MurkDaddyFlex - First Compilation

Genre: Hip Hop/Rap/Instrumental

Year: 2012

This dude submitted his stuff to me, I know I usually don't post stuff like this but I actually am a lot into hip hop and rap. This is an instrumental project and from what i'm hearing the beats are a jazzy inspired sound like how A Tribe Called Quest has done. This stuff is very good for sure. If you're into instrumental hip hop or just hip hop at all, and maybe even just relaxing music! Check this one out for sure -Jacob Rice

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Hollow Truth - The Earth Shook

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Genre: Hardcore/Thrash/Crossover

Year: 2012

Tracklist:

1. MMXII

2. He Who Shook The Earth

3. The Sisters of Fate

4. Terrible Winds

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Awesome band from Dublin. These dudes play a hybrid of hardcore and thrash in the vein of bands like Take Offense, Power Trip and Suicidal Tendencies. Ripping out some badass thrash riffs while still keeping the mentality and the heaviness of the hardcore. These guys fuse this well and should definitely be given a listen. -Jacob Rice

Forced - Accursed Share

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Genre: Hardcore/Black Metal/Doom

Year: 2012

Tracklist:

1. Accursed Share

2. At Empire's End

3. Lost Life

4. Devours Everything

5. Partitioning the Sensible

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Great band from Brooklyn. These guys play a very angry and abrasive style of blackened hardcore. These guys also throw in some crushing and heavy as shit doom riffs every once in a while to give a good refreshing feel from the hardcore and black metal. These guys are for fans of bands like Converge, Hooded Menace, Vastum, Mammoth Grinder, and Craft. Definitely give these guys a listen! -Jacob Rice

Secret Plot to Destroy the Universe - I Only Miss You When I Want To

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Genre: Emo/Post-Rock/Post-Hardcore

Year: 2012

Tracklist:

1. Monocacy

2. 1991

3. Tri-Lateral Commission 

4. Aimless

5. Mimosa Lane

6. Seven

7. Tips for Staying Sweet...

8. The Montauk Project

9. I Only Miss You When I Want To

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Awesome band from PA. These guys play what seems like a more aggressive style of music like The Appleseed Cast and Moving Mountains. As well as sounding like bands like Brand New and Pianos Become the Teeth. This stuff is pretty solid, has its sad soft parts, and its heavy soft parts. Either way this stuff is pretty sad, which I like so what could go wrong! Well written stuff, check it out! -Jacob Rice

Brutality Will Prevail - Scatter the Ashes

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Genre: Hardcore/Sludge/Down Tempo

Year: 2012

Tracklist:

1. Lifelines

2. Sins of Commitment

3. Casket

4. Second Sight

5. 1348

6. The Path

7. Hallucination

8. Fallen Apart

9. Twisting Tongues

10. Scatter the Ashes

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This is one of my favorite bands in hardcore right now, if not my favorite. These guys bring such a ambient and evil feeling on every single one of their albums. It literally makes me get goosebumps when I listen to their songs. I wasn't sure how they were going to top Sleep Paralysis but my god. They some how did. This release is a masterpiece to me. It has everything I need. Please check this out and support these guys.

-Jacob Rice

Drowning - Prey for Me

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Genre: Down-Tempo/Hardcore

Year: 2012

Tracklist:

1. 13 Families ft. Tito Fury

2. Burn for Eternity 

3. Living Dead ft. Romel Pinnix/Baer Coon the Ewok

4. Misconception ft. Nick Arthu - Tyler Tumminaro

5. Plagued Minds ft. Damien Basham

6. The New World ft. Edub

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Chicago Beat-Down. These guys are quite possibly one of the heaviest beat-down bands i've ever heard. I really like this genre, have a sweet spot for it. These dudes definitely fulfill it. Heavy, angry, and in your face. You should definitely check this out. Mosh. -Jacob Rice

Ted's Approval - Red Dream

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Genre: Hardcore/Post Hardcore/Screamo

Year: 2012

Tracklist:

1. Burn and Rage

2. Samantha

3. Golden Gate

4. Barry Bonds

5. Children in Churches

6. Enredadera

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Band from Santa Cruz, CA. These guys play a very emotive style of hardcore even getting very close to being screamo. With dark and emotional lyrics is what really made this band what they are to me. They are so deep and you can tell how much meaning was put into the words. The music itself is as well very emotional filled. Very skramzy riffs with emotion filled vocals. I love this release. You should to. 

-Jacob Rice

Light It Up - Dog Days

These dudes are streaming their new EP on their bandcamp and this stuff is great. They play a darker style of hardcore and definitely bringing the mosh. If you are a fan of bands like Backtrack, Expire, and other bands in that style You will absolutely love this stuff. Heavy and angry. It is set to be up for download sometime around next year.

Check out the stream HERE.

-Jacob Rice

Lucifer the Lightbearer - Demo 2012

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Genre: Down-Tempo/Hardcore/Sludge

Year: 2012

Tracklist:

1. Infant View

2. Hindsight

3. Mouches Volantes

4. Interlude

5. Also-Ran

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Okay, this band fucking rules. They take some pointers from Brutality Will Prevail for sure. Heavy as fuck, while at the same time being so melodic that it just sends shivers down your spine. You know those slow haunting guitar parts that Brutality Will Prevail does? Yeah those are in this and these dudes fucking pull it off perfectly. This band is just so rad, they even throw in some damn sludge/doom parts. Like in Hindsight, and Mouches Volantes there are parts in the song that literally sound like Sleep. I love this stuff. Mosh. 

-Jacob Rice

Wasted Struggle - Guillotines

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Genre: Hardcore/Crust/Black Metal

Year: 2012

Tracklist:

1. Force Me to Align

2. ...Of the Last Day

3. Behold the Lights

4. Disgraceful

5. The Shield

6. Wounded Servant

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Great band from Budapest! These guys play a style of hardcore heavily fused with black metal. With the sheer energy and chaoticness of hardcore combined with the grindingly fast and haunting riffs and melodies from black metal. The vocals on this remind me of a combination of Black Breath/Cursed. While the instruments remind me of Converge/Pulling Teeth/The Secret. These guys are for fans of all of the bands I listed above. Definitely check this one out. -Jacob Rice

Worldwide Powerviolence

Everybody should check out this rad powerviolence compilation that was submitted to me recently. It has a lot of cool bands from all around the world, all 20 bands that are on the compilation are EXTORTION, Water Torture, SKUFF, Damaged Goods, Super Mutant, Moral Panic, Gets Worse, Mangle, Haunted Ground, War Trauma, Mean and Ugly, Revengeance, Haruka, Frank Grimes, 466/64, World Nercosis, WTCHDR, Henry Fonda, Poda Pa. Very solid lineup if I must say so myself. I checked it out and enjoyed every second of it. 

Here is some other info about the comp!

• $10 For a Special Edition Tape/Poster/Photo Zine (Purple Cover) (price includes shipping)
• $7 For a Tape and Poster (Black Cover) (price includes shipping)
• All 240 tapes were individually hand made and numbered but only 85will be sold online. First come first serve. 

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Old Rules - Sad Songs

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Genre: Emo/Punk/Indie

Year: 2012

Tracklist:

1. Acquaintances

2. Dwell

3. Stagnant

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Emo band from Ottawa. These guys play some heart filled music. The vocals honestly remind me of Snowing, and the music is more of a Basement feel. You guys know how I feel about emo, and if that I approve of it its probably going to be some solid stuff! Very catchy stuff here. Check it out, please!

-Jacob Rice

Barlow - Vol. 2

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Genre: Dark Hardcore/Thrash

Year: 2012

Tracklist:

1. Intro

2. Death Rattle

3. Severed Ties

4. Chained/Vain

5. Harbour

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Another release from these dudes from Nova Scotia. Playing an even more angry and dark version of hardcore than last time, this is a punishing and relentless release from these guys. Like I said on the other post. I really get a Converge vibe from the instrumental work. These dudes rule. Anyone who likes hardcore or crust or just any sort of extreme genre should check these guys out. Also whoever does the art work draws some badass dark looking shit. -Jacob Rice

Old Gray - Everything I Let Go & The Things I Refuse To

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Genre: Screamo/Emo

Year: 2012

Tracklist:

1. 359 Pine

2. Resonance

3. Winter '11

4. Six Years

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Fantastic band from New Hampshire. One of my favorite bands in the genre actually, or just really one of my favorite bands in general. On this new release they skewed away from their old twinkly days which is fine with me. I love both styles that they did now and what they are doing now. What they are doing now is more of a brash loud emotional, more of a skramzy sound than an emo sound, which they do very well. They stuck with the poetic lyrics which is nice. I really enjoy this band. I can't wait till their next effort or a full length. Also this was a submission, so I kind of shit a brick when that happened.

-Jacob Rice

Kato - Came With Nothing / Left With Nothing

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Genre: Hardcore/Metal/Post Rock/Noise Rock/A lot of stuff

Year: 2012

Tracklist:

1. The Room

2. 2:37

3. Walking Out

4. I Will Repeat My Mistakes

5. Came With Nothing (Left With Nothing)

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I'm not sure what these dudes are but fuck its awesome. They play a noisy fusion of just seems like so many genres. Brooding out these angry and emotional as fuck songs I can't see why someone wouldn't like this. These guys are definitely bringing something new to the table which is always nice to see. I highly recommend checking out this. -Jacob Rice

Vapo-Rats - Mischief

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Genre: Hardcore/Punk

Year: 2012

Tracklist:

1. Mischief

2. Useless Generation

3. 2 Kewl 4 Skewl

4. Teenage Alcoholics

5. Bitch

6. Thanks, but, No Thanks

7. (Interlude)

8. Sexecution (Feat. Norman Atomic)

9. I Like To Support My Local Punk Rock Scene

10. Panic Room

11. Brain Cell

12. Bendy

13. Fat America

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Old school Hardcore Punk band from New Orleans. These guys have the mentality of a punk band for sure and the majority of the music definitely is punk, but I hear a lot of recent hardcore influences as well. Like I think a lot of this stuff sounds like the band Paint It Black which I have no problem with because I love that band. But nonetheless these guys are definitely whipping out some old school punk. -Jacob Rice

The Coven & Neophytes Vol 2 Witch Hunter Records Sampler

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Genre: Hardcore/Doom/Stoner/Sludge

Year: 2012

Tracklist:

1. Limb - Daemoness 

2. Reparation - Mea Vulnera

3. Iron Witch - Jailhouse 

4. Seagraves - Hollow Lies 

5. End Reign - To Pray For 

6. Heksed - Waylands Knot 

7. Old Wounds - Bleak 

8. History Of The Hawk - Little Parisians 

9. Black Veins - Death Crown 

10. Koresh - You Can Call Me Gaahl (unmixed) 

11. Prelude To The Hunt - Grudgebearer 

12. Black Mass - Vermin Of The Earth 

13. Knife Crimes - World Past Saving 

14. Year Of The Flood - Slowdancer 

15. Beastwars - Empire 

16. Mage - Degenerate 

17. Tree Of Sores - A Cry Of Despair (edit)

18. Atragon - Sound In the Halls 

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Sampler of a bunch of bands from Witch Hunter Records. Always love the stuff that this dude puts out. Not a bad band on this label. If you're looking for some really solid stuff ranging from Hardcore, Doom, Crust, Sludge, Stoner, and even more extreme genre stuff, Witch Hunter is a good place to look! -Jacob Rice

Lion City - Change: The Only Constant

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Genre: Hardcore

Year: 2012

Tracklist:

1. Lion's Den

2. 19FUX4U

3. Track 6

4. From Ashes

5. Frozen

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Pissed off hardcore from Stuttgart Germany! These guys play hardcore in the vein of bands like Guns Up and Dirty Money. These guys are very passionate about what they do, and their music is even more full of passion. They are writing a full length record currently that will be released soon. I will be looking forward to what these dudes do next! -Jacob Rice

Achilles - Hospice

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Genre: Hardcore
Year : 2007

Tracklist:
1. Curtains
2. Curtains (Continued)
3. We Are Fixtures

4. Dear Old Tyger That Sleeps
5. To The Teeth
6. Raping The Dead
7. Standing Night

8. Reprieve
9. Swallow
10. In These Stark Halls
11. Sea Level
12. The Cold Floor

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Mathy and spacey hardcore from Rochester Ny. One of the best bands from the city. These dudes dont do much anymore, because of other commitments (Polar Bear Club, Soul Control, fatherhood and day jobs.) and every time they have had a local show , for some reason or another, i have not been able to make it. So i can only enjoy them on vinyl or CD.  Regardless, this record is still one of my favorite records of all time, and gets sometimes tri-weekly plays for me usually. If you like bands like Botch, Snapcase, Cave In and Rosetta, you'll most likely really enjoy this record. I hear they are writing new material as of now, so maybe something will surface soon. Until then, enjoy this ripper.

Back Again - Street Justice

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Genre: Hardcore/Youth Crew

Year: 2012

Tracklist:

1. Back Again

2. Hardcore Crew

3. Street Justice

4. Blind Rage

5. Not For Sale

6. Our Time

7. Total War

8. Friends

9. Your Turn

10. Underground

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Old school hardcore band from Bolzano Italy! These guys are most definitely doing it right. Perfectly combining the old school sound of bands on Dischord with Youth Crew bands like Bold, YOT, etc. I would definitely advise checking these dudes out! -Jacob Rice

Free Throw - Free Throw

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Genre: Emo

Year: 2012

Tracklist:

1. A Wild Pidgey Appeared

2. Lvl. 2 Pidgey In A Masterball

3. My High

4. My Low

5. An Hour Pissed

6. Gersberms!

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Awesome emo band from Nashville. Sad songs, emotion filled, and good lyrics. What is not to enjoy from this band! Featuring members from Prove Them Wrong, Captain and Jack(who i've posted!), and Sonsett. These dudes put out a very good effort and its paying off for them. Check this stuff out for sure -Jacob Rice

Plague Mask - 2012 Demo

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Genre: Black Metal/Sludge/Hardcore

Year: 2012

Tracklist:

1. Intro

2. Sink and Drown 

3. MKUltra (Covert Intelligence Agency)

4. Luminal

5. Botched Swimming Lessons

6. Plagues

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Great Hardcore/Sludge influenced band from Syracuse, NY. These guys definitely blend all three of these genres very well to the point where someone from the hardcore genre or sludge genre could definitely get into this as much as just something straight hardcore or sludge. Decimating slow crushing riffs to Melodic haunting riffs. This stuff rules -Jacob Rice

American Memories - Live Demo

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Genre: Screamo/Emo

Year: 2012

Tracklist:

1. Shame

2. Free Big D

3. Mid-August

4. Driving All Night

6. Empty Houses

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Skramz band from Atascadero, CA. This is a live recording of a handful of songs from them. Of course the quality is a bit rough but in all this is a really solid release. The great thing about hearing the live recording though is all the energy they are putting out and how you can hear the raw emotion of the band. They should be recording a EP here very soon so be looking forward to it. I'll be posting it! -Jacob Rice

Captives - My Eyes Are Open

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Genre: Indie/Emo/Rock

Year: 2012

Tracklist:

1. Forsaken

2. Abandon

3. Ugly

4. Grace

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I got a submission of these guys music. So you guys and me are getting early access to these guys music! This EP is being fully released on Nov. 13 on Reville Records. They play a style of music that is for fans of bands ranging from Brand New, Balance and Composure, Thrice, and Seahaven. I really like this stuff. Its so catchy and you can't get it out of your head. Check it out! -Jacob Rice

Tumbleweed Dealer - Death Rides Southward Re-Release

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Genre: Doom/Stoner/Post-Rock

Year: 2012

Tracklist:

1. Crawling Through Cacti

2. Death Rides Southward

3. Resurrected Yet Again

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I posted this about a month ago and I really still love this stuff. Its solid as fuck Doom/Stoner music. As I said in the last post of these dudes they pull some riffs out that will literally get stuck in your head for hours. They re released this EP with another song! Which is just as badass as the other two. I cannot wait for an actual full length from these guys.

-Jacob Rice

Aurora - Fairweather

I hadn't heard of these guys before today and apparently they are fairly new! Tim from the band submitted their music to me just recently and I gave the album a full listen. Its a well mixed blend of Pop Punk and Emo. Drawing sounds from bands such as Man Overboard, Title Fight, Sunny Day Real Estate, and Transit. The last 3 more towards the instrumental sound of this album. 

The demo starts off strong with The North Star Narratives, melodic guitars chiming in as said before in the manner of an emo song but with a pop punk drum beat, and most definite pop punk vocal style. Its very energetic. This is one of the more emo tracks on this for sure, which I really enjoy. On the lyrical side you get a story of a broken relationship or just being lost in general it seems which is always relatable. With lyrics like "and then you put up your guard just to keep me safe, and then you always criticize me for all my stupid mistakes, and to think I wasn't always there but close to the end. I turned around and realized what I was truly missing."

My favorite song on this is Little Traps. This is the strongest track on the release in my opinion. There is so much emotion in his voice already at the very beginning speaking of seeing through how much of a liar someone is and how translucent they are. Once again the instrumental part of this very much leaning on the side of emo. This song is just really catchy. I love it. You can't help but get it stuck in your head and tap your foot along with the drum part and nod your head. There is honestly a lot of emotion in this release, which is how it should be. You should put your everything into every song and I can tell these dudes are doing it in this short demo.

I only had one tiny complaint with this album. There were a few parts that used Auto-Tune and i'm not too much of a fan of that at all. Other than that this demo is absolutely awesome! I recommend it for anyone who digs pop punk and even people who are into emo could see and enjoy a lot of this album. These guys are currently working on their full length so I am looking forward to hearing that one!

8.5/10

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