CHOKE - War Of The Suburbs

GENRE - Punk, Hardcore, Powerviolence
FFO - Caged Grave, Harm's Way, Left For Dead
D/L - Zippyshare or Bandcamp
FACEBOOK

Choke is yet another great hardcore band from Australia, located on the Central Coast of New South Wales to be exact. They draw their influences from Cali punk, 90's powerviolence and Australian hardcore. Their first 12" LP will be out later this year, but until then, check out their 5-song "War Of The Suburbs" 7", and buy it if you like it. They also have a cool shirt for sale in their merch section on Bandcamp. 

STORM OF SEDITION - S/T

GENRE - Metal, Anarcho-Punk, Crust
FFO - Alpinist, Jungbluth, Cursed
D/L - Zippyshare or Bandcamp
FACEBOOK - BLOG

When I first heard this cassette I would have bet anything that this band was from Berlin. That's just how good of a crust-punk band this is. But in fact, Storm Of Sedition is a DIY green-anarchist punk band based out of Victoria BC, Canada. Their bio states they aim to spread through their music, the hatred of civilization, domestication, and control, while promoting resistance to the techno-industrial capitalist system. Check out their blog for more info if you are into that sort of stuff, and grab this free download because it is fucking fantastic. Seriously, the recording and production is near-perfect. Also, they have a new LP in the works for 2015. Pressing 1,000 for North America and possibly Europe as well. If you have a DIY label and you're interested in helping with this release, email them at stormofsedition@riseup.net

SHOTO - S/T

GENRE - Grindcore, Mathcore, Metal, Sludge
FFO - Bleed The Pigs, Pyramido, Plebeian Grandstand
D/L - Mediafire or Bandcamp
FACEBOOK

SHOTO is a kind of chaotic sludge band from Kalamazoo, MI featuring current/ex members of Sender Receiver, Seventeen Again, The Reptilian and William Bonney. Really cool stuff that goes from super heavy, bludgeoning sludge to complicated instrumentals almost effortlessly. Check it out if you even remotely like the bands I listed above.

JUST A SMALL UPDATE

Hello everyone, just wanted to let you know that I've been trying to go through all my old band submissions to the blog going back a few months, so you might start to see things popping up here that may be older, or maybe that you've seen on other blogs. So sorry for that but I feel like I owe it to the bands to at least mention them. Still trying to get back into a posting schedule, which I have failed at, again. But shit happens. Thanks for hanging around.

Don't forget to check out the Recommended Blog list on the left, it's updated in real time when those sites post something new. And if you found some good shit somewhere, drop a link in the chatbox on the right.

HUMAN BODIES - No Life

GENRE: Raw Black Metal, Punk
FFO: Young And In The Way, Moral Void, Funeral Chic
D/L: Zippyshare or Bandcamp
FACEBOOK

Shit. It has been a long time since I've posted. Sorry about this. Too much shit going on in real life. But I'm going to try to post more, and hope to have a new contributor that will be very welcomed. I have so many fucking band submissions in my inbox I don't even know where to start, so I'm just going to start off by posting about the bands I've been listening to a lot recently. So here is the newest from Human Bodies. This might be an older recording but if my memory is correct, it just got released earlier this year. Either way it rips. I still listen to this weekly when I'm pissed off at work. It's just great metallic punk from Boston that sounds like it's from the depths of North Carolina (that's a good thing). Nothing better than toe-tapping hardcore.

THE DEATH OF 2014 - Compilation // Best Of...

Even though this blog completely caved in on itself this year, I thought that the least I could do was provide you with some music that I really, really dug this year. There was a shit-load of amazing releases, but for whatever reason, these 20 bands are the ones I found myself listening to the most. I put together a compilation of 1 track from each band, in alphabetical order, so nobody gets pissed off at me. Download from Bandcamp or alternatively, from Zippyshare. Links to the individual releases can be found below the player, so if you hear something you like, click those links and buy their shit. Enjoy or die.

NEGLECTED - I

GENRE: Powerviolence, Grindcore
FFO: D.O.C., Iron Lung, SFN
BANDCAMP

NEGLECTED are a Noisy, heavy and devotional Powerviolence band from Istanbul, Turkey. Their album concists of two tracks simply entitled "I" and "II". Each Track contains 5 short, smashing songs. Their Sets are played without brakes or talking, just straight forward and direct. The Lyrics are an extremely negative view of a fucked up world, a fucked up mind and generally about fucked up things. Really worth a listen if you want music that crushes you in an angry, violent way.

AL-KAFIR - Prozac

GENRE: Powerviolence, Noisegrind, Sludge
FFO: Water Torture, Weak-Dying, Hailnothing
D/L: Zippyshare or Bandcamp
BANDCAMP
BIGCARTEL

Al-Kafir, from Richmond, VA, play destructive Bass & Drum Violence. The name of the band comes from the Arab word "Kafir" wich means "non believer" or "Godless". Worth a listen if you like pissed off and fucked up noisy music.

PRAY FOR TEETH - From The Dry Edge Of The Shore

GENRE: Post Rock, Post HC, Sludge
FFO: Cult of Luna, Light Bearer, Alaskan
D/L: Zippyshare or Bandcamp
FACEBOOK
BANDCAMP
MERCH

PRAY FOR TEETH are a Doomish post HC band from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

With the intensity of their music, they can be compared with genre masters Cult of Luna, Alaskan and late Fall of Efrafa. Beautiful Post Rock.. Heavy Sludge/HC parts... Desperate shouting vocals.

In my Opinion one of the best bands of this genre. The genre mentioned on their own Bandcamp page just says: Punk. And in the spirit of Punk they put out all their records in a "Name your Price" policy.

So take a look at this highly recommendable band!

DECLIVE - Discography

GENRE: Raw Punk, Hardcorepunk
FFO: The Flex, Poison Idea, Creem, Hoax
FACEBOOK
BANDCAMP
D/L.:Declive - Discography

DECLIVE are a four piece chilean band, they played a most 80's raw punk styles in a some punks bands like Creem or The Flex way's, the spirit of punk is alive in these guys.

The sound of the band is the same garage punk bands with a violent vocalization and dynamic riffs, energetic guitars and haunting rhythmic base, bass and drums quite cohesive. They have personal lyricals, apathetics and nihilistics,

DECLIVE represents a fresh air in the local scene. Essential.