i just don't care any more

i just feel completely burnt out. 3 years i've been busting my ass and i get nothing. not even a comment or someone emailing me saying how much they like my blog. sure my spelling sucks. sure my grammer is aweful. but you know what? this blog comes from the heart. i don't try to make it professional (though i wish i was more like bishop) i just wanted to make my feelings known about records. i just don't feel like doing it any more. i really don't maybe i'll come back to it one day. but for now, if you see any reviews they will be from bishop, not me. not until i get comments. at least one. i poor my heart in to this blog. and time. each post takes 4 hours max to make. going through records. this one's good. no how about this one. it's not like, oh i'll just do a post about this. it takes a long time. but no one cares any more. people want mp3s, not writing. i knew people who used to download from good bad music. i love erich's writing. i read each post and the comments. but they just download the album. sometimes they don't even know where it's from. that's what makes me sick. people don't want to read, they just want mp3 links. and because i don't have any, they don't care. well fine. i guess i'll close up. i don't know when i'll be back but until then, this is elliott signing off

the kill make em suffer cd

not sure why i have to do all the reviews on this blog. that's why i got bishop in! so i could relax wile he reviews some stuff. bishop, review something! anyway here's some australian grindcore jay jones, of fuck i'm dead is on drums. i got this because i saw his name on it. when i learned he played the drums i was interested. and...man he can play drums! blasts up your ass. tight and loud. amazing. the vocalist is killer as well. the guitars have a really nice sound to them. mix is loud which i expected. i guess this band's been around for over 10 years and just gotten around to making an album. considdering it took fid 11 years to record a second album my conclusion? jay's lazy. haha. anyway 15 songs under 20 minutes. what's not to love? i really only got this album because of jay but i'm glad i did. it's well worth buying. oh and the lyrics are great too. one of the best grindcore releases of 2012. btw if anyone has the shallow grave demo that jay played on i'd love to hear that. please help! but for now play this loud and...make em suffer!

extra hot sauce taco of death lp

one of my favorite records that you can put on if you just wanna have fun. extra hot sauce was a side project of dan lilker of anthrax, brutal truth, nuclear assault, and a shitload of other great bands. he used to go to hardcore shows and get drunk after and talk about starting a joke hc band. well this is it. danny is on drums. some other guys fill out the lineup. the guitarest is really the only other serious musician. he was in some other bands and you can hear that he knew how to play. bass is good and..you can hear it! the vocals are absurd. this dude isn't even triing. strong new york accent comes through very nice. i actually love the vocs. now on to the song titles....actually i'm not gonna even start. with an album titled taco of death i think that explains everything. funny lyrics. my favorite was the black sabbath cover. sped up and played in a minute. the music is about what you'd expect. grindcore with some metal parts. it's really really nice. the production is actually pretty clear. maybe the guitars are a little low some times but whatever. dan can sure play the drums! produced by a dude from nuclear assault which if you don't know was a kickass thrash band lilker started after being kicked out of shitty anthrax. released in 1988. lilker was also in the joke band s.o.d so he's no stranger to humor. honestly this is funnyer than m.o.d, billy's band after s.o.d broke up. get this on the internets. i've also seen a version with different recordings and less tracks. not sure what's up with that but avoid it! it's not as good as this!

pt is 3!

3 years ago today i was bored. i had a sort of blog thing going for about a year but it wasn't going anywhere or doing anything. plus it was on songmeanings.net and who goes to song meanings to read a blog? justin did but that's another story. well i was bored so i wanted to see how hard it was to make a blog on blogger. easy as it turned out and what became political trendy was born. i've had comments from europe and canada and america, people from bands comment, and i got a british guy to help me. to all of you who like my blog i give you my thanks and i hope you come back for more. to be honest i'm not where i thought i would be. i thought i would be at a point where almost every post would have comments and people would have discussions about the records. maybe it'd get to the point where i couldn't read all comments. sadly i rarely get any comments. i'd like to know people are reading this. i thought after 3 years i'd get some huge responce. i have a small following. and i'm so greatful for those people. bishop, zach, maybe justin and a few others i'm not sure about. you guys rule. as do anyone who's left a comment including agz, paul from disattack, the guitarest i think from the throwaways (sorry it's been a really long time), and buck from the modernettes. not bad actually. also i know per of filthy christians has read this and erich keller has commented on this. also brian and ed from garden weasel and ryan from a lot of bands. and to everyone who i know that's never seen my blog...i hate you. seriously thanks guys. you give me hope that some day i will get noticed. and to the hate comment i got...whoever you are, you're great. i do enjoy getting hate mail. so anyway just thanks for everything and hope you will keep suporting political trendy in the future. and bishop, answer your emails about the record!

fuck i'm dead another gory mess cd

just as i was going to review the first album by these australian grinders with the coolest name in metal i heard they put out a new album. they only waited 11 years to do the second album. so i figured what the hell? i'll review this one. the first album was amazing. the only band that could get away with a drum machine. i couldn't even tell what jay was saying or if he was saying anything. but in all that mayhem you could hear melodic parts. this is different. first of all they have a real drummer. he does not disapoint, blasting away like he meant to do the drum kit s much harm as possible. jay's vocals are more in the higher range and you can tell that he might be saying actual words now. just what the words are i still don't know. the guitars are the same amazing wall of noise. the song titles are abou what you'd expect from this band. btk, arse to outh, need i go on? the mix is a bit louder. personally i liked the first album's mix. the good thing is we don't have the live tracks at the end to fill up time. overall...this is a grindcore album. i mean, what more can i say about it? it's a grind album. get it if you like grind. if you don't...well if you need me to explain you need your brain examined. btw jay's other band the kill made an album i'll be reviewing soon as well.

a tribute to amebix

amebix has broken up again. when i first heard them i was blown away. now as you all know i'm kind of young. i didn't live through the glory years of amebix. so when i read they were considdered a crust band you all know what i thought. bad d-beat meets speed metal. oh boy. but no! it was amazing! so dark, so raw, those vocals that went right to your soul. everything about it was amazing. this isn't crust i thought. this isn't punk or metal. it's...it's amebix. they can't be described. i got everything they recorded even the 1979 demo. i was more than a little surprised when i heard they got back together. they kept saying they didn't want to start again that all had been said. so i figured we'd seen the last of these guys. then when they reunited i and probably a few other people thought it was mainly for the money. they must have known a whole new generation likes them and maybe they'll do the repulssion thing and play some gigs for a few years without recording anything. then i heard they were recording an ep of previously recorded classics with a drummer from soulfly. i was like, what the fuck? i heard it. it was okay. disappointing as all rerecordings are. then i heard they were recording a new album. i didn't know what to think. would it just be an attempt to rip off past albums but with improved musicianship? would it be different? would it be worthy of the amebix name? well when i baught sonic mass i was reluctant to play it. what if it's bad? i asked myself. but i did it anyway. it was amazing. yes it was different. the sound was very different from the two previous albums or the singles. but that's why i loved it. a full review of sonic mass is coming with more detail on the music. it was an amazing album and probably the best of 2011. when i heard they broke up i had mixed feelings. sure it sucks when a band you love breaks up. but on the other hand maybe they did it at the right time. who knows if they could replicate the magic. honestly if they came out with another sonic mass in that it was just like it or another arrize or monelith they wouldn't be amebix. amebix evolvs. amebix isn't one type of music. amebix is..i can't describe it. but you can't simply call them one subgenre of extreme music. so maybe they called it quits at the right time. before they just released records to release records. so many great bands do that. they'll reunite and make a record that's a hollow representation of past albums and keep doing that til no one cares. then they'll just play old stuff and pretend the new albums didn't happen. not amebix. amebix kept evolving and came out with a great album. in conclusion we'll miss you amebix. you left behind 3 great albums and great eps as well. goodbye and good luck with whatever the three members do in the future. as you guys said on your final album, "these days will never come again."

ydi out for blood cd

alright. ydi. i've reviewed them twice before. the ep and the lp. wso why am i reviewing this? because it's a discography. ydi released a great ep and a missunderstood lp. but they also released a demo which was never sold. they need to be slapped for that. not as overwelmingly serious and hard as the ep it seems but a really solid hc demo. these guys were idiots not celling this. i mean, how can you not love that guitar tone! the other tracks worth mentioning are the comp tracks from get off my back! one was used in the movie american hardcore in a live version. that seems to be where people know them now. two great songs especially i killed my family. the rest of the tracks are from the ep and lp which i've already talked about. the ep is as good as ever. the lp isn't everyone's cup of tea but for some reason i love the way it sounds. if you don't own any of these records i suggest getting it. if you do..well it's worth it for the out for blood demo. ps ydi, please explain why you never sold the demo. unless you just gave it away for free. then you guys rock haha

chemical waste life's a bitch demo tape

here's something for you thrashers. an obscure new york (or new jersey whatever) crossover thrash band who released one demo in the 80s. and this is it. billy from m.o.d along with other bands was a fan of this band. i only wish m.o.d sounded as good as this. what this is is crossover thrash. the way it's supposed to be done. hardcore meets metal in the best way. you can hear that they were having fun on this release. and it doesn't sound like they're triing too hard to be just like other bands, the knock on most new thrash bands. this just sounds great. nothing mindblowing but a fun little thrash demo when thrash or crossover mattered. the lyrics are funny as well. just look at the titles! overall a nice little tape from an unknown band. look for this on the net. it's worth owning. p.s i always thought this was where municipal waste got the name. i recently saw an interview where they said it was on a garbage truck. still i'm not convinced.

negative approach nothing will stand in our way cd

well here's something i baught at amoeba a while ago. i heard that it contained rare demos. cool! i thought. well i was half right. the first few tracks are from the band's first recording. nice sound to this one. a little slower but still pretty cool. the next tracks were from a live show. the band's first. i'm not much for live recordings anyway. skip. the next tracks were from a demo. really cool sound on this one. the next tracks are a heavelly eddited version of a recording i have of them playing at the mud club. i have the uneddited show and it sounds way better than this. not saying anything interesting happened in between songs but the mud club gig was powerful as hell. i mean i got chills listening to it. this one the tape sounds too loud. everything's somewhat destorted and it just doesn't sound as good. the next two tracks are outtakes from the self titled ep. really good especially the cover of chaos by the 4-skins. i like the na version more. something to do with brannon's voice i think. the rest is live stuff. i lost interest after that especially considdering the shitty quality of the sound. overall i kinda felt ripped off. i just wanted the studeo stuff anyway. if you get this try to get a download and take out all that live tracks unless you want crappy sounding live stuff that you could get on the net in better versions. kind of reminds me of the total recall cd where after tied down it's like i'm done! anyway get this for the studeo tracks if you're an na fan

Kreator - Enemy Of God (2005)

1.  Enemy Of God
2. Impossible Brutality
3. Suicide Terrorist
4. World Anarchy
5. Dystopia
6. Voices Of The Dead
7. Murder Fantasies
8. When Death Takes Its Dominion
9. One Evil Comes - A Million Follow
10. Dying Race Apocalypse
11. Under A Total Blackened Sky
12. The Ancient Plague

Bishop: A friend bought me this album for my birthday... Christ knows how long ago now. I remember the first song I ever heard by Kreator was "Betrayer" from Extreme Aggression. I'd say by the time they got to Enemy Of God they were a lot more mature a band. Whether that's a better thing or not is down to opinion I guess.

Elliott: Two things you must know: first, I’m a thrash fanboy. I fucking love thrash. Second is “Pleasure To Kill” is one of my favourite thrash… no, favourite metal album ever. Every time I got into Kreator’s other albums I was disappointed, but I must say this album is kick ass! It reminds me of “Pleasure To Kill”, but more polished and with more melody.

Bishop: It's a brilliant album. There's more harmonic bits in it than the old stuff, which I think is what turns the "elitists" away.

Elliott: I really like the nice mix of heavy and melody. I don't know about the elitist thing, 90’s Kreator kind of did that and now they're seen as back. One thing, I kind of wish they didn't record “Pleasure To Kill”. This is a great album, but it took me so long to like it. I just kept comparing it to Pleasure, but fuck that album, I'll do it another day. Love the vocals on this.

Bishop: The vocals are strong as hell; they don't falter at any point. The production is crushing too, one hell of a heavy album. There are a lot of bands that get to that point I think and are burned out and not really angry any more, but it doesn't sound like they're phoning it in at all.

Elliott: I think doing what they did in the 90’s really energized them. Everyone said “Fuck Kreator” and they wanted to kick ass. Bands like slayer just sound like they repeat themselves. I mean, I like slayer, but still, they kind of sound like they're phoning it in

Bishop: Yeah, fair enough the 90's stuff wasn't to everyone's taste, but it probably kept the band alive. Slayer just sound like a poor version of how they used to be and I have no doubt Kreator would've turned out the same if they walked the same route.

Elliott: Yeah, so maybe its good they changed. What's your favourite song off this album?

Bishop: Honestly, I couldn't choose. Every single song is an absolute belter. I'd probably say "Suicide Terrorist" and "World Anarchy" are a bit thrash by numbers though, although by no means bad songs.

Elliott: And what's wrong with thrash by numbers? The first song really sets the tone. It builds up so nicely and goes apeshit. And great lyrics! Oh and I just want to say.....amazing drummer.

Bishop: Everything's just tight as hell, the playing is utterly faultless. If I remember the album after this just sounds like Enemy Of God Pt II as well.

Elliott: As luck would have it i just got “Hordes of Chaos”. It does and that's
actually a good thing! Check the new one out dude it's really good. The singer sounds pissed btw

Bishop: I can't think of a single criticism towards this album, I really can't.

Elliott: The problem is neither can I. Ah well, you're dumb. Haha.

Bishop: I'm dumb? You're the yank.

Elliott: And you're a cunt. Is it just me or does Kreator seem to flirt with death metal a lot on this album?

Bishop: Yeah, it's definitely got elements of death metal in there, luckily not too many.

Elliott: Wouldn't mind a few blasts and stuff. Honestly, great record. Good god, we agree on something!

Bishop: I can agree that we both do not dislike this record.

Elliott: I wish I could sing like this guy

Bishop: He has a good and unique voice like. Seriously, I'm sat trying to think of a single thing I don't like about this, but it's not happening.

Elliott: Me too dude. I mean once I got over the clean production it all sounds great! The drums, bass, guitar and vocals! It's a great new thrash album!!!! Why'd you pick an album that we both like? Can i just say that I love the lyrics to “Impossible Brutality?”

Bishop: No you can't.

Bishop: Well, I just did!

the modernettes get it straight cd

i'm not sure how many times i've played the teen city ep. hundreds at least. well i found this and just had to get it. and boy i'm glad i did! the modernettes were a fantastic poppy punk band from canada. this cd has everything they did in the studeo. the first 6 tracks are from the amazing teen city ep. yeah...amazing. the next 3 tracks are from the gone but not forgiven lp. the lp is live except these three. shame really. would have loved to hear a modernettes lp. won't have to worry i've heard before and it quickly became my favorite song by them. but really all the songs are great. the next 5 tracks are from the view from the bottom ep. remixed i guess. it kicks off with rebel kind. wow is that a great song or what! i guess the problem with this record is every song once i hear it becomes my favorite. maybe i'm the one with the problem haha. the next tracks are demo and live stuff. i with they'd included more demo tracks as the one on this cd is amazing. if anyone has the full tape and would like to share it....well i'd like it. the live tracks are okay i guess. i'm not much for live tracks anyway. seriously i only have a few live recordings. the tracks for the radio show (i think) are really good. over all a fantastic record from a fantastic band. allmusic said this band probably doesn't stand the test of time. well here's someone who wasn't even born when the modernettes were around (yes i am that young) who loves this record. take that allmusic! haha. if you like powerpop or melodic punk it's not even a question of should you buy it but when should you? the answer, right now!!!!!!

sound of imker train of doomsday/see those girls 7

here's a weird one for you. sound of imker was from holand and recorded this single in 1969. it was released but i'm guessing in very small numbers. it flopped. wonder why. it's a great record but probably just wasn't right for the time. had this been released in the 80s it would have been well received i think. jello biafra called it the first hardcore record. it really does sound like punk before punk. train of doomsday has a great beat. the singer isn't melodic at all but that's part of the fun. the quality of this record is well...the sound sounds like as one guy put it "a secondhand demo" but it's still a fun record. see those girls at first would seem to be the weakest track. but it's got a great solo and an even more unmelodic vocal performance. i know that imker was the last name of the two brothers. and one overdoced in the 80s. shame that. this band was way ahead of its time. this makes me think how many more records like this exist? obscure records that were fast before fast was cool. the best way is to get this off youtube now that both songs are up. i think this is on some compilation but i'm not sure. you need this if you're a fan of obscure music. not only is it obscure but....it's good too.

napalm death and more live review

well last night i went to the observatory in orenge county to....observe some bands. let's start with the first band. downspell. they were from alaska. did i mention they were from alaska? oh and they were from alaska. they only said it about a thousand times. the music was pretty good deathcore. metal archives calls it metalcore/death metal.....deathcore. pretty good considdering the genre of music they play. then after the unknown downspell came the classic thrash band attitude adjustment. they seemed to have lost some of the punk from the sound and play much tighter and a little slower. barny from napalm death came up to sing a song. it was pretty cool. and they actually played songs off the demo and destruction's end flexi! yay!! next came exhumed.....lame! i've never heard exhumed before except when they covered a samhain track. the high vocalist sounds like an emo kid now. and he acts like one on stage with the croud. he actually got the crowd to say swares. how lame can you get? he was just another lame ass performer. how you all doin tonight? i can't hear you! shut up for a second and maybe you'll get to hear us idiot. the chainsaw durring a song was nice though. so was closing with a seige cover. next came repulsion. barny sang with them too. repulsion was great! everything was amazing about the set. and the singer could actually still do it! i guess the only problem i had was they didn't play every song off all 6 demos haha. next came napalm death. i thought they were gonna be the last band honestly. so did the croud i guess. now i know nd has no original members and is a tad more metallic than 87 but it was a great show! barny's voice is way more gritty and i love it that way. mich's voice was cool with some nice echo effects and his clean vocals were haunting. i've always thought of nd as a punk band with metal trappings and i beleive it even more today. also greenway's rants between songs were awesome. ps danny's drums were so crazy i couldn't follow it. after that came municipal waste. i was actually ready to leave at that point when a few old friends came up and we talked some. mw is an okay band. it doesn't take any ammount of brain power to get them and the lyrics. seriously how many songs about getting drunk can you have? it got annoying. plus repulsion, napalm death, and not least attitude adjustment should be way after them especially attitude adjustment. hell they created the sound mw rips off and sees no reason to alter. it's fun party music but really that's all. no meaningful lyrics. i'd like it more if they were at least before napalm death. seriously it felt like the long beach grand prix where they run the indycar race then they have a sports car race after so if you want to wait out the crowd you have something to watch. half the people left after napalm so that's what it felt like. that municipal waste was the throwaway band after the legends....which they are! like i said i like mw. they're fun. but after napalm death? that's like when mr. manson went on after slayer. what the fuck? btw nd did a cool repulsion cover as well as some other short songs (they closed with you suffer) and municipal waste did what every crossover thrash band does and covered s.o.d's united forces. as much as i love s.o.d seriously everyone's done it. maybe that's why people don't like this retrothrash thing that's been going on for some time now. i enjoy the music but am not the biggest fan. overall it was a fun night. btw the dj at the shows is a god. kiss of death by satan and a weapon song were played. obscure nwobhm. i was like is that??no! wait yes!!! hell we went in just as nuns have no fun by mercyful fate was playing. that's when i thought wow something cool is happening. so thank you for playing obscure metal whoever you are. overall i had fun. heard a lot of music and talked to some old friends. good night

peach kelli punk s/t lp

no, that's not a mistake. somehow i found this on the internet. i thought the amazing peach kelli pop put out a new record. well i was wrong. this is some dude named joe from some band called germ attack rerecording the pkp lp. i'm sorry, it's just not good enough. i mean i don't think it was suposed to be but still. it just can't hold a candle to pkp. now i know nothing about germ attack (i'm guessing they're canadian as the thing i read was on a canadian site) but....yeah. joe sounds like he's having a lot of fun and it did make me smile a little. you can tell he likes the record. it's kind of funny actually. but it's just not the same. sorry mr. joe whoever you are. it was a fun listen but i just can't see myself going back to it....then again i said that about level and i listened to that shit for like another year before finally deleting it. over all not a bad record actually....just nowhere as good as peach kelli pop. btw anyone know anything about germ attack?

kreator pleasure to kill lp

oh my god. this record is one pure headfuck. from start to finnish this record says one thing....ttttttttttttttthhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrraaaaaaaaaaaaaaasssssssssssssssssshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! seriously. this is thrash in its purist form. the songs might be repetitive for some. boo hoo. it's a great record. this had me headbanging so hard i was actually tired at the end of the album. first off the production. fuckin yes! this is what i love in a thrash production. rough, echoy, and the band recorded live. you can feel it too. this is unpolished thrash at its best. kreator would go on to be one hell of a band going more goth and industrial before returning to thrash with more of a melodic touch. but this album....amazing. the two vocalists are just amazing. the german accent comes through quite clearly. i feel with this the same thing that i felt about sepultura's first two albums. great music not meant to be anything than what it is, raw thrash. and while like sepultura i love the later works, nothing and i mean nothing can compare to this. this might be more interesting than dark angel's darkness descends which came out around that time. i also hear a lot of pree-death metal in this. if someone would ask me what's death/thrash i'd say this was it. not death metal with a thrash feel but thrash metal with a death feel. confusing huh? haha. anyway you need this record. no not you should have it or i think you need it. you fuckin need this album. if you don't get it don't ever call yourself a metalhead

The Exploited – Fuck The System (2003)

Now then!

Over the past couple of years you've had the massive displeasure of listening to either Elliott or myself waffle on about various albums. Whilst I haven't done that many reviews myself, I have spent a considerable amount of time over the past year emailling Elliott about albums, usually ones we don't agree on. It dawned on me that instead of me just publishing my one sided opinion here, we should instead engage in conversation and publish that. Elliott thought it sounded like a good idea (not that he knows anything) and out of pity I let him choose the first feature as a test run to see how it goes.

The Exploited - Fuck The System

 

1.  Fuck The System
2. Fucking Liar
3. Holiday In The Sun
4. You're A Fucking Bastard
5. Lie To Me
6. There Is No Point
7. Never Sell Out
8. Noize Annoys
9. I  Never Changed
10. Why Are You Doing This To Me
11. Chaos Is My Life
12. Violent Society
13. Was It Me

Bishop: I'm not massive on The Exploited, but I have to admit I really like this album. I don't think there's a dud song on here at all.

Ellliott: I actually really like this band. Great album, but am I the only one who thinks the lyrics are a little simplistic?

Bishop: What, and the other albums they did were full of lyrical genius? It's simple punk for simple people.

Elliott: Yeah, I guess you’re right. I’m just so used to Napalm Death and Crass and stuff, they can articulate. Bad Religion too. I do love the last track “Was It Me”, that riff gets stuck in my head all the time.

Bishop: Oh man that final track is a killer, used to have it on in my car all the time. Every other song is about politics, or anarchy, or some other bullshit I don't want to be preached to about, but "Was It Me" just feels genuine. By the way, I'm pretty sure you used the word articulate in the wrong context.

Elliott: I don’t care if I used it in the wrong context, I’m American. I agree with what they have to say about politics, though I do think they jumped on the anarchy boat a little after it was popular. Anyway, I like the blending of metal and punk. Wattie sounds nothing like his old self though, he reminds me of a more pissed off you.

Bishop: I don't really hear the comparison to me, but I guess I wouldn't.

Elliott: “Beat The Bastards” sounds like you too.

Bishop: The thrashy elements that come through are refreshing. A few people give this album bad lip because of the production quality, but it still sounds raw and aggressive to me.

Elliott: The production sounds like the last three Municipal Waste albums. Anyway, one of the reasons I like The Exploited are the samples at the beginning of the album. Wanna talk about that?

Bishop: No.

Elliott: You’re a cunt.

Bishop: I like the sample at the start of the album. Every time it crops up on my playlist it annoys me to fuck though, I'm pretty sure that's why they did it.

Elliott: Great drum sound by the way.

Bishop: Yeah, nice and crisp. I don’t think, sound wise at least, it could’ve been any better. I’m not even that bothered that the album doesn’t really evolve, or is a little bit repetitive, it’s a brill album. If they released another record almost the same though, I’m not quite sure I’d be able to sit through it.

Elliott: It’s The Exploited, have you ever known them to ever evolve in an album? And this will probably be the last record; I think they’re content to play gigs now.

Bishop: They’ve already announced a new one.

Elliott: And they haven’t done that before? Sorry, I’ll believe it when I see it. Just like with the Septic Death discography, they keep saying they’re going to do it, but they’re fucking slow about it.

Bishop: I wouldn't complain if they didn't. I mean, I'm pretty sure they've covered all the ground they could by now.

Elliott: Unless they do a Napalm Death and add more stuff to the basic sound on every new album which, given who they are, isn’t likely. By the way, I love the energy on the record, it just sounds like they feel it.

Bishop: I think we can pretty much agree that, although a simple record, it's solid and enjoyable from start to finish.

Elliott: It’s a good record if you’re pissed off.

Bishop: Yeah, although I now have a strange urge to nut a politician.

d.r.i dealing with it lp

dri's first album (the dirty rotten thing was an ep!) it took me a long time to even get this. i knew they went metal and i didn't know how this would sound. well...for the most part really good. straight up fast as fuck hc. right where i belong. the mix is great. all the musicians get plenty of sound. people spend large amounts of money triing to get the perfect production and some punk kids did it on one album. the vocals especially are really pissed off. he still sounds like that today! not the low parts. they screwed up the intro to i don't need society. i liked the ep version where it was just drums and guitar then all hell broke loose. the lp version has some doublebass stuff and the lyrics are sung slow. yes mam was better on the ep too. but whatever they can't just stay the same. the worst song is nursing home bluez. oh my god. it just goes on and on and on and i fall asleep. 9 hours later it's still going. the song is pure metal but it just doesn't go anywhere. i love metal. we all know i love metal. if you couldn't tell just by reading the blog posts you're an idiot. but this is just annoying. the song goes nowhere and it's a problem that would dog the band on the rest of the albums. the songs are just too long sometimes. other than that it's a great album. the lyrics are a bit simplistic but whatever. i still prefer the dirty rotten ep to this but it's fun for a listen. ps the clip of the singer's dad yelling at them is funny as hell

NME unholy death lp

i first got into NME (enimy) a few years back when i heard the machine of war demo released in the mid-80s. i loved it. pretty much pure venom wership and i just fell in love with the tape. the songs were all in the right tempo and had the right amount of fury. well my friend kept talking about unholy death as this great album. so i got it. what a fuckin shame. this album should have been amazing. except and this will sound weird but the songs were two fast! okay i love fast music. but it seemed like what they did was take slower songs and speed them up. without changing anything in them. the result is it just sounds really messy and bad to me. it sounds like the drummer has no idea what he's even doing. that's fine but i don't know. they even rerecorded at least one track from the demo and it just sounds wrong. too sped up. maybe if i hadn't heard the demo i'd like it more. i'm gonna keep triing to like it but it just doesn't sound right. great lyrics though. and i can't argue with the guitar tone. it just seems sped up and wrong. just get the machine of war demo and be happy. sorry if i've said the wrong thing haha

iron maiden s/t lp

i've been listening to a lot of maiden in my two month period of having no computer....and before that two. but what album should i start with? how about the first and one of the best. it's a lot more raw than they'd be known for. wonder if that's just because they were new at this. some people have point out how this sounds punk influenced. well sorry steeve but it realy does. and i beleive maiden did have some connections to punk. i don't remember what they were but i remember reading about them. paul's voice. you can't get much better than this! i love later albums like number of the beast and powerslave and the polished high vocals paul adds a layer of i guess you'd call it grit. his voice can go high but he sounds like some dude ready to fight. every other musician is great on this as well. this album gets ripped on for not being consistant or whatever. my responce, what the hell are you talking about? i don't really like the mix. compared to killers it's a pretty weak mix. other than that i can't find one falt with this record. even the two rerecorded songs from the demo are great. and i'm the first to say i usually don't like rerecorded songs. the magic seems to be gone most of the time. if you want a great example check the unholy death album by NME. anyway this is a must own if you like nwobhm. and if you don't....well i hate you. seriously get this and rock out!

circle one patterns of force lp

helloe! i'm back. the master of pt is back. bishop did a good job (of pissing me off) with those two reviews. now i'm back with some la hc. circle one are an interesting band. the first time i heard them was on the public service comp where they were a really good and raw hc band. so when i heard this lp i was like huh? it's an amazing record don't get me wrong but....it wasn't quite what i expected. the great (great as in clear not great as in actually good) production, the effects, john's vocals. what happened between the ps recordings and this lp? seriously i'd like to know. the lyrics range from good anti-war stuff to christian lyrics about how the evils of the world are caused by satan. john was a member of some christian hardcore gang that according to what i've read was quite violent. we all know how he died. the musicianship is really good for hc on this record. and john's vocals are actually really cool. i don't know why they changed sound or anything. but this lp needs to be in your hc collection. at least listen to it. btw if anyone can give me a coppy of the circle one demo i'd love to hear and review that. so.....get this! btw i'm back for good so you'll see more of my reviews and less of bishop's weirdness. seriously good job holding down the fort bishop. that's why i made you an admen.

The (International) Noise Conspiracy - A New Morning (2001)

Elliott has still vanished. I briefly considered doing a spin-off blog called "Where In The World Is Elliott Lindamood?" where I post from various countries whilst trying to find him, looking at the top of the Eiffel Tower and such, but I didn't want to give the impression that I care.

Anyway, the point is he hasn't come back. If he is indeed dead or something, I'll be sure to rename the blog to "Elliott Sucked" in his honor.

I'm going to continue reviewing drivel until he returns. There's only so much I can break this blog before he'll have to come crying back to save it (or destroy it, opinions pending).

ANYWAY.

The (International) Noise Consipiracy - A New Morning

1. A Northwest Passage

2. Up For Sale

3. Bigger Cages, Longer Chains

4. Breakout 2001

5. A Body Treatise

6. Born Into A Mess

7. New Empire Blues

8. Capitalism Stole My Virginity

9. Last Century Promise

10. Dead Language Of Love

11. A New Morning, Changing Weather

 Look at that tracklist. What the fuck is this, a politcal album? Oh no, the rabbit hole runs much deeper my friend, this is a political band.

I'm more than happy to throw my hands up and say I have a problem with political bands, and my problem is this - more often than not I know they're a political band before I've even heard a song. So when the band are throwing meanings at you without even hearing the first note, you have to wonder if music is the best route. Admittedly, The (International) Noise Conspiracy, with their silly name, aren't all that bad about it. I only figured out their songs had a political edge to them when researching for this review, although that may have been related to the fact that I also turned the album off after not long.

Anyway, the band play a sort of garage rock, slightly-punk-but-only-if-you-squint type music, mostly upbeat and easily dancable. The intro track is actually a good song, driven by the bass and drums with catchy vocals overlayed and never outstaying its welcome. There's some interesting use of random instruments you wouldn't expect from this sort of band, electric organs, horns and keyboards which work well to pad out the music. The songs are never guitar driven, which I have a soft spot for.

Songs like "Bigger Cages, Longer Chains" sound almost ska, which I hate and is probably where most of the dislike for this band stems from on my part. I can't make peace with it, at all. It's worth noting that while it sounds like it has a ska elements (the horns and the punk vocals, primarily) the songs are actually much slower and funkier than the drivel you'd expect from a ska band.

The songs walk back and forth between punk and rock, some being fairly light and others having more of a punk orientated guitar rhythm. Actually, listening to it now I don't mind it. I'm pretty sure I was going to hate this. Fuck sake.

According the Wikipedia, this album is actually called "A New Morning, Changing Weather", but where the fuck does it say that on the cover? It's the sort of shit that sends HMV employees into fits of rage. What sort of prat doesn't even have the correct details on an album cover?

"Bricklayer Anthems, Vol 1"

I'm pretty sure I hated this band half an hour ago. What the hell?

I guess the moral of the story is don't listen to politically motivated bands kids, 'cause they'll brainwash you. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to stand outside the local town hall quoting Rage Against the Machine for reasons I can't comprehend.

Jeff Wayne - Spartacus (1992)

Elliott's disappeared into the void, he hasn't sent me emails for weeks now begging for some crazy album or whatnot. I can only assume he's either been eaten by zombies or got laid.

Anyway, in Elliott's absense I have free reign of the blog. That means you'll read whatever tripe I write here - and holy hell is this album a barrel load of tripe.

Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of Spartacus

 DISK 1

1. Destiny

2. Animal & Man (Part I)

3. Animal & Man (Part II)

4. For All Time

5. Whispers

6. The Eagle & The Hawk

 

DISK 2

1. Going Home

2. The Parting Of The Ways

3. We Carry On

4. Trust Me

5. Two Souls With A Single Dream

6. The Last Battle/The Eagle & The Hawk

7. The Appian Way

8. Epilogue (Part I)

9. Epilogue (Part II)

Here's a fact about this album: I've never been able to stay awake the entire time listening to it.

Let's get something out of the way. If you YouTube a song off this album, the comments will be a mix between people rightly proclaiming just how horrible this turd filled cravasse is, and people saying you need to give it a chance. The latter people are in severe denial, and giving this album a chance will result in an early demise*

For the uneducated amongst us, Jeff Wayne is the guy who did (shock horror) Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of the War of the Worlds, an album based on the story about tripods attacking Victorian London. That album was amazing and a classic. You know it don't you? DUN DUN DUNNNN. Of course you do, classic.

So what did he do after getting loads of recognition over that? Wrote this barrel of bull testicles. I mean, I can't blame the guy. An album about Roman gladiators fighting to the death, screaming "I'M SPARTACUS!!1!" sounds like a probable Manowar album, lots of cheesy lyrics about clashing heavy metal and fighting to the death in the arena, right?

Right...?

What the fuck Jeff.

A song where Spartacus whinges about if he refuses to fight he may get whipped a bit, and then Anthony Hopkins getting giddy over some arena action, whilst making the most unsubtle comparisons between the Roman civilization and the beasts in the arena. All the while, the crowd shout the name of a well known neck vein often referenced in bad circus related jokes.

I'm gonna be honest, it isn't all an abomination. The song above is probably one of the better on the album, keeping an exciting pace, but there's no real lead, and the progression doesn't really feel refreshing or exciting when it happens. The albums biggest crime is after the first few songs are over, it just plods along until the end. Horrible, horrible love songs make it cringeworthy, and a lack of any kind of hook in pretty much every song makes it hard to actually remember much of what went on.

Someone, somewhere will jump on me for this review. "You just don't know decent music!!1! Go back to listening to teh Sexy Pistolz!!" they'll scream, offended at my criticisms and apparently thinking that I like punk.

To that guy, I say fuck you. This album isn't interesting. The story falls flat a few songs in. The narration is all over the place, and the singing doesn't feel like there's any passion behind it (I believe this may be a reflection of the music, as all the singers seem more than capable). The redeeming brilliant moments in this album (and believe me, there are actually a few) are sandwiched between monotonous lengthy tunes that don't really go anywhere.

Honestly, to me it sounds like someone tried to spruce up an audiobook, but forgot to put half of the story back in, the music acting more like a backing track for ambience.

I think they're with you mate.

But this is the biggest annoyance - if this was just a shit album, I'd just have written a review saying "THIS IS A SHIT ALBUM" and be done. But somewhere, lodged between the tepid turd of the track list is some good music, some decent tunes weighed down by crap progression and support.

Apparently this album is pretty rare now, having being out of print for a while. That's because I bought them all. And I burned them.

Anyway, pray for Elliott to return before this stops being a punk blog and I start just reviewing Pink Floyd constantly.

*The album may or may not actually result in an early demise, currently unproven.

brack greatest hits vol. 1 cd

now some of you should know that i love racing. and music. this combines the two. this is indycar champion kenny brack's band. i won't go into much detail but brack raced in the irl for a few seasons and won 4 races including the 1999 indy 500. then he made the right choice ad moved to the cart champ car series. he won 5 races in that one and finished second in the championship in 2001. then he moved back to the irl and got hurt really seriously in a bad crash at the insanely dangerous (for indycars) texas motor speedway. he later came back to indy and i beleive is doing ralleying now. anyway in 2007 he started a band and did an album. what's the music lie? i'm gonna be quite honest here. it's pop rock maybe a little pop punk. something you'd probably here on the radio. now you're probably thinking that me the punk who listens to dr aids and souch will hate this band right? wrong! it's actually quite good. i really like kenny's song about a.j foyt legend of the speedway. yeah the lyrics are cheezy as all hell but it's a good song. the worst part is the vocalist. i can't describe it but he just doesn't sound right. maybe he shouldn't be a melodic singer. i think his name is frank. hey frank! wanna try death metal next t time? anyway this thing only has 7 songs (9 if you include the two radio edits which i skip) and they're all great pop songs. one is a slow one about kenny's kid being born a few floors abouve where he was recovering from the crash. i wish i could link youtube stuff. this crash was horrible.i hope kenny does a new album soon. come on dude! maybe write a song about how great paul tracy was haha. racing joke. anyway you can get this from amazon or whereever and i suggest you do it. enjoy this well produced rock from the only swedish racer to win indy

the exploited punk's not dead lp

yes, a punk post! about time eh? well everyone knows of this band. i don't know if they were nazis or what but this album does kick ass. later on they became more political but they were mostly an oi! band at this point with some hc leanings. the lyrics are pretty simplistic but effective. cgreat music though. watty's voice is well punk. this is the only scotish band i know other than the alternative. to be honest i can't really say much about this album. it just is punk. the live intros to some of the songs were a bit weird. i don't know why they did that. over all a strong punk album from these brits. funny that they're now metal. and no, punk is totally dead. btw i'd like some mpore records to review. the email is ellindamood@gmail.com please get in touch.

the end for pt?

probably not. but i never get any comments for my reviews. i thought i'd just do a thank you post. i'll try not to forget anyone. if i do i am sorry. first of all thanks to bishop for putting up with my crap and fixing up this blog. looks great dude. now review some more records! thanks to justin, brian, and ed of humboldt california punk band garden weasel for leaving comments (even if brian did get pissed at me) tyou guys rock. thanks to ed especially as his band the underlings is one of the best new bands around. and thanks to justin for his mustard relics blog. one of the blogs that inspired me to do my own thing. thanks to erich for his awesome blog and even more awesome band. thanks to ryan of the boogie nazis. thanks for the music even if you were too cheap to send me a bn 12. thanks to jessica for following the blog and being a good friend. thanks to all my friends who read this blog and screw you to those who didn't. thanks to agz for his awesome music and his amazing blog which sadly is no more. and thanks to eric for commenting. thans to all the bands for all the great music. thanks to peter of kbd records for the great music and the inspiration to start this thing. and last and most of all thank you zach. he was my first commenter, first follower, his blog rocked, and he turned me on to so many great bands. those were really fun days. and as amebix says, "these days will never come again." if i'm missing anyone i'm sorry. thank you all for making this blog what it is. i will keep on doing it even if i don't get any comments

sepultura beneath the remains lp

here i go again. no comments and i'm still doing this. this was the second sepultura album i heard after morbid visions. this album is suposed to be a thrash classic. but the first time i heard it i was disapointed. i've grown to actually enjoy it and mosh and headbang along to it. but at first i just felt it was too clean. too polished. now i really don't like clean production. i like it raw. scott burns produced it which gives you an idea of how the production sounds. over time i grew to like the production of this and arrize but when i first listened to it i thought (and still do a little) that they traded energy for complexity and a good production. max's voice no longer rasped like i loved. he has a kind of death/thrash thing going on. the other musicians are tight and they have great riffs. but i prefer morbid visions' rawness over this. which actually leads into another point. as we all know roots is considdered a sellout album by the metal comunity. i won't go into why or anything. now i know i'm gonna be killed for this but doesn't anyone kind of see this album as selling out? thrash waws the thing back in 89. they were previously much more raw than this. i tend to think they soffened the sound a little. just my opinion. in conclusion this album is a grower unless you love slickly produced thrash. then it's a classic. time to pull out morbid visions and thrash my head off!

sovereign mortition demo

this is one of those bands that played at my house. one of two metal bands. i have to say both bands kicked some serious ass though durring sovereign's set my crude pa kept not working. i felt kind of bad. it was funny because i was just sitting in a chair while a mosh pit went on. hey! i like to listen to bands play. plus i didn't wanna get killed. i know my house better than anyone. ah well. one of the cool things about that show was this wimp i know named eric (who reads this blog actually hi eric!) ran inside when this band started and only came out for a moment. wimp! anyway i got this demo through one of the band members. a really cool dude. funny thing is i asked them to play without hearing a note. i just looked on a facebook group and they called themself death/thrash metal so i asked them. good choice as it turned out. this demo just rages from start to finish. however i must take issue with something. they call the music death/thrash. i see it as being mainly thrash with death metal mixed in. it doesn't sound like what people call death/thrash to me. it's just thrash. doesn't matter really but i think they'd be better off calling themselves a thrash band. whatever. they can call themselves puppy metal for all i care. the music is just awesome! the intro is quite effective but mortition is where it gets really awesome. fast drums, relentless guitar, and really good vocals. this demo is also well produced. reminds me of social overload in the mix. 5 great tracks of pure metal. the kind of music that will make the weak minded hide and cry until it's over. i do have one complaint though. it's too short! i want an lp of this music. i really wish they had more demos. 5 songs isn't enough by a long shot. get this from the band. if you live in southern california. if not i don't know beg for one and they'll probably send you one. it's worth it. one of the best bands in la right now

hatebreed for the lions cd

yes, a cover album. why? i don't know, cause i'm bored. also this will be a track by track review not just telling you how good/bad the album is. ready? we all know about hatebreed's blend of hardcore and metal, right? well if you don't let this review and the one i did previously for this band be your guide 1. ghosts of war. this is a slayer song. i much prefer the original. this sounds like what it is a modern take on an old song. nice, proves that even hatebreed can get thrash when they want too. jasta's vocals are annoying though. more on that later 2. suicidal maniac. by suicidal tendencies. i have never given suicidal a real chance. sorry if i've commited some sort of metal sin. i'm guessing this is after suicidal went metal. nice stuff even if i've never heard the original 3. escape. this is by metallica. actually i prefer this to the original. i didn't like ride the lightning anyway. i just think this makes better use of the melodic parts. jasta's voice isn't overdramatic and annoying as all hell on this one and he actually seems to have a good clean voice. not bad, they should do more clean singing like jasta's solo record 4. hatebreeders. by the misfits. the drumming on this is annoying. too many bass kicks. other than that a pretty good version of a great song. hatebreeders. hatebreed. mmm maybe??? 5. set it off. by madball. i've heard the name but know nothing of this. sounds like typical hatebreed to me groove drums, annoying shouts. i like hatebreed but jasta's voice annoys me a bit on later albums. moving on 6. thursty and miserible. black flag. i really don't care much for damage but this is alright i guess. a more metallic version of a punk song. whatever 7. all i had i gave. crowbar. i've never heard crowbar though i've been meaning to check them out. not a bad song. i hear crowbar is a little slower than this though.8. your mistake. agnostic front. i loved this song on the first af album. when it was recorded again for cause for alarm i didn't like that version. and guess what? i like this version even less. it just sounds all wrong to me. the tuning, the drums, the vocals. also the mix is too professional and clean. next 9. i'm in pain. obituary. my friend likes obituary. she may read this. so i better be careful haha. i don't really know obituary except they were a death metal band. this is an okay song. jasta is annoying as ever and the groove shit gets annoying fast but it's okay i guess 10. it's the limit. cro mags. i actually know this one! i like how jasta trys to do john's voice. overall a nice tribute to this band. especially with the trouble that harley's gotten in to 11. refuse/resist. sepultura. you can hear where they get the groove for the sound on this one. jasta trys to do max's shout. it works sort of. the guitars are tuned down a bit. good cover i guess 12. supertouch/shitfit. bad brains. i don't really care for the bad brains. but this cover is even worse. in fact if i hadn't looked up the lyrics i wouldn't even know what song it is. good job guys! 13. evil minds. d.r.i. a little more controled than d.r.i but still a pretty good cover. not bad 14. shut me out. sick of it all. i know next to nothing about sick of it all except they're pretty reactionary i hear. maybe i'll check em out later. anyway good song 15. sick of talk. negative approach. the mix is clean and i think jasta is using some sort of effect. but anyone who likes negative approach is a friend of mine. never going to replace the original in my heart but not a bad tribute to the masters of pissed off hardcore 16. life is pain. merauder. i've never heard of this band in my life. they're a 90s band which explains that. i don't know sounds like typical hatebreed to me 17. hear me. judge. judge was one of those bands who killed hardcore. i will never check them out. well never say never. anyway not bad metalcore 18. boxed in. subzero. another band i've never heard. slow this time. good way to end this thing. over all...download this it really isn't worth your time. it's too clean, too groovy, too dramatic. plus some of the bands are wankers (judge.) if you like metalcore of the old school get this i guess

dr. livingdead s/t cd

here's some thrash from the greatest county ever, sweden. why do i say that? i don't know it's just better than america. anyway what we have is some cool joke thrash. lyrics about horror movies and shit like that. pretty fun. good sinow (or at least you should) that i do not care for this whole retrothrash or even any retro thing. still i don't hate it. it just doesn't always move me. take this. is it as good as 80s thrash? no but it's still good. good production too. i stumbled on this by chance and i listen to it offen. nothing on this album is bad. overall it's pretty fun thrash to listen too when you just want to headbang. not something to be taken seriously

extreme noise terror law of retaliation cd

i've been doing a lot of new records lately. i don't know why other than i just review what i'm listening too at the moment and this is it. well it's not new it's from 2008. sort of new. whatever. i'm a huge (ha ha) ent fan. i don't have all the splits and eps for no other reason than they've released too many to count. i only have the albums and a few eps and stuff. still i like them so shut up. ent started as a hc band that was influenced (i.e totally inspired) by discharge. listen to the raw noise demo and the early ent stuff. then they became more of a crust band. then they started going death metal. hearing ent do death metal is like hearing scott ian do hard rock. it sounds weird but in ent's case it worked in some weird way (as aposed to mr. ian's little abortion) now they're back with a crust album. first of all they got the late phil vane back on vocals. and you know who they got on drums? mick fucking harris! of napalm death! that's right. my drum hero. and it works. it really does. what we have is a crustcore (or whatever it's called stupid subsubsubsubgenres!) with blast beats. for me the drums are what set this apart from the entlike albums these guys have done in recent years like the raw noise and death dealers albums. without the blast beats this would sound just like them. that's not a bad thing but i wonder why those albums had to be made under different band names. the samples are weird. they start some songs with samples. they...work? sort of. also they do a tribute to s.o.d )who thy insulted on the first album) on the song screaming fucking mayhem. a downtooned intro to milk. how can you not love it! over all this is a fun crust record with earshaddering vocals. get this is you like your crust raw and...extremely noisy.

bullet brains demo

hear's a local band that i've been digging for 4 or so years. it all started when my friend brian (the bassist) gave me a coppy of his first demo. the music was raw, poorly produced punk. really good. i actually quite liked it. well they kind of dropped off the screen for me when brian swiched schools (bastard!) but i met some friends of his and got in touch with him through facebook. i saw them at a show last year in march. i missed the end of a sports car race to go so you know i wanted too. well not to be harsh or anything but they sounded like antischism. it actually kind of underwelmed me. not bad but not great. also i thought the songs were too long. at least the sound was big. i'm kind of critical of crust bands so maybe that had to do with it. still i'd love to hear demos from that time. anyway i asked them to play my birthday this year as the next to last band out. they showed up and i couldn't beleive what i was hearing. what the hell? this is the bullet brains? well i had to make sure it wasn't my imagination. they gave me a demo that night. i put it on and holy fuck! what came out was amazing. i'd call it a mix of extream noise terror with powerviolence. great mix and great musicians. blast beats, and two or three vocalists! these guys cranked it up and the result is devastation. the only thing i have to say is the songs are two short and the demo is only 7 minutes. they're recording again. if the recording is any better than this i might have faith in the hardcore scene. okay not really. but this is still awesome!

political trendy is expanding!

hi! i'm back from vacation. just a short one right now as i just got back. one of the reasons i braught bishop on board is so he would help me clean up this blog of mine. but i've realised that now it's pretty much strictly a review blog now. i haven't done a rant post in forever. and i've gotten emails asking for more rantings (and yes i have i'm not just making this up) so i've set up a facebook page for pt. this will be updated whenever something fires me up. it's my rant corner. i did this fb page a while ago but i've never really updated it cause i'm lazy. well now i'm gonna rant on it. please go to the facebook page which will be linked up soon (bishop, this means you) as soon as the link is posted (i suck at computers!) please follow it if you like my old rants. that is all. new review coming soon..ish

lysergabolic mnexobile sylophetamol burnt toast cd

what a long title. well this is bishop's first record he wrote. a little different from what i'm used too, this is not punk, metal, or even rock. this is a dance record. yes, i like a dance record. interesting melody and some interesting song ideas. the songs range from 5 second blasts to 8 minute long epocs. i don't know anything about dance records but i'm guessing this is a good example of one. if someone was gonna ask me what to start with in the dance genre first of all i'd wonder why of all people would you ask me. then i'd give them this 49 track album. i beleive you can get this for free on last.fm. oh and the name. bishop swares it was on a pill bottle (one wonders what kind of pills he was taking) though i've googled it and can't find anything. could be that i just misspelled it it's so damn long. i don't know that much more about the writing and making of this album. bishop maybe will have more info. i do know that this is a fun listen.

pantera the great southern trendkill lp

i'm just gonna warn you from thestart. if you're a pantera fanboy/fangirl do not read this. ah....pantera. the glam band who wanted to do something moe than play ride my rocket and latest lover. shame, really. this album starts off with a scream by seth putnam (of anal cunt fame) and this turns out to be one of the few plesent moments of a record that is nothing but groove metal and tough guy wanking. i used to love pantera. back in middle school i thought they were the shit. when i was introduced to thrash death and black metal (not to mention heavy metal) they just fell out of favor. i like the early albums (the ones that don't officially exist haha) but after that it's all downhill. i will give them one thing. they braught a lot of new people into metal including the coadmen of this blog who will probably have some nasty responce to this review. back to the music. i used to love dimebag's riffs and solos. listening to them now it's just a big yon. rex's bass is okay i guess. vinny is a pretty good drummer. he knows what he's doing i guess. which brings me to phil. his voice sounds like a cross between the dude from hatebreed and some sludge metal band. this is the album that really put his voice on the tough guy hc map. other albums had it too but this one tips the scale. i don't like the whole tough guy world. i never did. maybe that's why i don't like his voice. the music is fun to listen too sometimes if i'm bored but that's about it. i'm not one of these all groove metal sucks kind of people. i love chaos a.d. and roots, and all the other cavalera records. i like later slayer (god hates us all and the like) so i do not hate all groove metal. i even like lamb of god. i just don't much care for pantera. this isn't meant to piss anyone off. this is just my honest opinion of an album. oh and floods sucks and goes nowhere. this band is simply not for me. i used to like it when i was 11-14 but i grew out of it. maybe someday i'll rediscover it. ps bishop, feel free to curse me out in the comments section

sex dwarf demo

well here's a treat for all you punks. this is per of filthy christians' new band. this is a rager from a to z. raw as hell production and per's unmistakable vocals make this probably the second best release of 2012 (sorry but the underlings is unbeatable) i'm usually not much for new punk. i tend to regard it as borring. but this kicks so much ass it's criminal. these swedish dudes really know how to rock! you can check them out at http://sexdwarf.bandcamp.com. be on the lookout for more by this band who is my favorite new punk band. oh and i'll be taking a week off starting thursday as i'll be on vacation so i'm gonna give you as many posts as i can

malice at the whiskey live review

well i just saw 7 bands and i'm not putting a label for each one. just a little heads up. don't like it? too bad. anyway i was out and about tonight going to a show at the famed whiskey in southern california. the headliner was an 80s metal band called malice of which more later. first let's talk about the suport bands. first up was exterminate. i'm sad to say i missed everything but the last song. i say sorry because i really really liked what i heard and i'd like to get some recordings. hopefully someone from the band reads this and gets back to me. next up was velosity. with a name like that i expected speed and i got it. like the first band they were fast thrash and like the first band i would like to hear some recordings. next come fuckin social overload!!! for the third time. now if it wasn't for them i would have never heard about the show. and they were the best band by far. and i'm not just saying that cause they dedicated a song to me (my favorite, heavy metal hammer) they had energy and of course speed. i was beginning to think that all the bands were gonna be great. next up was dischordia. first of all the look (vests and ties) had everyone going what the fuck? but i liked em. kind of a mathcore (i hope i'm not speaking out of turn that's what i think they were) thing going on. would love to get the ep and review it. next up was steelgrave. now i don't know if it's just me but these last 3 bands had a sort of speed metal patern going and they sounded very simalar. the thing about steelgrave was i thought the singer could have been a tad more melodic. hey i love power metal haha. other than that it was really good metal. next up came heretic. i guess they have some history though i do not know it. once again more speed metal with a high piched singer. pretty good stuff. last came malice. now i'd only heard two tracks before from a compilation from 1982. and they didn't play either one! bastards! i felt kinda out of place cause i didn't know a single song. but i had fun. malice is a good band even though they have only two original members. the new singer (who's short hahaha sorry) is pretty damn good and sored over everything. i got a malice shirt but sadly no cds. what the fuck? i'd like to hear more of all these bands. over all it was a great night and social overload, thanks for being such class dudes and putting up with my fanboyish ranting

hell bovine tool of satan demo

alright, i have no idea what the fuck this is. i just got this on line. what it appears to be is a midi grindcore band from somewhere in the states. well.....we have blast beats, grind (i think) vocals, and generally some pretty interesting shit but i get the feeling i could create this. playing with midi files is fun don't get me wrong but well where's the tallent? i can make out any of the lyrics and the mix is so fuckin loud i can't hear the vocals anyway but the song titles are funny. songs like g0d is gr8t!, and get divorced on myspace. funny but not ultra stupid. i don't know get this if you like grind or midi files or just love the band name. that's probably why i downloaded it. hell bovine! the only thing better is hell dachshund! hahah inside joke. okay enough said about this demo. this is probably the most anyone's ever written about the band.

raw noise a holocaust in your home demo tape

hi kids, elliott back with another review. this time it's 1984 and english. raw noise were extreme noise terror before phil joined. in other words it's great! d-beat hardcore before it got infused with metal and became crust. 7 songs of greatness. this is honestly better than ent. some of these songs would be rerecorded for the first ent album and the raw noise split with chaos u.k. raw noise still exists and released an album 3 years ago. you kinda have to wonder why as it sounds exactly like ent. ah well. just a short one but a good one. btw bishop needs to do more posts. i've done over 400 he's done two. shame shame. hahah. anyway this is pretty known on the net so a simple google search should bring you to a link. the best one is at good bad music but however you get this doesn't matter. just do it

free will almost again cd/sun return lp

i don't know what the title is. i've seen it listed as both so i'm calling it both. that way i can't be wrong! anyway free will were a californian melodic punk band that recorded a demo in 1988 and these 10 songs. these songs were originally gonna be an lp called sun return but was never released until lost and found records released it with the other title. really good melodic punk with some great riffs and vocals. it's a da,m shame they didn't stick around longer. according to the blog i ripped this off from (hey it's obscure as fuck!) some of the members formed stone telling and rerecorded 9 of these songs for an album released in 1994. if anyone has that album get in touch. this is really great melodic punk and everyone should get it somehow. sadly the blog where i got it from has gone bust. get it somewhere. oh and nice mix as well

deceive 2011 ep cd

this band played at the anvil show. they were right after black oil (that groove band) and right before anvil. personally social overload remains the best of the openning bands for me. i love them so much i asked them to play at my house. they did. it was amazing. anyway this is a weird band. this is two studio songs and two very very very shitty live trakcs. the studio songs are pretty good quality (though worms is in mono) and musically the bands is pretty good. the vocals wile good are just too extream for the music. i talk to the singer online and he's a nice guy but i'm objective so. it sounds kinda weird to be honest. especially on worms it sounds off. the music really isn't that heavy. it's still pretty heavy but i think modern death metal vocals (the kind this guy uses) kind of overpower it. that's just my opinion. overall this is a pretty good death metal record. i want to hear more stuff by them to see how they improve. it's a good starting point. just a short one today. gotta listen to more social overload hahahaha.

the freeze misery loves company lp

well here's another one i've been sitting on this one for slightly different reasons. i got a coppy of this online but it was a really low quality version and i don't like to review things unless they're the best quality. i mean if it's a lowfy album that's fine but if it's a shitty rip of an album i'm waiting til i can find a good one. well this took me um i don't know 2/3 years (i forget) to track down. i went out to amoeba and usually they never have anything by the freeze. well they did this time. for those of you who don't know the freeze is one of my favorite hardcore bands which is why i've reviewed 5 records up til now. this is the album after rabid reaction. i don't know if they broke up or what but this album came out in 1991. you can notice a change in the music. it's a tad slower but that's about it. still the same ol freeze if a little more melodic. same dark lyrics. pouder, rock, and pills is a great one. talking bombs was my first taste of the freeze although i didn't know it. i heard a cover of the song by the unseen. the freeze's version is way better but who cares. my friend zach doesn't seem to like this one for some reason. i love it. all i need is crawling blind and a few others and i have all the albums. ah well gonna have to wait. get this if you like melodic punk. if not go fuck yourself. hey someone had to say it!

ed gein motherfucker 2006 demo

i had this for two years before i even thought about reviewing it for two reasons. one was i was reviewing so many other records that this one kinda slipped through. the second is i knew nothing about these guys. i got this from archive.org randomly. well my knolage has vastly improved within the last two minutes thanks to one blog (scumfeastmetal666.blogspot.com) so now i have a little bit of knolage (any bit of info would have vastly expanded my knolage) turns out they were a side project of a black metal band called zog. they were from chicago and were a three piece. sadly the band didn't last long as the drummer and guitarist died leaving bassest/vocalist marc broude the only surviving member. one of the more trajic storys of punk/metal. anyway on to the music! oh and i'm not gonna tell you who ed gein was look him up. anyway what we have is a 4 song blast of grindcore. sounds to me like it's more hardcore punk then metal kinda like early napalm death. egm sounds nothing like nd but you get the idea it's more on the punk scale. real short too (grindcore songs must never be long!) and really good production for a demo. nice lyrics and titles too. overall this is a pretty cool release but it's a shame they couldn't do more. i hope this lifts the band up out of total obscurity though with my blog that will never happen!

gism sonic crime therapy cd

well what have we got here? a reunion album from gism? oh boy. let's see how bad this is. except it's not. i have a generally low opinion of bands reuniting for the simple reason that it just won't sound as good as the old days. bands usually try to recreate the old days and most of the time it's pure shit. except with these japanese punks? metalheads? both? this is a fucking weird record. i mean the first one was weird wile the second one was kind of normal by gism standards. this one is just fucked. the singer hasn't lost any of his voice though it's changed a bit and he roles his rs more. the rest of the band are amazing pounding out interesting punkmetaal with some really good solos and weird shit. i can't recomend this cd enough. nice raw mix too. get this is you're a fan of weird punk metal that's not crossover but just original japanese awesomeness

bonded by blood feed the beast cd

alright. i got this last summer (i'm behind the times i know) and i really like thrash so let's delv into this. bbb are a local band from la and i may know some friends of the band. i'm fucking connected! haha. anyway first thing i have to take issue with is the name. bonded by blood is one of my favorite albums and the only exodus album i'll likely ever listen too. the album is as perfect a metal album as you can fine. so why the fuck would a band be named after something unbeatable? it's part of that retro movement that i hate so much. sorry bbb but you'll never be as good as exodus. it's like if i formed a speed metal band and called it metal on metal. i really wish they'd change the name. anyway into the music. strange mix on this. reminds me of anvil's plenty of power in the mix. sounds to digital to me. i'm not one of these people who always wants a professional mix (i listen to hardcore punk afterall) but the mix is just strange to me. also the singer gets a bit annoying after a while. it sounds like he has no control over his voice and is tone def. d.r.i already did that thank you. it's worse on the second album and i think he's out of the band. maybe i'm just an old man (ha ha) but his voice is a bit much sometimes. the music is pretty kickass thrash. about what you'd expect from an earache band (btw when the hell did earache start signing all these thrash bands? i remember when they were a punk label) not bad at all. i'm a thrash fan so i like this kind of stuff but some of my older friends won't touch it cause they see it as retrothrash. i'd have to agree with that but i like it anyway. doesn't sound too much like exodus to me (they asked for it cause of the band name) hahah. get this if you enjoy thrash with an anoying singer. then get d.r.i's post-1985 albums and compare who's more anoying?

the underlings edgy cd

hey bitches! and um not bitches. elliott is back with the best record of 2012. as many of you will remember i ranted about how i loved these guys when they released the first album and the ep. now they're back and better than ever! the music verys from sped up punk rock to poppy melodic numbers to rockers. they even have a song about a race track (written for me. well i don't know that but i'm gonna say it was) so you know it's great. ed's guitar playing and vocals are the best they've ever been and the band is great as well. i wish it was more than 10 songs as when it ends i want more and more! good job guys. great lyrics too. get this as soon as you can and remember that at least one great band still exists

larm extream noise discography cd

yeah i know you swedish readers (if i have any) will make fun of me because i don't know how to put that thing over the a. ah well. larm as you all know were from holand. they existed in the mid-1980s and put out three or 4 records. this has them all. every record is amazing thrash like you've never heard it played before. so angry, so tight, so....larm! this cd has 75 songs on it. 75 songs! it'll make you wish you'd never been born by the time you get done with it. the nothing is hard in this world tracks though have a weird guitar sound. i'm not sure if they tooned down or what. also on this is a demo song by a pre-larm band. the drummer has no drums. he uses chairs. amazing! if you're a fan of hardcore, powerviolence, grindcore, or just love extream noise (btw yes that's where extream noise terror got the name) get this and enjoy! even if you're not straightedge or left wing. it's a must own for any punk.

not quite dead yet!

not dead. back after a month of having no computer. thank you bishop for keeping the shit goin. where would i be without you? more reviews coming up of some great new records and really whatever i feel like you know me! haha

AC4 - AC4 (2010)

1. Detonate
2. Where Are The Kids
3. I Wanna Go
4. The Same Fight
5. Assassination
6. Fuck The Pigs
7. I Can Do It
8. Won't Bow Down
9. It Catches Up
10. My Condition
11. Pigs Lose
12. It's Over In A Second
13. Let's Go To War
14. Coptown
15. This Is It

Let's make something clear from the get go: I don't like Refused. I don't get them, and I don't like them. Maybe I'll go through a penny drop moment, like I did with Led Zeppelin, 'tallica and Pink Floyd, but probably not. I have a feeling that I'll never like Refused.

However AC4, with half their members from Refused, I do like. Many fob them off as generic hardcore punk and, I wouldn't say this is an unfair criticism, but most people miss the most important thing here: they're damn good at writing a fun record. When did you last listen to a hardcore record that was just trying to be fun instead of make a point, or tell you to be edge, or to save the animals, or that your neighbors a cunt and you should batter them? And without answering that question, when did you last listen to a hardcore record that was just fun?

See, AC4 don't push the boat out. The longest song on this record is 1:53 (the whole record actually amounts to about 20mins). There's no breakdowns, or crazy guitar solos or bits where the music all drops out and the vocalist gives a monologue about the state of the world today and how it is doomed. I mean, maybe AC4 do have some important meaning to share, but so fuck? This is a party record. Hardcore by numbers, done bloody well and hella fun.

I was fortunate to support these guys when they did their first UK tour and dear Christ they're energetic. Dennis was twice my age and yet performed all sorts of jumps and flips and whatnot, they kept the whole room bouncing.

Or at least they would've, except it was full of cunts expecting a Refused cover or two.

slayer show no mercy lp

sorry i haven't posted in a while. i blame love. more about that later. anyway this is my favorite thrash band's first lp. you can really hear the nwobhm and speed metal influence. a far cry from the later stuff but don't think for a second that i don't like it. it may be different but it still sounds like slayer. tom's vocals are a little more melodic than the later stuff but he still has a lot of power in his voice. the drums just pound relentlessly. quite fast for 1983. it does piss me off that slayer doesn't have any demos before this album. i'd like to hear them as a cover band. if anyone has some old slayer demos get in touch! anyway this album sounds like anthrax's amazing fistfull of metal just with more adult lyrics. already by then slayer was talking about satanism. it's no wonder why this album was an underground hit. almost 30 years later it still punches you when you hear it. or at least it does to me. i'm kind of a slayer fanboy anyway so what do i know? overall it very very nice speed thrash album full of great riffs and awesome lyrics. and actualy good production!