Raw Moon - Demo 1

I am completely and totally horrible about checking out things I download in a timely manner. This tape sat in my itunes for about four or so months before I finally listened to it. Of course I kicked myself for waiting but, we all know I'm an idiot so that is beside the point.

Raw Moon is a Raw Black Metal band from Massachusetts that dropped this demo and disappeared as quickly as they appeared. My research has turned up little to no information about this band aside from the fact that it shared a member with Hoax, which makes complete and total sense considering that this band sounds like if you replaced Jesse from Hoax with Deathcrush era Maniac. This demo is a lot of fun and it's a shame that it's too short. 

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DEVOURING GHOST SOUNDTRACK

Devouring Ghost is the newest in a long line of Black Metal projects by prolific musician and artist Mark McCoy or Charles Bronson fame. To date this has been the sixth project of this genre he has been involved in (Arts, Ancestors, Haxan, Hollow and Devil's Dung being the prior endeavors). While most of the projects are raw and feature heavy punk influence, Devouring Ghost takes an eastern European swing at the style and comes in with the best production of any of the projects so far.Another notable feature of this project are several ambient interludes done in a very Goblin-esc manor of things. 

This LP was created as a soundtrack for McCoy's art exhibition at Weltkunstzimmerin Düsseldorf, Germany and was a collaborative release between Youth Attack and Slowboy, only available for purchase through the ladder. 

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Gath Šmânê ‎– Transmuted Marrow CS

Another rip from my collection, this was apart of my haul from the most recent Youth Attack update (more from that to be posted). I remember getting on that rather late and missing a few of the items I really wanted but this little bastard piqued my interest. Jerkbooth described it quite aptly as "Mysterious Guy Death Metal". While in presentation and whatnot this is correct this is a blend of the classic eighties doomy jaunts with some of the speedier newer camps of USDM. 

Embrace the left hand path!

BLACK APPARITION CS

Trve filth from members of House of Apparition and Black Beasts. This is a rip of my copy of the cassette I had to wait three months for (lol)

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Head Trauma||The Final Raw Nerve Tour Rip

At this point, if you are into hardcore, punk or any of this style of music and don't know and or appreciate Raw Nerve, leave. 

I found out about Raw Nerve relatively a year after their collapse, thanks to the wonderful cut n paste blogspot. But what truly got me into them was hanging out with my friend Jeramy and listening to the "Midnight" 7". But for the longest time Jeramy and I would watch a trailer for an alleged doc of the final two weeks of this band's existence called "Head Trauma". Anything other than the trailer for this remained illusive. After a year or so of hunting I finally ran across a copy in the hands of an NWI mutant named Zac, a trade was commenced and now here it lies in my hands. 

I'm not going to say much other than this is an incredible insight to touring with a DIY band and Raw Nerve themselves. The rip is of the main doc, there was an extras section that contained full sets from the tour, but for the most part I believe all of those are on youtube. 

I have no earthly idea if there are other copies of this floating around in the world, but judging upon how difficult for me to get a copy of this this is probably your best bet of ever seeing it. 

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SLAVE HOUSE - DEMO

Greetings and felicitations, malefactors! It has been a while and life has had its share of cramming shit into my face, what with Paranoid Anxieties, the tour with Common Ignorance and attempting to wade my way through the nearly 20 hours of footage on my computer life has been busy. In any case I have just returned from a trip to the northeast, a rather dull one in all honesty, but that time has given me a chance to sit down and listen to some new bands that I have crammed into an ipod for the journey. And the biggest obsession of this journey has been Slave House.

I have yet to drag my way through to web in an attempt to find any information about this band. But in the little studies I have done thus far I've found there is little information about this band out there which, truthfully, makes it all the more appealing to me, because, lets face it I have a big soft spot for mysterious guy music. 

As far as the music goes, super raw, blackened punk with a Bone Awl sort of vibe to it. The thing about the music here is the riffs on this are so goddamned catchy that they get stuck in your head and make you want to come back for it more and more. The third track,"Sacred Flesh" is the best in that it has a superb pogo, 1-2 beat to it.

I found out that this tape is out and copies are circulating around the net, but download it now and hunt yourself down a copy.

(I would also like to thank Kavon from Common Ignorance for letting me know about this band, thanks Princess!)