La casa fantom - fredlos

Some days ago i reached the little social centre called pikrodafni, in a suburb of athens to watch La casa fantom. The gig was among friends, via mouth to mouth communication - no posters, internet etc. The 50 bastards that saw the norwegians i can say that were more than lucky if i can judge from the smiling faces right after the gig. A 30 minutes set with a drummer that stands for 10 drummers together, and a rythm bassist with great voice. As my shirt was completely stinky sweat i knew that i have to make a post for La Casa Fantom.

La casa fantom started back in 2000, when two friends - Lars and Bard - start to jamming in the livingroom of their collective outside the city of Oslo. Staying in the forest of oslo, eating from the garbage of the "civilized" society (the band has a track that means "dumbstep diving"), using amps that they found'em among trashes and fixing 'em by themselves i dare to say that these guys have made their own big refusals against modern society normes and capitalist system.

"Our name comes from a do it yourself wine kit which gives you 20 liter of redwine in 24 hours. It was just like our music, fast & dirty with a lot of nerves."

The band has already released two lp's (including Fredlos) and a bunch of 7inches, in their own label Iskrem Plater records (means icecream records) and all of them are great. This lp starts with a great simple intro with a little bit pessimistic lyrics to continue with a death-hymn full of blast beats and broken voices. These guys mixing so fucking good melancholic atmoshferes with crust, black metal (Norwegians, remember?) with grindcore. Jazzy grindcore (or post-crust) would be the most accurate description for the band's sound, as a friend told me in the show and i have to agree with him. Lars, the drummer, also palys in the sludge-hardcore band Hombre malo that features members from Ictus and This thing called dying.

You just need a drumkit with an octapus instead of a drummer, two voices that spitting venom, a bass with plenty of pedals with a dreadlock guy for the arms and... who the fuck needs guitars?

If you are familiar with this type of experimental noise, i'm sure you'll love La casa fantom. Give it a listen, in this rainy and numb day it's the perfect soundtrack.

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p.s. dedicated to d.

Drugged SS - I hate what you think about my life (tape)

-mikxxx, the stupid white-middle-class boy :
Yeah, i was looking for this tape (fuck yeah another tape) for a while. I finally ordered some copies from a norway-based distro and i payed a bunch of fucking euros. Thankfully this tape deserves it. As my tape-player has no line-in/line-out, i have not been able to rip it. Thanx to http://suckdicksforfun.blogspot.com/ who sent me the rip.

Here we have three insane (unsane and mentally deranged) norwegians trying to play hardcore punk. I'm saying trying 'coz i'm not sure if their intention was to play ugly and uncompromising hardcore than fucked-up black metal. I don't care and you shouldn't too, 'coz the guys mixing it so fucking good. They remind me the s/t 7'' of Forced Expression mainly due to the raging tempos, the short tracks, the clever tricks in guitar and the blistering vocals. Six tracks on 4 minutes and 54 seconds. The recording is decent enough for a rehearsal (i guees it's a rehearsal. The "booklet" gives no infos). Check out the second track "enfants terribles" with this sick sludgy bridge on 18 second. Ugly...
Also, the band is part of the Black Hole Crew alongside Okkultokrati and Haust and hates swedish music.

This tape has been released by Ormeyngel records (blame Lars - a member of okkultokrati) and if you have a PayPal-account don't hesitate to order some copies for your friends. You can also give 'em as a gift while you had to write on the card "I hate what you think about my life". A great gift, indeed.

"Three piece hardcore outfit from Setesdal.
Drugged SS takes no part of the already established positive hardcore scene in the big cities - this is war, famine, pestilence, and death in your face!

This is hardcore as it should be in it's most primitive state.

Hardcore without baggage of principles other than wanting to tear up your bedroom walls, where football trophies and diplomas from school hangs like a bloody Jesus on the cross - a constant reminder of failure and reverence.

Finding no inspiration in the Oslo scene, we had to create our own form of negative approach.

Drugged SS are from Setesdal and are going to stay in Setesdal."

Also the band have some weird opinion about the label that released the above mentioned tape (laughing out loud, you fools) :
"Ormeyngel tells me the tape is close to being sold out. whatever. Ormeyngel is just a bunch of Oslo hipsters making money of our music anyway. they're talking about doing a new pressing of the tape. I don't care, I'm gonna go steal some gas for my car now. Fuck you all, and fuck every band from Sweden"

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i love what you think about swedish music

-d. the black μπουγατσας from hell :
This is hardcore. Raw, ugly and hateful!

Drugged SS come from Norway and they are darker than almost every black metal band that came out the homeland of black metal the last years! It is a dark time that we live in, so dark is the music.

With no ray of hope left and dripping with venom, Drugged SS takes you down… and keeps you down!

The sound is very raw and primitive, the vocalist spits blood and guts, the songs are short and sharp.

And as they said with their own words: “This is hardcore without any baggage of principles other than wanting to tear up your bedroom walls, where football trophies and diplomas from school hang like a bloody Jesus on the cross  - a constant reminder of failure and reverence”.

I have nothing more to say.

This is war, famine, pestilence and death in your face!

The approach is negative…

Okkultokrati - no light for mass Lp (2010)

Some days ago i was chating with a friend that used to be in lund, a small town of sweden (known for great hardcore bands, like snifter and everyday madness, even some connection with intensity) to rent a house for his university's studies. He told me that if he stayed there certainly he would die from boredom and misery. If you are born and raised in a city like athens with fucking everyday's life intensity that drives you crazy (and you get crazy if you lose that intensity) for sure the green mountains of scandinavia could be a little bit annoying...

Moving from sweden to norway, here we have a band from oslo featuring members of hombre malo and haust. It's name : Okkultokrati. Four guys who have gained a lot of respect within the underground black metal and hardcore circles mainly for the way they approach these two genres. Scandinavia's daily life influences drives people do insane think i guess like forming great bands...

Wearing darkthrone shirts and playing hardcore punk would be, besides a great horror movie, the perfect description about those long-hair, tight-pants, dark guys. Imagine the first bathory's lp with celtic frost in a Poison idea feast.. Yeah, sure that's the case.. Punky in your face hardcore full of proto-black metal influences... Down-tuned guitars and mid-tempo drum-hitting creates a dystopian and at the same time sludgy environment. Some reverb adds some spicy taste (no influences from Destino final, or maybe not?)
Great fucking music and hateful lyrics from guys that lives in scandinavia, that is known for the huge suicide rates and extreme music tastes. A band that describes it's own existence under the "True norwegian metaphysical atheist black'n'roll" belt. So, if you wanna hear some good Black flag meets Darkthrone hardcore full of black metal elements "no light for mass" it's everything you want.

The funny think is that i tried to order some copies from ormeyngel but with no pay-pal. Ormeyngel very polite told me that they can't sent the stuff due to currency exchanges. So, when i told it to my good friend dbill, he answered me with a funky style: "Kala o Norvhgos to exei kapsei apo to polu kruo kai ton radienergo solwmo pou psareuoun!!! Pes tou na mas pei poso einai to poso, kai 8a tou ta valoume se Norvhgikes korwnes tou flwrou!....ti einai autoi oi Vorioi re malaka?!!!!....Kollhmena muala!!!!" HAHAHA.
Check also an interview here.
Also if you got fucking pay-pal go and buy some stuff from Ormeyngel records (the label is running by Okkultokrati guys)

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Toamol - demo 2004

Some time ago, a great blog used to exist. It's name was suicidemilancity.blogspot. The chief in command was milan, a guy from serbia. Every now and then i was asking for tones of shit, if he has them, if he could post 'em (real nerd thing) and the rest. And someday milan told me to check out Toamol. So, this post is for milan, nowadays he runs the downsided blog. Man, thanx a lot...

Toamol (their perfect double 7inch is posted here) hails from Tunsberg, in the south-east of Norway and features ex-members of Kort process and Alltid jaget (another killer norway-based band). Toamol blends traditional late-8o's norwegian hardcore (like kort process and the fast parts of So much hate) alongside more modern crusty forms. Heavy and dark guitars borrowing stuff from early - heavy as hell - Neurosis as much as the sickening tightness of His hero is gone, even some thrashy parts (i'm talking more for the feeling in the sound) when they get from fast to faster while the vocals reminds me a straight-jacket lunatic in a panic crisis. The great thing about norway's scene is that every band is so unique, every band has it's own sound, something that i love, and i have to say it's the same thing that i'm totally bored-of the swedish stuff (for some weird reason the majority of swedish bands seems to copy-paste one another). Toamol gives you the impression that they put all their energy and love for what they're doing.
This demo lasts for 10 minutes. 10 minutes that you'll want to live it again and gain, again and again...
and as a friend of mine told me 20 minutes ago : "Καλα ρε μαλακα πως τα ακους αυτα, πρωινιατικα?"

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2 : 20 - Self titled 12'' Lp

Long time ago, i wanted to post this norway's piece of sweat, i don't know why i didn't do it 'till now, but as people use to say "better later than never".
2 : 20 was a band active from 2004 - 2008, who their members have paricipated less or more in other well-known non-blackmetal bands from motherland of black metal. To name a few : boyeng beng, Life... but how to live it?, dead gerhardnes and captain not responsible. They have released this 12'' lp and a seveninch called "God natt til alle barna", both released from On Sjakk Matt Plater records.

The music magic can be described as the majority of colours that punk-rock can create. Beautiful solid drums gives the up-tempo feeling while bass-lines are fast and clear opening perfectly the way for the guitar and the vocals to reserve the main dish. More on the punk-rock side than clearly hardcore, this old wolves gives me a "this is how it's gonna be..." impression. Continuing the legacy of melodic hardcore punk origins of norway (now, that i'm re-thinking it, they are-not "continuing" 'coz these guys, each one of them played a part in creating it in the first place) like other great bands such as Toamol, I.O.U and the rest and they defenetely now how to do it.

For a weird reason i'm in love with the vocals, maybe of the ugly, beer stinking sound-lands that Tor Idar creates in my mind. If you are not too tough for hearing it - i mean if you can listen different things, from pop-punk to power-violence - you gonna worship them.
2 : 20 members nowadays can be found on Knuste Ruter and DANGER!MAN.

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I.O.U. - I owe you lp 2005

Just a heads up : After a lot of listens to this norwegian masterpiece i finally made the conclusion that if you had your speakers loud this stuff becomes fuzzy, so i re-extract it... take care
-mikxxx...

This is my first rip, out of vinyl... and i'm feeling a little bit weird, hope that i did everything perfect. My "totalrecorder" program has no split tracks option that's why you get side a and side b, sorry... Please listen to it and leave comments if the sound it's ok...

So, here is the long awaited extract of one of the most perfect albums ever came out of the motherland of black metal, but here you will get nothing like that...
I.O.U. is the perfect hardcore punk band consisting of five individuals : kristian, dagger, ozzak, gundersen and vegard. Five alienated Culture Industry employees rising from the ashes of the fine Norwegian hardcore acts Kids Like Us (their truth alone triumphs ep is so fucking awesome...), Crash and The Union Policy.
They had released two seveninches (i'm still looking for "under filthy wings" you fuckers) and a fucking lp-hurricane, this one! They had toured Europe four times and played tons of shows in their home country Norway. The LP/CD "I Owe You" was released last year as a split release by five diy labels (Dead Letter Records, Analemma Records, Kontrabande Records, Asyl Vinyl and Black Soul Family Records) so go and buy it...
This is the best album i have heard for a long time and (think that) came to my hands almost by coincidence...
A blistering combination of early us hardcore alongside some crusty and melodic parts. think how TRAGEDY would sound if they played ONLY covers of NEGATIVE APPROACH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Do you want to hear anything more? And at their my(as)space, in the section "influences", you can read : Negative Approach, Minor Threat, Black Flag, Los Crudos, Tragedy, No Parade, From Ashes Rise....
The new must-be-loved band by d-bill (i think...)
ENJOYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and leave comments

Every rock is an I.O.U (download)


Dbill driven crazy :
This is I.O.U, and they are Mikexxx's new obsession. The guy never stops talking about them!!

He talked about them when we went for a cup of coffee, he talked about them while we went for a hot pizza, he talked about them while we were at an antifascist demonstration...hell, he even wouldn't stop talking about them while we were chased by the fucking pigs (or was that Skitkids?)!!!!!!!

I avoid going to the bathroom in fear that Mike will come out of the toilet and start ranting about the ''under filthy wings'' ep...no really, it's like some plague that hits your friend, and you wish he gets well, but then again...if it made him shut up...!!!!! (just joking Mike...please don't kick me out of the blog!!)

On to the Norwegian posse now...This is hardcorepunk, and indeed it's a mix between old american hardcore and the more modern hardcore/crust wave. It gives a feeling akin to Endstand (mostly cause of the sound and the mix of old hardcore with melodies), though they don't sound really similar. The tracks fly by like a jet plane on fire, and the tunes make you wanna pogo like a norwegian salmon fish leaping out of the river!!! I'd prefer a more ruff 'n' tough production, but it seems that i get used to their (a bit) polished production the more i hear the LP (am i turning soft at the age of 25?).

Download it cause i don't know how Mike will react if the downloads don't reach 100!!!!...Also they are really good (if you really need more motivation to press on the download link...)..

dbill trellos

Toamol - Tragedy of a mind once lost

After a long time of searching for this double seveninch , a sweet human being contact me via comments and then via email and finally send me this wonderful hardcore masterpiece called "Tragedy of a mind once lost"...
So, this post goes to michael and i feel i can't express my gratitude to him...
Thanx, man! A lot...

 
So, here we have one of the best bands that came outta norway the last few (or maybe not so few) years alongside I.O.U (guys, i'm still looking for their releases... help), Summon the crows, Alltid jaget etc
Toamol has ex-members of Kort process and Alltid jaget (and maybe a few more) so you can understand the music quality...
They play a mix of  fast, violent and angry hardcore with some melodic hardcore parts just for the flavour (don't think metalcore bullshits, please!!!) with angry and sometimes brutal vocals...
This band is a steam-roller, listen the total fucking destruction (not the band)

Tragedy of an ear once damaged

Alltid Jaget - hjelpelos ep & Du Synker Inn I Døden

Well, the almighty mr. Vengeance is mine had a little request :
The posts to be mean...
Alltid Jaget
It's the first band that came to my mind when i read the word mean

Fucking pissed-off, protein-high, old-school HARDCORE
Here you got 2 releases :
hjelpelos ep [1997]
Du Synker Inn I Døden
(and a killer judas priest cover.HEHEHE)

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P.S. I had a little request: if anyone has anything from the bands
I.O.U or toamol(both from norway) please contact or share a link. thanx

P.S.2 I'll try the next 3-4 posts to be mean(as it was mean(t) to be)