Struck By Lightning

Hailing from Columbus, Ohio these guy's debut album offers us a meeting point of His Hero Is Gone and High on Fire. It features Mouth of the Architect's former vocalist Greg Lahm.

Serpents (2009)
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Kowloon Walled City

Dwelling somewhere between Sludge and Noise Rock San Francisco's Kowloon Walled City deliver us their debut album.

Gambling on the Richter Scale (2009)
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Litany for the Whale

From Santa Rosa, California comes this debut EP by Litany for the Whale, hardcore/crust as if Cursed and Converge combined.

Dolores (2009)
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Barebones

Cool rock'n'roll in the line of Heavy Rocks and Pink (from Boris).

Back In Your Black (2007)
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Mind Eraser

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.

Glacial Reign (2006)

Parlamentarisk Sodomi

"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

Black Elk

"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

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Riff Cannon

Gotta love this band name. Riff Cannon come from Boston, Massachusetts and play sludgy stoner/doom with some post-rock ambients.
"......Riff Cannon create similarly killer, Sabbathian sludge......I was honestly left craving more from this quartet, so strong is the material here........Strong and memorable composition.......with varied, solid influences such as Electric Wizard and Thin Lizzy, what’s there not to like? "

Mercury Mountain
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