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12.16.2018

WAKE

"thought form descent"

Year: 2022

Label: Metal Blade

Format: CD, LP

Tracks: 12

Time: 50 min.

Genre: rock

Style: Death Metal

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"misery rites"
Year: 2018
Country: Canada
City: Calgary
Label: Translation loss
Format: CD, LP
Tracks: 9
Time: 26 min.
Lyrical themes: social issues, politics
Genre: rock
Style: Grindcore

"When it comes to grindcore, few bands these days can top the overwhelming barrage of wrath and aggression unloaded on the listener/spectator by Calgary’s WAKE. In a career spanning a mere seven years, this Canadian unit of aural assassins have brought terror and war to crowds all over the northern hemisphere, destroying venues across Europe and North America on multiple occasions, and establishing them selves as an infamous and unstoppable killing machine when it comes to performing live. In this sense the band’s name seems to perfectly match their nature within the live environment: leave nothing standing - level everything in an endless wake of terror and destruction. But WAKE are far from being only and aural cataclysm restricted to the live environment, quite the opposite, as the band has released a string of albums and splits that speak for them selves, and are just another horrifying statement of the violence and sheer aggression which nests inside the soul of this band, who mix grindcore with elements and influences such as: math rock, metalcore, sludge, etc.

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"sowing the seeds of a worthless tomorrow"
Year: 2016
Label: EveryDayHate
Format: CD, LP
Tracks: 8
Time: 26 min.
Lyrical themes: social issues, politics
Genre: rock
Style: Grindcore

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12.06.2018

MORROW

"the quiet earth"

Year: 2022

Label: Alerta Antifascista

Format: digital

Tracks: 6

Time: 40 min.

Genre: rock

Style: Prog Punk

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"fallow"
Year: 2018
Country: UK
City: London
Label: Alerta Antifascista
Format: CD, LP
Tracks: 5
Time: 44 min.
Genre: rock

Style: Prog Punk

Morrow formed in 2014 in London, UK, playing cello driven atmospheric emo-crust. The band features ex and current members of Fall of Efrafa, Anopheli, Carnist and Archivist. The band is a concept project based around a post apocalyptic earth reclaimed by nature. It shares this narrative with the band Archivist. Their songs are very long, huge, with complicated structures and constant rhythmic changes. Lyrically the band has an strong CRASS inspiration, dealing subjects such as: internationalism, ecologism, pacifism, anti-consumerism and anarchism.

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11.28.2018

WHAT WE FEEL

"hashi 14 words (re-issue)"
Year: 2018
Country: Russia
City: Moscow
Label: ANR Music
Format: CD, LP
Tracks: 14
Time: 33 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Hardcore

The band was formed in december of 2005 and included representatives of a three cities - Moscow, St. Petersburg and Ryazan. They are one of the few bands which exists on the territory of the former USSR, which does not copy popular western groups, but plays tough, acute social, daring music. Guys never wrote vague, non-committal texts. They always expressed their opinion about the things that happen in the city and country they live in the most clear way. They played already over 150 gigs, after lot of shows in post-USSR they have repeatedly traveled to Western Europe for benefit tours (Germany 2007, Germany 2008, Germany-France 2008, Bulgaria 2009, Europe tour 2009, two Europe tours 2010 and Siempre Antifascista Festival 2012 in Berlin as quasi reunion-gig). In every city in every country where they performed, they organized demonstrations of various films about the life of the russian underground and domestic antifa subculture, and arranged work-shops and debates devoted to those problems which subcultures and contercultures are concerned. What We Feel has always support the antifascist and autonomus scene.

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ASPHALT GRAVES

"the new primitive"
Year: 2016
Country: US
City: Richmond, VA
Label: Vitriol
Format: CD, LP
Tracks: 13
Time: 24 min.
Lyrical themes: social issues, politics
Genre: rock
Style: Grindcore

modern grindcore band featuring Jason Netherton (Misery Index, ex-Dying Fetus), Brent Purgason (GWAR, U.S. Bastards), Adam Faris, and Shannon Lucas (ex-Black Dhalia Murder).

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11.22.2018

DOWN AMONG THE DEAD MEN

"and you will obey me"
Year: 2018
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Label: Transcending Obscurity
Format: CD, LP
Tracks: 10
Time: 30 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Death Metal

This is the third album from Down Among the Dead Men, an international death metal supergroup, their members come from Sweden and Denmark. Formed by lead vocalist Dave Ingram (Benediction, Bolt Thrower) and guitarist Rogga Johansson (Paganizer, Ribspreader). Their musical style has been specified as "crust-riddled punk with a definite death metal edge", this is a mix of death metal 90's style plus some elements of crust-punk and d-beat, typical of scandinavian hardcore punk bands. This third album was issued on CD and LP format, and is highly recommended for those who usually dislike death metal.

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11.15.2018

EMMURE

"look at yourself"
Year: 2017
Country: US
City: New Fairfield, CO
Label: Sharp tone
Format: CD, LP
Tracks: 13
Time: 45 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Metalcore

Well. This was unexpected. After the immense disappointment of the new Suicide Silence "album", I never expected the mantle of best deathcore album of 2017 so far (in my opinion) to be taken up by Emmure. Look At Yourself, the bands 7th album, first with the new line-up (starring Josh Travis formerly of Glass Cloud and TTDTDE) was released on March 3rd on Sharptone Records, the new Sumerian for deathcore groups. The first track I want to dig into is Shinjuku Masterlord, which kicks off with an aggressive "I'm back!" as we delve into fairly typical riffs and vocals with some well done rapping by Mr Frankie Palmeri. Whilst this track and others like it don't really do anything different, the song is catchy, has a heavy breakdown etc. Smokey and Natural Born Killer, whilst heavy and somewhat catchy, don't have a lot of substance and depth, in part due to their short running time, which is probably my only real complaint of the record, but we'll get into that later. Flag of the Beast opens with screechy chords before kicking into high gear with Frankie roaring " I. Am. Your ***ing saviour!" I. Am. The ***ing Antichrist" which warrants an eye roll or 20. Ice Man Confessions opens with some ghostly notes and spoken word as it kicks into a chuggy, grooving chorus which is incredibly catchy. After that, the record starts to become old, but Torch and Gucci Prison, another of my favourite cuts, save the second half from becoming a glorified EP. I do have one glaring issue with the album, song length. The three 1 minute tracks could have easily been combined and the 2-3 minute running times don't give the tracks the breathing room I feel they needed. Gucci Prison is the longest track on the album, clocking in at just under 4 minutes, a rarity in Emmure's discography. Overall, I'd have to say that the leaving of the entire band in the back end of 2015 was exactly the boot up the ass Frankie needed to turn the band around. If this is the kind of quality we can expect from future releases, I'm going to start giving Emmure a lot more credit (*Review by John 7 ).

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11.14.2018

IGNITE

"call on my brothers"
Year: 1995
Label: Conversion
Format: CD, LP
Tracks: 16
Time: 30 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Hardcore

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"a place called home"
Year: 2000
Label: TVT
Format: CD, LP
Tracks: 13
Time: 40 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Hardcore

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"our darkest days"
Year: 2006
Country: US
City: Orange County, CA
Label: Century Media
Format: CD, LP
Tracks: 13
Time: 40 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Hardcore

Ignite is a melodic hardcore punk band from Orange County, California, USA that formed in 1993. Much of their music is socially and politically aware. The band is highly connected to the straight edge scene because of past members being straight edge. Ignite actively support, and has given proceeds to organizations such as Earth First, Doctors Without Borders, Sea Shepherd, AMI and Pacific Wildlife. Zoli Teglas, the Hungarian lead singer, has a brother who is a wildlife preservation veterinarian. Their breakout album came 1994, on Lost & Found Records called Scarred For Life. In 1997 recorded a split cd with a Portuguese straight edge band called X-Acto, and since then they became a big success in the European hardcore scene. On July 20th, 2005, they announced a deal with Abacus Recordings, a subsidiary label of Century Media. The album Our Darkest Days was released on May 16, 2006. It topped the list of pastepunk.com 's top 25 albums of 2006.

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"a war against you"
Year: 2016
Label: Century Media
Format: CD, LP
Tracks: 14
Time: 38 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Hardcore

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"idem"

Year: 2022

Label: Century Media

Format: CD, LP

Tracks: 10

Time: 30 min.

Genre: rock

Style: Hardcore

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11.10.2018

CANCER BATS

"psychic jailbreak"

Year: 2022

Label: Bat skull

Format: CD, LP

Tracks: 11

Time: 27 min.

Genre: rock

Style: Hardcore Heavy Metal

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"the spark that moves"
Year: 2018
Country: Canada
City: Toronto
Label: New Damage
Format: CD, LP
Tracks: 11
Time: 32 min.
Genre: rock
Style: Hardcore Heavy Metal

Cancer Bats are a hardcore punk band from Toronto, Ontario, Canada that formed in 2004. They have released four studio albums and six extended plays. The band is composed of vocalist Liam Cormier, guitarist Scott Middleton, drummer Mike Peters and bassist Jaye R. Schwarzer. Cancer Bats take a wide variety of influences from heavy metal sub-genres and fuse them into hardcore and punk rock, including elements of sludge metal and southern rock. The band has also been compared to metalcore bands of the 1990s like Converge and Hatebreed.