Wednesday, September 15, 2010

JESU - Conqueror 2xLP Black 180Gr.

The 2007 opus from Jesu. If you didn't know this was coming you must have been living in a sinkhole at the bottom of a Siberian cave. There is a reason this is one of the most anticipated releases this year. Get it.

Originally available in 3 limited versions:
100 copies on clear vinyl.
400 copies on gold vinyl (this).
1000 copies on black vinyl.
Repress:
500 copies on black vinyl.

Jesu ~ Conqueror by shwingom  





















Tracklisting / Additional Info:

A1 Conqueror

A2 Old Year

B3 Transfigure

B4 Weightless & Horizontal

C5 Medicine

C6 Brighteyes

D7 Mother Earth

D8 Stanlow
 

CAVE iN - Jupiter 1xLP Black 180Gr.

Recorded February & March 2000 at the Outpost in Stoughton, MA and Salad Days in Washington. An undeniable masterpiece, this album met with both praise and disdain from long-term fans upon release. Cave In carried tormenting aggression and blended it with creative genius. Off-kilter and half bloomed, they failed to reach full potential, until Jupiter, which should engulf the masses. Losing the hardcore vocals almost entirely.Conveying a patient vulnerability few veteran bands possess, emotional layering seems to form the nucleus of Jupiter. Jupiter is captivating and is something imperative for all metal and non-metal fans to behold. Best album of 2000? Maybe. Accessible to all? Probably not. Worth the experience? Definitely! Hydrahead Records Repress 2010!
























Tracklisting / Additional Info:

A1:.Jupiter
A2:.In The Stream Of Commerce
A3:.Big Riff
A4:.Innuendo and out the other

B1:.Brain candle
B2:.Requiem
B3:.Decay Of The delay
B4:.New Moon




Sunday, August 22, 2010

DEFTONES - Diamond Eyes 1xLP White Vinyl Limited Edition 180Gr.

After 5 long months of waiting-bloody hell!!!!!!!!!!!!!!While I’ll admit that I haven’t been the biggest Deftones fan throughout the past years, I am really, really enjoying this new shit. I highly recommend picking up this album. I am not sure what the pressing numbers are, but my guess is that this album will not be available forever on white vinyl.
Deftones - Rocket Skates by ThrashHits
















































Tracklisting / Additional Info:

Artist: Deftones
Album Label: REP/Reprise
Original Release Date: 2010
Vinyl Release Date: May 25 2010

Full Length Vinyl 1
Side A
01 Diamond Eyes
02 Royal
03 CMND/CTRL
04 You've Seen The Butcher
05 Beauty School
06 Prince
Side B
01 Rocket Skates
02 Sextape
03 Risk
04 976-EVIL
05 This Place Is Death
  

Saturday, August 7, 2010

Torche/Boris "Chapter Ahead Being Fake" Split 10" 1xLP Colored 180Gr.

Torche and Boris... what can I say about these two outfits that everyone reading this doesn't already know... I suppose the news here is in the union, init? Torche, the burgeoning stoner/sludge/doom pop three piece hailing from Miami, and Boris, the japanese super-group known for their ability to approach and interpret any musical genre, toured North America together in the summer of 2008. During the aforementioned tour, plans to write/record a split release formed... and I hear say that the catalyst for the split stems from the idea that Torche and Boris represent, "proof of Melvins' Children," or at least that's what our good friend Tadashi of Daymare Recordings (with whom we are jointly releasing this title) tells us. "King Beef," the first new material from Torche since 2008's critically acclaimed Meanderthal, possesses the qualities of any track on Meanderthal combined with multiple tone clusters suggesting perhaps a movement towards a shoegaze sound. It is also the first song Torche has recorded as a three piece. The Boris track, "Luna," is the first new material from the band since 2008's also critically acclaimed, Smile. The unique characteristics that make up this twelve minute track might be described as noise/space rock integrating an impulsive metal-like tinge and some mighty wicked drumming that I still can't quite wrap my brain around. Ok, if you've come this far, consider yourself informed... proceed to post/tweet... its high time, I bid thee fair well.




















Tracklisting / Additional Info:


Side Torche: King Beef (5:53)
Side Boris: Luna (12:12)


thx:.hydrahead.

Melvins / Isis Split 1xLP 180Gr.

The long running and the longer running. The finite and the perpetual. Two of the last studio tracks from a band now in their final days, and two songs from a band who will potentially outlive us all. ISIS. The Melvins. If you enjoy music of the heavier variety and haven't heard either of these aural entities you are also probably unaware of other modern developments such as disposable contacts, the internet, and Snuggies.

As mentioned above the two ISIS songs featured on this split are amongst the last recorded output to be released by the band, and are (relatively) exclusive to this 12". The first, "Way Through Woven Branches" has previously only been available as a bonus track on the Japanese edition of their most recent full length "Wavering Radiant". The second track "Pliable Foe", has never been released anywhere, and believe or not (at the time of this writing anyway), has managed to escape being sucked into the shadowy vortex of illegal internet file sharing. Both tracks were recorded during the sessions of the aforementioned "Wavering Radiant" album and continue along the trajectory established therein - in other words, long and winding strands of melody wrapped around jagged blocks of shuddering distortion. A fitting close to a continually evolving but coherently developed cannon of recorded works, and appropriately paired with one of their early and admitted influences, that being The Melvins.

The Melvins tracks featured on the flipside of this platter are culled from their latest full length album "The Bride Screamed Murder", albeit in highly altered forms from what appears there and are exclusive to this release. Remixed and reworked by the band themselves along with the help of ever nimble and able engineer and ally Toshi Kasai, these tracks are prime examples of The Melvins persona as we've come to know it - alternately jarring, tuneful, heavy, and bizarre. While the album versions of these tracks may fall further on the side of the "heavy" and "rocking", on display as presented here is the dadaist/trickster tendencies of the band which has frustrated and delighted fans in equal measure since (very nearly) the beginning of their existence. Never content to let the listener settle into a comfortable groove, the will to disrupt and dismay may prove satisfying for some and confounding for others. In any case, if you know and love The Melvins (like we do) these songs will be another must have addition to their ever growing library of aural curios.






















Tracklisting / Additional Info:


Side Melvins: 1. Pig House (Alt. Version) (5:53)
                     2. I'll Finish You Off (Alt. Version) (4:44)
Side Isis: 1. Way Through Woven Branches (6:27)

               2. The Pliable Foe (7:43)


thx:.hydrahead.