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It Malcolm Middleton by the way. The song is called "We Are All Going To Die"
I hate Christmas.
Friday, 26 December 2008
Sunday, 21 December 2008
Tuesday, 16 December 2008
WHAT OLIVER RECKONED WOZ GOOD THIS YEAR..........
After a very lengthy 5 minutes or so of hard..HARD thinking. I have decided that these are probally the most listened to albums and liked by myself and anyone else forced to listen to them on visits to my house of this year.
Cursed - III: Architects Of Troubled Sleep
Yes, yes yes and yes. Like most people I heard this on the unmastered rip that got leaked onto the net a few months before its release..but fuck me..even then it was viscous. Cursed have always ruled, every album being a step on from the previous. III was no exception at all. Expanding on all the elements they displayed on I and II but pushing them ina more extreme direction. Compelte, aggro, pissed of hardcore with intelligence and vision. Still gutted they split up.
Aquila - Demo 08
A recent find in the last month but one which I am more than happy to add to this list as it demonstrates the capabilities of a simple setup ( bass + drums + voice) and shows what can be done with it. Moving away from the noisier end of power trios and drawing on melody and alternative rock. Its a really well crafted set of songs that incorporate effects, noise, melody and harmony's to great effect. Also there chicks. So it wins on that score as well.
Rolo Tomassi - Hysterics
They did it, they produced a album, more out there and intelligent than the EP with media and press attention all over them. Seriously, some of the most talented kids I have ever had the pleasure of watching and spending time with. "Hysterics" has some of the most technical, well written, abstract music on it that you will hear all year or the next. This completly restored my faith in the youth of today for about 10 mins before I had to leave the house. But an awesome album.
Woven Hand - Ten Stones
If you don't know Woven Hand then I am not going to describe them for you, this album is awesome. Simple as.
Desalvo - Mood Poisoner
A band I had overlooked quite a lot until I was sent this album. Featuring a frontman with a David Yow thing going on and some screechy vocals and sharing a guitarist with indie muppets Idlewild. Desalvo are so good. Angry, angular noise rock with some nice metal touches. It all depends on if you like the sound of Norma Jean crossed with The Jesus Lizard and Today is The Day. I do, so thats why this is so good.
Trap Them - Siezures In Barren Praise
They came, they ruled, they carried on ruling. I thought "Seance Prime" was good, but "Siezures..." smashed that away. I have heard them descrived as "Entombed, for people that missed Entombed first time around" which is a fair point but they deserve a lot more credit. How can a band that features ex-members of Backstabbers Inc, December Wolves and The Red Chord be bad at all? Thats right, it can't!
Mega filthy, crusty, dis-influenced hardcore that destroys everything. Just wait for the final track " Mission Convincers" to kick in and you will understand.
Enslaved - Vertebrae
I was pretty late getting into Enslaved, only a few years ago really. So I then worked back, and then forwards through there back catalogue. "Vertebrae" is the pinnacle of there career, the perfect, progressive, black metal influenced, modern, extreme metal album. Any band that reminds me of Rush on the opening track is a winner, and you can't fail to be won over by the chorus of "New Dawn" when it kicks in. Most highest recommended.
There you go...what Oliver reckons he likes...it will more than likely change..but thats cool, your all dicks. Nothing you do will ever be as good as this....
Not at all.
Cursed - III: Architects Of Troubled Sleep
Yes, yes yes and yes. Like most people I heard this on the unmastered rip that got leaked onto the net a few months before its release..but fuck me..even then it was viscous. Cursed have always ruled, every album being a step on from the previous. III was no exception at all. Expanding on all the elements they displayed on I and II but pushing them ina more extreme direction. Compelte, aggro, pissed of hardcore with intelligence and vision. Still gutted they split up.
Aquila - Demo 08
A recent find in the last month but one which I am more than happy to add to this list as it demonstrates the capabilities of a simple setup ( bass + drums + voice) and shows what can be done with it. Moving away from the noisier end of power trios and drawing on melody and alternative rock. Its a really well crafted set of songs that incorporate effects, noise, melody and harmony's to great effect. Also there chicks. So it wins on that score as well.
Rolo Tomassi - Hysterics
They did it, they produced a album, more out there and intelligent than the EP with media and press attention all over them. Seriously, some of the most talented kids I have ever had the pleasure of watching and spending time with. "Hysterics" has some of the most technical, well written, abstract music on it that you will hear all year or the next. This completly restored my faith in the youth of today for about 10 mins before I had to leave the house. But an awesome album.
Woven Hand - Ten Stones
If you don't know Woven Hand then I am not going to describe them for you, this album is awesome. Simple as.
Desalvo - Mood Poisoner
A band I had overlooked quite a lot until I was sent this album. Featuring a frontman with a David Yow thing going on and some screechy vocals and sharing a guitarist with indie muppets Idlewild. Desalvo are so good. Angry, angular noise rock with some nice metal touches. It all depends on if you like the sound of Norma Jean crossed with The Jesus Lizard and Today is The Day. I do, so thats why this is so good.
Trap Them - Siezures In Barren Praise
They came, they ruled, they carried on ruling. I thought "Seance Prime" was good, but "Siezures..." smashed that away. I have heard them descrived as "Entombed, for people that missed Entombed first time around" which is a fair point but they deserve a lot more credit. How can a band that features ex-members of Backstabbers Inc, December Wolves and The Red Chord be bad at all? Thats right, it can't!
Mega filthy, crusty, dis-influenced hardcore that destroys everything. Just wait for the final track " Mission Convincers" to kick in and you will understand.
Enslaved - Vertebrae
I was pretty late getting into Enslaved, only a few years ago really. So I then worked back, and then forwards through there back catalogue. "Vertebrae" is the pinnacle of there career, the perfect, progressive, black metal influenced, modern, extreme metal album. Any band that reminds me of Rush on the opening track is a winner, and you can't fail to be won over by the chorus of "New Dawn" when it kicks in. Most highest recommended.
There you go...what Oliver reckons he likes...it will more than likely change..but thats cool, your all dicks. Nothing you do will ever be as good as this....
Not at all.
Saturday, 13 December 2008
Best Music Video...Just Because.....
...at this point in time it is....Watch.
How much fun is it to be a kid?
The band is Fang Island ( i believe they share a member with Daughters), this is pretty much what they sound like. This is from a Corleone Records DVD I got sent a while back.
Buy Corleone DVD NOW!
It a worthwhile investment.
How much fun is it to be a kid?
The band is Fang Island ( i believe they share a member with Daughters), this is pretty much what they sound like. This is from a Corleone Records DVD I got sent a while back.
Buy Corleone DVD NOW!
It a worthwhile investment.
Thursday, 11 December 2008
Dracula's Soul Brother..............
...I wish. Blackula, good work. Anyhow after the ATP visit at the weekend something dawned on me that I thought I might rant about. My lack of stamina/drive/interest at watching live music. Over the years I have gradually become quite cold to a lot of live music. It seems that only bands I really, really like or know get watched by me. Even then I find it hard work at times and my attention wanders. Is it because the bands are shit? No, some of them are blindingly amazing. i havn't really been able to put my finger on what it is. The common sense tells me the numerous tours and lengths of time spending every single night for 2 months in a row watching local (and not always very good) bands may have something to do with it.
Its really when watching Mastodon and Melvins at ATP. 2 bands that I really love but I found it so hard for it to hold my attention any length of time, even tho they both played well despite Mastodon being minus a guitar player.
So will it get worse over time? Or be a passing phase? I really don't know. I still enjoy playing in my bands and being onstage, its the watching of other bands that I struggle with. maybe I need to see something that will inspire me again, a band that will kick my teeth out and make me realise how awesome live music is.
Any suggestions?
Well as far as Oliver's musical pick is on this posting...do you like Conan The Barbarian? Do you like power violence? Do you like stolen rock riffs and shouting?
Well you will love Crom. This album is most defo my favourite. Full of stolen riffs, sludge, tons of Conan and metal samples and enough wierdness to get your head scratching. It features some of the best artwork ever ( where else can you witness a FF style airbrushed painting of a barbarian snorting lines of coke of the ice?)
and did at one point feature a certain Greg Anderson if rumours permits.
Anyhow dickheads..enjoy...
Crom - The Cocaine Wars 1974 - 1989
YES!
Its really when watching Mastodon and Melvins at ATP. 2 bands that I really love but I found it so hard for it to hold my attention any length of time, even tho they both played well despite Mastodon being minus a guitar player.
So will it get worse over time? Or be a passing phase? I really don't know. I still enjoy playing in my bands and being onstage, its the watching of other bands that I struggle with. maybe I need to see something that will inspire me again, a band that will kick my teeth out and make me realise how awesome live music is.
Any suggestions?
Well as far as Oliver's musical pick is on this posting...do you like Conan The Barbarian? Do you like power violence? Do you like stolen rock riffs and shouting?
Well you will love Crom. This album is most defo my favourite. Full of stolen riffs, sludge, tons of Conan and metal samples and enough wierdness to get your head scratching. It features some of the best artwork ever ( where else can you witness a FF style airbrushed painting of a barbarian snorting lines of coke of the ice?)
and did at one point feature a certain Greg Anderson if rumours permits.
Anyhow dickheads..enjoy...
Crom - The Cocaine Wars 1974 - 1989
YES!
Wednesday, 10 December 2008
ATP residue...........
Well, my first ever experience of All Tommorows Parties more than lived upto my expectations. The party was brought and abused by everyone, and even strangers.
Despite a long drive down on Friday morning after work ( and a 4:30AM start) I did get to enjoy Big Business and catch up with some folk before Torche played. This band destroys live, perfect sound, awesome performance, good spot to watch from and they played every song I would want them to.
Fantomas played, and palyed an entire set of "The Directors Cut" material, minus Dave Lombardo and replaced by a spot on, note for note Dale Crower. My friend saw Terry Bozzio (session player extrodanaire) playing for Fantomas in london this year and said Dale wiped the floor with him. Melvins played 3 whole sets that spanned there entire career, Joe Lally did his folk/solo stuff, Isis bored me. You know that scene in "Repo Man" where Emilio Estevez is watching The Circle Jerks as that lounge band in the bar and remarks how he can't believe he used to like them? Well that was me watching (very, very, very briefly) Isis, not bad but I don't know where the band I liked went to. Farmers Market, Meat Puppets, Butthole Surfers and Rahzeal all played. Good good stuff indeed. Its seriously one of the best run, well organised festivals ever, arcades, golf, booze, food, music and tons of dickheads to annoy. Can't be beaten. I do have some pictures that will make it up at somepoint. For now just use your feeble imaginations.
So in celebration of this event I have some music for you...thanks to the fine Lo Res Viscera blog...current personel favourites...
Trash Talk - S/T - awesome modern powerviolence/fastcore played with honesty.
Coalesce - Live Set, Philly 05 - One of my most favourite bands ever and this set just destroys. You need Coalesce in your life. There's bands before them, there's bands after them but no one else is Coalesce.
Despite a long drive down on Friday morning after work ( and a 4:30AM start) I did get to enjoy Big Business and catch up with some folk before Torche played. This band destroys live, perfect sound, awesome performance, good spot to watch from and they played every song I would want them to.
Fantomas played, and palyed an entire set of "The Directors Cut" material, minus Dave Lombardo and replaced by a spot on, note for note Dale Crower. My friend saw Terry Bozzio (session player extrodanaire) playing for Fantomas in london this year and said Dale wiped the floor with him. Melvins played 3 whole sets that spanned there entire career, Joe Lally did his folk/solo stuff, Isis bored me. You know that scene in "Repo Man" where Emilio Estevez is watching The Circle Jerks as that lounge band in the bar and remarks how he can't believe he used to like them? Well that was me watching (very, very, very briefly) Isis, not bad but I don't know where the band I liked went to. Farmers Market, Meat Puppets, Butthole Surfers and Rahzeal all played. Good good stuff indeed. Its seriously one of the best run, well organised festivals ever, arcades, golf, booze, food, music and tons of dickheads to annoy. Can't be beaten. I do have some pictures that will make it up at somepoint. For now just use your feeble imaginations.
So in celebration of this event I have some music for you...thanks to the fine Lo Res Viscera blog...current personel favourites...
Trash Talk - S/T - awesome modern powerviolence/fastcore played with honesty.
Coalesce - Live Set, Philly 05 - One of my most favourite bands ever and this set just destroys. You need Coalesce in your life. There's bands before them, there's bands after them but no one else is Coalesce.
Wednesday, 3 December 2008
DBM aggro smash up
Those days where everything annoys you, and doesn't really help when added to the problems you always carry around. Its one of those days.
So in honour of this triumph in despair and bleakness I have posted up some music that is equal parts aggro and bleak.
People bang on about tuff guy hardcore these days, the amount of kids who think its cool to pretend to be tough when a strong wind would blow them over is ridiculous at times. Fuck em all. Haymaker will always triumph.
Haymaker where another band in the long line of quality Canadian hardcore. They where tough, so tough in fact that they only played a few shows a year as venues where constantly smashed, fights happenned all the time and fireworks and actual fire happenned on more than one occasion. So Tough that they couldn't play outside of Canada because of certain members criminal convictions ( hence the Fuck America 7" ) and so tough that no promoter would touch them and so tough that they featured members of Cursed.
Well here is the first 12" they released in 2002. They released a load of other 7" and splits but this is where its at....
Haymaker - S/T 12"
Secondly is a recent discovery by myself. Forgotten Tombs are a depressive BM project from Italy. Sorta closer to very old Katatonia ( not the shit band fronted by that Welsh bint) with more melancholy and self hatred coursing through there veins. The cover art wins everytime...Naked girl + blood + bath tub + cable ties.
Nothing really else to add. Very dark and moody, slightly better production than most DBM but that only helps the dark melody of it all.
Forgotten Tombs - Songs To Leave
Thats it......
So in honour of this triumph in despair and bleakness I have posted up some music that is equal parts aggro and bleak.
People bang on about tuff guy hardcore these days, the amount of kids who think its cool to pretend to be tough when a strong wind would blow them over is ridiculous at times. Fuck em all. Haymaker will always triumph.
Haymaker where another band in the long line of quality Canadian hardcore. They where tough, so tough in fact that they only played a few shows a year as venues where constantly smashed, fights happenned all the time and fireworks and actual fire happenned on more than one occasion. So Tough that they couldn't play outside of Canada because of certain members criminal convictions ( hence the Fuck America 7" ) and so tough that no promoter would touch them and so tough that they featured members of Cursed.
Well here is the first 12" they released in 2002. They released a load of other 7" and splits but this is where its at....
Haymaker - S/T 12"
Secondly is a recent discovery by myself. Forgotten Tombs are a depressive BM project from Italy. Sorta closer to very old Katatonia ( not the shit band fronted by that Welsh bint) with more melancholy and self hatred coursing through there veins. The cover art wins everytime...Naked girl + blood + bath tub + cable ties.
Nothing really else to add. Very dark and moody, slightly better production than most DBM but that only helps the dark melody of it all.
Forgotten Tombs - Songs To Leave
Thats it......
Monday, 1 December 2008
The Vultures Are Circling
Well, I finally got around to updating this thing. Like that song LL Cool J wrote for the shark travesty of film that is Deep Blue Sea, about a fucking SHARK! That plays over the end credits and spoils what was already a shite film, and makes it even worse.
Anyhow, I have returned from tour...bossanova. Satori and Nadja where gentlemen ( and gentleladies) to us and we got treated like the kings we think we are. Despite the usual tour happennings of fucked vans, horrible weather and London parking/traffic it was a success. Satori are mesmerising in the live setting with the visuals they incorporate and Nadja transcend a lot of regular guitar/noise stuff with the sheer crushing melody and fragile atmosphere they create, Aiden and Leah are superb.
Edingburgh was a success. Top gig, Russel Black Sun and Polish neo-nazis made an appearance. I also met William Bennet of Whitehouse fame, really nice guy, nothing like you would expect. He ( according to the promoter Nick ) loves Guitar Hero and is a master at it. Speaking of Nick, he introduced me to the awesome dirge of Drunks With Guns, search the info out..immense, ahead of there time and aggro as fuck. I uploaded the lbum for you dicks here.....
DRUNKS WITH GUNS - Second Verses
Anyhow...the tour carried on and despite the biggest travesty I have ever heard of ( Mogwai Djing at a venue we played at to be paid 1500 rips and only playing 2 records!) was superb. We sold tons of merch and sounded louder than most people could ever understand. Matt got immensly hammered, so did I, abused people, played loud, fell over, got into arguments, abused the AA ( karma ) and stole stuff.
But there should be a video up on Youtube from the Coventry gig shortly, it involved us using Satori's projector and DVD player to show Kieth Lemmon on the wall next to us while we played in our underwear. At the time it was funny. Also this footage from the London Underworld gig.....bossanova.
The Ergon Carousel have begun booking gigs for the New Year and we did a photoshoot with my good friend Macky on Sunday, as magazines are banging on about some kind of pictures. Look out for them shortly.
Road trip to ATP on Friday. Plus 3 whole sets from the Melvins over the weekend spanning there entire career. Fuck your god dickheads.
Great Success.
Anyhow, I have returned from tour...bossanova. Satori and Nadja where gentlemen ( and gentleladies) to us and we got treated like the kings we think we are. Despite the usual tour happennings of fucked vans, horrible weather and London parking/traffic it was a success. Satori are mesmerising in the live setting with the visuals they incorporate and Nadja transcend a lot of regular guitar/noise stuff with the sheer crushing melody and fragile atmosphere they create, Aiden and Leah are superb.
Edingburgh was a success. Top gig, Russel Black Sun and Polish neo-nazis made an appearance. I also met William Bennet of Whitehouse fame, really nice guy, nothing like you would expect. He ( according to the promoter Nick ) loves Guitar Hero and is a master at it. Speaking of Nick, he introduced me to the awesome dirge of Drunks With Guns, search the info out..immense, ahead of there time and aggro as fuck. I uploaded the lbum for you dicks here.....
DRUNKS WITH GUNS - Second Verses
Anyhow...the tour carried on and despite the biggest travesty I have ever heard of ( Mogwai Djing at a venue we played at to be paid 1500 rips and only playing 2 records!) was superb. We sold tons of merch and sounded louder than most people could ever understand. Matt got immensly hammered, so did I, abused people, played loud, fell over, got into arguments, abused the AA ( karma ) and stole stuff.
But there should be a video up on Youtube from the Coventry gig shortly, it involved us using Satori's projector and DVD player to show Kieth Lemmon on the wall next to us while we played in our underwear. At the time it was funny. Also this footage from the London Underworld gig.....bossanova.
The Ergon Carousel have begun booking gigs for the New Year and we did a photoshoot with my good friend Macky on Sunday, as magazines are banging on about some kind of pictures. Look out for them shortly.
Road trip to ATP on Friday. Plus 3 whole sets from the Melvins over the weekend spanning there entire career. Fuck your god dickheads.
Great Success.
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