Grief-Miserably Ever After

Grief was a violent mix of thick sludge and groovy mid-tempo hardcore. Formed in 1991in Boston by members of Disrupt, the band began to create its own take on the Doom/Sludge sound, injecting misery laiden lyrics and truly caustic vocals. In the 10year span the band was around, they released five full-lengths and an array of 7 inches. Miserably Ever After is a statement of contempt, hatred, disgust, and down and out depression. Pretty sure this one is out of print, so enjoy.


Grief-Miserably Ever After (1996)
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New Oasis songs have leaked!

Three new demo's off the upcoming Oasis album have leaked onto the internet. "I Wanna Live A Dream", sounds fantastic.




And here's some oldies but goodies..

Cursed-III

Canada's loudest band Cursed have just released their third album Architects of Troubled Sleep. Forming back in 2002 after the break-up of grindcore heroes The Swarm, Cursed released their debut on Deathwish Inc. in 2003, and their second effort, the simply titled II, in 2005. Cursed as always mix their death and roll style hardcore with elements of doom and fast punk, making for a truely vicious affair. The main attribute that seperates this album from I and II is that it was recorded in analog, which allowed them to take their signature scathing sound to a more raw and violent place than before. There is something about the lo-fi production that just makes this album flat out terrifying. My favorite track on the album has to be "Magic Fingers". With it's opening drone of descending chords it sets the abyssmal landscape for the rest of the album. Lyrically Cursed return with the same bleak outlook on life. Combining both political and anti-religious sentiments, along with some new topics this time around. On "Friends in the Music Business" Colohan attacks the music industry by bellowing, "Don't wanna bite the hand that feeds, I wanna fucking break it off". Other lyrical themes range from urban living ("Into the Hive"), to the manipulation of our minds at the hands of authority figures ("Hegels Bastards"). Apart from the two instrumental tracks "III" and "Gutters" and the sludgy dirge of "Friends in the Music Business", Architects of Troubled Sleep never slows down. It goes for the jugular and never lets go. I give it a 4/5.

For fans of: The Swarm, Haymaker, Converge, Hope Conspiracy, and Left for Dead.

Saviours

So I saw Saviours for the second time last night, at the Key Club in Hollywood. For those who don't know Saviours are a metal band from Oakland that mixes NWOBHM style riffage with early Sabbath doom. They just released a new record on Kemado called Into Abaddon which is destined to be on my top list of records for 2008. Anyways, Ancestors opened the show, and fell into their 30 minute proggy dirge..they were not bad, but not my kinda thing. Next were the mighty Saviours who ripped through only four songs, teasing the appetite of a crowd that wanted more. Nevertheless I was quite pleased, and proceded home.

Saviours Setlist 3/18/2008

Circle of Servants Bodies
Into Abaddon
Narcotic Sea
Cavern of Mind

Saviours-"Narcotic Sea"

Integrity-The Blackest Curse

From Lambgoat Earlier..

It looks as if Integrity will finally release their "The Blackest Curse" album this year. Deathwish Inc. will put out the album on CD and LP as DWI74.Several tracks have been recorded thus far, with roughly thirteen songs written. According to frontman Dwid, "The album is a concept album based on a book I have written and it follows that story-line premise."The release will reportedly be accompanied by a DVD film..

This is shaping up to be a really really good year for hardcore.

Stay Posted!

Kill Holiday

Kill Holiday was formed in 1994 by Steven Andrew Miller (Unbroken), Robert Moran (Unbroken), Barry Kellman (Amenity/House of Suffering) and Oscar Paz (Statement, Impel). Influenced by bands such as Quicksand and Jawbreaker, Kill Holiday set out to create music that was still heavy but emotionally charged at the same time. A four song e.p. on New Age Records titled "Monitor Dependency" was soon released. This line up played a handful of shows until Robert left the band and was replaced by June Cate (Impel, I Wish I). Three more songs were released by Indecision Records with a split 7" with Dempsey (ex-Undertow) and a song featured on the "Guilty by Association" compilation. A west coast tour soon followed with June and Oscar pulling double duty since Impel came along as well. Over time doing both bands became too much and they chose to stick with Impel. Todd Beattie (Unbroken) joined on bass and newcomer Chris Perreira came in on guitar. Soon a two song single was titled "Meant to Let You Down" was released on Simba followed with the bands first European tour. After this tour the band was dealt a crushing blow when co-founder Barry Kellman decided to leave the group. Barry's volume and drumming style was always a key factor in Kill Holiday's live shows and would be difficult to replace. In came band photographer Gabriel Gamboa (I Wish I) on drums and a new direction would soon be in place. Growing tired of the typical post hardcore sound, Kill Holiday decided to draw from other musical influences that were always just as important as hardcore bands were. Taking a big risk "Somewhere Between the Wrong is Right" was released by Revelation Records receiving mixed reveiws. People didn't know what to make because this wasn't the same Kill Holiday they had been used to hearing. This record was followed with a European tour with local friends Jejune and a US tour after that. After one more tour of the US the same year Kill Holiday decided to call it quits in 2000.

-from bands myspace

Kill Holiday-"Somewhere between the wrong is right"

Enjoy.

A389 Records Rules/Integrity 7" ?

A389 Records is a label run by Dom of Slumlords and Pulling Teeth fame; two awesome bands I recommend you check out. A389 just re-released the long out of print Gehenna The War Of The Sons Of Light And The Suns Of Darkness LP which also features rare demo tracks, and split 7" tracks. They also released an In Cold Blood record with all the non Victory records recordings. Pretty Sweet, I know. And three days ago Dom posted the following on the A389 records site:

".....Tons of other great stuff in the pipeline as well. Integrity 7″, Ringworm LP, Slumlords DVD and some other new releases that are just being finalized. Stay tuned for more info, it’s going to be an exciting year."

An Integrity 7" ?! ?! ?! !?!
Ringworm LP? (Could be the vinyl version of the last record..??)
Slumlords DVD (Been hearing about this for a while, should be rad)

As Dom said...should be an exciting year for this extremely promising label.
Stay Tuned.

http://www.a389records.com/