TAKE THIS TOWN - Waking Dream

GENRE - Blackened Hardcore, Metal, Doom, Sludge
FFO - Rorcal, Celeste, Oathbreaker
D/L - Zippyshare or Bandcamp
FACEBOOK

Take This Town is a four-piece band from the Bavarian Forest in Germany that draws influences from black metal, sludge, doom and hardcore. They released their second EP last year, Waking Dream. While only 3 songs, it clocks in at over 13 minutes, and none of it is filler. The terrifyingly intense vocals create a great harmony with the hypnotic, sludge-like rhythm section. The only bad thing I can say about it is that there are not enough songs. Hopefully they make more.

CURSED EARTH - Vae Mortis

GENRE - Hardcore, Punk, Metal
FFO - Entombed, Black Breath, Code Orange Kids, Harms Way
D/L - Zippyshare or Bandcamp
FACEBOOK - YOUTUBE

Fuck, another amazing band from Australia. Cursed Earth is a female-fronted hardcore band from Perth. I'm seriously loving everything from Australia these days. Like Caged Grave and Removalist, this band straddles the line of so many genre's perfectly. Sort of like how Nails can be described as 10 different things at the same time, that's how this band is. Catchy, heavy and mean. That, and the badass cover art makes this a no-brainer.

THE BLONDE TONGUES - New Air Blues

GENRE - Punk, Rock
FFO - Rocket From The Crypt, Burning Love
D/L - Mediafire or Bandcamp
FACEBOOK - BIG CARTEL

The Blonde Tongues is a fairly new band that formed late last year in Tampa, FL with members of Florida's Reveal Renew, The Dead Legs & Sleep Patterns. They list their genre as simply "Rock", and I suppose that's fairly accurate. But this 4-song EP is much better than most "rock" you hear these days. Incredibly catchy, mid-tempo stuff that manages to sound nostalgic and brand new at the same time. The band screams "Florida", yet seems "California" too. Very weird, but very cool. They'll have a new record coming out soon too, I'm going to be looking out for it.

RORCAL / PROCESS OF GUILT - Split

GENRE - Black Metal, Doom, Drone, Crust
FFO - Cult Of Occult, Sumac, SUNN O)))
D/L - Zippyshare or Bandcamp
PURCHASE

I'm a little late on this one, but here's a great split if you are into Doom-y Crust stuff. Rorcal is from Geneva, Switzerland and formed in 2006. Lately they have become obsessively dark and heavy, Like its source of inspiration, Rorcal music has no boundaries, When Doom turns into Black, you can't expect anything but chaos. Process of Guilt started their existence in early 2002 having their foundations firmly based in doom and dark music. Process of Guilt paint desolate sonic landscapes and dig their own place in the scene even deeper. After a first premonitory meeting at the first edition of Amplifest in Portugal in 2011, Process of Guilt and Rorcal finally joined forces to present this split on Lost Pilgrim Records. Limited to 666 copies, you can still pick the LP up at the label's Bandcamp.

ADED - Monstrum

GENRE - Metal, Experimental, Hardcore, Mathcore
FFO - The Rodeo Idiot Engine, KEN mode, Oblivionized
D/L - Zippyshare or Bandcamp
FACEBOOK

Check out this 4-song EP from ADED, a project that isn't strictly mathcore, but definitely inspired by it. The recording and production is super compact and precise, but brutal at the same time. These songs give off a feeling that they were created in the bowels of some deep, dark factory somewhere. There's an overwhelming mechanical/industrial vibe to them that works really well with the hardcore aspect of the music. If David Lynch was into metal, I would imagine that this is what he would listen to.

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.