Antiviral

                                           
                                                     ANTIVIRAL (2012)

"Celebrities are not people, they're group hallucinations"

December 21 - 31 (#356 - 366)

#356) Gum Takes Tooth - Silent Cenotaph (2011) weird noise metal 


#357) Wildildlife - Six (2007) psychedelic noise metal

#358) True Widow - As High As the Highest Heaven and From the Center to the Circumference of Earth (2011) "stonegaze" 

#359) Comity - The Journey Is Over Now (2011) experimental hardcore

#360) Pig Destroyer - Book Burner/Blind, Deaf and Bleeding (2012)Blind, Deaf and Bleeding is a bonus EP of punk covers (Black Flag, Minor Threat and the Misfits to name a couple) that comes with the deluxe cd and lp versions of Book Burner.

#361) Crystal Castles - (III) (2012) 

#362) How to Destroy Angels - An Omen (2012)

#363) Igorrr - Hallelujuah (2012) "baroque-core"

#364) Whourkr - 4247 Snare Drums (2012)Whourkr is metal Igorrr

#365) Black Feelings (2009) noisy, kinda psychedelic rock

#366) Verdun - The Cosmic Escape of Admiral Masuka (2011) doom/sludge 

December 11 - 20 (#346 - 355)

#346) Winters in Osaka - Mutual Collapse (2010) harsh noise. sick. 

#347) Crowhurst - Nihil (2011) 1st record. ambient/noise

#348) Von Goat - Septic Illumination (2010) harsh lo-fi black metal.

#349) Slogun - Sacrifice Unto Me (1996) "True Crime Electronics"

#350) Love Sex Machine (2012) doom/sludge from France.

#351) Boss-de-Nage - II (2011) 

#352) Birds in a Row - Collected (2011)  hardcore.

#353) Hypomanie - A City in Mono (2011) "blackgaze" 

#354) Nadja - Dagdrøm + Spectrum Sessions (2012) 

#355) Hilkka - Escalation/Objective (2000) meh...mostly instrumental "indie rock"

December 1 - 10 (#336 - 345)

#336) Sigh - In Somniphobia (2012) proggy avant-black metal

#337) Johnny Aloha - Lavapalooza (2010) Richard Cheese side project

#338) The Casket Girls - Sleepwalking (2012) 

 #339) Locrian & Christopher Heemann (2012)

#340) Nachtmystium - Silencing Machine (2012) psychedelic black metal from Chicago

#341)Vampillia - Rule the World (2011) this is some odd shit. very cool stuff.

#342) Vampillia + Nadja - Primitive World (2012) this collab is how i heard of Vampillia. this is probably my favorite of all the Nadja collabs i've listened to. a great blend of both band's styles.

#343) Sigur Ros - Valtari (2012)

#344) Soft Kill - An Open Door (2011) goth/post-punk from the dude from Blessure Grave

#345) Old Man Gloom - No (2012)  noisy post-doom/sludge

November 21 - 30 (#326 - 335)

#326) Locrian - The Clearing (2011)

#327) The Catalyst - Marianas Trench (2008) 

#328) Horseback & Locrian - New Dominions (2012) 

#329) Vektor - Outer Isolation (2011) 

#330) Circle - Panic (2007) 

#331) Anodyne - Salo (2003) chaotic, noisy hardcore

#332) Nadja/Ovo - The Life and Death of a Wasp  (2010) 

#333) Pygmy Lush -Mount Hope (2008) 

#334) White Wizzard - Over the Top (2009) 80s metal

 #335) Furze - Trident Autocrat (2000) weird experimental black metal

November 11 - 20 (#316 - 325)

#316) Book of Sand - How Beautiful to Walk Free (2010) 

#317) Wolf Eyes - Black Wing Over the Sand (2007) sick stuff

#318) Fister - Bronsonic: Lethal Overdose Edition (2011) doom.


#319) Clinging to the Trees of a Forest Fire - Harmonies From Bleeding Mouths (2006)

#320) Psychofagist - Il Secondo Tragico (2009) 


#321) Atavist/Nadja - II: Points at Infinity (2008) drone doom

#322) Author & Punisher - The Painted Army (2005)  

#323) Author & Punisher - Warcry (2007) 

#324) Author & Punisher - Ursus Americanus (2012) 

#325) Bell Witch - Longing (2012)

November 1 - 10 (#306- 315)

#306) Pygmy Lush - Bitter River (2007) 

#307) Red Harvest - Cold Dark Matter (2000) 

#308) Book of Sand - Mourning Star (2012) 

#309) Lifelover - Sjukdom (2011) "narcotic metal"

#310) Wolf Eyes with John Wiese - Collection (2006) collection of out of print eps

#311)  Author & Punisher - Drone Machines (2010) 

 #312) Korperschwache - A Fistful of Nihilism (1996) 

#313) Openwound/Antigama - Blastasfuck split (2004)

#314) Kowloon Walled City - Gambling On the Richter Scale (2009) 

#315) Drudkh - Handful of Stars (2010) 

October 21 - 31 (#295 - 305)

#295) At the Graves - II (2010) 

#296) Clinging to the Trees Of a Forest Fire - Omega Drunk on the Blood Of Alpha (2008) 

#297) Celeste - Nihiliste(s) (2008) 

#298) Book of Sand - Destruction, Not Reformation (2010) 

#299) Wolves in the Throne Room - Celestial Lineage (2011) 

#300) Elizabeth - Where Vultures Land (2012) hardcore from Switzerland.

#301) Macho Distorto - To My Dead & Beloved (2011)

#302) Gay Witch Abortion - Maverick (2009) 

#303) Happy Days - Cause of Death: Life (2012) 

#304) Wraiths - Plaguebearer (2007) dark drone/ritual/ambient/noise

#305) Necrophiliacs - The Collected Works (2012) 

October 11 - 20 (#285 - 294)

#285) Botanist - II: A Rose From the Dead (2011)

#286) Botanist - III: Doom in Bloom (2012)

#287) V/A - III:Allies (2012) 

#288) Tomb - Total Occultic Mechanical Blasphemy II (2010) harsh black industrial

#289) Korperschwache - Ritual of the Ouroboros (2007)  

#290) Bongripper - Satan Worshipping Doom (2010) instrumental doom from Chicago

#291) Mz.412 - In Nomine Dei Nostri Satanas Luciferi Excelsi (1995) 

#292) Aderlating/Crown of Bone split (2012) 

293) Hallowed Butchery - Funeral Rites For the Living (2009) 

#294) Lair of the Minotaur - Carnage/Cannibal Massacre (2004/2005) 

September 21 - 30 (#265 - 274)

#265) This Heat - Repeat (1993) 

#266) Burmese - White (2003) 

#267) Nadja - Belles Bêtes (2009) 

#268) Anitgama/Psychofagist - 9 Psalms of an Antimusic to Come (2012)

#269) Behold! The Monolith - Behold! The Monolith (2009) 

#270) Oneida/Liars - Atheists, Reconsider (2002) .

#271) Behold! The Monolith - Defender, Redeemist (2012) 

#272) Book of Sand - The Face of the Waters (2011) 

#273) Horseback - The Gorgon Tongue (2011)

#274) 16-17 - Gyatso (1994) 

September 11 - 20 (#255 - 264)

#255) Tenhi - Kauan (1999) 

#256) Billy Crystal Meth - Meth Metal (2008) 

#257 - 259) Text of Light - Metal Box (2006) 

#260) rRope - We Are You There (2012) 

#261) Science Heroes - Transmission Zero Hour (2010) 

#262) P.H.O.B.O.S. - Tectonics (2005) industrial doom

#263) Clinging to the Trees of a Forest Fire - Songs of Ill Hope and Desperation (2010)

#264) Moss - Sub Templum (2008) occult doom

September 1 - 10 (#245 - 254)

#245) Millions - Gather Scatter (2008)  hardcore from Chicago

#246) SSS - The Dividing Line (2008) 

#247) Deterior - Cleanse (2009) 

#248) Sockeye - Barf On a Globe (1999) 

#249) Tenhi - Airut:aamujen (2004) neofolk from Finland

#250) Vektor - Black Future (2009) 

#251) Artortured - Dimensions of Suffering (2012)  

#252) Atavist - II:Ruined (2007) drone doom

#253) Circle - Miljard (2006) 

#254) The Sound of Animals Fighting - Lover, the Lord Has Left Us (2006) 

August 21 - 31 (#234 - 244)

#234) Pinkish Black - Pinkish Black (2012) 

#235) The Blind Shake - Carmel (2007) 

#236) Death in June - The World That Summer (1986) 

#237) Keuhkot - Toimintatapoja Olioille (2005) 

#238) Captain Ahab - The Great Disappointment (2006) 

#239) 16 Volt - Demography: The Basement Tapes (2000) collection of old tracks and demos

#240) Portugal. The Man - Censored Colors (2008) 

#241) Captain Ahab - The Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (2010) live tracks

#242) Captain Ahab - The Sex Is Next (2004) 

#243) The Phantom Carriage - Late Comers (2005) 

#244) Ramona Falls - Intuit (2009)  

August 1 - 10 (214 - 223)

#214) Dreamend - And the Tears Washed Over Me, Wave After Cowardly Wave (2012) 


#215) Duchess Says - Anthologie des 3 Perchoirs (2008) 

#216) Hair Police - Certainty of Swarms (2008) 

#217) Richard Cheese - Live at the Royal Wedding (2011) 

#218) Verse En Coma - Rialto (2008) 

#219) Old Silver Key - Tales of Wandering (2011) 

#220) Noism ± (2008) 
 
#221) Death Grips - The Money Store (2012) 

#222) KEN Mode - Mennonite (2008)  

#223) Blood of the Black Owl - A Feral Spirit (2008) 

July 18 - 31 (201 - 213)

#201) Hammers of Misfortune - The Bastard (2001) 

#202) Emo Summer - Land of Emotional Plastic Furniture (1999) bad. not for me

#203) George Holdcroft - The FP Soundtrack (2011) 

#204) Disunicorps - Try (2011) 

#205) Disunicorps - Re:Try (2012) 

#206) Sutekh Hexen- Larvae (2012) 

#207) Panopticon - Social Disservices (2011) 

#208) The Paper Chase - Cntrl-Alt-Delete-U (2001) 

#209) Richard Cheese - Dick at Nite (2007) 

#210) Trust - Trst (2012) 

#211) Antigama/Drugs of Faith split (2007) 

#212) Nadja - The Bungled & the Botched (2008) 

#213) In Defence - Into the Sewer (2009) 

Xrin Arms - Drugganaut Trashedelix

#196) Xrin Arms - Drugganaut Trashedelix (2012)

1. Sweaty Entrance
2. Fatalist Dysentery
3. Electric Highway
4. Caffeine Mountain
5. Maggots
6. Dream Catcher Casket
7. Ultimate Allure
8. Fucking in the Streets
9. Feeling Right
10. Summer Blood

Father Murphy - Anyway Your Children Will Deny It

                                              Heartbreaking Scenes Of Farewell


#195) Father Murphy - Anyway Your Children Will Deny It (2012)

1. How We Ended Up With Feelings of Guilt
2. His Face Showed No Distortions
3. It Is Funny, It Is Restful, Both Came Quickly
4. Diggin' the Bottom of the Hollow
5. In Praise of Our Doubts
6. Their Consciousness
7. In the Flood With the Flood
8. Don't Let Yourself Be Hurt This Time

Father Murphy are a trio from Italy that play...i don't know. i do know that's it's a really fucking rad album. noisy and haunted. 

(126A) Tenacious D - Rize of the Fenix (2012)

(126A) Tenacious D - Rize of the Fenix (2012)

1. Rize of the Fenix
2. Low Hangin' Fruit
3. Classical Teacher
4. Señorita
5. Deth Starr
6. Roadie
7. Flutes & Trombones
8. The Ballad of Hollywood Jack and the Rage Kage
9. Throw Down
10. Rock Is Dead
11. They Fucked Our Asses
12. To Be the Best
13. 39

     I am not going to spend a lot of time talking about Tenacious D. They make comedy tinged, over the top Rock Music and its just fun. Their first album was ridiculous and can never be topped but this one was a lot more entertaining than their second. Its funny, has an almost western theme. Their humor is intact and their guitar playing shreds as usual. You have to at the very least do yourself a favor and listen to "To Be the Best" a one minute homage to 80s montage songs a la "Eye of the Tiger". Good for a laugh and a listen or two. (126)

(125A) Animal Collective - Transverse Temporal Gyrus (2012)

(125A) Animal Collective - Transverse Temporal Gyrus (2012)

1. Transverse Temporal Gyrus Part 1
2. Transverse Temporal Gyrus Part 2

     In 2010, Animal Collective played a special show as part of an art installation with a Video Artist. They released this half hour EP as part of this years record store day so that their fans could get a taste of what they missed in that show and what music was written for it. The EP is just short of a half hour and is a return to their experimental, patchwork roots as well as adding some of their newer sounds and trademarks into the mix. It was an enjoyable listen, but not for everyone. You would dig this oksentaminen. (125)

Cynic - The Portal Tapes

#138) Cynic - The Portal Tapes (1994/95/2012)

 1. Endless Endeavors
 2. Karma's Plight
 3. Circle
 4. Costumed In Grace
 5. Cosmos
 6. Crawl Above
 7. Mirror Child
 8. Road To You
 9. Belong
 10. Not the Same

ugh, what the fuck is this? besides being terrible it's also not technically a Cynic album which is misleading and pisses me off, although i probably should've done my research before buying the album but whatever.

so, brief history : a year after Cynic released their landmark debut Focus they broke up while working on their follow up and weren't seen again until they released Traced In Air in 2008 (more on that album soon.) now i was lead to believe that this record was a "lost" demo recording of what was to be their 2nd album. unfortunately for me that's not quite the case. what happened after Cynic broke up was members Paul Masvidal (guitars, vocals), Jason Gobel (guitars) and Sean Reinert (drums, keyboards) formed a new project called Portal. Portal is basically Cynic with all the cool metal parts removed so all you have left is the new agey bullshit, but now it has female vocals. it's ridiculously cheesy but not in an entertaining way. they recorded this in '94 and '95 but nothing ever materialized (outside of some bootlegs) until now. what a fucking treat. now i don't know if this is the sound they were going for on their 2nd album or if this is just the sound they decided on for Portal but either way it's awful.  but this is not my thing at all.