Its not all yelling and banging on stuff around here. Sometimes its sad, songs with a touch of the good Ryan Adams.

Ex Charles Bronson, Das Oath, Holy Molar, Ampere, Orchid, etc, etc. Released on Youth Attack. 

Buy it here.

One of my absolute favorite bands of all time.

Just goddamn great.

YES

I slept hard on this band for a few reason: lots go guys in the band, all wearing suits (at least the few promo photos I had seen), a dude in an eye patch and Asian Man put out their albums. I just assumed they were a ska band and I didn’t need to bother.

I was so wrong. Thanks again Spotify Discover weekly playlist.

Atom Age are bringing the hot RFTC style fire.

Photo stolen from Jamy Cabre

I pictured burlier dudes making this music, but its skinny kids in chokers. 

I also pulled this picture from MySpace. Weird. 

Some pissed of Swiss.

The song is nearly 13 minutes long, as are the other 3 tracks from the same album. Which is crazy for this type of music, but I’m looking at each song as a separate little ep. It makes it more digestible. 

You can download the album this song is from (Creon) and all the band’s other releases for free from their website.

This is what head banging was invented for.

I didn’t appreciate how good these guys are when I saw then open for Converge & Coalesce a bunch of year ago and I regret it.

Photo stolen from SeptikPhoto.

I’m not crazy about this band’s name. However after (very) a little research I would guess the name is lifted from 1942 book by Philip Wylie, that is basically about how everything is stupid and fuck everything. 

Makes their name a little cooler.

Photo stolen from Karen Mann.

This is the only Rilo Kiley song I’ve ever liked. No matter how many people in their heyday tried to convince me they were great, I wasn’t having any of it.

A couple months ago this song popped up on my Spotify Discover Weekly playlist. It start playing and I was super into, then I checked to see what is was and I out loud said “God Damnit.”

Photo stolen from Rachel Brooke.

A bandcamp supporter comments sum this up perfectly: “Been a fan since 06/07 which is scary to think about. Phenomenal band. A total mystery as to how they aren’t bigger.”

How does a band like this fly under the radar for 10 years (at least as far as I can tell)?

An incredibly hard to search band name already doesn’t help. Neither does a great though sort of generic sound. Aminals are good, they are totally nailing that early 00s metal/hardcore Converge thing, but so have lots of bands.

Despite what it might sound like, I do like the album and its free on their bandcamp page.

Photo by Trevor Roper (stolen from Facebook).

Where has this band been and why didn’t someone tell me about this.

Sludgey crust thrash with some Coalesce/Botch touches.