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Gay For Johnny Depp Confirms New Album “What Doesn’t Kill You, Eventually Kills You”

Posted: January 26, 2011 by Is This Revolutionary? in album stream, Band, General Discussion, hardcore, punk
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Brooklyn hardcore band Gay For Johnny Depp will be releasing their sophomore album What Doesn’t Kill You, Eventually Kills You via Shinebox Recordings. The Album was mixed by Alex Newport, who has worked with Pissed Jeans, The Melvins and Sepultura. The sound has been described as

“The record is the sound of children being thrown from a carney carousel. A caffeinated, incorporated cog in the machinery…naked aggressive, nightly news-ish and stress related. Album of the Year (1989)”

Tracklisting for GFJD What Doesn’t Kill You, Eventually Kills You and British Tour Dates below.

What Doesn’t Kill You, Eventually Kills You


1.) Santa Claus, The Easter Bunny and Artistic Integrity
2.) Suckcess
3.) She Has the Hottest Limp (It’s All Noize)
4.) Humility is for People Who Don’t Comprehend Their Own Mortality
5.) We Are the World? Burn It Down!
6.) Rod Don’t Surf
7.) Nine Inch Males (Born to Hate)
8.) No, I’m Married to Jesus. Now Keep Your Fucking Hands Off of Him.
9.) Pink Flag
10.) What Doesn’t Kill You, Eventually Kills You
11.) Cum on Feel the Boize *

Tour Dates
February
15th –Bristol, The Croft
16th –Cardiff, Clwb Ifor Bach
17th – Northampton, Roadmender3
18th –Derby, The Old Bell Hotel
19th – Manchester, Roadhouse 2
20th – Leeds, Cockpit 3
21st – Edinburgh, Sneaky Pete’s
22nd – Sheffield, Corporation Small Room
23rd – Birmingham, The Flapper
24th – Exeter, The Cavern
25th – Reading, Face Bar
26th – Brighton (Matinee), Club Revenge
26th – Harlow, The Square
27th – Margate, Westcoast Bar
28th – Tunbridge Wells, The Forum

March
1st – London, The Barfly
2nd – Guildford, The Boileroom

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Fuckmorgue – Down Forever (2004)

Posted: January 17, 2011 by Is This Revolutionary? in Album, album stream, Band, Black Metal, hardcore, punk
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HOLY.SHIT.

Fuckmorgue was a Canadian blackened  Crust band that hailed from Winnipeg.  Lead by a fierce female vocalist, they create a maelstrom of death obsessed, emotionally charged jams.

“Down Forever” opens up with a strange, twinkling, almost ominous synth that quickly leads into a strange mesh of post-hardcore and occasional blast beats.  One of my favorite tracks has to be “Chapters For Coming Forth by Day” ,  it opens with the quick 3/4 beat that features an organ the sent chills down my spine.

This highly experimental album has quickly grown on me, it is a shame that this was the only release by Fuckmorgue, They really do not have a lot of info available.

“Down Forever” gets a 5 out of 5 for blowing my fucking mind. I highly recommend you give this a listen.

Download here

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SQRM – Rodeo LP

Posted: December 22, 2010 by Is This Revolutionary? in Band, General Discussion, hardcore, noise rock, punk, Shows, To Be Sorted, Video
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“Cut my strings, So I can dance all over your fucking face.”

I actually find myself having a really hard time reviewing this record, because I am currently over caffeinated, nursing a hangover and sitting in my cubicle for the next 5 hours. All I really want to say is SQRM will fuck you face.

RODEO has a very basic, raw, animal vibe that reminds me of Jesus Lizard tearing itself apart in the back of a porn store. Super sexually charged, headache inducing and pissed off songs like “Fuck to Survive” churn, throb and crush everything in its way. “Upsidedown Cross” is a filthy jam that just shits on everything. “Raw Split” starts out with a few spoken words and just let you know that we don’t like you and “Its a fucking curse” being brought to life.

RODEO was mixed by Chris Corry and DFJ of MIND ERASER fame, sold out their vinyl via YOUTH ATTACK in a stupid amount of time.

Rating: This album gets a 4 outta 5, it leaves you battered, bruised and covered in bodily fluids. The bar has been raised, better adjust accordingly.

 

 

 

Download – SQRM -RODEO

Buy Here (sold out already!)

here is a video of them killing it back in February at DAD CITY

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Gregory’s Raincoat- The Demo’s (2010)

Posted: December 19, 2010 by Is This Revolutionary? in Album, Band, Reviews
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Gregory’s Raincoat is a band from Bandung, West Java, Indonesia that play good, solid pop-punk/indie. Honestly, their sound drifts from the occasional post-rock riff to a hardcore-punk crash cymbal beat, but always find themselves back to a good, old fashioned rock music, and there’s nothing wrong with that. In a day and age where it’s either screaming vocals or whiny, suicide-bound frontmen, Gregory’s Raincoat’s vocals are just where they should be: on-pitch, clean, with a tiny bit of falsetto. Overall, they are a good listen, 15 minutes or so to hear them all out. Sure, some of their songs aren’t in English, but I think that’s the beauty of it: they are able to give off the emotion of their songs not by words, but how they sound. My favorite song is “At Last, We Are, No One” because they song just sounds so fluid; the guitars sound like something out of Interstellar 5555, and the chorus line is catchy. “Kalian Tidak Mengerti” is also really good if you like something a little bit off the beaten path: their sound drifts from a melodic post-rock sound to a driving punk with vocals that sound like something from right underneath your X record. “Brown” has a fast, hardcore-punk opening with a snare drum that carries you through the entire song.

They just released a new song, “The Poet’s Laureate”, which you can pick up here.

Listen to the rest of their demo songs on their Myspace and check out their Facebook as well.

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Rapeman

Posted: November 23, 2010 by Is This Revolutionary? in Band, To Be Sorted
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Rapeman was a Steve Albini led band between Big Black and Shellac. Existing between 1987 and 1989 they only had a few releases and are not as well know as Albini’s other projects. The band featured David WM. Sims of Scratch Acid (who later went to reunite with Scratch Acid Vocalist David Yow to form the spectacular Jesus Lizard) and Rey Washman also of Scratch Acid and Big Boys.

They played a form of aggressive noise rock that we see later on in Shellac  and abrasive art-punk.

Rapeman partial discography:

Two Nuns and a Pack Mule  LP (1988)

“Inki’s Butt Crack b/w Song Number One” (Sub Pop Singles Club 7″) (1989)

 wzrd – chicago,il -( 7-13-88)

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Blut Aus Nord “What Once Was…Liber 1″

Posted: November 18, 2010 by Is This Revolutionary? in Album, Band, Black Metal, Reviews
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Hailing from  Mondeville, Calvados, France, Blut Aus Nord plays black metal by their rules. Shunning the traps most BM bands fall into, they really distance themselves from the corpse paint, burning crosses, satanic themes of their contemporaries and focus on developing their sound from your run of the mill black metal to something more avant-garde, drawing from influences from shoegaze and even some free from.

What Once Was…Liber 1 is less polished than previous albums. What Once was is super dark and foreboding, with fast tremolo picking, blast beats, evil, distorted vocals and a super dark album cover all merge together to form an aggressive, pissed off album. The Vinyl itself is only labeled “side a’ and “side b”

While not BaN strongest release, What Once Was…liber1 is an exercise in pure unadulterated BM, stripped of all preventions and of the typical formula. Pick up a physical copy if you can. you wont be disappointed.

Download: Blut Aus Nord – What Once Was…Liber 1

Buried Inside (1997-2010)

Posted: November 15, 2010 by Is This Revolutionary? in Album, Band, Reviews, Shows
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“Death comes in time. Death comes with time.”

Buried Inside played their last show this Saturday in Ottawa. Their website removed, their Myspace finalized, the current atmosphere was pretty much summed up by their last message left for their followers, “That Is All She Fucking Wrote.”  Though it didn’t come as a shocker to most fans, I was still stunned when November 13th hit. Even now, listening to “Social Skingraft”, it still hasn’t truly hit me that Buried Inside is dead.  Over a span of 13 years, this Canadian powerhouse produced 4 incredible albums, including last year’s Spoils of Failure, probably their best work in terms of production and quality. Okay, I’m not going to lie, Buried Inside’s music wasn’t for everyone, but their lyrics drove into the heart like a piercing arrow, digging deep at human emotion, social constructs and just the universe in general. In could connect to all people at all levels, a trait not shared by many bands. They were so talented, so intense, that it’s absolutely unbelievable that they were as undiscovered as they were. They played such amazing shows (as I’m sure Ricky could tell you more about) and they really did bring the listener a new way of seeing the world. I never got to pay my final respects in Canada, so, in closing, thank you Buried Inside for all of the good, quality music you brought into this world, and all the minds you’ve opened. Rest in peace.

In Case You’ve Lived Under A Rock:

In and of the Self  (1999)

Suspect Symmetry (2001)

Chronoclast (2005)

Spoils of Failure (2009)

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Maybeshewill

Posted: November 2, 2010 by Is This Revolutionary? in Band, Reviews
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What do electronic beats, male choirs and the movie Network all have in common? All are featured by arguably one of the best post-rock bands since 2000, Maybeshewill. All the way from the United Kingdom, Maybeshewill created a new post-rock sound all their own. It all began with their first major release in 2008, Not For Want of Trying, which ranged between the heavy riffs in “We Call For An Ambulance But A Fire Engine Came” to a lighter, almost emo-esque “Heartflusters”. The most surprising and beautiful sounding piece from this album was definitely “He Films The Clouds Pt. 2″, which contained a full male choir (even if they only sang fifteen words) and a driving piano beat, similar to 65daysofstatic’s “Piano Fights”. Sing The Word Hope in a Four-Part Harmony, Maybeshewill’s 2009 release, was significantly heavier, taking a darker approach to the often-peaceful and airy post-rock sound. Though it still contained the same type of synthesized beats as their former album, STWHIAFPH showed all their critics that their can vary up the emotion and didn’t have to duplicate their first album’s sound.

On October 4th, 2010, Maybeshewill released the single “To The Skies From A Hillside”, a sound that seemed to bridge the earlier pop-like beats of their first album with the heavy guitar of their latter. This release was followed by an announcement of a new album to come Spring 2011, after much touring across Europe.

Probably the most interesting part of Maybeshewill is not their music, but how they record and distribute it. They introduce the hardcore punk DIY ethics of creating the material and distributing it independently alongside Field Records. Recording with borrowed equipment in the empty rooms of friends, they attempt to produce their music without spending any money. This is quite impressive given the amount of editing and sampling that is shown on their records, a common trait among electronic post-rock bands.

Is This Revolutionary?: Though they sound similar to 65daysofstatic in terms of their electronic beats, they are so unique in their execution that it’s hard to really say they sound like anyone else in the genre. They change it up so often and bounce between different styles, even inside the same song, that sometimes it’s difficult to even narrow them to a genre. Regardless of classification, Maybeshewill brings a different flavor to the music world, and will dish it out with a good, ol’ fashioned DIY spin.

Maybeshewill- Not For Want of Trying

Maybeshewill- Sing The Word Hope In a Four-Part Harmony

Maybeshewill- To The Skies From A Hillside

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The REAL Liferuiner

Posted: October 31, 2010 by Is This Revolutionary? in Band, Reviews
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“Fuck you, fuck this, fuck your mother fucking life.”

In the history of straight edge, there’s almost always been the militant and the positive: the Earth Crisis‘s and the Good Clean Fun‘s.The great part about Liferuiner is that they don’t really give a shit.Ever since 2007, Liferuiner has been putting their own spin on the genre, combining both the negative, militant with the humorous and positive. Their first album, No Saints, certainly mixed it up; they played songs funny, irrelevant titles (such as “The Alphabet Never Really Made Sense To Me”) and inspiring lyrics (“Your words can’t break integrity”) AND songs with seriously angry lyrics (“This is your end/You’ll never breathe again”). This was only further proven by 2008′s Taking Back the Night Life, containing crowd chants like “SUCK MY DICK!” along with chugging riffs and heavy breakdowns. The funniest part about them, however, comes from the band’s actual history.

Liferuiner is a Canadian band, and they are certainly proud of it. But, when Jonny OC left the band after Taking Back the Night Life, the band essentially broke up. Then, Liferuiner was suddenly rose from the grave (Halloween joke) later that year, only this time they consisted only of Americans, mostly from upstate New York. Dubbed the “American’ts” by fans of the original, Canadian band (the nickname is a play off of one of the songs from Liferuiner’s last album), they toured across the United States using the Liferuiner name and likenesses. Some of the old members of the Canadian version saw their band being torn to pieces by these new members and started back up the Canadian Liferuiner and began playing music yet again. After suing the American’ts for using their likeness, the American Liferuiner ceased and desisted and the original Liferuiner took it’s rightful place.

Now, 2 years after Taking Back the Night Life, Liferuiner is back together in its truest form. Having just completed a Canadian tour, Liferuiner has it’s sights set to Europe; currently, they have their tour booked until the 21st of December. With a new album waiting in the wings, Liferuiner looks to be back and better than ever in 2010.

Is This Revolutionary?: Liferuiner plays a style of hardcore that’s truly unmatched by anyone else in the genre. Many may sound similar, but no other band can combine goofy titles, silly crowd chants, violent breakdowns and do it all on the same album. They really may be revolutionary.

Liferuiner- No Saints

Liferuiner- Taking Back the Night Life

Liferuiner’s Myspace

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In Disgust calling it a day

Posted: October 27, 2010 by Is This Revolutionary? in Band, General Discussion
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via Donofthedead

California Grind/powerviolence dudes In Disgust are calling it a day. Their last show is November 14th @ Hazmat in Oakland CA.  Since my ass lives on the East Coast it looks like I wont be seeing it for myself, which is a shame.

So enjoy the shit outta this post.

Download:

In Disgust – Reality Choke

massgrave & in disgust – split 7”

In Disgust & Pretty Little Flower Split 7″

In Disgust – Demo 06

In Disgust – San Jose Oldies, Vol. 1

In Disgust & Sidetracked Split 7″

In Disgust & Godstomper split 7″

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