Towers with Take Down Your Art

Words From The Doctor by Towers

Towers (Bandcamp) do something entirely different with chaotic music. Influences from hardcore metal, screamo or punk are only traceable to the very basic elements of their songs. Everything else is just screeching and/or discordant guitars, frantic screaming and versatile percussions that all seem to be doing their own thing, rather than dictate the rythm to the guitars , or vice versa. When you listen to the total package, it’s amazing how it all sounds consistent and in sync.

click the image above for another website with downloads to all their music (or get them from their personal Bandcamp)

Good Teeth/Gold Teeth - We Are Bound, All of Us, by Suffering, Even More Than by Joy

We Are Bound, All of Us, by Suffering, Even More Than by Joy by by Good Teeth/Gold Teeth

This starts off with a minute and a half of guitar feedback and vocals with bucketloads of angst, supported by a pummeling bass. From there on out, Good Teeth/Gold Teeth (facebook) have paved the way for raw and heavy hardcore music, with heartbreaking -tortured even- vocals. Their mix of passionate with dark and tumultuous elements and moving in between various tempos of their extreme music, make this band approachable for people who prefer various styles of hardcore. Without squeezing themselves in an all too narrow subdivision, thus succesfully transcending the division in music that is supposed to be about unity, to begin with.

click the image above to see their merch. it's not stated how to order it, so contact them on either of their websites, k?

Never Again - Year One

Mindless Believer by Never Again

If you’re not straight edge, chances are you’d feel bad about that when you realize how much you like this band. Never again (Myspace) was a fairly straight forward sxe hardcore punk band, in both sound and ethics, with elements ranging from quick- to turbo-paced hard punk music. Their ethics can not be overlooked as even the spoken soundsamples, as intros to songs, as well as the lyrics, deal with anti-poison messages that can not be mistaken as anything but an agressive stance toward drug-(ab)using individuals. Their range of influences reach from the broad spectrum of youth crew hardcore to true to form edge/power-violence.
Last fm tags as  hardcore, punk, rock, straight edge, punk-rock

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out Of The Box On Sunday XXV

Partners in Crime by Thy Mighty Contract

Thy Might Contract (facebook) brings something way off the chart. freaky and dreamy noise-rock with mostly shouting/talking yet clean (ex- I Would Set Myself On Fire For You) vocals. the overall product is full of layers of weird effects on every instrument and voice, resulting in a very alienating sound. like a hipster on a bad acid trip. all of it sounds like the product of very spazzy, erratic and random people getting together and just creating music very naturally, without the restrainment of labelling, or basing what they do on what is considererd the right way to do it. this is for the adept musiclover.

Last fm tags as  indie, post-hardcore, female vocale,psychedelic, experimental

Out Of The Box On Sunday XXIV

(you'll need a torrent program for this download)

Dëthkløk is the band around which the animated show 'Metapocalpyse' revolves. the theme of the show is the vulgar and brutal lifestyle of the metalband, which is bigger than anything in their world and makes them literally get away with murder. so basically an animated series that balances gore, metal and dark or absurd comedy. in almost every episode you would get a song, which are all written by Brendon Small, the band had written based on their experiences of that episode. and when you have followed the series for a while, those songs become something to look foward to. a surprisingly distinct sound that somehow covers a lot of different branches of metal music, only always as hard as it is melodic with over the top cliché METUHL  or just absurd lyrics. these are 2 albums that compile those songs

Last fm tags as  death metal, blacker than the blackest black times infinity, melodic death metal, metal, comedy

Heathens - II

 listen to Placebo by HEATHENS, from this album

Heathens is a welcome addition to dark hardcore and the words must fitting to describe them would in fact be “dark” and “hard”. Hard, dark and angry as heck, they rarely reach anything higher than mid-tempo hardcore music, but when they do they go all out with blast beats to boot, much like the ‘slower’ parts in powerviolence bands or the representative Trash Talk-type ‘angry’ hardcore sound. This band brings the bedroom mosh. The trashing kind of music that couldn’t keep you standing still, listening to it, even in private non-hardcore places.
Last fm tags as  hardcore, thrash

click the image above to buy their record directly from Last Anthem Records!

Worms Feed - Black Snow

I'm terribly sick, so I'm just going to leave this here and tell you all you'll want to check it out, if you like Holy Terror hardcore or other modern dark/metallic hardcore.
Last fm tags as hardcore, metallic hardcore, punk, progressive,thrash

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At Least We Try - 2011 demo

Untitled II by At Least We Try

This release takes you back... Easily closer to old school metalcore than modern hardcore metal, At Least We Try (website) remind one of the days 90’s (H8000) metalcore/hardcore was a relatively fresh sound you heard for the first time and wanted to dedicate your life to. I’m talking straight up put a ring on it! The band chugs, trashes and breaks down, as if it’s something that’s never been done before. As if they are the present-day inventors of those musical structures, because this sound does more than blend in with a variety of styles of hardcore music. The demo bridges the gap between hardcore metal, melodic and dark hardcore from a fresh perspective, rather than from some grey area in between.

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Out Of The Box On Sunday XXIII

Love Attack by divorce

Female fronted noise/punk rock band Divorce (blog) brings no cliché’s from either branch of the two major influences they incorporate in their style. Espacially the punk rock influences consist of a-typical elements, it’s only recognisable because of its subtle nuances and is therefore a welcome addition to that particular scene. Therefore the punk influences are a breath of fresh air for noisy music as well.
Last fm tags as noise, punk, noise rock, heavy metal, female fronted metal

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The Smackdown - Someone Has To Kill The Headwriter + Calling The Spots

Gentlemens Establishment by The Smackdown

In their deepest foundation, The Smackdown (myspace with unreleased songs) was like The Blood Brothers playing Das Oath or Refused playing Charles Bronson songs. Spastic as well as rapid and crushing as well as tuneful. The band sounded like powerviolence/hardcore kids just straight up rocking out and playing the recorded noisy rock’n roll they’ve improvised at 70 RPM in stead of 30 RPM. The thought of watching flesh and blood beings play this music on a live stage leaves me shivering, imagining it could quite possibly have resembled rather something out of a Francis Bacon painting than any kind of rock concert, or watching a the Hives gig in fast forward on a barely functioning tv screen. Static included. RIP. shares member(s) with Anchor.
Last fm tags as hardcore, punk, thrash, newschool hardcore, noisecore