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APIARY Taps TODAY IS THE DAY Frontman For Upcoming CD

San Francisco punk rock/metal wrecking ball APIARY has tapped TODAY IS THE DAY frontman/recording engineer Steve Austin (CONVERGE, LAMB OF GOD, DEADGUY, CABLE, UNSANE) to helm the recording sessions for the group's second album for Ironclad/Metal Blade Records. The band will enter Austin Enterprise...

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KRUGER To Support UNSANE In Europe

Swiss noise-mongers KRUGER will support UNSANE for two weeks on their upcoming European tour between September 4 and September 15. KRUGER's third album "Redemption through Looseness" was mixed at Godcity Recordings by Kurt Ballou (CONVERGE, CAVE IN, OLD MAN GLOOM) and mastered by Alan Douches (THE D...

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TODAY IS THE DAY Completes Eighth Studio Album

TODAY IS THE DAY has completed work on "Axis Of Eden", the band's eighth studio album. The driving creative force behind "Axis Of Eden" is TODAY IS THE DAY founder/frontman Steve Austin, described by Alternative Press magazine as "a noise-rock auteur known as much for his off-kilter, damaging riffs...

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UNSANE: U.S. Tour Dates Announced

New York City's UNSANE will embark on a U.S. tour in May/June in support of its latest release, "Visqueen", on Ipecac Recordings. The dates are as follows: May 18 - Baltimore, MD @ Ottobar May 19 - Philadelphia, PA @ The Khyber May 20 - Providence, RI @ The Livingroom May 21 - Cambridge, MA ...

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Visqueen

The album cover shows a corpse wrapped in blood smeared plastic in the middle of a field. Right, it's the new album from New York legends UNSANE. Having made the jump from Relapse to an even more-fitting label in Ipecac, UNSANE follows up the stick-to-what-got-us-there "Blood Run" with an album in "...

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Light Yourself on Fire

The debut EP from this Tampa, Florida outfit is a tough little bugger and rather enjoyable. "Light Yourself on Fire" (yeah, I could think of a few people worthy of the suggestion too) is 14 minutes of noisy CONVERGE-ish hardcore crossed with a sliver of death that probably owes more to a band like U...

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SLEEPYTIME GORILLA MUSEUM Hard At Work On New Album

San Francisco act SLEEPYTIME GORILLA MUSEUM is currently recording parts of its as-yet-untitled first full-length album for The End Records at Tiny Telephone studios in San Francisco, California with engineer/producer Joel Hamilton (THE BOOK OF KNOTS, SPARKLEHORSE, ELVIS COSTELLO, FRANK BLACK, UNSAN...

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Sis Masis

Exercises in futility don't get much more futile than this one. I'm not talking about "Sis Masis", obviously, because it's a monster of an album with a high rating. But it almost seems silly to write a review for a disc so obscure I had to hunt it down and special order it for $35 ...

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Judas Goats and Dieseleaters

The point where grindcore and noisy hardcore meets is where you will find ED GEIN (the band anyway). On "Judas Goats and Dieseleaters" the trio plays a brand of planned wreckage made from piles of iron riffs, clanging bass, and tolerably scathing, pissed off vocals, all of which contains elements of...

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Coextinction

Fans of pavement-scraping New York hatenoise along the lines of UNSANE and early HELMET should already be familiar with the liverish slice of rancid loud that is JJ PARADISE PLAYER'S CLUB. Put simply, if you buy FUDGE TUNNEL CDs out of the dollar bin to impress upon unwary friends, and if the words...

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Pitchfork and Lost Needles

With everyone appropriately ga-ga over the last couple CLUTCH albums, it's easy to forget that the shaggy, tinfoil-hat-wearing stoner rock artisans used to be a pretty abrasive, heavy, and goddamn mean sounding band. There's a vocal minority out there who think the band peaked right out of the start...

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To Walk a Middle Course

Much ballyhooed for their ability to mix crust, hardcore and metal, and for having three vocalists, KYLESA are all about throwing murky riffs, bottom-of-a-well screams, and lugubrious rhythms into a dour punk stew that name-checks everyone from old NEUROSIS to AMEBIX to EYEHATEGOD to UNSANE as it bu...

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Blood Run

There's a classic left-brain, right-brain dilemma at work when trying to review UNSANE albums. From a strictly analytical point of view, all their shit pretty much sounds the same — Chris Spencer writes a bunch of harsh, angular riffs and yells a lot over them, and the rhythms are all angular and qu...

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How the Great Have Fallen

Like a back alley knife fight between ENTOMBED, UNSANE and PUNGENT STENCH, these unruly U.K. bastards come back from the dead and drop their U.S. debut in the form of a surly, stomping, riff-lobbing tank of an album. The vocals are shrieked, the riffs are made of large, unsubtle cement blocks, and t...

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BLACKFIRE REVELATION Sign With FAT POSSUM/MEGAFORCE

New Orleans' BLACKFIRE REVELATION has signed to Fat Possum/Megaforce Records. The band has an EP out entitled "Gold & Guns On 51" and they will be touring with the UNSANE. BLACKFIRE's innovative and heavy wall of sound comes courtesy of just two band members. A new album will be released late su...