Showing posts with label belgium. Show all posts
Showing posts with label belgium. Show all posts

Jan 14, 2011

Kingterror & Agathocles - split 10'' (2010)

Days go by so fucking fast like tornados, music lately sucks (in all forms) and i stucked with some "emo" desert tunes lately that helps me bite my insomnia. But every now and then some terrific new band comes from the ultimate dark to catch up with my numbness and make me wanna start run in the night, wearing hooters and sport clothes. Dear ladies and gentlemen, Return to Your Seats and Fasten your Seatbelts, here we have Kingterror.

four bald guys, dropdead and negative approach shirts. sweet
So, i'll skip Agathocles 'coz the belgians mince-core founders wants no introduction. Just meat and potatoes style grind. We love them anyway. a band with good political lyrics.

Now, Kingterror! You may remember a band called Rubbish heap. And you may remember that i love rubbish heap. So, a guy called Kim have contacted me and told me that he used to play for rubbish heap and if i'm interested i can check out his new band called Kingterror. Musically the band offers a great blend of old-school hardcore with some fast as hell blastbeats who will fucking nail you. They have great riffs and vocals so fucking check them. Not forgot to mention, this band have some very familiar and also close to me, thoughts about mixing music with politics, read it carefully :

"we are four individuals with somehow common backgrounds and interests. we were in other bands, we have mutual ‘friends’, we have jobs. some of us have children. we are not saints. but we ain’t sinners either. we try to make something here for ourselves within this out-of-hand capitalist system. some of us drink, some of us smoke, some of us just breathe. some of us are creative outside of music. some of us prefer not doing anything at all. we want to have our say. we are not pointing fingers but if you feel offended by anything we say or anything we write... we think maybe there’s something wrong with you or your views. reconsider them first. if somehow you still think we are full of crap, we prefer animated conversations above so not-done barfights. violence and ‘i’m gonna get you’ grudges are not our thing.

we also prefer bands, venues, distro’s and labels that have something to stand for other than how cool their shit is. this is hardcorepunk. if you think it’s boring to hear all that leftist shit at shows and start complaining about biting the hand that feeds and not being able to change a thing, just fuck off.

hardcorepunk without content is totally useless. like beer without alcohol. we want to share information and frustration. say what we think needs to be said. we’re not talking about destroying the system and burning police cars (though that could be nice too). HELL, it’s not like we are throwing molotovs at every demonstration. it’s about awareness and small-scale action. the state will not be overthrown by some hardcorepunk kids, but we can claim a place for ourselves and for criticism. for free thinking and discussion. for squats and other small initiatives. for creativity. for non-capitalist entertainment. a space free of corporate sponsoring and advertisement. creating a bulb of chaos and mayhem. a fucking moment of freedom. where we can talk, dance, smile, cry, love, fight or crash down on the floor."

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Dec 7, 2010

Link - Self titled Lp (2010)


Oh my god, already a year passed since i started this damn blog. One year of joy doing some posts and sharing with all of you some interesting views about our favourite music, i met some great persons through bloging and still like it.

One year ago, Trouble on your system blog has posted "fifteen counts of arson" album from his hero is gone and since i wanted to start a crust blog (in the way, we got more on hardcore roads) plus the countless arson attacks happened in the greek state i thought that this was the most perfect name. I start this thing mainly 'coz i'm a bit stubborn, i have faith in my music choices and wanted to say what i think about my favourite albums 'coz i believed that i can do it better than others (fool....). In this weird trip i met guys that doing this bloging think much better than me and still they are fucking cool guys. Bill from 7inchcrust, foris from crustcracker, marc from fugitive equilibrium (thanx for al the great rips you have sent me man) and finally bryan from trouble on your system.

I thought that posting fifteen counts album as a gift to all of you would be great, but then i thought you already have it, so i changed my mind on LINK's new album. This stuff is not yet released (if i'm not mistaken). Propably will be released on 14th of december through Moshpit tragedy.

So, Link is a belgian crust band including members of Silence means death and Last legion alive. Here you get 8 great tracks of "no glimpse of hope" neo crust full of brutal and heavy riffs, male and female vocals that delivers a great feeling of winter's despair. Imagine something like Remains of the day, later-Hiatus, Visions of war, Counterblast, Jobbykrust, Oroku or even The Makai and other heavy crusty shit. You won't be dissapointed. This goes out to R.

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Sep 9, 2010

Hiatus - The brain & El sueno de la razon produce monstruos

I'm glad to continue where the previous post of 7inchcrust stopped. Hiatus. Hiatus was a crust / core band from liege, belgium. They released some of the most energetic and influential albums of all (crust) time in their brief history. But first i have to tell my own story of "fell-in-love" with hiatus. Read it or not, the download link is on the bottom.

Destroy me
Before thousands of years, Alex from Hibernation used to run a distro called "Drapetes tis siopis". There was a time with no internet, so all the distro news, 7inches etc was written by hand. If you were a good boy, sometimes alex sent over some great new albums for free (yeah, he was a "large" guy). Someday, i read in a new issue of his distro : "Hiatus. for many people this is the best crust band ever". I was shocked. What do you mean with the word best? I knew Doom and E.N.T and no-one else could be "the best". So, i ordered one copy from this cd re-release. It has the two last albums before the band fell in hiatus (hahaaahha) "The brain & El sueno de la razon produce monstruos" and has been released by Nabate records.

The sound is more technical than the first hiatus 7'' while the vocals remaining great doggy-shouting. The mixing of old Doom d-beat with metallic riffs makes this a classic and still nowadays i can't feel boring with these Hellgians, not for one single second. The first 8 tracks is "the brain" 12'' and you can compare it easily to Skew whiff (two of the hiatus members continue the legacy), track 9 is a rehearsal and the rest is from "El sueno...". If you are lucky enough buy this cd. It comes with a huge booklet foul of pics of the band, posters from that era, lyrics and a great euro-tour review in two languages (english and french). The guys were drunk all the fucking time. And yes, i can say THIS IS THE BEST CRUST BAND EVER.

the rip is from my own cd and i hope you'll enjoy it. The Hiatus puzzle seems to getting close to the end, right billy?

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Mar 20, 2010

Rubbish heap - Path of lies 7''


Rubbish heap was a crust / sludge band from belgium, active at the late 90's scene.
I don't know what to say for one of my favourite bands of all time, check out here their self titled lp.
Here's some of the most bitter lyrics ever has been vomiting from a human mouth... Full of dark emotions, angry vocals and degeneration for  the living creatures of this fucking planet...
The music is a mid-tempo crust mix, with heavy as hell distorted guitars and some sludgy influences (not so clear-viewed as the self titled lp's sludgy parts...) i think i must leave the band to speak for theirself...
This is a masterpiece, one of the best 7'' you will ever be able to hear.
Be carefull, this one demon's spawn may burn out your speakers even if you play it at 0 decibel...
two guys of rubbish heap keep on running conspiracy records - with fat bellys, nowadays.
This column came as an insert with this interesting piece of vinyl :
"This is your life - your freedom too choose - taken away by those who don't care about you - those addicted to traditions - to their ignorance - slaves to the machine that guarantees safety and predictability from the cradle to the grave - brainwashed by the institutions of indoctrination - they just want you to blindly follow the stream - to walk their path of lies without questioning - we must choose our own path instead of ruminating the old ways over and over again - we must break the structures and take back our stolen lives..."
My writting is so uninspired, but you have to hear this one.

Usual way of life, your path of lies

Jan 16, 2010

Rubbish heap - self titled LP


YES... after a while i'm very glad to finally been able to post this monstrosity...
Rubbish heap comes out of belgium to deliver 9 tracks of raging hardcore / CRUST /sludgy core...
Let me be more specific... a solid hard-hitting machine with heavy sludgy distorted bass, some "blessed are the sick" riffage and an open hell for mouth is the combination of the previously mentioned fellaaaaasssss...
One of my best bands ever, this one, with my favourite type of vocals... neither screamo(ing), nor gorish brutal, but angry and a little bit "rotten" (if you get me)...
Lyrics are bitter and mean about the fucking human race and the destroy of our sickening lives... check the first track opening words : "Swallow the torches, of our dying culture, passed on by generations of greedy liars and choke on the fumes..again and again, again and again... (...) five stiches for each eye, kill the impulse never ever wonder why...." ..
Two guys from rubbish heap runs the conspiracy records (back in the day conspiracy used to be d.i.y with great hardcore releases, unfortunately now releasing the europe versions of bands like knut and isis).
Rubbish heap have released also a split 7'' with upset and the ultimate 7'' "path of lies" and i'm looking for some links, guys... hope, that you will not forget me...
Did i mention that i have this release on a vinyl format and on a cd format too and i'm not willing to trade it?
So, you can understand my love for these ¨non-existant" brutal killing machine...

We'll take it to the grave anyway, to the grave