Crystal Antlers - Tentacles 2009

Their debut album which blends hardcore

punk with prog psychedelia, guitar solos

fight for room over organ stabs while

hoarse vocals add to the sonic beauty.

Compared to Comets on Fire, this is

recorded by the Mars Volta producer,

so he is used to mixing in slabs of sound

with a wall of noise.

There are moments of quiet but these always

return to the madness.

Listen here or take advantage of kind Mr ZoSo))) and

listen the self titled EP here

Guitar Wolf - Jet Generation 1999

Japanese band Guitar Wolf combine the

sonics of the MC5, the rock'n'roll of Link Wray

and the punk power of early Stooges.

Grittier and dirtier than most modern

garage bands, the manic guitars race along

with primitive drums and the frenzied

unintelligible vocals prove that even if

you are not sure if you are listening to

English or Japanese, when the noise is

this good, who cares?

Let's Fucking Freak Out!

Black Breath - Heavy Breathing 2010

Ouch, this is vicious!

Rabid punk, hardcore and death metal

influences create a jaw dropping album

which pummels the brain and loosens

bowels. File along with Converge.

Listen here

God Forbid - Earthsblood 2009

I found their earlier stuff too metalcore for me - (I hate all

these fucking genre labels but when used they do instantly

give you an idea of what the band sounds like!)

This is metal, heavy with complex structures, lots of

twin harmony guitar lead and a mixture of clean and

growled vocals.

The album has a huge, fat pounding sound to it which

some people may find too polished but it does rock like

a bastard!

Listen

Iggy Pop - Lust for Life 1977

The Passenger

He rides and he rides

He sees things from under glass

He looks through his window's eyes

He sees the things he knows is his.

Play Me!

Miles Davis - Dark Magus 1974

Carrying on from On The Corner, this

double live album has Miles snaking

around a Black Sabbath boogie through

a wah-wah pedal, up to his eyeballs in

columbian marching powder producing

a loud, heavy unsettling beast of a record.

Disc 1 sets the funk/space rock scene, Disc 2

lets the guitarists do their stuff.

Easy listening it ain't!

Blow that horn!

Orange Goblin - Healing Through Fire 2007

Their 6th album and if it ain't broke, don't

fix it. Big dirty riffs, scrappy vocals with

sonic wah-wah and firing on all cylinders,

this is classic Orange Goblin.

There is a slightly heavier feel to this -

the blues element is replaced with a doomy

thread which gives it a more aggressive outlook.

Listen

Pissed Jeans - King of Jeans 2009

The wonderfully named Pissed Jeans are

signed to Sub Pop and are an American

noise rock/post-hardcore band.

Punk tunes mixed with hardcore attitude

makes this a uncomfortable (at times) listen

due to the jagged song structure but it's

a ride worth taking.

Lets Piss

Baroness - Red Album 2007

Last year the Blue Album was released and

it was fantastic but I will always have a soft

spot for the Red one.

2007 and I had dabbled in the world of sludge

and doom but Baroness and Mastodon really

opened up the world of down-tuned guitars,

bile filled vocals and the slanted lyrical view

of swamp dwellers!

Listen

Frank Zappa - Hot Rats 1969

For years people kept playing me Zappa but

there was nothing there for me - just some '70's

rock with "jokey" lyrics and vocals.

No one told me he was also a Guitar God. This

was the album that changed my mind. Virtually

instrumental this gave Zappa a jazz rock

platform to perform his incredible guitar jams.

Listen

Architects - Hollow Crown 2009

The Brighton based boys 3rd album.

Vicious, twisting riffs and vocal attack

with epic melodic guitar attack blended

with post-metal and mathcore.

Brutal enjoyment!

Make your ears bleed

The Scientists - Weird Love 1986

Scuzzy, Aussie swamp rock, Stooge driven riffs

and strangled vocals over killer tunes.

What's not to like?

Listen

Killing Joke - Hosannas from the Basement of Hell 2006

It's Killing Joke so you know how good

it is.

Fantastic return to form but did not seem

to get any press attention at all ..................

give it a listen!!!!

Listen here

The Corpse Grinders - Legend Of The Corpse Grinders 1978

Not a death grindcore release but a band formed

by Arthur "Killer" Kane after he left the New York

Dolls.

Named after a trashy horror film, The Corpse

Grinders sounded like the Dolls (surprise, surprise!)

This was released in '78 and took the Dolls blueprint

but embraced the fledgling rawness of punk & new wave

to give a marvelous beefier sound.

Arthur Kane played on the singles and demo versions

but left before this album was recorded.

Listen here

Textures - Silhouettes 2008

Textures play Tech-Metal that is both

brutal and medolic. Huge landscapes of

riffage and vocals veering between clean

and hardcore type grunts make this a very

impressive album ...... heavier than Minsk

or Nuerosis?

They certainly give it a go!

Listen here

Latitudes - Agonist 2009

Re-posted request.

Latitudes are a Sludge/Post-Metal band

who sometimes cross over to the more

open sound and space of Pelican etc.

Mostly instrumental, the rest of the

information I had on this band has been

lost! ...... er, listen to the clip for an idea!

Listen herer

Miles Davis - On The Corner 1972

Atonal jazz freak out - Davis wanted to explore

the sounds of Hendrix and Sly Stone with

his own version of funk rock.

Too hard to describe - listen to the clip!!!!

Get down with Miles here

Planes Mistaken For Stars - Mercy 2006

Post-Hardcore with passion and direction.

The angular twists and turns never let up

and the furious guitar work and vocals

ensure an ear bleeding good time.

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