WVRM - Where All Light Dies

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This just made my fucking weekend. WVRM literally just released a new album, and it's one of the best things that will ever be featured on this blog. I was completely blown away by their debut 'Despair' late last year, and now, just a few months later, they spew out 8 more songs of hammering crust/hardcore. Unbelievable. The production on this new album is absolutely perfect, in my opinion. You could play this for anyone and tell them it's the newest thing on Southern Lord and no one would question you. If you haven't heard WVRM before, you can expect something akin to The Secret, Nails, Trap Them or Dead In The Dirt. Cassette copies of their debut are still available, I can only hope that this new album gets some sort of physical release as well. For now, you can find it on Bandcamp with a "name your price" option, so feel free to give them some $$$ for all their hard work. While it's far too early to call this a best of 2014 candidate, I can guarantee you that it ends up on my year end list. Excuse me while I go listen to this 100 more times.

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WHERE ALL LIGHT DIES (2014)

1. Smell Ov Old Graves

2. Worse Than Alone

3. Carolina

4. Assisted Suicide

5. Noose Man

6. XIIXII

7. Wounded Dog

8. A Casket To Call Home

BOXCUTTER FACELIFT // DEMORALIZER - Split

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Check out this split from 2 insane grindcore bands from Massachusetts. Boxcutter Facelift are self proclaimed metal hermits that are here to sing you songs of hate that are fast, short and weird. Demoralizer brings the doomy grinding death. Their tunes are also fast, short and heavy and may cause you to embarrassingly shit yourself. 

The split is available on Bandcamp, Boxcutter Facelift's side is a "name your price" download and Demoralizer's is free.

SCARE TACTIC - Demo

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Scare Tactic is a 4-piece harcore/crust-band from Bremen, Germany that just released this KILLER demo. Comparisons can be made to their German brethren Depravation & Deathrite but this demo comes off as a LOT darker and more pissed off than even those bands. Plus, they've got a HUGE Cursed/Swarm/Left For Dead vibe going on with these 3 songs, so you know they've already won a spot in my heart. Get this now.

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DEMO (2014)

1. Born Free

2. Days Are Numbered

3. The Last

CRUTCHES - Lurad

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Political D-Beat punk at it's finest, courtesy of Sweden's CRUTCHES. They just released an LP that will have you putting on your cone-studded vest and starting a pit in your bedroom. Total crust anarchy. For fans of Discharge, GBH etc etc... The 12" will be available for purchase any day now at either Phobia Records, Distro-y Records, Not Enough or Rawmantic Disasters.

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LURAD - LP (2014)

1. Intro / Chaos Squad

2. Down The Drain

3. Egna Ben

4. Forever Stoked

5. Interlude

6. Framtiden

7. Arbetarjavel

8. Mera

9. Absolution

10. Lurad

IWAKURA - Demos

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Iwakura is an emo/power-violence & hardcore band from Denver, CO. Beyond that they are a mystery to me. If these truly are demos, they are incredibly well-done demos. These 3 frenzied songs make me nervous, and that's a good thing. Drop any info you have on this band in the comments.

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DEMOS (2014)

1. North

2. Amber Teeth, Splintered

3. A Paper Mantis

UPHEAVAL - Ancient Slumber Demo

I'm not gonna spend too much time on this one. As annoying as it is that Upheaval threw up one big track containing a bunch of demos on Bandcamp, it's still pretty damn good. Worth a listen if for nothing else than to keep them on your radar. Hopefully they put out a proper release in the future.

WEAPONS OF SELF-DESTRUCTION - VOL 2

Here's an insanely heavy label sampler from Kaotoxin Records, an extreme Metal label from Lille, France, focusing on Death Metal and Grindcore and all their subgenres (Brutal Death, Goregrind, etc.).

HEAD SPLIT - Demo

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Head Split (fka Torchbearer) are from Central Massachusetts. What do they sound like? Just take a look at their demo cover art above. They are the demon and you are the motherfucker that is getting eaten alive. This is some straight-up killer crossover hardcore. Much more produced and much more metallic that what I usually post here, but who out there doesn't need some metal every now and then? This band has only been around for half a year, and if they are already spitting out this kind of quality stuff, I can only imagine what's next.

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DEMO - CD (2014)

1. The Crystal Wizard

2. Young And Ruthless

3. Honor Among Thieves

NEQUIENT - Not Being Able

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Man, this 6-song demo from Chicago's Nequient gets meaner & filthier with every track. Insane, vile dual-vocals, speaker shredding guitars & drums that never slow down is what you're going to have here. Listing influences as Disfear, Disrupt, Wolfbrigade, Victims, Doom & Skitsystem, the band is made up of current and past members of: Blood of the Tyrant, Deus Absconditus, Heaving Mass, Lost Dog, Nucleus, Trifog and Urethra Franklin & the Ghetto Children. Celebrate the Sabbath with Nequient.

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NOT BEING ABLE - DEMO (2014)

1. Anti-Life

2. Pigs Meat

3. Comfortable Disease

4. Empowered Cancer

5. Stravinsky Riot

6. DogEatDog

CROSS BUILDER - MMXIII [Update]

Just a heads up on this. I had previously posted about Cross Builder and their fantastic EP that they released last year. At the time it was only available in streaming form, but now the label has put it up for a free download on their own Bandcamp page. You definitely want to grab this.