Sunsplitter Live

Law of the Rope - Beasts Will Have You

Super crazed, frantic, and (literally) insane sounding black metal from three individuals (women, i think?) hailing from LA. Sure, the music (mostly the vocals) is weird enough that it was probably made by some art students who were making coco rosie clone tunes back in '05, but who cares? Sometimes you need those people to come into your xenophobic room of desolation and shake shit up a bit.

Here.

Young Bear

Check out these sweet pictures of my buddy Cody's band Young Bear. If you're into ultra pretty, heavy and oppressive drone/ambient stuff, listen to Young Bear. And if you live in Seattle, go see him live. I mean it.

The West was Nothing...

I just finished compiling and mixing an old TTMOA demo, "The West was Nothing but a Dead Beast". The recordings are from february of 2008. They make up half of the the new TTMOA demo compilation tape i'll be putting out soon called "Exorsa". They're not fully mastered or anything yet, but they're available to listen to/download over at the last.fm site here.

Gnaw Their Tongues - An Epiphanic Vomiting of Blood

I've already posted one Gnaw Their Tongues album back in july. I didn't know how to properly describe it then, and i still don't. It's pure terror. Slow and fast at the same time. Complete depravity. Totally disturbing and awe-some. Or awe-ful.

Here.

*repost from 3/30/10*

Current 93 - Of Ruine or Some Blazing Starre

Current 93 have gone through a lot of changes throughout their/his (david tibet's) history: being, in the beginning, an industrial band of the early/mid eighties type (and my personal favorite, at least of the small amount of industrial that i've heard), then, as if purposely changing his pace to usher in the new decade, grandfathering the very ambiguous genre of 'neo-folk' alongside other famous changeling Death in June. This particular album came out in 1994 and is a great starting point for anyone that doesn't know Current 93. My mind changes all the time, but i currently think that 'Of Ruine...' is his most beautiful, most organic, most real and most haunting album. Not very experimental (at least compared to some of his output), just simple acoustic guitar passages played by michael cashmore, and stephen stapleton (of nurse with wound) providing all other musical decorations and din. Tibet's vocals, although beautiful in their own right, can be a bit surprising and maybe even grating to the uninitiated, so be prepared. He doesn't really sing, so much as speak semi-melodically. His lyrics are what do me in, though. He's like watching a crazy corner prophet who believes in what he says so desperately that he winds up convincing you that it's all real; and it is real, every last word.

Here.

*repost from 3/29/10*

Andrew Wilkes-Krier

These are the two best releases by Andrew Wilkes-Krier:


"Ancient Art of Boar - Terrestrial Optical Resonance Resistors" is total mid-nineties style noise. Over-blown recordings of metal on metal banging, weird outsider keyboards, and some electronics with a teenaged Andrew yelling about something on top of it. Harsh and improvised, but full of fantastic subtleties that seems to be lost on this current generation of bored suburban noise makers.

Screee!

This record is the most fun you will ever have in your life. I can't stress that enough.

Get wet!

*repost from 2/25/10*

Nadja - Bliss Torn from Emptiness

I got to see Nadja about two years ago open up for Asunder in Seattle. I haven't listened to them since then, mostly because their live show was so impressive and utterly crushing that i didn't think they're recorded output could match it. But then i found this. I wasn't prepared for what was to come. It's a sasquatch of a record - giant walls of sound, lurching percussion, completely fuzzed out, frightening and beautiful at the same time. Totally recommended.

Here.

*repost from 2/5/10*

Lachrymal Quietus - Days of Being Aflame

I stumbled upon this guy's myspace on a completely unrelated google search. His name sounded cool so i clicked on it and it blew me away. At the core of his songs there is an undeniable sense of needing to run and not being to move at the same time. He sounds like Hank Williams, Sr., Scott Kelly, and Aidan Baker formed like Voltron, bedroom music-style. Now go pour some more vodka in your coffee and get totally bummed.

Here.

*repost from 1/19/10*

Om - God Is Good

This is a new release, and really easy to find, so why am i putting this up? Much like the Graves at Sea & Asunder post, this was one of my Christmas presents, so i'm sharing it with you. Om was ex-members of Sleep (the bassest and drummer), though recently the drummer left and was replaced by the drummer from Grails. So, there you have it. I don't need to say anything else. Get stoned and listen to this at night really loudly.

Here.

*repost from 12/29/09*

Ten Thousand Miles of Arteries - Holy Monuments E.P.

This is an album i made in 2006. I never properly released it, i just gave it to some friends. Hopefully i'll make some real copies soon enough and then you can say that you heard it way before your friends did and that's what makes you so much cooler than them.

Indulge me.

Wold - Screech Owl

Here's some more wintery blackness for you. Unlike the the haunting beauty of Paysage D'hiver's music, though, Wold gives nothing but the harshest winds blowing straight into your frostbitten face. Sure, sounds interesting now, but Wold is definitely not for everyone. In fact, most people kinda hate them. That being said, they're one of my favorite bands. Decide for yourself.

Here.

Gnaw Their Tongues - ...Spasming and Howling, Bowels Loosening and Bladder Emptying, Vomiting Helplessly

I have a hard time describing this band. It's slow and heavy and scary as shit. Go get paranoid.

Here.

Gnaw Their Tongues - ...Spasming and Howling, Bowels Loosening and Bladder Emptying, Vomiting Helplessly

I have a hard time describing this band. It's slow and heavy and scary as shit. Go get paranoid.

Here.

Hell Hall - There Were Two of Us, But I Had To Kill the Other One

Spacious, empty and desolate are the only ways i can describe this amazing cd. This is Ben Hall's (of Graveyards fame) solo effort, comprised entirely of percussion. I'd like to think it was secretly being recorded in the abandoned funeral home that Ben thought he was alone in. Probably not, but we can all dream. Enjoy.

Here.