dud of the week: seizure crypt album. dudes trying to revive old skool (but not that old) NYHC but it's really anemic. don fury production and all that, but so flat. half sung/half rapped (kinda) shit. i'd rather listen to judge. or madball. or sick of it all. definitely did NOT provide the "unbridled crossover ferocity" that it advertised. where's my token entry reunion! (there probably was one. what the hell do i know? i think everyone has reunited four times by now.)
― scott seward, Friday, 22 June 2007 14:50 (sixteen years ago) link
NYHC is so often anaemic and weak if it's not done right. I can see why a lot of HC fans just write off the whole genre. I mean I do most of the time! I like old Agnostic Front though. Their 3rd album sucked so much shit I never bothered with anything after.
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 22 June 2007 14:52 (sixteen years ago) link
I will be downloading Foetopsy :)
finally getting around to the Vital Remains's Icons of Evil...fuck do I ever love this band
not as great as "Dechristianize" yet but we'll see
― J0hn D., Friday, 22 June 2007 14:57 (sixteen years ago) link
fucking GUITAR SOLOS up in this bitch, proper stuff
― J0hn D., Friday, 22 June 2007 14:58 (sixteen years ago) link
i love the first two agnostic front albums too. cause for alarm is so awesome. wish i still had a copy. it's been so long since i heard the third album. i don't think i hated it. it was metallic, i remember that.
― scott seward, Friday, 22 June 2007 15:06 (sixteen years ago) link
It was metallic but in a really feeble and powerless way. Like a lot of crossover. Even good crossover stuff like DRI and COC has songs that just fall flat and 3rd AF is a whole album of that.
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 22 June 2007 15:09 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm not a big crossover fan though, in general.
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 22 June 2007 15:10 (sixteen years ago) link
I tend to like "proper" hardcore punk, or thrash metal, much more than most attempts to combine the two.
I like Cryptic Slaughter a lot. And Dead Horse.
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 22 June 2007 15:12 (sixteen years ago) link
this hacavitz is the shit. drummer is just going nuts. i love that they recorded it as a duo. very very cool album so far.
― scott seward, Friday, 22 June 2007 15:14 (sixteen years ago) link
honestly, this is probably my favorite crossover album of all time and i know people who HATE it with a passion:
http://xclaim.com/images/hwr.gif
― scott seward, Friday, 22 June 2007 15:16 (sixteen years ago) link
i mean, i can't even tell you how many times i've played that album. 500 times? i do love dri, but my love for their early days knows no bounds.
i guess i wasn't really that much of a skate punk fan in the 80's. speaking of which, Mcrad have a new album out.
― scott seward, Friday, 22 June 2007 15:18 (sixteen years ago) link
i took to thrash like a fish to water though.
I've never heard that SSD album. I'm not a huge fan of theirs though, compared to other Boston bands like DYS, Jerry's Kids, Negative FX, Freeze etc.
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 22 June 2007 15:23 (sixteen years ago) link
Hacavitz album is definitely my pick of the week. great black/death action. great riffs. insane drummer. gnarly solos. punk energy and feel. total sweetness. oh, and completely fugly.
― scott seward, Friday, 22 June 2007 15:31 (sixteen years ago) link
"i guess i wasn't really that much of a skate punk fan in the 80's."
although i loved jfa with a passion. there are always exceptions.
― scott seward, Friday, 22 June 2007 15:33 (sixteen years ago) link
You've motivated me to look for How We Rock now. Partly because it's so hated by hardcore punkers!
xpost I'm not a big skate punk fan at all but I do dig JFA and Ill Repute (amongst others)
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 22 June 2007 15:33 (sixteen years ago) link
this might be the first punk record i bought where i thought to myself at the time, hey, this sounds like metal!
http://homepages.nyu.edu/~alr237/kraut_whettingthescythe.jpg
not all of it, but the songs ngri and flossing with an e string especially.
― scott seward, Friday, 22 June 2007 15:59 (sixteen years ago) link
hey, col. poo, have you heard daymares or sss? i have to review their new albums. on the punk tip and all.
http://www.myspace.com/yourdaymares
http://www.myspace.com/shortsharpshock
― scott seward, Friday, 22 June 2007 16:52 (sixteen years ago) link
oh wait i lied i'm not reviewing the sss. though i like the sss album. i am reviewing the new toxic bonkers album though.
http://www.myspace.com/toxicbonkers
― scott seward, Friday, 22 June 2007 16:55 (sixteen years ago) link
Fueled by Fire are boring as shit live. Saw them open for, I think, Municipal Waste, who admittedly will make any band seem boring, but they were still pretty damn boring. Did I mention that they're boring?
SSS, on the other hand, are totally awesome.
― Jeff Treppel, Friday, 22 June 2007 19:38 (sixteen years ago) link
Fueled by Fire just signed to Metal Blade, so I don't know what that says about metal blade in 2007.
― Jeff Treppel, Friday, 22 June 2007 19:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Although I did like the Middian album, which is doom but doesn't smell good at all.
― Jeff Treppel, Friday, 22 June 2007 19:45 (sixteen years ago) link
More dollar death:
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dre400/e496/e496368zop0.jpg
Also on Grind Core, cover art also by Cradle of Filth dude. Apparently Tipper Gore didn't like these guys in the 80s, but this one is from 1992, with the main guy and some scabs. Crap production (obviously), but it's actually pretty tuneful. The local used record store has tons of Grind Core releases in the dollar bin.
― Jeff Treppel, Friday, 22 June 2007 19:48 (sixteen years ago) link
i think the tipper gore hated impaler was the other one, the silly american one.
― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Saturday, 23 June 2007 02:59 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah, this is the tipper Impaler:
http://www.rootofallevil.com/label/bands/impaler/impaler.html
that combat debut has such a great cover. wish i had a copy. tipper gore. i still can't get over that name. so perfect.
― scott seward, Saturday, 23 June 2007 03:05 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.avopolis.gr/metal/reviews/Municipal%20Waste%20-%20Hazardous%20Mutation.JPG
i really like this band a lot. they sound like DRI. and they have a song on this album about Capenter's "The Thing" called..."The Thing".
Antarctica winter 1982 research was going steady, And there was nothing much to do In the distance a lone wolf flees, But no one knows the carnage that this animal will bring VIOLENE UNFOLDS Assaulted by Norwegian guests theyll have to die like all the rest SEARCHING THROUGH SNOW Discovering the frozen corpse of something thats not of this earth THE CREATURE COMES FORTH An evil makes its presence known attempting to create a clone NOWHERE TO GO And something grim is at hand something in this arctic land The Thing, No one knows the hell it will bring Its got you from the inside, Its taking over your life Intensions so unexplained, Until the gets a hold of your brain Hiding till the damage is done, Killing them off one by one The sense of fear begins to grow, and no one has protection from this dangerous infection Their fates in the hands of the unknown, and nerves are quickly blowing while the thing is steadily growing Whom to trust theyll never now And nothing can contain a creature of the unexplained Half the crews dead more to go Somehow its got to stop and now McReady's getting pissed off Now theres nothing left to do Discovering whose human is what this final test will prove Deadly results are what this test brings But its the final hope to unveil this gruesome being VIOLENCE UNFOLDS The test was the solution now its time for execution SEARCHING THROUGH SNOW And now Blair is the last Thing left Hell fight until his dying breath THE CREATURE COMES FORTH But this will be the final clash and kills it with a giant blast NOWHERE TO GO Our heros fate is finally sealed The camp is lost The Thing is killed (or is it?)
― latebloomer, Saturday, 23 June 2007 03:12 (sixteen years ago) link
new album coming out any day now:
http://www.facethewaste.com/aopbig.jpg
― scott seward, Saturday, 23 June 2007 03:20 (sixteen years ago) link
awesome.
― latebloomer, Saturday, 23 June 2007 03:41 (sixteen years ago) link
Impaler do a song called "Black Leather Monster." Is that a cover of The Plasmatics' song on Metal Priestess?
I did a paper on the PMRC in high school and picked the NASTIEST lyrics I could find to quote. I think the winner was a song called "Golden Showers" (I think) by The Mentors. Something about leaving a shit tower on someone's face. It felt sooooooo good writing the phrase "shit tower" in a formal high school paper. My teacher wrote "yuk!" in the margins. I got an A.
― Kevin John Bozelka, Saturday, 23 June 2007 04:00 (sixteen years ago) link
lol @ non-zombie regular party shenanigans on far left xpost
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 23 June 2007 04:58 (sixteen years ago) link
All Music said that they were the same Impaler! THEY LIED!
― Jeff Treppel, Saturday, 23 June 2007 06:10 (sixteen years ago) link
I blame Ned.
the new Blood Freak album on Razorback btw, while not taking itself too seriously (Razorback's kind of a mondo sorta label), is great - good riffs & freaking incredible tone on the solos
― J0hn D., Monday, 25 June 2007 17:59 (sixteen years ago) link
troo n0rvegian blek metle
― Curt1s Stephens, Monday, 25 June 2007 18:07 (sixteen years ago) link
this is my riff of the day:
http://www.myspace.com/lightningswordsofdeath
― scott seward, Monday, 25 June 2007 19:19 (sixteen years ago) link
i like it. i'd never heard whitehorse before. they do the ugly epic doom thing very well. i might like that monarch! double cd on crucial blast more though. maybe.
You might still be able to pick up the 2nd and 3rd live cdrs of Whitehorse(the 1st one is on that 20 buck spin cd). The Monarch is great. Compiles two vinyl releases and a tour single. Also pick up the 1st double cd "666". It's killer!
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Monday, 25 June 2007 19:36 (sixteen years ago) link
Thrash from Colombia:
http://www.myspace.com/ubergehen
http://www.myspace.com/deathhuntercrew
― unperson, Monday, 25 June 2007 19:43 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm sad that oystein doesn't feel the grim anymore :( Yes, it's all very terrible. I actually traded my copy of Countess' "Ad maiorem smashing superhits" for a Ruins record this weekend. What has become of me!
(on the plus side, I did hold the fire hire last night be enjoying some fine Sabbat - Satanasword action). Not very mean, nasty, ugly, evil METAL though. Just fun and metal. Maybe a bit evil, eh.)
― Øystein, Monday, 25 June 2007 19:58 (sixteen years ago) link
s/be/by
got an awesome care package from Jerusalem yesterday. really cool stuff on Heart & Crossbone Records:
http://hcbrecords.com/
*Grave In The Sky - Cutlery Hits China: English For The Hearing Impaired*
awesome bass/drum/vocals sludge/doom (very psychedelic)
http://www.myspace.com/graveinthesky
*Lietterschpich - I Cum Blood In The Think Tank!!!!!!!!!!!*
totally fucked noise/weirdness
http://www.myspace.com/doomdub
*Barbera - Peger*
more bass/drums dementia (love this stuff!)
http://www.myspace.com/barbara666
this is exciting music to me. go israel!
other cool stuff on the label:
http://www.myspace.com/poochlatz
http://www.myspace.com/mildew666
http://www.myspace.com/cadavereyes
(and the three albums i got are guitar-free! of the six-string variety anyway.)
― scott seward, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 15:00 (sixteen years ago) link
is there any point to providing myspace links to stuff? i'm just curious. is it helpful? do people actually check stuff out? i do if it really seems like something i would like. i just wonder if its a waste of time.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 15:02 (sixteen years ago) link
These are the kind of people one might see at the guitar store, the music store or anywhere else for that matter and think to oneself, "Man, what a dipshit! Grow up, retard."
Then, one might go home and put on their album and say, "Damn, these guys ROCK!"
― dean ge, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 15:07 (sixteen years ago) link
xp
i check them out if the description sounds interesting. like later i intend to dig graves in the sky cause that sounds like my bag.
anyway... does kreator count for this thread circa "coma of souls?" i just rebought it on cd and it's pretty killer. but around this point they're starting to look less like guys who'd get arrest for breaking beer bottles in a cemetary and more like guys who paint houses for a living and get arrested for having one spindly weed plant in their back window.
― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 15:08 (sixteen years ago) link
the grave in the sky album is soooooooooooooooo good.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 15:13 (sixteen years ago) link
you can certainly talk about kreator here. and sodom and destruction if you'd like.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 15:17 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't listen to myspace stuff no, and it's not 'cause I'm a snob - it's 'cause the player doesn't feed to my speakers, and that's how I wanna hear stuff
― J0hn D., Wednesday, 27 June 2007 17:34 (sixteen years ago) link
i just wish everyone could hear how friggin' massive the actual grave in the sky cd is. so loud. seriously, i can't even put the volume up halfway, i'd break my speakers. i love how they get the psychedelic element right in their doom. so hypnotic. and so fierce.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 18:04 (sixteen years ago) link
Sometimes it appears as if everyone who likes evil etc metal in the world (and even some who don't) must be in evil etc metal bands. Except for Scott.
― Gorge, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 22:33 (sixteen years ago) link