Nokturnal Forest - "Cleansed By The Evil Hand" [2010]

Artist: Nokturnal Forest

Title: Cleansed By The Evil Hand
Genre: Black Metal
Country: Syria
Release date: 2010

Track List:

1. Intro
2. Transilvanian Darkness
3. Sabbath Of A Thousand Young
4. Sacrifice The Immolation
5. The Nocturnal Forest
6. With Wrath So Divine (Dhul-Qarnayn Cover)
7. Outro
8. Evil Church (Enthroned Cover)

One more raw black metal demo from a Middle Eastern country which is currently in state of civil war. Hope al-Assad will find a compromise with the rebels, and Syria won't follow the path of Libya...

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The Silver Shine - "Same Old Song" [2011]

Artist: The Silver Shine

Title: Same Old Song
Genre: Psychobilly
Country: Hungary
Release date: 2011

Track List:

1. Homeward Bound
2. I Sold my Soul for Rock and Roll
3. Screeeaam!!! (Timmy Version)
4. Forbidden Zone
5. Anyhow
6. Kamikaze Stomp
7. Crazy Babe
8. Power Cut
9. Angels to Some
10. Burning Dices

This new release from The Silver Shine isn't disappointing, although it isn't really a new album, just a collection of re-recorded old tracks (hence the name "Same Old Song"). By the way, they're not just a psychobilly band, but a straight edge psychobilly band! Although I'm not really SxE (I do drink alcohol... but only a little, and on very rare occasions), it's a good thing in my book (unless it's hardline/militant/nazi SxE... but I guess it's apparently not the case with Silver Shine).

Where to download it? Well... just type in google "Silver Shine Same Old Song mediafire", and you most likely will immediately find the link you need.

Kids Of The Streets - "Get Off!" [2011]

Artist: Kids Of The Streets

Title: Get Off!
Genre: Oi!
Country: Russia
Release date: 2011

Track List:

1. A Good Day
2. One Of Us
3. Get Off!
4. Mountain River

Another Russian punk (more precisely: oi!/streetpunk) band who can play good music by international standards, and sing in English without heavy accent. Kids Of The Streets are S.H.A.R.P. skinheads from Moscow region who released their debut LP in 2010. Here's their newest 4-track EP, "Get Off!".

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Cracked Core & Brandkommando - "The Root Causes of Social Dysfunction" [2011]

Artist: Cracked Core + Brandkommando
Title: The Root Causes of Social Dysfunction
Label: Mental Excitement
Genre: Industrial / Noise / Power Electronics
Country: Russia / Poland
Release date: 2011

Track List:

1. Bioconverter
2. Ma$$ Media
3. Under Pressure
4. Social Phobia
5. TV Noise

This product of collaboration between two experimental/industrial musicians - Cracked Core (Russia) and Brandkommando (Poland) - is one of the most interesting noise/PE albums of the last year, and the first release I'll post here in this year. AFAIK Brandkommando is known for his laconic manner of speech, so I'll follow his example and be brief: it's very noisy release. Much more noisy than any of the solo works by Cracked Core.

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My last post in this year

Happy 2012 year to everyone reading my blog! Hope I'll get some more readers in the next year, so i'd know that my work isn't in vain. As of today, I'm keeping this blog up just to share some rare music and to improve my English skills. I don't really have much time to update it on regular basis, but I still hope it'd be useful to someone. Stay tuned!

My 25th anniversary

From today I'm 25 years old ;) Feel free to greet me!

Cracked Core - "darkyouverymuch" [2011]

Artist: Cracked Core

Title: darkyouverymuch
Genre: Industrial / Ambient / IDM
Country: Russia
Release date: 2011

Track List:

1. FYF 0.1
2. Reset:Rebirth
3. AMFBB
4. b@ck20ldsk00l
5. Solar Dream
6. New Releases, New Bugs...
7. VX in Middle East [raw]
8. Мгла [Хаос-Модуль - 23 rmx by Cracked Core]

As I've promised month ago, I'm posting the new album from Cracked Core, named "darkyouverymuch". The name was inspired by "Tank You Very Much", one of many working titles for the cult FPS game Wolfenstein 3D. CC continues to compose dark electronic music inspired by both cyberpunk and Middle Eastern-themed music like Muslimgauze and Fedayi Pacha, and "darkyouverymuch" isn't much different from the earlier CC's releases in terms of sound; however, CC himself was disappointed with the quality of final mix, but admitted that he most probably won't be able to do any better re-mastering. I wasn't surprised to hear it, though, as I'm already used to his perfectionism. By the way, a 5-track CC/Brandkommando split album is already recorded and mastered, and is about to be released (maybe this weekend). It's expected to be much more harsh and "noisy" than any solo release by CC.

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Virgin Cold - "Phobia" [2010]

Artist: Virgin Cold

Title: Phobia
Genre: Industrial / Electronic
Country: Russia
Release date: 2010

Track List:

1. Melancholy
2. My Soul That Spring
3. New Religion
4. Phobia
5. Depression
6. Cold World

I don't have much information about this project, except it's from my city. The music is surprisingly good, although much closer to darkwave than to industrial / dark electro. All the tracks are purely instrumental. My personal favourite is "Cold World", but the rest of the album is good as well. Overall, a very promising debut release, definitely deserving a wider audience...

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Deafknife - "Pantheon" [2011]

Artist: Deafknife

Title: Pantheon
Genre: Post-Black Metal
Country: Russia
Release date: 2011

Track List:

1. Father Dagon / Mother Hydra
2. Shub-Niggurath
3. Yog-Sothot
4. Beyond The Wall Of Sleep

So, apparently, the members of Deafknife are reading my blog, and they even asked me to check out their first live EP called "Pantheon". Well, I'd say it's definitely better than the demo (although I'm not a big fan of live albums). I especially liked the 2nd track, that's how modern black metal should sound IMO. The lyrics, based on H.P.Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos, are in Russian (at least in 2nd track, which has the most clean vocals... not sure about the others).

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Come To Get Her - "Life So Changing" [2011]

Artist: Come To Get Her

Title: Life So Changing
Genre: Melodic Rock / Punk
Country: Belarus
Release date: 2011

Track List:

1. Be My Dream
2. Life So Changing
3. Can't Let You Go
4. Someone Who Is Not Alone
5. 19.12 (This Depends On Me)
6. Waiting For The Sunrise
7. All But You

Melodic "punkish" rock music from my favourite ex-Soviet country... BTW, the cover art is really nice, isn't it?

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