RottenYoungEarth: Crust

1.Easy

2.Garbage

3.Give In

4.Being

5.Pushover

6.School

Submission from Buffalo, NY. This band plays harsh Punk that can be compared to Hoax or Cülo. I've been extremely impressed with what I've been seeing from Buffalo over the past few years with bands like Brainwreck and Water Torture. Keeping with the recent theme of Buffalo, School plays visceral music that is slam-able.

-Tucker

Fever Dreams - As Above, So Below

Year: 2012

Genre: Blackened Crust/Dark Hardcore

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

Sunday, April 28, 2013

Shit Luck - Slow Death

Genre: Powerviolence/Crust

Year: 2013

Tracklist:
1. Into The Chasm

2. Slow Death

3. Waste

4. Manipulate

5. Timeless Grief

Another Powerviolence band from Miami FL! This band features members of You Blew It!, You'll Live, and Super Mutant. The music is extremely noisy with tons of feedback which adds to this album with just a nonstop barrage of anger filled music. This stuff is goddamn HEAVY, love the tracks Manipulate and Timeless Grief, the breaks in those songs are so fucking rad. There is still one tape available and maybe they'll put up more, grab one! -Jacob Rice

Saturday, April 27, 2013

Ad Dajjal - Ciclico

Genre: Hardcore/Crust/Sludge

Year: 2013

Tracklist:
1. Somnolencia

2. Thysia

3. Neviim

4. Crimental

Heavy as fuck hardcore band from Chile. These dudes pump out some of the heaviest songs i've heard in a while, some of the sludgier part on this album get so angry, like Dystopia angry. As well as ripping out those heavy parts they pull off some eerie melodic parts as well that just click really well with the style they are doing. It reminds me of Brutality Will Prevail in those moments. I have no clue what the lyrics are saying, but I can bet they are dark as fuck. Also, that artwork. -Jacob Rice

Stagnant Youth - Demo 2013

Genre: Hardcore/Crust

Year: 2013

Tracklist:

1. Deviant/Corruption

2. Invasion/Reign

3. Manhunter

4. Shameful

Hardcore from Houston TX. Stagnant Youth plays a very dirty and gritty style of hardcore, with very harsh and heavy vocals, these vocals sound very similar in my opinion to His Hero Is Gone. The music being very relentless, noisy, and just overall great. Just more and more great stuff coming from Texas! -Jacob Rice

Friday, April 19, 2013

Blurry Vision - Bloodletting

Genre: Hardcore/Crust

Year: 2013

Tracklist:
1. Sisyphus

2. Nine Years

3. Bad Blood

4. Jacob's Broken Ladder

5. Slumset

6. Prescription Religion

7. Black Hole

8. Saint Morphine

9. Untitled

10. Talk To The Trees

Blurry Vision are a Hardcore group from Austin Texas. These guys play an angry as fuck metallic hardcore style, as well as fusing some Crust, Sludge, Black Metal, and Southern Rock. The overall feeling of this album is just that these dudes are sick of everything, and you can definitely hear it in the dismal, and bitter vocals. The guitar on this thing is just heavy as FUCK, the tone he has sounds like an old sludge or stoner band. This is an angry band for angry people. Let me repeat one last time, THIS IS HEAVY -Jacob Rice

PS. Go to the dudes Bandcamp and buy the album if you like it a lot!

Saturday, April 13, 2013

Glue-Demo 2012

Genre: Crust/Punk/Slam

1. Intro

2. Peer Evaluation

3. The jokes write themselves

4. Close but No Cigar

5. No Excuse

6. Falling Apart

Fast and angry punk assault from Austin, TX. Glue plays at a tempo similar to thrash, but with slam in mind. Similar to Disorder, Dirt, or F-Minus. Some really catchy riffs on this demo with most of the lyrics encircling gender roles and other important socio-political issues. You can buy a copy of their tape here.

-Tucker

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

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

Krang-The Bog of Eternal Stenchcore

Year: 2010

Genre: Crust

1. The Bog

2. To Thine Own Self...

3. Oh, Drear Circumstance

4. Losing the Bigger Picture

I originally saw this band play with No Master in Kansas City. Not too much to say here besides that this demo is crustier than a geological pizza. FFO Dropdead, Crossed Out, ya know...

-Tucker

Sunday, March 24, 2013

End Reign - Suicide Collection

Genre: Crust/Hardcore/Sludge

Year: 2013

Tracklist:
1. Sacrifice

2. Release The Wolves

3. Horror

4. Abyss

5. To Pray For

6. Dream Eater

7. Paradise

8. Release The Wolves

9. The Freeze

10. Azrael

11. DCCXXI

12. The Great Fall

Crust band from the UK. These dudes play some relentlessly heavy hardcore. The vocals are shrill and raw as fuck, and it rules. Instruments are just noisy and in your face, so good. The sludge parts on this just rule so hard. Overall this band is just one awesome wave of noise and pure anger. This is another release from Witch Hunter Records, dude just keeps putting out all this good shit. Support him!(There is a cool limited version of this tape on the bigcartel that comes with a shirt) -Jacob Rice

FFO: Cursed, Trap Them, Rise & Fall

Thursday, March 14, 2013

Seagraves - Weight of the World

Genre: Hardcore/Punk/Crust

Year: 2013

Tracklist:

1. Hollow Lies

2. Dreams Are For Fools

3. Weight of The World

4. Blood Runs Black

5. Wrong

Hardcore band from Leeds. Lets say you throw Converge and Botch in a blender and then the blender gets hit by a bat, that bat being His Hero Is Gone. These dudes play a nasty and dirty style of hardcore that is just oozing with crust influences. This stuff is fucking mean and dark. This is from one of my favorite record labels Witch Hunter Records who releases all of their releases for free on bandcamp, so you should go support him and buy some shit! -Jacob Rice

FFO: Converge, Botch, His Hero Is Gone, The Hope Conspiracy

Sunday, March 10, 2013

Badblood - End Me

Genre: Hardcore/Sludge/Crust

Year: 2013

Tracklist:

1. Reject

2. Fall

3. Pale

Hardcore from LA. These guys play a very noisy and just evil as fuck sound. Absolutely filled with hate and anger fueled. This is being released on Irish Voodoo/Black Voodoo records sometime this month. I have the honor of posting this a little earlier than its being released. I am really enjoying this EP, favorite track on this thing is the last one Pale. That track is so sludgy, heavy, and just oozing of black metal influence. Don't pass this one up, these dudes truly deserve your attention. -Jacob Rice

FFO: Young and In The Way, Creatures, Full of Hell, Thieves(Illinois Hardcore band)

Thursday, February 28, 2013

Downpour - Cringe

Genre: Powerviolence/Crust

Year: 2013

Tracklist:
1. The Deluge

2. Temporis Fidelis

3. Hunger

4. Hypothermia

5. Kinship

6. Maternal

7. Police Bastard(Doom)

8. Idle Hands

9. Going Home

Even more powerviolence I got from the guy in H Cough Noise. This time these dudes play a very noisy/raw crusty style of powerviolence. These dudes music is relentless and doesn't let up on you taking you for an angry furious ride. Give it a chance! -Jacob Rice

FFO: Despise You, Hatred Surge, Dropdead, His Hero Is Gone

Monday, December 24, 2012

Die Ignorant - Demo

Genre: Hardcore/Sludge/Crust/Grindcore

Year: 2012

Tracklist:

1. Surrounded

2. Jesus Brake

3. Fever Dreams

These guys are from Sydney, Australia and they play a very demented and dirty sounding style of hardcore. Mixing many genres into the blend to give anyone who enjoys something out of the extreme genres a chance to enjoy it. Found these dudes from a forum, very good find. For Fans of: Trap Them, Converge, Nails, Black Breath. -Jacob Rice

Saturday, December 22, 2012

Blackhole - Crostica

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Genre: Hardcore/Powerviolence/Crust

Year: 2012

Tracklist:

1. Crostica

These guys are from Neosho, Missouri which is pretty much local in Springfield considering they play here a lot. Anyways, this is a song from their upcoming 7", and I thought I would post this to help get their name out there. These guys play a very heavy, fast, and abrasive style of hardcore. Always putting on a good show as well. Definitely check this song out then get Ledges when it comes out soon! -Jacob Rice

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Falter-Demo 2012

Genre: Dark Hardcore/Crust

Year: 2012