Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue #3

Now that doing these feels nice and regular, I can stop making preamble based on continuing to keep it up.

As ever, some of the releases featured will be free to download, some of them will not. If you dig what you hear and have some disposable income, think about sending it in the direction of those featured.

Something New
60659-c - The Next Part Is A Blur



60659-c are possibly named after the countdown to the destruction of the structure at the heart of the movie Hypercube and their debut release, The Next Part Is A Blur, really feels like the end of the world despite clocking in in a little under 7 minutes.

From the opening feedback of I Was Awake to the closing of stabs Dissipating Like A Mirage,
60658-c display a sort of emo-violence literacy that elevates this release above the octave chord pedalling pack in a way that at times recalls  Battle of Wolf 359 and June Paik. Despite its short run time Thte Next Part Is A Blur feels, fleshed out and real in the same way that those dreams that seem to last for hours when only minutes have past do.

Something Old
Scientist - 10100II00101



On this record, Scientist trade exclusively in earth shattering sludge. A Chicago powerhouse, Scientist is comprised of members of Yakuza, Making Ghosts and Taken By The Sun. and it's clear from the outset that with the experimentation on display that they are aptly named. It's heavy, no doubt and yes it recalls the off-kilter, sludgy heyday of a certain stadium rock band but 10100II00101is very much a release with its own identity and agenda.

The Lighthouse is a song that moves far beyond the realms of mere earworms and burrows deep in to the brain, chewing up white matter and grey matter to replace them with thick, angular grooves and a chorus that you will be humming as the sludge replaces the last, vital parts of your brain. While Baptistina has a driven latter portion that could level a stadium at the first time of asking, Seige/Capture/Control is a journey of a lone survivor through the wreckage of post-metal.

Scientist appear resolute in testing the limits of the world they inhabit and while that may result in a singularity that destroys us all, that would still be less heavy than this album.

Something Borrowed


With components of Fantomas coming from Slayer, Melvins and, of course, Mr Bungle it is to be expected that it is of a mercurial nature but on Director's Cut, an album comprised of reworkings of music of beloved films they hone their scattershot avant-punk-metal tantrums and focus them in ways that excite, delight and disturb.

Its album art recalls the detached menace of the Giallo films of the 1960s and '70s and the hallucinatory paranoia, unease and general luridness displayed across the album but is distilled perfectly in to a thrashing panic attack on The Omen (Ave Santani). Organ meets choral dirge before exploding into a cacophony of drumkit destruction; bellows, yelps and squeals; and a fastcore riff for the ages before it all falls apart only a hushed whisper appears to pick up the pieces.

Something Blue

Dead Blue Sky - Beneath the Autumn Sun



I do have a soft spot for overwrought metalcore and this band fits the bill perfectly. Histrionics, riffs and shouting goblin vocals that are all held together by a lofi and just the right side of bad production.