RottenYoungEarth: Black Metal

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1.Shallow Skin (3:04)

2.Hellhound (2:13)

3.Spine (1:43)

4.Cultmonger (1:25)

5.Below (2:25)

6.Dust (2:59)

7.Last Leg (3:06)

8.Put An End To Me (3:11)

9.Grief Ritual (3:39)

Punishing, dark music from St. George, Utah. Fever Dreams combines the melodic, distorted riffs of black metal with the hammering vocals and crushing instrumental breaks of crust and hardcore. Definitely listen if you like Torch Runner, Young and in the Way, Full of Hell, etc. If you live in the Springfield, MO area, this band will be playing at my house on June 10th with Blackhole, Old Ways, and more TBA.

-Tucker

Thursday, May 2, 2013

The Measure Of - Is Nothing Sacred

Genre: Post-Rock/Shoegaze/Black Metal/Screamo

Year: 2013

Check out The Measure Of's new song Is Nothing Sacred. The Measure Of are from Austin TX and play a very layered and experimental style of music. With very haunting, melodic, and mellow riffs there is a very pretty side to this music, but at the same time there is a very harsh, heavy, and mean side to this music with the beating drums and shrill heavy vocals. Which is a very nice combination, ending up into this perfectly written song. -Jacob Rice

Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Amber - Lovesaken

Genre: Screamo/Hardcore/Post Rock/Black Metal

Year: 2013

Tracklist:
1. Kings Like Us

2. Lost

3. Silent Lies

4. Fading Away

5. Lovesaken

Amber are a post-hardcore band from Marburg Germany. They play a very epic, beautiful, and just a very somber style of music. Mixing everything from screamo that sounds like Circle Takes The Square to a very shrill and melodic Black Metal sound. Not to mention this thing is literally just chock full of dirty and badass sludge/post rock riffs. The vocals sound very full, and just hopeless which adds an ever darker feeling to this dark album. -Jacob Rice

Thursday, March 28, 2013

Downpour/Thetan - Split

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Genre: Crust/Powerviolence/Sludge/Black Metal

Year: 2013

Tracklist:

Downpour:

1. Coming of Wage

2. Disarm The Swarm

3. Severance

4. The Elegy

5. Expression

6. You're In Your Prime, Kid

7. I Want The Whole Truth

Thetan:

8. To Please The Gods

Two awesome bands, two different styles. Downpour bringing a very fast and abrasive style of Powerviolence and Crust to this split busts out 7 tracks around like 10 minutes. While Thetan brings a very sludgy black metal sound to this split with one song that is 8 minutes long! Both bands rule at what they do, please check this one out, they deserve your attention! -Jacob Rice

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Ramlord/Condensed Flesh-Split

Genre: Blackened Crust

Year: 2011

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Ramlord:

1.Restrained (2:14)

2. Retrained (0:52)

3. Reality (2:16)

4. Relapse (1:51)

Condensed Flesh:

1. Side B (18:04)

FFO: Young and in the Way, Amebix, MDC

Ramlord is an East Coast crust band that has been gathering momentum over the past few years. The band incorporates Black Metal-like instrumental strands throughout the music, as well as influences from hardcore and powerviolence bands.

Condensed Flesh is self-described as "punx playing metal." CF uses more traditional punk influences (think Millions of Dead Cops) in their approach.

-Tucker Ross

Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Child Brides

Genre: Gothic/Industrial/Black Metal

Year: 2013

Tracklist:
1. Elite Downpour

2. Chained

3. There Was Nothing

4. False Options

5. Prisoner of the White Lord

6. Hated

7. Pleasure & Pain

As you guys know, Low Places broke up recently. One of the members Vince has a side project called Child Brides, which he had emailed me about recently. This is a release he put out and made entirely by himself. Recently he met some people and is going to turn this project into a full band thing. If you like some noisy, heavy, industrial, and some pretty evil sounding music. Give this a chance, but go into it with an open mind because it is very different. -Jacob Rice

Sunday, February 10, 2013

Low Places - Black Tape

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Genre: Hardcore/Black Metal/Sludge

Year: 2013

Tracklist:

1. Side A

Last release from this awesome band out of CA. These dudes always have put out a very solid effort on their releases. Spiritual Treatment and their S/T were on replay for me for a very long time. This release is very noisy and gritty. Sad to see these dudes are ending it, but they end it on a killer release. This thing is dark as fuck. I can't really compare it to anything and don't need to. You guys know who these dudes are, get this shit now. This is being release on a very limited amount of tapes soon. -Jacob Rice

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Sloth Herder - Abandon Pop Sensibility

Genre: Grindcore/Sludge/Black Metal/Hardcore

Year: 2012

Tracklist:
1. Intro

2. Cowards of The New Age

3. Spiritual Aim

4. Relapse/Reward

5. Bleached

6. Dug Up

Band from Maryland/Pennsylvania. These dudes play a fusion of almost all extreme music genres. With raspy sounding black metal vocals to sludgy guitars. These dudes cover all the extreme genres I love. This stuff is heavy and raw. This is definitely worth your time. -Jacob Rice

Monday, January 14, 2013

Opium Lord-The Calendrical Cycle Prologue: The Healer

Year: 2013

Genre: Sludge/Doom/Black Metal

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1. Heroin Swirls

2. Street Labs

A submission from the Birmingham, UK band Opium Lord. This band has only been around for a little over a month and they've already had radio airplay on BBC, and for good reason. Opium Lord is a blistering cocktail of the instrumental droning of Doom, the raspy vocals of Black Metal, and the chugging pace of Sludge. Keep a look out for their EP release this Spring.

-Tucker Ross

Monday, December 10, 2012

Total Drowning - Drone, Doom, and Black Metal Compilation

Looking for something dark, evil, and atmospheric? Well this compilation is perfect, ranging from plenty of new to old bands of Drone, Doom, and Black Metal this compilation is perfect. Very talented bands. The bands featured on this compilation are; i AM esper, Wyrm, Outer Nothingness, SOL, Ainshval, and Omar Garita. I definitely advise giving this thing some attention!

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-Jacob Rice

Saturday, November 24, 2012

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

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

Thursday, November 22, 2012

Wasted Struggle - Guillotines

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

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

Thursday, November 8, 2012

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

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

Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Kvelertak - Kvelertak

Genre: Hardcore/Black Metal/Rock/I DONT KNOW THEY ARE A LOT

Year: 2010

Tracklist:
1. Ulvetid

2. Mjød

3. Fossegrim

4. Blodtørst

5. Offernatt

6. Sjøhyenar (Havets Herrer)

7. Sultans of Satan

8. Nekroskop

9. Liktorn

10. Ordsmedar Av Rang

11. Utrydd Dei Svake

This band is not able to be put into words what they are. They are from Norway, obviously from the track listing. They are so many genres thrown into one, its crazy but so damn good. Also these dudes throw out some super catchy and groovy riffs. Also the artwork is rad, its the same dude who did the artwork for Baroness, Cursed, and a shit ton of other bands. I would advise trying this one out. -Jacob Rice

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Emperor - In The Nightside Eclipse

Genre: Black Metal

Year: 1994

Tracklist:

1. Intro

2. Into the Infinity of Thoughts

3. The Burning Shadows of Silence

4. Cosmic Keys to My Creations and Times

5. Beyond the Great Vast Forest

6. Towards the Pantheon

7. The Majesty of the Night Sky

8. I Am the Black Wizards

9. Inno a Satana

I thought maybe I could post something I really wanted to after going through all that relinking and reuploading bullshit. So I decided to post something that I haven't posted here much but that I like, Black Metal! This album though, is in my top five black metal albums of all time. This release is just so symphonic, beautiful, and dark as fuck. If you want to get into black metal give this one a try. Its really hard not to enjoy. Also it doesn't have awful recording quality like a lot of Black Metal, some requested this too so here you go man! Thanks! -Jacob Rice

Thursday, July 5, 2012

Votnut - EP

Genre: Hardcore/Black Metal/Grindcore

Year: 2012

Tracklist:

1. Cornered

2. All Is Cold

3. Wallow Within

4. World We Kill

5. Vultures Prey

6. Amongst The Dead

Like Young And In The Way? Get this. It is some of the members doing a little bit different of a style of music in the vein of things like Black Breath/All Pigs Must Die. I'm getting that whole Entombed like guitar tone on this stuff. I'm digging it a lot. This is a definite must check out! -Jacob Rice

Friday, June 15, 2012

Void Forger - Ruined

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Genre: Crust/Sludge/Black Metal

Year: 2012

Tracklist:

1. Pointless Media

2. Relief

3. Automation

One of the members contacted me all they way from Romania. Crazy how word about my blog spreads. Anyways, this band is fucking evil. I love it. From shredding fast black metal riffs to skull crushing sludge riffs. These guys do it all. They also throw in some sweet punk parts. Check this one out -Jacob Rice

Saturday, March 31, 2012

Young And In The Way

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Album: Amen

Genre: Black Metal/Crust/Hardcore

Year: 2010

Tracklist:

1. Hell Is Other People

2. Dark Seed

3. Earth

4. Worrier

5. Eye Of Providence

6. White Light

7. The Becoming

Album: I Am Not What I Am

Year: 2011

Tracklist:

1. That is Not Dead Which Can Eternal Lie

2. And We Have Kill Him

3. Leaving Nothing but the Absence of Everything

4. If Only That so Many Dead Lie Round

5. Death is Eager to Hold You

6. They Should Greet Me with Howls of Execration

7. With Strange Aeons Even Death May Die

8. I Am Not What I Am

9. Love and Terror Laid the Stone

10. The Chaotic and Bloody World Around Us

11. Ascending the White Mountain

Album: V. Eternal Depression

Year: 2011

Tracklist:

1. Descending the White Mountain

2. Times Are Cold

3. The Great Blue Norther

4. Oceans of Eternal Depression

5. The Gathering