Wednesday, December 19, 2012

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

Saturday, December 15, 2012

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!

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

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!

Wednesday, December 5, 2012

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!

Monday, December 3, 2012

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.

Saturday, December 1, 2012

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."

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