The new Dillinger's very strong. Not as many grabbers as on Ire Works, but many of the same ideas, mathy stuff offset by moodier passages.

I'm not going to give too much away here, but I will say the new High on Fire is so much better than Death is This Communion, it's nuts.

I'm not going to give too much away here, but I will say the new High on Fire is so much better than Death is This Communion, it's nuts.

That's fantastic. Is there a release date set?

February 23rd.

One other thing I'll say, it's a lot less proggy noodling and acoustic, and a helluvalot more riffage. Same producer as the new Slayer, and very similar tone.

This isn't the Torche I remember from the Meanderathal record (which i wasn't crazy about). This seems kind of more Neurosis-influenced type stuff than what I remember on Meanderthal. This hits pretty hard - i'll have to give these guys another shot. I dig the tribal sounding percussion too. Sounds to me like a different band.


King Beef [Hydradead]

Hear "Frost Hammer":

http://stereogum.com/archives/new_high_on_...ere_108881.html

20 Buck Spin is proud to release "The Red List", a split album between two titans of the North American underground, Bastard Noise and The Endless Blockade. This long awaited and much anticipated album was first hatched in idea form on the occasion of a show between both bands in 2007. Finally more than two years later, "The Red List" is ready to be unleashed.

"The Red List" marks a huge turning point for US noise legends Bastard Noise. The harsh noise and power electronics they are well known and revered for here is mixed into a foundation of brutal modern hardcore with progressive tendencies that will cause the mind to wander into worlds yet ventured. Recalling their seminal past ties with Man Is The Bastard, the band turns to a "music-based" direction for the first time under the name Bastard Noise since their inception in 1991. The exemplary bass-playing ("four steel girders") of Eric Wood certainly recalls MITB in their heyday, with recent addition and master drummer/percussionist Danny Walker (Intronaut/Phobia) providing the perfect foundation for Wood's brutal technicality. Long-time Bastard Noise/MITB member W.T. Nelson keeps the custom-built electronics sound of the band planted firmly in the present.

Toronto's The Endless Blockade return following 2008's 20 Buck Spin released LP Primitive and 2009's split EP with Agoraphobic Nosebleed (Relapse). Their primary contribution here is the 14+ minute modern power-violence epic "Deuteronomy", a track that crosses all spectrums of hardcore/true crucial punk madness. Additional unconventional sound elements are utilized, never once pausing their critical attack on the only living species that deserves (and has earned) its own extinction. Fans of the bands Primitive LP will not be disappointed. Additionally two interesting remix tracks from the Primitive sessions are included, the first remix by modern composer Noah Creshevsky, and the second a brutal harsh noise blast by Canadian audial assaulter The Rita.

"The Red List" is now ready to explode the minds of the humanoid "anti-sheep" to its greatest capabilities. Both The Endless Blockade and Bastard Noise have worked closely together to make this "awareness-based" audio-violent offering the sickest it can be. Vinyl version on Deep Six Records. This CD version contains material from both bands not included on the LP.

This isn't the Torche I remember from the Meanderathal record (which i wasn't crazy about). This seems kind of more Neurosis-influenced type stuff than what I remember on Meanderthal. This hits pretty hard - i'll have to give these guys another shot. I dig the tribal sounding percussion too. Sounds to me like a different band.


King Beef [Hydradead]

The new old Harvey Milk album is a stunner. Why on earth did it take this 15, 16 years to come out???

hm. kind of a shitty cover.

Despite Blackie's complete dickishness, there's a band I've always wanted to see live but in 26 years never got to. Those first two albums were perfect.

Udo-less Accept.

Our doula (the woman who is helping us with the birth of our first child) is the daugher of David Reece, the guy who replaced Udo for 1989's Eat the Heat. She jokingly refers to her father as "the guy who ruined Accept."

She's a pretty awesome, tattoed hipster from Oakland whose partner is the guitarist in a pretty good Black Metal outfit out of Oakland, Elk. She's also good buds with Matt Pike.

Ha ha. My girlfriend and a buddy of mine are making me go to AFI tonight. I expect to emerge extra angst-y.

Got YOB on Friday, so I guess that evens things out.....

Hellz yah, just got my Scion Rock Fest confirmation in my email. YOB, Cannibal Corpse, Shrinebuilder, and Voivod right in my backyard fuck y'all.

I was thinking to myself today: what are my five favorite bands in metal today?

I came up with the following:

1) High on Fire
2) Mastodon
3) Meshuggah
4) Slayer
5) Gojira

I surpised myself most with Gojira, but really, the more I listen to those last two albums, the more convinced I am that they belong in this elite group. I commend those two albums to anyone who hasn't yet heard them. They're incredible.

I felt bad about Opeth, DEP, Strapping Young Lad, Neurosis, Burst and Deftones, who are in my short list. Silly exercise in listmaking, I know, but I'd be interested to see what some of you other metal dudes reckon.

1. Converge
2. Melvins
3. Genghis Tron
4. Harvey Milk
5. Pig Destroyer

Tool*
Black Elk
Meshuggah
Between the Buried and Me
Swarm of the Lotus

* Mastodon if Tool aren't metal.