No Funeral - Introvert

We've been slacking real fuckin hard on posting on the blog recently but a lot of that is due to the time that we've been spending writing and recording this EP.  Check it out if you're into metallic hardcore or being depressed.

Tracklist

1. Pity

2. Shallow

3. Aware And Awake

4. Sleep

5. Interlude

6. Guilt

7. Descent

Bandcamp Download (Free)

https://introverthc.bandcamp.com/album/no-funeral

Tragedy Will Find Us - Counterparts

We haven't posted in awhile because it's summer, we play in a band, and I prefer being outside to sitting on my computer, but new Counterparts just leaked.  I'm just now listening to it for the first time but I've been anticipating this album for a long time now and I'm sure a lot of other people have too.  Here it is for all of the sad boi party people.

Tracklist

1. Stillborn

2. Thread

3. Resonate

4. Stranger

5. Burn

6. Tragedy

7. Withdrawl

8. Choke

9. Collapse

10. Drown

11. Solace

320kbps Download

http://www74.zippyshare.com/v/4G4eMqhg/file.html

Jaded Love - The Beautiful Ones

I had never listened to The Beautiful Ones until today.  They're a band that I hear about constantly and know that I should check out but am always too lazy to do it.  I was driving with a friend today and he put this album on and it rips.  Great flows and a ridiculous guitar tone.  I was literally smiling through the entire third song just because I was so into the sound of the band.  This is a great jam for any fan of hardcore that is looking for more than beatdown riffs and pissed off lyrics.  I'll definitely be jamming it for awhile and I'm hoping everyone else will too.

Tracklist

1. Jaded

2. Preface (Take It All Away)

3. Exhale (Room 312)

4. Transcend

5. The Morning

6. Flowercrown

7. Lovers Stomp

8. Bloom & Destroy

9. Stay

10. Heart In A Jar

11. Nothing. Existing. Missing

320kbps Download

http://uploaded.net/file/fevori6h

The Story So Far - The Story So Far

I only had time to listen to this once but I know that people will be looking everywhere for this one for awhile.  I don't listen to a large amount of pop punk anymore but The Story So Far is a pop punk band that I find myself going back to occasionally.  I loved their first two albums and even though I got burnt out on how they are suddenly everyone's favorite band and how they're the go to band of every tumblr kid ever, I found myself really hoping that this would be a good album and I honestly was really looking forward to this coming out.  After listening to all of the singles and then listening through the album once I think that it is probably going to hold up for all of their fans.  It seems like they realized that what they have done for their past two albums will sell records and do well for them so they didn't really look to change anything up.  I personally was hoping to see more of a hardcore influence in this album knowing that they have toured with a few hardcore bands over the past few years and after seeing TSSF's vocalist come out with a hardcore side project but I was definitely very wrong.  I remember them saying in an interview that they would never play Clairvoyant live because their live shows are energetic and after hearing this album I hope that it stays that way.  There are a few pretty soft songs on this album and I hope that they don't try to just start appealing to the tumblr girls that are getting their parents to buy them merch.  But it's a good album overall and worth checking out.  And if you're a big pop punk fan then definitely listen to it because I'm sure your pants are already filled with cum at the thought of new songs from them.

Tracklist

1. Smile

2. Heavy Gloom

3. Distaste

4. Solo

5. Mock

6. How You Are

7. Nerve

8. Phantom

9. Scowl

10. Stalemate

320kbps Download

http://www3.zippyshare.com/v/vD1ZGWsl/file.html

Blurryface - Twenty One Pilots

I've been busy with finals recently so I'm about to upload everything that I've been listening to recently.

I've been anticipating this album pretty highly and it just leaked the other day.  I wasn't a fan of these guys at all until seeing them at a festival last summer.  After I checked them out I was pretty impressed that it was pop music that wasn't about partying and calling girls bitches.  After listening to a few albums I realized that this guy is actually pretty fucked up.  Some of the songs sound really poppy on the top layer but the second you start dissecting the lyrics you realize that this shit is a little fucked up.  And personally, I appreciate that.  This album has a few songs that are bangers.  Stressed Out was immediately one of my favorite songs to be released this year.  With that being said, some songs on this album are pretty damn terrible.  I really hate Fairly Local and Doubt.  Those songs just sound like they're trying to break into the mainstream.  Twenty One Pilots has seen a lot of success recently and I have a feeling that this album could help them break further into the mainstream but I think that a few of these songs will really turn off some of their old fans.  Overall I think this is a good album.  Definitely poppier than I would like, but I'm sure it'll still get some plays from me and I'm still going to try to catch them on their next tour to see what kind of crowd they're trying to appeal to. 

Tracklist

1. Heavydirtysoul

2. Stressed Out

3. Ride

4. Fairly Local

5. Tear In My Heart

6. Lane Boy

7. The Judge

8. Doubt

9. Polarize

10. We Don't Believe What's On TV

11. Message Man

12. Hometown

13. Not Today

14. Goner

256 Download

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Cherry Bomb - Tyler The Creator

This literally just leaked.  Hopefully it holds up to the recent good rap albums.

Tracklist

1. Deathcamp

2. Buffalo

3. Pilot

4. Run

5. Find Your Wings

6. Cherry Bomb

7. Blowmyload

8. 2Seater

9. The Brownstains

10. Fucking Young

11. Smuckers

12. Keep Da O's

13. Okaga, CA

Download 320kbps

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Sewage- Purge

I tried to come up with a witty metaphor that captures the extreme intensity of Purge’s latest five song effort, “Sewage”, but there is no possible way to understand the almost laughable brutality without listening to it first. The breakneck pace, bone-crushing vocals, and unflinchingly aggressive beatdown riffs make this a truly impressive release and one of my favorite powerviolence albums I’ve had the pleasure of listening too. Pleasure might be the wrong word, however, as the negativity that seethes within every song on “Sewage” is palpable and the enjoyment comes mostly from the adrenaline rushes that overwhelm the listener with every explosion of blast beats and half time breakdown.

Purge wastes no time on “Sewage”, delivering crushing riffs and irresistible grooves on the opening track, More Wolf than Thee. The track blazes into my favorite track, Piss on the Marble, leaving absolutely no respite. The furious blast beats and impressive guitar work in the first half of the song hardly prepare the listener for the final 15 seconds. I cannot put into words how heavy this outro riff is, but no matter how many times I listen to it, it always causes involuntary bedroom/car moshing. Just absolutely fucking brutal. The third track, Backyard Wrestling, could not have been more aptly named. Opening again with robotically accurate blast beats, the song follows the same familiar structure of the two opening songs, before devolving again into a breakdown. This does become a little tiresome, considering that the fourth song, Chemo, also follows this pattern, but Purge manages to avoid suffering from this error too much because of the writing quality and impressive drumming. The final track, Leper, is by far the longest song on the EP, and is the only song to break from the blast-beats-into-breakdown formula so successfully wielded on the other for tracks. The guitar only opening riff creates a haunting atmosphere quickly broken by another down-tempo breakdown. Fortunately, the song recovers, building into a more melodic blast beat passage before slowing back down into one of the cooler, and calmer, riffs on the album.

All in all, “Sewage” is an impressive release from a young band. Pittsburgh has become a breeding ground for original and heavy hardcore and Purge is one of the most exciting bands to emerge from the scene thus far. Pick up this EP and their earlier ones and keep an eye out for any shows in your area, because we all know listening to these songs live will cause some casualties.

-Jack

Tracklist

1. More Wolf than Thee
2. Piss on the Marble
3. Backyard Wrestling
4. Chemo
5. Leper

Download

 http://www4.zippyshare.com/v/58968605/file.html

Nothing For Us Here- Cult Leader

Cult Leader formed from the remains of legendary sludge/hardcore group Gaza and quickly found their stride with the release of “Nothing For Us Here” in April of 2014. Comprised of 6 tracks, the EP totals a brutal 18 minutes of brooding, dissonant hardcore that sets the mood from the opening track God’s Lonely Children. Anthony Lucero’s goosebump inducing vocals ring out over the sea of harsh feedback and sparse, arrhythmic drumming with chants of “There is nothing for us here, move on”, destroying any remaining sense of hope the listener might cling to within the first minute. The 99 second noise introduction gives way to the furious opening blast beats of Flightless Birds, a song that provides no respite from the grinding fury and gives us our first look at the songwriting prowess of Cult Leader. Discordant but beautifully constructed progressions highlight the technical ability of the band but throughout the EP Cult Leader never becomes reliant on technicality to keep the listeners attention.

The true standout track on this album is the third, Mongrel. Mongrel might be the most instrumentally simple and repetitive, but there’s something so powerful about the way the tension is built and released through a riff only varied through the addition and subtraction of vocals, bass, and a second guitar. The song builds to a furious finale and ends suddenly with only a moment’s rest before the start of The Indoctrinator’s Deathbed, a song that inevitably draws comparisons to Gaza’s roots in sludge metal. The transition into Skin Crawler is so natural and seamless it feels like the same song, although Skin Crawler is significantly groovier than the aggressive sludge of The Indoctrinator’s Deathbed. Both songs are good, but don’t stand out as anything special given the bar set by the EP’s opening three songs.

“Nothing For Us Here” ends on the highest of notes with Driftwood, a six minute long song filled to the brim with haunting, melodic guitar work and earnest lyricism. Again, this song stands out because of Cult Leader’s skillful build and release of tension with the song growing to a massive, powerful climax before slowly fading out, bringing the listener back to reality. This song will make you feel sad, and any song that can so intensely conjure those kinds of emotions is truly well written.

Fortunately for fans of hardcore everywhere, Cult Leader recently finished recording their new album but as of now it does not have a release date. If “Nothing For Us Here” is any indication, it will be one of the top albums of 2015. I’d say that Cult Leader is one of the hottest new bands in hardcore, but given 75% of the band’s experience in Gaza, that seems a bit disingenuous. Nevertheless, you should not sleep on this band because it’s apparent great things are on the way.

-Jack

Tracklist:

1.       God’s Lonely Children

2.       Flightless Birds

3.       Mongrel

4.       The Indoctrinator’s Deathbed

5.       Skin Crawler

6.       Driftwood

Download (320kbps)

http://www78.zippyshare.com/v/12094110/file.html

True Enemy - Disgrace

This shit bangs.  The only time that I had ever listened to Disgrace before this was a split that they put out with Harness awhile back and I remember really liking it but for some reason they always slipped my mind and I never went to find anything else by them.  I was on a road trip and probably got three different texts a day telling me to download this and give it a listen so it's the first thing that I did when I got back.  Really sweet metallic guitar tone and it's riff city bitch.  Definitely makes sense that the members play in Twitching Tongues too.  If you're a fan of Twitching Tongues check it out for the riffs, and if you don't like Twitching Tongues because of the singing check it out because it's just a more aggressive version of TT's riffs but without any of the singing.

Tracklist

1. True Enemy

2. No More Fools

3. Slave To The Lead God

4. Uncreation

5. 1000 Voices

6. Conquered

7. The Forgotten Land

8. The Well

9. Segue

10. Bootlicker

11. The Dawn

12. Conclusion

320kbps Download

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To Pimp A Butterfly - Kendrick Lamar

Kendrick Lamar is another rapper that I'm actually into right now so it was cool that this and Earl dropped around the same time.  This is another album that if you're into something that is actually artist and lyrically interesting that you should listen to.  In my opinion it does go a little too far out there sometimes, but overall it's a pretty solid album.  It deserves all of the hype it got and it's good to see that there are still some mainstream artists that don't just put bullshit out to hear it on the radio.  

Tracklist

1. Wesley's Theory

2. For Free? (Interlude)

3. King Kunta

4. Institutionalized

5. These Walls

6. u

7. Alright

8. For Sale? (Interlude)

9. Momma

10. Hood Politics

11. How Much A Dollar Cost

12. Complexion (A Zulu Love)

13. The Blacker The Berry

14. You Ain't Gotta Lie (Momma Said)

15. i

16. Mortal Man

320kbps Download

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I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside - Earl Sweatshirt

New Earl record.  I'm a fan of rap that is more about lyrics than just stupid hype.  This is a pretty solid record and a nice listen if you're just trying to chill.  I'll always be a fan of a smart rapper that's pissed off and Earl Sweatshirt is one of the few people that's still doing that in my opinion.

Tracklist

1. Huey

2. Mantra

3. Faucet

4. Grief

5. Off Top

6. Grown Ups Ft. Dash

7. AM // Radio Ft. Wiki

8. Inside

9. DNA Ft. Na'kel

10. Wool Ft. Vince Staples

320kbps Download

http://uploaded.net/file/bqf225vy

Kintsugi - Death Cab For Cutie

I have been crazy busy recently and wasn't by a computer so I'm going to catch up on posts and just do very short descriptions so that the music is out there for people who want it.

Everyone has a soft spot for Death Cab.  They haven't done anything in about 4 years and I haven't had the chance to listen to this since I literally saw that it leaked in 320 about two minutes ago so here it is for all of the soft boiz that want to impress a girl.

Tracklist

1. No Room In Frame

2. Black Sun

3. The Ghosts Of Beverly Drive

4. Little Wanderer

5. You've Haunted Me All My Life

6. Hold No Guns

7. Everything's A Ceiling

8. Good Help (Is So Hard To Find)

9. El Dorado

10. Ingenue

11. Binary Sea

320kbps Download

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Strangers To Ourselves - Modest Mouse

I'm a little late to the game on this one but at the same time I've never really been into Modest Mouse so I'm impressed with myself for catching it this fast.  I had heard good things about the song Lampshades On Fire from this album so I went and checked it out and it's one of the catchiest damn songs that I've ever heard.  I've listened through the entire album now a few songs and overall it is a pretty good album.  There are definitely a few standout songs and there are a few songs that I'm really not a fan of.  The song Pistol makes me want to kill myself for example.  But overall it's worth listening to even if you're normally not into this type of music.  I know that I have never sat down and listened through a Modest Mouse album until earlier this week but after this one I'm sure that I'll try to keep up to date on them.  

Tracklist

1. Strangers To Ourselves

2. Lampshades On Fire

3. Shit In Your Cut

4. Pistol (A. Cunanan, Miami, FL. 1996)

5. Ansel

6. The Ground Walks, With Time In A Box

7. Coyotes

8. Pups To Dust

9. Sugar Boats

10. Wicked Campaign

11. Be Brave

12. God Is An Indian And You're An Asshole

13. The Tortoise And The Tourist

14. The Best Room

15. Of Course We Know

320kbps Download

http://uploaded.net/file/90nhlyw6

Belief In The Truth Or Nothing - Eternal Sleep

I booked these guys about a year ago and expected very little out of it.  Within about 30 seconds of their set beginning me and everyone else in the room realized that these guys are an unrecognized powerhouse.  There are very few people left in the Oklahoma music scene that don't think Eternal Sleep absolutely rips.  This is their most recent release and it's a great example of what you're going to get when checking them out.  Every song is punishing and exciting.  You can really feel that there is some passion behind their music.  Most likely you have never taken the time to check them out or you've never even heard of them, but I really encourage everyone to.  This is a short EP so it's perfect for someone who is new to the band.

Tracklist

1. Pyramid

2. Mirror

3. Old Friends

320kbps Download

http://www9.zippyshare.com/v/uX3n3wC5/file.html

Reckoning EP - Rotting Out

This is the newest EP from Rotting Out.  I'm not entirely sure why they decided to drop an EP right now, but it's a nice few songs to listen to.  The EP is 3 new songs and then 2 Circle Jerks covers.  The 3 new songs have a pretty groovy feel and sound like they belong on their last LP The Wrong Way.  It's a few more Rotting Out songs filled with the big riffs that you're used to and then some gang chants.  Overall it's nothing overly exciting in my opinion.  It's a few songs that I'll have fun seeing live but it's nothing that I'm going to be dying to go back and listen to a hundred times.  I've got to appreciate that Rotting Out hasn't changed their style.  It doesn't seem like they ever will.  If you're into this go listen to their album Street Prowl and lose your fucking mind.

Tracklist

1. Born

2. Eyes Wide

3. End Of The Road

4. I Don't Care (Circle Jerks Cover)

5. Live Fast Die Young ( Circle Jerks Cover)

Download 256kbps

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Hungry Hands- American Standards

For a band formerly signed to Victory Records, American Standards’ new EP “Hungry Hands” proves that the band escaped from the infamous label’s toxic touch alive and well enough to produce one of the year’s most impressive efforts. The three song EP runs at just under 10 minutes, and the band does not waste a second on frivolities from the opening riff of “Casket Party”, a song characterized by the bouncing instrumentation of the verses and two well-placed half time mosh riffs that will make you inexplicably furious. Frantic guitar riffs and dissonant chords dominate the EP, causing the listener to draw obvious comparisons to titans of the genre such as Refused and Converge, but by no means is this band yet another face in the ranks of the 90s hardcore revival. American Standards relies more heavily on vocalist Brandon Kellum’s abrasive screaming and poignant lyricism as opposed to the overbearing 90s-metalcore-beatdown-party approach that so many of their peers have adopted and yet had no trouble writing bone crushing riffs into all three of the songs. The true power of American Standards’ explosive EP lies in pileup-inducing call and response vocals, gang chants, and a rhythm section that will make even the tamest punk spin kick a child. Mile-a-minute blast beat patterns give way to visceral mosh riffs that will rattle your teeth as the crunchy guitar tone allows the EP to retain an air of clarity that many hardcore bands shy away from in favor of walls of distortion. While this may seem like a nuance, American Standards refreshingly only cranks the gain once, breaking out thick, fuzzy guitars for a doom metal inspired outro in “Circus Rats”. The band’s creativity is on full display in the latter half of “Circus Rats” and throughout “The Complex Death Machine”. The strangely soothing piano and guitar duet on “Circus Rats” gives the listener a brilliantly brief moment to rest from the onslaught, before grinding its way to a close with a neck-breaking beatdown. “The Complex Death Machine” is a perfect end to the EP, pairing mixed time signatures and a hellishly powerful chorus with a melodic and haunting outro that showcases Kellum’s abilities as a lyricist, as his spoken word builds into aching and pained shrieks.

However, despite their willingness to depart from the norms of contemporary hardcore, there really is not anything on this EP that has not been done before. The band sticks true to a formula pioneered by the aforementioned Refused, but that is really their only offense. And in truth, the songs are so attention-grabbing and enjoyable that it is incredibly hard to fault them or consider this a particularly applicable criticism, especially when one considers how many bands have failed outright to capture the intensity and honesty of the “new noise” that Refused embodied. Although I do not believe that a three song EP is substantial enough to warrant Album of the Year buzz, “Hungry Hands” is a special release that deserves a nomination for an EPOTY award, should one exist. The EP and the rest of their music is available on their Bandcamp for free, so there is no excuse not to download it.

-Jack

 Tracklist

1.       Casket Party

2.       Circus Rats

3.       The Complex Death Machine 

Download- 320kbps

http://americanstndrds.bandcamp.com/