THE EXPLOITED "LIVE & LOUD" as part of ''THE PUNK COLLECTORS SERIES''

THE EXPLOITED - "LIVE AND LOUD"
("Anagram Records"; CD):

I love this band and they had been one hell of an important band for me, musically and lyrically, and I will always hold them dear to my heart no matter what all the nutjobs from the left to the right may agitate against them and how far they will run their shithole mouths about them. This is a very old album from 1993 that used to push me back then in the days through even the worst school weeks and it was and is a non-regular album release and like the title pretty well says it it is a live album. It features a big bunch of their infamous classicks from their legendary debut "PUNK'S NOT DEAD" to their "HORROR EPICS" slasher and this means that it also covers songs of their two maybe most prominent albums "TROOPS OF TOMORROW" and "LET'S START A WAR". So this means that we get hard, fast, loud, heavy and aggressive U.K. '82 Hardcore Punk of its very, very best straight in our faces. Raging and sawing angry and aggressive guitar work, in-your-face screaming and spitting damn charismatic vokillz, a brutal beating and cracking bass at work and pounding and stomping massive drum playing, and all cultivated with that special battle-scarred and gladiatorial as well as sick and morbid atmosphere that always was a trademark of THE EXPLOITED that also always set them far ahead of other also great legends of this era and style of Punk like fo example the mighty G.B.H., yes, and that's why we always talk about the almighty THE EXPLOITED. All made round by the typical "Anarchy!", "Chaos!", "Violence!", "Riot!", "A.C.A.B.!", "Punk!", and also "Sex!" in your face beating and screaming lyrics, a very cool raw and dirty recording sound, and a nice artwork, ah, and that the tracks/songs are taken from different concerts and/or are compiled a little bit different then they seemed to have been played by the band at the concerts don't really damages anything here. Some tracks featured on this one are for example "LET'S START A WAR", "COP CARS", "HITLER'S IN THE CHARTS AGAIN", "ALTERNATIVE", "U.K. '82", "TROOPS OF TOMORROW", "SEX AND VIOLENCE", "DAILY NEWS", "S.P.G.", "EXPLOITED BARMY ARMY", and "I BELIEVE IN ANARCHY". You see, non-stop nothing but amazing immortal anthems of this awesome band. So, yes, I don't know if and when from where the hell you still can get this album but if you see it somewhere still being around waiting to be bought by you then you should really desperatly make sure to finally grab it. Great stuff and a great band!!! I love this shit!!! CHAOS!!! Oi! (9 of 10 points)

(http://www.myspace.com/officialtheexploited)

If you like this crap then you're reading the wrong blog, period.

DELERIUM - "VOICE EP - AN ACOUSTIC COLLECTION"

("Network Music Group" / "Sonic Seducer Magazine"; CD):

Here's the next CD (and also a CD EP) where I wonder why the hell some may think they could make me a pleasure with giving me stuff like this as a gift... strange world we live in... Okay, like you all see this is also some sort of a "SONIC SEDUCER" release and it really seems like this magazine now-a-days also owns its very own record label or at least record distribution company. But also with this one here I don't know if it just came as a free promo CD garnish of an issue of the magazine or if this one here is also in one form or another a CD EP of the commercial kind that you can go and buy if you want to. I really don't know it. Anyhow... And as you all also may can think by now, this here is again to be located somewhere on the Gothic or what-the-fuck-else-ever side of music. Okay, first of all I wonder what should be anyhow dark here at all, and then I wonder also why to name this here any different then what it is and this is nothing else than just melancholic and 'bitterly' sweet Pop music, nothing else, and even not really anyhow good Pop music. An 'angel-like' whispering sweet female lead singing voice, relaxed chilled laid back beats and some other more or less acoustic twee gew gaws frippery, you'll find many if not all stereotypes that you now may expect on this one here. Nah, I have enough of it, and I really don't know what to write here more, maybe just that this stuff here reminds me more of mainsteam superficial snuggle chart pop shit than of anything else and even this music proclaims to be oh so packed up full with emotions, feelings and passion, etc. pp. you (will) find nothing of this in here so don't just search for anything of it. Ah, and just for the record, the artwork is okay and the production sound also, too. It's hard to believe that this really shall be the band that was formed back then in 1987 or so as a side-project of the pretty FRONTLINE ASSEMBLY, hard to believe... But after all and all in all: Nah, fuck it, this is junk, musically and lyrically, and maybe it could be possible that if you like this stuff and comparable shit then you're reading the wrong blog, period. (0 of 10 points)

(http://www.myspace.com/delerium)

Belgian Wave'n'EBM'n'what-so-else-the-bloody-fuck-ever...

ABSOLUTE BODY CONTROL - "SORROW"

("Daft Records" / "Sleepless Berlin" / "Sonic Seducer Magazine"; CD):

Okay, this is a strange sort of music for me to listen to and maybe I should ask myself why the hell ever friends of mine think to make me a pleasure with bestowing me stuff like this. Okay, I also always stood for the fact that I love THE SISTERS OF MERCY and that this very band is one of my total favorites of all time (no matter what specific particular music genre now may come to your mind) and that I also once liked (and sometimes in some cases still like) to listen to some Gothic'n'Wave and also some Industrial (and Techno Metal) styled stuff no matter of which specific sort it ever may be like for example such different favorite acts of this genre of me like THE 69 EYES, MINISTRY, KMFDM, NEW ORDER, TYPE 0 NEGATIVE, DIE KRUPPS, DAS ICH, GOETHES ERBEN, THEARTRE OF TRAGEDY, TIAMAT, and some only very few other bands like this may demonstrate (to) ya and I also always stood for it, no problems with that, but I'm really totally not familiar with this kind of music and that simply because of the simple fact that it never was, that it isn't and that it will never be a sort or genre of music that offers me something precious with weight that really gives me something (or at least anything at all) and so don't expect that much knowledge of this sort of music presented here in and with this review. So, yes, that's it, so now okay and onward to the review of this record: This CD was a bestowment (don't know if I really should say thanks anyway) and for all what I do see I would say that this was a free garnish or something like this of one of the last issues of the "SONIC SEDUCER" magazine (for all what I know- and that's not much when it's about this kind of music- it's together with the "ZILLO" magazine the longest and best established Gothic etc. pp. magazine at least here in Germany) or this zine now-a-days also owns its own record label recording company, who knows, but if not that's here some sort of a Promo CD or so. Okay, anyhow, ABSOLUTE BODY CONTROL is a duo from Belgium that's dedicated to some dark 'gothy' and especially 'wavy', melancholic Electronical Music, and so maybe we should all call it EBM (which means, at least if I'm right with that, Electronic Body Music and is maybe to describe as something like the dark variation of Techno music for the black dressed depressed and melancholic dudes called Goths and their specific sort of retarded slow-assed style of dancing to their music). So, okay, we get at all six songs but this songs are in fact four songs at all, "INTO THE LIGHT", "SATURNIA CALLING", "SHATTERED ILLUSION" and the title track "SORROW" that comes here on this one to us in three different (mostly remix/-ed) versions like btw all tracks on this one here come in remix(/-ed) versions, so that this is a remix CD EP. But after also the official EP version of "SORROW" (the only regular released song version on this one here) is also a through and through electronical affair or 'just' an EBM track the above mentioned genre description of EBM (or something like this) is a correct one. Anyhow, mostly relatively (strong) releaxed partial one upon the other laid beats and some ''sinister'n'dark'' sound dalliances and baubles and other accessorily atmospheric instrumentations are added to it to create a at most as possible close networked and condensed 'aimed to be dark' atmosphere and maybe it's also all done pretty good but if you ask me then it all just works out only with one song and that's the opener of this CD EP and that's the (official) EP version of the title track of the name of "SORROW". This one is really a cool and also a truly damn good song, I won't argue on this with anyone, but the rest is more or less terrible and bloody lethargic electronical music crap without any heart or soul or passion and also without any dynamic or energy or power and force or 'just' story-telling-abilities. The artwork of this disc is okay but also nothing special anyway (ah, btw, the cover is originally halted in black and yellow and I don't know why my scanner is spoiling it all and didn't get it done to scan it in the original colors), the lyrics are what you may expect to get from a band of this kind respectively out of this genre with song titles like "SORROW", "INTO THE LIGHT", "SATURNIA CALLING" and "SHATTERED ILLUSION", and the production sound is pretty okay. So, yehp, I know that I'm not in the target audience of this band and music, ha, and you know what, I'm damn happy about it. So, yehp, I don't know if you are into this kind of music and if you are so a part of the target audience of ABSOLUTE BODY CONTROL and acts like this, hm, then maybe check it out because maybe then this is some somehow anyhow anyway good stuff or at least something comparable to this but if not then... Okay, let me say it this way: I think it's good that this CD is more or less for free because I wouldn't waste a single cent on this one, period. (1 of 10 points)

(http://www.myspace.com/absolutebodycontrolbelgium)

A little something to listen to over the summer...

IN FLAMES - "EIGHT SONGS"

("Century Media Records" / "Fighter Streets Records" / "Rock Hard Magazine"; CD):

This is a new promotional album CD by the swedish 'megasellers' of IN FLAMES. This CD comes as a free garnish of the current issue of the german "ROCK HARD" magazine and maybe it's for you a reason (or another reason) to buy it but maybe also not and if you're anyhow interested in it you may just choose to grab this CD anyhow and take it with you... Who knows? Anyhow, back in the 1990's IN FLAMES became totally over the top going Metal 'megasellers' with their melodic Death Metal the swedish trademark and style (or Göteborg Death Metal) and together with DARK TRANQUILITY they became something like the pioneers of what we today can maybe call the second wave of swedish Death Metal (second, after DISMEMBER, ENTOMBED, UNLEASHED, etc. pp.) and especially IN FLAMES really grew big and bigger over the last nearly two decades, from their breakthrough album "THE JESTER RACE" to their current full length album release "SONGS OF A PLAYGROUND FADING" (for all what I know released recently this month/-s), hm, and I have to admit that I really "NEVER!" was a fan of IN FLAMES, no: "NEVER!". But I have also to admit that things really changed heavily and what IN FLAMES do today is quite different compared with what they've done back then. From the sweet and catchy and totally annoying 'poppy' Girly Death Metal they seemed to have moved into a heavy yet still pretty melodic Modern Metal or Metalcore music direction (and this 'seems' not only so), all on a pretty high level of quality but also all maybe not oh too creative and stand-alone to judge by the two brandnew songs featured here on this one. Maybe some hardknock fans would still discuss it controversy (but after the change of direction was also started some albums and so many years back in time maybe only some total morons would start this 'controversial discussion' still today), maybe the Metal and or Metalcore writers would (or will) write about some oh so fresh and creative new wind blowing and howling through your speakers, hm, but I have just to say that this here is really good done stuff but it's also nothing anyone should give only one of his/her legs for. It's pretty funny that beside the almighty AT THE GATES also a band like IN FLAMES was undeniable a very important influence for the Metalcore and/or Modern Metal 'superstars' of today like for exapmle KILLSWITCH ENGAGE and also SOILWORK, and that now it seems like things have changed to 180° and that now the once influenced became the influence for the once that were back then primarly the source of influence. (I hope you know what I mean...) And if you like this bands in particular and other bands like this in general then you will also like (if not love) the new material that IN FLAMES give us here (at least via two new songs). Nice rhythm arrangements with some good and clever twists and turns in the structure and architecture of the songs, very heavy yet damn catchy and melodic guitar work (powerful and distorting riffs go hand in hand with symphonic goosepimple leads and some nice solo parts), great forceful work of the rhythm section, all settled together by damn good songwriting, all pretty interesting and grapping arranged and structured, and to play their instruments IN FLAMES use to know anyhow for many, many years already now. All made round by the typical ingredients of the Modern Metal and/or Metalcore genre that you may like or not but that all of you should know already pretty good anyway. Without a doubt it's all really, really good done and it all just sounds not all too enthusiastic because it's pretty much heard over and over again in some today only a little bit varying variations also if you're not a fan at all of Metalcore and Modern Metal (and I'm by myself not a fan of this music after all) so that I really don't know what to write here more and on. We get two brandnew songs ("DELIVER US" and "ENTER TRAGEDY") and both are really good stuff with a more sinister and melancholic, a pretty intense feeling to it and lyrics that are also probably some stuff like this (sinister and melancholic) but aren't printed and so I won't say anything definite, and then we get six more old songs, "DISCOVER ME LIKE EMPTINESS", "OUR INFINITE STRUGGLE", "DEAD ENTRY", "ANOTHER DAY IN QUICKSAND", "ONLY FOR THE WEAK" (live) and "CLOUD CONNECTED" (live), and I like especially "DISCOVER ME LIKE EMPTINESS" and "OUR INFINTE STRUGGLE" that are both pretty forceful smashers, and also the two live songs are really great stuff coming with a lot of nice suprises like the (pretty good done) clean vocals and so on. The lyrics are what seem typical today for IN FLAMES (what-ever this now may mean, especially after I'm and I was everything but a fan on this band), and the artwork looks pretty cool as well as the production sound hits the score. So, you see, for fans of the band or the mentioned bands and genres this one here (and so the new full length of IN FLAMES) should be necessary stuff but also all other interested in Modern Metal or Metalcore or modern metallic heavy yet melodic music in general should risk an ear here anyhow by grabbing this CD or buying the "ROCK HARD" issue or something like this and so I would say that this promotional CD at the end of the day truly fullfilled its destiny. Ah, btw, after I lost IN FLAMES after their "COLONY" release at the end of the 1990's or so totally out of sight (but not because I thought or think this album was or would be total garbage, no, instead of this I would still name it a pretty good album, no, but this band and I never found together- or I found never to this band and never will- and so I lost totally any at all even pretty small interested in them and lost them totally out of sight) I really have to admit that the development that they've taken is really a impressive one, respect for this anyhow. (8 of 10 points)

(http://www.myspace.com/inflames)

(http://www.inflames.com/)

We're looking at the world through a barrel of a gun? Are you ready? ...

Yes, last post for today (and this very week) and now comes a 'Videos' posting for ya with that I want to give ya one of the great old UK Punk bands that rule since the late 1970's without any weak periods, and here and now this means the great and legendary UK SUBS and you get now my personal favorite of them (musically and lyrically) and this is no other song than their awesome anthem "WARHEAD". The music is just great British Punkrock music of its very best and with a special feeling to it and a certain spirit in it and creating just a great intense atmosphere that oh so many Punk bands of today fail over and over again to do so. And the lyrics are outspoken and just totally great, pissing off any sides and speaking wise words of truth and wisdom and are today even more true then back then and also this is why you finally get with this post the lyrics of the song again (after the clip) and so now just enjoy this great band and song and then I wish ya all a good night because now finally I will go to bed and fall hopefully pretty soon a-sleep. Cheers & Oi!

U.K. SUBS - "WARHEAD"

U.K. SUBS - "WARHEAD" (the lyrics):

Soldiers of Islam are loading their guns

They're getting ready
but the Russian tanks are mowing them down
They're getting ready
There's children in Africa with tommy guns
Getting ready
While the Islam armies are beckoning on
They're getting ready

[Chorus]
There's a burning sun
And it sets in the western world
But it rises in the east
And pretty soon
It's gonna burn your temples down

While the heads of state are having their fun
Are they ready?
We're looking at the world through the barrel of a gun
Are we ready?
And you stand there beating on your little war drum
Are you ready?
And it won't be long before your time has come
Are you ready?

[Repeat Chorus]

[Repeat Chorus]

Warhead, warhead, warhead
Warhead, warhead, warhead
Warhead, warhead, warhead
Warhead, warhead, warhead

Well I don't know what it is but i feel something coming
Stuck in the middle of the Yankees and the Russians
Better get moving guns are getting loaded
Fast to the border where the tanks are a rolling
There's a nation in fear another nation crying
One nation killing and another nation dying
Talk about guns and escalation bye bye planet let alone a nation

HOST from Leeds - UK Hardcore Machinery 2011

HOST - "DEMO 2011"
("D.I.Y."; MP3-Download):

Here's a promising new and young Hardcore band from out of the UK, to say it more precise these roughnecks from HOST hailing out of the city of Leeds and they are showcasing us a great case of UK Hardcore finally seem to claiming its crown again. This is their current demo DIY release (and maybe also their debut release overall, but that I just can't tell ya that precise) and it's released (also or maybe solely, I don't know it by now, too) as an official and for free download via the Bandcamp site of the band (the link will close this very review here, as usual in cases like this) and it's again because of the great "THANKS, IT CAME AS A SET" (http://thanksitcameasaset.blogspot.com/) blog that I stumbled over this band (so "Thanx!" for that!!!), and so without any more 'stoppings' we will come to the review, yehp, that's it, so here it goes: HOST are (like I've already mentioned at the beginning of this review) a very promising and more than 'just' a damn good band. They play a massive and very bully and bulky, damn fucking hard'n'heavy and truly aggressive Hardcore style of the metallic New School kind and all is filled up with a huge Sludge Core the EYE HATE GOD style and sort of sound and not to forget some few but certain Grindcore reminiscences and also some nice swedish Old School Death Metal reminiscences when it's about the guitar riffing (think about ENTOMBED somewhere between the "LEFT HAND PATH", "CLANDESTINE" and "WOLVERINE BLUES" masterpieces of them). If you like your guitar work hard and angry, noisy and mean, crushing and devastating, your rhythm section as massive pound for pound working as it only can be, and your vocals aggressive and neurotic and really damn pretty extreme, yes, then don't think twice but get this one here instaed of just complaining that you've missed something really dfamn good at the end of the day. The songwriting is already a damn good and pretty cool affair, interesting and grapping and very skillful, and the production sound is already damn proffesional (it sounds truly not like a D.I.Y. demo release), and to play on and with their instruments HOST do know more than 'only' damn good, as well as the weird and sick cover motife really rocks. The lyrics aren't part of the download (what's a pity) and I can't tell ya exactly something precise about them but I would bet that we get some pretty sinister and heavy stuff. We get all in all three songs, and the only minus points are the facts or 'points' that it's just too short on running time and on material we get from them and that the band seems to stuck in between the decision if they want to go more into the Hardcore or more into the Sludge Core direction and that HOST currently lack a little bit the 'own identity' to solve this 'problem' in a stand-alone way like SNAKEDRIVER (just for example) did it lately. But this is all what there is to say about the maybe minus points of this one here and I really believe that all this little issues will be solved by HOST in the (hopefully very near) future. I recommend this to all of you out there that are into truly damn good and forceful Hardcore (as well as Sludge Core) music and I really hope to hear very soon more of them. Another band we should really keep an eye on this very year. So, yes: Check it out!!! (8 v. 10 P.)
(http://www.facebook.com/pages/HOST/156677597728757)
(Sorry, I was wrong, the download link comes without any Bandcamp site link but so it's just an MediaFire link and this one now comes here: http://www.mediafire.com/?ne7esd038beo4is)

NYC Skinhead Rock & Roll

Okay folks, it's about time to do finally at least a little post up here again and so I'll do it but it's damn late and I hate my alarm bell ringing in something like five hours tomorrow again and thinking about it makes me want to smash someone's head in because damn it I really desperatly need the weekend. Now you get a great live clip of the almighty 45 ADAPTERS (you know them, one of the best Skinhead Rock & Roll bands ever and one of the very best NYC Skin bands still around today, and don't miss the interview I've done back then with them and all the best greetings from me going out to the guys in the band), and you see them playing their great anthem "NOT ONE MORE DAY" (the title track of their debut 7'' and this one as well as their second 7'' I also reviewed back then up here, and you need to call both your very own, and I'm desperatly looking forward to see finally a full length album of them coming out) and it's also a damn great performance. So just check it out and then soon more again. Sleep well tonight and Cheers & Oi!, Andy!!!

45 ADAPTERS - "NOT ONE MORE DAY" (live)

San Antonio Stoner Doom Rock Metal by RAPID EXPANSION

RAPID EXPANSION - "RAPID EXPANSION"
("D.I.Y."; MP3-Download):

First of all I have to say two things: 1.) Beside the 'fact' (I just write 'fact' instead of fact because this is something where I believe- and hope- that it's the truth and true but where I really honestly don't know it- and yes, I'm currently just too lazy to go surfing and ask the almighty Google gods for their helping hands... like I'm pretty often too lazy to do this stuff) that this band is coming from San Antonio I don't know anything about them; 2.) I (also) can't tell ya where, when and how I got aware of them but somehow for quite a while now already this two track demo of them is part of my harddisc. Ah, and one third thing I can also tell ya right here and now from the very first beginning: 3.) This one here is their 'newest' demo (and maybe their debut release, but this again is something that I just can't really tell you anyhow just because I don't have a single clou), through and through D.I.Y. stuff (for all what I know) and it was also or maybe even solely released as a MP3-Download officially and for free by the band itself and you can get it by downloading it from their Bandcamp site (and as usual in cases like this the link to this their Bandcamp site I will give ya as the closing line of this review). Yehp, and that's it with every possible introduction word(s) to them and it and so now here we go again and ahead (or what the fuck else ever): RAPID EXPANSION are a (for all what I know or- maybe better- for all what I think to know) San Antonio based band that's playing some very cool and suprisingly fresh Stoner Rock and Doom Metal cocktail with huge doses of some good old yet damn fresh'n'young Drone worked into it. We get two songs on this one here, the nearly eighteen to twenty minutes long "GROTESQUE" and the around three to four minutes long "THANKSGIVING DINNER". What's great is the fact that by looking at the- btw damn disgusting cover art- you might expect some neurotic and psychotic Doom Metal cultivated with huge doses of dopesick and (self-) aggressive Sludge Core and made round by heavy and sinister Stoner Rock and massive Drone components integrated in it all...: Ha, even some of the named styles of music (forget totally about the Sludge Core) are damn right and truly to be found in RAPID EXPANSION's music and also even it's really some damn heavy and very nice and very good droning (and also 'grooving', we shouldn't forget about this component) affair, and also huge doses of some psychotic'n'neurotic sickness are to be recognized without any doubts but it's all no heroin infected downward spiral posse and (like I've already mentioned) there's absolutely no crazed'n'dopesick Sludge (Core) to be heard here. Instead of this it's all really pretty buoyant, nimble-footed, dashing and detached especially for that specific kind of music. And that's also really pretty damn cool and exciting, also somehow some sort of some truly fresh stuff. The foundament of the music of RAPID EXPANSION is heavy and very grounded, down paced and down tuned Stoner Rock that's combined with hard and massive Doom Metal notes (pretty Old School, at least that's what I would say, and so also the riffing reminds me sometimes of the legendary BLACK SABBATH even it comes without that occult sinister atmosphere for what that band became groundbreaking and- for a lot of people back then- also lifechanging) and loud and long droning moments (especially if ya take some good listens to the guitar playing). Ah, and did I already mentione(d) that RAPID EXPANSION are (at least on this one here) a pure and through and through instrumental (playing) band (beside some- totally misplaced and also pretty disturbing- "Yiah!" and "Whooaa!" chants in "THANKSGIVING DINNER" no 'vocals' are to heard here on this one)? Nah, did I not so far, ha, but okay, at least latest now. So without vocals the songwriting and the work at and with the instruments gets pushed even more into the spotlight and especially the tight and also pretty fresh and lively varying songwriting (combined with above described for this genre(s) untypical kind of atmosphere that rules the songs) really is a great done job by the band and also the guitar riffing is really damn good (a massive wall of sound, between Rock'n'Doom and rockin' and groovin' and dronin' like hell) so that all is working pretty good at the end. The rhythm section does also a really good and better job, leaving no blank space open for 'holes in the songs' so that all is totally 'filled up'. So, all in all, just thumbs up for this band and release here even it all could have been done in some way somehow more grapping and 'long-time' fascinating as well as maybe somehow even more interesting (but maybe this is also just because I usually don't like only instrumental music no matter how good or bad or maybe even great it's all may done after all, this could be possible) if you ask me but anyhow this is a damn good release by a pretty promising band that I will try to keep an eye on seriously. If you like the above described type of music then I really recommend this band and their current two track demo honestly to you and you should really desperately check it out promptly. Damn good stuff, so check it out and I'm really looking forward to hear more from them!!! Ah, just for the record I'll close this one with saying that the artwork sucks, haha;-), and that the production sound really works out damn good, ah, and also just for the record, no vocals, no lyrics, and that's it. (8 of 10 points)

(http://rapidexpansion.bandcamp.com/album/rapid-expansion)

*** SNAKEDRIVER *** - *** Little Rock *** - *** Arizona *** - *** Sludge *** - *** Hardcore ***

SNAKEDRIVER - "DEMO 2011"
("D.I.Y."; MP3-Download):

This is some great shit that I discovered (once again) by reading the last months through the almighty "AVERSIONLINE" blog (and again I just got thje review ready and up so late, two months after getting the demo, fuck, I should maybe not so intense analyse the records I'm about to do reviews of... but maybe I shouldn't change the working schedule anyhow...) and there I saw and got the 2011 demo D.I.Y. recording (should be also the debut stuff) of this great band of the name of SNAKEDRIVER that comes from Little Rock in (I guess) Arizona (right?!?) and this here is also (maybe solely) released as MP3-Download, officially made up for free by the band itself and you can get it via visiting their Bandcamp page (and after this is official and for free you will get the download link at the end of this review, as usual in cases like this here and now). And if you ask me, ha, then you really need to have it, and that's a damn fucking fact!!! Okay, it's already pretty late and the next day of work is coming tomorrow far too soon and so I will try to keep it short this time, yehp, and so now here we go: SNAKEDRIVER play some damn great Sludge Core music that's blended and cultivated with a sick Blues feeling and plenty of Southern Rock and Metal marks to it (just listen to the guitar riffs) and is also enriched with a lot of Hardcore impressions (from fast raging and sometimes even grinding Up Tempo parts to 'fluffy' fist in the air slamdance moments to groovy Mosh parts and some very few and very, very dirty Beatdown notes the journey goes) and some very few Grindcore bloodshed also in it, not to forget some awesome PANTERA like Metal parts in it with that all is enriched. So that it really makes sense to not just only talk about Sludge or Sludge Core but of Sludge Hardcore, hm, and maybe also Sludge Hardcore Metal would make sense somehow... but I think with Sludge (Core) or better Sludge Hardcore all necessary is said. Dirty and heavy, 'groovy' as well as incredible angry and aggressive raging guitar riffing and some great lead and solo work by the guitars (remember the Southern attitude), this is really the center of SNAKEDRIVER's musick, as well as the damn charismatic sick and psychotic, neurotic and aggressive harsh scream vokillz (the lead singer also sings in DEAD CITY, if ya maybe know this band that could or should be interesting for all of ya). The rhythm section then is a phenomenal hard and incredible heavy, a damn massive and every thinkable resistance into the ground crushing war machine that pushes the music delivered here to us really acroos any boundaries and truly over every resistance, awesome shit. Also in this inferno we find also a lot of suprises and the songwriting abilities of SNAKEDRIVER are really above any doubts (just listen to the brilliant "MOON'S BLOOD", that's awesome), as well as their abilities as musicians in general. What is also damn great is the fact that the atmosphere and attitude is not just 'dopesick' but also damn battle scarred and gladiatorial and this is making this Sludge inferno even more great!!! The lyrics are some crazy sick great shit (not printed respectively not a part of the download but you get it when you listen intense to SNAKEDRIVER, and that- listen intense to them- you should do anyhow), the artwork looks great and the production sound is just pure dirty, earthy and crusty gold. So, yes, what shall I say more (remember that I'm trying to keep it short this time... but I think that so really I didn't managed to do so...), just get this great demo via the download through their Bandcamp site and I'm really, really hoping to get very soon far more to hear from them... very soon. Awesome shit that anyone interested in Sludge as well as Hardcore (in general) should check out, I highly recommend this stand-alone band to all of you. Get it!!! Now!!! Awesome!!! (10 of 10 points)

(http://www.facebook.com/pages/Snakedriver/119014244827287)

(http://snakedriver.bandcamp.com/)

... we're all already dead in this VIOLENT SOCIETY we're forced to live in ...

Yes guys, last post for now and you now get a little video clip of the great UNRECKONED of which I just have reviewed their via a download released "VIOLENT SOCIETY" titled debut DIY demo release so if you want to know more about them then watch the now coming clip and read the mentioned review (it's the post before this one which means that you'll find the post as the next one following this one here if you scroll down your screen) and then you will know what's so great at and with this band, UNRECKONED from Chicago, and, yehp, and latest then download and fucking enjoy it. That shall be all for now, and now I'll watch "ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK" to its fin and finally go to bed to sleep a little bit more than the last night. And now, enough words, turn your speakers loud and mosh the fuck up!!! HARDCORE!!! FIST!!!

UNRECKONED - "VIOLENT SOCIETY"

"Bitch just the shut the fuck up and then now just give me a bass line!"

UNRECKONED - "VIOLENT SOCIETY"
("D.I.Y."; MP3-Download):

Found this band and release while I was surfing through the web recently (A big "Thanx a lot one more time!" goes out to the great "THANKS, IT CAME AS A SET" blog that all of you should really check out regulary) and promptly downloaded it. This is a new band from the windy city of Chicago and (for all what I do know) this is their debut demo release and it's done completly via the D.I.Y. way and released solely (?) through an official and authorized free download from the Bandcamp page of UNRECKONED themselves (released recently in 2011, which means this year... I know... you know... anyway...). And after it's something totally by the authorized download affair I will (as usual) post also the link to the Bandcamp site of the band at the end of this review. What I heard took me by storm, UNRECKONED own the potential to become one of the strongest and most leading bands in the today's world of (more than 'just' good) Hardcore music, if they keep on working as focussed and as strong and on a such an (already incredible) high level of standard and quality like they do it here and when they get some of the attention they really need and (much more than this) totally damn deserve. UNRECKONED (I really don't know anything more yet about them so I'm very sorry but I just can't give ya anymore further informations about or to them) play some damn amazing fresh Hardcore cocktail out of classical NYHC reminiscences (think first about MADBALL, AGNOSTIC FRONT and also some 25 TA LIFE), a very good portioned dose of totally devastating Beatdowns (think about modern and somehow metallic up to date Beatdown Hardcore bands like for example UNIT 731), some pretty few 'sludgy' rhythm work and structure arrangements (that reminds you while you listen to them quite a bit of the almighty EYE HATE GOD) and some very fast paced raging up tempo punishments in between some old school Trash Core marks (think about legends like CRYPTIC SLAUGHTER, just for example) and maybe also (maybe even more) some good Powerviolence notes. In between this styles, NYHC, Beatdown Hardcore, Sludge and Trash Core or maybe better Powerviolence, with the NYHC and the Beatdown Hardcore taking the lead before the Sludge and the Powerviolence/Trash Core cocktail, there are UNRECKONED to be located and they do it all already more than just damn good, because this is nothing else than a great offering and an even greater early display of fidelity by them. The guitar work is really marking the songs very, very strong, with it's devastating down tuned sinister and ultra-heavy and über-brutal riffs and also rhythm force, and the extreme Hardcore Shouting vocals are pure gold and damn charismatic shit on a very, very high level of quality. The bass work is great and pretty present and some really hard and heavy and aggressive thing, and the drumming is pound for pound and beat for beat a brutal stomping military machinery that nearly explodes because of power, might and force. Awesome shit!!! The arrangements of the songs are cool and really grapping, so that this guys know how to play their instruments as well as they know how to write truly more than only very good songs. The lyrics seem to be some good and pretty massive affair (but aren't part of the download, and that's the reason why they only 'seem to be' this and that), the artwork is a great one, and the production sound is just damn good shit and sounds already pretty professional. The only problem I have with this release is that it just contains four songs (and a really great and pretty cool anyhow intro sample) in something like around ten minutes and this is simply far too less by this great, great band. I hope that we will pretty soon get more to listen to by UNRECKONED and until then you better start to get this amazing Hardcore monster with downloading it finally, and then just enjoy it. And, btw, don't you forget: "PLAY IT LOUD MOTHERF****R!!!" Damn great shit!!! I highly recommend this band and demo to everyone of you out there who knows about the greatness of Hardcore music. HARDCORE!!! FIST!!! (9 of 10 points)

(http://www.myspace.com/thisisunreckoned)

(http://www.facebook.com/pages/UNRECKONED/90926285414?sk=info)

(http://unreckonedhc.bandcamp.com/)

*** THE END OF FOREVER ***

Okay, after the review now comes a nice little 'Videos' posting to make you all known a bit more to 4 IN THA CHAMBER and you now get their (damn cool performance) video clip to their angry slasher "THE END OF FOREVER". This must be a later song of them and they've developed and improved even quite a bit more since their reviewed album and display a huge dose of influences of both genres, Beatdown Hardcore and Metalcore, integrated into their music. If you're a fan of 25 TA LIFE, FURY OF FIVE and also BIOHAZARD, as well as of SHATTERED REALM, TOETAG and also SWORN ENEMY you will be a fan of this stuff. Great shit!!! Check it out!!! Really a great band 4 IN THA CHAMBER used to be and it's a pity that they aren't anymore after I discovered them only some few years ago... Anyhow just you now enjoy this great song and band and cool clip. HARDCORE!!! FIST!!!

4 IN THA CHAMBER - "THE END OF FOREVER"

"BANG! THAT'S THE SOUND, THE SOUND MADE IN THE DARK! - BANG! THAT'S THE SOUND, THE SOUND OF A GUN SPARK! - BANG! THAT'S THE SOUND, THE SOUND OF A CHILD CRYING! - BANG! THAT'S THE SOUND, THE SOUND OF A DREAM DYING!"

4 IN THA CHAMBER - "EXISTENCE..."
("Kingfisher Records" / "SPV Distribution"; CD):

Okay, this record is now already quite a few years old, released (primarly) in the year of 2000 on the then pretty prominent "KINGFISHER RECORDS" label. To be honest then I have to admit that I have no further informations about 4 IN THA CHAMBER then that they've released this album in 2000 and that they came from the city of New York and that they had been one hell of a great Hardcore band (to say it precise: New York Hardcore) that (so my perception) had been treated totally underrated (or just had been unknown) because not really that much guys out there seem to know about them. Ah, and I also know by now that they are not around as an active proper band anymore (but don't ask me since when). I by myself more or less accidentially stumbled across this album some years ago just because of the fact that it was sold for a price of something like 3,00 Euro or so and so I just bought it due to the low price, the label and the nice describtion of what 4 IN THA CHAMBER would be doing. I got this album and it really knocked me heavily from my feet and totally convinced me because of their sheer force and great attitude and damn high level of quality of their music. 4 IN THA CHAMBER played a dark, heavy and sinister, brutal, harsh and violent, damn destructive and pretty metallic New York Hardcore with some huge Tough Guy impact in it to mark it all and some nice little pre-Beatdown Hardcore feeling to it. Especially the very dynamic and sheer forceful, astonishing hard and sheer pure impact style guitar work and the great lead vocals (between Hardcore shouting the throaty yet damn aggressive and brutal way on the one side, and some nice 'rappy' Spoken Word/-s notes on the other side) really mark the music strongly, and the rhythm section is just a pure massive (brick-) wall of sound and music. Just great!!! What's making this band and album so damn great (also still today) is the fact that the guys (beside the fact that they all used to be damn fucking good musicians) really knew how to write great grapping and damn interesting songs, full of clever arrangements, suprising twists and changes and some nice elements worked into it all that you wouldn't necessarily have expected to get to listen to from 4 IN THA CHAMBER. It's really a pleasure and also still pretty exciting to listen to this album also still today. 4 IN THA CHAMBER really managed to create something of their own and they created, occupied and ruled the alcove left open between the great 25 TA LIFE and the almighty FURY OF FIVE, and if you like both mentioned bands (how the fuck could you not?!?) then you will love 4 IN THA CHAMBER and their "EXISTENCE..." titled album here. You will love it like I do love it!!! The album comes with a big pack of really good, hard and heavy, violent and non-pc lyrics (especially a song like the larger-than-life opener anthem song "DRUG INDUCED MURDER" is the proof for this and really a statement), the production sound also stands the standards of up-to-date current Hardcore releases and (record) productions and the artwork is pretty cool at all (even I dislike the frontcovermotif, but that's just a matter of personal taste). So, if you still don't know and still don't own this band and album then you should change this circumstances promptly and damn fucking just get this great album piece of NYHC music.So get it!!! HARDCORE!!! FIST!!! (9 of 10 points)

(http://www.myspace.com/4inthechamber)
PS: I'm very sorry that I totally forgot to let 4 IN THA CHAMBER became a part of the 'New York Hardcore' tribute post that I've done back then in or over or during the last december, it was just that within all this bands I totally forgot this great band, and, yes, that's a pity and I say sorry for this mistake.

"HOPELESS NATION - NO FUTURE FOR YOU!!! HOPELESS NATION - NO FUTURE FOR ME!!!"

Puh, really damn tired day today, and damn it, I guess it's true and finally getting really pretty old, haha;-), but who cares, after I've got currently some little free time to spend and also after my addiction to WARZONE became stronger and stronger in the last time again (I damn love this band) I decided to give you again and the second time today a 'Videos' posting of them to pay this immortal legends some tribute and now you get their great 'streetpunky' anthem "HOPELESS NATION" (also again damn good lyrics) that you can find on their great "FIGHT FOR JUSTICE" titled final (album) release. So just check it now out, turn the speakers loud and enjoy it!!! Cheers & Oi! and "DANCE HARD OR DIE"!!!

WARZONE - "HOPELESS NATION"

"WAR BETWEEN RACES"

Hey folks, great saturday it truly was, just came home some minutes ago and even I'm now damn tired and really just want to go to bed and fall a-sleep I anyhow feel the need to finally bring something new (even it's only something very little) up and ready online here for you and this time it's (again) a nice little 'Videos' post and this one now finally brings again one of the best and most important and most influential and just one of the very few greatest ever bands up here for you and I talk about no-one-else than the legendary, unforgotten, immortal and just larger-than-life WARZONE and their total anthem "WAR BETWEEN RACES". This band really deserves more up here and one day it will finally come and this song also deserves more words about the message, the music, the lyrics, the release date and the releases it's featured on and much more stuff like this but currently here and now I really don't have the ressources left today (currently, at least) to do anything more up here so now just enjoy the clip and the song and then that will be all for now, even it's not anyhow enough to do justice to this band and song (I know it) but for now (I'm very sorry) that's all what's left in my tank for now, so now just enjoy it and then sleep well (or soon get up well, but I just wanna and will only sleep) and we will read us soon again!!! Cheers & Oi! and "DANCE HARD OR DIE!!!"

"WARZONE - "WAR BETWEEN RACES"