Seven sisters of sleep

Seven sisters of sleep comes form Orange County, California and have been taking the sludge scene by storm in the last couple of years. They released a first self titled album with Southern lord in 2010, a split  with Children of god last year on A389 recordings, and now a self titled 7' also on A389. Three really inspired and crushing records. The recipe is classical sludge but with some more brutality added (even death metal elements like blastbeat parts here and there). Every song is well crafted with cool riffs and rythmic parts bringing a lot of groove with the heaviness and brutality.

Clearly one of the best recent sludge bands!

withness it on the SSOS A389 BC page

Seven sisters of sleep.com

Coke bust / Vaccine split

This is a new split with Coke bust and Vaccine, two prominent bands of the fastcore / powerviolence scene.

Coke bust is more on the DC staight edge side of this scene and Vaccine is more "classic" fastcore. Both are killer bands and this split don't disapoint. 4 Coke bust songs, 5 Vaccine songs. this split is a non stop delivery of the more pissed off and fast harcore you can have.

previsous record from the two bands can be listened to on BC :

Coke bust / degradation

Vaccine / crimes in blood

Angles-every woman is a tree

Angles is a jazz quintet (sax, trombone, trumpet, vibraphone, double bass and drums) from Sweden. Their music sounds a bit  like a meeting between John Coltrane and Mulatu Astatke (they actualy met in fact, but unfortunately they didn't played together), somewhere between free jazz and Ethio-jazz. The result is brilliant, with quiet beautiful moments but also frenetic full of energy moments. Every woman is a tree (2008) is their first record and it's dedicated to the women's in times of war they are the branches which the children can cling to). They also relesed a live album in 2010 (called Epileptical west), also really good. great songs, tight musicianship, this is a highly recommended record if you like the wild and african inspired jazz.

Burning love-Rotten thing to say

like hardcore? like hard rock? then chances are you'll like Burning love, a band playing a cool mix of the two. Their singer is Chris Colohan (ex-Cursed, Left for dead, The swarm), and Rotten thing to say is their second full lenght record released recently by Southern lord (recorded by Kurt Ballou, mastered by Allan Douches). But it's not the typical "darkened hardcore" band that are flooding us these days, Burning love is way more on the rock'n'roll side of hardcore. A great record filled with cool riffs and solos, cool vocals, and fuelled with all the energy hardcore and hard rock can bring.

highly recommended!

Burning love blog

Parasytic - ¨Poison Minds (2011)

Parasytic is the reunion of members of Alabama Thunderpussy / Hail!hornet and Cannabis Corpse. They released a record called Poison Minds last year with Relapse records. Poison minds can be described as a heavy mix of Discharge, old Sepultura and Municipal waste, it's eight crossover songs filled with d-beat, crust and trashy riffing with a crushing sound, punk solos, speed, heaviness and groove. A cool no bullshit old school sounding trashy crust record with a lot of metal heaviness and brutality added.

You can listen to it on Bandcamp

Disastroid-Money and guilt

Coming from San Fransisco, Disastroid plays some good rocking heavy and melodic music, reminding a bit of bands like QOTSA or The Melvins. their new record (released in june 2012) called Money and guilt is eight songs filled with buzzing bass, heavy guitars,trippy instrumental moments, groovy drumming and cool hard rock vocals. 

a pleasing straightforrward rocking record for summertimes!

you can listen to some songs, check the coming shows, etc, on Disastroid blog.

Antediluvian / Adversarial split

Antediluian released in 2011 one of the best death metal record of the year (called "Through the cervix of Hawwah"), so I'm very pleased to see that they are releasing something new. And even more pleased (but not surprised) that this released is also really good. 

the split is three song for each band.

Adversarial, also coming from Canada plays in a similar vein and is also really good, cool discovery for me. It's old school raw and dirty death metal with a kind of dark occult atmosphere (it's brutal but I'd say the focus is more on creating a strange morbid atmosphere). 

Antediluvian music goes in a similar direction but is maybe more complex, weird and dissonant. If you liked their previous record you won't be disapointed.

you can listen to this split on Bandcamp