In Vain - Wounds 2005

Perhaps this name is familiar to you....anyway this band is difficult to describe...they are violent ...BM type of thing, but also quite technical as would be a grindcore squad of berserkers or a troop of medieval minstrel(!^^) ....and also quite unpredictable! their song are definitely in the vein of progressive stuff, call it 8 bit grindy-death-black-O-blues-folky-matic progressive sort of thing if you want =O ! but they have long tracks in which you have loads of differents and crazy atmosphere...well enough said ...i think they kick ass....what about you? ready to get a thrashing??!


In Vain - Wounds 2005
Genre： any wild guess？ 哈哈
Tracklist：
1 October’s Monody
2 Det Ranker!
3 In Remembrance
4 Epilogue: Elene

Time Warpped！

Light Pupil Dilate - Snake Wine 2007

LPD is really an interesting band and they should appeal to almost any metalheads IMHO cause their music includes so many different elements from almost all you can find in metal...they have chunky passages in the biohazard or pro-pain fashion, BM like things at times... a bit in the style of emperor's grandiose ambiances, powerful bass driven riff like in stoner...also quite like what the Melvins do, and cool instrumental passages ... well this album is really great to me as is the musicianship, so i hope it will be the same for you as well! \m/

Light Pupil Dilate - Snake Wine 2007
Genre: Thrash, Metal, Hardcore, Psychedelic
Tracklist:
1 Prana
2 Twinkly
3 Poly Viral
4 Big Open
5 Selfless
6 Phlebitis
7 Shower Me With You Love
8 Boundary Dissolution
9 Dive

Dissolving into acid!

Razors edge - Sweet 10 thrashers (2006)

Let's raise our fist to that band from Japan! Razor Edge plays the best punk style to my ears, they have catchy and gripping rhythm and despites the fact that this is a music style which has not much novelty to bring us, they have done it all the same! ...and as you press the play button, you just feel the surge of adreanalin rushing up your spine and taking control of your neck and head! quicker (and cheaper!) than any kind of drug you might find on this planet! if there is one kind of harcore thrash punk to save one day, let it be that one! the album is very short so no time to waste...come on!!! bring your booze, your "brooze!" and let's punk!!!! hail! \m/

Razors edge - Sweet 10 thrashers (2006)
Genre: Punk, Hardcore, "Thrash"
Tracklist:
01 Razors Wind
02 Ugly Kid
03 Punkadelic
04 Dressed Foods
05 Kick Start!
06 Greedy For Me
07 We Dont's Care
08 The Sun Disappeared
09 Loose Loops
10 Toxic Toys

1.アグリー・キッド
2.パンカデリック
3.ドレッスド・フーズ
4.レイザーズ・ウィンド
5.トキシック・トイズ
6.キック・スタート
7.グリーディー・フォー・ミー
8.ルーズ・ループス
9.ザ・サン・ディサピアード
10.ウィ・ドント・ケア

Smashing thrash-o-delic punky vibes!

春秋 - 春秋

This band is certainly better known to you than it is to me so i hope you can tell me a bit more about them ..like who they are, where they are from ...and so on and so forth! =D music wise i think their style is brilliant, like good old kickin' rock'n'roll or awesome heavy metal ... but what i think is truely cool and catchy about them is that they managed to make something original (to my ears at least!) with rather common material and that is quite a feat!... they use nothing spectacular but they come up with kindda fresh and well thought out ideas... like for instance an arpeggios added here and there, piano, accordion, pipa-like sort of sounds ... and i guess that makes quite a difference in the end, actually they created ambiances that i seldom, if ever, find in non-chinese bands! like an extreme version of 冷酷仙境! ah ah! just listen to 传奇 for example and you'll hear what i mean! ... The singer has also a great voice, i really like the way he sings and though i only get bits and pieces of what he says, i clearly feel the energy oozing from his vox! i don't know if that "spring and autumn" (Chun Qiu) moniker has a special significance or a hidden meaning to it but they kick ass all the same! rock on!

春秋 - 春秋
Genre: (heavy) Rock
Tracklist:
01 新的一天
02 凶宅
03 远方的召唤
04 天下
05 传奇
06 暴风雨所诞生的
07 猎人
08 最后的一页
09 山海间

Mainland out-and-out mighty fighters!

The Destro - As The Coil Unwinds [2007]

Another cool band, coming from Texas...one thing that has always astouned me regarding them is the number of people that label this band "Death" or even "grindcore"...well, from my standards we are far from what i call that!lol ...i think i have finally found people that are worse than me at tagging a band! ah ah!... basically if you like stuff in the vein of pantera, that band should remain in your favorite for quite a while! =) the music is quite heavy and powerful with good riffs and quite a chunky sound, strongly reminiscent of the one illdisposed created for itself IMO! the massive production gives each songs all the agressivity it needs to make you feel like ripping everything down! ^^

The Destro - As The Coil Unwinds [2007]
Genre: Hardcore, Power metal
Tracklist:
01 Intro
02 Rivers Bottom
03 Beast Burden
04 Offering, The
05 Knife In Hand
06 As the Coil Unwinds
07 Bridges Will Burn
08 Structures Collapse
09 Stained Glass
10 Sever the Ties
11 Forever Embedded

When flaming lead fall from the sky!

Catherine - The Naturals (2007)

hey! long time no see! ;) after 3 terrible crashes and 3 formatting of my computer ...I'm back online at last with no severe losses! well all is not completely back to normal as i need a new motherboard, mine as a defect and will be replaced next week hopefully! let's see the bright side of things, it gave me plenty of time to listen to music! =D that's how i have recently discovered Catherine and though i was a bit reluctant at first ....cause i don't like screamo-like bands that much, they have eventually convinced me after a few spinning! ah ah! indeed, their music is full of furious breakdowns, heavy riffing and angry, dissonant melodies! nice menu isn't it? the vox that seemed screamo to me in the first place are indeed more like hardcore in the end, though that impression comes back to nag at me to me from time to time!lol ...whatever, a pretty good band IMHO that requires to be checked out forthwith! enjoy!


Catherine - The Naturals (2007)
Genre: Hardcore, Screamo
Tracklist:
01 First Take
02 The Naturals
03 Tailor
04 Light Brite
05 Dear Elizabeth
06 Fallacy
07 Through Art A Villain
08 Let's Pretend Like It's 1910
09 To Be Specific
10 Praise the Night Time

kick me plenty!

Total Fucking Destruction - Zen And The Art Of Total Fucking Destruction 2007

TFD, that's what i call a name! ah ah! i was really surprised when i discovered that album and especially by the second part, which is ....unplugged material! no so often a brutal grindcore/hardcore band provides his audience with that kind of thing! the music is just brilliant in my view and rather original to top it all...i can sense some killwhitneydead's influence or spirit oozing around! beware!lol i don't mean they have copied KWD at all, what i mean by that is ass kicking riffing reminding me of brutal truth, and loads of heavy energy (no movie sound clips used here)....Total Fucking Destruction is totally fucking insane! brilliant! \m/

Total Fucking Destruction - Zen And The Art Of Total Fucking Destruction 2007
Genre: Experimental Metal / Hardcore / Punk
Electric
01 Beat Up
02 Intense Negative Vibe
03 Warfinger
04 Mad Pig Disease
05 We are all Elvis now
06 The Speed of Noise
07 Armed Response
08 Enslaved by Propaganda (Terrorizer)
09 Corpse Position
10 Y.A.R.N.

Acoustic:
11 Bio-satanic Terroristic Attack
12 Kill the Jocks and Eat their Brains
13 Boxcutter
14 Nihilism, Emptiness, Nothingness, Nonsense

Dare you f$$k with me??!!!

Disphoria - Sleep Fly Away... You'll Be Tortured Forever 2004

Disphoria comes from the french local scene (south of france, Toulouse, where captain Zakky has been, and where Zubrowska also comes from for instance!) and they are making their way up to the top...well at least they started their ascension and if they keep their head up like that i believe they have the ability to rise high! I'm not much of a metalcore fan as this kind of stuff tends to turn out boring in the end and all the bands sound kindda the same to me! ah ah! Disphoria's music is more diversified though... i have seen them live and on stage i was pretty fucking stunned by their drummer...this guy believe me is rather impressive! this is their first album and it bodes well for their future recordings as their song are pretty interesting, well composed and really well performed! have a go you won't regret it! \m/

Disphoria - Sleep Fly Away... You'll Be Tortured Forever 2004
Genre: Metalcore/HxC
Tracklist:
01 Destructive Rage
02 Cold Dead Light
03 Along The Way
04 Inherent Dystopia
05 Submission
06 The Other Side
07 Existence
08 1982
09 Sarah

Intense and powerful!!

荔枝王 - 硬心 2003

Welcome back on the mainland! if you scour the country you may have already come across that band cause 荔枝王 is rather famous and renowned, ...and if you've not had the opportunity to hear them yet, i recommend checkin' that band out ASAP! ;) well their music is quite basic and not that original( well ...HxC!..), but i like their style! the vocalist is pretty aggressive, the rhythm is heavy and pummelling! like Biohazard meeting R.A.T.M and roping Pro-Pain in!! the song with the guy from L.M.F is pretty cool IMHO...basically, their music is in the line of all the good stuff released at the beginning of the 90's, 荔枝王 shows that the spirit is still alive and kicking on this goddamn planet...and i for sure won't be complaining about that! enjoy! \m/

荔枝王 (King Lychee) - 硬心 (Stand strong) 2003
Genre: Hardcore
Tracklist:
01 企硬
02 所见所闻
03 制造距离 (友情客串:何超仪)
04 力竭
05 拒绝 (友情客串:LMF/阿杰)
06 (说话)
07 A Useless Gift
08 (对话)
09 地乐起哄
10 土炮
11 (音乐)
12 抛诸脑后 (友情客串:恭硕良)
13 多谢
14 (对话)
15 基础主义 Our Life’s Blood

Big Boyz Boogie?!

Devilica - 11 11 [2006]

This is some kind of demo (or it's a MCD) i guess, but this band is pretty good IMO, they play rough metal and incorporated quite a lot of different style in their music. They uses noises as well as very percussive riffing, melodical parts, and even some clear vocals!well, the whole thing is highly enjoyable i believe! (well to me at least! ah ah!) it's pretty difficult to give you an idea of their music as each track is always rather different from the next...or the previous! but they are somewhat in the style The Sawtooth Grin or Meshuggah....hope you like it! =)

Devilica - 11 11 [2006]
Genre: Screamo, Hardcore, Progressive, Grindcore
Tracklist:
01 Revoltandchaosdotcom
02 Heartless Heart
03 Truth Hurts But Pain is Temporary
04 A Journey of One Fine Man
05 A Funky Fairytale of an Angel
06 Honey Its Already 3.60 Am Now

jigsaw building!

Erosion - Vol.III [We Bite Records] [1992]

Erosion comes from Germany, and that's about all i know! ah ah! perhaps they still exist perhaps not (i guess not), i'm not even sure this is the right cover (though if we consider the intro, that may well be the one!!)...but what is sure is that this is one of a kick ass album! i have had it on tape for pretty long then on a burned CD..and still on it after all these years!...so if you have info about that band just tell me =D they play a mixture between early slayer, hardcore punk in the vein of DSB or some stuff by Pro pain ("the truth hurt" period)...the vocalist always reminds me of Lemmy's husky voice, though it's pretty different as you'll hear!lol his singing style is more in the line of Araya overall...punk/hardcore that is...
oh, the last song of the album is very doom-like! which always made me trip! ...i wonder how come these guy ended playing hardcore speedy songs indeed!lol the only thing that isn't good on that album is the mastering/production...but it cannot really be considered a flaw as it was made in 1992! enjoy!

Erosion - Vol.III [We Bite Records] [1992]
Genre: Hardcore, Punk, Thrash
01 Erosion III
02 Erosive Life
03 Revenge
04 Body and soul
05 Reality
06 Power within
07 Enemy
08 M.L.H
09 Germany 2003
10 70th floor
11 Love
12 Lonely
13 Dead Europe

ever tried to outrun a bullet??!

Kerplunk - Brotherhood 2003 [Phase 5, One Day Before the Ultimate Assault]

At last the long awaited panzers division called Kerplunk arrived from France! Troops have been dismissed and took the newly discovered weapon with them. Now what's left of the enemy must really shit his pants!lol These new tanks are made out of intricate HxC material to which Ministry Technology Inc. has added a special premium industrial layer! the outcome is utterly indestructible war machines!lol These tanks are from another dimension and the enemy won't last long against this unstoppable mechanical cataclysm, he'll soon melt with the molecules of the initial chaos that spawned him! Straight ahead, none shall survive!! \m/

Kerplunk - Brotherhood 2003
Genre:HxC
Tracklist:
1 Disease#1
2 Vice
3 Distressing vision
4 Lobotomie sporting club
5 Flashback
6 Battle cry
7 Bothers
8 A new stp
9 Hardcore faith
10 Brotherhood
11 The flex

Abdicate and submit!

Hacride - Amoeba (2007)

Well, Hacride is a band from France, and more precisely from Poitier, it's a city in the north (where the Futuroscope is, if you've never heard about it, it's a massive park dedicated to image technology with really HUGE screens and video attractions..well enough geography for now!!) Hacride plays some death metal but it's not really death metal...so even if you like power metal stuff, try it, you might like it ..or we might have to scrape you off the wall!lol...actually they are quite experimental, a bit like Meshuggah i would say and very original, there is even a flamenco-core track in the album! Believe me these dude fuck## rule! and after bands like scarve or gojira (which i played already) i guess we can that french metal is really rising! cool, we had a pretty bad (and well deserved) reputation at it!lol hope you enjoy, you, bunch of lunatic berzerkers! \m/

Hacride - Amoeba (2007)
Genre:Death Metal, Progressive, Not to miss!!
Traclist:
1 Perturbed
2 Fate
3 Vision of Hate
4 Zambra
5 Liquid
6 Cycle
7 Deprived of Soul
8 Strength
9 Ultima Necat
10 On the Threshold of Death

une putain de baffe dans ma sale gueule!!lol
(french for: a goddamn smack in my ugly mug!) ;) \m/

Wisdom In Chains - Die Young [2005]

老K兄's last play, this great band called The Italian Stallion, inspired me for that one! The description will be pretty straightforward and simple actually...this is pure HxC punk, that is raw energy which will make you feel like you want to grab things and throw them in the air or anywhere else...am i the only one to experience that feeling?!lol anyway prepare for some serial riffers on guitars, drum and bass and a hoarse and raunchy voice shouting inside your head!!

Wisdom In Chains - Die Young [2005]
Genre: Punk, Hardcore
Tracklist
1 We're Not Helping
2 Liar
3 Nowhere
4 One Of These Days
5 Fade
6 Dragging Me Down
7 The Game Of War
8 Pass The Cup
9 Friday Night Drama
10 Die Young
11 Fighting In The Streets
12 Too Far Gone
13 Get To Steppin
14 Out Of Season
15 Time To Play
16 Smash Your Face
17 Nothing Like You

No Fuckin' Gimmick!

Narziß - Ebenbilder 2000

This is a band from Germany who sing in German...but no they aren't like Ramstein!lol Actually they plays HxC in the vein of Pro-pain and the likes =) Ebenbilder was their very first release and as you'll hear it's pure energy! i am definitely partial to old school styles and it's true that bands playing that style also often plays cliche stuff, but not Narziß who has very good ideas to give that old style a new life! a good HxC album to brutalize your neighbourhood!! Ah Ah!!

Narziß - Ebenbilder 2000
Genre:Hardcore, Old School
Tracklist
1 Präludium
2 Tot
3 Siehst du nicht
4 Gestern noch, doch heute schon
5 Wenn du weinst
6 Erbsünde
7 Gestärkt
8 Erkenntnis
9 Outro

Brutish behaviour!

The End - Elementary 2006

If you like it heavy, this may well be your next purchase! The End plays a harcore/metal which is downright effective and original. Such "in-your-faceness"(!) calls names like Neurosis, The Dillinger Escape Plan or even A Perfect Circle to my mind! quite an enjoyable band with a powerful sound that follows its own path, ...and it's been a while since i found a hardcore band that makes me shiver but that one makes me feel all twitchy!!lol =) so rush to get that one they deserve it! \m/


The End - Elementary 2006
Genre: Trippy / Post Hardcore
Tracklist:
1 Dangerous
2 The Never Aftermath
3 Animal
4 The Moth And I
5 Throwing Stones
6 My Abyss
7 Awake?
8 A Fell Wind
9 In Distress
10 And Always...

Let my ears bleed!