Evil Robots Attacking Me?... punk, metal, hardcore

so Grade are pretty much back together (or atleast for a brief moment or two), new tunes & releases in the pipeline for the new year via Dine Alone Records (Toronto), and the recent reissue of "Seperate the Magnets" 1997 lp, as well as the "Collapsed Lungs" November 28, 2014 release. the 2010 split with Bane was decent as well. I'll still keep an ear out. anybody down from back in the day prolly has a soft spot for whatever Grade lp got them through things ya know? Count me in. I was down.

they sound great in the Saint Vitus NYC live set from the other week. props to unARTigNYC for the vid.

this far on, hardcore might owe Grade something. i'll agree with that.


http://www.dinealonerecords.com/2013/ind...s/view/407

Grade - Collapsed Lungs - Dine Alone Records, November 2014
https://soundcloud.com/gradehc/collapsed-lungs

Better Not Born - Helsinki, Finland


http://betternotborn.bandcamp.com/

[Statto]

Noise is great.

bumpin for righteousness!! this is my lullaby before going to bed tonite.

Iamdisease - Slovenia

"Praznina" lp, December 2014.


http://iamdisease.bandcamp.com/

Dark Circles - Montreal, QC



http://darkcircles.bandcamp.com/album/mmxiv

".. what did you get up Xmas morning?"

" I don't know, mucked about a bit, and listened to IRN. you?..."


IRN - Toronto, Ontario


http://ir-n.bandcamp.com/album/sewer-disease

Sun Worship - Berlin, Germany


http://sunworship.bandcamp.com/album/elder-giants

Stench - Arvika, Sweden

"Venture" lp - Argonia Records (Poland, September 2014)


http://agoniarecords.bandcamp.com/album/venture

Soulside (Washington, DC - Dischord Records 1986 - 1989, pre Girls Against Boys)

WOW. Soulside have been playing some reunion gigs this past week in NYC, as well as a DC gig with Moss Icon. nice.

25 years later, they sound great, don't they?

Soulside - setlist
2014-12-17
Saint Vitus
Brooklyn, NY

01. God City
02. What Do You Know About That?
03. Punch the Geek
04. Baby
05. Trigger
06. Name in Mind
07. New Slow Fucky
08. New Fast Fucky
09. Bass
10. Under the Glare
11. X-Lion Tamer [Wire]
12. Lookin’ Around
13. Clifton Wall
14. [Encore Break]
15. War
16. Pembroke
17. A Love Supreme
18. Pearl to Stone

Fucking Invincible - Providence, RI


http://atomicactionrecords.bandcamp.com/...ets-better

oi, Bob Nanna (Braid, The City On Fire, Hey Mercedes.. etc. etc) seems bent on continuing to kick out the jams as of late.


The City of Fire (Chicago, IL) new December, 2014 lp, "La Vella" kicks out the Bob Nanna jams rather adequately, i must say.


http://topshelfrecords.bandcamp.com/album/la-vella

Bad Breeding - Stevenage, UK

these kids are great.


https://soundcloud.com/badbreeding

The Ex – 1979 to present


Its hard to decide which is my favourite Ex release. I got into The Ex pretty heavy for a bit back in the day, seriously. Like many first listening experiences I've had, I have to hand it again to late nite CBC radio vibes in Canada via Brave New Waves during the early 90's when they would do their artist spotlight whenever there was a new release by whatever band/artist they wanted to showcase at the time – often showcasing tunes from the earliest era of discographies to the most current, etc. By the early 90's, The Ex had already had a sizeable discography, so, it was a great listen that nite on the radio. I've been a fan since.

During the same time, I rifled through the record & cd library of the radio station I worked at where they had many Ex releases in the vaults. It was great! I was obsessed for a bit. heh. This is where i got my education on one of my then, emerging favourite bands. The first release I really checked out was the "Too Many Cowboys" 1987 live lp, then the 1989 "Joggers and Smoggers" double cd reissue i think, which i listened to continuously, 1986's "1936,The Spanish Revolution" e.p, etc. From then on, I check out the 1980 debut lp "Disturbing Domestic Peace", and so on. Incredibly prolific, and even now, very consistent in delivery, imo. What I like about The Ex is that you can listen back to their earliest stuff, such as the first "All Corpses Smell the Same" 1980 e.p for example, and no matter how minimal, primitive sounding the tunes, you can totally hear chords & ideas that have influenced sooo many bands & sounds that have followed since. There's a depth in musicianship that has resonated all through the discography that you can't deny. its great. Further on, I still think 1998's "Starters Alternators" lp is amazing, any band on any side of the punk, post or hardcore fence should listen to that NOW.. LOVE that lp. I've checked out The Ex off & on in recent years mainly through live sets posted online for more current movements, even after the more recent departure of original singer / band co-founder G.W Sok.

You can spend months, or maybe even years checking out the discography of The Ex if your personal time allows. And you should if you haven't already. I've learned tons in my personal process. I'm still listening on occasion when it calls for it too. Gladly.

20 + years later, I might have listened to The Ex all day today. Can you tell?

Four Hundred Years (Tucson, AZ / Richmond, VA) - 1996 - 2000


Great band from back then. I was a big fan. 400 Years definitely left their impression. I still load em up on the playlist on occasion.

[Statto]

punk is bread...

http://epicsweeprecords.bandcamp.com/alb...k-is-bread

^^ i liked that.

um... its 2015! Happy New Year and all that.

I watched this Circle Jerks doc a few hours ago. "Group Sex" is one lp that I know every single lyric too. i consider Circle Jerks "Group Sex" lp as a perfect point of view, a pristine example & collection of tunes. no really. its great. always has been. The Circle Jerks are kinda untouchable in early NA hardcore. I've held that notion since first hearing them when i was a kid. I'm still a fan, the tunes STILL kick ass. OFF! are dope too.


http://www.filmon.com/vod/view/117911-0-...-as-a-jerk


[video=vimeo;47155724]http://vimeo.com/47155724[/video]

OFF! ... need a repost in this thread. boh!

anything, and everything.

Gnaw Their Tongues - Collected Atrocities 2005 - 2008 lp


forthcoming via Crucial Blast, February 2015


http://crucialblast.bandcamp.com/alb...ties-2005-2008

http://gnawtheirtongues.bandcamp.com/



Gnaw Their Tongues - Slaves
https://soundcloud.com/earsplit/gnaw-the...ues-slaves


"..Crucial Blast proclaims that multiple titles from The Netherlands’ most terrifying musical entity, GNAW THEIR TONGUES, are awaiting impending release through the label in 2015, beginning with the January discharging of Collected Atrocities 2005-2008.

For nearly a decade, Dutch avant-black/doom entity, GNAW THEIR TONGUES -- named after a particularly evocative passage from the Book Of Revelation -- has been infecting the underground with a uniquely disturbing brand of chaotic heaviness. Fusing together malevolent, rumbling doom with rabid, noise-damaged aggression and blasts of fearsome orchestral power and industrial pandemonium, and draping these lurching, hellish dirges in an oppressive atmosphere thick with horror and despair, the intensely nightmarish music of GNAW THEIR TONGUES defies easy categorization. The sum of all GTT’s construction and execution is the work of sole architect and madman, Mories, also known for other destructive output with Cloak of Altering, Pyriphlegethon, De Magia Veterum, Aderlating, Mors Sonat, Pompidou, Dimlit Hate Cellar and others.

Before the release of the band's Crucial Blast debut, An Epiphanic Vomiting Of Blood, in 2007, GNAW THEIR TONGUES crawled into the black metal/industrial underground via a number of ultra-limited EPs which quickly went out of print, and are now sought after by fans of the band's abject blackened horror. Collected Atrocities 2005-2008 is a new double CD anthology that gathers together essential, out-of-print early recordings from the band that span the first three years of GNAW THEIR TONGUES's existence, compiling the Prefering Human Skin Over Animal Fur, Horse Drawn Hearse and For All Slaves... A Song Of False Hope EPs, the material from the Static Hymnal compilation, and other rarities from the bowels of the GTT archive.

Collected Atrocities 2005-2008 will be released by Crucial Blast on February 3rd..."

http://www.gnawtheirtongues.com
gnawtheirtongues.bandcamp.com/
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Gnaw-T...28655237208690
http://www.crucialblast.net
http://www.facebook.com/CrucialBlast
crucialblast.bandcamp.com

THIS IS FANTASTIC!!!

brilliant way to kick off 2015, i must say


forthcoming, SUMAC featuring Aaron Turner (ISIS, Old Man Gloom, etc), Brian Cook (Botch, Russian Circles, These Arms Are Snakes) & Nick Yacyshyn (Baptists). SUMAC just played their debut gig in Vancouver, BC a couple weeks ago.


SUMAC debut "The Deal" lp, out February 3, 2015, via Profound Lore Records (CD/digital) and SIGE Records (vinyl): Album cover design by A. Turner with art by Faith Coloccia.

That second video is LOVE.

Cap'n Jazz memories:

- some of the most disjointed music I've ever heard
- what the fuck am I listening too??!!
- who are these kids??
- it sort of all makes sense, but doesn't at all at the same time
- speak singing, screaming, & melodies never sounded so innocent
- its punk fuckin rock
- I love this band
- Tim Kinsella still can't sing worth shit, but that's why we love him right?
- i'm aloof, are you?

hardcore might just owe Cap'n Jazz something.

Disc 1

1. Little League - 00:00
2. Oh Messy Life - 03:57
3. Puddle Splashers - 06:02
4. Flashpoint: Catheter - 08:14
5. In the Clear - 11:35
6. Yes, I Am Talking to You - 13:34
7. Basil's Kite - 16:13
8. Bluegrassish - 18:51
9. Planet Shhh - 20:02
10. The Sands Have Turned Purple - 23:03
11. Precious - 26:53
12. Que suerte! - 28:36
13. Take on Me (a-ha cover) - 31:43
14. Tokyo - 34:49
15. Ooh Do I Love You - 38:50
16. Hey Ma, Do I Hafta Choke on These - 41:32
17. Forget Who We Are (live) - 43:43
18. Olerud (live) - 46:31

DISC 2

19. We Are Scientists! - 50:01
20. Sea Tea - 53:16
21. Troubled by Insects - 55:50
22. Rocky Rococo - 59:51
23. In the Clear - 1:04:15
24. Soria - 1:06:31
25. No Use for a Piano Player When You Got a Player Piano - 1:08:52
26. Scary Kids Scaring Kids - 1:10:32
27. Bluegrass - 1:15:24
28. Winter Wonderland - 1:19:37
29. AOK - 1:21:24
30. Geheim - 1:24:29
31. Sergio Valente - 1:2712
32. Easy Driver - 1:30:43
33. Theme to '90210' - 1:34:10
34. Ooh Do I Love You (acoustic) - 1:36:24

its hard to decide what my fave post-Cap'n Jazz, Tim Kinsella fronted band is.


Owls always come to mind tho. 12 years on, a new Owls lp. who knew?


[video=vimeo;6314344]http://vimeo.com/6314344[/video]

Make Believe were pretty out there, even by Tim Kinsella's standards imo. heh.

definitely some messed up music.

LOVE the Make Believe releases back when. Props to guitarist, Sam Zurick (Cap'n Jazz, Joan Of Arc, Owls, Make Believe, etc..) for uploading a ton of tunes on his youtube channel for all to check out from his personal, performed discography over the decades. thanks for the tunes.

another new Title Fight song off the new lp.

new Title Fight lp to drop February 3, 2015 via ANTI Records


kids doing it right. I've been listening from the jump, its been a great trip over the past few years thus far. first single from the forthcoming "Hyperview" lp is great.. listen, repeat, listen, repeat.


bigs.