Bumsnogger - 2002-2006

Bumsnogger were a  band from Nottingham in the UK, apparently drunkely formed to play sludge!  There's a definite Iron Monkey influence here, which of course means I love it, though there's a slightly more bouncy, stoner rock feel to Bumsnogger than IM.  I remember seeing the name on forums and stuff a few years ago but had never actually heard anything from them until I found this!  Unfortunately this was around the same time as I reinstalled Last.FM and it decided to submit all my tracks to Skype as 'mood messages'.  My boss was not amused to find his Skype homepage filled with notifications that I was listening to Bumsnogger tracks like Being Fucked Over, Dutch Fisting and Murdering the Homeless!

This release compiles Bumsnogger's two EPs and one split 7", plus a couple of rehearsal recordings of unreleased tracks.  Sounds like they were a great band so this is well worth a download.

Various formats including MP3 (320K/VBR) and FLAC from Bandcamp.com

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Sea Bastard - Great Barrier Riff

So it's time for me to pimp my own shit again.  For those who don't know, Funeral Hag died out around July this year.  It was always Jon's band and he got bored of it, so that was that.  Somewhat fortunately for us, Jovian (another Brighton doom band) had split a month or two before us, which meant that the mighty Oliver Irongiant was no longer in a band.  Both Steve and I instantly thought of Oli when we decided we should find another guitarist, and thus Sea Bastard was born!

I like to think SB has the best of both worlds; the groove of Hag and the relentless slowness of Jovian, plus a little something extra!  These first 3 songs were written in about a month after starting the band and recorded live and dirty (apart from the vocals) at 284 Studios on Brighton seafront.  Be warned, this demo sounds pretty horrible.  It's meant to.

Someone made this video for YouTube if you wanna check out what we sound like.  This is our fastest and (so far) most popular song, Aqua Vitae.  It's about whiskey.

320K MP3s from Archive.org
FLAC from Archive.org
Various formats from Bandcamp

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The Amenta - V01D

 Right, I know, it's been bloody ages.  I got rather distracted with life, or video games, or fuck knows what the hell I was doing.  Anyways, I'm back again and here's something awesome for you all.  I grabbed an album by The Amenta a while ago because they were playing at Wacken Open Air.  I go to Wacken every year and I generally try and check out all the bands beforehand so I know who to go see.  Anyways, I grabbed The Amenta's Ocassus album and rather enjoyed it.  Then I completely forgot about it and forgot what they were called.  Fortunately, I managed to remember the other day and grabbed some more of their stuff.

The sound is pretty brutal, and seems to be described as Industrial Death Metal, right up my street since The Berzerker are one of my favourite bands!  The Amenta are a bit more traditionally Death Metal than The Berzerker, the drums are a bit more natural sounding than the gabber-style triggered kicks you'll find there (only a bit), but just as relentless and heavy.  There're plenty of keys adding depth to the sound throughout and some nice industrially sounding intros and breaks.  Well worth a listen if you like that sort of thing.

V01D is an interesting project.  It's a free release with 16 tracks and 4 videos, mostly composed of re-recordings or remixes of tracks from previous releases.  I guess this makes it as good a place to start as any and the production is solid throughout, the re-recordings sounding even more brutal than the original versions!  Check out the video below and if you like what you hear go grab the album.  Highly recommended.

320KBPS MP3 from TheAmenta.com

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Crypsis - Choir For The Carrion

Crypsis are a thrash metal band from Brighton, UK. I first encountered them when they played at the Brightona bike rally last year with my band Funeral Hag. Their style is pure oldschool European thrash metal, in the vein of Kreator and Sodom, though the vocals really remind me of Death! They have supported such mighty thrash bands as Gama Bomb and Death Angel (as did Funeral Hag :D).

Choir For The Carrion is their first release aside from a three track demo in 2009, and the sound on this is much more polished. You can grab the EP for free from their Bandcamp page, or there is now a CD version available for purchase. The CD launch party is taking place tonight at the Prince Albert in Brighton, so head on down for some great Brighton thrash if you can!

Various formats including 320Kbps MP3 and FLAC from Bandcamp

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