"Heavy-as-shit powerviolence from these guys. Members of Look Back And Laugh and Talk Is Poison, so this is a fucking awesome slab to add to anyone's mp3 collection (we all know you're not buying it, fucker). On top of all the praise, the production on this album is amazing. All that's available now is the CD release, but the vinyl had hand-made silk-screened covers." taken from Buddha Khan
Great power violence act in the line of Despise You (with male and female vocals everywhere). Includes a member from Insect Warfare.
"Primitive explodes in severely acidic rage. The album slabs together a mash of coarse power violence, splintering harsh noise, and commanding power electronics. The Endless Blockade evoke the loathsomeness of Man Is the Bastard and the throbbing fast-slow-fast construction of Crossed Out. In particular, the rasping blastbeats and rapid riffs in "Irrationalism Uberalles" share similarities with those of Crossed Out's "Crown of Thorns."With Scott Hull's mixing touch, Primitive breathes just enough. "Thick Skin, Transparent Blood" slows things down, opening with tasty, lumbering chords. Taps on the snare warn of imminent attack; guitars then spew their guts through projectile vomiting." Taken from Invisible Oranges
Emerging out of the quiet, peaceful state of Maine in 2002, Outbreak has proven to be anything but the generalizations made about the state in which they began. They play fast, they play loud, and they have a reputation for an explosive live show. Or as simply as Alternative Press has described Outbreak: "fast, furious, and absolutely unrelenting".
"Le Scrawl was formed in 1990 by Peter and Mario in Potsdam, Germany.
Mind Eraser come from Boston and they play powerviolence leaning more into the slow parts the genre usually implies making it a little less tireing than some other bands of the genre. I couldn't find much about these fellas but here's a review.
"Fuck all the systems at the same time"Motherfuckin' Grindcore from Norway! Check this out!
2008 - Har Du Sagt "A" Får Du Si "Nal"
2009 - De Anarkistiske An(n)aler
2009 - Regnskog, Fred og Vegetarmat 7" EP
"The second album by Portland's Black Elk comes from a familiar enough starting point -- namely, there's something about loud guitars and aggressive yowling that will always please somebody, somewhere. Given how thoroughly any number of putatively different sounds and styles that match that description have essentially cross-fertilized into one monstrous leviathan of music, it comes as little surprise that Black Elk are almost a post-everything band -- they use lumbering metal, frenetic no wave rampages, epic solos, and distorted art noise, and that's just in the opening song "My Last Shred of Decency." But if Black Elk are still arguably working towards their own sound, they're doing so with panache -- and it doesn't hurt that they've got a full appreciation of the classic '80s thrash and power metal they pretty obviously grew up on. Hearing the spiraling solos and chunky riffs on songs like the fierce as hell "Pig Crazy," helped by the excellent recording quality throughout the album, complements rather than works against singer Tom Glose's rasped rampage. Meanwhile, the fact that the album ends on a perfectly melodramatic note with the ever-more-intense performance of "Winter Formal" cutting off suddenly to silence further shows the band's sense of how to leave a maximum impact behind. At this rate the group's next album should be a spectacular breakthrough." Ned Ragget @ all music guide
9Horizon hail from Latvia. They play some modern punkish sludge.
"Ten years of relentless mayhem has long pointed (with two fingers in the air) to this crystalline moment: the debut album by Gainesville thrash historians Asshole Parade! "Embers" is 21 tracks of circle pit-inducing thrashy hardcore bordering on powerviolence with those smart and clever lyrics they have become known for. Manic, urgent hardcore blazes and smokes from every angle, felling all pit barons with a tangle of legs, downing all airborne crowd pirates with human flack! 21 songs for the love of all things fastcore! Feel the burn!"
Mule Skinner is a grindcore band from New Orleans, USA. Including members of Righteous Pigs and Flesh Parade, their sound is not far from Terrorizer and Assuck.
Crust punk band from Portland. Reminds me of a more melancolic H.H.I.G. and Tragedy with some other influences such as Iron Maiden. This surely isn't conventional crust.
Totalt Jävla Mörker (Total Fucking Darkness) is a Swedish crust/hardcore punk band, formed in Skellefteå, Sweden in 1996. The hardcore punk band Bitter End, also from this town, had just broken up and some of the members (Anders, Fredrik and Tompa) decided to keep playing together. They were not especially good musicians or even interested in music, but it was rather the social conditions that kept them playing together. The idea of their new band was to scream louder and play more raw than they did in Bitter End. The line up was Anders (vocals), Tompa (Guitar), Fredrik (drums).
Obligatorisk Tortyr (Obligatory Torture) are a very underrated band from Gothenburg, Sweden. Their style is grindcore mixed with noisy riffs most common to noise acts. With Brutal Truth, Terrorizer, Dillinger Escape Plan and Breach (among others), as main influences, you can get an idea of how these dudes sound.
Mammoth Grinder is a sludgy crust punk trio from Austin, Texas. Not much is known about this guys, but if your into southern sludge and "modern" crust this is a must. Get it!
Holland's Blood I Bleed started off right after My Minds Mine quit in 2002. BIB's style is full speed raging "1-2-3-go" thrash and is just a logical follow up of the later fast hardcore/grindcore assault, which MMM stood for. In 2003 their first self titled 7" EP was released and in the following years several split 7"s (Unholy Grave,Under Pressure) followed. In between those recordings, BIB did many gigs troughout Holland, Belgium, Germany, Czech Republic.
Unlike the name might suggest, She Said Destroy is not a metalcore/deathcore band. This is a band from Norway and their sound, not being very original, is quite unique. Drawing influences from noise rock, thrash, death metal and black metal alike, this unit has through both live performances and recorded material been prying the eyes and ears of whoever crosses their path open. One of my favourite records in the death metal genre, each music is different, I can't get bored of this one.
Very interesting Suicidal Black Metal from Germany. A band from No Colours Records with members of Krieg, Armagedda and Sterbend. Check it out:
Warning were a UK (Harlow, Essex) based doom metal band. They flagged the rise of post-2000 wave of traditional doom metal. The band is notable for its down-tempo, progressive, melodic and heavy doom-laden sound; the idiosyncratic and poignant vocals of Patrick Walker; and his introspective, darkly-confessional lyrical themes.
Ved Buens Ende was a Norwegian avant-garde black metal band. Their sound is diverse with quiet instrumental jazz influenced sections mixed with some aggressive black metal. Ved Buens Ende means "At The End Of The (Rain)bow". A band with members of Dødheimsgard, Virus, Aura Noir and Naer Mataron.
Fucking amazing power duo. This guys mix slow paced doomish dissonant riffs with sudden bursts of blasting assaults. Imagine Infest or Spazz jamming with Khanate or Blacksun (not so slow but you get an idea). I'm totally hooked on this.
We played with these fuckers last night. Great show. Last song played (encore) was the second track from this EP, Exception to the Ruled. I was mad cuz I love that track. It was epic!!!!
"Colossamite was a mid-to-late 1990's mathrock band based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. They were one of the most prominent exponents of the genre. Colossamite's members included Nick Sakes (vocals, electric guitar), Ed Rodriguez (electric guitar), John Dietrich (electric guitar), and Chad Popple (drum set); the group had no bass player.Rather than relying, as most heavy metal bands, on guitar distortion to produce an intense sound, Colossamite instead often relied on very loud "clean" (undistorted) guitars, played dissonantly, in conjunction with vocals that were screamed rather than sung. Songs featured jarring shifts in tempo and mood, with the overall sound being extremely raw, heavy and often slow..." Taken from wikipedia
This is one of those bands you either like or you don't. With me it was love at first listen. This music is so captivating. Beautiful and ugly at the same time, it's like a dream and a nightmare all together. If you're into weird/smart stuff you should really check them out.
The EP is very good but more linear. More easy listening. I recommend listening to it first as a preparation for the album, which is pleasantly disconcerting. By far one of the most geniusly composed albums I ever heard.
Carnivorous Erection
Disrupt is a anarchist crust punk and grindcore band from Lynn, Massachusetts. Focusing in themes like police brutality, religion and politics this band has gained the cult status and became one of the best crust/grind bands (one of my personal favorites). Their line up suffered many changes trough time and the only all time member was Jay Stiles (vocals). They broke up after a tour in 1993 due to musicals diferences.
Doom were a crust punk band from Birmingham, England, which were together from 1987 to 1990. Despite its short existence, the band is considered pivotal in the rise of crust punk, a style within the punk rock subgenre that fuses extreme metal with anarcho-punk. They are considered early precursors of grindcore (Mick Harris (Napalm Death, Scorn, etc) was part of the band for a short time).
