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)
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)
[Compact Disc]
ATOMCK - Towering Failures CD (intense weirdo grindcore, brand new! cd on astralands)
DOME RUNNER - apocalypse.pulse.worship CD (total 90's industrial metal worship, out on annihilvs)
JINN - s/t CD (ukhc legends, thrashy hardcore punk with much heaviness)
[Cassette]
BURNING REALM - s/t CS (dublin trio making sweet psychedelic and riffy stoner rock like earthless, high on fire and floor)
BURROWING - Weight CS (genre defying, with heaviness rubbing shoulders with indie)
HUBERT SELBY JUNIOR INFANTS - Good Evening Pricks, It's The... CS (irish band on a big 90's grunge post hardcore tip)
JOTNARR - Rotten Fucking Planet CS (UK black metal welded to massive riffed punk)
BURROWING - Weight CS
"Weight" is the second album from the Manchester-based collective known as Burrowing. It is the brainchild of Liam Stewart, drummer of instrumental wizards Nasdaq (as well as many, many other bands) with whom SuperFi made a great record a few years back. Together with a small army of vocalists and collaborators, the intention was to distill each idea down to its essence and build it up again into whatever form it emerged into naturally, with no preconception of what that may be. Genre-defying variety is the name of the game here, with heavy, doomy moments rubbing shoulders with introspective indie-rock, prog drones and even synth-pop. Others have called it Jupiter-era Cave In meets Zombi meets From Monument to Masses meets Faraquet meets "the 1970s" (thanks to Apathy And Exhaustion blog for that).
THE DEATH OF MONEY - Ghost Pains LP
"Ghost Pains" is the third full-length by this long-running Welsh trio, this time with a slightly shortened version of their moniker. As before they blend an appreciation for modern, heavy music together with an experimental edge to create a swirling, hypnotic maelstrom of repetitive, naturally grooving stoner-rock, kind of like Neurosis meets My Bloody Valentine meets Sonic Youth meets Can meets The Cure.
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.
JINN - s/t CD
The one and only album from Newcastle's brilliant burly hardcore thrash mob. Ex-members of Grace, Ebola, Thirty Seconds Until Armageddon, Generic and One By One.
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.
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.