DOOMSDAY STUDENT "Life Boat Blues" from the album "A Walk Through Hysteria Park" available from www.threeoneg.com

DOOMSDAY STUDENT "Lifeboat Blues"

NARROWS "Ride The Lion" from the split 7" EP with RETOX available from www.threeoneg.com

NARROWS "Ride The Lion"

RETOX "This Should Hurt A Little Bit" from the split 7" EP with NARROWS available from www.threeoneg.com

“THIS SHOULD HURT A LITTLE BIT”	
Who needs a virus? Or a missile crisis? Fill out plus sizes and 
shit reverse niceness. Hear more with tinnitus while ass sells bias. Bland diet, be quiet. Shit here, hope it will disappear. 
Hang myself and reappear? Nothing is sturdy here. Jesus came on leap year. I’ll die old, I’ll volunteer. Are we all clear? With tinnitus I can hear a sore loser cheer. Shall I be insincere? Toilets diet, race riot.



RETOX "This Should Hurt A Little Bit"

“A serious condition with respiratory failure that usually requires hospitalization and intensive care.”

“Causes: Breathing in smoke or poisonous chemicals. Breathing in stomach contents while throwing up (aspiration). Near drowning. Pneumonia.”

Search for the phrase “Wet Lungs”, and this is the type of information you’re going to find. No cliché album reviews, dick-sucking summaries praising how the band “totally fucking shreds”, or music videos followed by lowest common denominator teenage YouTube comments about what qualifies as music or who in the thread is “such a faggot”. No, look up Wet Lungs and you’ll get nothing but ominous medical jargon and threats of fatality— and, really, it’s the perfect ode to the band and its blunt, matter-of-fact brutality.
There is something enigmatic about the band; Frankenstein’s latest monster made up of equal parts The Roller, The Locust, utter mayhem, and pinpoint precision. Part of the obscurity might stem from the fact that Wet Lungs’ presence has been relatively transient, breathing diseased life into the Austin, TX hardcore/metal scene beginning in 2013 and indefinitely incapacitated by 2014. Until Three One G’s digital release of previously stowed away tracks, less than nine minutes of music were available to the public by way of a self-titled 7”, every second a pendulum hurtling between Pete Brown’s heavy sludge-then-grind guitar riffs, Mike Morowitz’ infernal snarls, and intensified tenfold by diabolical bursts of Gabe Serbian’s signature machine-gun drumming.
 Three One G’s release of the “Vile Hobbies” EP reveals tracks in the same vein as their previous release in terms of length and overall intensity, but interspersed with everything from extraterrestrial guitar distortion at the outset of opening track “Cool Beach”, to malevolent surf style on the aptly titled “Surf Nazi”. Tracks are all vim and vigor, succinct sonic whirlwinds clocking in at around 1:30 at most.
Still, Wet Lungs have no trouble getting their point across in short spans of time. Even with limited material for audiences to diagnose, the message is clear, and their outlook is dire.

-Becky DiGiglio


WET LUNGS "Space Garbage"

Street College

Frigid

Dust

From the LP  "DYI" on Happy Happy Birthday to Me records

White Ego

Justin Pearson / Gabe Serbian "Old Age Lasts Too Long" 

Original music from the film Incompresa by Asia Argento, available from Three One G

JUSTIN PEARSON / GABE SERBIAN "Old Age Lasts Too Long"

"Eyehatethou" by Thou

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Thou - Eyehatethou

Dropped down amongst the knobs and dials of Penguin Studio in San Diego, rogue avatars Justin Pearson and Luke Henshaw have created a new project in the form of Planet B, with the shared purpose of creating music both mischievous in sound and sobering in message.
The first artifact from the preternatural duo comes in the form of this “Wrong Utopia” 7” single. Featuring two tracks, both can be heard almost as otherworldly anthems: catchy, heavily percussive, and eerie all at once. Pearson sneers lyrics that present the viewpoint of an outsider looking on at his surroundings: “Sell a good bad luck charm/ watch them hurt their own arm/ shaking their bloody fist/ in the world of the nihilist,” seemingly uninterested in taking part and instead deciding that “’Tween the moth and the web, I’ll make a new landmark.” This is interspersed with Henshaw’s fantastical sci-fi accompaniments: whistling UFO vibrato, dark and distorted electrical hums, and marching band drum beats. Basically, “Wrong Utopia” has all the makings of your next interdimensional earworm.
Side 2 of the single, “Join a Cult”, has a more foreboding sound, a sort of thunderous and creepy call to arms. This is in large part due to the booming drums, live wire buzzes, and digital echoes that brings to mind an oncoming swarm of mechanical insects headed straight for the song’s settings of burning houses and dry fields, “the one without a view”. This is all punctuated by whimsical bells that are unsettling in the context of the song, much in the same way that hearing a child singing in a horror movie is.

Available from www.threeoneg.com


PLANET B "Wrong Utopia"

"Cast The First Stone" by Slayer

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Slayer - Cast The First Stone

INTO VIOLENCE "Blood" from the self-titles EP available from www.threeoneg.com

INTO VIOLENCE "Blood"

ZEUS! "San Leather" from the album Motomonotono" available from www.threeoneg.com

MOTOMONOTONO

Luca Cavina and Paolo Mongardi’s distorted bass, meticulous drumming, and volcanic screams have again erupted, this time in the form of MOTOMONOTONO, the duo’s third release. If you are familiar with the band, you know that the quality of ZEUS! is that it is largely unlike anything else out there; this record is no exception. These guys make music that is both staccato within itself and yet fluid on a grander scale, morphing and melding genres countless times within the ten track, 45 minute LP. 

The genius of it is that Luca and Paolo seem to be aware of just how much a listener can take before suffering an aural overdose, cleverly making distinct shifts between music that is brutal and unwavering in its intensity (for example, “Forza Bruta Ram Attack”) and following up with a sudden lull in sound and mood (See the beginning of “San Leather” or the aptly titled “Shifting”). Here, they provide brief moments that are more electronic, ambient, and yet still undoubtedly ominous, as if to let us know that we shouldn’t be getting too comfortable. After these comparatively mellow interludes, the petardo-loving pair launch back into anything from almost tribal drumming to desperate, guttural screams without missing a beat (just listen to “Rococock Fight”). All of this leads up to “Phase Terminale”, an almost 8 minute composition that mimics the album as a whole with its well-timed slides from explosive to calmly spectral, eventually fusing both ambient undertones with their trademark ferocity.

As heavy as this band is, there always remains an air of playfulness and wit about them, which is what makes their music a refreshing, if not slightly terrifying, tidal wave in a sea of the musically monotonous.

-Becky DiGiglio

Track listing:
1. Enemy E Core
2. Colon Hell
3. Forza Bruta Ram Attack
4. San Leather
5. Krakatoa
6. Panta Reich
7. All You Grind Is Love
8. Rococock Fight
9. Shifting
10. Phase Terminale


Motomonotono

ZEUS! "San Leather"

"Den Lille Piges Død (The Little Girl's Death)" by Myrkur

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Myrkur - Den Lille Piges Død (The Little Girl's Death)

"Dissimulate" by Scanning Antarctica

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Scanning Antarctica - Dissimulate

"Equals Unequals" by Low Estate

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Low Estate - Equals Unequals

Toronto-based Metz has consistently continued to gain praise for their fabled live performances as well as their general uncompromising attitude towards their creative output, regardless of public reception (which is, in fact, quite positive). After two well-received full length albums since the band’s inception in 2012 (self-titled and II) and an incredible amount of touring, the trio has now teamed up with Three One G for the first time to release this Eraser/Pure Auto 7”.

No tempo is sacred and no riff too maniacal on this release, which is about par for the course when dealing with Metz. “Eraser” features vocals full of feedback and distortion, far away as if vocalist Alex Edkins is singing (or shouting, as the song calls for) at us through an old walkie-talkie. More specifically, through a walkie-talkie with a self-detonating landmine filled-field of drummer Hayden Menzies and bassist Chris Slorach’s explosive playing between it and the listener.

“Pure Auto” hits the ground running even faster and harder than Side A. The guitar wails, interspersed with discordant moments and pushed by steady percussion. The music is tight and skillfully played, but the mood of the song emits the white-knuckle tension of being aboard a train that could derail at any moment. Layers upon layers of sound build and bounce off one another and propel themselves into your skull, encouraging many listens to these two newest tracks from a band that wants nothing more than to punch you in the gut with their music.

Track Listing:
Side 1: Eraser
Side 2: Pure Auto


METZ "Eraser"

HOT NERDS "Faded Ripper"

HOT NERDS "Generic Plans For A New Blunder" available from Three One G 

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