Warzone fuckin Womyn!

So, here is a small post to celebrate that yesterday, I FINALLY got hold of a record that I have wanted for a good while. It took me ten (!!) pages of search results from Google before finally finding a distro that still had it, were able to ship to Denmark, and had a decent enough understanding of english to actually understand my myriad of questions.

Anyways, here it is Warzone Womyn/The endless blockade split. My main reason for wanting this masterpiece was the WW side. The endless blockade crack out two tracks, one looooong (almost 18 min.) noise track called "Island" and the traditional "The endless blockade" track. Good stuff. WW however bring to the table some of the most effecient, punishing powerviolence I have ever stumbled upon! 12 tracks that sounds like front teeth cracking against the curb. A-MA-ZING!!!

Warzone Womyn/The endless blockade - split:

I also felt that I should include the Warzone Womyn demotape that I found online. If anyone is able to track down a copy of this, I will pay insane sums for it (like my soul.......or something...).

Warzone Womyn - Demo tape:

As far as I understand, this, and the tracks they have on the "Trapped in a scene" comp is the only stuff this amazing band released. "Trapped in a scene" can be found elsewhere in this blog. Go get it, it holds many amazing bands!

Lastly, here is a video of Warzone Womyn playing some songs live. Now go fuck shit up!

Dark ritual of brute force

It's been a while since my last post in here, but I realized I have to keep up with Marco!
So here's 4 discs of powerviolence for y'all, yo.

Click the picture above each text for the corresponding download!


Rorschach were a New Jersey-based band that existed from 1989 to 1993. They are one of the first bands of the first powerviolence wave. Their sound is somewhat like Man Is The Bastard, except i personally find this band more aggresive. If this doesn't bring anything to your mind, then hurry up and download this. It's their discography by the way.





The next one up is destructive grinding powerviolence with lightning fast riffs and howled vocals all played at breakneck speed aswell as deadly slow. This is the second album California Love, i think. They have two members of Look Back And Laugh. Lyrics are misantropic as fuck. This one is for the nihilists!




Next disc. Bla bla. Pre-INFEST. bla bla bla. Pre-MAN IS THE BASTARD. Go get it!





The next disc is a sampler form TO LIVE A LIE records (released in 2008). This three year sampler mixes "top of the pop" with "never heard of them", which is great. bla bla bla. FINAL DRAFT, P.L.F., BLOODY PHOENIX, MAGRUDERGRIND, MESERINE, PROLETAR, UNHOLY GRAVE, FxPxÖx, AGATHOCLES, XBRAINIAX, GODSTOMPER. bla bla bla

Death metal. HP Lovecraft and Australia

Im back, this time to bring you two records of Australia's finest death metal band; Portal. In my humble opinion this is one of the most original and unique death metal acts that I have ever heard. Portal's music create surreal worlds that holds a quality not unlike that found in such films as Fritz Lang’s M, Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, Murnau’s Nosferatu, and Salvador Dali’s Un Chien Andalou. Picture a twisted, subterranean, and warped sound of one of Lovecraft's deities with the catacombic power of the earth itself, and the unforgiving rawness of a reality unbound by the laws of this world, and this is just a glimpse of where Portal dwell on a musical level. These guys score easy points in my book by having lyrics that are strongly influenced by the writings of Lovecraft. a clear example of this can be found in th song "Sunken" from the Seepia record:

"Inconceivable evil,
Seeped down from the stars
He is sunken,
Drowned dead and deep
City of antiquity,
Darkly curtained halls
Wealth of Aeons behind them

Magical and obscure
Preparation science

Shall proceed from
The Ocean depths

And with the Aeon-old
Stench of the Sea...
Astound a reeling universe,
Man reduced to mere cattle,
Before the Earth
Is cleared off"

There is a free beer at tomorrows Shitcomet/Livores Of Earth show for anyone who can guess who/what this song is about.

Enjoy, or dont, but beware, this music demands something of the listeners ears and minds alike. It is not your everyday easy-listening old school death metal. Sharpen your ears, your mind, light the ceremonial bonfire, crank up Portal, read the unholy text from the black book, and watch as the total worldwrecking, omnipotent, crawling chaos unfolds!

Portal - Seepia






















Portal - Outre

Slowly suffering...

Its time to look towards Spain for two amazing sludge bands, namely Hongo and Moho. Both dabble in dirty as fuck sludge that is equally agressive, ambient, beautiful and downright fuckin filthy. Two amazing records from two bands that should be held at high esteem by anyone priding themselves with liking sludge/stoner/doom and the likes. I think they share members in some way too, though I could be wrong. Also, the singer from Hongo delivers his vocals in a way that is similar to the classic powerviolence band Infest.

Moho - 20 Uñas







Hongo - Formas de vida que se precipitan hacia su destruccion












Also, I feel the need to share with you an amazing split between two bands that I have spent time praising in this very blog before, namely Asunder and Graves At Sea. As I said, I have used up enough space ranting about the sheer awesomeness of these two bands, so if you want to know more, fint the post entitled "Crushing slow demise"...

Asunder/Graves At Sea

Two japanese gems and a fortune cookie

Not much to say here.

Amazing. Japanese. Thrash. About. Skateboarding. 625 Records. GO!!!

Breakfast - 3rd & Army












More. Fuckin. Awesome. Japanese. Skatethrash. 625 Records. Must. Stop. Writing. In. Stupid. Manner.

Lie - s/t








And in the end a small treat for you all. A 7'' by a little band called Needles, featuring members of other little bands such as: Limp Wrist, Los Crudos, Look back and laugh, Talk is poison, and California Love... If this hasnt in any way caught your interest, you are officially a musical imbecile. Go kill yourself (while listening to Needles and being ashamed of yourself)!

American black metal part IV: Beyond Twilight

This time 'round I'll bring you a post with a few of the highlights, spawned in the aftermath of the american black metal super-group Twilight. I have chosen to focus on three distinct releases. It is notable though, that each of these bands deserve a closer look, and that it is recommendable to look into their other releases, if your interrest is sparked by this.

First up is Lurker of chalice - s/t. This is one of the soloprojects of Wrest who also does Leviathan. A record that reeks of damp crypts, musty graveyards and darkened night skies. On this release, it will become apparent to the attentive listener that Wrest has taken a distinct part of the Twilight sound with him into this project. It ranges from full-on black metal, to droning, creeping doomy songs. This is the only official release by Lurker of chalice, apart from two demos. An eerie masterpiece, hands down.Secondly, another distinct soloproject formed from the ashes of Twilight, namely the one and only Xasthur and the record "Subliminal genocide". Xasthur is the brainchild of Twilight's Malefic, who has also done guest apperances on stage with bands such as Nachtmystium and Sunn O))). Xasthurs lyrics deal mostly with three themes, suicide, depression, and astral projection. Just like the easily recognizable, distorted vocals, the music itself is tormented and full of suffering. Like Lurker of chalice, the distinct Twilight sound is present here as well. Not a record to be listened to if you are in a depressed mood! If you have the mental stamina though, listen to it at night, in pitch black darkness, on a pair of headphones. Its a trip into unknown depths of the human psyche...
Lastly we have Nachtmystium - Instinct: decay. Nachtmystium is not, like Lurker of chalice and Xasthur, an soloproject, but rather a full band, featuring Azentrius, also formerly of Twilight. Nachtmystium stands out from the other two records in this post, not only in that it is a full bands, but also in that the musical focus is not what has otherwisely been coined as "depressive black metal". Nachtmystium though, has been described many a time as "psychedelic black metal". Listening to this record, it becomes apparent, why it has been dubbed as such. It has a very distinct sound, not heard often in black metal circles. One that is hard to put into exact words, so give it a listen, and you might catch my drift.