Candiria - Subliminal

Let me preface this post by saying that after this demo, this band turned to ABSOLUTE SHIT. They got so bad I needed to capitalize it.

This demo on the other hand is sort of Atheist meets Deicide. While I'm not a fan of Atheist, I love Deicide, so I can handle the jazzy parts a lot more in this than I can in most other "progressive", or whatever the kids are calling it these days, death metal.

This tape was brought to my attention by my friend Mithrandir who couldn't find it online and brought it by for me to make him a digital rip of. When I realized that this was actually pretty decent, especially when you compare it to the rubbish Candiria turned into, I figured I'd post it here so everyone could give it a listen.

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Люцифер - Live at Rock Forum festival 1989

I know literally nothing about this band aside from the trivial fact that the name translates to "Lucifer". What I'm offering here is 5 tracks of Russian black/death/thrash. These guys took a lot of influence from Celtic Frost/Hellhammer and also a bit from early Samael, especially in the slower parts.

Despite being live tracks, the recording on these is actually very good, and I'm glad, because, as far as I know, this is the only recording of these guys, and if it was a super raw unlistenable pile, they might not ever get any recognition, and they're definitely better than that.

I'd love to know more about these guys, so if you have any information let me know.

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Холостой Выстрел - Тотальный исход

This is some dark, nasty Russian death metal from the early 90s. Once again, being Russian, this isn't something I have a ton of information on. The band formed in the late 80s, and released 3 recordings: 1 demo in 1990 and another in 1991 and then this LP in 1993. Copies of the LP aren't super hard to come by for a reasonable price if you're patient, but for those of you who don't want to wait months for a copy to show up, I figured I'd post an upload of it here.

Metal from the former Soviet Union still seems to be unexplored territory for a lot of metal heads. It's not easy to digest because most of the information on it is not in English, and it's not super easy to find outside of those countries. I'm certainly not an expert either, but this is definitely one of the true gems of the Russian metal that I've heard.

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Satan's Satyrs - Live as Blue Cheer for Halloween 2012

Four Blue Cheer covers from the current kings of metal-punk heavy sleaze. This was recorded on October 27th, 2012 at The Dead Kennedy Center in Washington DC. This is the full set and lasts for just under 20 minutes.

01) Summertime Blues
02) Out of Focus
03) Parchment Farm
04) Come and Get It

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Spirex - Demo

Spirex is the result of members of the legendary (but highly underrated) death metal band Darth Vader's Church joining forces with someone who called himself "Magic Juan" and making bizarre music. I'm not much of a fan of this sort of stuff usually, and to be honest, this isn't really an exception. It's very good for what it is, but what it is has little appeal to me. I grabbed it many moons ago because of the DVC connection. I'm  uploading it here because it's not so easy to find on the web, and I figured some people might actually appreciate it.

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Abaddon - Funkin' Murderers

Abaddon were a local death metal band for me during my introduction to metal. Knowing that, it should be no surprise when I say I love this CD. Even in the face of the stupid "thug" interludes in some of the tracks, this CD has always stuck with me. The death metal contained on this disc is pretty damn good in my opinion, being slightly technical (as most was in the mid 90s), but not overwhelmingly so (like it was in the late 90s and early 2000s), and vocally varied, with the vocalist using both high screams and guttural growls.

Anyway, even though I professed my love of this album earlier, I don't really have a lot to say about it. It's not really reinventing the wheel or anything, and most of it's unique elements aren't really worth mentioning (aside from the stupid "thug" rants). Anyway, grab this while it's hot.

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Ruinacre - S/T

Hardcore from Flagstaff Arizona. These guys had what I call the "southwest sound". A lot of bands from Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado all had a similar sound and these guys have it. It's sort of metallic, but not overly so, it's hard to describe unless you live around here and hear all the bands that I'm talking about.

Anyway, this stuff sort of blurs the line between fast metallic hardcore and power-violence. It's not quite what I think of as power-violence, but a lot of kids these days would probably call it that.

I'm pretty sure this would be cheap if you were to look around the web, Satan's Pimp did decent size presses of most of their releases, and a lot of them seem to have been forgotten by most people.

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Tomsk-7 - Discography

I know very little about Tomsk-7. What I do know is that they were from Arizona, were active from the mid-90s until sometime shortly after 2000, and they released a total of 13 songs which comprise just under 15 min. of music.

Musically they fall into the southwestern hardcore sound that is hard to describe, but it's sort of a mix of hardcore, sludge, grind, and power-violence. Tomsk-7 was also female fronted, so it's a bit different than some of the other bands who had the "southwest" sound.

They didn't have an "official" discography release, so I compiled this one, which is sourced from my own rips of the vinyl the songs appeared on. I've included complete artwork for the release in case anyone gets the urge to burn the songs and print their own case (I did).

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Sicarii - Within Your City Walls A Rising Storm

I've had a copy of this for about a decade now, and I never knew the album wasn't self-titled. The band only had screen printed cover versions on sale when they were on tour, and no place on that cover does it mention the album's actual title.

Anyway, it's a pretty good album. I remember when I set the show up, the band member in charge of booking said something like "we're similar to what would happen if Orchid and Catharsis melded together". That's fairly accurate I guess. 

It's got elements of both Orchid and Catharsis. It's less chaotic than Orchid but does feature some of their chaotic bursts, and way less metal than Catharsis, but gives you the same overall feel as listening to them, all while being slightly less pretentious than either of those bands. It's been one of the records I've held on to even through multiple purges...so there's something about it that really does it for me. I don't know how other people would feel about it, so I don't know if I'd call it a lost gem or anything, but it's certainly a personal gem.

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Speedwolf - Live in Albuquerque 7.22.12

This was the last show of their recent tour with Witchaven. The set was great, which is par for the course with Speedwolf, and the sound on this recording is great as well. The only really shitty thing about this show was that no one fucking showed up (and also that I had no money for merch, but that's more of a personal problem).

 

 

 

They do a Kiss cover, and a new, as of yet unreleased, song.

You can grab the FLAC files provided by Vorfeed here:

http://www.mediafire.com/?llj5imtrhz20737

 

or if you're like me, and hate FLAC because they're huge and don't really offer that much of a quality boost over 320kbps Mp3s you can get my Mp3s here:

http://www.mediafire.com/?62rn2rs892su9oh

Speedwolf - Live in Albuquerque 3.13.12

Recorded by Vorfeed (http://www.vorfeed.net).

Speedwolf kicked off their March tour with a show in Albuquerque on the 13th. The show was packed, and a great time was had. This was a much better show than the July 22nd show, but the sound on this live recording is nowhere near as good. It's still not bad, but the vocals are pretty buried in the mix here, and you can hear people talking while the band is playing. They do a very awesome Venom cover towards the end of the set.

Grab the FLAC provided by Vorfeed here:

http://www.mediafire.com/?5uo15bir98td4c0

Or my VBR (no idea why I didn't use my standard 320kbps) Mp3s here: http://www.mediafire.com/?x2o3hwl85r6m3v6

Крематор - За Чертой

Being that this band is Russian and from a time when Russian music didn't reach the western world, I have no idea what to say about these guys. I know next to nothing about them, know no one who can fill me in, and have a feeling that even if I did, it wouldn't be as interesting as the music these guys made.

Totally ripping death/thrash from 1989.

I'm uploading someone else's rip of this because it's not available without having to use the horrible Russian iFolder service, and who the shit wants to do that?

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Wellington - Discography

Wellington hailed from Arizona, played some nasty sludge. They were around and active in the mid/late 90s, but were done by the time this compilation came out in 2000.

I don't know too much more about them other than the fact that Ryan Butler (Unruh, Structure of Lies, Landmine Marathon, Northside Kings, etc.) played in the band.

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Devil - Live Entry

This was released twice, in asinine limitations each time, so that after two pressings there are 141 copies in existence: 100 of the tape and 41 of the 7"+CD. It's needless to say, that with limitations like that, this tape is now impossible to find for a reasonable price in a legit distro. I'm sharing this because I've seen people asking for somewhere between $25-$50 dollars for the tape version which is less than a year old. That's unacceptable.

Musically, Devil play nasty, ultra raw, and evil black/thrash. It's pretty good stuff if you can get past the fairly lo-fi recording. I personally think it was one of the better thrash releases of 2010/11.


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The Beast - Discography

The Beast were a heavy metal band from NJ. Their debut EP, Power Metal, was released in 1983, though they are probably best known for their appearance on the Born to Metalize compilation in 1984. They followed that up with a 4 track demo in 1986. After that, the vocalist, Scott Ruth, went on to form Ripping Corpse. This collection is everything the band released to my knowledge.

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Lie Still - Demo 2011

Old school power violence seems to be a pretty dead genre. These days kids want all sorts of bullshit like what Weekend Nachos, or some similarly detestable band, is doing. Lie Still are for people like me: who don't want innovation or hybridizing fucking up their music. This is power violence played perfectly with nods to all the greats. Get this and let Pete Benumb and friends help you forget about all that shit that kids are calling power violence these days.

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Protector - The Return of Thrash and Madness

I guess Protector is back to writing new material. This is a rehearsal demo recorded in late October of this year.

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Chapel - Demo 2008

I have had exactly two things on my active "want list" for the past few years, Rosenfeld's Pigs of the Empire and this demo by Canada's Chapel. I'm happy to say that as of today, Only Rosenfeld remains.

Chapel play black rock'n'roll, not dissimilar to, but completely better than Midnight. I put a LOT of hype into hearing the 3 songs from this beast that didn't appear on their Myspace, and I'm happy to say that they lived up to the hype. This demo is certainly one of my favorite releases of all time, and has been since I heard the 3 songs in early 2009.


This demo is their only recorded output to date, though I've been told they have just finished recording an LP that should be out sometime in the semi-near future.

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Vomitus - Discography

I know very little about the history of these guys aside from the fact that they're from Arizona, recorded two tapes (one of which went unreleased), and a split 7" with Flux of Disorder, and are no longer active. What I can tell you is that their two tapes are some of the best crusty hardcore/grind/metal that has ever been overlooked by most people.

Until I met a local punk rock fan at a show, I had almost completely forgotten about this band. I have owned the split wiht Flux of Disorder for probably 12 years, and while I used to listen to it a lot, I hadn't heard it in about half a decade...then this kid showed up with a Vomitus t-shirt. "Holy shit, is that a Vomitus shirt?" I inquired, totally perplexed because very few people around here are familiar with them. Turns out this dude used to be roommates with some guys in the band. He turned me on to both these tapes (and hooked it up with a sweet Vomitus t-shirt). Since, these aren't particularly easy to find on the web, I figured I'd share it. This link contains both the released Sutimov tape, and the unreleased, unnamed tape. The songs from the split with Flux of Disorder are taken from these two tapes, so this is, in essence, their complete discography.

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Diocletian - Live in Denver 12-07-2010

Another live recorded made by Vorfeed (www.vorfeed.net). This one may sound better than the Rites of Darkness II recording I posted the other day.

She posted these in FLAC as well, and I've included links to both her original FLAC files and my 320kbps MP3 conversion.

Grab the FLAC here:
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Grab the MP3s here:
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Here's the text from her INFO.TXT file since I didn't include it in the mp3 download
DIOCLETIAN
Blast-O-Mat, Denver, CO, USA
December 07, 2010

Lineage: SP-BMC-2 > MM-EBM-1 battery box with 95Hz bass roll-off > Tascam DR-03(16/44K/Stereo) > Audacity (split tracks) > Trader's Little Helper > you

Tracklist:
01. Doom Cult
02. Order of The Ironfist
03. Sect of Swords
04. Deathstrike Overkill
05. Nuclear Vomited
06. Werewolf Directive
07. (Technical Difficulties)
08. Desolate Earth
09. Blood Aeon
10. Antichrist Hammerfist
11. Might Is Right
12. Bullet Vomited
13. Infernos
14. Heretics

Notes: If I remember correctly, they had a bit of trouble with one of the amps between the end of Werewolf Directive and the start of Antichrist Hammerfist. Still a top-notch set -- killer New Zealand black/death chaos! Hail Doom Cult!

Support the band -- buy their albums & DO NOT SELL THIS RECORDING.


Grab the full size cover I made for the recording here.