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** Thou "Ceremonies of Humiliation" 3xLP - $30
This triple LP compiles all of the band’s material from various split releases over the years. In addition to their highly lauded full-length ‘Heathen’, Thou has this release ‘Ceremonies Of Humiliation’, a collection of all of the band’s musical output from split releases prior to the release of their mammoth 2010 opus ‘Summit’. That means all of Thou’s contribution to their splits with Black September, Leech, Mohoram Atta, Salome and Haarp are all accounted for in this triple vinyl set. Recent tours with The Body, and Cloud Rat. Three 180 gram LPs housed in an excellent thick reverse stock tri-fold jacket.
** Post Teens / Rose Cross split 7" - $5
Post Teens are a Gainesville, FL based band featuring members of Asshole Parade, Torche, Averkiou, and Dead Friends. Post Teens play a great style of music that’s aggressive, blown out, fuzzed out, and catchy as hell.. The band tears through their latest song with reckless abandon in a manner that would have made the Mummies proud. The best way for me to describe Post Teens’ music would be to picture garage punk bands such as Obits, Hot Snakes, Night Owls, and Marked Men mixed with the snottiness and swagger of bands like The Fallouts or maybe even Rocket From The Crypt. Rose Cross is a killer female fronted garage punk band from Gainesville , Florida. Fans of Terrible Feelings, White Lung, and Brain F will not be disappointed by Rose Cross’s side of this split.
** Hexis "XI" Gatefold LP, - $13
Hexis is a band from Copenhagen, Denmark, playing a mix of Hardcore and doomy black metal for fans of Celeste. Huge recent US tour with Relapse's Primitive Man. new Full length on Halo of Flies, and upcoming LP on A389. Beautiful gatefold, with printed thick inner sleeve and 180 gram vinyl. The band has existed since 2010, but has already played 200 shows in Cuba, Russia, the UK and all-over Europe. Into the darkness. Darkness amidst the ice. Darkness amidst the grey days. Darkness warping every note and sound. Cold isolation. Frozen warnings. Hexis makes hardcore drained of machismo and the warmth of human companionship. There is no celebration, no brotherhood, no cathartic violence. Hexis makes black metal that pays no allegiance to deities or archetypes, black metal that is immersed in the foul grit of the human condition. All you are left with is your own pointless thoughts being battered blind by this overwhelming force of sound. Every note on “XI” is blown out and damaged beyond repair, sonics pushed into abusive levels. Strings breaking. Vocals emanating from your buried, atavistic lizard brain. Contempt and pity at the same time.
** Cold Waste "Primitive" Tape $5
Gainesville's Cold Waste is a post punk duo (plus drum machine). A product of shared love for noisy 80's and 90's Pacific NW "punk rock" and British proto-goth. Originally aspired to be a convergence of inspirations by Big Black (perhaps the primary catalyst in the decision to use programmed drums) and Joy Division, resulted in something for a different array of listeners: fans of early The Cure, Wipers, Sonic Youth, Echo & the Bunnymen, Cocteau Twins. Professionally dubbed translucent purple cassettes.
** Asid Bateri "Demo" Tape $5
New band, new demo. ASID BATERI create an unhinged and abstract hardcore punk - a nod to dark Scandinavian punk, but with a backbone of brutal simplicity akin to Midwestern and DC US hardcore. Strong appeal to fans of classic bands ala Gauze, Void and Necros. The claustrophobic, dark, and brooding overtones are reminiscent of such acts as Cult Ritual and Perspex Flesh. They bought a mic from the guitar store on Friday, banged em out and returned the mic on Sunday. A good reminder that sometimes punk music works best with a sense of urgency. Members of Loma Prieta and Captive Bolt.
** Trophy Wife "All The Sides" Tape $5
Trophy Wife is from Philadelphia. A two piece encompassing the musical friendship of Diane Foglizzo and Katy Otto. All the Sides is the third full length release from these friends, originally forming the band in Washington, DC. With a strong orientation towards social justice, this duo plays loud music to survive. Drawing inspiration from artists like The Need, Shellac, Big Business and Lauryn Hill, Trophy Wife is the undeniable artistic conversation between two friends. They've toured and played shows with bands like: The Dismemberment Plan, Against Me!, Pissed Jeans, Lozen, Universal Order of Armageddon, Screaming Females, Des Ark, War on Women, and more... Heavily involved in Girls Rock movement and Ladyfest/queer punk/feminist punk communities. Album recorded and mixed by BJ Howze at Red Planet and mastered by Devin Ocampo (Smart Went Crazy, Faraquet, Medications)
** Decades/Failures "002" Tape Repress - $5
From the darker side of synth-pop, or the catchier side of 80’s “Goth” whichever you prefer. Stay in the shadows. It's the only way to save yourself. To do your true work. Decades/Failures embodies an aesthetic of accidental mystique - is it exotic to just not want to talk to anyone? - and appropriately enough, channel it into an overcast and insanely catchy new strain of dark synth. From Richmond VA via New York's Danceteria and London's Batcave, Decades/Failures' persona is a blank slate on which you can pin dashed hopes, eternal regrets, and hopeless crushes, all the while dance, dance, dancing not to the radio but to a collection of lo-fi loner anthems eternally besotten with Joy Division, Lust For Youth, John Maus, and Cabaret Voltaire. The lyrics evince a blackest ever black worldview, only slightly leavened by a keen sense of the politics of dancing; were appegiators every more artfully employed in recent memory? Tracks like "Everyday Is The Same" and "Gentle Forces" are sleek and gleaming, all aerodynamic black metallic engines racing down a highway... and right over a cliff. Die smiling.
** The Elsinores "Dream of Youth" LP $9
A most wholesome blend from Lexington, KY. Influences aside - this is the pure, place-less, driven music of guitar, drums, and vocals. Influences as extrapolated from the recordings (via reviews) - Husker Du, Wipers, Lost Sounds, Echo And The Bunnymen, Wire, early 90's Sub-Pop, mid-period Dischord. The packaging - reused record jackets, turned inside out and handsomely glued back together. Hand screened covers.
** Telepathic Lines "s/t" Tape - $5
A warm and cohesive 10 songs from musical veterans of the nations oldest city - Matt Pius, Jacob Hamilton, Rich Diem, & Lenny Rutland. Musically, a catchy nod to early Neil Young and Crazy Horse, and The Replacements. Old buds from Twelve Hour Turn and Tubers. Exceptional artwork from Sean Mahan. Pro-dubbed cassette tapes with 4 panel j-card housed in a re-used cassette case.
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