Statuette – Residual & Timeless

April 11, 2013
Posted by Nathaniel

Band – Statuette (Bandcamp) (Facebook)
Release Title – Residual & Timeless
Medium – Mp3
Label – (Never Lost Records)
Style – Post Hardcore/Hardcore
From -Austin, Texas, United States

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Let us jump right into this… Residual & Timeless combines what I love about current Post Hardcore and what I didn’t know I loved about 2000′s era Hardcore. There are solid melodic guitar parts mixed with up beat drums mixed with sorrowful lyrics. It’s like Statuette wants to throw you into the mud to deal with the bleakness of life while saying “There are so many of us going threw the same bleak shit.”

I’m pretty sure that is 100% the most accurate way to describe this band. If I were to see them live I would lose my voice screaming along to all the lyrics. Thanks guys.

Maumelle – 1997

March 22, 2013
Posted by Nathaniel

Band – (Bandcamp) (Facebook)
Release Title – 1997
Medium – mp3
Label – Self-Released
Style – Screamo/emo/noodles
From – Lancaster, Ohio, United States

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Oh man! I am moving to Ohio in about two weeks so why not review some rad Ohio Bands?

Maumelle is a band from southern Columbus Ohio and play a mixture of noodlely emo and 90′s pop punk emo. I’m sure that if you are reading this blog that you are interested in that description. Most of the vocal’s are Gainesville abrasive. Maybe this is one of the best records in a while. I don’t know, you be the judge and listen to it right now!

No Tongue – Self Titled

March 17, 2013
Posted by Nathaniel

Band – No Tongue (Bandcamp)
Release Title – Self-Titled
Medium – Mp3
Label – (Self-Released)
Style – Screamo
From – Oakland, California, United States

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Where was I when this came out? Where have I been? What’s going on now?

Shit, No Tongue is refreshing to me right now. Four tracks of solid screamo with influences from all around. I wish this wasn’t just a couple of mp3s but a seven inch or something. Definitely worth keeping around.

Missive – Not A Moment Goes By

December 20, 2012
Posted by Nathaniel

Band – Missive (Website) (Bandcamp) (Facebook)
Release Title – Not A Moment Goes By
Medium – Mp3
Label – (Self-Released)
Style – Melodic Hardcore
From – Sacramento, California, United States

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Missive is a new band from Sacramento Cali and this release is defiantly pretty amazing. This record is dripping with a mixture of anger, sadness, raw emotion, confusion, introspection and more. Many different voices accompany the lead singer and that is something that I love in a band. The lyrics are also extremely passionate and honest.

Shizune – Mono No Aware: Between Eternity and the Burial

October 30, 2012
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Band – Shizune (Bandcamp) (Facebook)
Release Title – Mono No Aware: Between Eternity and the Burial
Medium – mp3
Label – Self Released
Style – Post Hardcore/Screamo
From - Vicenza, Italy

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Shizune are a five piece from Italy that play some very powerful and tight Sreamo. There are multiple duel vocal bits that go on and these five melodic and chaotic songs span three different languages. this Ep packs some much punch even though it clocks in under the nine minute mark. Best Ep of the year? Maybe so check it out yourself!

Viva Belgrado – Demo

October 28, 2012
Posted by Nathaniel

Band – Viva Belgrado (Bandcamp)
Release Title – Demo
Medium – Mp3
Label – Self Released
Style – Post Rock/Sometime Screamo
From - Córdoba, Spain

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Viva Belgrado is a Post Rock plus band from Spain. I say plus because like any awesome band they add in elements from other genres as well. The first few tracks and pretty riffy with a few rad screamoish lines. The last two tracks have a lot of spoken word in it, for a split second I thought I was listening to the beginning of Todos CAERÁN after dark Ep but in a different language. I recommend this band for anyone who likes rad stuff. I can even understand a few of the spanish words spoken.

Holiness Church of the Valley – Not of the Flock

October 23, 2012
Posted by Nathaniel

Band – Holiness Church of the Valley (Bandcamp) (Facebook)
Release Title – Not of the Flock
Medium –MP3
Label – Self-Released
Style – Post Hardcore/Sorrow/Screamo
From - Birmingham, Alabama, United States

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This band, this band, I don’t even know where to start… The intro riff prepared me to expect some good but not unique Post-Hardcore. Now I am super stoked on Post hardcore but everyone is doing it well and bland right now. HCotV are not bland, they are simply fucking amazing. They are a band that can blend genres and give us a sound that is refreshing and not mumbled.

These dudes from down south give us dirty, sickening, raw hardcore/post-hardcore. I was hooked by the end of the first song, the only adequately way to describe this band is it makes me want to destroy everything. Don’t sleep on this band. Listen!

Reigning Champion – Hollow Trees

September 25, 2012
Posted by Nathaniel

Band – Reigning Champion (Bandcamp) (Facebook)
Release Title – Hollow Trees
Medium – Mp3
Label – (Interskramz)
Style – Post-Hardcore
From – Russia

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I meant to post this a million years ago, sorry I started to listen to NPR and then was only listening to NPR. Good stuff but gotta get back to the music because the real world is a bummer.

Reigning Champion is a mixture of Post-Hardcore and a little bit of Melodic Hardcore. These Russian dudes give us five emotion pouring tracks. Look out for Interskramz because they are dropping the best stuff nowadays.

Siddhartha – Subject to Change

August 12, 2012
Posted by Nathaniel

Band – Siddhartha (Bandcamp) (Facebook)
Release Title – Subject to Change
Medium – mp3
Label – Self Released
Style – 90′s emo/Post Hardcore
From - Memphis, Tennessee, USA

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Memphis is pumping out some majorly rad bands coming out these days, Siddhartha is one of the best of the crop! They give us four mid tempo 90′s influenced emo jams. Lyrics are top notch, give this band a listen, don’t regret sleeping on them.