Embers - Shadows

Sup fuckers. Been a while.

Embers - Shadows

This came to me from the band themselves. Normally I'm too lazy to do band requests (sorry guys, you're probably awesome but I'm easily distracted) but today was a lazy Sunday so I figured I'd give it a listen. What I got (so far, on a few minutes in) is some haunting/melodic black metal with tinges of crust. Weird shit, sorta reminds me of Book Of Black Earth. Sounds pretty unlike the other Embers shit I have too, but it's quality. The link above is to their bandcamp page. Sliding scale digital download (with no minimum). So you douches can stream the whole thing and then give them money. It's a win win situation.

And no, this is not a sign I'm back to regular posting.

Lords of Lightspeed EP

Sup. Unemployment blows. Have an upload:

Lords of Lightspeed is the band pre-Wolves In The Throne Room, with the two Weaver brothers playing instruments in a Mukilteo Fairies sounding band (which makes sense, they share some members), though this has some black metal-ish influence (which also makes sense considering where the Weavers ended up). So what do we have? Pretty good shit, and stupidly annoying to find. Took me a while to track down a torrent (and it was only the .flac version), and even longer for a seed to show up and let me grab it. To make things easier, I'm packing it up here for you fucks. I'm including both the original .flac files from the torrent, and 190kbps .mp3s I converted for easier listening.

Lords of Lightspeed EP

Thanks to whoever uploaded the torrent on RockBox

Nux Vomica - Asleep In The Ashes

Most of you still reading probably have this by now, but fuck it, I'm going to post anyways. I'm just going to copy paste my description from VF, because I'm lazy awesome like that.

Their second album however, Asleep In The Ashes, holy fucking cockknuckles it's amazing. Possibly my favorite release of all time (EDIT: Yes, that means it might be beating Muga). Six songs in a little over an hour, and some of the most beautiful, angry, depressed music I've heard. That whole wave of crust bands adding things like cello's and violins to add atmosphere don't add up to one percent of Nux Vomica's presence. It's like Isis stopped being lame and fell in love with Dystopia and made beautifully pissed off children and those children were Nux Vomica.

That video of The Monster I posted a while back is the continuation of their style post-AITA.

Nux Vomica - Asleep In The Ashes or how I learned to stop worry and love the best crusty metal album ever.

Seized - Seized

Well, at least I'm back faster than usual.

This is Seized and...fuck I forgot what they sound like, one sec...


Alright, got it. Seized sounds almost like a slower Man Is The Bastard, thanks in no small part to three (count em) bass guitars, and no normal guitarist. Really thick and heavy sound that tends to plod along at a sludge pace, but every so often picks up in to a rocking melody. Odd. Skipping around in tracks just now to get a feel left me underwhelmed, but I remember specifically listening to this at work and thinking "Damn, this is good. Think I have a new upload" so here it is. Don't trust my description, trust my memory that this is awesome.

Seized - Seized

Constant Doubt - 2010 Demo

What what what? TWO posts? Yes.

Constant Doubt is the band of a cool guy over on the VF punk forums. Since I'm mod there and he actually knows what the fuck he's talking about and doesn't start shit, I'm posting his demo here. It's also not too bad, so there's that too. Production is utter crap and feedback permeates the entire sound (sounds almost like it was recorded live, not in a studio), but if you like noisy/discordant hardcore, you probably wouldn't mind it at all. I mean, I'll be honest, it's not the ZOMG BEST HARDCORE RECORD EVAR, but fuck, it's a DIY release by a friends band, it has some nice slow sludgy parts that almost border on early Swans and it's fucking free, so who gives a shit. It's a competent album and that's all that fucking matters.

Constant Doubt - 2010 Demo

So it's been brought to my attention that there actually isn't any production at all, and the whole thing really was recorded live. Onto a camcorder. I'm honestly surprised it doesn't sound worse knowing that.

About fuck...

I said fuck a whole lot in the last post. It's like I'm trying to meet some quota I feel behind on during my time away from here.

Fuck it.

Glasses - Glasses

Blah, not gonna say shit about "oh maybe I'm back, maybe I'm not" because fuck if I know. Point is, I'm here now, and with something awesome.

Glasses is a German hardcore band, and the best way I can put it is it's a fucking female fronted Ghostlimb. RIDICULOUSLY angry and pissed off, but fucking melodic as all hell too. Found them through last.fm when I asked for a Ghostlimb/Swarrrm/Skarp station, and this is pretty much the single best thing it could have shit out into my eager ears. 'Your Terms' is one of the catchiest fucking pieces of rage I've ever heard, and the broad fronting them has some scary raspy "I fucking hate you and will kill you with sound all Maub'Dib style motherfucker" vocals going on, and it rules. Follow this blog enough and you know I have a aural hard-on for chick vocalists who can actually fucking do vocals, and this girl fucking delivers.

Glasses - Glasses

Enjoy you miscreants.

Wormwood

Oh look, I'm finally getting around to posting something that's been in my MF account since last February.

Wormwood is awesome. If you liked the last track on There Is Nothing Eternal Exists by Muga, with the organ and all, you'd like this. Freaked out carnival sludge, heavy and spooky. The addition of an organ really makes it here, but I haven't listened to them recently enough to provide more of a description than that. Oh well, enjoy two albums. Am I back?

Wormwood - Starvation
Wormwood - Requiscat

Funeralopolis 200%

Oh hi there.

This isn't something typical of what I post (when I do), besides that it's awesome. A while back someone on /mu/ took the track Funeralopolis by Electric Wizard, a slow, plodding heavy as fuck doom/stoner song and sped it up 200%. The result is a thrashing gnarly mess of riffs that shreds through your soul. Fucking awesome track. Whoever you are random /mu/tant, I salute you.

Electric Wizard - Funeralopolis 200%

I have a request

Ok, not one to usually do this, but if anyone can find a FULL recording of this (likely a live one), I will be eternally grateful. It's known as "The Monster", and it's a 30+ minute long track by Nux Vomica. This little excerpt is flat out amazing, and I'd love to hear the full thing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxueM6ioqN0

Worth listening to even if you don't have the full version.

RISE FROM YOUR GRAVE / The Warren of Snares

Anyone still out there? No? Cool.

This here is the Warren Of Snares trilogy by Fall of Efrafa. They call themselves post hardcore, but they sound like neocrust to me (sorry guys, know you dislike the tag but that's what you sound like). Anyways, music. Three albums of epic sweeping emotional melodic heaviness, all to the tune of Richard Adam's Watership Down. This is really some of the best music I have, long songs that never overstay their welcome, complex melodies that latch their hooks into you, a pulsing underlying anger always threatening to overtake everything, all wrapped up in one of the most complete concepts ever realised in music. Listen to it in order, all at once.

Links removed at request of band. You should be able to find them for purchase pretty easily though.

I know Owsla is missing track seven, that's on purpose as it's a bonus track that isn't actually a part of the trilogy. I may upload it later along with stuff like their split, demo, and Tharn.

Also, just because of the quote I used in the title, have some Altered Beast Demo. Short fast and fun thrashcore. Fuck yea, good to be back in business.

Dystopia/Suffering Luna Split

One for the road.

A small file, so it was one of the few I was able to get up. Suffering Luna just reunited pretty recently, so that's amazing. This is half of the stuff they've done, the other half is on a split with Gasp.

It was fun while it lasted.

So, looks like Crustmas is at an end. I cannot upload anything, I lose internet within a minute of trying. Until Comcast stop being complete fucking cunts or I move and get a different provider, that's it. Crustmas is no more.

I have a few things sitting in MediaFire already which I'll post later this week, but that will likely be the last of them, for a while at least.

Harum Scarum - Suppose We Try

Trying to get as much up before Comcast screws me over. So here, more Harum Scarum. See below for description.

Suppose We Try to destroy Comcast.

Also, apologies for the password on the Demo, I don't know how that happened, but it's removed.

Harum Scarum - Demo (also, fuck Comcast)

So, I WAS going to upload a further two albums by Harum Scarum, but Comcast see fit to turn off my internet midway, every time. Took three tries just to get this one up. If anyone knows how to get around this, please let me know. Shit sucks.

Now, on to this album. Harum Scarum is a crust band with a chick vocalist (or two? Dunno). Has some clean vocals and some nice gurgley growls. Pretty melodic and I can't think of much else to say. Filling a request from a comment on my MySpazz.

Harum Scarum - Demo

Skarp - Requiem

And I'm back (again). School and life intervened, but that's done now (fuck yea graduated). Hopefully, since I have fuck all else to do until I find a job, I'll post more often. Starting now, with this little jem:

Skarp - Requiem

Skarp are a "blackout grind" band from here in Seattle. Really, blackout grind just means some crazy awesome crusty grind shit, kinda like Nux Vomica or those other bands I rave about. This is their latest album, which is sad because it's fucking four years old. I've been playing the SHIT out of this since buying it at a show of theirs two weeks ago, especially the title track. Renae has some of the absolute best female vocals in extreme music, hands down. Only one who can compare is Mis (from Moonshine). Super punishing, but never losing its melody, this is worth a listen.

Ghostlimb

Late as per usual.

So, this is Ghostlimb. Found them thanks to an Anon on /mu/, who said that the vocalist of Graf Orlock's other band (this one) destroyed Graf. Being a huge fan of Graf Orlock, I had to check them out and let me say, it ain't far from the truth. Ghostlimb eschews Graf's nerd referential grindcore in favor of hyper fast, hyper melodic hardcore. Think what Wake Up On Fire or Nux Vomica do, except less grind/crust. It's really quite awesome though, and I find myself going back to both their releases every few days. Highly recommended for fans of the melodic crust stuff I post.

Ghostlimb - S/T
Ghostlimb - Bearing and Distance

Filth/Blatz - Shit Split

So, long time no post (again). Oops. No excuses, but here's something worth grabbing. This here is the Shit Split, which is Filth (with I think everything they've done) and Blatz (who I have no idea what this consists of). Filth is pretty awesome crusty punk with some interesting vocals, Blatz is general punk with a pretty grating vocalist. Not a big fan of them, but maybe some of you will like them.

Filth Side
Blatz Side

Amebix

So, I caught Amebix's show on Tuesday, and I had forgotten how fucking amazing they were. Figured I might as well just upload everything I have by them, so here you go.

Arise!
Monolith
No Sanctuary
Who's The Enemy?
Winter

Gehenna - Upon The Grave Hill REMOVED BY REQUEST

Apologies for not posting in almost a month. I have no excuse.

This here is Gehenna, no relation to the black metal band though. This is mean as fuck all metallic hardcore. Almost approaches grind (may be grind for all I know, fuck genres).


Removed at request of Gehenna
Buy it here.


Also, Razorback Records just put out an album from a band called Acid Witch. I'm not uploading, since they JUST PUT IT OUT, but you're an industrious lot. I highly recommend checking it out, as it's some damn fine drug soaked death/doom.