MAIN STRIKE

"mir, trud, ad"
Year:  2013
Country:  Russia
City:  Saint Petersburg
Label:  Stoned Steel
Format:  CD
Tracks:  17
Time:  33 min.
Lyrical themes:  social issues, politics
Genre:  rock
Style:        Grindcore

i still wonder with this russian band and its excellent sound and high technical level. grindcore rich in different influences such as: hardcore, punk, thrash metal, doom metal, etc. this is its second work and after they recorded an split. highly recommended

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ICONS OF FILTH

"nostradamnedus"
Year:  2002
Country:  UK
City:  Cardiff, Wales
Label:  Go kart
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  13
Time:  34 min.

Genre:  rock
Style:        Punk

Previously named Mock Death and Nuclear Filth, Icons Of Filth was formed 1979 in Cardiff, UK. Despite the band's extensive touring and recording schedule, they drifted apart in 1985. They remained on hiatus many years until 2001, which yielded a new album nostradamnedus" and a return to touring, though this was cut short when unfortunately, vocalist Stig suffered a heart attack and passed away shortly after a gig in London on October 23rd 2004. Following two benefit performances for Stig's children, Icons Of Filth was disbanded until 2019, where Icons Of Filth reformed. Despite all these years this album is actually a continuation of usual Icons of Filth style: dirty, unkempt, with a low technical level and quite poor sound production. Their typical dirty sound of early 80s decade with intelligent and highly political lyrics related to: anarchism, ecologism, internationalism, anti-war, etc.

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"onward christian soldiers"
Year:  1984
Label:  Mortarhate
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  16
Time:   30 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Punk

The band started in 1979 as the majority of british punk bands and disbanded in 1985. They firstly recoreded two EP's until 1984 when they recorded this full lenght album entitled "Onward Christian Soldiers" through label "Mortarhate Records". Neither fast punk hardcore nor classic 77 punk rock, but a balance between both andlyrically inspired by anarchist and pacifist bands such as: CRASS, Subhumans, Conflict, Dirt, etc.

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MINUTEMEN

"the punch line"

Year:  1981

Label:  SST

Format:  CD, LP

Tracks:  19

Time:  15 min.

Genre:  rock

Style:        Punk Jazz

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"what makes a man start fires"
Year:  1982
Country:  US
Label:  SST
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  19
Time:  30 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Punk Jazz





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"Double nickels on the dime"
Year:  1984
Country:  US
City:  San Pedro, CA
Label:  SST Records
Format:  CD , 2 x LP
Tracks:  43
Time:  40 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Punk Jazz

if What Makes a Man Start Fires? was a remarkable step forward from the Minutemen's promising debut album, The Punch Line, then Double Nickels on the Dime was a quantum leap into greatness, a sprawling 44-song set that was as impressive as it was ambitious. While punk rock was obviously the starting point for the Minutemen's musical journey (which they celebrated on the funny and moving "History Lesson Part II"), by this point the group seemed up for almost anything -- D. Boon's guitar work suggested the adventurous melodic sense of jazz tempered with the bite and concision of punk rock, while Mike Watt's full-bodied bass was the perfect foil for Boon's leads and drummer George Hurley possessed a snap and swing that would be the envy of nearly any band. In the course of Double Nickels on the Dime's four sides, the band tackles leftist punk ("Political Song for Michael Jackson to Sing"), Spanish guitar workouts ("Cohesion"), neo-Nortena polka ("Corona"), blues-based laments ("Jesus and Tequila"), avant-garde exercises ("Mr. Robot's Holy Orders"), and even a stripped-to-the-frame Van Halen cover ("Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love"). From start to finish, the Minutemen play and sing with an estimable intelligence and unshakable conviction, and the album is full of striking moments that cohere into a truly remarkable whole; all three members write with smarts, good humor, and an eye for the adventurous, and they hit pay dirt with startling frequency. And if Ethan James' production is a bit Spartan, it's also efficient, cleaner than their work with Spot, and captures the performances with clarity (and without intruding upon the band's ideas). Simply put, Double Nickels on the Dime was the finest album of the Minutemen's career, and one of the very best American rock albums of the 1980s. (*REVIEW by Mark Deming).

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INTERMENT

"scent of the buried"
Year:  2017
Country:  Sweden
City:  Avesta
Label:  Goatgrind
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  10
Time:  40 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Death Metal

death metal band from Avesta, Sweden, formerly known as Beyond (1988-1990), since then Interment. The band has recorded until nowadays three albums and some EP's, all of them in the style called as "death'n'roll", so, a mix of death metal with other elements as hard rock, garage rock or punk rock in the vein of Entombed and other bands, besides from Sweden. Interment has make live concerts next to Metal bands as well as grindcore, hardcore and punk bands such as: Extreme Noise Terror, Doom, Blockheads, Infest, etc. This "scent of the buried" is specially recommended for those lovers of nor complicated neither complex death metal, but rather to quite simple, basic and direct music with touches of classic rock'n'roll and punk rock.

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BENÜMB

"soul of the martyr"
Year:  1998
Country:  US
City:  Oakland, CA
Label:  Relapse
Format:  CD
Tracks:  35
Time:  30 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Grindcore

The Oakland, CA based grindcore outfit BENÜMB emerged during the mid-1990s with a flurry of releases, the majority of them split singles and EPs recorded in conjunction with acts including: Apartment 213, Agoraphobic Nosebleed, Supression and Short Hate Temper. Upon signing to the Relapse label, BENÜMB issued the Gear in the Machine EP in 1997; the full-length Soul of the Martyr followed a year later. Withering Stands of Hope came in 2000. The last release at date was an split next to hardcore band Premonitions Of War (*Review by Jason Ankeny).

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VISION OF DISORDER

"idem"
Year:  1996
Country:  US
City:  New York
Label:  Warner
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  12
Time:  38 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Metalcore

Long Island, NY's Vision of Disorder built a large local following with its intense, socially aware blend of hardcore and thrash metal, leading to a contract with the Roadrunner Records-distributed Supersoul label. Guitarists Matt Baumbach and Mike Kennedy formed the band in 1992 with vocalist/lyricist Tim Williams, drummer Brendon Cohen, and bassist Mike Fleischmann. Fleischmann quickly left the band, which performed without a bass player and achieved a measure of local success due to their energetic live shows, at which point Fleischmann returned. Their first break came in 1995, when they had a track featured on the New York's Hardest compilation and released a 7" entitled Still. Their self-titled debut was released in 1996; Imprint followed two years later, and in 1999 the group resurfaced with For Bleeders. In 2002 they disbanded but reunited in 2012 until nowadays, active, touring and recording new songs.

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"razed to the ground"
Year:  2015
Label:  Candlelight
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  10
Time:  38 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Metalcore







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DISCROW

"Surveillance city"
Year:  2016
Country:  US
City:  Columbus, OH
Label:  none
Format:  CD
Tracks:  15
Time:  25 min.
Lyrical themes:  social issues, politics
Genre:  rock
Style:        Grindcore

There are a lot of things to like about this album. As a Nasum tribute, you’d be hard-pressed to find an effort better executed than this. And on a very basic level, it’s both very hard and very easy to mess up grindcore. Hard because with such a basic template to work from, any band should be able to take their own voice and make it fit in some cool way. Easy because many bands seem to fail at this. Unrest succeeds, from the riffs, to the vocals, even to the subject matter- there is so much to praise about Grindcore.

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SICKBAG

"Destructure & disgrace"

Year:  2010

Country:  France

City:  Paris

Label:  DAC Prod.

Format:  CD

Tracks:  19

Time:  60 min.

Genre:  rock

Style:        Grindcore

French technical grindcore band with influences from bands like Napalm Death, Misery Index, Dying Fetus, Brutal Truth or Neurosis. They formed in 2003 and put out their first EP, "A perfect world of shit", in 2004 after a demo, in 2003, "Vomiting reflex". They then shared a split album with three french grindcore bands, Disaster, Elysium and Desecrator followed by the album "Bushido codex", in 2006 on Deformeathing Productions. Their latest album, is "Shade Among Shades" on the Destructure label in 2010. In 2010 ukrainean label "DAC Productions" released this album with nineteen songs with a nice artwork plus booklet.

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