good riddance to 2010.

Well it has been quite a while since I've done anything here in the virtual world cos I've been busy. One of the things that kept me busy was a band and we have our new tape is recorded and we are awaiting their arrival, in the mean time check out a teaser track here. and order it here.

In Nomine Christi - Quo Vadis? LP

Germany's In Nomine Christi is the new band of the former Dekadent singer/ bassist Jogi and guitarist Hippy with some additional vocals by Tanja (also ex-Dekadent). The band uses a drum machine and samples as opposed to having a drummer. They play a mixture of the slow plodding pace Crust similar to Amebix meets the Industrial flavorings of Godflesh and early Pitchshifter, they also throw in faster more straight forward hardcore at times. Lyrics are in German and are highly political dealing the negative aspects of church, today's life, media and modern science but with an even more personal touch than they did in Dekadent. All in all this is a solid release and its refreshing to hear bands that don't do the typical punk sound and are willing to experiment a little bit outside the genre's confines. This should still be available from the label here or here or if you are in the US order here


http://www.mediafire.com/?wo3iyjwgyee


get the 7" here

Saké 10"

as promised here is the excellent 10" done by Saké. 5 more tracks of top notch dark "crusty" hardcore for those of you into Ojorojo, Zero Hour, early Neurosis, later Anti Product, Dystopiayou get the idea. if you loved the 7" you'll love this.

http://www.mediafire.com/?zkhdwwnyzdu

Instinct of Survival - north of nowhere, south of somewhen

I am finally back from the dead!

Instinct of Survival hail from Hamburg, Germany and as the name would suggest they play a noisy raw grind core ala early Napalm Death....a few years ago you would be right to make that assumption. But, that is no longer the case they have refined their sound and now play something more in line with bands such as Axegrinder, Deviated Instinct, Hellshock, Stormcrow. Enough Crust to keep the stinky crusties happy and enough Metal to keep the hair farmers' hair swingin round and round.One of the better crust records released this year. Get the CD here. Vinyl here. Shirts here.



http://www.mediafire.com/?0nyhdw4xn2r

Saké ep

Saké was from Eureka, CA and also released a 10" and a split LP with Vancouver's Submission Hold (I think thats all they released?). Both of which I will most likely post up soon. I don't really know much about the band's history and there really isn't any info I could find on them. Musically they were a bit similar to Dystopia and first album Neurosis at times but with the addition of a violin and female vocals. This 7" came out in '96 or so and was released by the now defunct Hopscotch Records although there is a label with the same name that is currently active. Out of all of Saké's releases I think this is the only one still available through Ebullition so if you dig it order it! (to order from Ebullition you have to spend at least 100$ cos their prices on everything are wholesale prices so you can get a ton of stuff for mad cheap!) So for the mean time enjoy this slab of greatness and look out for their other releases posted up on here soon.

http://www.mediafire.com/?dnym1r43mmm

Third World War - lost in a police state + comp tracks

Where to start about this really I don't know should I just give you the band history in a nutshell? Yeah, let's do that...

Shortly after the break up of The End when (bass player Geoff left to play for Curl Up And Die) (*edit* The End lasted a little bit longer after that when Squash took over on bass duties for a bit. I just now remembered, damn old age)
guitarist/vocalist Pit and drummer Keil recruited 2 new members Brian on bass and Matty on 2nd guitar/vocals. They began to immediately work on new songs and began to play a few shows. The first couple times they played was in the summer of 1999 they played on a Saturday and Sunday if im not mistaken. But anyway, It's needless to say they instantly became my favorite local band and It's during that weekend that I became friends with them. During that summer they recorded 2 tracks for the "Abcess Operandi" LP which was the first release for Seattle based label Aborted Society. The Comp also featured Axiom, Planet Trash, Scathed, Riot/Clone, Whorehouse of Representatives Toxic Narcotic etc . Shortly after that Brian decided to leave the band and Matty switched over to bass. The following spring they recorded this demo (which after the initial run of cd-r's were sold out the word demo was taken off the disc) The first four songs on this are in the UK82 hardcore punk vein and were the earliest songs written by them. Tracks 5-8 are the direction the band started going into a thrashy crust punk sound and one of the tracks was a re done version of the former band (The End). I had the honor of doing vocals for a few shows and working on new songs with them but by this time the band began to dissolve with some of the members branching out to different ventures. These days Pit is in Philly and is still making music with his band Moon Women, Matty is rapping now and goes under the moniker of Slug One, Keil lives in Portand and is also making music with his band Starfucker.(he now lives in LA, not sure if he is still a member of said band) Enjoy this little piece of Las Vegas history.

http://www.mediafire.com/?n3m0nu3khmw