Halloween Double Post 2/2: Scott Walker - The Drift

I'm the only one...
Left...
Alive...


Scott Walker - The Drift

Scott Walker, for those unfamiliar, used to be a 60s pop singer. As of recently however his music has taken a drastic turn to the experimental and downright horrifying. The Drift, is one of those later albums.

I was originally introduced to this album by a friend who told me it was one of the scariest albums he had ever heard. I was skeptical, but no, this really is absolutely terrifying this album.

It isn't terrifying per say from creepy spooky ambient noises however, there is something more to the sound, the haunting vocals, and the peculiar irregularities from the experimental that really give this album its horrifying sound.

Here is a sample.

Tracklist

1		Cossacks Are	4:32
2		Clara	12:44
3		Jesse	6:28
4		Jolson And Jones	7:46
5		Cue	10:28
6		Hand Me Ups	5:50
7		Buzzers	6:40
8		Psoriatic	5:51
9		The Escape	5:19
10		A Lover Loves

http://www.mediafire.com/?dwoygn2z3dk

Halloween Double Post 1/2: Enemite - Wuyuan

Ready to shit your pants?


Enemite - Wuyuan

Wanna creep the shit out of your neighbors, roommates, kids and anyone else? Play this.

Enemite is a Chinese ritual and dark ambient project, of which I know nothing more. Being Chinese, and also having a strong ritual aspect, it has a strong Eastern sound to it, as if some cult was summoning various Buddhist demons to torment and torture the souls of others.

Highly recommended, and fucking creepy shit.

http://www.mediafire.com/?2innvm0qe2f

V/A - Can You Jack?

Well? Can you?


V/A - Can You Jack? Chicago Acid and Experimental House 1985-95

I love acid house. Hell, I love pretty much anything that can be described as having an acid influence or sound. I just fuckin love the sound of that overdriven TB-303.

This is a comp album of some of the most classic tracks to come out of the acid house scene, and even features my personal favorite acid house track, Phuture's Acid Tracks, so damn good.

So if you are new to acid house, or trying to get into it, this is a fantastic place to start.

Tracklist

1-01	Maurice* -	This Is Acid	4:52
1-02	Sweat Boyz, The -	Do You Want To Perculate?	5:32
1-03	Virgo -	Go Wild Rhythm Track	3:08
1-04	Mr. Fingers -	Beyond The Clouds	7:56
1-05	Tyree* -	Acid Crash	5:57
1-06	Phuture -	Phuture Jacks	7:45
1-07	Fresh (2) -	Dum Dum Part 2	7:06
1-08	Roy Davis Jr. -	Acid Bass	4:53
2-01	Sleezy D. -	I've Lost Control	9:40
2-02	Virgo Four -	Take Me Higher	4:45
2-03	DJ Pierre -	Box Energy	5:12
2-04	Lil' Louis -	Video Clash	5:04
2-05	Tyree* -	Acid Over	4:29
2-06	Green Velvet -	Explorer	6:16
2-07	Two Of A Kind -	Like This	4:23
2-08	Armando -	Downfall	4:47
2-09	Phuture -	Acid Tracks	12:20

http://www.mediafire.com/?6cashfd8v78ker9

Sabbath Assembly - Restored to One

Glory to the Gods in the Highest


Sabbath Assembly - Restored to One

I'm going to say flat-out, I don't see how anyone could dislike this. Actually, you could if you were someone stupid enough to think anything religious instantly made it stupid. Then again, I don't want you on my blog if you are like that.

What we have here is a re-imagining/reprocessing of the hymns of the old 60s apocalypse cult known as The Process Church of the Final Judgment. So what made this cult special? They used music themselves to spread their hymns and beliefs, of which this album is a more updated take on those old versions. The Process Church was a rather unusual cult also in terms of belief. Labeled Satanic by most they referred to Gods, in particular, Jehova, Lucifer, and Satan, and that the Final Judgment would bring them all together, with Christ as judge, and Satan as the executor of judgment etc etc. Quite interesting really. Check the wiki if you are curious. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Process_Church_of_The_Final_Judgment

Moving on though, musically this is very strongly 60s psychedelic influenced. It's got that old 60s psych feel with folk, and even doom, which makes sense as the vocalist is none other than Jex Thoth.

Closest thing musically that comes to mind is The Electric Prunes and their Release of An Oath album, in that both albums are 60s psychedelic rock, and involve the reciting of hymns. Give this a listen, it is fantastic and extremely addictive. I guarantee you too will be singing "Glory to the Gods in the Highest".

Tracklist

1		Glory To The Gods In The Highest
2		Hymn Of Consecration
3		And The Phoenix Is Reborn
4		The Saints Shall Inherit The Earth
5		The Power That Is Love
6		Glory Hallelujah
7		Judge Of Mankind
8		We Give Our Lives
9		The Time Of Abaddon

EDIT: Link removed.

Seriously people, if you have an issue don't send some stupid DMCA, just kindly ask, it isn't hard.

Horseback - The Invisible Mountain

Hatecloud Dissolving Into Nothing


Horseback - The Invisible Mountain

This is a pretty interesting band, and one that is somewhat a mish mash of genres. There is a strong drone sound to this, sounds at times like Earth - The Bees Made Honey in the Lions Skull however with a more prominent atmospheric doom vibe to it with black metalish vocals.

Hell, just give it a listen, it's great and rather catchy in a "I want to hear this again" manner.

Tracklist

1		Invokation
2		Tyrant Symmetry
3		The Invisible Mountain
4		Hatecloud Dissolving Into Nothing

http://www.mediafire.com/?7z62968pwta08aq

preying hands - Through the Dark

Preying hands with good intentions
prying where they don't belong


preying hands - Through the Dark

I found out about this band a while back and loved this.

Simply put, neocrust with female vocals. Very catchy and awesomely crusty. If you like Witch Hunt then you will love this. Give it a listen, it's great.

Tracklist

1		Preying Hands
2		Clues
3		Prefabricated Passions
4		Details
5		Know Don't Say
6		Throught The Dark
7		Sinking
8		To Scars
9		Breathe

http://www.mediafire.com/?fz3di9f0v27wlb3

Leper - End Progress

I'm posting ska?!?!


Leper - End Progress

I know what you're thinking "Ska?!?!?" Yes ska!

This is Leper, a blackened crust/ska band out of Canada. Initially that word "ska" kept me away from this band. How could anything related to ska possibly be good? But oh this is. It very much is.

Take Iskra, and then add in some catchy as fuck ska and reggae grooves and you have Leper. This shit had me floored since I first gave it a listen earlier tonight. Give this a listen.

Tracklist

1		The War Of 2010
2		Wild And Free
3		Sedition Not Sedation
4		Destroy What Destroys You
5		End Progress
6		Decivilize
7		Face Yourself
8		Resist The S.P.P.
9		Inspire Change
10		We Already Live In Ruins

http://www.mediafire.com/?l7y1g2781lazolh

Vidulgi OoyoO - Aero

I've been lazy.


Vidulgi OoyoO - Aero

So yea, I've been pretty lazy and distracted but here is a nice treat.

This is probably one of my most favorite shoegaze albums, and is rather underrated honestly. Vidulgi OoyoO is a great little band out of South Korea, and this album is frankly excellent. They maintain the classic shoegaze sound, while maintaining their own unique sound and take on it.

Also I just love female vocals.

Tracklist

1		Siren
2		너의 눈으로 나를 본다
3		Elephant
4		Murmur's Room
5		I Might Be You
6		Even Freedom
7		Aero
8		Elephant (Love Mix)

http://www.mediafire.com/?yj5djohzyyz

The Conet Project - Recordings of Shortwave Numbers Stations

Yankee... Hotel... Foxtrot...



For any of you not familiar with Numbers Stations, they are unknown stations which can be heard on shortwave radios, repeating, well, numbers, and other such things. They are largely believed to be used by governments to inform spies of their orders in a completely uncrackable manner. Further, locating the origins of such number stations are, frankly, neigh impossible.

This is a phenomenon I was recently introduced to a few months ago and fell in love with this release. The Conet Project is exactly what its subtitle says it is, recording of hundreds and hundreds of these numbers stations in short 1-3 minute bits. Some can be quite creepy though, the Swedish Rhapsody in particular, with its eerie monotone young child reciting numbers in German in between stints of ice cream truck music.



When I first heard these it blew me away and instantly gained a spot in my sleeping playlist, but even for simply listening purposes, these are great.

This can be downloaded from archive.org, however I don't know about you guys, but I'd rather not download each track individually, thus it is in a nice rar file here.

http://www.mediafire.com/?ieatmgd8sz1wukf

Zombie Ritual - Night of the Zombie Party

I've been playing a lot of Dead Rising 2 lately... so sorry for the lack of updates.


Zombie Ritual - Night of the Zombie Party

I felt like posting something with zombies, and this came to my head first. So yea, if you couldn't tell by the band name, album title, or tracklisting, zombies are the name of the game for this old school flavored Japanese death metal band. Don't have much else to say really, these guys do what they do, and do it well, pretty underrated band as well, so give um a listen.

For fans of old school death metal ie Scream Bloody Gore era Death.

I'll have something tomorrow with a bit of a broader appeal hopefully.

Tracklist

1		Zombie Ritual
2		Zombie Fire
3		Zombified
4		Zom-Beer
5		Zombies Devour You Alive
6		Brains For Zombies
7		Zombie Axe Massacre
8		Zombie Party
9		Zombie Drive
10		Zombie Legions Kill! Kill
11		Die Zombies Die
12		Zombie Metal War

http://www.mediafire.com/?queiz5qdsp44zwo

Venetian Snares - My So-Called Life

We suspect she may be... retarded.


Venetian Snares - My So-Called Life

New Venetian Snares album. Bit slow on this but ah well.

Keeping this short, simply put it's a great album, and it's new Venetian Snares.

Seriously, just listen to this track.



You know you want it now.

Tracklist

1		Posers And Camera Phones
2		Cadaverous
3		Aaron 2
4		Who Wants Cake?
5		Welfare Wednesday
6		Ultraviolent Junglist
7		Goodbye9/Hello10
8		Sound Burglar
9		Hajnal 2
10		My So-Called Life

http://www.mediafire.com/?taec7jtzdil

One Eyed God Prophecy - Discography

Proto-screamo


One Eyed God Prophecy - Discography

Some of you I am sure are familiar with the screamo sound of the early 90s, bands like Orchid, Angel Hair, Heroin etc. Well this band was the precursor to them all.

Alas, they were around very briefly and only released this one LP however despite this, they influenced the better part of an entire genre.

So if you like Orchid, and your screamo dark, loud and pissed off, you'll feel right at home here. Well worth a listen for screamo fans, hell, even you crust punk fans could like this especially if you like the darker bands.

Tracklist

1		Toddler
2		Wilf
3		Karysun
4		End Of The Story
5		Fields Of Separate Realities
6		Individual Gallery

http://www.mediafire.com/?40hb9yb33bozw3z

Susumu Hirasawa - Siren

My favorite Hirasawa album.


Susumu Hirasawa - Siren

For those not familiar with Susumu Hirasawa, I made a post about him last year or so, back when his new album Planet Roll Call came out. The basic gist of which is that he is responsible for a great many of things, and has been at the forefront of the Japanese electronic music scene.

This is one of his older albums, from back in 1996, and is pretty much a concept album about Thailand of all places. Then again, Thailand has always been a big source of inspiration in a lot of Hirasawa's works.

Here's a youtube of my favorite track though.



If ya like it, give this a whirl, it's great.

Tracklist

1		Electric Light Bath-1
2		Sairen/Siren
3		On Line Malaysia
4		Siren
5		Nurse Cafe
6		Holy Delay
7		Gemini
8		Day Scanner
9		Siam Lights
10		Electric Light Bath-2
11		Mermaid Song

http://www.mediafire.com/?qqt25inl4mn

Envy - Recitation

Just leaked last night.


Envy - Recitation

This is the new album from Envy, it just leaked last night, and it officially comes out tomorrow, so I figured I'd toss this up here.

For those living under a rock, Envy are probably the most well known of all the Japanese screamo bands, and are most well known for their recent incorporation of post-rock into their song structure. This album continues further with that musical direction.

What more can I say, it's Envy, and it's great. Also, they are currently on tour so look into any upcoming tour dates. For you local folks, they are playing Jerky's on the 29th which I'll be attending.

Tracklist
1. Guidance
2. Last Hours Of Eternity
3. Rain Clouds Running In A Holy Night
4. Pieces Of The Moon I Weaved
5. Light And Solitude
6. Dreams Coming To An End
7. Incomplete
8. Worn Heels And The Hands We Hold
9. A Hint And The Incapacity
10. A Breath Clad In Happiness
11. 0 And 1
12. Your Hand

http://www.mediafire.com/?sbtgdkuboik

Dark Castle Discography

Birds Fly
Skies Sigh


Dark Castle - Spirited Migration


Dark Castle - Flight of Pegasus (EP)

So I saw this duo up at Great Scott on Friday at the Nachtmystium, Dark Castle, Zoroaster, Atlas Moth show, and honestly, I thought they stole the show.

Dark Castle is a two-piece sludge/doom machine that deliver some seriously crushing riffs. Quite unusually also, the guitarist/vocalist is in fact a girl. Got to talk to her a bit after the show, and she is easily one of the nicest people I've ever met. So if this tour happens to come by you, I strongly recommend checking it out, if only for them, course, Nachtmystium are pretty good themselves.



This band is pretty much my newest obsession. I just can't get enough of this stuff, so seriously give it a listen, and like I said, go see them live, won't regret it.



Flight of Pegasus

Tracklist

1		Crystal Seas
2		Growing Slow
3		Flight
4		No Quarter
5		Sans Hold The Time

Spirited Migration

Tracklist

1		Awake In Sleep
2		Into The Past
3		Spirited Migration
4		Growing Slow
5		Weather The Storm
6		Flight Beyond
7		Grasping The Awe
8		A Depth Returns

Spirited Migration
http://www.mediafire.com/?v72kw033me9r5pm

Flight of Pegasus
http://www.mediafire.com/?u059v55cpzudhpt

Dopamine - Dopamine EP

Fuck yea Neigecore!


Dopamine - Dopamine EP

If any of you are familiar with the The World Comes to an End in the End of a Journey compilation, you'll be familiar with Dopamine. Dopamine's track honestly was the best track on it to boot.

But as mentioned at the start of this post, this is some lovely Neigecore. What is Neigecore? It is the term I use to describe the new influx of bands that sound like well, Neige related projects, such as Alcest, and Amesoeurs, and Lantlos, and Mortifera, etc etc. Dopamine is one such similar sounding band, from a rather unusual location, China.

Musically, this is a fairly short 2 song EP with each track roughly 7 min long. Just some nice sounding post-punk influenced black metal that sounds great, and is easy to get into.

Tracklisting:

1. Water Edge
2. Fan Night Pt. I

http://www.mediafire.com/?jy6bwewy5x0dx9j

YAPOOS - ヤプーズ計画

Eroguro Innocence


YAPOOS - ヤプーズ計画 (YAPOOS Plan)

This is YAPOOS, one of Jun Togawa's earlier bands. Who is Jun Togawa? I'll let last.fm answer that.

"She began her career in the early 1980s as an unusual idol singer (or possibly a parody of an idol singer). It was soon apparent that her eccentric personality, surreal or disturbing lyrics and multiple wildly different yet highly accomplished singing voices set her apart from the usual bland, cute pop singers so popular in Japan."

I once saw her compared to Nina Hagen, and frankly I see the similarity. Nonethless, this is Yapoos, one of several bands she was in back during the 80s. Musically, expect some great new wave style synth, with some additional quirks accompanied by Jun's vocals and indeed, unusual lyrics. The first track title translates to "Barbara Sexeroid" to give an idea...






Tracklisting:

1. バーバラ・セクサロイド
2. キスを
3. 肉屋のように
4. ダディ・ザ・ヘヴン
5. ラヴ・クローン
6. コレクター
7. 労働慰安唱歌
8. ロリータ108号
9. 宇宙士官候補生
10. 素敵な時間

http://www.mediafire.com/?dgmmnyky5mn

Current 93 - Baalstorm, Sing Omega

Baalstorm! Baalstorm!


Current 93 - Baalstorm, Sing Omega

I'm gonna keep this short since I'm rather sleepy at the moment.

This is the newest release of long running "apocalyptic folk" and experimental act Current 93, primarily the work of one man by the name of David Tibet.

If you aren't familiar with Current 93, then expect... well... expect this.



If you like it, then give this a listen, it's a great release. If not, then that's unfortunate, as Current 93 really is quite good and you are missing out.

Tracklist

1		I Dreamt I Was Æon
2		With Flowers In The Garden Of Fires
3		December 1971
4		Baalstorm! Baalstorm!
5		Passenger Aleph In Name
6		Tanks Of Flies
7		The Nudes Lift Shields For War
8		Night! Death! Storm! Omega!
9		I Dance Narcoleptic

http://www.mediafire.com/?wy4l5jgut98y9cu

Gnaw Their Tongues - For All Slaves... A Song of False Hope

I'm in a pretty annoyed mood right now...


Gnaw Their Tongues - For All Slaves... A Song of False Hope

Black.
Noise.

Suffer.

Tracklisting:

1. For All Slaves... a Song of False Hope I 2. The Uncomfortable Silence in Between Beatings 3. A Fiery Deluge 4. My Womb is Barren and I Want Revenge 5. Aderlating 6. For All Slaves... a Song of False Hope II

http://www.mediafire.com/?xp7xwzobudxz6po

EDIT: Still just a tad bit annoyed...


An Epiphanic Vomiting of Blood

Hate.

Tracklisting:

1.	My Body is Not a Vessel, Nor a Temple. It's a Repulsive Pile of Sickness
2.	Teeth That Leer Like Open Graves
3.	Sawn Asunder and Left for the Beasts
4.	An Epiphanic Vomiting of Blood
5.	The Sewer Rats of Calcutta
6.	And There Will Be More of Your Children Dead Tomorrow
7.	The Urge to Participate in Butchery

http://www.mediafire.com/?w1t12i5hc10xcbk

Angel'in Heavy Syrup - III

How does an all female Japanese psychedelic rock band sound to you guys? Good? Good.


Angel'in Heavy Syrup - III

Just listened to this album and I fell in love with it. Simply fantastic.

For being a Japanese psychedelic band though, they really don't sound like it. By this I mean of course that they do not follow the more popular trend of Japanese psych such as bands like Les Rallizes Dénudés and the like with their sprawling guitar feedback and noise. These girls are much more along the more conventional understanding of 60s psychedelic rock, and they have got it down to a T.

Give these girls a listen, you won't regret it.

Tracklist

1		Breath Of Life
2		花と夢
3		Thirsty Land
4		僕だけが・・・
5		Water Mind

http://www.mediafire.com/?kngq6n396jbalt3