The Rodeo Idiot Engine - Fools Will Crush The Crown [2011]

The Rodeo Idiot Engine - Fools Will Crush The Crown
[Throatruiner, 2011]
genre: mathcore, hardcore metal
album review by Goresonic

The Rodeo Idiot Engine is a five member mathcore band from France. They recorded their first EP named “The First Fall” in April 2010. This year they release their first full length album named “Fools will Crush the Crown” in Thoatruiner records, the record label that is becoming a legend in discovering bands with extreme hardcore and metal sounds. This album is really extreme. TRIE are showing that they really like Dillinger Escape Plan’s style of music. Their singer sings like a maniac while all the other musicians are destroying their instruments. In less than 30 minutes of duration there is not even one slow guitar riff as they keep their crazy extreme hardcore tempo all the time. This is a brutal mathcore album with roots both to hardcore and to grindcore. “Fools Will Crush The Crown” is not an album for every music fan, it’s not even an album that fans of this music genre will like to listen more than once a day, but I’m sure that both will appreciate TRIE’s musical ideas.

Free streaming + Download
 http://throatruinerrecords.bandcamp.com/album/fools-will-crush-the-crown

http://www.myspace.com/therodeoidiotengine

http://throatruinerrecords.bigcartel.com/product/the-rodeo-idiot-engine-12

tracks


  1. Aorta

  2. Crown Of Thorns

  3. Cup Of Tea

  4. The Worst Secret

  5. Past Acts

  6. King Of Nowhere

  7. Last Breath

  8. 2011 Vintage

  9. My Prozac World

  10. Fools Have Taken The Nave

  11. Discours De La Méthode

LOST SPHERE PROJECT - Third Level to Internal Failure [2011]

LOST SPHERE PROJECT - Third Level to Internal Failure
[Division, 2011]
genre: grind, hardcore, grindcore, metal, math metal, tech
Album Review by Sovereign

This is a pure grindcore release. After their first full length “Verse XXIV” released in 2009, Geneva’s Grind terrorists LOST SPHERE PROJECT are back with a brand new EP full of inhuman power violence and deranged chaos-noise vomited directly by Great Satan Himself. Noisy, dirty, extreme and chaotic. Metal music in extreme manner. Their label states: “Oh yes, Division Records is very proud to release such fantastic blasting songs, written with such taste and recorded with such elegancy. The fact that “Third level to internal failure” has been mastered by Sir James Plotkin (Khanate, Sunn O))), Pelican…) can just give you a hint of how dangerous it sounds.” Brutal vocals, extreme guitars, black/death metal drums and a hardcore attitude. This is a Napalm Death meets Pig Destroyer release. Converge and Every time I Die sounds calm out of these guys. This band from Switzerland is quite experimental and produce this kind of extreme music in a trully digestible style (even if this metal genre is objectivelly loud, ugly and morbid. They could combine a sludge, math and tech metal style below this super hardcore GRIND style. They are unique and they speak only to insiders. Enjoy this scum, you will be trimly surprised.

http://www.myspace.com/lspchaos
http://divisionrecords.blogspot.com/

1. Paradoxal Sights
2. Devotees
3. Post Tenebra Chao
4. Infinite Necropolis
5. Dreams Are Gone
6. Ice Mike
7. Idyllic Disaster
8. Apathy
9. Behold the Scorn
10. Vultures of Conscience
11. Vaginal Excavation
12. Cetaceans Rippers (Velociraptor Remix)

V/A (The Apparatus, Mathcore Index, & American Aftermath Present) – Mecha Organa V [2011]

V/A (The Apparatus, Mathcore Index, & American Aftermath Present) – Mecha Organa V
[mechaorgana.com, 2011]
genre: progressive metal, math metal, death metal



Mecha Organa is a free compilation series for digital download. The series is put together by The Apparatus; a forum based music community, Mathcore Index: a resource index for all things mathcore, and American Aftermath; an up and coming underground music blog. They put together annual Mecha Organa compilations for unsigned, undiscovered, and “outside the box” bands from all over the world. Typical genres emcompassed in these releases include Mathcore, Math Rock, Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal, Post Grind, Avant Garde and everything inbetween.

Tracks
1. Bad Mask - Celestial Diet
2. Capture the Sun - Calculating… Remaining
3. Children of Nova - The Complexity of Light
4. Dr. Slaggleberry - 13 Grades of Filth
5. Galleons - How Deep is The Sea
6. Izeovasis - Because of Me
7. Lucrecia - Conga [Gloria Estefan Cover]
8. Luther Blissett - Grind and Freak
9. The Mothman Prophecies - Deadly Silence
10. N O V A - InverT Theory
11. Omnil - Aqua Vitae (Red Skull)
12. Outrun the Sunlight - Quark III: Psychic Cycles
13. Panic Candy - The Amphetamine Falcon
14. The Rodeo Idiot Engine - Aorta
15. The Schoenberg Automaton - Were Are We in a Cube?
16. Solace of Requiem - Rivers
17. Solifuge - Pure
18. Tyrant of Death - Infinite Terror
19. The Zygoma Disposal - Mindfuck

Links
http://mechaorgana.com

Primate - Draw Back A Stump EP [2011]

Primate - Draw Back A Stump EP
[Primate Grindstore, 2011]
genre: sludge, hardcore, grindcore, punk, math metal, southern, metal

“Primate is a Hardcore/Grindcore Supergroup including Kevin Sharp (Brutal Truth), Bill Kelliher (Mastodon), Evan Bartleson, Dave Whitworth and Shayne Huff (The Despised). Their first ever released material to date is an EP called “Draw Back A Stump” which contains six original Primate songs and one cover song (Black Flag)”. This is a raw and straight old school hardcore with sludge elements and tech/math metal attitude. They said that: “We spent a week or so tracking and re-tracking drums - seeing what would work at the compund…. which is effectively a rehearsal spot called Thunderbox. Guitars, bass and a few screams later - done… Bill has collected a few toys over the years and put them to use. The result is a couple of handfulls of songs that Sanford Parker mixed down in Chicago…” For fans of Mastodon, Brutal Truth, Nasum, Hatebreed, Converge, Kylesa, High on Fire. Fantastic hardcore vibes. Excellent play.



http://www.myspace.com/primating
http://www.primategrind.com/grindstore/
http://www.primategrind.com/main.html

Tracks:
01. Draw Back A Stump
02. Global Division
03. Hellbound
04. Drinking and Driving (Black Flag Cover)
05. Wasted Youth
06. Pride
07. Reform?
08. Draw Back A Stump [Demo]
09. Global Division [Demo]

borderline syndrome - promo [2010]

Borderline Syndrome - promo (demo)
[Self released, 2010]
genre: progressive rock, progressive metal, math rock, tech metal, psychedelic, pop
Album review by Astronaut

Surprise! I really didn’t expect that a recently formed band that have just only released their first promo could satisfy my musical needs and make me extremely optimistic about the future of this synthetic yet unidentified genre of music that some of my favorite bands play such as The Dillinger Escape Plan,  Radiohead, Porcupine Tree, Tool and many more. The musical depth and knowledge of the five member band, Borderline Syndrome, that formed in Athens in 2010 is obvious and although they don’t try to impress the listener, they fatally do it by projecting each one’s music influences in a solid and modern way that pleases your heart and your mind. Their ideas are plenty and the overall result exceeds by far the average bands that try to create that complicated and demanding genre.

Their continuous alternations from melodic, simple easy-listening songs to technical and challenging diatonic heavy tracks, show us that the band seriously suffers of its name, a borderline syndrome that creates them an endless need to move freely in every music region they like without belonging to any of them. Borderline Syndrome have created a quality menu that could please the majority of a demanding and hungry for innovative music audience. This menu consists of three fresh progressive tracks, “in rainbows”, “shock doctrine” and “thank you for being honest”, filled with mathcore strings and drumbeats accompanied with shredded traditional parts and finally topped with modern pop flakes. Delicious!

Of course a special reference should be made to the band’s singer, Sofia, for her amazing vocals and rare tinge that suits like a glove to the bands music profile. Overall this effort leaves you with an unsatisfied feeling at the end, cause you need more and more from these sounds. For sure this promo is a great start from a band with a great future.

Free Download
Borderline Syndrome - The promo


www.myspace.com/borderlinesyndrome
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Borderline-Syndrome
http://www.reverbnation.com/borderlinesyndrome


Tracks:
1. in rainbows
2. shock doctrine
3. thank you for being honest

Knut -Wonder [2010]

Knut -Wonder
[Conspiracy, 2010]
genre: hardcore, doom, sludge, metal, ambient, math
Album Review by Sovereign

Five years after their last completed work “Terraformer” and this year Knut produce a raw and heavy album. The band has matured; the sound is riper and rots your brain. From the first contact with the album, the cover, and the general artwork, which has created by Aaron Turner (Isis, Twilight), you confront intestines and especially with a mesh of thin and thick intestines. Rotten from the beginning to the end, what other you would ask! The basic recipe is the alternation from enchanting and fallacies atmospheres with brutal sound attacks. The attack begins with hardcore disposal and hoarsenesses that spit rage. Maintained an intense mathcore which in the first fifteen minutes goes up and does combine Converge with The Dillinger Escape Plan. In the rest of the album we pass from ambient frozen small lakes and calmly white landscapes in sludge ups and downs that hit you in your neck. Suddenly, punk speeds that frighten you and drone/doom passages that make the speakers creak appear and the result is a great hardcore album from a European band that is already in the top places of the metal genres in central Europe.



http://www.hydrahead.com/knut/
http://www.myspace.com/unknut

Tracklist
01 – Leet
02 – Damned Extroverts
03 – Suckers
04 – Calamity
05 – Ultralight Backpacking
06 – Segue 1
07 – Fast Forward Bastard
08 – Lemmings
09 – If We Can’t Fly Well Take The Boat
10 – Segue 2
11 – Daily Grind

Sovereign

Cloudkicker - Beacons, ]]][[[ Ep [2010]

Beacons, ]]][[[ Ep– Cloudkicker
[Self released, 2010]
genre: Progressive metal, Math Metal, Post Metal
Album review by Astronaut

After his last Ep (Portmanteau, 2009) Cloudkicker recorded this year two exceptional instrumental albums. The first, ‘]]][[[’ is an EP and was released early this year and the other one is his second full length album ‘Beacons’. Ben Sharp from Ohio is Cloudkicker as he writes and records all by his own this qualitative piece of progressive music.

‘Beacons’ is a solid progressive math-metal album with many other influences from Meshuggah to Isis and Fates warning (the ambient continuous background sound in “Push it way up!” reminds me the atmosphere of Fate’s “disconnected”). The guitar riffs are plenty and fulfil the desire for endless and varied rhythm. The album has many different moods and styles but all of them flow in the same vectorial direction. There are some seriously fast heavy tracks like “Here, wait a minute! Damn it!” and “We’re goin’ in. We’re going down” which reflect Ben Sharp’s talent in mathematical composing and some slow atmospheric like ‘We were all scared” and its ambient prelude “I admit it now. I was scared”. The overall production sound is crystal clear despite that the album is recorded with no label. The use of drum machine is exceptional and if he ever decides to go on tour the search of capable musicians is inevitable. ‘Beacons’ is a great instrumental album that can easily become one of your favourites of the kind.



’]]][[[’ contains three very well crafted progressive tracks #, % and $. The overall tempo of the Ep speeds up exponentially in accordance with the track line. The Ep begins with # which’s beautiful base melody evolves to a Meshuggah inspired panic. Second in line is % maybe my favourite track of Cloudkicker because it contains some mysteriously unidentified and addicting elements. The last track $ begins with a serious, fast and furious guitar riff, right after it gives you the proper amount of time to take a gasp with a trippy guitar melody and finishes you with another rapid composition. Overall ]]][[[ is a great collection of progressive stuff.


 

http://www.myspace.com/cloudkicker

http://cloudkicker.bandcamp.com/

Album’s Tracks:                                                                            Ep’s Tracks:

1. We are going to invert…                                                        1. #
2. Here, wait a minute! Damn it!                                                2. %
3. We’re goin’ in. We’re going down.                                         3. $
4. Oh, god.
5. I admit it now. I was scared
6. We were all scared.
7. Push it way up!
8….it’s just wide-open field.
9. It’s bad. We’re hit, man, we are hit.
10. Amy, I love you.
11. untitiled

Astronaut

Spylacopa - spylacopa EP [2008]

Spylacopa - spylacopa EP
[Rising Pulse, 2008]
genre: post-metal, ambient, post-hardcore, math metal, experimental, avant-garde, post-rock, prog-rock
EP Review by Sovereign

This project release two years ago a self titled EP. Spylacopa constitutes of Greg Puciato (Dillinger Escape Plan), John LaMacchia (Candiria), Jeff Caxide (Isis/Red Sparowes), and Julie Christmas (Made Out of Babies/Battle of Mice). Two of my favourite vocalists Greg and Julie produce a dreamy combination in the vocals of the second track “Bloodletting” in which the music is quite post-metal but the sound of the guitars and the way Greg sings reminds me some Deftones songs. 23 minutes of music and a full-length album flow of music compositions. Their self-titled debut EP is being released on John LaMacchia’s own label Rising Pulse Records. “Haunting A Ghost” the opening track, is a speedy and rigorous track where Puciato switching between his DEP shouts and melodic singing attempts. In between the other tracks there is a music bridge, an ambient piano track which calms you down for a while. The second part of this release is equally interesting with the above tracks. Next track has a math metal attitude and a great groovy and art-rock percussion theme. There is a grunge/punk smell and I think this is the hit of the EP. At last “I Should Have Known You Would” is irregular and more melodic than the others. This track has a Pink Floyd structure and is the most avant-garde of the five tracks. Excellent choice of music and interesting vocals in general. This mini album is crazy and these five compositions are excellent.

the EP
SpyLaCopa St 08

http://www.myspace.com/spylacopa
http://risingpulserecords.bigcartel.com/spylacopa


Track Listing
1) Haunting A Ghost
2) Bloodletting
3) Together We Become Forever
4) Staring at the Sound
5) I Should Have Known You Would