CR on MetalSucks

My top 10 of 2012.

1) Anasazi - s/t 7″
2) TV Baby - Wild Joy 7″
3) Abominable Putridity - The Anomalies of Artificial Origin
4) Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind
5) Napalm Death - Utilitarian
6) Swans - The Seer
7) School of Seven Bells - Ghostory
8) Violens - True
9) Lord Mantis - Pervertor
10) Pyrrhon - 2012 Demo

CR on CVLT Nation

I made a mixtape.

1) Ike & Tina Turner "River Deep Mountain High"
2) Company B "Fascinated"
3) Ghostface Killah "Be Easy"
4) Ministry "Revenge"
5) School of Seven Bells "Low Times"
6) M/A/R/R/S "Pump Up the Volume"
7) The Damned "In Dulce Decorum"
8) Call of the Wild "Autobahn"
9) Birds In Row "A Kid Called Dreamer"
10) Like Rats "Fire"
11) Jar'd Loose "Last Living Roach"
12) Gaza "Winter in Her Blood"
13) The Year Is One "Ungodly Behavior"
14) Pyrrhon "Implant Fever"
15) Flourishing "By Which We're Cemented"
16) Devourment "Fed to the Pigs"
17) Human Rejection "Abandoned"
18) Abominable Putridity "Blindfold Surgery"
19) Bloody Panda "Grey" (Mick Barr remix)
20) TV Baby "Powering"

Decibel's Top 40 Albums of 2012

2012 recap

Another year's worth of gold. For the year-end lists:

Jan 17 - Birds In Row - Collected - Vitriol Records

Mar 6 - Seas Will Rise - Disease Is Our Refrain - Man In Decline/Anxiety Machine Records

Apr 3 - Eye - Center of the Sun - Kemado Records

Apr 10 - Graf Orlock - Los Angeles - Vitriol Records

May 1 - Wild Hunt - Before the Plane of Angles - Kemado Records

July 10 - Ghostlimb - Confluence - Vitriol Records/Melotov Records

July 10 - Jar'd Loose - Goes to Purgatory - Cassette Deck Media

Aug 21 - Call of the Wild - Leave Your Leather On - Kemado Records

Aug 28 - Gaza - No Absolutes in Human Suffering - Black Market Activities

Oct 23  - Behold the Arctopus - Horrorscension - Black Market Activities

Oct 23 - Hivesmasher - Gutter Choir - Black Market Activities

Oct 23 - The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza - Danza IIII: The Alpha - The Omega - Black Market Activities

Oct 30 - Family - Portrait - Pelagic Records

Oct 30 - Grails/Pharaoh Overlord - Black Tar Prophecies Volume 5 - Kemado Records

Nov 13 - Flourishing - Intersubjectivity - The Path Less Traveled Records

And coming up in 2013:

Jan 8 - Comadre - Comadre - Vitriol Records
tba - Stomach Earth - Black Market Activities
tba - Phantom Glue - Black Market Activities
tba - Bird Eater - Black Market Activities
tba - The Banner - Melotov Records

+ more, more, more...

New releases

Out today, the three new ones from BMA:

Oct 23 - The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza - Danza IIII: The Alpha - The Omega - BMA
"The most aggressive, the most dominant, the most confident, and the heaviest album of the year." -MetalSucks

Oct 23 - Behold The Arctopus - Horrorscension - BMA
"Behold The Arctopus will have even the robots of this world headbanging to their own beat and stage diving into an unknown universe!" -CvltNation

Oct 23 - Hivesmasher - Gutter Choir - BMA
"The cold sophistication of technical death metal with the blood-soaked intensity of grindcore... In the palette of violence, Hivesmasher are equal parts Picasso and Pollock." -About Heavy Metal

And next week:

Oct 30 - Family - Portrait - Pelagic Records
"Perfectly psyched out... Equal parts heavy attacking, effects jamming and melody-making." -Decibel

Oct 30 - Grails/Pharaoh Overlord - Black Tar Prophecies Volume 5 - Kemado Records
"Lush and cinematic" -BrooklynVegan

And next after that:

Nov 13 - Flourishing - Intersubjectivity - The Path Less Traveled Records
"Where Tombs takes its extremes from the band Swans and black metal, Flourishing looks to Sonic Youth and industrial metal innovators like Godflesh for its own brand of melodic yet punishing death-grind." -NPR

Jan 8 - Comadre - Comadre - Vitriol Records
"With the new self-titled full-length, Comadre's finally fully exercising their potential as a band, crossing a lot of genres and offering an accessibility lacking in most punk/hardcore bands." -Justin Smith (Vitriol Records, Graf Orlock, Ghostlimb)

...and the new releases by Stomach Earth (Gunface of The Red Chord), Phantom Glue, Bird Eater (members of Gaza), and more!

New releases

Closing in on our October release dates!

Oct 23 - The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza - Danza IIII: The Alpha - The Omega - BMA
"So shredtastic it may cause the skin to peel right off your face" -AltPress

Oct 23 - Behold The Arctopus - Horrorscension - BMA
"Skullgrinding mindfuckery" -MetalSucks

Oct 23 - Hivesmasher - Gutter Choir - BMA
"Top notch, tech-infused grindcore of the highest order" -MetalSucks

Oct 30 - Family - Portrait - Pelagic Records
"Lures you in with hooks then bashes you with leaden heaviness" -InvisibleOranges

Oct 30 - Grails/Pharaoh Overlord - Black Tar Prophecies Volume 5 - Kemado Records
"A complex kingdom of sound" -Stereogum

Coming up next, so much more, including releases by Flourishing, Comadre, Stomach Earth (Gunface of The Red Chord), Phantom Glue, and Bird Eater (members of Gaza)!

PRECIOUS METAL returns

Precious Metal returns Monday with Vattnet Viskar!

TODAY IS THE DAY in Miami

Saturday!

New releases

October 23 - The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza - Danza IIII: The Alpha - The Omega - BMA
October 23 - Behold the Arctopus - Horrorscension - BMA
October 23 - Hivesmasher - Gutter Choir - BMA
October 30 - Family - Portrait - Pelagic Records

TODAY IS THE DAY at Roskilde

July 5, Roskilde, Denmark.

Big thanks to Anders, Kevin, Izzy, Robert Smith, and all the good people we met.

1) In the Eyes of God

2) Spotting a Unicorn

3) Possession

4) The Color of Psychic Power

5) Free at Last

6) Mother's Ruin

7) Expectations Exceed Reality

8) 6 Dementia Satyr

9) The Kick Inside

10) Feel Like Making Love (Bad Company)

11) Temple of the Morning Star

12) Death Curse

13) Axis of Eden

14) If You Want Peace, Prepare for War

15) Pinnacle

16) IED

17) Willpower

18) Why Don't We Do It in the Road (Beatles)

19) The Man Who Loves to Hurt Himself

20) Going to Hell