The Calm Blue Sea - The Calm Blue Sea

The Calm Blue sea is an rather new-ish band among the sea of post-rock bands. It's, well, post rock. It has everything post-post rock bands need in terms of instruments and composition. It's lovely and beautiful yet it can sometimes be very dull. Decide for yourself.

Tracklist:

01. We Happy Few
02. Literal
03. The Rivers That Run Beneath This City
04. Now Those Ashes Are at the Bottom
05. After the Legions
06. This Will Never Happen Again

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Jun Hayami - Maggot Hole

Hoho. Haven't posted anything disgusting and offensive in a while.

I was very surprised with this one. The story of course is very typical. A couple of guys kill and rape an underaged teen. While stereotypical for guro comics this one is particularly well drawn and every page is in color. This is more an showoff of the artists skill but still worth the read/watch/whatever (despite that there are no lines haha).

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Endstille - Navigator

Beyond the reeeeeeeeeeef.

Anyway.

Oh Endstille. I'm pretty sure I mentioned them before. Well this is my favorite full length from them called Navigator. It's about, well, war. I guess they are similar to Infernal War but not quite like them. Infernal War is much more hmm repetitive. Endstille is far more superior and more thought out (pretentious right here yes).

Not to prolong my dull writing.

Tracklist:

1. Ortungssignal 00:04
2. I Bless You... God 05:33
3. Navigator 03:48
4. Above the Vault of Heaven 03:54
5. Bastard 06:49
6. Monotonus II 04:39
7. Nameless 02:59
8. Let There Be Heaven 05:10
9. Disillusioned Victory 04:08
10. Endstille (Leichnam) 06:01

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This makes me happy and sleepy

Ahhh.

More posts soon. I'm just having a break from everything.


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Does anyone remember this?

Man this game had such awesome music.

Middle 9 - Swing and Circle On The Fluyt

I don't know about you but I really like this cover. So minimalist yet so detailed and warm, I love it waaaaa.

Middle 9 is a band formed by the current four members in Osaka, Japan in 2003. Their first album that contains 9 tracks “SEA THAT HAS BECOME KNOWN” will be released on September 26, 2008. It has been about 2 and half years since the last mini album that contains 5 tracks, “Swing and Circle on the Fluyt” (April 26 2006 / CATUNE). Their style might seem to be moderate at first since the members play Vibraphone and ES-335. However, the stages actually have a reputation for a powerful groove and totally active performances that lift audiences at one burst. This instrumental band has not only the dynamism of live music but also high creativity for the sensitive sound as you can see in their works. Adding a trumpeter as a support member, their new album contains some party tunes which interweave funk and jazz. These tracks are built by their great sound sense and give a stylish mode to the first full album. The CD will be out on their private label “LYON”. The members themselves did artwork as well as recording and mixing on that self-direction label. The mastering engineer is SAEmastering / Roger Seibel who worked on TORTOISE, HIM, SUNRA and also the previous album of Middle 9.

Catchy and very laid back post rock. If you are into post-rock you should check this one out!

Tracklist:

1. Ionie (5:50)
2. Alula Living (2:12)
3. Dance Dance Dance (9:47)
4. Petit (7:19)
5. ROMA (6:23)

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Hiroaki Samura - Hitodenasi no Koi (The Love of the Brute)

If you ever dwelled into the world of Japanese animation or comics (MANGA OK, I KNOW) you most likely heard about Blade Of The Immortal in one form or another. Ironically I read pretty much all of his works except Blade Of The Immortal (I guess I'm keeping the best for the end haha).

Anyway. Before Samura went to make a name for himself he did some guro for several magazines. Hitodenasi no Koi (The Love of the Brute) is an illustration series of adult themed pencil drawings (extreme violence and sexual material.). The illustrations were published from 1998 to 2006. The series jumped from one publication to the next and featured in both erotic and pornographic mangabon and tankoubon such as "Tokyo H" and "Manga Erotics F", youth and art magazines such as "QUICKJAPAN" and "Comickers", before finally being collected in an artbook.

I looked for this for quite a while untill I finnaly recived this from a friend that found it somewhere burried in GuroChan.

I could explain his works and his technique for days but it would not make any sense. His works are exceptional and unique. Definitely download this if you appriciate art and the grotesque. Sadly some pages are poorly scanned but over time I managed to find different and better scanned versions of some of these pages. Not to damage the scanners work I left all of his scans but I also provided the supplement link of other scans I found over the net as well as one coloured version.

Highly recommended.

 
Check out the finer version I posted later on.

More Noise For Life - Thrash Mosh EP

More Noise For Life. Ah such an catchy name. They are (or were, I'm not sure if they split up) an fast thrashy powerviolence from Japan. They did not release a lot of things and this seems to be their only release that leaked through the net. Officially it got out in 1998. I always admire bands who put up so many songs on a small 7'' and they managed to squish 10 songs into this small vinyl.

Anyway in terms of sound this is dirty fuzzy powerviolence at its best.

Tracklist:

A1 Greed Of Gain
A2 Don't Do It In Your Way
A3 Unseen Fiction
A4 Exterminate Racism
A5 Vacant Head
B1 Here Comes The Noise
B2 Blinded Control
B3 That's My Life Style
B4 Oppression
B5 Can You Change The System?
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