cathedral - cosmic requiem

label: earache
released: 1994

because you have room in your life for twenty-three minute psychedelic doom song

trust me

DL: cosmic requiem

totimoshi - ladron

label: crucial blast
released: 2007

i guess calling the album "burglar" just wouldn't have been cool enough...

when i first discovered the band...it was through this album...and for a week straight i drove everyone crazy with it..."ladron" (guitar hooks a-plenty) and "gods of earth" (the bassline is killer,bro) were constantly getting played constantly (and yes...i know that sounds redundant...but i'm proving a point)...it's like gum in your hair

so if you like jucifer...black sabbath ('70-'75)...post-(A) SENILE ANIMAL melvins...queens of the stone age...denim jackets...and harry caray-like vocals...

DL: ladron

dazzling killmen - medicine me 7"

label: skin graft records
released: 1993

what can be said here about the dazzling killmen that hasn't been said already?

they cover P.I.L. on this 7"

here's a fun story: i once convinced someone that the dillinger escape plan's 1997 SELF-TITLED EP was an unreleased dazzling killmen album

good times

DL: medicine me 7"

black flag - 8.3.81

it's 4 guys calling themselves black flag just playing some music,man

1 - police story
2 - i don't care
3 - revenge
4 - white minority
5 - i've heard it before
6 - depression
7 - six pack
8 - nervous breakdown
9 - jealous again
10 - spray paint
11 - damaged II
12 - padded cell
13 - my rules
14 - no values
15 - fix me
16 - wasted
17 - machine
18 - i've had it

DL: black flag: 8.3.81

the shiny grey killing joke

remember that one time we tried putting SGM on the radio?

yeah.

what were we thinking?

this was a little something that i'd put together back in 2010 to fill up the allotted 2 hour space we were given

so...because i'm a giver (just ask anyone down at the free clinic)...i'm posting it up again

but don't worry...just because you snag this up...you won't have anything mysterious popping up on your body

but still.....

1 - the wait
2 - the death & resurrection show
3 - eighties
4 - the hum
5 - let's all go (to the fire dances)
6 - inside the termite mound
7 - absolute dissent
8 - primitive
9 - pandemonium
10 - drug
11 - asteroid
12 - gratitude
13 - intravenous
14 - love like blood
15 - adorations
16 - frenzy
17 - the fall of because
18 - this world is hell
19 - total invasion
20 - goodbye to the village
21 - lanterns
22 - requiem
23 - the calling

DL: the shiny grey killing joke

dripping slits - short skirts & long nights

label: thinker thought records
released: 2011

"they remind me of the stooges meets kyuss meets mid-era black flag meets the dwarves meets the motor city devils"

and that's what came to mind when i'd seen these fellers throw down live

and you'll probably think the same thought

DL: short skirts & long nights

v/a - loud and ugly

label: bovine
released: 1993 & 1995

originally posted by grAy:

Bovine Records spent a couple years being completely unfuckable-with, everything that label shit out was a pure gold steamer with little diamondcorn kernels in it. Pure perfection.

So it's of no surprise that these two compilation 7"s they released were also big ole piles of hot bullion as well. Solid flaxen poo.

Volume One is a battle royale between the rock megalopolis' of Madison and DeKalb, Wisconsin, which, yeah, is pretty much Holmes and Ali ofWisconsin towns, so you know you're in for a real treat. The bands are:

Festering Rinyanyons - best described as "Midwestern noise rock", like a Sicbay or something

Mercury Players - twangy slabs of pig fuck, kinda Cows meets Surgery meets Crows

Pachinko - underrated band, Unsane by way of Johnboy, super good

Thug - the label owner's band, brutal noisy hardcore that's as ugly as it is spiteful

Volume Two doesn't let up in the least, in fact it pretty much drops the hammer. Drops it square in the middle of your face. The bands are:

Eyehategod - my personal favorite of their jams probably because it's relatively short and upbeat by their standards, I actually stole the verse riff in an old band I was in (full disclosure; I actually also stole the main riff to the song "Blank" for another song in the same band...I was pretty heavy into Eyehategod for a minute).

Floor - they have never released a bad song, and this crawling hatred is no exception

Despise You - some power violence to cleanse the Southern fried sludge out of your ears

Apartment 213 - and more power violence, this time with that serial killa lean.

Thug - I guess if you put out the records you can put your band on as many of these as you fucking want. That being said, this is the best Thug song ever, and might be the best song on this whole collection. Creeping death with added harmonics! P.S. enjoy that lock groove at the end of the song.

So there you go, the Loud And Ugly compilations, bowel movements of the most prized mintage.

DL: loud and ugly: vol. 1-2

scrid - the island of misfit toys

label: -ism recordings
year: 1997

like early clutch and the jesus lizard and killdozer and the cows

but from iowa

DL: the island of misfit toys

v/a - half-cocked ost

label: matador
released: 1994

i remember seeing this movie back in the day...and not really thinking all that much of it

it was your typical kids steal a van full of instruments and pretend to be in a band while out on the road kinda deal

but the soundtrack kinda stuck with me...so i hunted it down...and hunted...and hunted....

until i gave up

apparently it just wasn't cool enough to be stocked in any music store within a (insert distance here) radius of where i was living at the time

and i had eventually forgotten about it

but then i was looking through an old issue of ALTERNATIVE PRESS and it was mentioned

and then i remembered that i had been looking for it

so...to make a not so long story short...i found it

and now i'm sharing it

1 - truckstop - snoopy
2 - unwound - dragnalus
3 - slant 6 - time expired
4 - truckstop - no space
5 - rodan - tron
6 - sleepyhead - cb
7 - ruby falls - dusty
8 - freakwater - drunk friend
9 - truckstop - salmon skin
10 - versus - b-9
11 - polvo - can i ride
12 - retsin - retsin
13 - big hiefer - flowers in our hair
14 - boondoggle - invertabrate
15 - truckstop - all-nighter
16 - crain - hey cops!
17 - helium - magic box
18 - dungbeetle - the man went out
19 - truckstop - truckstop theme
20 - the grifters - the want (live)

DL: half-cocked ost

v/a - in these black days: vol. 1-6

label: hydra head records
released: 1998

you know you like black sabbath

don't lie to yourself

and if you say that you do...you're obviously trying to look cool in front of your friends

or you just like anything past the SABOTAGE album

either way

you're here now

and believe it or not...there are some bands out there that appreciate black sabbath about as much as you do...i know...it's crazy...

but...they seem to like them more than you...i mean...are you getting put on compilations with your black sabbath covers?

no...

because no one wants to hear your abba influenced cover of "who are you?"

but...here are some sabbath covers that folks do want to hear (yes...even your mom would rather hear these over yours)

vol 1:
anal cunt - killing yourself to live
anal cunt - it's alright/sabra cadabra
eyehategod - sabbath jam ("cornucopia"/"hand of doom"/"behind the wall of sleep")

vol 2:
brutal truth - cornucopia
converge - snowblind

vol 3:
today is the day - sabbath bloody sabbath
coalesce - supernaut

vol 4:
cavity - into the void
cable - planet caravan
jesuit - hole in the sky
overcast - national acrobat

vol 5:
cave in - n.i.b.
botch - the wizard

vol 6:
neurosis - children of the grave
soilent green - lord of the southern priest ("lord of this world"/the sign of the southern cross"/"disturbing the priest")

DL: in these black days: vol. 1-6