Chicken On A Biscuit.

From Oregon.



Black Elk-S/T

Two piece from Macedonia. Big angry sound.

Bonus: The first track on the album and video is called "Videodrom."




Od Vratot Nadolu-Mercury

Melt, Cry, Sleep.

An extremely recent find for me, but I was pretty floored by this album.

At first glance, I though the band name was pretty lame, thankfully the cover made me a bit more intrigued.

Buildings-Melt, Cry, Sleep

I went in pretty blind, being sold on the cover and album title, I didn't know what it would sound like.

I think it's kinda a more testosterone driven Steve Albini hanging out with Unsane.

I'm too lazy to fuck with mediafire, but thanks to google bringing this up as the top search result....Black Insect Laughter has it for you. According to them, the record company told them to up it. Double Neat.

Because everyone needs a little David Koresh from time to time.

I Cannot...

Talk up this band enough.

In all the videos I've seen, the singer is stoic-as-fuck behind everything until he starts screaming his pubes off.



Shhhiiiitt.

These are a few of the top image search results under "Suma band sweden"

This is what should come up...

S/T

...Just kidding, that picture WAS in the top search results...

Asses....

...I mean Ashes.

I reaaaallllyyy wish this band would come near me so I could see them live.

Follow The Falcon.

Opening with something completely unrelated to what the rest of this post is going to be about:

I've been listening to a lot of Mysterious Universe over the past few weeks.

Two dudes talking about weird stuff. The hosts generally start with strange happenings, which are pretty recent and plausible, followed by much stranger, farther fetched shit. Interesting and entertaining at the least.

Coast to Coast type shit...but they're Australian! They have cool accents to make it more engaging.


Musicshits.

Peregrine. I caught this band playing a house show a few years ago. I remember talking to a couple of these guys before they played (and before I had become too thunderously drunk.) and thinking how super-fucking nice they were. I remember specifically talking at length about the Animal Liberation Front, the ELF, and other groups akin to those; I had watched a documentary not much more than a couple of prior to seeing these dudes, so topics were still fresh in my mind. I think it was Your Mommy Kills Animals, but i could be mistaken. (I have a problem with retaining documentary info for prolonged periods of time.)

What these dudes are all about is primitivism, (I think that's a word.) living off the land, in the woods, hunter-gatherer type stuff and green-anarchism. Super Eco-friendly mentality. Tree-hugging stuff.


Next thing I remembered was the guys rocking my balls off. I was really into their set.

As I stated above, I ended up being pretty shit-hammered, and I have a habit of thinking things sound a lot better than I normally would if alcohol were not a factor.

After the show, I got a patch and and talked to the dudes a little more. They gave me a zine. I forget the title, so I suppose it's irrelevant, but I know my roommate and I were really into the publication, whatever it was. Topics the zine covered were primarily what I said earlier about primitivist living, green-anarchy, etc.

Anyway, a couple years have passed and I've frequently tried to remind myself to actually check them out again.

I did.

And I'm still pretty into it.

They are a self described "Green Metal" band. Black/death type shit with anarcho-eco-loving themes. Kinda crusty kid shit.

(I'm amending this post by putting one of the better tracks (in my opinion)on display. Most likely no person has seen this yet, so it probably doesn't matter...)



Check It Out.

Green Scare Benefit split with Auryn

Here's the other band on the Green Scare Benefit split.

Auryn is post-hardcorey-something or another. (I think I'm going to add "post" in front of every genre description for bands I put on here from now on.)

Solid enough. Worth a listening or three. My only complaint is about some vocals on the very last track. Waaaayy to whiney at points. What-ever. Good otherwise.

Now Is The Time For You To Pay Close Attention...Do Not Be Afraid...You Are Dying.

It's been a couple weeks since I've posted, not that it matters much. I think there's only about 3 people who read this.

News: The Video Store I work at is officially closing. We're in the process of selling everything on the cheap. It's a major bummer. It had a good run (34 years) but at least we stuck it out as long as possible. It's dying a breed. We are/were one of the last. Fuck you internet.

Watched Slow Southern Steel. Dig.




Now onto some tunes...

Lvmen is a band from the Czech Republic. Pretty neat post-rock-metal-stuff, if you're into that sort of thing.



At points in this album I can't help but think it's sounds a little like if Neurosis got SUPER fucked up and jammed in the Desert Sessions. There is another spot specifically on the album that sounds (in my opinion) a little like the Castlevania soundtrack on quaaludes and cough syrup.

Mondo.

Next.

Suma is a Swedish bad I've been listening to frequently for some time now. Early on in their career they were playing mid-tempo stoner-groove stuff. As time went on, they got slower and slower. Badass all around.

I posted this early on. The link done got dead. So here it is again.

Let the Churches Burn.