PLAYLIST with COMMENTS/REVIEWS

[RyanWreck]

Ordered Exorcist's Nightmare Theatre from Amazon like 2 months ago and forgot about that and just received it yesterday. I love this album. Essential "evil speed metal" only overtaken by Onslaught's first two.

[RyanWreck]

Now I've been on a huge Thrash kick. Fell asleep listening to the latest Vektor album, Outer Isolation. The highest quality Progressive Thrash Metal. If you like old Sadus, Voivod, Sacrifice (Can) and Toxik then you would love this. Rasp Black Metal style vocals but very well done.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yc1s_GxMBoM&feature=related

Toxik - Think This. Vastly underrated band doing classic prog/technical Thrash Metal with standard 80's NWOBHM styled vocals. Riffs and solos all day long.

Ravage - The End of Tomorrow. New Heavy/Speed Metal that has a nice old sound reminds me a bit of Cobra or Enforcer's Into the Night record, not for everybody:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvbpt00vFus&feature=related

[FreakAnimalFinland]

Alleypisser "savn" 7"
very good stuff. Lo-fi tape loops and recordings of physical sounds. Very abstract and kind of "unfinished" feel, yet brilliant.

Unclean -new tape
Follow up to F&V tape already done, but waiting release for other Finnish label. It was no more surprise that new good band kind of appears out of nowhere, so that element has been taken out. But it continues solid and strong with total gutter PE, with mostly instrumental (with samples). Some cliche/traditional topics could be refreshed a bit more, but not bad...

[FYA]

checking out last package from FA :

Cloama lp ...this is different, will need more rotations. also very thick sound. i'm 100% shure it will grow on me :-)

Side A its GREAT, personally i would prefer a continuation to that rather than a live set on side B.

[Tenebracid]

vagina dentata organ - the perpignan killings always come back to this when i feel like listening to the great jordi valls. definetly his more "musical" and listenable work, mixing the sounds of all first four conceptual albums (hashasins, cold meat, jim jones and calanda) in a beautiful and surreal collage.

bladder flask - one day i was so sad... a fucking gem. musique concrete by p & r rupenus.

[Ashley Choke]

Hatred / Demons - Split

Hatred side is nothing special, but the Demons side is beyond fantastic, again one of those projects who could probably have a much larger following (in Europe?) if it wasn't for name and graphics. Mesmerizing, dark and psychedelic synth industrial electronics

[Mattias G]

Hatred / Demons - Split

Hatred side is nothing special, but the Demons side is beyond fantastic, again one of those projects who could probably have a much larger following (in Europe?) if it wasn't for name and graphics. Mesmerizing, dark and psychedelic synth industrial electronics

A good one for sure. Haven´t listened to it for a while but i remember a thread about that the labels are switched. Demons is Hatred and vice verse. http://chondriticsound.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=17783&hilit=hatred+demons

[MT]

Lebensfaden - Besessensheit tape

Probably the best tape of 2011?? Great brooding atmosphere, sinister and filthy. Fucking amazing, the hail Japs!

[Ashley Choke]

Hatred / Demons - Split

Hatred side is nothing special, but the Demons side is beyond fantastic, again one of those projects who could probably have a much larger following (in Europe?) if it wasn't for name and graphics. Mesmerizing, dark and psychedelic synth industrial electronics

A good one for sure. Haven´t listened to it for a while but i remember a thread about that the labels are switched. Demons is Hatred and vice verse. http://chondriticsound.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=17783&hilit=hatred+demons

I have the tape version, but yes the LP labels is switched, noticed that when I gave it to my friend Kaare as a birthday present recently

[RG]

Lebensfaden - Besessensheit tape

Probably the best tape of 2011?? Great brooding atmosphere, sinister and filthy. Fucking amazing, the hail Japs!

Ya, all those Lebensfaden releases are pretty good. Very impressive for an unknown project to come out of nowhere and deliver four solid tapes. My only (minor) gripe is that they were sold at the same price as the other new LV releases, but half the length. Besessenheit and Reinheit were advertised as "companions" to one another, so why not just put them on one c60 instead of splitting them up?

God Blast America! DVD - Got this a while ago but didn't start watching until recently. I've only watched like 1/3 of it, there's almost 4 hours of footage! I got the "grocery sack" edition, big woop.

I've been listening to a lot of my old Norwegian BM records lately...Immortal, Enslaved, Burzum, Darkthrone...it's amazing how much great music came out of that country (or even just Bergen) in the 90s.

[ARKHE]

denmark new elite + industrial classics:
NON - Easy Listening for IRon Youth
COIL - Gold is the Metal with the Broadest Shoulders
FORZA ALBINO - Mot (very strong and unsettling p.e.! throwing itself far up into the echelons of 2011 industrial music)
CROATIAN AMOR - can't remember title, enjoyed the A-side more
FUZZARDS - Obfuscate the Future (thought it featured a cool decaying pitch-drop, but then I realized the batteries in my walkman was dying)

[Nyodene D]

Rome - Flowers From Exile (not as good as Masse Mensch Material, want to check out the new one though...)

Kinit Her - Divine Names (outstanding ritual / neofolk recording)

Sektor 304 - Subliminal Actions (oh my god.  this album.  seriously, its so heavy, very clean production, lots more "song" oriented, way more of everything I liked.  totally memorable from beginning to end)

[RyanWreck]

Looks Of Love – The Midnight Hour (Posh Isolation, 2011) - What a great tape. Very simplistic, downer Punk with lots of melody. There are 6 tracks and most of them have maybe 3 or 4 chords, and a lot of these chord progressions sound alike from track to track, luckily those riffs are all catchy and good. Raw production and vocals that sounds to me like a European Johnny Cash.
SAMPLE: http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/looks-of-love (2nd post down)

En Tragedie - S/T (Posh Isolation, 2011) - I disliked this tape when I first got it but after a few replays it is growing on me. Tape loops/manipulation, analogue noises and field recordings from Hannes Norrvide (Lust For Youth) and Loke (LR, Sexdrome, Hvide Sejl). That's a simple formula and lately there has been a nice group of artists popping up doing this, my favorite is Crown of Cerberus which is a bit more ambient and raw and Alleypisser. This tape builds up around the tape loops adding, slowly, piece by piece of droning synth and more loops and recordings then manipulates them. Each side is like a long, fluid chapter slowly escalating to a peak. I would like to hear more from these guys to see where this project can go before I really decide to give an opinion about their work.
SAMPLE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXGeRNZ027E

[STREETMEAT]

converter-coma
Forza Albino- "MOT"(cant wait for more from this project)

[ConcreteMascara]

converter-coma

Classic. I miss this project.