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BREATHING FIRE Years Of Lead LP
In 2004 Breathing Fire quietly laid down one of the most impressive demos in our recent collective memories, following which, they promptly disappeared. In 2007 the band reconvened to unearth the remains of some unused songs and attempt some new ones, thus beginning a brief but fruitful reconnection between the members that produced this album. Years Of Lead takes the framework of their demo and pushes everything much further. The recording is dirtier and much more harsh, the slow sections more ominous, the fast sections more head spinning. Influenced by early power violence, harsh and dark hardcore, classic sludge, and hazy doom standards, but Years of Lead speaks its own language. Comes housed in a full color old style tip-on style jacket.
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IRON AGE The Way Is Narrow 7"
The latest installment of metallic hardcore crunch from Austin, Texas's Iron Age, bringing us a new track, The Way Is Narrow, backed with a cover of Satori Part 1 by the legendary Flower Travellin Band. In our humble opinion, this is their best recording to date, the title track delivers a heavy dose of Leeway-via-early-Metallica riffing while the flip is an impressive take on Japan's answer to Black Sabbath. |
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WALLS s/t LP
Featuring 3/4 of the final Cold Sweat lineup (and for that matter,
one-half of Iron Lung), as well as the vocalist from Negative Step and
Society Of Friends, WALLS self-titled lp serves as an expansion of
their self released 7" issued earlier this year. Indeed it is filled
with a wider array of lurching rhythms, atonal riffs, and angry,
stream-of-consciousness vocals, that, in the parlance of our times,
"pick up where they left off". Comparisons tend to liken their music to
an intersection of loose early 90s hardcore/punk like Rorschach,
Heroin, and Born Against, and the sludgy stylings of early Jesus
Lizard, Rollins Band, and Melvins records. |
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