Showing posts with label *Down I Go. Show all posts
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Monday, November 7, 2011

Down I Go - 2011 Gods (EP)


Band : Down I Go
Album : Gods (EP)
Release Year : 2011
Genre : Mathcore | Chaotic | Noise | Experimental
 
Tracklist :
1. Demeter
2. Poseidon
3. Atlas
4. Icarus

Formed in 2005 and respected as one of the most innovative hardcore bands of the last decade DOWN I GO have consistently surpassed expectations and defied logic with their chaotic, genre-defying blend of noise-core. Accredited with creating sub-genres such as Disastercore and Robotcore, among others, and with 3 albums, 2 EPs and a trail of other random recordings behind them, DOWN I GO have been an ice cool breeze in a scene that has been drowning in it's own stink.

Satisfyingly chaotic and therapeutically volatile, DOWN I GO have always been DIY to the core with their self produced recordings, videos and artwork – their focus has always been the music, their loyal cult following and the sharp messages that lay within layers of the noisy, twisted and satirical transmissions. Their final farewell is a sombre event for their peers and fans - and the icing on the cake of an incredible repertoire that will resonate for years to come. And it’s no surprise that after tackling themes like Dictators, Disasters, Dinosaurs and Robots, in previous releases, DOWN I GO have saved the Gods for last.

As with previous releases, Gods is not a simple collection of songs… it’s an event that needs to be appreciated as a whole. Like a play, choreographed by lunatics at an insane asylum it shrieks and twists chaotically. Press play and DOWN I GO will take you down with them… and wherever that is… it’s frikkin’ awesome. Gods will crush your face and rearrange your brain molecules - in a good way. Charlie Sheen has nightmares about getting his pussy destroyed by this band.

DOWN I GO will release their final self produced EP, Gods on Nov 7th through Shelsmusic. Pre-orders will go on sale on October 7th. The release will be a limited edition pressing on Vinyl and digital only and available at www.shelsmusic.com. The group have also completed a video with Director Adam Powell, which will be released on October 7." -PeteDIG






Sunday, September 11, 2011

Down I Go - 2010 Witness the Shitness


Band : Down I Go
Album : Witness the Shitness
Release Year : 2010
Genre : Mathcore | Chaotic | Noise | Experimental
 
Tracklist :
01. Dionysus
02. I am Reindeer
03. Santasaurus
04. King Herod the Great
05. ED-209
06. King Leopold II (Demo)
07. George Bush Jnr. (Demo)
08. Flight of the ROFLcopter

Witness the Shitness is a collection of songs that didn't appear on any of our albums.

Over the years, we've recorded various one-off tunes for different things that you may have missed, so we picked a few of the less embarrassing ones. There are also a couple of demos from our album Tyrant that you definitely haven't heard, so download it, punish your ears for listening to too much nice music and Witness the Shitness.
 
 
 
 
 
 

Friday, July 8, 2011

Down I Go - 2006 This Is Disastercore


Band : Down I Go
Album : This Is Disastercore
Release Year : 2006
Genre : Mathcore | Chaotic | Noise | Experimental
 
Tracklist :
01. Oh God, Everybody's Dead! / Shaanxi Earthquack of 1556
02. A Wasp in a Jar / Great Plague of London 1665
03. Not Enough Buckets in the World / Great Fire of London 1666
04. Billion Dollar Burning Coffin / Space Shuttle Challenger Exploition 1986
05. Reactor 4 / Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Meltdown 1986
06. And Your Grandparents (Slowly Die) / Great Smog of London 1952
07. Lament of the Mournful Sailors / Exxon Valdes Oil Tanker Spill 1989
08. Let's Not Make Big Balloons Again / Hindenburg Airship Fire 1937
09. Sticky Nightmare / Boston Molasses Flood 1919
10. Time to Sell / Black Thursday Stock Market Crash 1929
11. Stay At Home and Die / Influenza Epidemic of 1918
12. Bird Hips, Lizard Hips / Extinction of the Dinosaurs
13. Gigantic! Titanic! / Sinking of RMS Titanic 1912

This is the second in the infamous ‘core series of releases (the first being Dinocore and maybe there's as many as four in total) and here we find the London based band Down I Go fucking with your intellect as on this occasion they choose famous disasters as the subject, with their debut album appropriately entitled “This Is Disastercore”.

It is said that they play jazz metal but just haven’t learnt how to play the Jazz bit yet. It is said that they don’t take anything too seriously other than death itself and this they consider to be a really big deal. One thing is for sure, you will experience something a long way leftfield of what many would consider musical normality, for here you will find yourself in an aural sanatorium surrounded by lunatics partaking in feral, spazzy and psychotic progression. It’s avant-garde, abstract and intangible in the best Patton-esque traditions, taking totally off the wall songs that change direction more often than Richard Hammond in a jet car.

Here you find a macabre gathering of lyrics that somehow gel to form a commentary of disasters (often sounding like disastercore news reporting live from the event), which otherwise presents a sobering and evocative insight into some of histories most incredibly deplorable events and it’s certainly worth reading the lyrics - you will really learn something. It’s inevitable then that these songs mirror (in musical form) Python’s Batley Townswomen's Guild's re-enactment of 'The Battle of Pearl Harbour' with the vocals substituting a sort of screeching, screaming, shouting, storytelling, Reta Fairbanks sort of role and as such mark a clandestine milestone in cerebral evolution.

This is an album for those who hunger after something a little different to the normal rock dirge, for there's very little evidence of conventional song structures or musical scales, however they do turn in the occasional killer riff that creates a mighty micro groove with almost a semblance of shape for just very short periods before dissembling back to the more normal chaos. You need to get to know this album intimately and like a bad case of ivy it will grow all over you, and once it does you will never get rid of it!