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I've been really down this week and haven't been sleeping much, so this is a good album for right now.
Envy has been around for over a decade, making hardcore from the Far East (Japan). After a couple albums, they developed their sound from fairly generic hardcore, to unbelievable, epic, masterful, beautiful, intricate, hardcore. As the name implies, Abyssal is very dark, deep, and depressing. Envy is generally a fairly sad band, but Abyssal is their most depressing release to date.
I got into this band maybe 3 years ago when I was visiting my sister up in Montreal. She was dating this dude Mike, and Mike played guitar in this band Ballast. He quit after their European tour because he hated everyone in the band. Anyway, he made me a mix tape of Ballast's entire discography, plus a bunch of random shit (like Assück...thanks Mike!), but unfortunately I lost the tape.
However, I still held on to the information about the LP he played on. Sound Asleep is a sonic attack of raging, crusty, anarcho-hardcore from all parts of Canada. Female-fronted with shouting vocals, sometimes half-singing, and gruff male backing vocals. Like Witch Hunt. But I'd rather listen to Ballast.
I don't listen to this album enough, but every time I put it on I am amazed. It is so perfect. The balance of melody & speed are great. Take a listen to this if you like Tragedy, Witch Hunt, women's rights or anything off of Profane Existence. Bump this shit.
Ballast - Sound Asleep (Profane Existence 2005)
1. Louder Than Words
2. Lorena Bobbit
3. Unnoticed by Time
4. Day by Day
5. Bridge
6. Imagine
7. Tomorrow
8. But After the Gig (Reprise)
9. Bad Thoughts
10. Resign Yourself
Buy Ballast's "Sound Asleep":
Good luck, OOP! Sorry!
long time no see, eh? mike c hasn't yelled at me to post anything so i haven't been motivated. i did, though, have the pleasure of seeing the great mike c twice this weekend. fuckin sweet. anyway...
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it's winter time. it's nice. nice and cold. i love it. here's something nice to listen to. ten beautiful ambient, electronic-ish songs in just over an hour. múm is from iceland or something cool like that, and they rule. this is my favorite album of theirs, but all the shit i have from them is cool as hell. i don't really know how to describe it..it's just wonderful and calming and pretty. download it. listen to it. love it. i'll try to get on updating this shit more often.
múm - yesterday was dramatic-today is ok (TMT 2000)
1. I'm 9 Today
2. Smell Memory
3. There Is a Number of Small Things
4. Random Summer
5. Asleep On a Train
6. Awake On a Train
7. The Ballad of the Broken Birdie Records
8. The Ballad of the Broken String
9. Sunday Night Just Keeps on Rolling
10. Slow Bicycle
Nothing needs to be said about this album. Nothing really needs to be said about this band, either. Anyone who is a fan of music heavy or music beautiful needs to download this album.
It's time to brutalize this blog...
Assück's "Misery Index" is a masterpiece. 15 songs in 15 minutes; a non-stop full-blown crust/deathgrind assault. And aside from being absolutely brutal, the lyrics on this album are absolutely magnificent.
"When will we concede that there is an absolute significance deficit concept of the human being? The rape is indigenous to our existence and we can never and will never be able to pay the debt of blood upon this land. Burn alive all humankind. Burn it at the stake. Burn it as retribution for its blatant defilement of itself. Burn it for its never ending void of purpose. Burn it on principle alone." (Unrequited Blood)
Unfortunately, aside from all this album and band's greatness, "Misery Index" is also the name of that shitty band. Fuck them.
I can't think of anything else that needs to be said, so...enjoy.
1. Qed
2. Salt Mine
3. Corners
4. Dataclast
5. Blight of Element
6. Talon of Dominion
7. Unrequited Blood
8. Wartorn
9. Sum and Substance
10. Riven
11. Reversing Denial
12. Lithographs
13. Intravenous
14. Moment to Failure
15. In Absence
Buy "Misery Index" here:
Profane Existence
Interpunk
Relapse
Sorry Mike C, I know you're not gonna like this post...
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Every once in a while I remember how much I love Cursive...now is one of those "every once in a while's."
In talking to some of my friends who liked Curisve, I found out that a majority of them had never heard "The Difference Between Houses and Homes." Houses/Homes is a compilation of a bunch of old Cursive tracks from OOP 7"s (including the split with Small Brown Bike(<3)).
So the king of mosh, Mike C, has demanded that I update this more often. Sorry, Mike, I'm doing my best! Here's an update I hope everyone can get into, but especially Mike C.
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Straight outta California, some raging thrashy punk/hardcore//skramz from the early 00s. Unfortunately, like most good screamo bands--nay, most good bands, This Machine Kills is no longer around and only managed to put out one full length. Here it is: "Death in the Audubon Ballroom." 9 tracks of blazing, spastic hardcore with "snotty" screaming vocals by a one Steve Aoki who runs Dim Mak records. TMK also did a KILLER split with (fucking) Envy and Yaphet Kotto, which is unbelievable. Maybe I'll put that up another time. TMK also toured Japan with Envy at least once (maybe twice). Any way, they fucking rule. You can get more info about them here: http://dimmak.com/tmk/. Here's the album:
This Machine Kills - Death In The Audubon Ballroom (Ebullition)
1. (The Last Poets Sample) Cracking The Mask
2. Bending The Erotic
3. Giving Testimony (spoken word by Yuri Kochiyama)
4. Our Histories Have Burned Holes In Your Flag
5. Running With All These Names
6. Breakdown
7. Hearts And Minds
8. Death In The Audubon Ballroom (samples by Malcolm X)
9. And The Weight Of The Silence Alone Will Choke Us
Buy "Death In The Audubon Ballroom" here:
Interpunk
Put Out The Jams
Envy - Abyssal (Temporary Residence Limited/Sonzai 2007)
