Diocletian - Live at Rites of Darkness II

Excellent live recording of Diocletian from Rites of Darkness II on December 11th 2010. The recording was made by Vorfeed (www.vorfeed.net). It was originally in FLAC, but I've converted to 320kpbs MP3 to save space. I've included her original FLAC links though, so you have a choice.

This recording sounds much better than the official Diocletian split live tape that was released recently.

Download here:
FLAC
MP3

The FLAC files have no cover art, so if you're anal about that sort of thing like I am, you may want to save the cover I made for it from the blog here, or make your own.

Nemo - 8-bit Grindography

There doesn't seem to be anyplace to easily find this grindcore band's discography. I'm fixing that. This release compiles all the songs that I'm aware of into one easy to grab release.

These guys played what could be called 8-bit grindcore, which makes liberal use of Atari style sounds mixed with ferocious drum machine grind.

Probably the best of the video-game styled bands in my opinion.


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Living Impaired - Blossom and Decay

Living Impaired

Their debut album, World Keeps Spinning, was decent but nothing amazing, but the follow-up, Blossom and Decay is one of those albums that even though I have it in my collection, I frequently forget how good it really is. This is unique death metal with a hint of dissonant hardcore flavor. It sounds like it wouldn't work, but it does...really well. This used to be findable for dirt cheap in many second hand online shops, but I think with the recent (semi) explosion in obscure metal has caused a lot of places to charge stupid amounts for this. It also seem to not be available on the web in digital format except for on this blog, which surprised the hell out of me.

With Hell our Road Ends - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUsAqMvw-pI
Basic Values - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ee2AVlEk6w

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Libation - Sanctimonious Offerings

Since the download on other blogs is actually an Impiety demo, I figured I'd upload this. This is the actual Libation - Sanctimonious Offerings demo.

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Speedwolf OOP releases...

Excellent US black speed punk. These two releases were requested by the guys over at Renrat's Metal Bazaar. It took me a while, but here they are.

Both of these (the Bark at the Poon demo tape, and the split 7" with The Hookers) are getting tougher to find, but I highly recommend that you pick them up if you see them around. They always come with stickers and other goodies.

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Fukrot - Local legends.

Fukrot was one of the best bands to ever grace the Albuquerque local scene. The music is a sludgy, crust, hardcore assault. The guitarist manages to get the BEST guitar tone in this history of 6 stringed instruments.

They toured a few times, and played quite frequently around town. Yet to me, they where one of the few bands that played a lot that never got boring.

It was really a sad day when the drummer moved to Portland putting the band on indefinite hiatus. The drummer and his wife formed Murderess in Portland, who are another great band, but they don't have the awful muck (this is a positive thing...) of Fukrot, while the guitarist and bassist continued to make similar under the name Roñoso (Who I'll talk about in another post).

I still hope for a Fukrot reunion.


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Nitre Pit - Lo!

Self-released album from 1994 from this San Francisco band whose members (Tasha Riggins, Aaron Russell, Greg Saunier, and Rob Fisk) went on to form Deerhoof, Weird Weeds, and 7 Year Rabbit Cycle.

The guitarist and vocalist Tasha, also played guitar in a hardcore/powerviolence band with me around 2000/2001. This is pretty experimental and weird, but it's top notch stuff.

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