Yung Baer $quad - Dirt Kid

genre: dirty sludgy dark trap/electronic

year: 2014

tracklist:

1. I

2. Am

3. Empty

4. Angry

5. Comet

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I am always looking for interesting/different things to review and post, and when my friend from Bear Creek released this project i knew i had to put it up. Yung Baer $quad is dirty creepy angry trap/electronic that makes you want to stare blankly at a burning building or demolition. Sludgy dark beats will drown you and you wont want to reach the surface, listen to this.

-Conner Sgarbossa

Kato - Buried With The Rain

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Genre: Hardcore/Sludge/Post Rock

Year: 2013

Tracklist:

1. Yet His Shadow Still Looms

2. And All of the Rats Gather

3. Dust of Earth

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Sometime last year I reviewed this bands first release named Came With Nothing / Left With Nothing and it was and still is one of my favorite submissions. This is their new release and let me tell you, this one is quite a project. The first song on this "Yet His Shadow Still Looms" begins with a cacophony of guitar distortion, feedback, brown note bass work, and the drummer pretty much just smashing his kit. This slowly turns into a haunting and eerie interlude part with clean guitar and finally it kicks back into the dissonance again but this time with some ear splitting vocals just to top off this wonderful track. Which honestly starts out this album as perfect as it can get and pretty much shows you what you're in for for the rest of the album.

We move on to the second track named "And All of the Rats Gather". It starts with a creepy sounding wind tunnel like noise that the guitarist is pulling off and there is a quote playing by Robert Oppenheimer which adds a certain feel of hopelessness to this track. This track also ventures into more of a hardcore feel. With riffs sounding like they came from Converge and pounding floor toms all over this track. This is a mean track.

Last but not least is the track "Dust of Earth". To me this tracks puts off a feel of just being alone all by yourself on Earth. Packed full of melodic guitar parts and standalone vocals this ends up being my favorite tracks of all on this record. This song really brings out the whole post-rock/post-metal feel. The riff near the end of this track is just fucking awesome as well by the way. 

This band honestly needs more attention and doesn't get enough credit for how awesome and creative of music they are releasing. So please give this one a chance.

-Jacob Rice

Horror's That we've seen - Smokin,Skatin,Satan

Year:2013

Genre:Sludge/Metal/Doom

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1.Rot & Decay

2.Hellraiser

3.Nuclear Bong

4.Catch The Witch

UK Stoner metal from Edinburgh. Released on a limited number of 100 tapes made from recycled material and hemp rope. Definate Power violence vibes here too. Check it out.

-George

Nibiru - The Reinvention Of Man

Year:2012

Genre:Metal/Hardcore/Sludge

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Tracklist:

1. The Reinvention Of Man 

(Ch 1. Hard Focus)
(Ch 2. Pure Energy)
(Ch 3. God Mode)

A Strange yet wonderful creation from Nibiru, following up from their "Earthbreeder" Demo. One 9 minute track makes up this release, making it Incredibly hard to classify, as their are hints of so many kinds of music. but i would describe is as this: its sounds like Twitching Tongues being attacked by Basement whilst fighting off Breaking Point.

 It's really fucking good.

-George

Wraiths - EP 2012

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Genre: Down-Tempo/Hardcore/Sludge

Year: 2013

Tracklist:

1. Pyramid Head

2. Church Burner

3. Hell Ride

4. Black Vultures

5. Monolith

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Down-Tempo band hailing from North-East UK. Another release from Witch Hunter Records, maybe the first down-tempo band from them(I may be wrong) but definitely a release worth getting, this album has so much energy, personality, and emotion. As well as being an album you can get down to and be a mosh wizard, these dudes rip out some balls to the wall heavy riffs and some cool ominous/melodic riffs. Pretty rad lyrics as well. These dudes sound somewhere similar to like Brutality Will Prevail(Sleep Paralysis), but sometimes not really, these guys really honestly have their own kind of sound and you should check it out.

-Jacob Rice

Koresh - Chump

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Genre: Sludge/Hardcore

Year: 2013

Tracklist:

1. Straight Edge Till Midnight

2. Wogan

3. Cheer Up Glasgow

4. Bin Juice

5. Adolf Hipster

6. Shitbird

7. You Can Call Me Gaahl

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Five piece sludge group from London. Release from one of my favorite labels Witch Hunter Records and this is another album that just doesn't disappoint. Witch Hunter's roster is getting better and better each day and can't wait to see what the dude does in the future. Alright well to the description of this band, these guys play a very dirty, gritty, and acid filled sludge style in the vein of bands like Iron Monkey, Eyehategod, and Acid Bath. Not only sludge though do these guys pull off, they pull off a very great bluesy style of hardcore it sounds like to me kind of like Sabertooth Zombie. The riffs in this album will annihilate you. 

-Jacob Rice

Ad Dajjal - Ciclico

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Genre: Hardcore/Crust/Sludge

Year: 2013

Tracklist:
1. Somnolencia

2. Thysia

3. Neviim

4. Crimental

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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

Blurry Vision - Bloodletting

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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

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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!

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

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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

End Reign - Suicide Collection

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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

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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

Atragon - Volume 1

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Genre: Doom/Sludge/Stoner

Year: 2013

Tracklist:

1. The Sound In The Halls

2. Jesus Wept

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Doom band from the UK. These dudes are like if you took Electric Wizard and made them heavier, which is hard to think of considering Electric Wizard is like jaw droppingly heavy. These dudes bring a much more harsh/noisy style in my opinion. Much more aggressive vocals. These dudes bring the best riffs. Another release from Witch Hunter Records, support him! -Jacob Rice

FFO: Electric Wizard, Sleep, Saint Vitus

Badblood - End Me

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Genre: Hardcore/Sludge/Crust

Year: 2013

Tracklist:

1. Reject

2. Fall

3. Pale

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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)

False Light - Self Titled

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Genre: Powerviolence/Grindcore/Sludge

Year: 2013

Tracklist:

1. Rotting Teeth

2. Almighty Thief

3. The Great Unwashed

4. Lung

5. Praxis

6. ///

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MORE POWERVIOLENCE from Charleston. These dudes mix sludge and powerviolence which ends up being a noisy slamming sound. Very rad. Extremely solid, great recording. This was just put up for preorders not that long ago so if you like it a lot buy it from either of these links BUY BUY

-Jacob Rice

FFO: Weekend Nachos, Mind Eraser, Mammoth Grinder

H Cough Noise - Demo 2013

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Genre: Powerviolence/Sludge

Year: 2013

1. Intro/Guilty of Being Taylor White

2. Smokelahoma

3. Voices of the Blue God

4. Good Wizard//Bad Human

5. Like A Puritan Maypole

6. Walking Disease/Felony Ring

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Awesome powerviolence heavily influenced by sludge. These dudes music is rad. With the slow grinding parts of sludge building up to the chaotic powerviolence parts I really enjoy this. Very heavy. Definitely give this one a listen. -Jacob Rice

FFO: Hatred Surge, Spazz, Infest

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Genre: Sludge/Down Tempo

Year: 2008

Tracklist:

1. Sex With A Stranger

2. Circling The Drain

3. Kill Yourself

4. Plastic Bath

5. Blowdown

6. Android

7. Specimen On

8. Bug Vomit

9. Illusion Of Strength

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A FIRE TO BURN DOWN THE WORLD

Genre: Sludge/Down Tempo

Year: 2010

Tracklist:

1. A Fire To Burn Down The World

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Music to put someone through a wood chipper to.

-Tanner Caruthers

Low Places - Black Tape

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Genre: Hardcore/Black Metal/Sludge

Year: 2013

Tracklist:

1. Side A

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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

Sloth Herder - Abandon Pop Sensibility

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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

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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

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

Dead End Alaska/Ostrov - Family and Friends Vol. II

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Genre: Hardcore/Sludge

Year: 2012

Tracklist:
1. Dead End Alaska - The Bird With Human Legs

2. Dead End Alaska - Million Kyle March

3. Ostrov - Maw

4. Ostrov - Carrion

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This is a split between Dead End Alaska and Ostrov. Recently one of the members of Dead End Alaska submited this and I gave it a good listen and I thoroughly enjoy this thing. Dead End Alaska brings more of a softer more emotional side of hardcore kind of close to a post hardcore or screamo thing. While Ostrov brings a heavy distorted sludge sound to this split. Very refreshing mix up! Definitely check this thing out and support both of these bands.

Die Ignorant - Demo

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Genre: Hardcore/Sludge/Crust/Grindcore

Year: 2012

Tracklist:

1. Surrounded

2. Jesus Brake

3. Fever Dreams

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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