Shudder To Think - Ten Spot

A winning combination of Voivod's Outer Limits and Angel Rat....'nuff said.

Ten Spot

Scanxion - Demos 90-94

An obscure British trash band from the early 90's, this is one of those bands that are seemingly made for me. Phat techy riffs that will get you groovin' and on top of that a pitch perfect vocalist whose got a little punk bite to his snarl, sounding sort of like Bad Religion's Greg Graffin. This is a winning combination friends...pair this with that Psychopath I posted a couple days ago and you'll be set.

Demos 90-94

UzJD on WFMU

Live Uz Jsme Doma...the best of Czech! Since when did Miroslav turn into the blonde Gallagher?...and speaking of Gallagher, any updates on that melon crackin' son of a bitch?

Circle Of Ouroborus - Shores

One of the best most essential albums made in the last ten years.

Shores

Soft Kill - An Open Door

Featuring members of a somewhat notorious deathrock band…moaning vocals pounded chords desperate depressive atmosphere enough angst to last me well into the winter.

An Open Door

Circling Round Finland

I don't know what it is about Finland, but they must have more excellent musicians per capita than anywhere else on this green Earth...for a nation that has a population of a shade over 5 million (for comparison, NYC alone is a bit over 8 million) to have so many cool, unique bands is just an embarrassment of riches...
If you don't know Circle, they are the vanguard of NWOFHM (like NWOBHM, but you can take a guess what the F is for), which is really just spacy krautrock with heavy metal lyrics...absurd heavy metal lyrics at that...Infektio is a lot more spacy than most of their stuff that I've listened too, and it is truly excellent. Great mood music to put on when you read your old Heavy Metals...Circle Of Ouroborus just keep getting better and better, further pushing their sound into an ambient direction...the guitar tone on Eleven Fingers is sooo pleasing, I find it especially nice to listen to in the early morning when I'm walking into work...it's meditative qualities prepare me for the day.
So there you go...2 great albums from 2 excellent bands...Finland I salute you!!

Infektio

Eleven Fingers

Winterblut - Grund Gelenkkunst

So, keeping true to my word, I am delving ass deep into the insidious world of German Black metal...and without further ado, ladies and gentlemen...Winterblut's Grund.
A monumental statement put out by ol L'Hiver almost a decade ago. If the Jesus Lizards ever recorded a black metal album, this would be it my friends...grungy, mathy evilness that grooves on that enviable tin-pan alley swag. Just love that he put a cheering crowd at the end of the album...fucking brilliant!

"Grund"ge

Už Jsme Doma - Uprostřed Slov

Although I've only recently gotten into these guys, they have quickly become one of my all-time favorite bands. 1990's Uprostred Slov perfectly displays their mastery of Gypsy-avant-pronk-RIO-inflected Wagnerian-ska!!

Uprostred Slov

HARK! It's A Crawling Tar-Tar - Dorr Darp Gelap Communiqué

Indonesian experimetal hardcore/grind band that have some sort of H.P. Lovecraft, or maybe Lewis Carroll preoccupation...I really can't tell. Well, anyway this is a fairly unique release, and Indonesia actually does produce a good bit of heavy music... Siksakubur anyone?

Tar-Tar

Virus - Live in London 3/22/11

LIVE VIRUS!! WOOHOOOO!!!

Live in London

Virus - The Agent That Shapes the Desert

My dreams have come true a new Virus album!  I have professed my love for Czral before, and the ol' boy does not disappoint in the slightest. This new one takes their brand of Voivodian tin pan alley swagger to more arid climes...more of a refinement on past meisterpieces Carheart and Black Flux than a wholesale sonic leap forward, and that is MORE than fine by me.  Oh Czral, don't ever change baby.  Fucking album of the year.

The Agent That Shapes the Desert

Anapparatus - Through The Eyes Of Assailants

Anapparatus are a hardcore outfit based out of Indianapolis that released this ep way back in 2004.  Definitely a furious chaotic exercise in dense math grind athleticism. No matter how wired things get, the boys sprinkle in hooks and melodies galore to make you keep hitting the repeat button again and again.  In fact, I had the Inner Workings of Jealousy on repeat for a good hour at work the other day, and am afraid I made quite the fool of myself with my air double bass drumming and air pencil blastbeating!  A great fun little record.

Through The Eyes Of Assailants

Epitaph - These Rotten Remains

Weird-ass thrash metal that achieves a certain level of transcendence.

Real Rotten