Weapon Y/Z - Disposable Life

Don't Download This

My own shit, but you need to hear it. This album is 13 short tracks that were written one at a time in sequential order. The sound varies, but it's largely fast and anthematic, with a lot of punk and digital hardcore influence. Don't let me ramble though I'll just get pretentious.

YARD APES - DEMO A

DOWNLOAD AND DANCE

YARD APES makes spaced out chiptune in the vein of Crystal Castles, but more distorted and eclectic. It's hard to describe but it's short and enjoyable so check it ooooooooout.

ZOMBIESHARK! - A Sinking Ship

POWER ON

Good example of "nintendocore" done right. Short songs, raspy vocals, chiptune leads, breakdowns, rythmic NES game samples, everything you expect is here. Unlike most in the genre though, this is well produced and the songs are generally more thought out.

Girls Names

endless happiness

Just three people recording in a closet. Girls Names is drum machine cybergrind with senseless lyrics and stupidly catchy girl vocals and it fucking rules. Happy Hellospleen is their most recent, but all of their releases are short and fun. They've found to put out one monthly through at least next March, and that in it's own is admirable. Follow these dude(ette)s!

Snailhead - Eating Animals

Download this.

Snailhead returns with a conventional full-length. Though I miss the brevity of "The Image," there are a lot of nice vibes and catchy tracks here. There's more exploration of the hip-hop elements from the last song on that previous album which is more than welcome.

Xrin Arms - Drugganaut Trashedelix

NO QUESTIONS. JUST DOWNLOAD

Experimental duo Xrin Arms reinvents themselves with a hip-hop/cybergrind/pychadelic/digital hardcore hybrid that rules harder than I'll be able to describe in words. Just listen.

Corvid Canine - Icosahedral Capsid

Noisy wall of sound cybergrind. Corvid Canine has a lot of bizarre releases but this is the most recent (and brutally straightforward).

Your speakers will break and die.

Yama - Seaquake

Stoner/Doom metal from the Netherlands. Very old school sounding.


LISTEN. DOWNLOAD.

Shroud Belial - EP

Shoegaze about Satan. It's more post-punk than depressing and the mix has all the echo the genre needs.

LISTEN. DOWNLOAD.

Coffee Black - The Lingering Stench of Divinity

Artist: Coffee Black
Album: The Lingering Stench of Divinity
Year: 2012
Length: 11:05

1. Dead Junkie
2. The Lingering Stench of Divinity
3. Pain Makes the Man
4. As The Hammer Flies
5. Walk With the Dead (Fuck S.B. 1070)
6. Give It Up

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Coffee Black is a one-man punk project from Arizona that just put out it's first EP. It takes a lot of influences from various subgenres, primarily d-beat and hardcore, but on the whole it's incredibly fresh and inspired. This is angry guitar music done mother fucking right. Get all over this shit.

Kitcalibur - D.FREQ.CRUSH

Artist: Kitcalibur
Album: D.FREQ.CRUSH
Year: 2012
Length: 33:21

1. Intro [0:25]
2. Pseudotriton [2:50]
3. Devil [2:11]
4. Hell Dive [2:10]
5. Raystorm [2:39]
6. Zone Breakerz [3:13]
7. Kingdom Grandprix [3:00]
8. Extend (Suicide) [2:53]
9. Vultures [2:51]
10. Disinfect The Dead [3:02]
11. Gunners Heaven [2:13]
12. Three Wonders [2:44]
13. Radio Dreamin' [3:10]
 
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"IN THE YEAR 2001 OUR CONNECTIONS ARE SHUT DOWN. TEAM GUNDOGS WAS SENT AGAINST THE ENEMY FORCE, RICOCHET AASVOGELS. GUNDOGS WAS DESTROYED. OPERATION HELL DIVE WAS A FAILURE. WE ARE THE NEW RESISTANCE. WE ARE ONLY TWO. BUT WE ARE ARMED WITH SKILLS THAT TRAINING DOES NOT AMOUNT TO. WE ARE ARMED WITH VISION AND AUDIO. DIRECTIVE FREQUENCY CRUSHER IS NOW ACTIVE."

All that really needs to be said about this one. I think my favorite tracks are Kingdom Gradprix and Vultures, but really it's all totally fantastic. It's labeled as 'shmuppunk' which is honestly a better genre name than any I could come up with for it.

Mother Network - Revisions

Artist: Mother Network
Album: Revisions
Year: 2012
Length: 6:32

1. Neon Consumption (Revision)
2. Cybersaurus (Revision)
3. Lotus Blossom (Revision)
4. I Want to Punch Everything In the Face (Revision)

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If there are any other artists right now making cybergrind that's as decisively awesome as Mother Network I'd love to hear them. It's good to hear this project finally growing into a respectable force of brutal electronic music. This release contains four reworked tracks from the Mother Network demo released back in January. The instruments are well defined and masterfully mixed with perfect level between the guitar, drum machine, chiptune synths, and ripping high pitched screams. Album art rules as well.

A Problem Like Maria - 99 Problems and Maria is 1

Artist: A Problem Like Maria
Album: 99 Problems and Maria is 1
Year: 2012
Length: 48:16

1. Been It
2. Don't Call It a Comeback
3. I'll Boogie
4. Nice Girl (Feat. King Arthur)
5. Sometimes I Daydream
6. Gossamer Wings
7. You've Got Nobody (Feat. Timothy Zen Melloncholy)
8. Disrespect
9. Rent (Feat. Rikki of the Flying Batteries)
10. Eviction Notice
11. Just Like You
12. Respect
13. Past Tense (Feat. Mattir)
14. Juxtaposition 2.0
15. Mean It

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The Hai artist/Errorosion favorite A Problem Like Maria has finally released her full-length solo hip-hop album and it is simply excellent. Maria rhymes with the best of them on 15 tracks that manage to be wonderfully laid back without losing a sense of urgency. Honestly this is one of the best things I've heard so far this year. Hugely recommended.

M.E.H. - 2012 Rehearsal Demo

Artist: M.E.H.
Album: 2012 Rehearsal Demo
Release: 4/20/12

1. Bootleg Pop CDs Pay For My Drugs
2. I'm Getting Drunk As Fuck
3. You Should Smoke Crack
4. Shut Up And Get Fucked
5. Moshed Till Death
6. Domestic Terrorist
7. Fuck Protocol
8. Blood Drunk
9. GSM (cover of The Tinsmen)
10. D.G.M.I.L.F.
11. I Sampled Your Youtube Video (Get Over It)
12. Gonna Hafta Fight (S.O.A. cover)

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Haven't posted in a bit. Promise I'll get back to posting new album soon, but until then check out this fresh new tape from this punk band I'm in. 12 short tracks of punk influenced grindcore/digital hardcore recorded live in our rehearsal space. We've got cassette versions for anyone out there who likes tapes. It's heavy as shit and has a fantastic cover of Gimme Some Money from Spinal Tap. You've got to hear it.

Now back to promoting things that aren't me.

Across Oceans - Pacific

Artist: Across Oceans
Album: Pacific
Year: 2012
Length: 26:04

1. Bad [3:57]
2. Exclusion [3:56]
3. Ghost [5:51]
4. Closer [3:03]
5. What Lies Beneath [6:45]
6. A New Day [2:29]

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The aptly named "Across Oceans" is a collaboration between California acoustic artist Cruz Gongora and A Problem Like Maria from the Philippines. It's got a more stripped down sound than most of the APLM collaborations with primarily acoustic guitar and vocals. Honestly I had thought I had posted this awhile back, but apparently not. Like anything with Maria singing, this is absolutely beautiful. I'd about go as far as to say this is the best fit for her voice yet.

The Ghost Servant - RAGE (In Relation to Living)

Artist: The Ghost Servant
Album: RAGE (In Relation to Living)
Year: 2012
Length: 15:56


1. The Sound Of Rage Swelling [0:54]
2. Teach Me How To Thrash [1:20]
3. On The Topic Of Our Comforts [1:18]
4. His Is The Victory [1:24]
5. These Walls Are A Farce [2:02]
6. Serious Concerns Are Mounting At An Alarming Rate... [2:06]
7. ...But With Grace You Reaffirm How You Are God [3:48]
8. We Dance A Strange Dance [1:02]
9. Only Slightly Less/Let Me Rage For More [2:01]

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Very cool experimental digital hardcore release. It's rather loud and heavy, but at the same time much more ambient than your standard DHC. Track 7 is particularly epic with a really cool dramatic spoken word reading followed by a chill acoustic guitar section.

No Brigade - Back in Hell

Artist: No Brigade
Album: Back in Hell
Year: 2009
Length: 23:50

1. We Got It [1:42]
2. If I Was You [2:30]
3. Retaliate [2:41]
4. Bleed The Fifth [2:13]
5. Back In Hell [2:06]
6. World Famous [2:44]
7. Don't Look Now [1:35]
8. From Back In Hell [4:10]
9. Only Living [2:40]
10. Outro [1:24]

Bandcamp Link
Archive.org

No Brigade serve up a high energy and loud-as-shit digital hardcore release that emphasises all the best aspects of D-Trash artists. Lots of layered group vocals, spastic breakbeats, and fucking raw ass anger. The album is for pay on bandcamp, but this album along with most of the D-Trash catalogue is on archive.org so check this out along with a bunch of other sweet electronic shit.

Water Gun Water Gun Sky Attack - Slew

Artist: Water Gun Water Gun Sky Attack
Album: Slew
Year: 2012
Length: 56:32

1. Outlanderish
2. Fine
3. A Good Fake pt. I
4. A Good Fake pt. II
5. Thvg Lyfe
6. Knut Nims
7. Stnanks
8. Actiiisciv
9. Out From Underground Alive
10. ckers
11. 12st

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Hot off the presses is this IDM artist's new album. It's pretty varied while remaining very ambient and cohesive. Thvg Lyfe and Knut Nims are both very beat driven and straightforward while a few songs like Fine and Out From Underground Alive build into interesting vocal sections. Best comparison I can come up with is Boards of Canada, but I'm not particularly versed in IDM (beyond, well, Boards of Canada really).

New Orleans Swim Team - To Be Something, To Be Anything

Artist: New Orleans Swim Team
Album: To Be Something, To Be Anything
Year: 2011
Length: 55:46

1. Overture (Dreamer)
2. You Were No Ground Level Limb
3. To be Something
4. Hide and Seek
5. Manhattanhenge
6. Calloused
7. Plaster
8. Prairie Winter
9. Found
10. Summer Tinted Brown
11. Degrees
12. Like Anchors
13. Caught Between
14. Stillness
15. Your Holy Ghost
16. Recursive
17. To Justify
18. Ribs, and the Things Between Them
19. Wanderlust
20. To be Anything
21. Whatever You Want to Be

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This is completely different from just about everything I usually listen to and really completely unlike just about anything else. About 60% of the album is heart wrenching spoken word over lovely orchestral tracks. The rest falls closer to a conventional indie rock sound. For many, this album is going to be far too sappy and emo to be tolerable, but for many more this will be something captivating and sentimental. I am man enough to admit I have not listened to this album yet without crying a little (and nothing ever brings me to tears).

New Death Grips!

Death Grips have a new album titled "The Money Store" out on April 24th. Judging from these two singles, it's going to be insane. Get their first album "Exmilitary" here.

Radio Wire Empire Solves a Problem Like Maria

Artist: Radio Wire Empire & A Problem Like Maria
Album: Radio Wire Empire Solves A Problem Like Maria
Year: 2011
Length: 14:01

1. Sea Legs [4:09]
2. Pour Toujours [1:25]
3. Try Me (James Brown cover) [3:09]
4. No Me Hagas Daño [2:05]
5. Somewhere in the Middle [3:11]

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Radio Wire Empire brings a more acoustic and even more chilled out edge than any of Maria's other collaborators since. Every song here is remarkably pleasant.

Wizwars - Welcome to Thrash City

Artist: Wizwars
Album: Welcome to Thrash City
Year: 2011
Length: 21:00

1. I Am Wizwars (Real Los Angeles Chipthrash) 2:54
2. The Violator 2:42
3. Green Line 1:02
4. Blue Line 2:20
5. Triborough Bridge (Remix_original by DaPantz) 2:35
6. 103rd Street Towers 1:21
7. Anxiety 1:45
8. PJILLST 1:08
9. Get Naked 2:08
10. Thrash City 3:02

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Real L.A. Chipthrash (whatever that means). Really upbeat and distorted. The download also comes with a live set recording with many of the same tracks.

The Quick Brown Fox - BRUTAL RHYTHM RIDER

Artist: The Quick Brown Fox
Album: BRUTAL RHYTHM RIDER
Year: 2012
Length: 21:24


1. THOROUGH PIÑATA DICKING AMATEUR XXX
2. DAS LOVE BOP
3. CRUISE BEAST
4. LOUDER!! LOUDER!!!! LOUDER!!!!!!
5. HIT AND RUN IN 1920 A.D.
6. LIKE A G666
7. YEAR OF THE BAD DRAGON
8. BUB VS BOB
9. NO HESITATION

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Another album from Lapfox, the one-man netlabel that puts out electronic music under the guise of various anthropomorphic characters. This one is fast and loud, mixing mainly speedcore and happy hardcore techno. Two of the highlights are tracks two and six which impeccably use samples from pop songs.

Snailhead - The Image

Aritst: Snailhead
Album: The Image
Year: 2011
Length: 12:39

1. An Evening at the X...'s [1:02]
2. The Roses in Bagatelle Gardens [1:32]
3. Too Much Water and Its Consequences [0:58]
4. False Starts [0:52]
5. The Photographs [1:16]
6. An Expiatory Sacrifice [1:32]
7. The Fitting Room [0:50]
8. In the Bathroom [1:23]
9. The Gothic Chamber [0:55]
10. Everything Resolves Itself [2:14]

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The word magical doesn't do it justice. Really quaint synth-rock in short, fantastic bursts. I'm getting something of an old timey vibe from it.

Death Grips - Exmilitary

Artist: Death Grips
Album: Exmilitary
Year: 2011
Length: 48:34

1. Beware [5:52]
2. Guillotine (It Goes Yah) [3:43]
3. Spread Eagle Cross the Block [3:51]
4. Lord of the Game (ft. Mexican Girl) [3:30]
5. Takyon (Death Yon) [2:48]
6. Cut Throat (Instrumental) [1:12]
7. Klink [3:22]
8. Culture Shock [4:20]
9. 5D [0:43]
10. Thru the Walls [3:55]
11. Known for it [4:12]
12. I Want it I Need it (Death Heated) [6:10]
13. Blood Creepin [4:50]

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Kick ass hip-hop group from California. Lots of heavy synths and samples and lots of yelling. Real aggressive but still varied. Highly recommended.