SuperFi Trade stuff
Listen to all of these at https://superfirecords.bandcamp.com
[Large vinyl]
ATOMCK - Towering Failures LP (intense weirdo grindcore, brand new!)
DOME RUNNER - apocalypse.pulse.worship LP (total 90's industrial metal worship)
HARROWED - Chaotic Nonentity LP (absolutely ripping converge / cursed influenced hardcore punk)
HOZOMEEN - The Void LP (mean, moody and minimalist noise rock / post hardcore)
HUBERT SELBY JUNIOR INFANTS - Bingo LP (irish band on a big 90's grunge post hardcore tip - contact Ghost Is Clear recs if in USA)
NASDAQ / MOTHER TRUCKER - Split LP (two epic instrumental bands, post hardcore fused with doom)
SCREEN WIVES - Husbandry LP (chaotic hectic emo post hardcore)
SCREEN WIVES - Women In Love LP (chaotic hectic emo post hardcore)
SIORAI GEIMHREADH - Sitting Patiently LP (super experimental near freeform noise rock)
SNOWBLOOD - Untitled 2xLP (epic doom metal with many introspective moments)
[Small vinyl]
HARK - Mythopoeia EP (the band that came after taint, great riffing stoner punk)
NERVOUS MOTHERS / ART OF BURNING WATER - Split EP (belgium vs uk, mangled hardcore emo punk)
[Cassette]
JOTNARR - Rotten Fucking Planet CS (UK black metal welded to massive riffed punk)
ATOMCK - Towering Failures LP
Atomck are back! Expanded to a quartet, here is more of their uniquely eccentric and offbeat brand of grindcore for thee end-tymes. Another head crusher of cacophonous chaos, all furiously catchy riffs and inhumanly shrill, stuck-ape vocals with pinpoint drums that border on the chaotic.
DOME RUNNER - apocalypse.pulse.worship LP
Dome Runner hail from Finland and self-released a brilliant CD called "Conflict State Design" a couple of years ago. They are definitely influenced by the old-school of industrial metal, evoking early Fear Factory, Godflesh's "Streetcleaner", Pitchshifter, Nailbomb et al, but they update it with meaty riffs, harsh production and surprising catchiness.
HARK - Mythopoeia 7"
Ex-Rise Above Records band Taint frontman Jimbob Isaac returns with his new unit Hark on this, their first 7" which came out prior to their album on Season Of Mist. The Welsh progressive-power-sludge trio carry Taint's torch forward, fusing a punk attack with Sabbathian dirge, and decorate post-whatever angularities with classic rock flourishes. The second press of 'Mythopoeia' is on orange vinyl with an acetate sleeve.
HARROWED - Chaotic Nonentity LP
Three years down and Harrowed finally return from a self imposed exile. What have the clandestine three piece learned during their time in the wilderness? Has isolation nurtured the seed of compassion for the fate that awaits their fellow man as the western world seems intent on it's own destruction? Have they have returned with the fire with which to illuminate humanities path back to compassion and reason? Have they fuck. Harrowed's second album "Chaotic Nonentity" feels less like a collection of songs and more like a descent through the nine circles. Thirteen reflections upon the structural damage inherent in the human condition. Opener Stark Terrors is a jarring ram raid of shattered glass riffs and rabid apostate gospel. Vocalist Seb Leslie's godless bellow is unrelenting throughout. One Hundred Years lyrics read like extracts from a generations suicide note. The poetry of a man truly at the end of his rope. It is the last baring of splintered teeth. The final act of defiance against a world spiraling out of control. Tearing at the hand that nails the coffin lid shut. Despite the crushing nihilism that creeps from every pore of this record, it's not without texture. There are tiny flickers of light; occasional flourishes of spartan melody claw their way to the surface beneath the sheets of howling guitars and funeral drums. Shards of hope lurking in the depths of Disconnexion's mournful lament. These moments of acute contrast is best described by Harrowed themselves in Inauthenticide as a "bloom in the dirt of the human race". Harrowed have not allowed the scars of Into Inferno to heal. Have not allowed the passage of time to dilute their collective scorn one drop. In tearing out the sutures of those old wounds to expose the nerve damage and create a death knell so raw and belligerent fit to chronicle these apocalyptic times.
HOZOMEEN - The Void LP
Hozomeen is a project where the music is written, performed and produced by Graham Thompson. Graham has been writing and performing in bands in his native Newcastle upon Tyne for around 25 years. He currently provides bass and vocals for Ballpeen, and has another 'solo' project, Sea Ninety. He's also performed in the bands OZO, Jinn, Grace, Gullich, Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaind and many others. Unlike Sea Ninety, a project that owes much to 90's emo, Hozomeen draws on the 'heavier' side of Graham's musical influences, whilst also providing a vehicle for experimentation.
Graham explains, "'The Void' was an opportunity for me to challenge myself in terms of song writing, but also to try and incorporate instrumentation I may not have previously used, and that you may not always expect to hear on an album of this nature. Songs were primarily built from the drums up, with only a few guitar riffs written before drum recording commenced, the rest were improvised drum ideas around which I built songs".
'The Void' pulls from a wide range of influences; multiple tracks of guitar feedback sit alongside strings, pianos and melodica while tempos shift and dynamics develop, to create an album that never sits still and aims to keep listeners engaged and invested.
With the only outside influence coming in the form of an excellent contribution from James Leonard Hewitson on trumpet, Hozomeen's debut lands free from expectations. Graham adds, "I'm extremely proud of what I see as a diverse and cohesive album that was as challenging to pull together as it is rewarding. I sincerely hope people enjoy "The Void"".
HUBERT SELBY JR. INFANTS - Bingo LP
Eight songs that sound like being punched in the face and high fived at the same time! Four middle-aged men from Ireland use their time machine to bring noisy yet melodic post-hardcore back from the mid-90's. Slainte.
JOTNARR - Rotten Fucking Planet CS
It has been about four years since we had some sweetly hefty yet melodic black-metal-infused d-beat shit from England's oldest city. Five tracks in 17 minutes of their best stuff yet!
NASDAQ / MOTHER TRUCKER - Split LP
NASDAQ finally end the arduous wait since the release of the "AGM/Fourth Quarter Slump" EP in 2011 with "Collateral (Damaged)". The Manchester instrumental trio mark their seventh year since emerging as the dark ugly Mr Hyde to the Dr Jekyll of financial funk band The FTSE 100 with their heaviest offering yet. Moving through passages of crushing doom, hypnotic melody and wrist-breakingly complex riff attacks, "Collateral (Damaged)" takes everything this prodigiously talented unit has done before and makes it bigger and better. Imagine a band that somehow manages to sound like Earthless, Owls, Don Caballero, Iron Maiden and Kyuss all in the space of one track and bring it all together to create a cohesive mind-altering, consciousness-expanding voyage to a higher plane. That band is NASDAQ and "Collateral (Damaged)" is another step in their journey to the outer realms of instrumental rock.
The instrumental juggernaut that is Mothertrucker mark their 13th year of psychedelic riffcraft with 2 new tracks, half of a split with Manchester titans, NASDAQ . A combination of Sabbath/Kyuss style hard riffs and the quiet menace of Slint and Mogwai, these new compositions are a sweet hellride into the heart of oblivion. Thick distortion, menacing atmospherics, head nodding tempo changes and rewarding climaxes...there's plenty to get lost in! Over the course of their existence, Mothertrucker have shared the stage with the likes of Boris, Baroness, Grails, Golden Void, OHHMS, Kruger and Thought Forms and look forward to spreading their heavy gospel to as many venues as possible in 2017.
NERVOUS MOTHERS / ART OF BURNING WATER - Split EP
Nervous Mothers are actually four Belgian dudes that have served time in a number of other very fine bands. They unleash some severely harsh riffing that has some blasting, emo-violence tinged, near-grind drumming that often stick-shifts into downtuned sludge action by way of Coalesce-esque walls of atonal noise slabs.
Art Of Burning Water continue their mission to annoy all and sundry with their slightly faster take on their usual off-kilter noise-rock with definite hardcore leanings, like a sped up Keelhaul partying with Motorhead. A brutal slow-burner this time round.
SCREEN WIVES - Husbandry LP
After a scattering of digital and physical releases, Screen Wives are proud to present their first proper full-length LP "Husbandry". Lyrically concerned with age old UKHC themes (e.g. coming out, HIV stigma, chemsex, homophobia in the provinces, lack of housing, desert-based out-of-body-experiences/cruising and most importantly, self-acceptance and big fat gay love), this is another refined platter of abrupt and wonky post-hardcore with heavy nods towards noise rock, emo and as always, a razor keen sense of hooky melody. The noisy bits are noisier and poppy bits are poppier, with a slight lean towards bleary eyed shoegaze. There's even a duet, like what Barbra Streisand or Tony Bennett does.
SCREEN WIVES - Women In Love LP
Neato heavy and awkward post-hardcore that arguably sits alongside fellow youthful UK bands like Skylark, Plaids, Kind Eyes, Wooderson and Shield Your Eyes that have their roots in that 90's US Gravity Records-esque (proper) emo scene, with noisier influences from the likes of Dazzling Killmen and Unwound in the mix too. Discordance and twistiness abounds with a quintessentially British oddness to it.
SIORAI GEIMHREADH - Sitting Patiently LP
A trio of unassuming brothers from Cork via County Wexford, Siorai Geimhreadh (which means "Eternal Winter" in Irish and is pronounced Sheery Geevra) are now over a decade into their obscure existence. Beginning as a black metal outfit, their current sound is informed by doom and noise rock, but beholden to their own experimental impulses rather than any genre norms. Siorai Geimhreadh's approach intentionally avoids specific genre definition or stylistic markers, instead embracing a sense of openness in their playing. While their music is heavy, intense and noisy, they never strictly follow any one way of playing or attempt to work within a specific style. Instead, they work to create a style of their own through a shared intuitive method. Recent releases see the band constantly dismantling and reassembling their sound. Their 2012 tape (which intentionally was never given a name) consists of two tracks of dense, freeform noise rock. Their 2015 album "Not A Room" (released on Fort Evil Fruit) works around a single repeated pattern, drifting out of structure in a departure from previous work, creating tension through extreme repetition, subtle mumbling synthesiser and an uncanny sparseness. "Sitting Patiently" acts as a counterpoint to "Not a Room". It is a return to the more visceral work of earlier releases, transformed through a focus on freeform methods of playing. "Sitting Patiently" is a single track spread over two sides of an LP. Side A is immediate and disorienting, with frenetic playing and a raw vocal delivery. The B side sees the track find a sense of tangible structure, which proceeds to slowly drift apart as it progresses.
SNOWBLOOD - Untitled 2xLP (trades as 1xLP)
Third album from the Scottish quartet. An epic and ambitious four-song affair spread across two records. In short: think Neurosis mixed with Godspeed, but way better than that poor description. Moments of true beauty and true heaviness abound. Beautifully packaged in chipboard sleeves with art by Glyn Scrawled for both formats also.