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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Hogjaw - Sons Of Western Skies (2012)

1.- Spoonfed

2.- Hells Half Home Of Mine

3.- Road Of Fools

4.- Six Shots

5.- Everyone´s Giong Fishing

6.- Look To The Sky

7.- Mainstream Trucker (18 Wheeler Remix)

8.- MIdnight Run To Cleator

9.- Dirty Woman

10.- The Sum Of All Things

They´re back again! The chiefs of the new southern sound, introduces to us his third album, wich follows the steps of their lasts two works. It means, very good riff and solo guitars, fantastic vocals (a couple of songs are sung by his drummer) and the gorgeous southern feelin the wrap all the album. Also there is some new ingredients, as the funky song "everyone´s going fishing", and with some other elements that enrich the music. Highly recommended, again.

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John Zorn - Mount Analogue (2012)

1.- Mount Analogue (Feat. Cyro Baptista, Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz, Tim Keiper, Brian Marsella & Kenny Wollesen) 38:21

Mr.Zorn is back with this one-song album, full oriental soundscapes, contemporany music passages and the experimentation that always goes with him. This is performed by Cyro Baptista's Banquet of the Spirits quartet: Shanir Blumenkranz, Tim Keiper, and Brian Marsella, with Kenny Wollesen on vibes and chimes.This work is close to the Film Works series. As always, a pleasure.

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Mark Lanegan - Blues Funeral (2012)

01. The Gravedigger’s Song
02. Bleeding Muddy Water
03. Gray Goes Black
04. St Louis Elegy
05. Riot In My House
06. Ode To Sad Disco
07. Phantasmagoria Blues
08. Quiver Syndrome
09. Harborview Hospital
10. Leviathan
11. Deep Black Vanishing Train
12. Tiny Grain Of Truth

Yeah! One of the most anticipated albums for this 2012 is already here. And I have to say that at first listening it sounds a little bit..."dark wave"? Listening songs as "ode to sad disco", "harborview hospital" or "gray goes black" it looks like if you were listening Peter Murphy, or bands as Trembling Blue Stars. This is not bad, because the voice of mr.Lanegan still being here. His immense voice and highlights as "st louis elegy", "phantasmagoria blues" or "deep black vanishing train" make this album, once again, a jewel, and surely, from now on, one of the best albums of this year. I let you proudly with Mark Lanegan and his band. 

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Buckethead - Electric Sea (2012)

01.Electric Sea
02.Beyond the Knowing
03. Swomee Swan
04.Point Doom
05.El Indio
06.La Wally
07. La Gavotte
08.Bachethead
09.Yokohama
10 .Gateless Gate
11.The Homing Beacon

The guitar hero known as Buckethead, introduces to us a diferent work. This is not the typical guitar-virtuoso album. Obviously, behind the guitars, there is an outstanding work, but I feel this work much more experimental than another thing. Quite and atmospheric in general, combinig acoustic with electric guitars. Nice surprise.

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Zechs Marquise - Getting Paid (2011)

01. Getting Paid
02. Lock Jaw Night Vision
03. Static Lovers
04. The Heat, The Drought, The Thirst, and The Insanity
05. Time Masters
06. Guajira
07. Everlasting Beacon of Light
08. Crushin’ It!
09. Mega Slap

Although this sounds odd at first listening, it is a really light album, I mean, easy to listen it.  A diferent proposal, sometimes psychedelic, sometimes progressive, sometimes funky and always very enjoyable. All yours.

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Gillian Welch - Hell Among The Yearlings (1998)

01. Caleb Meyer
02. Good Til Now
03. The Devil Had A Hold Of Me
04. My Morphine
05. One Morning
06. Miner's Refrain
07. Honey Now
08. I'm Not Afraid To Die
09. Rock Of Ages
10. Whiskey Girl
11. Winter's Come and Gone 

One of the best female voices of the american folk/country music. A quiet work with a bunch of great songs. Enjoy it.

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War Master - Pyramid Of The Necropolis (2011)

01. Mass Cremation
02. Into the Abysmal Fire
03. Cult of Greed
04. Ritualistic Carnage
05. Pyramid of the Necropolis
06. Circuit Death
07. Sadistic Force
08. Monolith

We´re gonna start the new year with some of old school death metal. The Bolt Thrower fans really will enjoy this work, because War Master have his reference in them. This means a death metal with fat and powerful sound, mainly mid times and a deep gutural voice. You know what you get here!

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Vektor - Black Future (2009)

1. Black Future 5:03
2. Oblivion 4:54
3. Destroying The Cosmos 6:47
4. Forests Of Legend 10:16
5. Hunger For Violence 5:30
6. Deoxyribonucleic Acid 4:45
7. Asteroid 6:49
8. Dark Nebula 10:28
9. Accelerating Universe 13:31

I know that I´m late with this album. Everybody talks about them, and I had not heard them until three weeks ago or so... This is a little masterpiece!!! The revival of thrash metal gives us this very welcome breath of fresh air. Very young band with a huge talent, heirs of the technical and progressive sound of bands like Voivod, Coroner, Watchtower, Death and many others. It sounds old school, but It sounds fresh. Must have discography!

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Blotted Science - The Animation Of Entomology (2011)

01. Ingesting Blattaria
02. Cretaceous Chasm
03. Vermicular Asphyxiation
04. A Sting Operation

An album of technical virtuosity of this bunch of amazing musicians. Ron Jarzombek (Watchtower, Spastik Ink, Gordian Knot), Alex Webster (Cannibal Corpse) and Hannes Grossman (Obscura) . Crazy and complex structures, surgically executed with and unbelievable technic giving as result  a sonic orgy. Great sutff. I leave you a funny video of "cretaceous chasm" and the remake of King Kong, wich synchronizes the audio and the images.

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Trash Talk - Eyes & Nines (2010)

1. Vultures
2. Flesh & Blood
3. Explode
4. Harsh Wednesday
5. Envy
6. Rabbit Holes
7. I Do
8. Trudge
9. On A Fix
10. Eyes & Nines

Agressive, fast and short songs for one of the best albums of the last year in his genre. Mainly hardcore and thrash spirit although there is some sludge song. Pure adrenaline!

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Blue Aside - The Orange Tree EP (2010)

1. The Traveler Of Time And Space 5:23
2. Otis’ Sun 7:32
3. Orange Eyes 9:03
4. Black Rays 6:48
5. The Inevitable Journey 7:33

Is this the perfect mix between traditional doom, progressive rock, and psychedelia? If it´s not it´s very close. Excellent first EP of this band, which moves into Black Sabbath, Pentagram, and Pynk Floyd sound, being as a result this wondeful work. Really fresh record in these times of musical saturation.

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Cynic - Carbon-Based Anatomy EP (2011)

01. Amidst The Coals  2:14
02. Carbon-Based Anatomy  6:34
03. Bija!  2:30
04. Box Up My Bones  5:41
05. Elves Beam Out  4:05
06. Hieroglyph  2:31

The brand new EP of the progressive masters is here. They follow the way of his last EP, it means that the progressive sounds are the stars in this work, leaving aside the extrem parts of his beginings. Personally I love both periods, so I´m enjoying this little taste awaiting for a new full lenght album.

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