Megan & Amelia - Haiymakks

Dude, Byron Fischer just got done with his first LP, "Haiymakks". All the other Megan and Amelia recordings are on the blog, so for some fucked up reason you looked over those gems buck the shit up and download them.
)()()()EDIT()()() This was the original photo up there, but my dog wanted it changed so of course I obliged.

Megan & Amelia is the haunting, somber solo project of Ryan from DEERS!/Matsuri (both R.I.P). Everything up to this record was self recorded, but for "Haiymakks" he got Max from John Cota to record him. On a kind of side note, Max has been recording a shit ton of California bands recently and all his work is so fucking good. I don't know where he works or anything but if you want to get recorded real nicely you should holler.

Anyways, back to Megan. The new album is fucking amazing. Six of the most depressing songs I have ever heard. The first song is a ukulele/xylophone lullaby. Number two is crooning, verbed out vocals over layers of electric guitars. "Mountain Mountain" has what sounds like a toy piano drenched in reverb. "Demoing" is my favorite song on the album, but I can't really tell whats going on. A whole lot of something. Cray shit, best shit. Track five is a re-recording of a demo song, but is so much cleaner and prettier, dig the backing vocals and the sleigh-bell. "Haiymakks" ends on a high note with "Fuck Mountain", which has basically a full band. Also, "I'm not a shit friend, I'm not a bad son" is one of the best lines. Period. Who did the gang vocals?

I don't know if there are plans for releasing this album, but, I hope it gets the attention it deserves. I know Ryry wants it to be put out, and I wish him all the luck in the world. Megan & Amelia plays a good bit in the bay, so go check that shit out when you get a chance. I would imagine that the live sets are super dope. Download this shit, buy it when you can. MOOCHXCREW. Word.

This was filmed by Ramez from Calculator.

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Tempest - Solace

Holy shit. My dude Alex just sent me the new Tempest record, and this shit is insane. Next level heavy. Easily the best heavy record I have heard in like six months. It's just non stop crazy shit. The darkest. If you liked their older stuff you are going to shit all the bricks when you hear this. Takes epic dark hardcore to a whole nother plane. My only qualm is that it's only two tracks, I need more.

You can get a copy from Forged In Iron if you are Canadian, and Vitriol Records if you live in USA. No idea about anywhere else. Check it, dig it, buy it.

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Solace

Locktender

Alright, so the dudes from Men As Trees are back. All the dudes are now in Locktender, which is now one of my favorite bands. Shit is way too dope.

The MAT/LT dudes are pretty down with the blog game, so I guess they sent hella people their album I got below. Their record label I.Corrupt also sent out some emails about putting Locktender on blogs. I can respect that because they are seasoned vets down with the free.

The jams are the sickest. Super heavy, like hardcore heavy. It isn't metal or anything, just bowel-shatteringly epic. I was super surprised at how good the quality of the recordings too, real good shit. Especially dig the vocals. I can only get down with vox like this if they are done as well as these. Chord heavy hardcore, no noodles or anything crazy. The most solid.

So yeah, I wouldnt be able to explain the band any better than Jason from the band:

So Locktender is a conceptual hardcore band from Cleveland, OH with all of the members of Men as Trees. All of our songs are about and inspired by different works of art and our albums will focus on specific artists. This 'Collected' release is three songs that are all being released on vinyl splits this year. A 7" with Cassilis from Philadelphia, a 12" with Brighter Arrows from Chicago (ex-Lautrec, Mans, Phoenix Bodies), and another 12" that is still TBA. Our singer Nick will do the CD release through his label Mopsorden and Utarid Tapes will do one in Malaysia. As with MAT, everything will be free to download so we are just trying to get this out there as much as possible before our Euro tour this July with Sailing On from Germany

Download this below. Please keep an ear out for all their releases that are coming out. The dudes are solid as fuck, so I would hope that they would let me know when they have some stuff for sale. And when they get that new material. Go to their shows too. No video, just the sickest tunes.



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Fuck, Wolves!

Fuck, Wolves! are a dark hardcore/screamo band from Germany. Their sound can easily be lumped into the same category as other German screams bands like Louise Cyphre and June Paik. They have some of my favorite dynamics and use some real nasty chords. The record quality of their various releases is interesting cuz its never really that "good" but it always sounds good. You know?

I first heard about this band a long ass time ago, like back in tenth or eleventh grade. My buddy was friends with their guitarist at the time from way back when, so we kept in touch or whatever. Said guitarist moved to the states like right before FW started to get more popular. I've stayed in contact with the band over the years, making plans that fall through and things like that. I always told them I would chug them, but every time I was prepared to do whatever they had something just over the horizon I was waiting for. I think that the dudes are in other projects but I don't know any of the names off the top of my head.

Fuck, Wolves! have one half a shit ton of releases, including a split and some 7 inches. They get their stuff put out by Moment of Collapse, so go float on over there and grab some shit. All of what has been provided below is good, so check it out. I got all their stuff. The band are really nice dudes, talk to them and stuff. If you are in Europe you should try to check them out if you can, they seem to tour a good bit.

Recentish video. Wurd.





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Fuck, Wolves! / Chaos Is... Split


Es ist Alles in Ordnung...Nur in Einer Anderen


Und zwischen all unseren Trümmern und Traumgebilden


Dreams Come True Compilation Vol. 1

Battle Royale

Battle Royale is a noisy emo band from Kansas City, Missouri. Brothers in the kush. I really really fucking dig this shit, but I'm too faded to really write anything of substance. They are affiliated with my boy Bobby's label, The Ghost Is Clear. Love that shit.

BR has a big split and a demo, both are choice. All the bands on the split are dope nasty, so get down with it. Buy it if you have some money. Got them links to the bandcamp so you can check it before you get it, but y'alls better get it. Backed hard. Word.


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Battle Royale / Regret, The Informer / Baitfish / Texas Instruments

Wolfpack Collective

Yo this kid Josh just sent me this email so I'm gonna get my copy pasta on. This Wolfpack thing looks pretty dope, yalls should get onboard. Can't hurt. If you email homeboy ask to be added to the Facebook group that is some kind of forum for the creation of this website. I'm trying to be a despot.


HOMIE'S EMAIL

Yo,
Im starting a website and would like your band to be a part of it if youre interested?
There is a secret Facebook group that will be an organizing group to help create the website for Wolfpack Collective which will be dropping sometime mid April (website design by Clayton Hebenik of Floods).
Wolfpack Collective is a collective group of bands OF ANY GENRE and people that stretch across the US and Canada, each band will have their own page on the website where their music will stream and the bands will be organized by geographic location, which should DRASTICALLY decrease the stress thats involved with booking tours.
There will be two messageboards-
one for WPC bands to interact with each other and one that is public
To submit to be a WPC artist please use the checklist document from our documents section of this group
This idea is still in the planning stages, so if you have any thoughts that could help this become something even better, let me know on here.
-Josh Brumley

Wolfpack Application

Wolf Pack Collective
New Band Checklist
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1: Promo picture of band (this can be a live show photo)
2: Band Logo (people who create flyers for you band can take your logo off the wpc site and that will help to increase traffic)
3: Bio- write whatever you want
4: City your band is from including where you can help book shows if possible
5: URL of your facebook and/or bandcamp - we will be streaming you bandcamp from the website
Once you have completed this checklist email everything to joshviaduct@gmail.com and your
submission will be reviewed and if everything is cool you will be added to the band roster. There is no deadline to be a part of the WPC, we have already recieved submissions and have contacted every band on the rough draft roster document

I think this could be pretty cool. Good idea regardless. Tell 'em you heard about it from me, so I look badass. Word

William Bonney & Droughts Split

Finally, the split between William Bonney and Droughts is done. WB has had their songs done for a hot minute, but they weren't mastered or something. I guess that the album's release was waiting on the Droughts tracks, but I don't know when they got released. Fuck you Jack for not giving me these tracks first, I snagged this release off of My Endless Minutes (one of my favorite blogs). If you don't like gang vocals you are shit outta luck, cuz your in sing along city baby.

Droughts are first on the split. I've never listened to the before but I liked what I heard. Granted I'm using jankity ear buds and watching Boys N The Hood on T.V (BOY, GET YOUR BUTT IN HERE), I still paid a good bit of attention to the music. Droughts fits the mold of mid-west emo pretty well, you know what I mean? Their guitars have a nice tone and I really enjoy their song structures.

William Bonney is obviously second. Next. Whatever. Their shit is bonkers, super tight. These are the best songs they have put out, even though this is just their second release. Rippage all over the place. Obviously a highlight are Jack's vocals and lyrics, he is such a poet. Mikey, Ethan, Henry and El Moustache rip it up pretty hard. Really heavy emo jams, with a double bass tastefully thrown in there. All their songs rule. All the songs on the split rule, but I'm partial to this side of the split because they have been floating around for a while. One of the songs is my name spelled incorrectly.

Yo, download the fuck out of this split. I don't know how its being release, or who is doing it, but you should pick it up when you can. I'm pretty sure Droughts still play regularly, so go check that out in the Mid-West. Willy is spread out all over the place, but they are getting back together for a tour this summer, you can find the dates pretty easily. Check that out too.

Droughts:


William Bonney:


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William Bonney & Droughts Split

7" SPOTLIGHT - Boilerman - Bright Young Things

It's been a very long time chuggers. Roblet is keeping this thing going, which I'm grateful for. Life has been full of changes lately, including a lack of internet for the most part. So here I briefly offer you a 7" spotlight on an awesome band from Chicago (I think) that are just playing downright good ol' pop punk jams. Four songs, none longer than 2 minutes, and you'll find yourself playing it over and over again. This is definitely one of my favorite pop punk records in my entire collection. So download, jam out, and buy their shit or see them when they are playing in your town! They just did a tour not too long ago and I regrettably missed their D.C. date.

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Bright Young Things (2010)

Ittō

Ittō are a techy hardcore band from Chicago. They sound kind of like Capsule, but not as crazy heavy. One of the dudes was in The Para-Medics, and I'm pretty sure one of the other guys was in another dope band from Chicago but I'm not sure. Anyways, this shit slays, and mnwa is going to be doing a lil mini tour with these guys from Allston to Chicago, which makes me stupid stoked. Download their EP thingy below.
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мища Summer tour '12

Hey I still hate using Chug for the band promotion but we just figured out dates for summer tour and since its the biggest we have attempted I figured I would post them up here and see if anyone can help us get some dates in areas where we don't know people. If you can help us book something please email us at mnwa666@gmail.com

June 19 - Baltimore - Charm City
June 20 - Philadelphia - IHOP Estate
June 21 - New York City
June 22 - Providence
June 23 - New Hampshire
June 24 - Allston - Whacky Kastle
June 25 - Upstate New York/New England
June 26 - Lancaster/Harrisburg/Reading
June 27 - Pittsburgh
June 28 - Ohio
June 29 - Kalamazoo
June 30 - Grand Rapids
July 1 - Chicago
July 2 - Milwaukee
July 3 - St. Louis
July 4 - Kansas City
July 5 - Kansas/Nebraska
July 6 - Denver
July 7 - Wyoming
July 8 - Idaho falls
July 9 - SLC
July 10 - Las Vegas
July 11 - 13 THE BAY
July 14 - SLO
July 15 - LA
July 16 - SOCAL
July 17 - Phoenix
July 18 - Albequerqe
July 19 - Fort Worth
July 20 - Austin/San Antonio
July 21 - Houston
July 22 - Louisiana/Arkansas
July 23 - Florida
July 24 - Georgia
July 25 - South Carolina
July 26 - North Carolina
July 27 - Knoxville
July 28 - West Virginia
July 29 - Richmond
July 30 - DC

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