Lowbrow- Broken Speech 7"

A local hardcore punk band from North Carolina that I am really excited about right now. I've seen them with Graf Orlock and soon with Cult Ritual, they put on really great shows. This is the first record released and I hope there is more to come from them, they're only about a year old as of this summer. Dig it.

DL Broken Speech

Convulse - World Without God

Convulse were a short-lived old school death metal band from Finland active in the early 90s. Their sound differed from the punk-influenced, treble-driven sound of other Scandinavian DM bands at the time and they had a more American sound. They only released two albums, this being their debut, and got next-to-no attention. A lot of people, myself included, are jumping on the boat way late via the internet though. This record is an absolute must-have in my opinion.
Convulse are definitely heavy.

World Without God

Captain Planet - Demo

Captain Planet come straight outta Hamburg and play catchy and grungey punk rock with a 'post-emo' feel. This is the first demo they released back in 2003. They recently agreed to be on the comp that me and Lindsay are putting out, which I'm ultra-stoked about! Check check check check check this band out!

Demo 2003

Bone Awl - Night's Middle 7''

Bone Awl are to black metal what Graf Orlock are to grindcore: not true to the genre and easily accessible to hardcore kids~~
Get this and call it black metal and you can be just like all the other retarded hipsters kicking around.

Night's Middle

Ancestortooth - Elephant Boneyard

Ancestortooth was a sludge / doom band from Salem, OR. They played dark, distorted, recorded-in-the-woods style doom. Other than one (in my opinion) pointlessly long drone track, this is one of the best tapes of its type that I've came across. They have plenty of common with a lot of the other stuff released on Woodsmoke, if you dig any of that. You should check this out if you feel like a nice change from overproduced 'southern-rock'-style sludge and not-so-scary doom. Check it out, posers.

elephant boneyard

Vaccine - Demo Tape

I came home from 5 days of no-shower-no-sleep-no-snacks-between-meals travel to find this beauty sitting on my bed.
Vaccine contain members of Ampere, Think I Care, Failures and Relics and play fast and angry-as-fuck hardcore ("powerviolence" fans will dig it and call it "powerviolence"). They have some political, straight edge and animal rights orientated lyrics on this but aren't atall pretentious. In my opnion, one of the best hardcore bands about just now. Americans, you should know about this. There are only 100 copies about which is an absolute sin. They have put their demo up for free download though, which everyone should be doing. Don't sit on this tape!

Demo

Skeletonwitch - Beyond The Permafrost

Both my descriptions of this were stupid. Skeletonwitch play 'blackened thrash' (really just fast death metal) and are for people who grew up on fast solos, growled vocals and ridiculous lyrics. They released an Ep and full-length by themselves and this is their first released through a 'proper' label -- notice the waaaaaat too clean production on it. They are worth a listen for sure. Its a shame that people are going to look right past this record just because of how accessible it is to idiots. I'll post the earlier stuff later.

Beyond The Permafrost