy Civilization (Split EP)

Thou
Thou is a doom/sludge/drone metal band from Baton Rouge and New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. They have relased a full length LP “Tyrant” on One Eye Records, and a CD version of the record out on Gilead Media. There were also a number a records released in the summer of 2008 on Dead Earth, Woodsmoke, Halo of Flies, Shaman, Rimbaud, Feast of Tentacles, Autopsy Kitchen and more. These new releases include another full length “Peasant” , a couple of EPs and splits with Leech, Black September, Human Intruder and Mohoram Atta.

(Taken from Last.fm)

Salome
Salome is a crushing doom band from Northern Virginia.

Members:
Vocals: Kat
Guitars: R. Moore
Drums: A. Deal

(Taken from Last.fm)

Thou

Salome

Tracklist

1. Thou - The Song of Illuminate Darkness

2. Thou - Reprise

3. Salome - With Hell for a Mouth

4. Salome - Carving the Ether

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Weedeater - God Luck and good Speed

A 3 piece stoner/sludge/doom metal band from Wilmington, North Carolina, USA, formed in 1998. Features Dave ‘Dixie’ Collins (ex-Buzzov*en, Bongzilla, Sourvein) on bass/vocals, Shep on guitar and Keko on drums.

Weedeater have released three albums to date, in 2001 they released their debut …And Justice For Y’all and in 2002 they released the follow-up Sixteen Tons, produced by the legendary Billy Anderson.

The band has now been signed by Southern Lord Records and released their third album God Luck And Good Speed, this time produced by Steve Albini.

(Taken from Last.fm)

Homepage

Tracklist

1. God Luck and good Speed

2. Wizard Fight

3. For Evan's Sake

4. Alone

5. $20 Peanut

6. Dirt Merchant

7. Gimme Back my Bullets

8. Weedmonkey

9. Willow

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Rosetta - The Galilean Satelites

Philadelphia quartet Rosetta push the boundaries between metal, progressive, post-rock, space rock, and hardcore, providing an experimental songwriting technique filled with chaos and atmospherics. A band whose sounds range from Pink Floydian / progressive rock sonic layering to walls of pure static ambience to crushing, sweeping sludgey riffage. Their first album (The Galilean Satellites) was an especially ambitious project: the goal was to record two albums of equal length (one a metal album , the other a noise/ambient/drone album), each of which could stand on its own two feet, but together would create a richer, more rewarding experience. The band recorded the album in quadrophonic sound which lends itself well to the bands unique experiments in noise, sampling, feedback and power. The sheer amount of aural input means every listen becomes a new experience, allowing you to pick up on more and more layers within the sounds.

Their next album (Wake/Lift) was a bit more restrained but for this reason, really allows the band’s cohesion to solidify and prove themselves worthy of the (mainstream of the) artsier metal world.

(Taken from Last.fm)

This was the record that got me toally into sludge. I was going crazy when I first realized that you have to combine both discs to get the full sound of the record. So I put up both versions of it. The none combined two disc set and the combined one disc version. Enjoy.

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Tracklist

1. Départe / Deneb

2. Europa / Capella

3. Absent / Beta Aquilae

4. Itinérant / Ross 128

5. Au Pays Natal / Sol

Combined Version

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Ultra Dolphins - Mar

Ultra Dolphins are continually on the move and hail from varied residences such as Brooklyn NY, Richmond VA, Philadelphia PA and the Catskill Mountains of upstate NY, - mainly based in Richmond, Virginia, United States. Formed in 2005.

When not touring in a beat-up van with broken windows they work in puppet shops, vegan cookie factories, and porno warehouses. Born and raised in basements of Harrisonburg, VA, the Ultra Dolphins seemed content to stay there.

Their live performances which were fabled to include pyrotechnics, nudity, stir frying, and relentless free form noise and improvisation, soon found them a cult-like following of like-minded weirdos who became integrated into the spectacle of rock and punk confusion. With guitars that sometimes crash like percussion instruments and sometimes riff like Jimmy Page over a thick rhythm section, the band was somehow both more chaotic yet tighter than anything else going on in the underground. An urgent punk energy fueled each and every sing-along, power-riff, infectious bass-line and ferocious downbeat. Now, many tours and years later, the energy created at their live shows has spread far, like some sort of glorious disease with no sign of a cure.

(Read more at Last.fm)

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Tracklist

1. Mar

2. Towngoat

3. Matthew O'Connor

4. William's Nightmare

5. Ship to Shore

6. Great Neurasthenic

7. If you will

8. Lunge

9. Winged Babblar

10. One, Two, Three, Four

11. Workhorse

12. Sickman Outside

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Ancestors - Neptun with Fire

Ancestors is a five piece progressive rock ensemble hailing from Los Angeles. Ancestors transmogrifies the epic nature of seventies psychedelic and progressive music into a form that also incorporates vintage, doom and drone metal.

(Taken from Last.fm)

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Tracklist

1. Neptun with Fire

2. Orcus' Avarice

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