ALBUMS THAT SHAPED OLIVER #4

Just aquick entry before I go off getting tattooed today is this album by Bloodlet. They existed in the late 90's, released a few albums on Victory Records, split up, got back together and released another album before splitting up for the last time.
They where the black sheep of the Victory roster. Dubbed by many as "Evilcore", there sound was a mixture of slowed down hardcore, dissonance, technicality and something approaching noise-rock. Add to this the fretless bass, the lo-fi production and the hoarse vocals and you have an album that is still as impressive as it was when I first heard it all those years ago. Certainly a oddity in the hardcore scene but definatly one of the most influenctial bands for me.

DOGMAN WITH HORNS




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ALBUMS THAT SHAPED OLIVER #3

Now its not really cool or underground in the slightest. But who cares about gay stuff like that. I bought this from a second hand record store in Blackpool when I was a kid. SOIA really deserve the title of hardcore godfathers in my opinion ( much more than Agnostic Funk ). People understand it, if you don't then you are to young.



WHO SETS THE RULES



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A DISGUST FOR DETAILS!

Coalesce tonight. Corperation in Sheffield.
So in honour of said event, I am putting the live set back up. Awesome sound quality.
This is from 2005 somewhere in Philly, USA.

Track Listing.....
1- Harvest of Maturity
2- One on the Ground
3- cowards.com
4- Blend as Well
5- Burn Everything That Bears Our Name
6- What Happens on the Road
7- A Safe Place
8- Jesus In The Year 2000 / Next On The Shit List
9- A Disgust For Details
10- 73-C
11- You Can't Kill Us All
12- My Love For Extremes

What More Do You Want From Me.........

We played a gig in Manchester last night with Melt Banana and Kong. Both bands where sweet. We sucked due to fighting each other onstage. Something that I imagine was pretty funny to watch. So as a ode to fighting here is some top notch fighting music....

Bracewar - Self Titled LP

Angry, mosh-tastic, fast hardcore. Members of Trash Talk included.
Being in a band is so ace/shit.
We are playing The Old Wharf in Birmingham on Sunday 17th ( this week) with Battletorn and Throats. both good. Lets hope we can make it as far as finishing a whole set this time.


FUCK YOU ALL.

Ah Temptation!

The new Coalesce album is available on some blogs. Well ahead of its release. What do I do? I need to hear it but I want to wait, but can I? Anyone that knows me knows how much I love this band. So the chance to hear new material before the release date is proving too tempting, bastards. I have the link sat in my bookmarks, taunting me.
I was exactly the same with the final Cursed album, I of course bought it when I could but I had to hear it before that day. This might be a similar situation.
But Oliver did get some bargains this week. From the unmined, treasure chest of charity shop shopping. Oxfam to be exact. For the price of 10 queen heads, I got....

Paul Simon - Gracelands LP
Rainbow - Rising LP
In/Humanity - The History Behind The Mystery LP + 7"

And 2 classic films for my video collection ( thats right, video collection)

The Punisher, the original not the shoddy Travolta remake...


And Patrick Swayze's best film by a country mile....


Superb you more than likely will agree.
So to readress the balance placed on my feeble mind of the imminent Coalesce album..here is something that I have spent more than a fair share of time listening to. Awesome, lo-fi, male/female vocal ambience. Ida, Will You Find Me. Superb stuff.

Ida - Will You Find Me

Enjoy dickheads.