Misery - Frozen

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Genre: Hardcore/Powerviolence

Year: 2013

Tracklist:

1. Intro

2. Frozen

3. No Mercy

4. Blackout

5. Hellfrost

6. Nameless

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Band from Grand Rapids Michigan. Theses dudes play a very abrasive and angry style of hardcore. This stuff is so goddamn heavy. I highly advise checking this one out because i've replayed this one more than a few times. Mosh. -Jacob Rice 

FFO: Black Mask, Homewrecker, Nails, Weekend Nachos

Safe and Sound - Won't Turn Our Backs

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Genre: Hardcore/Youth Crew

Year: 2013

Tracklist:
1. Intro

2. Who's Left?

3. Solidarity

4. You Turned Away...

5. F.O.Y.

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Youth crew band from Tacoma, WA. Playing music with a positive message. These dudes play some very solid stuff. I am enjoying this EP more than their first release Life Choices (HERE) -Jacob Rice

FFO: Losin' It, Disengage

Development - Winter's E.P.

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Genre: Emo/Hardcore/Post Hardcore

Year: 2013

Tracklist:

1. Barren

2. But I Had the Best Intentions

3. 9494 E. Becker

4. Imperfect

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Band from Tempe Arizona. These dudes play a very energetic style of Emo and Hardcore. Very easy to like these songs, they are so melodic and just beautiful. Stack that on with the aggressive/clean vocals that the singer is doing. Yeah, you're going to like this one. -Jacob Rice

FFO: Title Fight, Brand New, Crime In Stereo, Touche Amore

Nurture - In The Middle of Everything

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Genre: Screamo/Hardcore

Year: 2013

Tracklist:
1. Eye On The Back of My Hand

2. Branches and Time

3. Mercenary I

4. Mercenary II

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Screamo band from Atlanta. A dude who makes rap beats who i've posted earlier (Murkdaddyflex) is in this band. I don't think this dude is able to not make good music. This stuff rules, packed to the brim with absolute emotion. -Jacob Rice

FFO: Loma Prieta, I Hate Myself, Innards

Calloused - 2013 Demo

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Genre: Hardcore/Thrash

Year: 2013

Tracklist:
1. Calloused

2. Right-winged

3. Ready to Fight (Negative Approach)

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Hardcore band from Roanoke. These dudes play a very aggressive style of hardcore packed full of thrash influences. This demo is a short fun listen and is enjoyable. Especially the cover of Negative Approach. Can't wait to hear a full release from these dudes. -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

New Lands - I Wonder If It Remembers Me

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Genre: Math Rock/Emo/Punk

Year: 2013

Tracklist:

1. When They're There, Their There Own

2. Birds Just Don't Get You

3. Young Sausage

4. The Days Are Getting Shorterer

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Awesome Math Rock/Emo band from New Orleans. These guys play a very gritty but still cleanly and precisely played style of Math Rock. If I could compare them to someone I guess it could be a band like This Town Needs Guns or Innards. I am enjoying this release a lot! -Jacob Rice

Chelsea Wolfe-Ἀποκάλυψις

Year: 2011

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Genre: Doom-Folk/Ambient/?

1. Primal/Carnal

2. Mer

3. Tracks (Tall Bodies)

4. Demons

5. Movie Screen

6. The Wasteland 

7. Moses

8. Friedrichshain

9. Pale On Pale

10. To The Forest, Towards The Sea

If you were to label Chelsea Wolfe in a broad sense, you would probably say that she falls under the genre of Folk. However that would not be doing her justice. She derives quite a bit of influences from Black & Doom-Metal and even has a Burzum cover floating around the internet. The instrumentals on Ἀποκάλυψις, as well as Chelsea's voice alternate from being ambient and haunting, to raspy and intense throughout the track-list. The tracks themselves are layered with alternating ambiance, adding an ominous and darkly atmospheric feeling to Chelsea's wailed minor tonalities. 

-Tucker Ross

Edward Newgate-Band of the Hawk Demo

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Genre: Powerviolence

This band is fairly new to the Kansas City scene and plays stripped-down powerviolence in the veins of Neanderthal or older Sea of Shit. Guitarist True Newman says that the name "Edward Newgate" causes many people to think that the band is some kind of  "indie acoustic artist." However the name is a reference to a character from the Japanese Manga series One Piece

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If you're a fan of fast, punishing, chaotic sounds and Shōnen manga references, then click the download link and feast your ears on a volatile cocktail of death and destruction.

-Tucker Ross

Ex-Breathers - Collision

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Genre: Hardcore/Punk/Post Hardcore

Year: 2012

Tracklist:

1. Bruise

2. No Belief

3. Passive Forms

4. Louder

5. Screenhead

6. Sink to Breathe

7. Bliss

8. 81

9. Collision

10. Second Voice

11. Time-Lapse

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Punk band from Tallahassee. These guys play a combination of a lot of things. Oddly enough as others have compared them to Nomeansno, Fugazi, and Botch. I agree with those comparisons, this band brings something new to the table and something worth listening to. This stuff is rad.

-Jacob Rice