Is A389 Recordings sicker than sick? Hell fucking yes!!! Check out what they are giving away for free – a superdelic mixtape! Peep what the label has to say about this musical onslaught they have coming your way below. Also, if you are in the Los Angeles area this weekend, RSVP for the A389 Recordings//Scion showcase HERE!

Baltimore’s A389 Recordings have just posted their 2012 label sampler online via a streaming/downloadable digital mixtape. Clocking in at 52 tracks (and well over two hours of music) the digital mixtape showcases
a plethora of new and unreleased music from A389′s impressive and eclectic upcoming release schedule (as well as some classics from the label’s current/back catalog).

Featured artists include: Seven Sisters Of Sleep, Countdown To Oblivion, Ilsa, Ringworm, Homewrecker, Like Rats, Children Of God, The Guilt Of…, Anne, Pulling Teeth, Young And In The Way, Junior Bruce, God’s America, Hatewaves, The Love Below, Empire Of Rats, Shin To Shin, Sick Fix, Kill Life, Enforcers, Pleasant Living, Gravehill, Cynarae, Triac, Thee High Priestess, Nothing, Rot In Hell, Unholy Majesty, Integrity, Gehenna, Low Places, Pharaoh (NJ), Full Of Hell, Vilipend, Ancient Shores, Pale Creation, Chapelle Des Morts, Virgin Witch, Pick Your Side, Eddie Brock, Penetration Panthers, Day Of Mourning, Withdrawal, Trapped Under Ice, In Cold Blood, Mindsnare, Astronomer, Masakari, Wisdom In Chains, Mighty Sphincter, Earthride and Vermapyre.

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In 1978, Steve Ignorant with his corrosive speech and sardonic lyrics proclaimed that, in fact, punk was dead. He believed that systems, movements, and all other organizations would invariably dig their meat hooks into the spirit of the music and use it as a means to exploit and market an ideology. In an ironic twist of fate, his band Crass (along with bands such as Subhumans, Conflict, Zounds, and Rudimentary Peni) would receive mainstream attention as pioneers of anarcho-punk, also regarded as peace punk, leaving many of their British contemporaries in the shadows of their subsequent success.

Groups like The System, Omega Tribe, Lost Cherrees, Lack of Knowledge, Blyth Power, and The Mob were amongst those that had fallen into darkness. Many others were even signed to Crass Records (see their A-Sides compilations) and/or had opened for them at their shows but just never caught on. They had moved away from the cacophony that typically defined the genre, gravitating toward melodic chants and stripped-down folk instrumentation. This distinct sound wasn’t nearly as abrasive or confrontational in form but lyrically and poetically there was much still in common including a strong political undercurrent.

Flash forward twenty plus years in the future to the Pacific northwest where a group of subversives have been resurrecting the once echoed calls of those unsung UK artists. PDX is both the revival and re-imagining of that forgotten sect. Based out of Portland, Oregon, the scene incorporates components of post-punk, crust, d-beat, goth, new-wave, and industrial to create an emotional outpouring while staking and laying claim to new ground.

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North Carolina’s Young and In The Way are one of those bands that CVLT Nation reps to the fullest! They will be wrecking shit on Saturday the 19th of May in Pomona at the A389 Recordings/Scion showcase. I’m so fucking looking forward to seeing this band do their thing, because I know they are going to bring endless amounts of gnarly energy to the stage. For those reading this that will not be able to make it to their Pomona show we have the answer. On the 12th, YAITW gave a stellar performance which you can peep below! Make sure to head over to their website that is full of black magic!

I’m not even going to write that much, just know that right here and now, you can download a full set of MOTÖRHEAD, recorded live in Vienna, Austria, in 1982. I will say this – if you are a MOTÖRHEAD fan, get this, blast it ultra loud and bang your fucking head!!!

MOTÖRHEAD LIVE IN Vienna, Austria 1982 DOWNLOAD LINK!!!

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From the ashes of the 80′s hardcore band Deep Wound arose one of the most influential bands of the late 80′s and 90′s – the mighty Dinosaur Jr. What we have here is extremely rare footage from a 1986 show at UMass, plus it’s professionally shot, so the sound is awesome. I really get a kick out of watching this video, because something about the whole vibe feels pure. J. Mascis and Lou Barlow are really talented humans that created music that still makes me happy to this very day. It’s cool to see where these two went musically after being in hardcore bands – they went a different direction from most of their peers, who went down the thrash metal road. So kick back, puff a joint and let Dinosaur Jr. Live in 1986 be the guide for your THC voyage. Check out this killer footage after the jump!

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Power dirge, ultra raw, metallic conviction and a endless stream of crustified soul is what is going attack your eardrums when you hear the Twisted Mass Ep. This intense Dublin collective kick out the jams that bring all of the ills of this world to the forefront of our reality. Honestly, I heard one song and got hooked, then I contacted the band and asked them to please send me their Ep ASAP, then I got even more hyped after hearing more songs! As a person that has been to this band’s hometown on several occasions, I can hear how the tension and grey skies of Dublin are alive in their sonic disorder. Twisted Mass’ songs are anthems of change and declarations of power for the unheard to take a stand against the bastards that want to keep us down! Every riff on this record is a weapon of mass change, and will have your braincells spazzing out. Deeper than that, the way they write their songs, you can hear the force of courage that wants us all to never again be victims of the corrupt system that imprisions the poor! Lyrically, these humans are way beyond on point, they speak the truth in my book. Twisted Mass’ songs are packed with rage, but they also know how weave the threads of distorted melody into the fabric of their angst. Is there anything wrong with this record? HELL FUCKING NO…but I do wish it was longer than five songs. I want to experience a Twisted Mass set live in packed room with the volume turned up to ten – now that would a gnarly night to remember. Hold on, it gets better – check out the stream below and you name the price of the download HERE! As long as the world is run by fuck ups, we will need bands like Twisted Mass to scream about what’s really going on. Not saying that they will change the world, but their songs will be the soundtrack for the humans that are not blind, deaf and dumb!

Hawkwind are the foundation from where many bands start! They are one of the bands that mastered the heavy sound early! Hawkwind also bridged the gap between the freaks, hippies & punks. I’m not even going to write about how many bands that they influenced. I will say this though – some of their best music was made with the king of speed as their lead singer, LEMMY. On a personal level, I love puffing on a happy spliff & blasting Hawkwind. A couple of years ago, there was one of the coolest documentaries made about their musical journey. What I took from this film is that how important the whole artistic community was to them & that a concert should be more that just a show, it should be an experience. So after the jump, take a trip into the Hawkwind universe & check out this awesome documentary.

Hawkwind The Lemmy era…

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With dissemination of anxiety, confusion, humiliation, darkness, conflict, cruelty, nihilism, inferno and all kinds of other evil, Lautréamonts fictional character Maldoror attempts to demonstrate the hated mankind its own badness. With the second album of their experimental project NERNES/SKAGEN, Kjetil Nernes and Stian Skagen, both members of the noise/math/chaos formation ÅRABROT, want to tell the story of a contemporary Maldoror.

However, the Norwegian duo aims not to set the literary text to music, but to generate appropriate moods. Instead of coarse words, as with Lautréamont, “Confession” is told with massive guitar drones and abstract electronic noise. The inhospitable and distant sounds create a quite dark atmosphere. In the vein of EARTH and KHANATE, NERNES/SKAGEN create narrative soundscapes that are tentatively searching through an eerily desolate dark. Challenging and exciting!

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One record that I know will be worth the wait is Mass V by AMENRA, which will be their first album on Neurot Recordings. This week, they entered the studio with wizard of heavy Billy Anderson. AMENRA have chosen to record at La Chapelle, an old chapel now turned professional studio, in the heart of the Belgian Ardennes. I have this feeling that once I hear Mass V, a new part of sonic bliss will be opened up for me. Check out this promo video for their upcoming Russian tour, plus some awesome live footage after the jump!

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So what happens when a label that you have loads of respect for creates a mind-altering compilation? The end result is HERESIES, the 2012 digital sampler from CRUCIAL BLAST. Now check out what Adam has to say about the this sonic portrait of torture himself below…It’s 23 tracks long and totally FREE Download HERE!

Crucial Blast is proud to present Heresies, our newest compilation of sound taken from a wide selection of our current and upcoming titles for 2012. This digital compilation features twenty-three tracks, many of which have not yet been released, from an array of artists that range from cult legends to newly formed purveyors of sonic extremism. The music that’s collected here presents a fairly comprehensive cross-section of the sort of music that we specialize in here at Crucial Blast, from the sounds of terrifying blackened industrial, withered cemetary folk, crude black metal, horror electronics, and apocalyptic doom-laden dub mutations, to jet-black ambience, majestic power electronics, putrid goresludge, corrosive black noise, vile death industrial, bizarre necro-electro experiments, avant-garde deathdoom, and twisted basement black psychedelia. Across these twenty-three tracks, you will find the likes of Gnaw Their Tongues, Wold, Sutcliffe Jugend, Funerary Call, Luasa Raelon, Theologian, Ehnahre, Korperschwache, T.O.M.B., Iron Forest, Husere Grav, Reclusa, Time Moth Eye (mem. of Stone Breath), Fecalove, Lucifers Foreskin, Mors Sonat (members of Gnaw Their Tongues and Nekrasov), Glass Coffin, Crown Of Bone (ex-Demonologists), Yami Kurae, Project:Void, Pusdrainer, Rotorvator, and Actuary. More than two hours of aural horror, crepuscular beauty, and bone-rattling heaviness, carefully selected for your pleasure.