Iskra/Doom Siren Split

Privileged Morality by Iskra

Gun Drone by Doom Siren

Crusts do it better. Doom Siren (myspace) is a death metal band I just can’t imagine not slam dancing to, and Iskra (website) bring some of the most awesome blackened tremolo-picking riffs that graced your ears. The latter have recorded their finest work to date, for this split, and on the other side of it Doom Siren brings you amazing, yet simplistic and old school yet melodic metal.
Last fm tags as crust, blackened crust, black metal, hardcore,anarchist black metal, grindcore, crust, crustcore, punk, hardcore 

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Maths - Descent

To Be Frozen by Maths

Another contender for screamo release of the year, and judging the other bands and releases that’s gotta count for something. Especially if you consider what a name the other ones have long made for themselves. Maths (facebook) has always been a tribute to the most antique of screamo bands, taking hints from both the typical American as well as European bands, from the tremolo post-rocking to the violent, up-tempo and weeping guitars. Forging into a combo that makes them compare to other current hardcore bands like a Megazord compares to that whimpy blue Power Ranger. Epic. I could never decide which song is best, on this release.
Last fm tags as screamo, hardcore, british, real screamo, post-hardcore

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birthday post

so since today is my birthday, I'll post about whatever I want.
my top posts of albums released in 2011:

1. Thou - The Archer And The Owle
2. Wu Lyf - Go Tell Fire To The Mountain
3. Ampere – Like Shadows
4. Matt Bauer - The Jessamine County Book Of The Living
5. Circle Takes The Square - Decompositions Vol I. Chapter 1. Rites of Initiation
6. Football, Etc - The Draft
7. Birds In Row - Cottbus
8. Pulling Teeth – Funerary
9. Beau Navire - Hours
10. We Had A Deal - Three Songs
11. Kerouac/The Long Haul split
12. Light Bearer - Lapsus
13. Weekend Nachos - Worthless
14. Ghostlimb – Infrastructure
15. Young And In The Way – V. Eternal Depression
16. Momentum - Whetting Occam's Razor
17. Former Thieves - The Language That We Speak
18. Accept The Change - Escapism Is A Dying Art
19. Take Courage - Winter Sessions
20. Neige Morte - Neige Morte
21. Hessian - Hessian
22. Engineer - Crooked Voices
23. Heathens - II
24. Hourvari – 2011 EP
25. Lich/Resurrectionists split

out Of The Box On Sunday XXXII

Belgian math-rock with some post-hardcore, Terraformer (facebook) is a heavy-hitting complexely-structured instrumental band. Start/stop, tapping, dissonant and tremolo riffing with occasional hardcore breakdowns and punk rock or power chords desperately being tamed by erratic drumming, while the bass guitar loosely jams, both often in polyrythms.
Last fm tags as math rock, post-rock, instrumental,experimental, post-metal