Trans-Continental Hustle.

the new Gogol Bordello

a new release that is actually what you expect it to be? NO WAY!

the Gypsy Punk Kings!

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House With A Curse.

the new Coliseum

what is with bands going slower lately? when I posted the new Ceremony, I hadn't heard it yet, but I expected it to be very fast... well, those that have heard it know that I was wrong... House With A Curse has Coliseum in an overall slow down as well...

I'm not knocking this record, because it is very good, but I don't know why bands insist on slowing down... that being said, it seems as though Coliseum decided to take their best slower songs from their past and make a full album of them... again, not knocking the record, but it would be nice to stay fast as they progress in their career, kinda like Napalm Death has...

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Undark and the Radium Girls.

Undark and the Radium Girls are a fast hardcore band from MA... just saw these guys open for Ceremony, and they tore it up

MySpace
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Colony.

Colony are a fast, aggressive hardcore band from NY/CT... reminiscient of Trash Talk in both sound and live show, these guys are VERY angry

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Family Ties & Flooded Eyes.

Featherweight are a melodic hardcore band from the North Shore of MA... a very young band with a lot of potential

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Some Hip-Hop..

Here's a few singles from Nas, Gang Starr, Mobb Deep, Group Home and Black Moon.

It Ain't Hard To Tell

Shook Ones Pt. II

Halftime


Cop Hell/Doe In Advance

Livin Proof/Supa Star

How Many Emcess

War Master.

Old school death metal from Houston with ex-Insect Warfare. The drumming kills.
Chapel of the Apocalypse
Myspace

SFN.

Wisconsin powerviolence.
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Myspace

Bastardass.

Fresh, abrasive powerviolence from Los Angeles. Six songs, four minutes. Don't sleep.
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Myspace

Warzone Womyn/Endless Blockade.

Continuing with Rusty's string of splits, Pittsburgh's Warzone Womyn teamed up with Toronto's Endless Blockade for a split LP in '05. Heavy shit.
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Warzone Womyn
Endless Blockade

Wormrot.

Grind from Singapore. Available through Earache.
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Mind Eraser.

Boston powerviolence. Their latest two releases.
Conscious/Unconscious
Prodigal Son Brings Death
Conscious/Unconscious is sold out through Clean Plate Records, but you can still pick up Prodigal Son Brings Death through Youngblood.

Integrity 2010.

Blackest Curse, Integrity's latest offering. Pick it up through Deathwish.
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Captain Cleanoff

Aussie grind with brutal grooves. They absolutely killed it at Maryland Deathfest.
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Myspace
Note- The download is misnamed "Symphonies of Sickness".

Frightener.

Overlooked death/grind from the UK. A389 records.
Guillotine
Split with Pulling Teeth
Myspace

SPLITS I

great splits....(very) brief description of each band

The Poacher Diaries: Agoraphobic Nosebleed/Converge


drum machine grind from MA vs. chaotic hardcore from MA

previous Agoraphobic Nosebleed post
previous Converge posts: I and II
Agoraphobic Nosebleed's MySpace
Converge's MySpace
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Pig Destroyer/Coldworker/Antigama 3-Way Split


awesome grind from VA vs. death metal from Sweden (with an ex-member of Nasum) vs. forward thinking grind from Poland

previous Pig Destroyer post
Pig Destroyer's MySpace
Coldworker's MySpace
Antigama's MySpace
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Discordance Axis/Capitalist Casualties


legendary grind from NJ vs. legendary powerviolence from CA

previous Descordance Axis post
previous Capitalist Casualties post
Discordance Axis' MySpace
Capitalist Casualties' MySpace
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Benumb/Apartment 213


furious grind from CA vs. vicious powerviolence from OH

Benumb's MySpace
Apartment 213's MySpace
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Jesu/Battle of Mice


ambient sludge from the UK (Justin Broadrick from Godflesh) vs. haunting sludge from Brooklyn

previous Battle of Mice post
Battle of Mice's MySpace
Jesu's MySpace
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Iron Lung/The Endless Blockade


powerviolence from Washington state vs. powerviolence from Canada

previous Iron Lung post
The Endless Blockade's MySpace
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Massgrave/In Disgust



awesome grind from Canada vs. powerviolence from CA

previous Massgrave post
Massgrave's MySpace
In Disgust's Official Website
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Rohnert Park.

the new Ceremony

I haven't had a chance to listen to this yet, but unless they completely changed their style, I would expect nothing short of a very fast, very heavy, very pissed off record

Official Site
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We Were Exploding Anyway.

the new 65daysofstatic

if you've never heard of 65daysofstatic, think of the sound that bands like Mono and Red Sparowes play with a heavy dose of electronics behind it...good stuff

MySpace
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You And Me.

Out of all the bad bands Trustkill Records have signed over the past like 8 years or so, Open Hand from California is one of the very few diamonds in the rough... bringing together indie rock, southern rock, and catchy pop sensibility makes Open Hand a very enjoyable listen

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Walls.

Their pedigree is not to be fucked with, with members of Iron Lung, Cold Sweat, Negative Step, and Society of Friends in their ranks. Walls is a great mix of hardcore punk and noise rock, with angrily shouted vocals. Here is their self-titled 7".

Blog (which also is used for news of Iron Lung, Iron Lung Records, Pig Heart Transplant, and more)
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R.I.P. Isis

I will sorely miss Isis. In case you missed it, they posted on their blog a few weeks ago that after a few shows, they're calling it a day. Even though they left a good chunk of their fans behind with Panopticon and In the Absence of Truth, Wavering Radiant is where they lost me (even though Alan included it in his top albums of 2009 list). Even still, they were one of the great bands of this generation and extremely influential. IMO, these are their three best releases:

Celestial


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Mosquito Control


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Oceanic


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