Tharsis They - 2012 Ominous Silence

Band : Tharsis They

Album : Ominous Silence

Release Year : 2012

Genre : Chaotic | hardcore | Thrash | Experimental

 

Tracklist :

1. Concentric Circles
2. Drawing Parallels
3. Ire in Motion
4. Concentrated Human Feeding Operation
5. Hell of Boiling Oil
6. Self-Diagnosis
7. Hell of the Upside Down Sinners
8. Water Runs Red
9. Mirrors Reflecting Mirrors
10. Hell of the Holy Dragon
11. White Walls for Ruined Eyes
12. The True Concept of Clean
13. Waiting Darkness

I just wanna say that this band is so fucking good!! Let me introduce you Tharsis They, four guys from Metro Detroit, MI. They playing harcore in various way, brilliant and genius!! Tharsis They manage to both out-hardcore and out-metal all of the aforementioned bands to concoct a sonic stew of thrashy, gnarly, gut-punching brutality. Sometimes they playing thrash metal like Slayer and Pantera, and then suddenly turn to hardcore sound like Everytime I Die!! Listen to track no 4 "Concentrated Human Feeding Operation" i really love that song!! If you like metal-infused post-hardcore like Converge, and Botch, or even The Dillinger Escape Plan and Everytime I Die, just give them a listen!! The band spent a lot of time and money on this and they give this album for free, so please support them, go to their Facebook and 'Like" them. There's no physical copy at the moment, but once the band made it, i'll add the direct link to it!! Enjoy!!!

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Coalesce - 2007 There Is Nothing New Under The Sun (Reissue)

Band : Coalesce

Album : There Is Nothing New Under The Sun (Reissue)

Release Year : 2007

Genre : Hardcore | Mathcore

 

Tracklist :

1. Immigrant Song (Led Zeppelin)
2. Heartbreaker (Led Zeppelin)
3. Black Dog (Led Zeppelin)
4. Out On the Tiles (Led Zeppelin)
5. Whole Lotta Love (Led Zeppelin)
6. That's The Way (Led Zeppelin)
7. Thank You (Led Zeppelin)
 *** Bonus Tracks ***
8. I'm Giving Up On This One (The Get Up Kids)
9. Vehicle (Boy Sets Fire)
10. In The Wilderness (Boy Sets Fire)
11. Bob Junior (Coalesce Original)
12. Supernaut (Black Sabbath)
13. Cutting Away (Undertow)
14. That's The Way (Redux) (Led Zeppelin)
15. Thank You (Redux) (Led Zeppelin)

Yes, Hydra Head has been pumping out the reissues of late, but this reissue not only includes the entirety of the original release for There is Nothing New Under the Sun but it also gives, for your listening pleasure, the songs from the split with Boy Sets Fire, their Get Up Kids cover (which was previously vinyl only), their cover of Undertow’s “Cutting Away,” an early version of Black Sabbath’s “Supernaut,” and two of the Led Zeppelin songs with new vocal recordings. The artwork is also completely new and rather excellent, which also adds to the overall presentation of the release that neatly puts a great deal of Coalesce material in one neat little package.

As for the actual music on There is Nothing New Under the Sun, listeners are privy to a variety of covers and one original.  The original, “Bob Junior” was originally released on the CD version of the split that Coalesce did with Boy Sets Fire, and is an acoustic song that shows a different side of the band than what listeners are used to hearing from the group. The Led Zeppelin covers really show how powerful those songs could be in a modern type context; Coalesce does not embarrass themselves with the batch, although, the vocals on the versions of “Thank You” and “That’s the Way” can induce some cringing. But these are the two that have new vocal recordings via the “Redux” versions, which are quite a bit more palatable. The version of “Supernaut” on this record suffers from a horrible mixing job, which makes it ultimately skip-able if you own the vinyl version. It is awesome to finally have the Coalesce version of Undertow’s “Cutting Away.”  If you do not know who they are, Indecision Records recently put out their discography, which is another fun record to listen.

Truthfully, There is Nothing New Under the Sun is a fun record to listen to, which many people lose sight of (especially people who review bunches of records) in the process of listening to music. The real bonus with this re-release is that it wraps up a bunch of loose ends into an easy to get package. All of this has been released prior (except for the vocal redux versions of the slower Led Zeppelin songs), so if you have those, this might not be necessary. -scenepointblank 

 

 

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Crocus - 2012 Our Memories Dress Me In A Dead Lust

Band : Crocus

Album : Our Memories Dress Me In A Dead Lust

Release Year : 2012

Genre : Chaotic | Hardcore | Emo Violence

 

Tracklist :

1. If Love Is Madness, Then I'm Madly In Love With You
2. This Is Pain
3. 222E
4. All Of You
5. You Don't Belong
6. Our Memories Dress Me In A Dead Lust
7. Left To Bruise
8. Not Alone
9. Revival

Crocus have been kicking around the UK and Europe for some time now. But that is in no way presented to you as a negative fact. The best things come to those whose wait, those who build and nurture music, to achieve the best possible result. Don’t believe me? Only interested in whatever hyped-sloppy-bullshit-that-hasn’t-even-played-live-yet is cool this week? Well fuck off then. Look at Throats and Rolo Tomassi – contemporaries of Crocus who built their reputation over a multitude of low-key releases over years of practice and refinement….

Crocus’ history lies in a classic screamo lineage that encompasses everyone from the intensity of p.99 to the epic melodicism of Daitro to the crazed, brutal schizo insanity of The Assistant. However, over time, this is a band that has grown ever more heavy, without ever losing their ‘turn-on-a-dime’ time-changes or melodic nature. We are talking classic rock riffage funneled through octave pedals and metallic distortion. Peaks, troughs and breaktaking undulations.

A true power-quartet, no one element of this band stands out more than another. Frantic (bordering on) virtuoso guitar and bass playing jostle with manic edge-of-sanity but ever-solid drumming, iced with a vicious, angry emotional onslaught of a vocal.With ‘Our Memories Dress Me In A Dead Lust’ Crocus have presented a concise, epic album that will leave you reeling.

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Atari Teenage Riot - 2011 Is This Hyperreal?

Band : Atari Teenage Riot

Album : Is This Hyperreal?

Release Year : 2011

Genre : Digital Hardcore | Noise | Experimental

Tracklist :

1. "Activate!"
2. "Blood in My Eyes"
3. "Black Flags"
4. "Is This Hyperreal?"
5. "Codebreaker" (feat. Steve Aoki)
6. "Shadow Identity"
7. "Re-Arrange Your Synapses"
8. "Digital Decay"
9. "The Only Slight Glimmer of Hope"
10. "The Collapse of History"

ATR’s early releases – which included songs like “Hetzjagd Auf Nazis!”/“Hunt Down the Nazis!” -  were surrounded by controversy in Germany. Highly political, they fused anarchist and anti-Nazi views with punk vocals and the emerging techno sound which was ravishing new back than at the beginning of the 90s. The three Berliners – Alec Empire, Hanin Elias and MC Carl Crack taken their name from a Portuguese Joe song Teenage Riot from the Teen-age Riot album with the word Atari added, as an Atari ST computer was used to create compositions.
They signing to Phonogram Records, a major European label, in 1993 the band received an unusually large financial advance which they duplicitously used to set up their own record label: Digital Hardcore Recordings (DHR) and in the best tradidion of any anarchist and punk band, they never delivered a commercially viable demo to Phonogram.

After three self-released albums, “Delete Yourself!” (originally titled 1995) (1995), “The Future of War” (1997) and “60 Second Wipe Out” (1999), the band effectively disbanded in 2000.
In 2001, Carl Crack died from an overdose. Hanin Elias left DHR to create Fatal Recordings, a label formed exclusively for female artists, but Empire produced the track “You Suck” for her debut album “No Games, No Fun”.
In January 2010, it was announced that Atari Teenage Riot will reunite for a few live shows in Europe and in early March 2010, Alec Empire released the new ATR-Track “Activate” via SoundCloud. It is the first song with their new MC: CX KiDTRONiK.
And here we are, after a lap of 12 years, the forth studio release by ATR and 10 new noisy and chaotic songs are here. Hanin Elias ragging just the same, the album is full of energy and… digital hardcore. This is another heavy stuff, none of their fans will be disappointed. There’s an exclusive preview of the album on their official site.

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Atari Teenage Riot - 1999 60 Second Wipe Out

Band : Atari Teenage Riot

Album : 60 Second Wipe Out

Release Year : 1999

Genre : Digital Hardcore | Noise | Experimental

Tracklist :

 1. Revolution Action
2. By Any Means Necessary
3. Western Decay
4. Atari Teenage Riot II
5. Ghostchase
6. Too Dead For Me
7. US Fade Out
8. The Virus Has Been Spread
9. Digital Hardcore
10. Death Of A President D.I.Y.!
11. Your Uniform (Does Not Impress Me!)
12. No Success
13. Anarchy 999

Atari Teenage Riot is a German digital hardcore group formed in Berlin in 1992. Highly political, they fused left-wing anarchist anti-fascist views with punk vocals and the newly emerging techno sound that was called digital hardcore, which is a term Alec Empire later used in the name of his record company.

While I'm not naive enough to think Atari Teenage Riot's 60 Second Wipeout is just "a bunch of noise", I'm not sold that it's the "music of the future" either (gimme a break). And for all the talk of subversion, the blender beeps, jungle beats and scratches of "underground techno" have proven to be about as revolutionary as diet celery. I'm baffled by the hype these types of groups generate; diarrhetic techno is hardly a cutting edge idea, and while the press punctuates bold adjective like "heavy", "hardcore", my brain conjures up "redundant" and "inane". Call me difficult: the cartoonish mentality of modern commercial techno requires one to have firmly in place the Irony Sunglasses, Irony Earphones, and really stupid shoes. However, seeing as how commercial techno is exactly what ATR are not, 60 Second Wipeout unexpectedly comes off with a distinct air of creativity, brains and authority - this is not garbage you'll find on some lame throb mix. Indeed, I know many a sophisticated music fans who are enamored with this group, people that would normally not touch this braindead druggy genre with lead gloves. And I found myself liking it: the frantic punkish anarchy of "Too Dead For Me" and "Revolution Action" are musically backward and sonically inverted, but none of these tracks are discombobulated enough to completely slam the door on casual enjoyment. It's curious to hear what they can throw in the mix and make work. As a result, the music falls somewhere between stock & store techno and total white noise, but the results are rarely short of interesting.

 

 

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Thank God 2010 - Ice/Age

Band : Thank God

Album : Ice/Age

Release Year : 2010

Genre : Chaotic / Hardcore / Noise / Experimental

Tracklist :

1) Ice/Age
2) Chicken Dance
3) Cash Mere
4) Wow
5) One Half
6) Set / Go
7) Shit
8) Buy/Sell
9) Sax on the Beach
10) Untitled
11) Hugo Chavez

Thank God is an experimental punk band from South Carolina, and their new full-length record, “Ice/Age”, sounds like it’s trying really hard to be “Burn Piano Island Burn” era Blood Brothers with a lot of repetitive spacey parts and the chaos and seemingly pattern-less guitar work cranked to an annoyingly high level. The vocals are shrill and shrieky, the music is all over the place, and I’m getting a headache just writing about it. Their last.fm page raves “THANK GOD aims to deconstruct the standards and create something left-of-center with their own frantic and chaotic style of hardcore,” so it’s pretty apparent that they’re writing this music for the sake of writing songs that are off-the-wall. That’s all well and good, and it’s been done by many a greater band with positive, listenable results, but in Thank God’s case, it just results in a noisy mess.

The record kicks in with the title track “Ice/Age”, which starts with a strange finger tapping guitar part that maniacally jumps back and forth between that and them slamming on a few jangly chords between some ear-splitting shrieks. What follows can only be explained as aural vomit, with the annoying shrieks now being split into separate and complimentary tracks with some sort of effect on them, while one guitarist plays a slow, ambient lead and the other punches his guitar in confusion. The next track, “Chicken Dance” somehow jacks the annoyance up to a greater level, as it starts with the vocalist shouting gibberish and one of the guitarists straight up hitting random notes on his highest frets. This continues for another 2 minutes, just with dissonant chords laid over top of it. “Cash Mere” is just the same two chords slammed and played tremolo for the entirety of the song, and by this point this album has become unlistenable. The songs actually slow down as it reaches its end, but they don’t become any better or less irritating. Also, if you want to hear someone playing the saxophone very badly for a minute and a half, listen to the track “Sax on the Beach” (although I do appreciate the Simpsons reference).

If you like unnecessarily noisy, random music, or simply want to push the boundaries of your ear drums’ tolerance for some sick thrill, pick this up.

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Straight, No Chaser - 2006 Jocko's Master 12"

Band : Straight, No Chaser

Album : Jocko's Master 12"

Release Year : 2006

Genre : Chaotic / Hardcore / Screamo

Tracklist :

 01 - Your Hands
02 - Your Skin
03 - My Ship
04 - --------
05 - My Nothing
06 - Your Lungs
07 - --------
08 - My Grip

 Straight, No Chaser was a chaotic hardcore band from Rochester, New York (not to be confused with the a cappella group). They played a style of hardcore similar to Louise Cyphre and Capsule, although I suppose their songs can be experimental at times what with their noise oriented interludes and breaks.

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Kerouac & The Long Haul - 2011 Split

Band : Kerouac & The Long Haul

Album : Split

Release Year : 2011

Genre : Hardcore / Chaotic / Screamo

Tracklist :

1. The Long Haul - Dead Soul/Endless Drag
2. The Long Haul - Lost Harmony
3. The Long Haul - The Passing of Dreamers
4. Kerouac - I Owe Some People The World But I Owe You Shit
5. Kerouac - Young Wounds
6. Kerouac - Porcelain
 

In August of last year, when Kerouac burst onto the hardcore scene with their debut EP Cold And Distant, Not Loving the world stood up to take notice. With their chaotic fusion of raw intensity and melodic disparities the band displayed heaps of raw ability and in 17 minutes flaunted a maturity other bands can only hope to achieve in a lifetime. Before embarking on a fully fledged long play, Kerouac are releasing a series of split EP’s, the first of which with fellow label-mates and Southampton based hardcore act The Long Haul. Split albums are notoriously inconsistent and often lead to a clear bias towards one act but throughout this split the two acts blend together almost seamlessly to create a surprisingly complete experience.
The record begins with a riff. It’s nothing special to begin with, but three seconds down the line, when Curtis Lightbown-Smith’s raw growl kicks the living *** out of you, a realisation dawns. It’s not apprehension, nor trepidation; it’s far too late for that, but when that primal surge of emotion roars through your veins you know this has the makings of something special. And so begins The Long Haul’s first officially recorded outing – ten minutes of relentless balls-to-the-wall borderline metalcore that will leave even the most resolute listeners breathless and hungry for more. The blueprint itself is fairly simplistic in construction; powerful vocals backed up with technically sound guitar work and brutally fast drum beats (think a less heady version of Botch) but perforated with understated artistic variances. These fluctuations, as illustrated in Dead Soul/Endless Drag, prevent the monotony of repetition and masks the minor flaws into insignificance. Well-timed breakdowns effortlessly shift the tempo down a notch and guest vocalist Lizzy Maries calms proceedings somewhat; her ethereal voice presenting an aura of serenity compared to the frenetic music it accentuates.

The expanse of musical horizons continues on Kerouac’s half of the split. Building on what they accomplished with their debut EP, the dense assortment of chaotic malevolence and astutely layered post-metal remains but has developed considerably in such a short time. Progress, through newly dynamic song structures alongside a distinctly improved vocal performance from Thom Denson lead to the bands best performance thus-far; the colossal Porcelain oozes with a graceful panache before exploding into an acerbic crescendo, all bitter vocals and sharply distorted guitar. Conversely, I Owe Some People The World But I Owe you *** is a full on assault of the senses, taking the belligerent fury of their debut and expanding it into an all-encompassing hybrid. Instruments bleed into one another; guitar, bass and drums incoherently converge to form an anarchistic whole, spitting and snarling in blissful fury.

By itself this split EP is as interesting in structure as it is in quality, for as similar as the two bands are to each other; the differences between them complement each other perfectly giving the record a more rounded feel than any individual venture. On the other hand, the lack of consistency this brings can often taint the continuity somewhat, creating a disparity in the musical flow. With this in mind, the maturity and technical proficiency shown by both acts is astounding and while Kerouac remains the more refined of the two acts, there are noticeable signs that The Long Haul can all but match their Southern English neighbours. It’s too early to predict the long term effects that this split EP will have on either bands’ future but what it does show is that the future for both acts is bright and underlines Southern England as one of the premiere districts for underground hardcore.

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Error - 2004 Error EP

Band : Error

Album : Error EP

Release Year : 2004

Genre : Electronic / Digital Hardcore / Noise / Experimental

Tracklist :

01 Nothing's Working
02 Homicide
03 Burn in Hell
04 Jack the Ripper
05 Brains Out

Error is an electro-hardcore band founded in 2003 by 12 Rounds member and Nine Inch Nails collaborator Atticus Ross, and Bad Religion guitarist Brett Gurewitz. Since the 2004 release of their self-titled EP, the project has been on hiatus.

According to a Metal Hammer article on the band; "Error came about when Atticus realised his cocking about in the studio had produced something along the lines of actual songs.

Atticus recruited his younger brother Leopold Ross to play drums and Bad Religion member and Epitaph Records owner Brett Gurewitz to play guitar and bass. He also recruited Dillinger Escape Plan frontman Greg Puciato to perform vocals on their first release, but he is only considered to be a temporary member. The band released its first record, a self-titled EP, in 2004. The EP feature's The Locust's keyboardist Joey Karam playing a Moog synthesizer on the track "Jack The Ripper". Prior to the EP's release, Error released a song on Punk-O-Rama 8 in 2003 entitled "Transplant/Quick Death (Error Remix)".

Error was reported to be looking for a full time vocalist for touring and for an upcoming album, however the future of the band has been a topic for discussion on many internet message boards. No further news has been released on the status of the new album, however as the first EP was created with virtually no outside knowledge, the album may be similarly produced behind closed doors.

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Lolita Storm - 2001 Sick Slits EP

Band : Lolita Storm

Album : Sick Slits EP
Release Year : 2001
Genre : Electronic / Noise / Digital Hardcore / Experimental

Tracklist : 

1 Annabelle
2 Rosaline
3 Omelda
4 Suzy (Straight Version)
5 Candy
6 Natasha
7 Suzy (Noise Version)

 

Lolita Storm is the perfect pop band for the 21:st century. Three young women sharing the microphone, backed up by tall, Jon Spencer look-a-like, Jimmy Too-Bad's rounds of primal sampler squalls. Their debut album "Girls Fucking Shit up" was the sound of lovely 60's girl group pop, run over by a breakbeat bulldozer fuelled on a cocktail of teenage hormones and cheap amphetamines. Repeatedly.
Their "Sick Slits" EP sees the twisted corpse electro shocked back to life, a high voltage wire twitching it into a danse macabre. It's darker, slightly more complex and more disturbing than before.
The seven tracks, all brilliantly carrying girl's names, see Lolita Storm pushing their equipment and throats to the limit. The noisy, pulverizing rhythms collide with almost Skinny Puppy-esque, cheap string samples and electronic noise. But just when you're about to think you've had enough, they kick start a chorus that sends you straight to pop heaven. And the average song length is two minutes. They're in a league of their own. 

 

 

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