Check out this new Pissed Jeans video. It's very cool.

HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO ORGANIZE ALL THESE BAGS????

Merchandise - Children of Desire (2012)


Guys, I'm know I haven't been bringing the pain lately and I apologize, but I have to continue to bring you non-painful music for your needy earholes. I've been going over the ginormous text file that I keep all my 'good albums this year' in and I couldn't believe I haven't posted this gem yet. Merchandise are a very cool rock band that play songs that are both pleasing to the ear and interesting to the brain. I feel like most rock music struggles in that second category, but these guys do it well enough without seeming like a bunch of tryhards. The sound of the toms in 'In Nightmare Room' are enough for me to recommend this record. I'm sure it'll show up in a lot of year end lists outside the whole gross metal scene that I tend to linger in. Pay attention, nerd, something pretty important is happening here.

Here is the link.

Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine (1992)


Because they're Paul Ryan's favorite band.
What the fuck.
HA ha ha!

Welp. See ya later.

Melvins - The Bootlicker (1999)


Maybe you are a smarty pants and you already know all about The Bootlicker, part of Melvins weird trilogy thing they did. They did a lot of weird things. This album is Melvins playing some tantric Om type stuff. It's trippy mane.

Here.

Melvins - Freak Puke (2012)


Double feature because I've been pretty juiced on Melvins lately, a phenominon that will come to a raging head September 6th when they play with Big Business. Much like said performance, this album is "Melvins Lite" which essentially just means it's King Buzzo, Dale Crover, and Trevor Dunn. No business dudes. No double drum kit.

It took my awhile to formulate just how I felt about this record. There are a couple tracks that I'll come back to, but so me of them are pretty snoozeworthy. Not enough heavy for my rotten desensitized pallete but plenty of badassery to be had in the riff department.

Riff Department.

Chapel - Satan's Rock N' Roll (2012)


Even though my mortal vessel is festering with disease, cheap beers and Thrash Weekend beckon. Chapel is a very cool blackened speed metal band from Canada. This is their first LP. It is pretty good.

NOCTURNAL BLASPHEMY

Mudhoney - Superfuzz Bigmuff (1989)


For those of you that don't know, I live in Seattle, Washington. I always have except for a brief window of time in which I ventured to the Bay Area. I found it pleasant, but yearned for the crushing bleakness of the Pacific Northwest eventually. If you want to see the good part of California, check out the bay. Anyway, I've been getting in touch with my weirdo Northwest roots and listening to all the music that I denied myself when I was 16 and only liked to listen to extremely aurally challenging "music" that made my parents mad. When you reach this point in your personal development, there are two paths you can take. The first, you eventually come around and check out all the cool stuff you hated for no reason. The second, you eventually start collecting harsh noise and power electronics cassette tapes. Don't do that one.

Mudhoney is very cool and heavy. Super heavy rock music is usually fun.

Fun!

Nirvana - Bleach (1989)


To quote the everdeepening pool of intellect that is Last.fm:

"Metal faggots love bleach."

MELVINS

Quick question, what do you guys think of this song?

Snail - Terminus (2012)


Guess what, you miserable cretins? Snail has a new album and boy howdy what a new one it is. It's good. It's very cool. It's Snail. They are from Seattle. It's called Terminus. It's a melodic, enjoyable doomy metaly album that still wields a mighty riff with authority. While I'll admit the last couple tracks are a kinda snoozers until Terminus takes it up a notch to end it, the album as a whole is a good time.

Next guess: Guess what you have to do to get this album? Go to their bandcamp page and pay them $0.00 like a total piece of shit. Deal with it. Or give them your money.



http://snailhq.bandcamp.com

Heavy Voodoo - Messiah (2012?)




Here is some cool stoner/doom/whathaveyou from Portland, OR. Very cool riffs, album art that reminds me Orange Goblin if they were even more into weed than they already are, which is never a bad thing. You can get their three song EP/demo from their bandcamp page for absolutely free, or you can pay them for it. Choose your own destiny. Normally I would say something about how I don't really like Portland all that much, but I won't because I'm lazy and don't feel like putting together any original thoughts right now.

This blog will probably die soon, though something more interesting and worthwhile will hopefully erupt screaming from its corpse soon enough.

http://heavyvoodoo.bandcamp.com

The Stooges - RAW POWER (1973)


Everybody always tryna tell me what to do.

Raw Power.

Bastard - No Hope In Here (2002)


Shame on you if you haven't heard the name of the mighty Bastard, crusty punk unit from the land of the rising sun. Listening to this record is fun, especially if you like yelling MISERREERRUUOOOUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!!!!! This is literally every song this group put out, we call it a Discography in the elite music blogging biz.

MISERUUUUUUUUUUUU

Merchandise - Strange Songs (In The Dark) (2010)


I imagine the cretins that darken the doorways of this blog haven't heard this before. Because I sure hadn't until a friend threw the LP on the other day.

Guys lets take a post punk break.

**BONUS CONTENT: Gone Are The Silk Flowers of Youth (CS) (2010)

Orange Goblin - Red Tide Rising (2012)


I like this band, and this album isn't bad at all but their butt rock levels are at an all time high which will definitely kill some interest. Unless you like butt rock. Rock on butt rockers.

Butt.

This is Part Two. You can see Part One here at your leisure.

40 Watt Sun - The Empty Room


This album is a depressing fog of 'doom' that will wash over you and bum you out. Definitely not doom in any sort of the classical sense. More like buttrock slowed down and fuzzed out. Either way, Very Cool.

Necros Christos - Doom of the Occult


More 'doom', this time blacky-deathy with lots of weird nerd shit in between the songs. A supremely sinister and Very Cool aural assault. That link is even 320 kbps so you can hear all the nerd shit extra good.

Blessed Offal - Blessed Offal


This EP was horribly overlooked this year. While it isn't groundbreaking (not that anything I listen to ever is) it definitely deserves quite a bit more attention than it's gotten. Basically what I'm trying to say is Blessed Offal put out some Very Cool doom-laden death this year.

Yob - Alta


Yob released an album this year, so as one would expect here it is. On a list at the end of it. Very cool.

The Black Keys - The Big Come Up (2002)


Their new album had me thinking about when they played the blues and I liked them. Now they mostly just play indie rock and I tolerate them. I feel like their sound is a bit thin on this album but I still enjoy it quite a bit. I can only imagine what this album would sound like with some thick ass bass on it.

Blues.

Midnight - Satanic Royalty (2011)


Blackened and crusty heavy metal for fans of Hellhammer, Motorhead, Venom, etc.

666.

Black Breath - Heavy Breathing (2010)


Black Breath - Razor to Oblivion (2008)


Saw these guys live for the first time last night. AwEsOmE.