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