Toxic Holocaust - Chemistry of Consciousness

Eye bursting, pill popping, drug stabbing, beer drinking,
piss taking, shit throwing, ear bleeding, amp smashing,
guitar shredding, throat rupturing alert!!

The driving force behind Yellow Goat and many other

projects brings you a collection of thrash/metal/punk/crust

under the guise of the mighty Toxic Holocaust.

This is filthy sounding rock’n’roll that is exciting, heavy, fast

and fun all at once. Think Motorhead crossed with Zeke and

Discharge extremely pissed off and you should know

what to expect.

Scorched-earth guitar solos are machine gunned across these

tracks which are raw and distorted hymns to all that is abrasive

and headache making. The vocals, are of course pretty fierce

and are heavily reverbed which puts me in mind of early

Venom for some reason.

The riffs are great and just keep coming along with reckless

abandon. Joel Grind sounds like he is having a blast playing

these songs and it come across as infectious bursts of perfectly

formed gouts of foot-stomping mayhem.

I whole heartedly recommend this and can say with no doubt

that this will go into my albums of the year list.

Thanks to Becky at Pioneer Music Press for sending this to me.

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Lair Of The Minotaur - Godslayer EP news

Lair Of The Minotaur enter once more into the world

of monolithic riffs, howled vocals, thrash with hardcore attitude

and the desire to stomp their way to a swamp full of sludge.

Only two tracks on offer but fans will be relieved to hear

that things have not changed for these guys - loud, heavy

and relentless is still the order of the day, making me hope that

a new album will materialise in the near future.

Band blurb:

Celebrating ten years of clear-cut maliciousness through Greek mythology and unchecked riff savagery in 2013, Chicago trio LAIR OF THE MINOTAUR will storm back with a new EP this Spring.

While the members of LAIR OF THE MINOTAUR have been skulking around in the back-alleys of the underground over recent months, the band has been far from dormant. To commemorate a full decade of demolishing eardrums on record and on stage this year, the band will hammer their fanbase with a brand new EP for this year’s Record Store Day. Entitled Godslayer, the new 7” release bears two new tracks, with the surge of "Godslayer" opening up, and the monolithic "The Black Heart of the Stygian Drakonas" on the B-side, both tracks mastered by Scott Hull (Pig Destroyer). A limited edition of 300 copies will be pressed as a 7”, in addition to the digital download through iTunes, Amazon MP3 and the like, and as with their latest album Evil Power will be released on their own The Grind-House Records with distribution from previous label home, Southern Lord, for Record Store Day this April 20th.

Check out the Godslayer cover art designed by visual artist Tom Denney -- artist for LOTM’s Carnage EP, Ultimate Destroyer LP and s/t demo covers, and known for works for Kylesa, Sourvein, Soilent Green, Saint Vitus, Yakuza, Black Cobra, Rwake, Samothrace, Weedeater among others.

Thanks to Dave at Earsplit PR for links

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