Avalanche On Play Volumes 1 and 2

Avalanche On Play is a tribute to the music of Justin K Broadrick (of Godflesh, Jesu, Curse Of The Golden Vampire, Greymachine and many, many other projects). Unlike most tribute albums, this one features entirely new songs as opposed to covers of songs Broadrick has worked on. The music from the compilation is entirely provided by the users of the avalanchers.co.uk forum. Some users were discussing how much Broadrick had influenced their music, and decided to put together a tribute compilation. Obviously this project found massive support in the forums as they ended up releasing two volumes at once with a total running time of 2 hours 11 minutes!

The music itself is somewhat varied, as one might expect given Broadrick's varied output over the years. Songs range from Jesu-like shoegazing misery to more relentless Godflesh style bleak industrial pounding. I've rather enjoyed all of it, so hopefully you will too!

Featuring the music of:

2¦Frail
BetaCloud
Concrete/Field
Concrete Mutant
cracks
Crat¤s
Finite Death
Haedron
iDieresis
Lusca
Meat Machinery
Metonym
Monotremata
M00D
newbreed
pAGANsONG
Quatersized
Savier
Semi0n
Shirk
SHJK
The Project_Pale
TJ
Vinyl Kitty Hand

320Kbps MP3 via HTTP from 689eyes.com
FLAC via HTTP from 689eyes.com Part 1
FLAC via HTTP from 689eyes.com Part 2

www.avalanchers.co.uk forum
Avalanche On Play official website
Avalanche On Play on Myspace

Thy Apokalypse - Fragment Premier (Vison Of Apokalypse)

Something a bit odd this time, at least to me. Thy Apokalypse seem to be an industrial black metal band, which althout it seems an obvious combination isn't something I've heard before! It's kinda hard to know what to make of this. There are some great industrial beats and ambience, and plenty of black metal screaching and blast beats. Give it a listen!

412Kbps Ogg via HTTP from Archive.org

Thy Apokalypse at Myspace

D-Trash Records - 2009 New Releases In A Continuous Mix

D-Trash Records are a Canadian industrial digital hardcore label that I've been following for a while. They release a variety of music from straight up industrial through breakbeat and drum & bass to full on noise, so very much in the spirit of Digital Hardcore Recordings, Alec Empire's record label that released all the Atari Teenage Riot stuff. This release is one of many new-release mixes that D-Trash has put out over the years, a continuous mix of a selection of songs from the year's new releases. There's a lot of noise and plenty of driving beats, but definitely not one of the musically closed-minded! The mix features the following tracks:

01 00:00 PHALLUS ÜBER ALLES - Heatwave (Motown Mix)
02 03:25 FEUH! - SarKophage
03 08:53 THE FIRST SEED - Break Them
04 11:18 NOT HALF - MP1983
05 14:02 TUAREG GEEKS - El Galaxias
06 19:12 MIND DISRUPTION - Totes Fleisch
07 21:58 DISTONN - Vegan
08 24:45 UNITUS - KOTAcxlv
09 29:18 PHALLUS ÜBER ALLES - Heatvent
10 31:05 THE FIRST SEED - Riot Manifest
11 34:15 MIND DISRUPTION - The Void
12 37:31 TUAREG GEEKS - Maquinos Del Futoro
13 41:20 DISBREAKZ - Dispunk Breakz
14 45:04 NOT HALF - Mr Chinaski
15 51:30 FEUH! - Dunk'N'Prunk
16 56:07 UNITUS - KOTAccxl

160Kbps MP3 Via HTTP from dtrash.mypodcast.com

D-Trash Records at Myspace
D-Trash Records Official Website

Necro Deathmort - This Beat Is Necrotronic

Necro Deathmort are a very odd band! I'm not entirely sure how, but I stumbled upon them in my wanderings around the internets one afternoon. A British 2 piece, they mix all kinds of odd sounds together and I find the results rather enjoyable.

The album starts with some weird digital noise that would be at home on any noisecore album, then goes on to a stomping industrial breakbeat track, followed by a nice slow instrumental doom track, followed by a floaty, ambient soundscape... This album is all over the place, but in a very good way! You can download it for free, courtesy of Distraction Records, but if you do like it then please go buy it from their website.

320 Kbps MP3 via HTTP from Rapidshare, zSHARE, Megaupload, DepositFiles or Badongo

Necro Deathmort at Myspace
Distraction Records at Myspace
Distraction Records website

The Shizit - Live At Club Spirit

The Shizit were an industrial metal band from Seattle formed in 1999. Originally promoted through the now defunct MP3.com, they sought to challenge the way the music industry worked and bring underground sounds to the masses. They released two DAM CDs (MP3.com's CDs featuring the regular CD version of the tracks alongside high quality MP3 files), Evil Inside in 1999 and Script Kiddie in 2000. They then went on to release a full length album entitled Soundtrack For The Revolution, which saw releases on several different labels (all now defunct) including E115 Records (original release) and Alec Empire's Digital Hardcore before disbanding in 2002. Two other albums have now been released posthumously through Canadian online collective D-Trash Records, Remixed For The Revolution (2004) and Live At Club Spirit (2008).

Their sound is similar to Rabbit Junk (the frontman JP's current project), but heavier and more aggressive. I always described it as gabber metal due to the relentless beats and highly distorted kick sounds, a la gabber. The result is an impressive fusion of metal, industrial, punk, gabber, hip-hop, hardcore dance and many other genres that is full of energy and just doesn't let up!

Today's offering is one I only just discovered, a D-Trash re-release of the Live At Club Spirit recording. This show was originally posted on The Shizit's MP3.com page as individual tracks back in the days of dialup internet connections and thus is unfortunately only available in 128K MP3 format. The D-Trash release sees the original four tracks supplemented by three new remixes by SLIP and a cover of Ministry's Just One Fix originally found on an Industrial compilation from 2001 called Signal To Noise: Reinforced Industrial Hits, and later on Cleopatra's A Taste Of Sin compilation and An Industrial Tribute To Ministry.

128/192Kbps MP3 via HTTP from Archive.org
128/192Kbps MP3 via HTTP from Rapidshare.com

The Shizit Militia (semi-official fansite)
The Shizit Fanbase at Myspace

Rabbit Junk - Project Nonagon Part 1, The Struggle

Rabbit Junk are an industrial metal band with heavy punk, hip-hop and electro influences (apparently this is called hardclash) hailing from Seattle. They were formed in 2004 after the breakup of front man JP's previous project The Shizit (Myspace) , a brilliant gabber metal band who will be making appearances in these pages in the future. Rabbit Junk takes the raw energy of The Shizit and combines it with more advanced production technique, more melodic elements and a slightly punkier sound (not enough to be bad). With some catchy hooks, serious riffage and awesome sequencing there's something there for everyone!

Project Nonagon is an extension of Rabbit Junk's last album, This Life Is Where You Get Fucked. This Life Is Where You Get Fucked is a concept album in three parts: The Struggle, Ghetto Blasphemer and This Death Is Where You Get Life. The idea behind Project Nonagon is to release a 3 track EP to build on the themes of each of these parts. This first part is, obviously, the extension of The Struggle part of This Life...

192Kbps MP3 via HTTP from Rabbitjunk.com

Rabbit Junk Official Site
Rabbit Junk at Myspace