SHOWCASE-Metal/Punk/Hardcore

Lisbon, I Promise You

“This is the third in our trilogy of comeback albums. It's the third with Uta Plotkin singing, and the third with Billy Anderson as producer. This one is the most fully developed, with the best sound and songs that we've yet mustered in our 17 years as a band. In many ways, it was also the easiest to make, because we've been working and touring so hard, the communication is flowing, and our close relationship with Billy keeps us from wasting time in the studio. Yes, we could have spent another week fine-tuning and mixing the album into the ground. But we didn't bother. Like all Witch Mountain albums, this one authentically captures where we were at when we made it. Since tracking this in May, we've toured Europe again and dialed the live presentation even further. We are firing on all cylinders. Side one of the new album will crush your skull, and Side two will make you want to slit your wrists. This is honest, heavy, American rock music that keeps one foot in the doom metal tradition, and another stepping beyond the fringe of genre and into the landscape of pure, emotional rock and roll expression. “ – Nate Carson/Witch Mountain

Witch Mountain: Psycho Animundi

Eclipse  - The One Hundred Remixes
As used live by Crossfaith
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Eclipse (The One Hundred Remix)

Opening song on the new GODFLESH full length 'A WORLD LIT ONLY BY FIRE', worldwide release Oct 6th Vinyl / CD / Digital. Avalanche Recordings 2014 AREC034. 

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NEW DARK AGES

Obake reveal a brand new track from their second album, Mutations. Listen to "Seven Rotten Globes" 

This explosive track is instantly recognisable as Obake, their trademark heavy, lurching doom guitar riffs, make room for Lorenzo's chameleon-like vocal style, changing constantly throughout the songs duration. However, any sense of this being business as usual is soon shattered by the unpredictable pace-changing drum blasts and ear piercing electronics which hint that a broader range of dynamics are at play on the new record.

Indeed behind the scenes, the quartet comprising Lorenzo Esposito Fornasari (vocals, piano, electronics), Eraldo Bernocchi (guitar, electronics), Balazs Pandi (drums) and Colin Edwin (Porcupine Tree - bass) have been undergoing a metamorphosis, changing the dynamics and channellng their talents to create this new recording.

Check out the artwork for Mutations designed by Petulia Mattioli.

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Obake - Seven Rotten Globes

Following extensive recent touring with Black Sabbath and other worldly ventures the UK’s best rock band, the legendary Uncle Acid are very pleased to announce the release of their new 7” single ‘Runaway Girls,’ quite possibly his catchiest tune yet. 

Uncle Acid 'RUNAWAY GIRLS'

Order from Relapse Records: http://bit.ly/TorcheRestarter
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Available now on CD/LP/Deluxe 2xLP/Cassette/Digital via Relapse Records.

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Torche - Minions

Order the LP/free download: https://hardleft.bandcamp.com/album/we-are-hard-left

"We Are Hard Left" is the debut album from Hard Left. Brought together by the music, held together by the outrage -- Hard Left are a hard-mod/punk band borne out of a desire to explore leftist political ideas and marry them to rabble-rousing music worthy of the worldwide struggle against capital. Far from a dry exercise in doctrinaire thought, Hard Left's songs are great punk first and foremost, and ripping good fun.

The band members have been involved with punk and DIY music for nearly a century combined, including time in bands like Boyracer, Jüke, Whorl, Lunchbox and Black Tambourine, and operating the respected labels 555, Emotional Response and Slumberland Records. Initial Hard Left recording sessions in Spring 2014 led to the release of two limited edition lathe-cut singles, the Situationist-inspired "What's That Sound?" and the tough-as-nails "Safety." The band set to writing and in August 2014 gathered in the desert of Flagstaff, AZ to record. The results were two more singles ("Skinheads Home For Christmas" and a split 7" with Bad Daddies, both released in December 2014), and now this album.

"We Are Hard Left" is a concise and explosive punk record, packed with anthems of resistance and calls to action. These are crucial times that we live in, and Hard Left seek to inspire and invigorate. The opener "New Year" sets out the band's stall in fine fashion, urging listeners to "give up false needs" and embrace new beginnings. They follow with the blasting "Hard Left Rules OK," a call to arms if ever there was one. The album is tightly edited, each song on the heels of the previous one, exemplifying the group's eagerness to broadcast their message and energize their fans.

To that end, rousing chants and noisy interludes are interspersed throughout, cheeky but pointed references to their mod forebears and street-level terrace "politics." The message is always positive, the underlying mood is of hopefulness. "Hand In Hand" is an exhilarating call for solidarity and collective action, while "Future Perfect" imagines a world where the people were the true beneficiaries of the surplus created by progress, the perfect future we were all promised during the golden age of capitalism. Previous singles "Safety" and "Stay True" appear in re-recorded form, hard as nails and fitting in perfectly.

From the super-tough "Kicking If Off" to the Occupy-inspired "Red Flag" and the supremely uplifting (and also Situationist-inspired) closer "Imagination," this is a record that hits hard, crammed with guitars that soar and rage, group chants and raw-throated vocals. It's anthemic in the best way -- inspiring but never heavy-handed, a worthy successor to records by bands like The Clash, Stiff Little Fingers, Sex Pistols and The Dils.  Call it "utopian Oi" if you will, or "hard mod" or just plain punk, but don't miss out on this passionate, thrilling record.


Hard Left are:
Mike: exhortations
Donna: bass, vocals
Tim: guitar, vocals
Stewart: drums, vocals


Hard Left - Kicking It Off

"Brought to the Water" by Deafheaven from the album 'New Bermuda,' available October 2nd

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