BLASTBEAT CRUST! (and some more stuff)

So, this one is gonna be about crust, crust with blastbeats. Why? Because all you guys wanna run with is melodic ass neocrust and slow ass stenchcore, and I have not heard a decent crust band in a million years. Don't get me wrong, I love Misery, and slow ass crust (although neocrust is fucking shit, most of the time), its fine, but lets not forget the real deal here. I play in a crust band, its got blastbeats, and everyone is like, oh my god, how uniue and interesting!! It's not unique, it's not interesting, y'all just forgot how its done. Looking at you younger cats mostly, older guys still know whats good, for the most part, although yall getting soft too.

The picture is of my wife and child as of last year in front of a big as spiece of some cat named "Grind". I know, it looks like "Gryno" or some shit, but it is actually grind. Ready?

Autoritar are form Germany, and unlike most music from Germany, with a few notable exceptions, they do NOT suck ass. They play tons of d-beats and blastbeats, tight enough, but loose enough to let the soul of the music waft around. Gotta be like one of my favorites. The lyrics are fairly mundane PC punk lyrics. Not that impressed by them in that sense. But they fucking rule, the vocals are total cookie monster, they get to be hillarious, especially on the split with AG.

Autoritar/ Abuso Sonoro

Two good bands, but Autoritar fuckin take the cake. Really anarcho, super crusty shit on this one, hardly any blast beats.

Autoritar/Coma

Fuckin awesome. I dont like Coma, but Autoritar simply rule on this one. Fast as fuck, Bastard cover, blast beats all the way, d-beat song on here as well. This is the epitome of a good split EP for me. Coma play like mid-tempo really brutal d-beat, tis swell, but no blastbeats. So....

Autoritar/Vomit For Breakfast

This might be a repost, I fucking hype both of these bands like non-stop. They both rule, VFB is at their peak o this one, super noisy, sloppy, fucked up, really ridiculously fast, great riffage, really crazy shrieking vocals. Autoritar are not their usual selves on this one, and rule slightly less then some of their other releases.

Autoritar/Totalitar

D-beat, for the most part. Both of these guys. It's decent, Autoritar slaughter the legendary Swedes, though.

Autoritar/ Warsore

This is my least favorite Autoritar release. Hardly any blasting, funny intros, though. A good band knows who to do splits with, though, and of course, Warsore fucking rule. They are not my favs either, but you now what you are getting with them, always. This one is a 12", it's fairly long, but its alright.

Autoritar: self-title

Again, hardly any blastbeats, but really, really decent. Good d-beats, fucking awesome riffage, funny vocals, its got the standard Autoritar stuff going for it.

Autoritar/ Agathocles

And of course, all good bands have a split with Agathocles. This is a great record, both sides absolutely slay, classic AG stuff, and Autoritar absolutely slay on this one, they have a song called disbeat on here, lots of fast stuff as well.

Oh, and if you got a problem with my Agathocles obsession, then here is a record for you. Its their splti with Vomit Fall, who are like an awesome grind band, and I have never heard from them since, or before. I dont know where they are from, but they rule. Also, AG play awesome music on this one. This is one of those rare gems that has an atmosphere to it, feels like nothing else. Both sides. Awesome. Get it here.

Destroy are my favorite crust band. See why find out for yourself. Fir all of you lazy assholes, here is a discography, although I really do suggest that you get some of their EPs and dwell on them first, cuz they are so awesome, you need a couple of listens. These records feel so unlike anything else at all. It's one of those cases when yo can ear the chemistry and the awesomeness on the records. And of course, tons of fastcore and even quicker blastbeats, great shrieking and also a really, really bad ass growl. But its like punked out, man, just listen.

Destroy! Burn This Racist System Down

Best 7", perhaps in my collection at all. Great shortb songs, really catchy, longer crust songs are also awesome, drumming si fucking on par, vocals, as always,a nd every riff is memorable. Its like edge of your seat the whole time that it is on. Just the best crust band, by far.

Destroy!/ Disrupt

Everything that is good about crust. Grime, blastbeats,, d-beats, hardcore shit, mid-tempos, awesome growling and yelling, good lyrics, pissed off, but still somehow disgusting and grating. Really mindblowing shit. The bets meets the best.

VA: Bloodless Unreality Compilation 7"

Destroy on here, Hellnation on here, Assuck on here,a nd some band that is always on the comps that are totally left in the dust, this time called Confrontation. All of these three other bands have been on this blog, you know they are absolutely great, Destroy sound like a little bassier and more low end than usual, and the songs are awesome, I love these tracks.

Axiom are one of those Tribal War crust bands form Portland, some of these folks now play in Hellshock, with whom I have had the pleasure to drink with, and also in Resistant Culture, who I might post later on, and who play like Native American hardcore, its weird, sorta beatdownish. But anyway, who cares, Axiom play crust, its full of blastbeats, really, really evil and dark sounding, these folks know about their metal, but do not over do it, in fact, tis the type of fats crust that leans heavily on the hardcore side.

Axiom: Impaled By Chaos

This si an EP, its crappy sound quality, the upload aint that good either, but its awesome, more metal then any of their other stuff. Awesome EP though, the intro is really good as well. The riffage is great, but the drumming takes it all.

Axiom: Apathy and Privilege

Real classic crust shit, with blasbeats. More hardcore then anything else, has a spoken word track on here about suburban american punks who pretend to be poor and thus squander all of the wealth that is at their disposal. Really good little monologue, although I do not like spoken word on my records, but this one is aight.

Axiom: Establishing A Culture Of Resistance

Their best one in my opinion. Four tracks, absolutely rules, blastbeats and a classic d-beat tune on here as well. This one is really awesome.

Okay, last band I wanna talk about today is Dismachine. Big up to Dr. Slayer for hooking me up with these guys. Fucking grindcore band, with this name, they are crusties, but the music is straight up grindcore, for real. Its awesome.

Dismachine/ Nailed down

Grindcore band versus some PV. Really noisy and fucked up split, really good material, but of course, Dismachine take the cake with their crusty feeling grindcore.

Dismachine/ Cumbrage

Same members in both fo these bands, Cumbrage is a d-beat band, really negative and fucked up atmosphere on both of these guys. Dismachine are a filthy, raw as fuck band on this one, they absolutely rule.

So yeah, keep that shit in mind.

Black Metal, eh???

Since Marci posted about black metal last, I figured i'd run with it, and make it black metal week, for black metal geeks, here at the shrine of blast beat. I am not gonna post any of this new wave of black "metal" or black noise, or call it what the fuck you want. I am not such a big fan of it. I think it is well done musically, but in the end, its kind of just a joke. Black metal was, after all, metal. So I am gonna post what I think is good, and recent, or just needs mention.

First up is Proclamation from Spain, the least black metal place I can think of besides, like, Portugal, or Costa Rica. They play war metal, sounds like Blasphemy but with better riffs, and even sloppier. This is atrociously played, make no mistake, but the riffage is awesome, the sound and atmosphere are nailed right fuckin on. I have two of their CDs, and they just released a third one which looks exactly like the first two. Logo, black background, and a demonic skull with horns of some sort. Clearly these guys know and understand the importance of keeping it real. This second CD, pictured above, shows somewhat improved musical skills, although not really, and is more bestial, more war metal like than the first. The sound is somewhat crisper, but its still mysterious sounding, though.

GRAB IT HERE.

This is their first one, Advent Of The Black Omen. It is sloppier than their second, and the sound is super mysterious, cool ritualistic intros, non-stop mid-tempo blasts, every riff is blasting, its kinda funny, actually, but I really am fond of this record. It is played terribly, and is terribly primitive, but in a good sense. Its refreshing, and fucking down right evil, hateful, malignant and belligerent in a number of ways. The sound is just so fucking good.

RIGHT HERE, BUDDY.

Next up is Holland's answer to the Svarte Sirkel crap, this is Bestial Summoning, and if you dont know them, and you like classic black metal, you are missing out big time. Contemporary to all of those church burning alcoholics in the North, these boys had the same idea, mimcked it off of the black metal scene, but did it better than 99% of them viking folk. This shit fucking rules, the vocals are absolutely tortured. In fact, when a friend of mine lent this to me, the first I heard was 'The Dark War Has Begun', I swore the vocals had effects on them. So he sent me their 'Live In Vernay' stuff as well, and I must say I was wrong. I included both of them in the same zip, so you should not have trouble ith that. A good way to judge a band is to look at their logo......

Holy shit, a demonic goat, a half moon, and 666, all in the same logo???? Also an inverted pentagram? Shit all they are lacking is an up turned crucifix, and we would be in business. Also, take a look at this frontman. When was the last time YOU had sais as part fo your stage performance, huh, asshole?

That is classic black metal stuff, skinny, geeky white kid with face paint and sais. This is what its fucking about, not this avantgarde black noise stuff. Although I actually do like that stuff too. Its just taking yourself seriosuly, I never liked that about black metal. Anyway, aweosme music for you, RIGHT HERE, BUDDY.

This next one is actually sick, it is very difficult to listen to, and disturbing on a level that very few things in general tend to be. This is one of those albums where, after listening to it, I felt ridiculously depressed and totally disassociated from everything. It had a very profound effect on me, it made me feel useless, miserable, a waste of time, and that nothing matters, and everything sucks. I believe that is the purpose of black metal, and this stuff achieves it, even if it is not quiet straight up black metal. It has elements of doom/sludge, black metal, grindcore, death metal, dark ambient, power electronics/noise, and is the sort of music you could not play outside of a studio, ever. This was also posted on Cephalochromoscope, but this is my rip of the CD, which was generously lent ot me by Alex of Krupskaya, who likes this kind of crap.
THANK ALEX.

This last one I am sure is suppossed to be taken very seriously and is supposed to be very insightful and revelatory, I think it is just the funniest shit ever. Called black drone by followers of this pathetic genre, it is just noise, of the intellectual variety, not harsh, just bowed chellos and double basses, and low frequencies with a guy mumbling half intelligible stuff over it. Wolfmangler are quiet fun to listen to, and they have this werid wolf concept going on with their band. Its fairly awesome. Absolutely no drums at all on this one, nipping the possibility of blast beats in the bud. LAUGH YOUR ASS OFF.

Escape routes

“Escapism is mental diversion by means of entertainment or recreation, as an "escape" from the perceived unpleasant or banal aspects of daily life.”

This is the definition of escapism, as it stands on wikipedia. Routes of escape from monotony and control, without which we would all go insane. These are the little breaks and breaches in the system that make life bearable. The spliff at the end of the day, the odd hour of playing your favorite video game, the Friday night you don’t remember from getting absolutely wasted. There are ways to maximize the time you spend escaping form reality, and make it a habit, yes indeed, to spend as much time as possible educating yourself at your leisure, relaxing outside of institutionalization, that is to say, illegally, or legally, but in a way that is looked down upon. Every time you are in one of these situations, every time you escape, you are committing if something that they just cannot ban, then something that is considered immoral, antisocial, geeky, nerdy, in one word, marginalized. Escapism can be very productive, and is a means to create outside of the system. Take the tape distro that is associated with this blog, and is run by my esteemed partner, marci. It is just a waste of time, really, its an escape, making tapes, 20-30 of them at a time, he does not make any money off of it, he does not do anything grand or gigantic for the hardcore scene, he is not overthrowing governments, but what he is doing, is using his time for himself, to do shit that he feels like fucking doing, and using his creative skills in doing so. Every time I rehearse, or get high, or do the necessary preparations for doing so, I am engaging actively in escapism. This tape distro, this blog, my bands, my addiction to cannabis, are all escape routes.

The escape from structured music is noise. Noise can be categorized in many different ways, and in many different ways can one achieve making noise. However, in my opinion, the best is when grind is so harsh, so raw and so filthy, that it is basically noise. This genre is called noise-grind or raw grind. Whatever. I remember the first band I heard that did this, they were the mighty Gore Beyond Necropsy. I got a bunch of their stuff form Edwin at the Underground Collection, back when you could still trade him CD-Rs, before that somehow stopped. After that it was instantly love.

This link is to 4 of their splits, the one with Disgorge (Aus), who suck really hard, the one with Senseless Apocalypse, who are a japanese power violence- grind band, and who also happent o be one of my favorites of all time, ever. And also, the classic split with Regurgitate and with Warsore. If you do not know who those two bands are, lurk more. GBN do it big on all of these ones, especially the last two. The Rgte sid eof their split sounds like white noise, almost.It is full of reverb, and the guitar is basically just static. GBN have a really unique, filth encrusted, short noise attacks, full of feedback, lots of low end, very deep growls, sounds harsh and crazy, with intros that are not too long, and are noot your typical intros. They are also fun. Just good grindcore, some of it is improvised, or sounds like it.

http://www.mediafire.com/?zd5oorzyxwl

And the tracks are in AAC format. If you dont like it, convert it.

Mark