THAT DUB POST

Grab a fat sack, I'm bringing the never before heard shit (on tihs blog), so sit down. It's been a while, I know, had mad shit to take care of and Marci has been a total flake about caring for the blog. I got two active bands now, Im gonna tour Holland and Germany and Slovakia and the Czech republic, and am gonna play a gig with Ratos De Porao. Pretty neat, the other band, Boz Cordolla, is recording in may, so I have had my fair share of shit to deal with, besides hustling to stay alive, raising my kids, and fucking your girlfriend.
But I gitta keep shit real, my blog is a priority. I just have not found the time to deal with it nowadays. Some of you might know, I love dub. Not dubstep, not reggae, old, grimmy as fuck, majestic as fuck, soaring high as a kite dub. And yes, there are bands out there that mix in blastbeats with dub, although they are not dub bands. The first one that comes ot my mind is Real Reggae.
They are Japanese, they fucking rule, and they mix all sorts of genres. I hope they mad eit through the tsunami unuhurt, so far all of my friends on that island have been alright, and no one is dead, although some contacts disappeared. I hope all is well over there, I am personally invested in the well being of Japan...anyway, back to the post. On some of their recordings they are just like any other Japanese fastcore band, but then, sometimes, they bust out the dub, the reggae, the pop, the grind, all sorts of metal as well, its awesome. I am just gonna put a couple of ones up here, as their discography is extensive, and I do not have all of it.

Real Reggae- THC best+ Maze
Two albums, mostly fastcore stuff, some dub thrown in, pretty decent. This is the basic starter package of Real Reggae's shit. If Real Reggae was weed, than this album would be a sick bag of Northern Lights.

Real Reggae- Time Lag's Memories
Totally engrish title, but the sickest album. Such a diverse array of shit being played, which I usually do not like, but they pull it off somehow. There is even a pop song on here, with instruments, granted, but it is a fucking pop song. This would be like a donkey dick of some reallly potent super skunk.

Real Reggae- Hellnation split
Two of my absolute favs in almost grindcore tempo HC. Favorite Hellnation song on here as well, called 'Thug'. Sloppy, lo-fi, fast, fucking great. This would be like a dime sack of haze thats tiny and grimy, but gets your whole crew blazed.

VA- Tomorrow will be worse 1.
A comp of a bunch of 7" materials, includes the split between Hellnation and Nice View, Capitalist Casualties and Flash Gordon, also, some Real Reggae that starts off wiht the most killer of all dub reggae intros. And then breaks into their old style of fucking things up. This would be like a schmorges board of dime sacks, all pretty good, some pretty fruitty.

Hellnation-Real Reagge- Slight Slappers split CD
3 way split, Hellnation bring not their peak performance, but close to it, emoed out intro as well, pretty weird. But then, like a bunch of short fast songs, and then two live sets one of Slight Slappers, and one of Real Reggae. I dont much like live sets, but these ones are alright, I guess, however, on the end of this is like one of the most killer dub tracks of all time. It starts with a dub track they played live, that one is noisy as fuck, and good, and then it changes into a studio dub track that is just mind blowing. This would be like spliff your friend and you roled, where some of it is schwag, and some of it is like golden, bomb ass nugs.

By the way, if you wanna get into dub, here is all of the Commandments Of Dub series from Jah Shaka. Enjoy.

The other thing I want to share with you is a recent discovery of mine, the early demos of Embrionic Death. The album I uploaded and ripped is called Stream of Solidarity, and is like tech/thrash/death form the early 90s, so complicated shit and weird riffing, but not in that sentence band, metalcore meshuggah none sense, which I fucking despise. Its actually good, the songs make sense and progress, even though there is like a million riffs in each song. And then I get an e-mail with some fucking awesome links in it, to their early stuff, which also rules, but is primitive.
However, this brings me to the second part of the story. It has to do with goregrind. Goregrind nowadays fucking sucks, period. Its been sucking for a while, and few people are keeping it real. This is the type of shit that should be run, Carcass, General Surgery type shit, except this one is better played and unique to a certain extent. More gore I like. Hope you enjoy, next time I will try to do a post about crust with blastbeats in it. hopefully, that will happen, been meaning to do so. Also, a post form Marci should be around soon. Also, last demo is an old rip, its in AAC format.
Embryonic Death- Dead Rotten Corpse demo 1991
Embryonic Death- Regurgitate the Dead demo 1992
Embryonic Death- Stream of Solidarity demo 1993

Other People's Shit, That I wish Were My Own

So, I was cruising the internets when I found some shit that needs to be posted as other people's shit. It is from this blog, which is not yet on our blog roll, but will most likely be before you read this entry. I keep on finding new and awesome shit all over the place, with some blogs having just one or two albums or EPs, or even demos that I want, and I must say, it is making me super pleased. It is pleasing me.
The music on here is the awesome Wakenn Karole Romanoff, who rule, and this is their demo, and also their split with Rob Berdella, which cover I supplied ever so graciously, at the header. It is really fucking filthy hardcore, power violence if you will, realy friggin fast, and it is just music that feels so right when you hear it, like, yeah, this is what it should sound like, if its gonna be like this, and if its not sounding like this, why make it like this? I dunno if that made sense, but its awesome. The sound quality is again a bit mysterious, but I like it. I like this sort of sound quality. It is lo-fi but not too much, just enough where you cannot hear everything, but it enhances everythign that is happening. It sounds organic, alive, gritty, stinking, messed up, not overly noisy like some Japanese hardcore or crasher crust, and not an intentional bedroom recording either. They wanted to make it sound good, not too fancy, and that is what they did. I really like the way the songs are written too, a little bit like Short Hate Temper, short songs, fast as fuck. I think you get the idea.

Its fucking good.


To speak further of sound quality that is raw and delightful, one of my all time favorite bands, Entrails Massacre, are totally like that. This is Their split with Subcut, a classic by all means. Got it off a tarde on the internet, never even saw a copy of it. How sad is that? I don't feel like its other peoples shit, cuz it was a trade, and I fell in love with it so hard, I used to listen to the Entrails Massacre side everyday when I would get high, so I heard it a great deal. This is not my rip, but one that is much cooler, with inlay and all that shit. I am almost certain that I got it from Keep The Grindcore Alive. Which is one of the best places on earth. If I could, I would move there.
Entrails Massacre play grindcore, whaever anyone might say. Its abit soulful, much more so than other siht I like, but its really aggressive, and the vocals are still really good on this one. They are good later on too, but not this good. The guitars sound all out of tune, and they make each riff totally unique, the sound on this album is also totally unique, this is one of the prime examples of how a grindcore record should sound. The first song has to be the best thing to get high too.
The Subcut side is also really good, hyperblasting, raw as fuck political grindcore that is pissed and typically South American, but it just pales in comparisson. If this were a split with any other band during any other era, they would be the standout. But the yget owned, as tghis is one of those rare times when a band out does not just itself, but just happens to make that one record that is so good it just makes most other things look weak in comparrison.

You know you want to hear it after that rant.

I also wt to congratualte myself, as this is the firts time that I only wrote about the music. This will be kept to a minimum. Butt I could not help it, and this is long enough for now. When I get my vinyl ripping in order, it is over for you guys, though.

So for some reason I cannot embed videos on here. So you just have to take my word for it, these vids are fucking awesome, really high quality, really dank, from a club in Zenta, Serbia called Zeppelin. It is our good friends form Jack and Another Way, who now share a drummer, the amazing Mr. Bandi. I know Hungary was never known for its high quality grindcore,but that is changing fast, and I am really fucking glad. It is good to finally hear my countrymen play something outside of drunken street punk, oi!, and straight edge hardcore. Not hating on any of that shit, but I like grind more than anything, and so far thats been the only thing that was even half decently, or half regularly played.

So this is one of the Jack classics, "Ezt Veri Belénk A Média". It means, "This is what the media forces on us", literally it means, this is what the media beats into us. But thats justa turn of phrase. How do you turn a phrase?

This is another Jack classic, real old song, called "Vissza Ki Az Utcára". It means, "Back to the streets", real hip-hop shit going on with that one.

This is Another Way's set. In my humble opinion, they are the best band to play in Hungary currently. What do they play? They call it fastcore, but it's moore like grind, I guess, it's totally unique, fast as fuck, grind-hardcore oriented shit. We really gotta come up with a name for this shit. Its sort fo melodic, but not in the Tragedy clone band sort of way, its fuckin fast, its brutal, but not in the death metal sort fo way, its kinda technical, but remains fucking hardcore. You have to hear ti. Better than your bands, for sure. Check it.

This one is a new one from Jack, I have not heard it yet, its called "Szolgaságból Szolgaságba".