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

Deathrats - S/T 7" + Give Up

Girl Style by Deathrats

Deathrats (blog) brings poorly/DIY recorded lightning-speed hardcore punk music. that double the awesomeness already! their pissed off powerviolence often focuses about the vocalists very personal frustrations, her feminist opinions like body policing and people's bullshit, hysterically screaming out about them from the top of her lungs. +1. the messy bass and guitar and the drum with that tin-like sound trash and pummel through mosh-parts as well as parts too fast to dance anything but spastically to. but upon listening, dance you will. it's just not optional. they will be playing their last show ever in the middle of January, on some show of which the flyer said something in the trend of "Wimps and posers leave the hall" which seems really obnoxious, but oh well.

Last fm tags as  hardcore punk, hardcore, punk, crust punk, female vocals 

get Give Up directly from it's distributer, right here

The Love And Terror Cult - We Are You On Fire

◻ by The Love And Terror Cult

The Love And Terror Cult (facebook) was a chaotic hardcore band that seem to have taken even more cues from The Jesus Lizard's style of noise rock music, than Daughter's later records. only with a more hardcore approach than either band, without losing any of the structural madness. the female vocals sound like the person behind the mic has long been driven far over the edge of insanity, adding to the psychological tormented atmosphere of this record. it's hard to wrap your head around the chaos of start/stop elements, guitar feedback and haunting ambience of the songs in their entirity, as well as the individual elements, but if you let it slide, sit back and try not to lose your mind, the overall product of their music almost seems harmonic in an entirely different way.

Last fm tags as chaotic hardcore, mathcore, canadian, female vocalist, hardcore

Landverraad - songs from split with Sloth

Forget Shorter Showers by Landverraad

the other side of the split that I recently talked about here, Landverraad (website) is your new favourite band. a radical crustpunk-influenced fast hardcore band with dual female vocals, that sound incredibly pissed of, and lyrics like a punch to the teeth, that question just about anything. a song in my native language, a few in english and one in russian (I wonder what the story behind that is). underneath all that is some of your new favourite fast hardcore tunes you've heard in a damn long time.

click the image above to contact the band about ordering the split. they deserve it and I bet they'd appreciate it.

Siamese Twins - 2011 demo

Siamese Twins - Illusion

Siamese Twins (blog) is a shoegazy post-punkish band with dual female vocals, with a bucketload of delay over them, overlayering extremely contorted guitars and a very goth-like bass sound, by way of that typical The Cure sound. this dreamy music is incredibly soothing and unsettling at the same time. alternating between haunting and mellow/oversweet atmospheres, while the drums often stay upbeat. pushing the tempo of the slower voices. eerie and bittersweet, but extremely brilliant for a demo recording.

Heart On My Sleeve - Blood Is Not Thicker Than Wine + split with состояние птиц

Carry On Carry Me by Heart On My Sleeve

Heart On My Sleeve (facebook) is a fairly new band, with the same female that sang in the band Hope And Failure (old post of that band), and does so in this band with the same intensity I expected. If you must compare, this band's sound is much more uptempo in a melodic/passionate hardcore punk kind of way. A way that actually reminds of a couple of scandinavian hardcore bands, with a huge scoop of emotional torment and/or passion added, making up my mourning over the loss of bands like Meleeh, Suffocate For Fucks Sake, JR Ewing and Dominic. ace stuff, really!

Last fm tags as screamo, melodic hardcore, hardcore, female screamo, swedish

click the image above to also get their split, with their best work to date.

Sailing On - Hinterland

Ishmael by Sailing On

Sailing On (blog) is a modern hardcore band, obviously paying close attention to big names in the genre. Especially the darker and/or melodic subdivision of it. The guitar melodies come across as vaguely familiair , with such a recognisable sound, while the female screaming and the percussions + bass are pummeling their way through, adding the nuances that set this band apart. thus giving this band an accesible sound with plenty originality presented on the figurative table.
Last fm tags as hardcore, live, karlsruhe, female fronted hardcore, female vocalist

click the image above to buy stuff directly from the band!

Mahria - Self Titled

Ghost Limb by Mahria

Twinkle daddies playing upbeat emo-influenced post-hardcore music with a radical mama shouting at the mic. Mahria (facebook) bring the twinkly/noodly music with a great sense of melody, guiding the always complex plucking and tapping patterns to punk-rock and powerchord strumming and back again. The shouted-from-the-top-of-her-lungs vocals add to the sheer distress coming from this band’s sound, taking the emotional atmosphere to greater heights rather than come off whining and at the same time compromising the raw with the approachable aspects.
Last fm tags as  screamo, hardcore, canada, edmonton, female vocal

click the image above to buy a copy of the tape!

Out Of The Box On Sunday XXXI

Trailer Park Boneyard by The Coathanger

The Coathangers (blog) is a radical all-female rock band. every single member takes on vocal duties, beside their respective instrumentation, thus adding more variety to their already versatile sound. this is more noise than melody, bringin (post-)punkish and very obnoxious noisy rock together. turns out this band started off as a joke, explaining why they would choose such a name as a ghoulish and ironic reference to abortion, and songtitles like "Nestle In My Boobies". hehe. yeah...

get the band's stuff from their record label, right here