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Trash Talk – 119

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Oct.19, 2012

Trash Talk

119

01. Eat The Cycle
02. Exile On Broadway
03. My Rules
04. F.E.B.N.
05. Uncivil Disobedience
06. Blossom & Burn (feat. Hodgy Beats & Tyler, The Creator)
07. Reasons
08. Fuck Nostalgia
09. Apathy
10. Thanks, But No Thanks
11. Bad Habits
12. Swinging To Pieces
13. For The Lesser Good
14. Dogman

[10/09/12]
[Odd Future Records]

It has been a monumental year in hardcore. Whether it’s the dark and harrowing approach of Gaza‘s No Absolutes in Human Suffering or the purely recreational 2 Hot 3 Handle by Heavy Blog favorites Cut Your Teeth, we have seen an incredibly diverse array of hardcore music. That isn’t even mentioning the emotionally charged and technically unforgiving Converge album or Xibalba‘s Hasta La Muerte that reinvents the term “heavy”. Like I had said, this year is monumental. Whether it be fun, emotional, technical, heavy, fresh, or innovative, hardcore has had a hell of a run this year. Rounding out these releases however is Trash Talk‘s latest offering 119. Blistering riffs that beg for stage dives and mosh pits, lyrics crafted for the most enthusiastic of sing alongs and iconography that would make Black Flag jealous, 119 has all the right ingredients to become a hardcore staple.

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Tags: 119, Black Flag, Converge, gaza, Hodgy Beats, Integrity, odd future, Tyler The Creator, xibalba

Primate – Draw Back A Stump

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Jun.08, 2012

Primate

Draw Back A Stump

01. Draw Back A Stump
02. Global Division
03. Hellbound
04. Silence Of Violence
05. Drinking And Driving
06. March Of The Curmudgeon
07. Wasted Youth
08. Pride
09. Get The Fuck Off My Lawn
10. Reform?

[07/03/12]
[Relapse Records]

Of course, the main talking point here is that Primate are a hardcore supergroup featuring members of Brutal Truth, Mastodon, Javelina and Otophobia, it would be near enough impossible to ignore it. However, what is just as important, is the fact that Primate don’t really sound like any of those aforementioned projects. This is more obviously a group of people coming together to make an album of music in the vein of some bands they all clearly love; an album where Black Flag rubs shoulders with Bad Brains while staring directly into the eyes of early Napalm Death and tapping directly into the primal energy that made all those bands great.

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Tags: Bad Brains, Banned In D.C., Black Flag, Brutal Truth, Circle Jerks, Draw Back A Stump, Drinking And Driving, Javelina, Mastodon, Minor Threat, napalm death, Otophobia, Primate

Ministry – Relapse

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Jan.31, 2012

Ministry

Relapse

01. Ghouldiggers
02. Double Tap
03. Freefall
04. Kleptocracy
05. United Forced
06. 99 Percenters
07. Relapse
08. Weekend Warrior
09. Get Up Get Out n’ Vote
10. Blodlust
11. Relapse Defibrillator Mix

[03/27/12]

[AFM/13th Planet Records]

Ministry have been around for quite a while now, and have seen some big stylistic changes through their career. They started out as a synthpop/new wave band during the early 1980′s. Their second release took a turn towards dark EBM. It wasn’t until the release of 1988′s The Land of Rape and Honey that their found their niche that they continue to play to this day.

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Tags: Black Flag, Dark Side of the Spoon, Filth Pig, industrial metal, Ministry, Relapse, The Land of Rape and Honey

Everything Went Black – Cycles of Light

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Jan.20, 2012

Everything Went Black

Cycles of Light

01. XI
02. Gods Of Atlantis
03. Halo Of Vultures
04. Lifeless
05. Parades
06. Thorn Feeders
07. Amongst Wolves
08. Kingdoms
09. Baptists

[01/17/12]
[Lost Shepherd/Prosthetic Records]

Crossover, metalcore, metallic hardcore, all these are subgenres of heavy metal, which combine the various elements of extreme metal and hardcore punk. Now like most genres of music, it’s flooded with mediocre and lackluster drivel, but every once and a while a band comes along and reassures you that everything will be alright, and that the genre hasn’t completely fallen into disarray. And for one such band that hails from St. Louis, and who play a straightforward brand of fast and heavy aggressive music, Everything Went Black not only pay homage to the hardcore/punk sensibilities of the 80′s and 90′s, but are also able to satisfy the metalhead in all of us.

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