Jonah Jenkins sung for Only Living Witness, Milligram, and now with Raw Radar War, he’s straight-up going for the jugular. Sludged-up, crusty hardcore.
Yemin’s “main band” since before (and now alongside) Lifetime got back together. A statement on the beauty of hardcore, and a plethora of outsider music.
One step up from boot recording, a rock and roll attack based in the classic Who, Stones, Pretty Things, ’60s Anglo-attack shot through a snot-garage attack.
Exactly what you would imagine it to be: Almost as much in-between banter as music, irreverent humor, not to mention meticulously written and executed pop punk.
Tokyo’s Grief of War barely make the grade. They sound too complacent to rub elbows with thrash metal revival bands as goods as Evile and Municipal Waste.
From Wisconsin. The sort of noisy, fuzzy, hairy, garage rock that’s best when you turn it up really loud. Fast and hard, the tracks are short and concise.
Two discs, Hadean/Archaean and Proterozoic. One evokes the polluted decibel wonderment of Isis and Neurosis. Two exhibits more mellowness and elasticity.
A gorgeous rarities pack. 20 tracks plus four radio spots, documenting the side bits of The Dictators’ classic, legendary alternative career path career.
Taint (taint stoner, taint sludge, taint hardcore neither) competing with Spice, Spiritual, and Clutch, but adding an artful noise and an Entombed Viking vocal.