Under Light: Infinity Land/Heel Turn/Virgin Mother-3-Way Split Cassette (2021)

Country: USA
Genre: Hardcore, Punk, Screamo, Metal, Noise Rock, Post Metal, Experimenral, Noise
Label: The Ghost Is Clear
Tracks: 3
Length: 7.30'

Damn, Here's a rager of a three way split cassette featuring a new song a piece by Waterbury, CT's Infinity Land, Huntsville Alabama's Heel Turn, and Chicago, Illinois based Virgin Mother.  On Infinity Land's track, the band offers up one new track of ugly and brutal as fuck sounding hardcore, punk, and noise rock.  On Heel Turn's track, the band offers up one hardcore, punk, and metal, and Virgin Mother offer up one track of post metal, screamo, and experimental noise.  Overall, this split makes for an awesome listen and definitely should not be missed.  Highly recommended!  Enjoy!  Under Light was released via The Ghost Is Clear records on June 23rd, 2021!

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Heel Turn-Death Calls, Fear Ceases Cassette (2019)

Country: USA
Genre: Hardcore, Punk, Metal, Noise Rock
Label: The Ghost Is Clear Records
Tracks: 3
Length: 12.05'

Heel Turn is a four piece band from Huntsville, Alabama who formed in 2017, from the looks of things.  Heel Turn play a killer style of music that incorporates elements of hardcore, punk, metal, and noise rock within their sound.  Musically, Heel Turn can be loosely compared to bands such as Axis, Black God, Black Cross, Breather Resist, Fight Amp, and other like-minded bands.  Since forming in 2017, Heel Turn have released a six track EP titled Territories in April of 2018. Death Calls, Fear Ceases is the band's latest EP, which was released on February 5th, 2019.  On Death Calls, Fear Ceases, Heel Turn offer up three tracks of brutal as fuck sounding hardcore, punk, metal, and noise rock.  Overall, Death Calls, Fear Ceases makes for an awesome listen and definitely should not be missed.  Highly recommended!  Enjoy!  Death Calls, Fear Ceases is slated for release via The Ghost Is Clear records at the end of February.

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Heel Turn-Territories EP (2018)

Heel Turn-Territories EP (2018)

Country: USA
Genre: Hardcore, Punk, Metal, Noise Rock
Label: Red Truth/Cut Short/Last Light Records
Tracks: 6
Length: 16.0'

Heel Turn is a four piece band from Huntsville, Alabama who formed in 2017, from the looks of things.  Heel Turn play a killer style of music that incorporates elements of hardcore, punk, metal, and noise rock within their sound.  Musically, Heel Turn can be loosely compared to bands such as Axis, Black God, Black Cross, Breather Resist, Fight Amp, and other like-minded bands.  Territories is the band's debut EP, which was released via Red Truth, Cut Short, and Last Light records on April 21st, 2018.  On Territories, Heel Turn offer up six tracks of brutal as fuck sounding hardcore, punk, metal, and noise rock.  Overall, Territories makes for an awesome listen and definitely should not be missed.  Great stuff!  Enjoy!

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LOGGERHEAD-Depths LP (2018)

Country: USA
Genre: Doom, Psychedelic Metal, Sludge, Stoner Metal
Label: Self-Released
Tracks: 5
Length: 27.35'

LOGGERHEAD is a musical project from Muscle Shoals, Alabama who started out in early 2018, from the looks of things. LOGGERHEAD consists of up to twelve members and the band plays a crushing and atmospheric style of music that incorporates elements of doom, psychedelic metal, sludge, and stoner metal within their sound.  Musically, LOGGERHEAD can be loosely compared to bands such as Ancient Sky, Drug Cult, Pallbearer, and other like-minded bands.  Depths is the band's debut LP, which was released on June 18th, 2018.  On Depths, LOGGERHEAD offer up five tracks of dark, ominous, oppressive, and atmospheric sounding doom, psychedelic metal, sludge, and stoner metal.  Overall, Depths makes for an awesome listen and definitely should not be missed.  Enjoy!

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(U.S.) Calques-Civilizing EP (2017)

Country: USA
Genre: Black Metal, Punk, Industrial, Experimental Noise
Label: Sentient Ruin Laboratories
Tracks: 5
Length: 24.55'

Dear Friends in the Press and Media worldwide -  we're happy to present you with the imminent release of Civilizing, the debut EP  by Alabama-based experimental raw black metal duo CALQUES.
Calques is an industrial/noise/punk/raw black metal band formed in 2016 in Montgomery, Alabama. Begotten within the crushing mental oppression of a decaying southern town, Calques decided to embrace what they most despised and use it as a weapon to face their most crushing miseries. Playing lo-fi black metal filtered through lurid and demented noise rock riffs and a vile shroud of harsh noise, Calques’ music is the sound of failure and of outcasts - of the deprived pushed into the red and their torment then channeled through the cheapest recording devices possible with the worst instruments available.
Within this hell-ridden framework of audial disembodiment, Calques have birthed their debut EP Civilizing - taking the lacerating approach to raw black metal of bands like Ildjarn and Bone Awl, and making it collide against the abrasive and nerve-wrecking raw punk of bands like Raw Nerve and Cult Ritual, and the noisy pedal and knob abuse of deviants like Gnaw Their Tongues, The Body, and Sutekh Hexen, and finally, choking out everything in a mangled and sanguine strangulation of completely collapsing and self-harming noise rock deviancy that brings to mind the glorious days of Butthole Surfers and Today Is The Day. (Press Note)

*This is some amazing noise damaged raw black metal, punk, and experimental noise.  Seriously, I can't begin to describe how good Civilizing is!  Highly recommended!  Enjoy!  Civilizing was released via Sentient Ruin Laboratories on October 13th, 2017.

 

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DRUG/Joyboy-Split Cassette (2017)

Country: USA
Genre: Post Punk, Punk, Shoegaze, Grunge
Label: Crass Lips
Tracks: 6
Length: 14.25'

Here's a killer split EP featuring Tampa Fla's DRUG and Brimingham, Alabama's Joyboy.  DRUG is a five piece band from Tampa, Florida who formed in November of 2014.  DRUG play a killer style of music that incorporates elements of post punk, garage punk, and shoegaze, and grunge within their sound.  Since forming in 2014, DRUG have released a five song EP titled Infinite Stimulant in May of 2016.  On their side of the split DRUG offer up two tracks of dark and moody post punk, garage punk, shoegaze, and grunge.  Next up on the split is Joyboy.  Joyboy is a three piece band from Birmingham, Alabama in 2016, by the looks of things.  Joyboy play a dark and frenetic style of post punk and garage punk.  On their side of the split, Joyboy offer up four tracks of dark and moody post punk and garage punk.  Overall, this is an awesome split EP and definitely should not be missed.  Highly recommended!  This split was released via Crass Lips records on May 19th, 2017.

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DRUG-Infinite Stimulant EP (2016) 

Oracle-Beyond Omega LP (2016)

Country: USA
Genre: Death Metal, Black Metal, Grindcore
Label: Self-Released
Tracks: 10
Length: 41.0'

Oracle is a four piece band from Mobile, Alabama who formed in May of 2016.  Oracle play a vicious and heavy as fuck style of music that incorporates elements of death metal, black metal, and grindcore within their sound.  Musically, Oracle can be loosely compared to bands such as Yellow Eyes, Cemetery Piss, Fulgora, Dillinger Escape Plan, and other like-minded bands.  Beyond Omega is the band's latest full-length LP, which was released this past summer.  Beyond Omega features ten tracks of technically proficient death metal and black metal punctuated with touches of grindcore thrown in for good measure.  Overall, Beyond Omega makes for a killer listen.  Highly recommended!  Enjoy!

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Null-Sleepwalking Days LP (2016)

Country: USA
Genre: Post Punk, Grunge, Death Rock
Label: IFB/ Salt Pepper/Social Cancer Records
Tracks: 6
Length: 36.0'

Null is a four piece band from Birmingham, Alabama who formed in 2014, from the looks of things.  Null play a killer style of music that incorporates elements of post punk, death rock, and grunge within their sound.  Null's music has a cool hazy/psychedelic vibe, which gives the band a somber, dark, and gloomy vibe.  Musically, Null can be loosely compared to bands such as All The Saints, Destruction Unit, and True Widow.  Sleepwalking Days is the band's debut LP, which was released via IFB, Salt Pepper and Social Cancer records on March 25th, 2016.  On Sleepwalking Days, Null offers up six tracks of killer post punk, grunge, and death rock.  Overall, Sleepwalking Days is a killer LP and should not be missed.  Highly recommended!  Enjoy!

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Self Defense Family/Null-Split 7" (2016)

On this split effort, SDF augment their ever-growing catalog of output with another melancholy and affecting tune. Combining melody, repetition, and offset male and female vocals with varied instrumentation; this song continues their history of creativity in an often generic musical landscape. Null bring forth a somewhat darker, layered, and yet more minimalistic track, with a bit of a doomy, experimental, almost post-punk meets funeral feel. Mastered by Will Killingsworth at Dead Air Studios. Each record comes with a download code. (Press Note)

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Black Hole Kids-Easy Masks 12" (2015)

Country: USA
Genre: Hardcore, Punk, Crust, Post Hardcore, Screamo
Label: Social Cancer
Tracks: 6
Length: 17.0'

Black Hole Kids are a Birmingham, Alabama based band who formed in early 2010.  Black Hole Kids play a killer style of music that incorporates elements of hardcore, punk, crust, post hardcore, and screamo within their sound.  Black Hole Kids cite Void, Orchid, Black Flag, Shotmaker, Ekkaia, Death Wish Kids, Portraits of Past, Big Black, La Casa Fantom, pg.99, His Hero Is Gone, Sonic Youth, City of Caterpillar, Merkit, Deep Wound, Öroku, Minor Threat, Thomas Wolfe, Rebel Truth, Union of Uranus, Poison Idea, Anti-Cimex, Hüsker Dü, Cut The Shit, The Germs, Hot Snakes, Das Oath, Art Bell, and Samhain as influences, which is definitely a good thing in my book.  I also get a killer Wolves, Sinaloa, and Life At These Speeds vibe, which totally sells me on Black Hole Kids' sound as well.  Since their inception in 2010, Black Hole Kids have released a self-titled four song demo in March of 2010, a five song 7" titled Dull Conjecture in June of 2011, a two song cassette EP titled Prothesis Volume 1 in April of 2012, and a split cassette with Holiness Church Of The Valley.  Easy Masks is Black Hole Kids' latest six song 12" which is slated for release via Social Cancer records on September 10th, 2015.  On Easy Masks, Black Hole Kids offer up six tracks of brilliantly executed hardcore, punk, crust, screamo, and post hardcore that's an absolute must listen for fans of Life At These Speeds, Sinaloa, Books Of Caverns, Comadre.  Overall, Easy Masks is a fantastic album and should not be missed.  Highly recommended!  Enjoy!

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