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ALABASTER SUNS
"Alabaster Suns" CD (RPG-03)
ALABASTER SUNS is the new band rising from the ashes of the much celebrated CAPRICORNS (Rise Above records). The band features K A Williams on guitar and vocals and Nathan Perrier on drums with new blood DL on bass. After playing numerous shows, this is the bands first recording, with John Hannon at the controls (NO RECORDING studio).
The album opens at a furious pace with 'Iron Gang', brutal and heavy, it bears comparison with elements of VOIVOD, PRONG and similarly progressive brutal acts of the mid 80s, though with a Dischord edge, perhaps bringing to mind bands such as SWIZ and CIRCUS LUPUS. The band's complex time signatures, and atypical riffs create a true sound all their own though, as they seamlessly blend staggeringly heavy freight-train bludgeon with more mellow breakdowns. Indeed penultimate track 'Alabaster Suns' is a remarkably gentle piece, which makes very effective use of a perfectly selected guitar tone: being veterans of the hardcore scene, ALABASTER SUNS are perfectly clear about what they want to achieve and they know their equipment. 'The World Got Lighter' closes the proceedings with nearly eight minutes mixing mid-paced groove and ferocious rocking.
With their past pedigree and the sheer quality on offer with this debut album its certain that ALABASTER SUNS will get the attention they deserve.
Read more on the blog.
Iron Gang 7:52
Royal 6 in Hand 4:13
Cosmo-Nought 6:56
Alabaster Suns 3:51
The World Got Lighter 7:57
£8.99 POST PAID WORLDWIDE!
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POTOP
"CHANNELS" CD (RPG-02)
POTOP create seismic assaults of negative, down tempo extreme hardcore.
In a world where the boundaries between hardcore punk and extreme metal have long since dissolved, POTOP straddle genres and easy
labels to produce pure audio negativity, despair and ecstatic misery. Their sound combines hardcore urgency of extreme Power Violence
acts such as DROP DEAD, CROSSED OUT and MAN IS THE BASTARD colliding with the slow motion brutal Doom of bands like BURNING WITCH.
POTOP are fiercely DIY and have strong links with the global hardcore underground, typified by their hands-on involvement with the FUCK YOGA label.
"Channels", the band's first CD release, combines two tracks from the split 12" with the US band BURMESE and a further track from a forthcoming
FUCK YOGA compilation LP with two previously unreleased dirges. POTOP are slow, blackened, ugly music.
POTOP on Myspace.
Great review onJUDAS KISS.
Other notes: IRON PIG is proud tom present "Channels" with the packaging entirely in the band's native Macedonian language, in Cyrillic characters.
The CD package will have an outer sticker with English language text.
5 songs, 31:23 total time.
£8.99 POST PAID WORLDWIDE!
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RAVENS CREED
"MILITIA OF BLOOD SACRIFICE" CD (RPG-01)
From the unholy hell pits of Nottingham, England, the mighty RAVENS CREED
are unleashed upon the world. With ex members of IRON MONKEY, CEREBRAL FIX, SKYCLAD, and GBH and ORANGE GOBLIN vocalist Ben
Ward at centre stage, RAVENS CREED are the audio equivalent of having your face smashed in with a bag of rusty hammers.
Total thrash holocaust with tunes that stick in your head like nails, the four tracks are all masterpieces of dirty thrashing
metal. Buy or die!
RAVENS CREED on Myspace.
Track list:
1- Panzer Maniac 2:55
2- Imperial Leather 2:06
3- Exploding the Steel 3:02
4- Dead Crow Mantle 2:29
10:32 total time.
£5.99 POST PAID WORLDWIDE!
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