Untitled EP:
1. Glenn (6:11)
2. Rhoda (6:53)
Damn good. Just got the 10”. Too damn tired to write about it, except for it’s super fucking beautiful.
“Untitled EP” Slint
“Discography” Don Martin Three
Tracklist:
Self Titled 7”:
1. Katahdn (4:45)
2. Inefficient Machine (5:14)
Self Titled 12”:
1. Fire as a Metaphor (4:52)
2. Crippled Hands (3:19)
3. Wheat (2:59)
4. Connection (10:46)
Split with Moonraker and Hope Springs Eternal:
1. Moonraker- White Christmas (3:47)
2. Hope Springs Eternal- Drone (3:22)
3. Don Martin Three- Transistor (4:58)
Damn good 90’s emo. Pretty damn hard to find too. Here’s their discography, including their three-way split with Moonraker and Hope Springs Eternal, whose discographies I’ll post up either later today or tomorrow. Don Martin Three is especially melodic, especially talented, and especially under-recognized.
Download:
“As We Quitely Burn a Hole Into” Navio Forge
As We Quietly Burn a Hole Into:
1. Hate Machine (3:46)
2. Yellow and Fed (3:26)
3. Manufactured Images of Jesus Christ (4:30)
4. Weaponizing (5:14)
5. A Hole Into (4:33)
6. Haloed Eyes (6:16)
Good, genuine emo from California. This was their only album, and it was released in 1993, and though their discography lacks bulk, this album stands alone as being one of the more underrated and under-heard emo albums to be released. Personal, heavy, all words that can easily describe Navio Forge’s “As We Quietly Burn a Hole Into”. Instead of using words, it might be worth more to just listen to it, take you where it may.
Numb
Everett, Washington sludge, or “weedviolence” as some of these guys have coined it these days. Started by the guys from Bom Shankar and Crop. This stuff is legitimately good, sludgy grind/powerviolence. Sometimes you can hear a little Dystopia, a little His Hero is Gone, and some genuine poweviolence influence coming from their previous efforts with Bom Shankar and Crop. Super rough tracks done on a 4-track recorder, but expect more soon. Nothing up for download/sale, but these guys are working hard to get tracks out there.
“Rogue Astronaut” Bastard Noise
Rogue Astronaut:
1. Tyranny Beyond Earth (10:00)
2. Ryobi Party (4:06)
3. Rogue Astronaut (19:36)
4. Tyranny Beyond Earth Epilouge (6:08)
5. Moonpool Team (14:42)
6. Radioactive Sunrise (7:06)
Eric Wood’s side project to Man Is The Bastard. This album is really fucking good harsh noise. And by harsh noise, I mean harsh. There’s not a whole lot to say, except it’s new, it involves Eric Wood, and it fucking tears shit up. Additionally, guest vocals from Justin Pearson on “Tyranny Beyond Earth Epilogue” really take the track to another plane. They’re touring right now, playing Seattle and Olympia, I’m definitely going to both shows to see this live.
“Discography” Swing Kids
Discography:
1. El Camino Car Crash (1:35)
2. Line #1 (1:31)
3. Blue Note (2:41)
4. Clean Shade of Dirty (1:11)
5. Warsaw (2:03)
6. Disease (2:44)
7. Situation on Mars (1:34)
8. Forty Three Seconds (4:23)
9. Intro to Photography (2:25)
Justin Pearson before The Locust. Swing Kids formed in San Diego during the 1990’s, playing a mix between hardcore and emo, before genere terms like skramz and emoviolence had even been coined. Not nearly as melodic as some bands in the genre, but they come with a totally different sound. Brash, aggressive. Definitely music from Justin Pearson, to say the least, even though it’s totally different than his work with The Locust or Struggle. Very worth giving a listen if you haven’t already, the track “Warsaw” is the one that really got me into this album.
“Chaos Is Me” Orchid
Chaos Is Me:
1. Le Desordre C’est Moi (1:58)
2. Aesthetic Dialetic (1:40)
3. In G and E (0:56)
4. New Jersey vs. Valhalla (2:09)
5. Weekend At The Fire Academy (0:54)
6. Framecode (1:32)
7. The Action Index (1:49)
8. Death of a Modernist (0:55)
9. Boy With No Arms (1:49)
10. Invasion USA (0:58)
11. Epilogue to a Carcrash (3:12)
Absolutely my favorite album. Ever. Orchid, well known for being the one of the pioneers of the emoviolence/skramz sound, bring it all together with “Chaos Is Me”, not only with some of the best lyrics I’ve hear on an emoviolence record, but also some of the best guitar riffs and the most cohesive sound. Maybe I am just talking it up, as they are my favorite band, but I doubt many fans of the genre would disagree that “Chaos Is Me” is an incredible album.
“Westside Horizons” Despise You
Westside Horizons:
1. Culpa Mia
2. Divisions
3. It’s All In God’s Hands Now
4. In My Absence
5. Lagrimas
6. Two One Three
7. Cut Your Arms Solves A Lot
8. Bullshit Reflection
9. My West Side Horizon
10. You Make A Good Follower
11. High & Defenseless
12. Stupid Routines
13. One More Rosary
14. Burning In Hell (Possessed)
15. Thirty-One Days Of Rain
16. Passive Position
17. I End Me
18. Portrait
19. Lost And Losing
20. No More…Feelings
21. Euphoric Confusion
22. Been Lead
23. Hand Me Down Existencia
24. Shit Trait
25. Glasgow Relocation
26. Couch Slouch (D.R.I. Cover)
27. Random Salvation
28. Encontraran Otro You
29. Unmoved-Complacent
30. Career Overview
31. Imajinate Que It’s Fine
32. Pig Mindset
33. Puppet
34. If We Could Switch
35. Pacification Attempt
36. De Volada Decision
37. Loathe
38. Decline-Demise
39. Llevame
40. Past Reasons
41. PCP Scapegoat
42. Cesar Chavez
43. Guess
44. Guilty View
45. Busted Outlook
46. When You Fail
47. Net Interesa
48. In Your Eyes (Circle Jerks Cover)
49. Say You Felt This Way
50. Ensename Myself
51. Carine Less
52. Seen The Lines
53. Copied Demise
54. Swing And Cease
55. And Always Gets Her Way
56. Born In The Dirt-Raised In A Hole
57. Despreciado Me Voy
58. Pa Que Te Sirve?
59. Taste The Steel (Beowulf)
60. Tired Of Trying
61. Inborn Outcome
62. 9-13-91
One of the best original powerviolence bands, in my opinion. Inglewood’s Despise You’s use of male and female vocals have more recently been imitated by more modern powerviolence acts like Hatred Surge, but Despise You is undoubtedly the original, the best, and one of the most crushing powerviolence bands to hit the early PV scene. Additionally, they’re still playing shows, so there’s always a chance to see them again, good as ever.
“Black Cascade” Wolves In The Throne Room
Black Cascade:
1. Wandered Above The Sea of Fog (10:33)
2. Ahrimanic Trance (14:05)
3. Ex Cathedra (10:58)
4. Crystal Ammunition (14:20)
On their third full length release in 2009, Wolves In The Throne Room, from Olympia, Washington, deliver just as much as much atmospheric black metal as on their previous releases, with Black Cascades continuing on their aural landscape of the Cascade region, pointed with ripping vocals, lengthy guitar interludes, all while never sacrificing the true aesthetic that is what black metal is supposed to be, and giving us proof that it can, and is, still being made well in current times, by people outside of the of the Nordic world.
Red Hex
New garage/punk from Tacoma, Washington.
Nothing up for download yet, but give it a listen, it’s worth your while. Check out “Rat Boy” for something heavier than your normal garage punk could ever suffice.
