Peace, love and death metal

Youth Group - “Forever Young” (an Alphaville cover) @Myspace
Stop staring in the distance and do something!
Yeah right…

Tony Naima & The Bitters - “Let The Napalm Rain (a Dismember cover)” @Myspace
Six months ago I wrote a short post on Tony Naima’s Dismember tribute album. On my year end’s list I gave it #10. Some month ago I listened to this again, it stuck on my car’s cd player for a good couple of days and every time “Let The Napalm Rain” gave me goosebumps. I hate to say it, but Tony Naima does Dismember better than Dismember themselves. It doesn’t matter are these death metal originals or not, this album is tryly great, innovative and energetic piece of music.

Chainsaw Dismemberment - “Fisting Till Bleeding” mp3 // “Zombie Infection” mp3 // “Suffocated Growls from the Rear Entry” mp3
“Put those fists in the fucking ass!!!” What? Sometimes it’s hard to explain why you do love metal and death metal especially so deeply. Finnish Chainsaw Dismemberment is not high IQ death metal, but their take on early 90’s style is so youthful and breathing it’s hard not to love them. “Fisting Till Bleeding” is the feel good hit of the summer, but listen to the stench of burning flesh on the guitar solo of “Suffocated Growls…”. 12-song demo and two live songs are available at Mikseri.net.

Kurhaus - “Propaganda of Dance” mp3
Another mp3 off their breath-taking A Future Pornography album. Dance like there’s no tomorrow!

Fulton Lights - “Thank God For the Evening News” mp3 // “Fire in the Palm of My Hand” mp3
If you’re reading this after 1 AM, please listen. One of those sample mp3’s that made me feel that I should buy the album just for the fact that it’s a debut, special pressing and one day will worth a fortune. But I won’t - yet.

Ghost Guard - “Hate Yourself Dead” mp3 // “Legacy Of Pain” mp3 // “Malice Intent” mp3
From Vaasa, Finland comes Ghost Guard. Rotten Sound’s Sami on drums. Their second demo Hate Yourself Dead doesn’t leave much to ve desired. Relentless beating from the word go. Leaves many other bands combining death metal to hardcore’s aggression behind. Hats off to Death influences.

Våld - “Dark Clouds” mp3

Just recently noticed that there are a shitload of live videos at Nasum.com. Two shows from 1999, one from 2001 (the Osaka show) and one from 2004, filmed a mere 45 days before Mieszko’s untimely death in the tsunami disaster.

And please don’t forget that “A Welcome Breeze of Stinking Air” (mp3) is one hell of a song!

Kongh - “Zihuatanejo” mp3
Another new definition of “heavy”. And I really mean heavy: down on your knees, crawling through mud, dragging dead people and body parts in ear-destroying noise while trying to keep your pace faster than that of the lava just few moments behind you heavy.

And This Army - “Blackbeard” mp3
Emotionally pretty much the same as above, except the dead people are being dragged inside the mind and there are no ear-destroying noise, there are those damn whispers. Whole recording can be streamed here.

Chthonian  - “Thirteen” mp3
Taken from their debut album Of Beatings And The Silence In Between (Woodcut). Last year’s three-song demo can be downloaded at Mikseri.net.

Nic Bommarito - Taciturn LP
Yet another release from 12rec I need to buy: Nic Bommarito. “Imagine a mixture of Canadian GY!BE, the Americana Avant-Garde of Chicago’s Brokeback and the huge melodies of Italian Postrockers Giardini di Mirò” as it says on 12rec.net.

Like always, whole release is also downloadable for free. Still - €6 (incl. p&p) for a beautiful packaging and a cd-r is a bargain. Like always. I love you 12rec.