Dead to Fall's 2001 Cloud City demo, five songs cut in 24 hours with Matt Hartman on second guitar before he quit the band in 2002, gets its first vinyl pressing through Tarnished Records.
Remixed by Dereck Blackburn at Quiethouse. Hartman walks through every track.
"Five songs on tape that sounded like the band actually sounded. Whatever came next, we had the thing to put in front of it."
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#deadtofall #metalcore #hardcore
Two very special albums dropped on May 14/15 that are worth talking about today - two different worlds, but there's something atmospheric and cosmic running through both of them that ties them together more than you'd think. Both albums feel obsessed with the same thing - trying to stay human in a world that slowly turns people numb. Both records drift through themes of isolation, altered states, ego, emotional collapse, spiritual searching, and floating somewhere between chaos and clarity.
Chasing the same ghost in different ways.
2001, @toolmusic fully disappeared into their own universe. Fibonacci sequences, weird time signatures, fake Napster leaks, Maynard sampling his own cat on âMantraâ. 79 minutes of prog metal that still feels massive 25 years later. đ Believe it or not, back in high school I wrote a 50-page paper for Polish class about this album and Toolâs made-up philosophy of lachrymology. My teacher was completely stunned and honestly had no idea what to even say lol.
2007, @hopesfall took a hard left turn - less metalcore, post hardcore, way more space rock, post-rock and atmosphere. Weird tunings, huge open melodies, songs that literally drift. People were divided on it back then, but honestly this record aged ridiculously well.
Both albums sucked me in for countless late-night listens over the years and I got a feeling Iâm not alone there. Curious what memories you all got tied to these records.
#tool #hopesfall #lateralus #magneticnorth
@thehoneybeeband call their sound slowpunk, and it's both the joke and the working philosophy: "How to be punk when you grow up. You get slower. Go to less shows. You get a mortgage. Which sounds not very punk. But that's the switch. Get the corporate job. Play their game. And donate. Give. And maybe most importantly, take. Use what you can give to the communities you care about."
Debut LP "Only Dark Shit" out today via Candlepin, Flesh and Bone and Pleasure Tapes.
A year writing, two years recording, ten tracks that move between heavy shoegaze, Deftones-style density, and the openness of late-era As Cities Burn.
Release show May 16 at No Class with Funeral Commercial, I Hate It Too and HOSTA.
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#honeybee #shoegaze #alternativerock #onlydarkshit
Word Alert! @idioteq_com just dropped a nice feature on âMan on the Moon.â Seriously badass, still taking orders if you want the vinyl signed. And, of course, itâs streaming everywhere and spinning on @wrfl881 and lots f fantastic shows and stations that keep it independent!
Maneating Orchid (Bengaluru) caught up with is to premiere the video for "Cosmic Shroud", second track off their third album "Cold Logic", out June 5 on Subcontinental Records.
The song was built without a single bar of 4/4 in it, yet the band describe the feel as "pfunky" (punky AND funky) and reckon it's "probably the closest thing we have to a radio single, but it is just about cacophonous enough to avoid the airwaves."
The main motif came from guitarist Vinay Prasad running spread triad exercises, with chromatic notes and widely spaced arpeggios that, in his words, "create a very disorienting effect. It's hard to tell where the tonal centre is, and it keeps the tension high."
Bad Brains, Daft Punk grooves, a John Zorn-style swing section with walking bass over blast beats, plus the Gorguts and Mico Vinay was deep in while writing.
The video, shot by Angad Patil and Joshua Quadros, has the band phasing in and out and swapping instruments mid-song. First album with new drummer Vishnu Reddy.
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#mathcore #djent #pfunky #maneatingorchid #metal
Thank you @idioteq_com for premiering the reissue of @carvs.driver 's Deja Grateful. That's right, Stickfigure & @lunchboxrecords are reissuing #carvsdriver's debut album Deja Grateful on vinyl.
Once test pressings have been approved we will be accepting preorders.
The reunion came first. âAfter nearly 30 years of being in different places, in 2024 we had the chance to play together again,â the band say. âIn doing so, we wanted to mark the occasion by bringing the bandâs memory into the present. Deja Grateful is an important document in our lives, and itâs been out of print for so long. At its heart itâs about struggle. We poured all of ourselves into it, which makes it still ring true.â
That history sits inside a specific moment in Atlanta. Singer Matt Mauldin describes the early 90s as a hinge point. Hardcore and thrash had been running all-ages bills for years, skinheads still showed up, and the post-hardcore, emo, and DIY threads were only just pushing in from the edges through bands like the Atlanta version of Fiddlehead, Freemasonry, and Scout.
The previous generation, Neon Christ and After Words, had either moved on stylistically or aged out of all-ages venues. Mauldin and bandmate Steve had both helped touring bands put on shows before and during Car vs. Driverâs run. When the band started touring themselves, the reciprocity they got from DIY houses elsewhere came back home with them.
#indiemusic #atlantagamusic #posthardcore #reissue
Steve Albini's death in 2024 left an incalculable void in the lives of everyone who knew him, and in the discography of every band who recorded with him.
Mono @monoofjapan made almost every record of theirs at Electrical Audio over the past 25 years. "Snowdrop", out 12 June via Temporary Residence and New Noise, is the first album they have made without him.
We sat down with Taka for a long conversation about the days after Steve's passing, the phone call from his friend Jef that got him writing again, three funerals across four years, the flower language threaded through every song title, rewriting "Winter Daphne" the day after his father-in-law's funeral, choosing Brad Wood, mastering with Bob Weston, the 8-piece choir on four tracks, and what Steve gave him that has stayed in every note he plays.
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#mono #monoofjapan #stevealbini #postrock
You just can't beat the variety of earworms and the weight on this beast.
Glassjaw is one of those bands that's never coming off the flag for me. 26 years later they're still one of the most original, uncompromising, weirdest things to ever come out of the post-hardcore scene, and "Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence" is a big part of why.
Released May 9, 2000 on Roadrunner, produced by Ross Robinson (Korn, Slipknot, At The Drive-In's "Relationship of Command" the year after) at Indigo Ranch out in Malibu. Robinson had to drag the band onto Roadrunner himself because the label had no idea what to do with them, and then once they signed, Roadrunner barely promoted it.
Glassjaw eventually got so fed up with how the label handled the band, especially when it came to Daryl Palumbo's Crohn's disease on tour, that they publicly told fans to stop buying the record and just download it off Limewire.
Daryl was 20 when this came out. He wrote most of it bedridden, in and out of hospital with Crohn's, while his girlfriend was leaving him because she didn't want to spend her twenties looking after a sick boyfriend. So the lyrics are dark, ugly, full of resentment, and a lot of fans (and Daryl himself, years later) have called out how some of the writing crossed lines.
Musically, it's the kind of record that resets expectations for what post-hardcore can sound like - Justin Beck switching off between guitar and weird percussion, Daryl doing five different things in the same song, riffs that sit somewhere between metal, screamo, and something almost shoegaze.
Roadrunner had no clue who to market this to. Now it's the post-hardcore blueprint. Keith Buckley of Every Time I Die said this album changed everything for him. Oli Sykes from Bring Me the Horizon said it's the reason he started singing. Whole generations of bands have been chasing this thing since.
If somehow this album passed you by - you know what to do.
#glassjaw #eyewtkas #everythingyoueverwantedtoknowaboutsilence #hardcore #posthardcore
Baratro (ex-Unsane's Dave Curran on bass, plus Federico Hartridge and Luca Antonozzi) bring cellist Matteo Bennici in as a full fourth member on 'No Comply', out May 8 on Supernatural Cat.
The record came together while the genocide in Gaza escalated.
Cover art is a Gaza Skate Team photo of Rajab Al Reefi skating across rubble.
The album is dedicated to them. "We had found the image that tied everything we felt in the making of this record together. The spark of hope we were looking for."
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#baratro #noiserock
Poise are premiering "Ill Anguish" today, the second single off their upcoming LP "Iron Foot" (out May 22 on Discos Enfermos and Human Future).
Pacific Northwest d-beat, two guitars, pointedly political.
"It's about doing your best to get on top financially in a system that's designed to keep you down."
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#poiseusa #poise #hardcore
