LAVOTCHKIN / JOSEPH
SPLIT CD

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THE GRIZZLY TWISTER
ONT BLOD

Beautifully packaged in a foldout cardboard sleeve, this album is one of the biggest strides forward Swedish hardcore has taken in many years. By using two synthesizers and samplers to make suggestive soundscapes, mixed technical guitar lines, drumming from hell and topped off with insane vocals, Grizzlytwister pushes the boundaries.

TAKE A WORM FOR A WALK WEEK
TAKE A WORM FOR A WALK WEEK

Mixing the intensity of eyehategod with the speed of agoraphobic nosebleed, and almost Jacob Bannon esce vocals. Hailing from Glasgow, featuring ex-members of Torqamada, their self-titled album weighs in with 13 tracks.

RAINYDAYFUCKPARADE
MERIDIAN

The music of Rainydayfuckparade is a brutal sonic assault. A mix of off-kilter rhythms, charging guitar riffs, insane drumming and brutally evil vocals. This is a great introduction to one of the UKs most promising acts.

PUSHMEUNDER
THE DAY LACKS COLOUR THE NIGHT LACKS PROMISE

Sharing ground with Japanese bizarros Envy, they straddle the gulf between avant-garde post rock like mogwai and screaming post hardcore like Norma Jean.

PROUDHON
THE JOY OF SEX EP

Proudhon came together in early 2002 and their early sound combined the emotion of bands like Thursday with the subtlety of Radiohead. From the all out destroying ‘Romeo vs. Juliet' to the 9 minute epic that is ‘Goodnight My Brave Assassin', this release, if given a chance will reshape the face of hardcore music as we know it.

A SHADOW OVER A BROKEN HEART
MIDMARCH RECORDS COMPILATION 2004

Compilation featuring such Metal heavyweights a From a Second Story Window (Metal Blade), The Minor Times (Level-Plane, Prosthetic) and Bodies in the Gears of the Apparatus (Relapse).