Coroner - Punishment For Decadence

So back in the day when metal was thrashing mad in Germany and USA there was this sort of little and obscure band called Coroner from Switzerland. As with many other great underrated thrash bands at the time they didn't have a lot of luck so they released a few albums; stayed active in the 90s for a while and finally quit. But they are not forgotten as their fanbase grew over time and now they are rather popular it seems. Popular enough to inspire them to regroup and will supposedly attend Hellfest in 2011. I think they deserve every praise they get. Their songs are pretty much everything I ask for in thrash metal. High speed, complex riffs and mad drumwork but most of all it's very precise. It's not sloppy work as  is the case with some more popular thrash bands that I could mention. If you are into thrash metal then you should not miss this one out! And they cover Jimmy Hendrix for fuck sake! :D

1. Intro
2. Absorbed
3. Masked Jackal
4. Arc-Lite
5. Skeleton on Your Shoulder
6. Sudden Fall
7. Shadow of a Lost Dream
8. The New Breed
9. Voyage to Eternity
10. Purple Haze (Jimi Hendrix cover)

Bitrate: 320

Melting faces.

Taiyo Matsumoto - Black & White (Tekkon Kinkreet)

I'll only use the term manga for this work because the author and origin of it is from Japan. Other than that this very little to do with the usual manga format. The art is a lot more European than Japanese and this is because Matsumoto was greatly fascinated with the French way of doing things in comics. What he primarily tried to do with this story is fusing European and Japanese styles of comics into one. Did he succeed? I think he did, some people might think he ruined a good story. So it's either a like or hate from what I learned by looking around.

The story focuses on two young boys. Reckless little anarchists who don't follow their peers but live an adult life filled with yakuza and other kinds of mafia. They go around and beat people with steel pipes and torture others. Fun! They are sort of like an urban legend in this strange little town. The mobsters and criminals actually fear them. One day though a sort of frightening yet laid back yakuza (that reminds me of soooo many characters that Takeshi Kitano played, like Sonatine for example) returns from jail and from then on shit will start hitting the fan very soon.

As I mentioned before the most apparent different thing in this work is the art. It's minimalistic at heart but not to the point of being just scribbles/pseudo art(?). It achieves a lot of things with only few details and some smart shading. The story and the characters are complete nutjobs so I think most of Flying Teapot readers will have no problem with it. :D As with all mindfuckery you can get lost in the story fast if you don't follow much what's happening. I had to read some chapters twice haha but that probably won't happen to others.

All in all I think this is great and you should give it a try.

Get.

Punch - Eyeless EP

Send word to thy mother for I have returned! I still have a few exams but I think I can start working smoothly again.

Speaking of mothers and female genitalia here's a short burst of some furious vegan hardcore. And we all know hardcore is far more fun when a furious (vegan) woman screams. It's nothing overly original but that's not something I really look for in hardcore music. This is 100% smashing which I love so dearly. <3

Tracklist:

1. Thank You, Come Again
2. Nothing Left
3. Waste Land
4. Convenience Store
5. Semantically Challenged
6. No Such Thing As A Stupid Question
7. Words

avg bitrate: 203

Fuck yes!