Trencher - 2006 Lips

Band : Trencher
Album : Lips
Release Year : 2006
Genre : Grindcore | Noisecore | Experimental

Tracklist :
1. Commissioner Of Sewers
2. Hung, Drawn Yet Shorter
3. Nightmares On Crack St.
4. Mouth To Anus
5. All That Blood And No Pain?
6. In Reverence
7. Two Semi's Don't Make A Hard-On
8. Lips Like Suicide
9. Chatter Of Slimy Teeth

Trencher is a band from London creating a particular Grindcore sound. But think of it as a band without guitar player and with a casio-tone toy keyboard. Original and with character. Like old DIY grindcore bands, but darker, and sometimes, rather more experimental.

To the untrained ear Trencher could very well sound like a creative dead end. Wrong. It’s important to take into account the humour at play here. Trencher’smusic is hellish, there’s no doubt about that. They certainly sounded like death on their early recordings lo-fi and formlessly segueing slabsof bottom-heavy grind that (dis)graced the world with their presence only on audio cassettes with tracing-paper sleeves. The Trencher of today are different though. Though still developing their beastly formula for Casio destruction they’ve developed a masterful grasp of structure, an articulation to their chaos that is hard to argue with. To counterbalance the heaviest, sludgiest sawtooth bass guitar there are ‘House Of Horrors’ keyboards; cute little stabs of Casio and clean and direct frequencies. Foregrounded and hilarious Trencher are all about surreal. Their 2006 full album Lips was a slight move away from the soundtrack to a carcrash that was Dracula..., you can hear aprogression away from total chaos and lack of control to something much more brutal, heavy and structuredkind of like an 18 wheeler at a monster truck show colliding in mid-air...on purpose.

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The Locust - 2003 Follow the Flock, Step in Shit

Band : The Locust
Album : Follow the Flock, Step in Shit
Release Year : 2003
Genre : Grindcore | Noise | Experimental

Tracklist :

1. Follow the flock, step in shit
2. Coffin Nails
3. Red

On This recording, The Locust have documented their early larva stage. They take the abrasiveness and aggressive sounds from their predecessors and bring them a few steps further. This CDEP consists of the two tracks from the band’s split 5″ EP with Jenny Piccolo, and “Red” from the “Cry Now, Cry Later Vol. 4" compilation.

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Holy Molar - 2003 The Whole Tooth, And Nothing But The Tooth

Band : Holy Molar

Album : The Whole Tooth, And Nothing But The Tooth

Release Year : 2003

Genre : Experimental | Noisecore

Tracklist :

Disc 1
1. Pissing in the Rolex of Your Dreams

2. That Old Rugged Cross-Dresser

3. Hindsight 'Tween the Hind Legs

4. You're in Love, Holy Molar

5. Sunburnt Tongue

6. Just One Minute and Thirty-Six Seconds Closer to Smoke From the Crematorium

Disc 2
1. Flouride the Lightning

2. Deep C Odyssey (Holy Molar - The Song)

3. Deep Thought Eject Button

4. Drip! Drip! Drip!

5. Dungeons and Drag Queens, Part I

6. Dungeons and Drag Queens, Part II

7. Dungeons and Drag Queens, Part III

Holy Molar made this album sound like it was recorded in a jail. At the beginning or end of each song samples of prisoners rioting, jail guards yelling people to pull their pants up, and Holy Molar screaming "ITS GONNA BE A JAILBREAK TONITEEEEE" are played. This is no concept album, no lyrical themes I can decipher, or anything remotely related to a jail. I guess it's for some small humor value because I guess metal heads enjoy these kind of lame jokes.

I guess there in the music because Holy Molar is just one of those bands you don't take seriously, and in a good way. It's fun loud and heavy music. Being a side project of The Locust, you can tell where their lunacy is coming from. Using the similar synths and keyboards found in locust songs, Holy Molar creates a spazzy, grindish mix of metal very similar to The Locust.
The synths are possibly Holy Molar's strongest attribute. Sometimes creating dancy tunes like Dungeons And Drag Queens 2. Drip! Drip! Drip! makes good use of keyboards to create an eerie, somewhat ambient mix. But for the most part the synths try to stick to the grind sound the band is trying to achieve. Usually the synths are buzzing and thrashy and bear resemblance to Aphex Twin's Come To Daddy. Sometimes they even seem funky like in Deep Thought Eject Button

Even with the unique inclusion of keyboards in their music, Holy Molar don't exactly fuel themselves on originality. For all I can tell, it sounds like the vocalist screams the same things each song and the guitar blasts for the most part are similar. Though variety is not necessarily required to make music, it makes it all the more enjoyable. But Holy Molar know how to nail the spazzy/grind sound and make every minute of it listenable (even though there aren't many minutes at all). From the gagging vocals on One Minute And Thirty-Six to the weird timings on Sunburnt Tounge Holy Molar show that they know how spazzy music should be done: loud, fast, and crazy.

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The Crimson Curse - 1999 Greatest Hits

Band : The Crimson Curse

Album : Greatest Hits

Release Year : 1999

Genre : Emo Violence | Noisecore | Experimental

Tracklist :

1. Funeral Empire
2. Radiation Blue
3. Both Feet in the Grave
4. Sweet Baby Jesus
5. Blood Thirsty Lust
6. Velvet Flesh Design
7. Psycho 75
8. I Liner
9. Rat Romance
10. Black Dye #15
11. Goldfish

The Crimson Curse had the sort of dark, swirling lava people that like Chuck Berry and Little Richard had in their veins. That edgy, wide-eyed angst, and that quaking, uneasy suspicion that all is not right in the world and maybe, just maybe, you (as that outta-step boy/girl with guitar/piano/voice) are the one to change things. (note: we’re talkin’ about rock ‘n’ roll in its purest form … back when it was still BLACK, and full of all the sweaty, howling, horny shit that’s since been polished over.
The Three One G-released Greatest Hits, is a compilation re-pressing (and in the case of a few songs, re-recording) of the Crimson Curse’s “Both Feet in the Grave” LP, and their split 7? with the Festival of Dead Deer, along with one new song, “Blood Thirsty Lust.”
Track one, “Funeral Empire,” starts off with ultra-dramatic swelling guitar and drum noise, and then careens into sloppy, incoherent vocals and urgent, Le Shok-y keyboards.
Before ending a little more than a minute later, it already establishes a mood for the album, which, depending on where you were in yr teeny bopper days, might just make you wanna be 14 and stone cold stupid again — diving into a pit fulla big, retarded skinheads and Skrewdriver fans jacked up on shitty El Cajon speed. And anyone that’s actually Been There, and has felt that kinda fever, knows that it’s not exactly a bad thing. No, it’s an energy thing, a bored thing, a teenage thing, a passion thing, etc — all comprised of far too many elements and personal particulars to diss or demonize.
And, going on that same jag, by the time the chorus “plain-clothed pig never knows how ta dig” gets chanted over and over again, yr either a fan feeling that old free-for-all pit nostalgia, or a hater desperately jonesing for a Get Up Kids record to wallow in, cry upon and ferget you’ve ever heard of the mean ol’ Crimson Curse.

John Belushi once said something in an interview that recalls the next song, “Radiation Blue.” Stupid-drunk, sarcastic, and feigning sincerity, he told the interviewer, “You know what I love to do? Get FUCKED UP.” Yep, that same kinda mindless, skullbeating mania is clear and present this track, a feedback ‘n’ banshee scream opera not unlike Pearson’s Locust, or even speedier animals like Jenny Piccolo or Black Dice.

Then, from there, all the way to the last song, “Goldfish,” the band (also comprised of Damean Alexander, Michael Cooper, Christopher Sprague, and Evona Waschinski) follows suit with crazed, gore-splattered noise and heavy, camp-free organ work. And while they’re all pretty damn good songs, “Goldfish,” ends up being the stand-out track.

Starting off with a bouncy Southern Cal drumbeat almost identical to the one that kicks off Johnny Thunders’ “One Track Mind,” “Goldfish” then goes into a heavily rhythmic Swing Kids sort of intro and rips into the organ with a little more structure and a far less violent style. “Goldfish” is probably the most intelligent track on the album, but that snarling, nervy wolfish anger is still there, still somewhere in the back of everything, lurking and ready to tear the shit out of anything that comes near. This is heavy music, in terms of nasty, grumpy malice, and song for song, the album doesn’t let you forget that, or second guess in the least.
This sorta smack-to-the-head is straight-out life affirming. -Adam Gnad

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The Locust - 2012 Molecular Genetics from the Gold Standard Labs

Band : The Locust

Album : Molecular Genetics from the Gold Standard Labs

Release Year : 2012

Genre : Grindcore | NoiseCore | Experimental

Tracklist :

01. How to Become a Virgin
02. Who Wants a Dose of the Clap?
03. Twenty-Three Lubed-Up Schizophrenics With Delusions of Grandeur
04. Priest With the Sexually Transmitted Diseases Get out of My Bed
05. The Half Eaten Sausage Would Like to See You in His Office
06. Perils of Believing in Round Squares
07. Flash's Theme
08. Gluing Carpet to Your Genitals Does Not Make You a Cantaloupe
09. Turning Your Merchandise Into a Ripped Wall of Mini-Abs
10. Bring Your 6.5 Italian Carbine
11. Alas, Here Come the Hypochondriacs to Wait With You in the Lobby
12. Siphoning Projectiles During Selective Amnesia
13. Flight of the Wounded Locust
14. Get Off the Cross, the Wood Is Needed
15. Wet Nurse Syndrome Hand-Me-Down Display Case
16. This Is Radio Surgery
17. Spitting in the Faces of Fools as a Source of Nutrition
18. Sever the Toes
19. Well I'll Be a Monkey's Uncle
20. Moth-Eaten Deer Head
21. Brand New Set of Teeth
22. How to Build a Pessimistic Lie Detector
23. Nice Tranquil Thumb in Mouth
24. Dog Without a Collar (Run Over Red Rover)
25. Normal Run of the Muck (Compensation for Conversation)
26. Stucco Obelisks Labeled as Trees
27. Straight from the Horse's Mouth
28. An Extra Piece of Dead Meat
29. Twenty-Three Full-Time Cowboys
30. Backbones of Jack Asses
31. Fixed Companionship, Ghost Town Irrationality
32. Skin Graft at Seventy-Five Miles Per Hour
33. High-Maintenance Libido, Bring the Whole Family
34. Halfway to a Worthless Ideal Arrangement (An Interlude to a Discontinued Sarcastic Harmony & Yea Whatever)
35. Kill Roger Hedgecock
36. Hairspray Suppository
37. Cattle Mutilation
38. Prepare to Qualify
39. Pain Reliever
40. Off by a Long Shot
41. #99
42. Head Hits Concrete
43. Ass Gravity
44. Keep Off the Tracks

The San Diego group has been blowing minds since 1994 with their unique mix of grindcore speed and aggression, mathcore complexity, and new wave weirdness.
The band’s membership has proved a veritable “Who's Who” of punk royalty. Joseph Karam also plays with One Day As A Lion while Justin Pearson was in Some Girls, All Leather and played on the recent Retox album with Gabe Serbian. Past participants have included Tristeza/Album Leaf/GoGoGo Airheart/Crimson Curse's Jimmy LaValle, to Tarantula Hawk's Dave Warshaw and Dylan Scharf, and Cattle Decapitation's David Astor. In the process they have created a singular body of work, and an important piece of that appears on Molecular Genetics From the Gold Standard Labs, collecting for the first time all of the band’s pre-Epitaph recordings.

 

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Hewhocorrupts + Phoenix Bodies - 2009 Split

Band : Hewhocorrupts + Phoenix Bodies

Album : Split

Release Year : 2009

Genre : Grindcore | Power Violence | Noisecore | Experimental

Tracklist :

Hewhocorrupts:
01. Mike Muir On Wall Street
02. Derek Black's Body Karate
03. Smoke'n In The Boys Room
04. Jesus Luncheon
05. Sonofdog
06. Tommy Camaro's True Story

Phoenix Bodies:
07. This Place Is A Fucking Dump/ Health Control
08. Surf's Up, Surf City!
09. Young, Dumb, & Full Of Guns

The Midwest's two most thrashin' and nude bands have finally teamed up to bring us the most ridiculous 10" split in the history of recorded music. HE WHO CORRUPTS are the notorious kings of Chicago corporate grind and PHOENIX BODIES are Indianapolis' sons of brutal spazzing grind. There's no lack of shredding and certainly no lack of scheduling.... because this 10-inch is packaged in a full ten-month calendar featuring photos of the bands each and every month.

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Pre - 2007 Epic Fits

Band : Pre

Album : Epic Fits

Release Year : 2007

Genre : Post-Punk | Noisecore | Experimental

Tracklist :

01 drool
02 fudging on our folks
03 scenes from a 1963 LA love-in
04 slash in the snake pit
05 ace cock
06 I met her in the bin
07 nope fun
08 so jazzed
09 dude fuk
10 greasers
11 popping showers
12 and prolapse
13 ride ride ride
14 know yr teachers
15 untitled

Born in a basement, based in London, the first outing of PRE had the entire audience locked outside, watching through barred windows from above. To the assemblage up top, it was clear that these five noise sprinkled nu-wavers had already figured it out - sound moves quicker in high pressure.

In the months that followed, PRE's rhythmically infectious skip-alongs were demonstrated on a flurry of releases. The band's debut 7" EP "Treasure Trails" caught ears by surprise and wouldn't let go. A rash of vinyl came in quick succession, pairing the band up with acts like AIDS Wolf, Dmonstrations, Bardo Pond, and Comanechi.

On September 18th, weighing 14 songs and coming in just over 20 minutes tall, "Epic Fits", PRE's debut album was born. Recorded in a chilly pizza storage unit with Westminster Brown at the controls, PRE's full length is cold sweat caught on two inch tape. US Tours, a sold out CMJ showcase at the Knitting Factory and a two page spread in Spin followed.

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WarsawWasRaw - 2009 Chaajoth

Band : WarsawWasRaw

Album : Chaajoth

Release Year : 2009

Genre : Chaotic | Power Violence | Noisecore | Experimental

Tracklist :

01. Funeral/Real Fun
02. Franklins Feathered
03. Doctor Jerkoff And Mr Hype
04. You Gotta Fright For Your Right
05. Daily Daggers Damp Dances Dimends
06. Suction
07. Reign In Blood
08. Rest In Piss
09. A Cat Has Only Nine Lives

As good as this EP can there be, after already looks much better. Previously composed of five members, two singers, a guitarist, a bassist and a drummer, Warsaw Was Raw was pruned of himself. So there remains a drummer and guitarist / vocalist for cause as much chaos and noise as possible. It is in this incarnation I met the group and was therefore a little disappointed to find no record yet exists for this new chapter in the life of the group.

Chaajoth will be the only mark left by the quintet of the time when their music was like enough at the beginning of The Locust or Pg99. Ten years earlier and Warsaw Was Raw might have been part of the Robotic Empire label next to The Now and Employer, Employee. However, compared to the latter two, the cursor here tends more towards punk to metal, even if there is too. The full nine tracks of hysterical screaming two singers jump with epileptic movements of the trio guitar / bass / drums whose condition is so advanced that you could suggest a split of the two hemispheres of the brain to treat all the hard the group.

Today the only two remaining members continue to hold the banner proudly in this chaotic madness, between punk, grind and metal crossed plans, and make more noise than the songs Chaajoth. In the form of this EP a quarter of an hour late form of this group met in Paris as it frustrates relation to the securities today. However, there will always be those who have seen this group at that time on stage and enjoy this document. Or even to miss those days! Solid but filled with question marks, is enough to convince Chaajoth without really fully satisfy. The adventure continues anyway and there will soon be a result of this EP and a new opportunity to take a bigger tatane. Then funded the group with the purchase of this disc to continue to take on the chin!

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Warsaw Was Raw - 2011 Jahiliya

Band : WarsawWasRaw

Album : Jahiliya

Release Year : 2011

Genre : Chaotic | Power Violence | Noisecore | Experimental

Tracklist :

1. Jahiliya

Are you a black mass bully with delusions of grandeur, craving to kick your peers into an early bliss at the pavlovian call of smothered strings and shattered skins ? Are you one drinking sour-sweet sweat from naked truths, clashing against walls of sound and laments on a bad moon rising ? Are you endlessly boxing your subcounscious with bags of ice cubes made from the unfiltered tears of street-level deities ? Have you ever been lured by third eyes winking at you from the bottom of the dream dumpster ? Look no further. WARSAWWASRAW is the sensitive blackhole were all your expectations have come, crashed, and successfully melted themselves into cogs of a software designed to churn out anthems of post-modern civilized despair in the face of time, excess and the absolute.

Trimmed down from a five piece to a threesome, the two hair-brained rethoric finally reached its current maximized number-to-efficiency ratio, sealing the deal to stir the air of city bleak and trauma with rude guitars and vulgar drums wrapped in a resin of spit and saliva.

“Jahiliya” is the bands debut contribution to the Three One G roster, a one song 7" single.

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Some Girls - 2006 Heaven's Pregnant Teens

Band : Some Girls

Album : Heaven's Pregnant Teens

Release Year : 2006

Genre : Hardcore | Noisecore | Thrash

Tracklist :

01. Beautiful Rune
02. Hot Piss
03. Dead In A Web
04. Warm Milk
05. You'll Be Happier With Lower Standards
06. Ex Nuns/Dead Dogs
07. Totally Pregnant Teens
08. Bone Metal
09. Marry Mortuary
10. Religion II
11. Skull's Old Girlfriends
12. Retard And Feathered
13. Deathface

With Heaven's Pregnant Teens, Some Girls' first release on Epitaph Records, the group has honed its white knuckled assault down to 25 minutes of unrelenting musical psychosis while adding new dimensions of brutality to their now-trademark thrash attack. Throughout the album's thirteen tracks, complex time changes invert riffs on their heads as layers of guitars trample each other before spreading out into electrified tendrils. Bassist Justin Pearson's fuck fuzz-soaked bass and drummer Sal Gallegos' unremitting percussive attack provide a manic backdrop to singer Wes Eisold's frantic caged dog vocal assailments. In short, it's a musical mindfuck. From the cannon shot intro of the album's crushing opener "Beautiful Rune" to the death drone of its nine-minute closing suite "Deathwish," Heaven's Pregnant Teens is a document of five twisted musical minds making the most gloriously deranged noise producer Alex Newport (At The Drive In, The Locust, Sepultura) could commit to tape.

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Towers - 2009 Full Circle

Band : Towers

Album : Full Circle

Release Year : 2009

Genre : Mathcore | Chaotic | Noiscore

Tracklist :

1. Let Them Eat Cake
2. 235 Ways To Suck Seed
3. Swells
4. Con
5. We Fake Smiles
6. Beta
7. Awful Grey
8. Hope

Heavy music in general is notorious for it's redundancy. Philadelphia's Towers somehow has figured out a way to imbue the genre of metalcore with a newtake. Their latest release 'Full Circle' has established the band as both an inventive and interesting force. Previous releases were far more clear in their influence, but Towers has layered their approach with a variety of techniques (i.e. ring modulators) and somehow managed to make the most complete musical statement of the year. 'Full Circle' is aggressive, melodic, technical, and brash. The record as a whole seems to have been designed with the vinyl format in mind as the first half of it favors a far more progressively hard sound while the ending of the album embraces a much more melodic and accessible approach.

'Let Them Eat Cake' starts off 'Full Circle' with a slur of guitar effects and an almost subdued sound. This clearly changes one minute into the track when the band transitions into a heavy section that could be described with numerous post-suffix references. To be blatant when Towers enters the heavy portions of this album they definitely sound like they came out of the 1990s. Bands just aren't playing such atonal, heavy music. '235 Ways To Suck Seed' shows how the band also is able to incorporate their effect based sound as a transition into the heavier portions of their music. The tones found on this album are surprisingly refreshing and in my mind I have never heard a band in the realm of aggressive music use sonic texture in such a unique way. Groups like Isis may spring to mind but Towers isn't necessarily playing slow, extended pieces. The entirety of this album is twenty four minutes and the amount of ground covered in that time is very impressive. Tracks like 'Beta' and 'Hope' show that Towers is willing to step out into the more melodic realms of "hardcore" and that really strengthens the finale of 'Full Circle'. Steve Roche's intimate production also really adds to Towers overall sound on this record giving it a raw yet layered sound.

2009 has already established itself as a year where the most interesting records have been those thatembrace a variety of sounds. If anything the closing of this decade has helped fully verbalize some of the more childish and earlier attempts at fusing heavy music with a supposed sophistication. 'Jane Doe' still holds the crown of the most accomplished "heavy" record of the decade, but Towers has clearly made themselves an original yet easily listenable piece of work with 'Full Circle'. Perhaps it's lack of traditional dynamics doesn't allow for it to be heralded as the perfection that is 'Jane Doe', but 'Full Circle' should be reconigized for how easily it tosses through such aggressive sounding music without come off as passe. It is a record that helps expand the vocabulary of aggressive music and for someone to do that in 2009 is in itself an impressive task. The fact that 'Full Circle' also is such a listenable document is what clearly puts it ahead of anything released in '09 so far and most likely what will give it the title of record of the year.

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Rolo Tomassi - 2009 Untitled EP

Band : Rolo Tomassi

Album : Untitled EP
Release Year : 2009

Genre : Experimental | Mathcore | Noisecore

Tracklist :

01 Film Noir
02 Curby
03 Cirque Du Funk
04 Seagull
05 C Is for Calculus
06 Fuck the Pleasantries, Let's Remix (:( Remix)
07 C Is for Drowning Under Waves of Listless Apathy (Ornine Remix)

Let’s not reel off a paragraph of hyperbole. Here’s some of the cold hard facts of what Rolo Tomassi have achieved since this ep last went out of print – Rocksound cover, Plan B cover, BBC Electric Proms performance, two Huw Stephens Radio 1 sessions, plays across Steve Lamacq, Zane Lowe, Rock Show and more on Radio1, articles in Kerrang, NME and all other major music publications, mentions in the Observer and the Sunday Times, shows with Blood Red Shoes, Foals, Gallows, The Bronx, Fucked Up, Ghost of a Thousand, Download Festival, SXSW and many more……the list is endless.

There is literally no other UK band with such an indefinable, heavy sound that has achieved anything that even vaguely compares to this. This EP, the bands first CD release, was the majority of people’s introduction to the synthproghardcore that Rolo Tomassi create. This release set out the Rolo manifesto perfectly. Beginning with the frantic burst of joy that nodded to the past in ‘Film Noir’ and ending with an epic instrumental that clearly acted as an indicator of things to come, this release possesses every facet that made the UK fall in love with Rolo Tomassi.

Now that the band are firmly bedded down with our friends at Hassle Records, we can now keep this release in print. For this final, definitive version we wanted to give it a fresh lick of the attention and love it deserves. With new conceptual artwork led by the 10 panel foldout digifile packaging, this is now as unique looking as the sounds contained within.

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Rolo Tomassi - 2010 Live at the Great Escape

Band : Rolo Tomassi

Album : Live at the Great Escape
Release Year : 2010

Genre : Experimental | Mathcore | Noisecore

Tracklist :

1. Fourteen (Live)
2. Unromance (Live)
3. Nine (Live)
4. I Love Turbulance (Live)
5. Kasia (Live)
6. Sakia (Live)
7. Jealous Bones (Live)
8. French Motel (Live)
9. Party Wounds (Live)
10. Abraxas (Live)

Rolo Tomassi are an experimental metal band from Sheffield, England. Their name is taken from the fictional character Rollo Tomasi in the film LA Confidential. The band formed in 2005 and set their local scene alight by playing a synth driven technical mix of styles and genres difficult to define in a single word.

Here's Rolo Tomassi played a blistering set at The Great Escape in Brighton in May 2010. Good live recording in HQ!!! Well, enjoy!!!

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Holy Molar + Ex Models - 2004 Split

Band : Holy Molar + Ex Models

Album : Split

Release Year : 2004

Genre : Grindcore | Noisecore | Experimental

Tracklist :

HOLY MOLAR
1. My Saturday Night Fever Turned Into a Sunday Morning Rash
2. Der Werewolf Breath

EX MODELS
1. Buy American
2. What We Want We Want (We Want We Want)

Here you have it, HOLY MOLAR and EX MODELS doing what they do best. East meets west with the weird and abrasive noise of the current state of, uh, “music”. The two bands don’t compare to anything around or anything done before. This slab on vinyl has two songs by each band. Cover art from Montreal’s favorite freak Dominique of LES GEORGES LENINGRAD.

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Trencher - 2004 When Dracula Thinks "Look at Me"

Band : Trencher

Album : When Dracula Thinks "Look at Me"
Release Year : 2004

Genre : Grindcore | Noisecore | Experimental

Tracklist : 

1. Head Trauma
2. Gastronomy
3. Illuminated Dead
4. Dead At Work
5. Wounds Cordon Bleu
6. Will To Shit
7. Horse Race Amputee
8. Leeches
9. Riddled With Death
10. Hispanic Telepathy Attack
11. Erotica Of Flies
12. Dishonesty
13. Autopsy
14. Theodore 'O 'Nam

London's premiere Casiocore outfit Trencher re-unleashes its soul splattering 2004 effort to a crowd of unsuspecting ears. When you think about it long and hard you'll wonder if, in fact, these cats were the cats that made Genghis Tron what it is today, or if Trencher occupies such a unique place in the Bizzarecore universe that any attempt to tame and describe––heck to even listen with patience and virtue––that discussing it in traditional terms or even traditional language is worthwhile. Novel without the winking, loud and abrasive with a sense of purpose––each track does in fact create a distinct mood–– When Dracula Thinks "Look At Me" makes you rethink your prejudice toward some of these'n here underground novelties. But Trencher is above and beyond that, as demonstrated across its rich discography, and, when the dust settles on this decade and all the sonic tomfoolery that's come along, Trencher will be remembered as one of the few that did all this jazz with sense and style.

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The Locust - 2001 Well I'll Be a Monkey's Uncle (Remix-Single)

Band : The Locust

Album : Well I'll Be a Monkey's Uncle (Remix-Single)

Release Year : 2001

Genre : Noisecore | Power Violence | Experimental

 

Tracklist :

 01. Well I'll Be a Monkey's Uncle
02. Well I'll Be a Monkey's Uncle (Bastard Noise Remix)
03. Well I'll Be a Monkey's Uncle (Wizards of War Remix)
04. Well I'll Be a Monkey's Uncle (Christophe de Babalon Remix)
05. Well I'll Be a Monkey's Uncle (Sinking Body Remix)
06. Well I'll Be a Monkey's Uncle (Kid 606 Remix)
07. Well I'll Be a Monkey's Uncle (I am Spoonerbender Remix)

What is this? It's an album of various artists covering the song "Well, I'll be a Monkey's Uncle" by The Locust. The original song is from The Locust's self titled CD. The rest of the album consists of covers of that same song performed by other artists. Other than track 1 (which is performed by The Locust), the track names listed above are actually the names of the bands that are covering the song. What's the music like? Check out reviews of The Locust's other albums and that should help you. I'm not even going to begin to try and describe it. I do like it though.

 

 

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Hewhocorrupts - 2003 Ten Steps To Success

Band : Hewhocorrupts

Album : Ten Steps To Success

Release Year : 2003

Genre : Power Violence | Noisecore | Grindcore

Tracklist :

A1) Checking Mic Marker
A2) Mrs. Andretti's Hustlers
A3) Mic Marker Checked
A4) 16.7 Overture
A5) She's A Fire Engine
B1) Linguistic Violations
B2) Saigon's Still Kickin
B3) Unload The White Load
B4) This Is Beatbox
B5) Canada, Shakespeare, Canada

Rarely does a relatively unknown band garner such a polarized response. But Hewhocorrupts did that with the EP “Master of Profits”. It was filled some obvious jabs at Metallica (song titles included “Sell Em All” and “Ride the Limo”). Some critics were harsh, calling it self indulgent noise and calling the band audacious for insulting an arguably classic album, while other critics found the song titles amusing and enjoyed the music. I found myself in the latter category, and I was interested in seeing what they would offer up with this release.

Ten Steps To Success” is grindy, thrashy album that manages to jam 10 songs into 15 minutes. Grindcore isn’t always the easiest thing to off, either it’s so insane that it’s brilliant, or so insane that’s intolerable to listen to. I wouldn’t say Hewhocorrupts has reached the level of brilliance yet, but they’re on the right track. It’s pretty clichéd by now to call a band “crazy” or “insane”, but I’m going to go ahead and say this album is crazy, particularly in terms of vocals. Ryan Durkin sounds unstable, to put it lightly. John Mendola’s drumming is typical in terms of grindcore drumming, but that’s not an insult by any means. For those you who are unaware, grindcore drummers are basically expected to be lightning quick at all times, and Mendola doesn’t disappoint. He’s no Dave Witte (formerly of Discordance Axis, whom I’ve seen this band compared to and currently of Burnt by the Sun), but I’m still impressed.

The lyrics somehow fit the music, which is no easy task. I wasn’t sure whether the lyrics were the rantings of a lunatic or just a few inside jokes, either way they were unique to say the least. Take the song “Mrs. Andretti’s Hustlers” for example: “check your answering machine/I made fun of your grandfather’s limp because the girl at Rexall needed a lift.” Get it? Neither do I.

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The Locust - 2003 Plague Soundscapes

Band : The Locust

Album : Plague Soundscapes

Release Year : 2003

Genre : Noisecore | Power Violence | Experimental

 

Tracklist :

1. Recyclable Body Fluids In Human Shape
2. Identity Exchange Program, Rectum Return Policy
3. Solar Panel Asses
4. Live From The Russian Compound
5. Earwax Halo Manufactured For The Champion In All Of Us
6. Wet Dream War Machine
7. Listen The Mighty Ear Is Here
8. Who Wants A Dose Of The Clap?
9. Teenage Mustache
10. How To Become a Virgin
11. Anything Jesus Does, I Can Do Better
12. Late For A Double-Date With A Pile Of Atoms In The Watercloset
13. File Under 'Softcore Seizures'
14. Practiced Hatred
15. Pssst! Is That A Halfie In Your Pants?
16. The Half-Eaten Sausage Would Like To See You In His Office
17. Pulling The Christmas Pig By The Wrong Pair Of Ears
18. Can We Please Get Another Nail In The Coffin Of Culture Theft?
19. Your Mantel Disguised As A Psychic Sasquatch
20. Twenty-Three Lubed-Up Schizophrenics With Delusions Of Grandeur
21. Captain Gaydar It's Time To Wind Up Your Clock
22. Priest With The Sexually Transmitted Disease, Get Out Of My Bed
23. Pick-Up Truck Full Of Forty-Minutes

Plague Soundscapes is probably the most fitting name this album could possibly have. The record's entire length comes out to 21:03, yet there are twenty-three tracks, with names such as "Anything Jesus Does I Can Do Better", "Earwax Halo Manufactured For The Champion In All Of Us", and "The Half-Eaten Sausage Would Like To See You In His Office". If this sounds pretentious, think again - if anything, the songwriting is on the far side of abstraction, constantly switching gears from crude sexual references to politics to social issues to complete and total randomness. Though the lyrical quality probably won't be an issue for most, since the vocals bring forth visions of a person in such a hysteria that their words no longer make sense and have become desperate shreiks.

If there were words to describe this album other than "plague soundscapes", they would probably be "total insanity". Few tracks make it over the minute marker, none are soft and beautiful or accessable pop music. This is technical madness at its highest scale. The vocals are scizophrenic wailing, the time signatures are constantly changing, the drums are switching from offbeat punk to unweildingly fast grind, the guitars and bass are all over the musical chart, and there are industrialized insect noises distorting the entire package.

While this would sound bad to most people, it takes about two listen-throughs (less than an hour) to find the nuances, the diamonds in the ruff that make up the record. It's the spastic and constantly shifting mood that give The Locust their edge, their trademark sound. If you have an open mind, you'll be able to pick out the chord sequences, the odd jazz/punk/metal rhythms, even the vocals, and see how they all come together to make something more than just noise pollution. While the songs do have a specific sound to all of them, they are all different once you are able to see the little things that make each one interesting; it is truly more than just pounding nonsense and crazy screaming.

Plague Soundscapes is one of those albums so abstract that it raises the bar for so many other bands that are in The Locust's field of music, such as Converge, The Dillinger Escape Plan, and Coalesce. This isn't as expirimental as others in its genre - it is an unweilding, concentrated blast of insanity, and in the end, that's what makes it the album that it is. If you like hardcore or grindcore, and you like it unrelenting, then it doesn't get much better than this.

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Trencher and Loa Loa - 2005 Split

Band : Trencher and Loa Loa

Album : Split

Release Year : 2005

Genre : Power Violence | Noisecore | Spazzcore | Experimental

 

Tracklist :

Trencher
01. Attack Of The sXe Attackers
02. Delusions Of Grindeur
03. Deja Poo
04. Blondes Of Meth
05. Row Upon Row Of Leper Skulls
06. I Lost All My Hair In A Skiing Accident
07. Trapped Under A Train, Alive

Loa Loa
08. Untitled
09 . Friends Inside Us (Vasja Krusaider)
10. Fineas Gage
11. A Sockerel
12. The Summer Was Small And Rainy
13. The City-Machine
14. Rex
15. Personal Johnstown
16 . Untitled

Great Split from these two foreign bands. Trencher launches out with some frenetic screamy noise in the vein of The Locust and An Albatross...to name a few. every song by them is fantastic. Loa Loa hails from Russia and all of their vocals are in Russian. They genre skip quite a bit, going from full out punk to an accoustic sing-a-long.
Good Stuff if you're looking for something from the otherside of the world.

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Loa Loa - 2009 Вас Ожидает Сюрприз От Доктора Тынгиза

Band : Loa Loa

Album : Вас Ожидает Сюрприз От Доктора Тынгиза

Release Year : 2009

Genre : Power Violence | Noisecore | Experimental

 

Tracklist :

1. Intro
2. Просодия
3. Я Вспоминаю Свою Теплую Девочку
4. Жаба
5. Гусик По Найму.
6. Железнодорожный Параноид.
7. Об Изгнании Опричниной Скоморохов На Север.
8. Альфа - Волопас
9. Назови Меня Гантенбайн.
10. Чёрный Апельсин Свидригайловская Америка
11. Кыштымский Гуманоид
12. Ветеранам Манаги

Loa Loa started in the fall of 2002 in Moscow. Band play frantic music in the vein of most schizophrenic hardcore punk.
The third coming of the Moscow-based punk-absurdists LOA LOA. This mini-album is a sort of conceptual radio-theatrical performance which includes 8-minute spoken-word intro and a number of short, absolutely schizoid songs. Brain-washed mixture of hardcore and psychedelia created by Brais (voice, guitar), Michail B. (synthesizer, voice), Timur Hairy Ali (drums, percussions, voice), Kamen (bass), Olga and Olesja (female voces). Recording, mixing, mastering, and artwork design are by Max Ionov (of YARCHE-1000-SOLNTS). Highly recommended!

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Daughters - 2002 EP (Reissue)

Band : Daughters

Album : 2002 EP (Reissue)

Release Year : 2002

Genre : Mathcore | Noisecore | Experimental

 

Tracklist :

 01 Hello Assholes
02 Flattery Is A Bunch Of Fucking Bullshit
03 A Room Full Of Hard Ons And No Where To Sit Down
04 My Stereo Has Mono And So Does My Girlfriend
05 Sweet Merciful Crap
06 Your Beauty Is A Carwreck I Do Concur

Daughters' debut EP released on City of Hell in 2002. It was released as a 7" vinyl and is now out of print. The album was re-released in 2002 on City of Hell Records. It was only able to be purchased during the tour of 2002. There were only 200 of them pressed in this form. The album itself is one-sided, and pink. In 2009, the album was re-released digitally on Sargent House records as the 2002 EP.

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