Iron Reagan - Worse Than Dead (2013)

1. Drop The Gun
2. Slightly Out Of Focus
3. I Predict The Death Of Harold Camping
4. Cycle Of Violence
5. Eyes Piss Tears
6. Insanity Plea(se)?
7. A Joke A Fraud A Fake
8. Rats In A Cage
9. We Know You
10. Paycheck
11. Midlothian Murder Mile
12. The Debt Collector
13. I Ripped That Testament A New Asshole
14. Bodies
15. Eat Shit And Live
16. Two Examples
17. Snake Chopper
18. Warp Your Mind
19. Walking Out

If you liked his recent demo, you´re gonna enjoy this work a lot. More hardcore, more thrash and more oldschool vibes to headbanging and destroy your neck. Nothing new, another revival, indeed, but when things are as well done as here, the only option is surrender to them and enjoy as a maniacs.

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The Levitation Hex - The Levitation Hex (2012)

01. The Longest Path Possible 04:45
02. Manipular 04:05
03. Scratch a Life and Find a Thief 04:20
04. Depressedemic 05:25
05. Internal Chatter 04:59
06. A Breathing Aparatus 04:39
07. Breaking Point 06:26
08. Flirting with Schizophrenia 05:16
09. Dream Defecit 07:39

Suprising work of this new band formed by Agius (Alchemist), being a compendium of prog/psychedelic sounds, having a solid death metal base, but going far beyond that. Nine songs that can be heard as one, connected perfectly between each other, and creating a unique piece of music that goes across the intensity of death metal and the textures and soundscapes of the progressive. You must check this out!

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Primitive Man - Scorn (2013)

1. Scorn (11:44)
2. Rags (04:36)
3. I can’t forget (03:26)
4. Antietam (09:07)
5. Black Smoke (03:05)
6. Stretched Thin (02:54)
7. Astral Sleep (04:51)

Hate, despair, bitterness, sickness...SLUDGE. A long time ago since I didn´t put my ears into a sludge band, but these guys call my atention since the first moment. Fat guitars, density, swampy atmospheres, rawness and a sick vocal lines is what you´re gonna find here. Really impressive work!

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Iron Reagan - Demo (2012)

1 Paycheck 1:20

2 Eat Shit and Live 0:51

3 Artificial Saints 1:21

4 Running Out of Time 1:31

New band with members from Municipal Waste, Darkest Hour and City Of Caterpillar. Four tracks of old school hardcore-thrash that sounds really good and fast! Waiting for the forthcoming full-lenght. Looks promising...

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Slussenanalys - Aquila Helvetos Asfaltos (2011)

1.-DjävulensUlv 2:31

2.-Ruttet Ägg 3:15

3.-Stelnad Blick 3:16

4.-Asfältorn 1:50

5.-De Förkolnade 2:08

6.-Kung För Världen 3:07

7.-Levande Maskin 2:18

8.-Himlet Mot Helvete 3:04

9.-Brinnande Spjutspets 3:46

10.-Tomma Skallar 4:07

11.-Var Var Jar 2:47

The most swedish noise rock band from Finland. This is how they are define. Personally I´d add a bit of Dead Kennedys and Biaffra´s touch to have a better idea of what they do here. High class noise rock, with an aura of bitterness that wrapped all the album that makes it specially atractive. Great discovery!

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Mestis - Basal Ganglia EP (2012)

1. Te Mato 4:04

2. Semilla 2:53

3. Olvidala 2:33

4. Menta 5:01

5. Luz y Clelo 1:50

Javier Reyes is the man behind Mestis, probably best known for his work on Animals As Leaders or T.R.A.M. This is his solo adventure, and of corse you can imagine what to expect from this short ep. 5 songs of progressive soundscapes, always at the edge of jazz, fusion, or metal. Pure progressive inspiration.

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Nightsatan - Midnight Laser Warrior (2010)

1. Four Eyed Cyclops

2. Death Chess 2000

3. Karelian Starmaster (Evil Lucifer)

4. Ninja Apocalypse

5. Steel Diamond part 4

6. Stars, Our Destination

7. Shogun Sunrise

Nice! Nice! Nice! Is it clear? Do you like sci-fi movies? do you like the 80´s sci-fi movies? and their soundtracks? well, then you have to listen this album. Synthesizers, electronic drums, analogic sonorities and tones of good taste comform this record. Weird futuristic stuff that you don´t listen everydays. Enjoy it!

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Test - Árabe Macabre (2012)

01. Árabe Macabre (2:01)

02. Andróides (2:27)

03. Celebrar Venha (2:50)

04. Venenom (1:35)

05. Morrer Lentamente (2:22)

06. Du Horror (1:40)

07. Sal da Vida (2:18)

08. Deus II (1:38)

09. Na Pilha (2:10)

10. Abismo (2:49)

Brazilian grindcore, not too much fast or crazy, closer to hardcore and the old school sonorities, sometimes swampy, and with an horrific voice and atmospheres. Short album without pretentions, but very interesting anyway.

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Creature With The Atom Brain - The Birds Fly Low (2012)

1. Hit The Sky
2. Wolf Eye
3. Southern Wind
4. The Beauty Of The Rain
5. Black Rider Run (feat. Mark Lanegan)
6. The Dust Of Time
7. Sayonara
8. Nightlife
9. Break Me Blue
10. Red River
11. Slide
12. R-Frequency (bonus track)
13. The Birds Fly Low (bonus track)

Lovely, charming and delicious piece of rock. I discovered them on tour a few months ago with Mr.Lanegan and they caught my attention inmediatly. Sometimes psychedelic, sometimes stoner, but always rock, made with a huge class. Nothing more to say, enjoy it!

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A Forest Of Stars - A Shadowplay For Yesterdays (2012)

01. Directionless Resurrectionist 03:13
02. Prey Tell of the Church Fate 07:27
03. A Prophet for A Pound of Flesh 10:11
04. The Blight of Gods Acre 06:09
05. Mans Laughter 03:00
06. The Underside of Eden 08:14
07. Gatherer of the Pure 08:20
08. Left Behind as Static 06:43
09. Corvus Corona (Part 1) 03:15
10. Corvus Corona (Part 2) 06:13
11. Dead Love (Bonustrack) 05:47

Fantastic! This is the perfect word to define this new album. Taking as reference some of the black metal patterns they totally redifine the style adding a bunch of prog-circus melodies, enriching the music until they create this wonder. An album that needs to be carefully listened to extract all of its essence. Don´t you miss the video either, simply astonishing!

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Beastmilk - Use Your Deluge EP (2012)

1.- Void Mother

2.- Children Of The Atom Bomb

3.- Forever Animal

4.- Red Majesty

Wonderful EP of these finnish guys. Mat McNerney, the mind behind bands as Dodheimsgard, Code, Void or Hexvessel, offers to us a very remarcable EP of dark post-punk, highly influenced by bands as Misfits, Joy Division, Danzig or even Dead Kennedys. Unexpected surprise. Must listen it!

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Cannabis Corpse - Beneath Grow Lights Thou Shalt Rise (2011)

1. Visions From The Dank Side

2. Lunatic Of Pot's Creation 

3. Blame It On Bud

4. Chapel Of Bowls 

5. Dead By Bong

6. Immortal Pipes

7. Where The Kind Lives

8. Sworn To The Bag

9. Blaze Of Torment 

10. Gateways To Inhalation

11. Slave To The Chron 

12. Beneath Grow Lights Thou Shalt Rise 

What can I say? They can be look a non serious band, but they really know who to play death metal, sometimes even better than the other CC. Anyway, this is a very good album full of badass songs!

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713avo Amor - A Veces El Dolor (1993)

1.- A veces el dolor
2.- (Te escribo desde esta) botellita de cielo
3.- Cielo bajo tierra
4.- Limosna para morir
5.- El mar es la manera más arrugada de todos los millones de maneras de corazones
6.- Última nota
7.- La materia no existe
8.- En medio de un mar de penas
9.- Las lágrimas
10.- Lago de ceniceros
11.- Princesa de manos azules
12.- Sombreros llenos de sangre
13.- La chófer del diablo

This is one of those bands that never achieved the success that they deserve. They were in the underground, and they still there. Because they are far from mainstream and far from the sweet melodies of the comercial music. This band probably has the most acid, bitterest and surrealistic lyrics that I´ve ever heard.  Add to this a crazy noise rock and post punk that could remember bands like Fugazi or Slint and you´ll have "713th Love". Sometimes the pain...

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Muknal - Muknal (2012) EP

1.- Cruciation 6:28

2.- Rotten Genesis 6:10

3.- Eidolon 4:41

Outstanding and very short EP from these extrem guys. It sounds old school, chaotic, dark, lysergic and dirty. Muknal drinks directly from the sound of Incantation, Teitanblood, and that kind of rotten stuff. If you like this kind of bands you will enjoy this album as a possessed. Highly recommended!

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Young And In The Way - V.Eternal Depression (2011)EP

1. Descending the White Mountain

2. Times Are Cold

3. The Great Blue Norther

4. Oceans of Eternal Depression
5. The Gathering

Atmospheric and blackened, very blackened hardcore, full of bad vibes, intensity, and rage. When they become slow and atmospherics they remind me a little to Corrupted, other times they become faster and its sound it´s closer to the black metal feelings. Anyway, you must listen it!

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Teething - S/T (2012)

1.-Hell Song

2.-Fuck This Face

3.-Broken Teeth

4.-1996

5.-Self-Extintion

New release from Tupatutupa Records. Powerful, furious and outstanding hardcore/grindcore from Madrid. Short but intense, direct to the bone!

You can buy and download the album in its bandcamp.

Pigs - You Ruin Everything (2012)

1. Give It

2. Whitewash

3. Massive Operator Error

4. Drained

5. Outburst Calendar

6. Contrition Dilemma

7. Scrum

8. Small c Celebrity

9. Mashantucket

10. At Least It’s An Ethos

Sublime cover-art that fits perfectly with the music of these guys. Featuring members of Unsane and Player´s Club, you can make an idea of what to expect about this album. Not bad at all.

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King Crimson - The Power To Believe (2003)

1. The Power to Believe I: A Cappella (0:44)
2. Level Five (7:17)
3. Eyes Wide Open (4:08)
4. Elektrik (7:59)
5. Facts of Life (6:44)
6. The Power to Believe II: Power Circle (7:43)
7. Dangerous Curves (6:42)
8. Happy With What You Have to Be Happy With (3:17)
9. The Power to Believe III (4:09)
10. The Power to Believe IV: Coda (2:29)

King Crimson is one of those bands that doesn´t need introduction. With more than 40 years creating music and countless albums, this is the band that has been able to achieve the succes and the respect of all kind of musicians and fans of metal, rock, jazz, etc. All of this leading by its brain, Mr.Robert Fripp, the perfect experimenter. Because this is of what this album goes, of experimentation and evolution in music. Here there are no boundaries nor limits, just what Mr.Fripp is capable to imagine. This is not an easy listening album, King Crimson never was. This is just another step forward in its music. A little-known gem inside its discography. Enjoy these geniuses!

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Aspid - Extravasation (1992)[remastered 2007]

01. Intro / Интро
02. It Came (Aspid) / Он Пришел (Аспид)
03. Towards One Goal / К Цели Одной
04. Give Me (Play For A Ballet) / Дай Мне (Пьеса Для Балета)
05. Hey, You! / Эй, Ты!
06. Where The Night / Там, Где Ночь...
07. Comatose State / Коматозное Состояние
08. Extravasation / Кровоизлияние

Unfairly unknown russian band from the 90´s, wich played a technical thrash metal with complex and intricate guitar riffs, surely will delight the fans of bands like Coroner, Deathrow, Watchtower and the current heirs of that kind of sounds, Vektor. This is the reissue of 2007. An uknown jewel of technical thrash metal.

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Ancestors - In Dreams And Time (2012)

1.- Whispers 9:10

2.- The Last Return 6:15

3.- Corryvreckan 12:08

4.- On The Wind 9:31 

5.- Running In Circles 9:44

6.- First Light 19:19

Monumental new album of Ancestors. The perfect culmination to its career so far. This "In Dreams And Time" is more progressive and epic than ever, and displays some of their influences widely, Pink Floyd would be a good example this. From the cover art untill the last second of the magnificent "First Light" we are in front of an outstanding piece of music, that surely will be between the best albums of this 2012. Enjoy it!

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