Happy Halloween!!

Battle of Mice were a band comprised of Julie Christmas (singer of Made Out of Babies) and Josh Graham (guitarist/keyboardist of A Storm of Light and Red Sparowes, previous Red Sparowes post here), and they were scary... Julie at times sounds maniacal with her speaking, and on a dime, she'll let out these screams that will make your arm hair stand straight up... and all the while, there are great, bone-chilling riffs and spacey interludes behind her, enhancing the whole experience... I figured this was an appropriate Halloween listen, without posting the typical Misfits/Danzig/Creeps stuff that everyone has heard

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Nuke West Texas.

Knuckle Scraper were an extremely short lived (about a year or so) band out of Texas that played short-songed, pissed off powerviolence... members went on to such bands as Pretty Little Flower, Insect Warfare, and Hatred Surge, among others... GET ANGRY!!!

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Wake Up On Fire.

Baltimore, MD's Wake Up On Fire were a very underrated band that disbanded a few years back... they played a type of haunting sludge reminiscient of Eyehategod.. members went on to play in the bands Moonshine, 57 Octaves Below, and most notably Nux Vomica

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New Pelican.

Instrumental sludge/metal/post-rock from Chicago. What We All Come To Need is their fourth and latest full length. Pelican is a tough band to label but they incorporate sludge, doom, and post-rock into consistently good music. Aaron Turner of Isis guest appears on the title track. On tour throughout the US now with Black Cobra. Check their Myspace for dates.
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Hells Kitchen.

Produced by DJ Chong Wizard. Raekwon raps over Havoc's work on Hell on Earth and Mobb Deep rap over RZA's classic beats. It's a pretty tight twist to some classic hip hop. Check it out.
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Criminal Minded.

Collaboration between KRS-One and DJ Premier. Worth it.
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Cali DOOOOM.

Noothgrush are a doom metal band from San Jose, California. They formed in 1994 and broke up in 2001. Erode the Person is their 1999 LP. Re-released in 2006 through Throne Records. Be sure to check it out if you're into Grief and Eyehategod. Really good sludge. Slow, low, and heaaavyyyy. This band RULES, and I consider this their best.
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BLACKLISTED.

Because they killed it at Fall Brawl. Mosh wherever you listen to this. NYHC.
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Houses of the Unholy.

Church of Misery is a riff-driven, groove-heavy doom metal band from Japan. Most of their songs are about serial killers. They've been around for awhile. Houses of the Unholy is their latest. For fans of the almighty riff, the almighty groove, and the almighty Black Sabbath. It rules.

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Oh, what could've been....

A Life Once Lost weren't always a Lamb of God ripoff band... they were a Meshuggah ripoff band before that (A Great Artist)... but before THAT, they were an original sounding, technical metallic hardcore band... this stuff still stands out today when you hear it against what is popular nowadays... but it does kind of get depressing when you consider what ALOL ultimately turned into... still, if you've never heard ALOL before they started playing nothing but covers, check this out

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