Hi punks.
Well I'm currently not at home, I'll probably be back in the end of next week.
Take care!
phil.

The Town Of Machine - Selftitled

Homepage | Myspace

New release by The Town Of Machine from Bremen, with ex-Jet Black and ex-Mallorys Last Dance members. You know what you can expect: passionated, melodic screamo with German and English lyrics. The first 250 copies of this 45rpm-7"record with 2 new songs include a cd-r which contains the 7"songs plus the 3 (remastered) tracks from their demo, so you should get your hands on it quickly.

Artist: The town of machine

Title: The town of machine
Format: Vinyl (7") + CD-R (+ the 3 songs from their demo)
Label: Unterm Durchschnitt
Year: 2009
Genre: Screamo
Country: Germany
Length: 8:56 min / 19:59 min
Bitrate: 174 kbps VBR
Tracklist:

01. Like hiding behind windows (taken from the demo)
02. X plus 1 (taken from the demo)
03. Zelluloid (taken from the demo)
04. Monastery
05. Zuhause


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Cry Me A River 2009 DVD

Frontcover:

 

Backcover:

CMAR Fest @ Myspace

Here is my rip of the CMAR'09 DVD-R, I hope I did everything right. The video & sound - quality of the dvd isn't that great, not really better than the typical live videos that you can find on Youtube. But I think it's ok for those who've been there and wanna see the spectacle again or if you just wanna get an impression of the festival.

Artists: Shikari, Battle of wolf 359, June Paik, Graf Orlock, Danse Macabre, Me & Goliath, Hammers, Ghostlimb, Dolcim, Trainwreck, Louise Cyphre, Zann, Alpinist, The 3rd Memory, Ghostchant
Title: Cry Me A River Festival 2009
Format: DVD-R
Label: React with protest
Year: 2009
Genre: Screamo, Hardcore
Length: 159 min
Size: 700 mb

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Old Growth & 12XU - Split

Old Growth @ Myspace | 12XU's Homepage

Artists: Old Growth / 12XU
Title: Untitled
Format: Vinyl (7")
Labels: Purepainsugar, Bakery Outlet
Year: 2009
Genre: Punk, Emo
Country: France
Length: 9:18 min
Bitrate: 219 kbps VBR
Tracklist:

Old Growth:
01. Hey young
02. A year in the dirt
12XU:
03. Terre d'inconnus
04. Des pages blanches en html

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12XU - Singles Serie 1 & 2 / 4

 12XU's Homepage

12XU is a (emo)punk band from France, with 2 members from Daitro. Their music is very nice, the only negative point about that is the short playtime of their releases. These are the first 2 parts of their 4-part-singles series, the next 2 parts are planned for the end of this year, I think.

Artist: 12XU

Title: Singles Serie 1 / Singles Serie 2

Format: Vinyl (7")

Labels: Echo Canyon, Purepainsugar, Puzzle Records

Year: 2009

Genre: Punk, Emo

Country: France

Length: 3:51 min / 3:44 min
Bitrate: 224 kbps VBR

Tracklist:

Part 1:

01. Salut les jeunes

02. Si bon marche

Part 2:

01. Comme on perce des boulevards

02. Se faciliter le tache

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You And I - Discography

 You And I on Myspace

You and I was a late 90s screamo band formed from the ashes of New Jersey local group Instil and Sky Falls Down. While they maintained the heavy, chaotic elements typical of the genre, their music has traveled well in terms of influence due to its more tuneful and musical qualities. While other bands in the genre often simply played fast, You and I had a very solidly inventive rhythm section and two guitarists who were able to add interesting textures and interplay to the music, incorporating riffs that recalled midwest emo, tech metal, and almost every other punk subgenre; often while holding down vocal parts at the same time. While You and I were by no means the only screamo band to integrate clean vocals and layered harmonies, they did it in the context of what were often atypical song structures, particularly on their final CD, "The Curtain Falls", which was released by Level Plane Records. You And I played their last show on May 8th, 1999 with Saetia, Carlisle, Cable Car Theory, and Stormshadow in the basement of Thursday vocalist Geoff Rickly's New Brunswick home.
This 23 song retrospective finally releases most of the bands out of print material from their first self-titled 7” to the “Within A Frame” CD and ends with three live tracks.

Artist: You And I
Title: Discography
Format: CD
Label: Alone Records
Year: 2003
Genre: Screamo
Country: USA
Length: 72:08 min
Bitrate: 192 kbps
Tracklist:

01. Forever Last a Moment
02. Achilles
03. All Imperfect Things
04. A Day That Passes Through
05. No Guilt on New Years Morning
06. Something to Remember
07. Hearts Divide
08. Silent Morning Whisper
09. Seascape
10. Someday I'll Say Goodbye
11. Absence
12. Memory Loss
13, We All Bleed
14. When We Are One
15. Revision
16. Nights Like These
17. Smile
18. Saturday's Cab Ride Home
19. Pulse
20. Untitled
21. I Think I Know Where Elvis Lives
22. Tell Me About Your Childhood
23. Playing Off the Story

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You And I - The curtain falls

  You and I on Myspace

The final recording from this legendary New Jersey band. Combining the greatests aspects of bands like Lifetime, Unbroken, Converge, to name a few, but adding their own style to the mix, more so on this album than on their earlier efforts.

Artist: You And I
Title: The curtain falls
Format: CD
Lable: Level Plane
Year: 1999
Genre: Screamo
Country: USA
Length: 22:15 min
Bitrate: 278 kbps VBR
Tracklist:

01. Tell me about your childhood
02. Brock Landers and the Mustang Candy Lake
03. Playing off the story
04. 143 (JCM)
05. I think I know where Elvis lives
06. Pulse
07. Threading a needle
08. 2 down, 1 to go

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Optimus Prime & Totoro - Split

Optimus Prime @ Myspace

Yeah, finally some new shit by the genious screamopunks Optimus Prime from Moscow, together with the Russian (indie-)emo group Totoro, which I didn't know before. Well I think the Optimus Prime songs from the old split /w Gone With The Pain were better.

Artits: Optimus Prime / Totoro

Title: Untitled

Format: CD

Label: Trvs Records; Hidden rainbow Records; Chucky the rat Records; Cloud drift Recordings

Year: 2009

Genre: Screamo / Emo

Country: Russia

Length: 23:31 min

Bitrate: 256 kbps

Tracklist:

Optimus Prime:

01. Мы Закрываем Глаза - Они Закрывают Клетки

02. Невозможно Молчать

Totoro:

03. Аксиома

04. Фальшивка

05. Идеальный Мир

06. Птица

07. Призрак

08. Под Ногами

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June Paik - Selftitled

June Paik @ Myspace

Yes, I already uploaded this one, but the quality wasn't so great. Now I ripped my own copy of the 10'' and this here sounds quite perfect I think.
Some words about the record: June Paik is a German screamo band and they already released a 7'', 12''/cd and a split12'' with Titan, all untitled. On this record, the sound is more somber and the singer is even harder to understand than on the records before...with all that epic instrumental parts and the despaired vocals, the music here lets me sometimes really think of a mix between post-rock and depressive black-metal, hehe. However, this band is really likeable.

Artist: June Paik
Title: June Paik
Format: Vinyl (10'', gatefold cover)
Label: React with protest
Year: 2008
Genre: Screamo, Post-Rock
Country: Germany
Length: 23:19 min
Bitrate: 192 kbps
Tracklist:

01. I
02. IV
03. III
04. II

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The Mock Heroic - Dignified Exits

"A young but deadly serious band taking cues from the classic 90's emo bands but adding a vicious, experimental, technical edge that keeps things edgy but heartfelt."
A pressing of about 500 CDs was made of this. I think this band does not exist anymore, but I'm not sure. Furthermore I don't know any other releases of them.

01. Own Eyes
02. Despair Epidemic
03. Led Astray
04. Draize Test
05. The Architect
06. Fairweather
07. On The Study Of The Living Dead
08. Unclouded
09. Mandelbrot As Cartographer
10. An Open Wound
11. Lost Cause

Artist: The Mock Heroic
Title: Dignified Exits
Format: CD
Label: SuperFI Records
Year: 2007
Genre: Screamo
Country: United Kingdom
Length: 23:09 min
Bitrate: 233 kbps VBR

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Single state of man - Selftitled

I already uploaded this one, but it was not such a good quality and the sound was a bit quiet. Now I ripped my own lp and this sounds better than the version you could find on the internet so far.
Well as we all know this contains six songs somewhere between nice post-rock and screamy post-punk, four of them are instrumental. 700 copies were pressed. Check out their new split-7'' with Men as trees!

http://www.myspace.com/singlestateofman

01. 4321
02. You are in my blind spot
03. I can't be your embassy
04. Let's cruise Frankee
05. Wall-mount
06. Olivia Pascal story

Artist: Single state of man
Title: Single state of man
Format: Vinyl (12'')
Label: Ape must not kill ape; Emuzah; Synalgie Records
Year: 2008
Genre: Post-Rock, Screamo, Post-Punk
Country: Germany
Length: 24:30 min
Bitrate: 192 kbps

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...We fade to grey - The sound of trees talking

"...we fade to grey" is a postpunk/indie band from somewhere in Bavaria/Germany. So far they released this nice piece of music called "The sound of trees talking" in 2008 on cassette and a split-cd with Fluten in 2009.
The tape-rip was done by myself and I think the quality is quite acceptable. There were 100 hand-numbered tapes made.

http://www.myspace.com/wefadetogrey

01. Lines between teeth
02. Lips seal agreements
03. Imo vs. Mont Blanc
04. Trains to Alaska
05. Architects build thoughts (authors create a theory)
06. The sound of trees talking

Artist: ...we fade to grey
Title: The sound of trees talking
Format: Tape
Label: Time as a color
Year: 2007-2008
Genre: Post-Punk, Indierock, Post-HC
Country: Germany
Length: 21:46 min
Bitrate: 192 kbps

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The Great Disappointment - Selftitled

The Great Disappointment is a three-piece that creates music somewhere between screamo, modern posthardcore, whatever...they aksed me to put their album on my blog, very nice :). Some words from them about themselves:
"Founded in february 2007 we recorded our first EP „lygophilia“ in august 2007. it was kindly appreciated by a lot of people and we played some really cool shows. our second EP "lightness & weight" followed in fall 2008. we released our first LP on 9/11 09. we see ourselves as punk/hardcore kids and as such we’re truly devoted to the whole D.I.Y spirit with all its aspects."
At the moment, they are searching for a recordlabel that would release this full-length.
Review soon on Locked Groove.

http://www.myspace.com/tgdband

01. Himsa Pt. 1 & 2

02. Walls

03. Of Life and Afterlife

04. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

05. Flesh & Bones

06. Thy Kingdom Come

07. le'olam lo shuv

08. Our dreams are the light..

09. ..that will lead us home

10. Dorothy

Artist: The Great Dissapointment
Title: The Great Dissapointment
Format: CD (?)
Label: -
Year: 2009
Genre: Post-Hardcore, Screamo, Alternative
Country: Austria
Length: 39:13 min
Bitrate: 160 kbps

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Captain PlanET - Inselwissen

The 2nd full-length by these sweet emo-punkrockers! Pressing of 1000 cds & 500 lps.

Homepage | Myspace

01. Walbaby
02. Hans Dampf
03. Vom Fass in den Regen
04. Blattsport
05. Blick durch den Lattenrost
06. Rambo
07. Knapp unterm Dach
08. Der Rückbau
09. Miniatur Wurzelwerke
10. Stühle rücken
11. Parkhaus

Artist: Captain PlanET
Title: Inselwissen
Format: CD / Vinyl (12")
Label: Unterm Durchschnitt; distributed by BROKENSILENCE
Year: 2009
Genre: Punk, Emo-Punk
Country: Germany
Length: 30:28 min
Bitrate: 240 kbps VBR

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Systral - Fever...The maximum carnage

Systral was a HC outfit from Bremen, Germany. They were active in the 90s, sharing members with bands like Rusty James, Mörser, Acme. Legendary stuff on Per Koro Records. Dark brutal hardcore with deathmetal and grindcore elements.
This cd includes the Fever 10" (tracks 1-13) from 1995 and the Maximum Entertainment 7" (tracks 14-15). Track 16 is taken from the No Desire To Continue Living compilation 10", 17 is taken from the Plot compilation 12" and the last track is previously unreleased.

01. Soul
02. Narrow-minded criteria
03. Fuel
04. Doubt
05. I witness
06. Confide in me (Kylie Minogue cover!)
07. Insignificance
08. Eight
09. Disillusioned once more
10. Irrationality
11. Circus life
12. Green
13. That recent moment
14.1 For what
14.2 Decide for yourself
14.3 Disaster chronicles
14.4 Your words to be adored
14.5 Environment burns
14.6 Do you still like it
15.1 Past mistakes
15.2 Maximum entertainment
15.3 Vision
16. Strangled
17. Pretending judiciousness
18. We are the roadcrew (Motörhead cover)

Artist: Systral
Title: Fever...The maximum carnage
Format: CD
Label: Per Koro
Year: 1997
Genre: Hardcore, Death-/Grindcore
Country: Germany
Length: 32:38 min
Bitrate: 277 kbps VBR

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The Hirsch Effekt - Selftitled EP

The Hirsch Effekt is an experimental band from Hanover, Germany. They describe themselves as "Indieelectro Post-Punk Metal DIY - band". Sometimes, they remind me somehow of The Fall Of Troy...clean parts change with harsh screaming moments. This cd contains 2 songs that are split up into 5 parts. I think there a plans to release a full-length.

The Hirsch Effekt @ Myspace

I: Epistel
01. Calmo
02. Vigoroso

II: Epitaph:
03. Meno
04. Lugubre
05. Maestro

Artist: The Hirsch Effekt
Title: The Hirsch Effekt
Format: CD
Label: -
Year: 2009
Genre: Experimental, Indie, Post-HC, Pop
Country: Germany
Length: 15:22 min
Bitrate: 220 kbps VBR

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Resurrectionists - Demo

Resurrectionists is a fresh new band with members from the React With Protest label. They say they play "brutal grinding emo crust", yeah and I think that fits. After this demo they released a split-7" with Merkit and recorded songs for a 12", which should be out in November or so. The lyrics and their explanations are included in this download.

Resurrectionists @ Myspace

01. Toter Winkel
02. Alles wird anders
03. Punkuniform
04. Fingerabdruck
05. ...

Artist: Resurrecionists
Title: Demo
Format: Tape / CD-R
Label: -
Year: 2009
Genre: Screamo, Powerviolence, Crustcore
Country: Germany
Length: 5:42 min
Bitrate: 192 kbps

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Empire! Empire! (I was a lonely estate) - What it takes to move forward

Empire! Empire! (I was a lonely estate) is a fourpiece indie-(emo) band from Michigan with a soft spot for the 90s. I think they love long titles.

Empire! Empire! @ Myspace

01. How to make love stay
02. Keep what you have built up here
03. What safe means
04. It happened because you left
05. Rally the troops! Poke holes in their defenses! Line our coffers with their coffins!
06. It's a plague and you're invited
07. Everything is connected and everything matters (A temporary solution to a permanent problem)
08. The next step to regaining control
09. With your greatest fears realized, you will never be comforted
10. I am a snail, and you are a place I cannot match
11. An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral

Artist: Empire! Empire! (I was a lonely idea)
Title: What it takes to move forward
Format: CD, Vinyl (2x12")
Label: Count your lucky stars
Year: 2009
Genre: Indie-Rock, 90's Indie-Emo
Country: USA
Length: 55:44 min
Bitrate: 201 kbps VBR

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Daïtro - Y

New release by these French screamo guys. One big song, divided in 10 parts. More diversified than their older releases.

Homepage

01. Part I
02. Part II
03. Part III
04. Part IV
05. Part V
06. Part VI
07. Part VII
08. Part VIII
09. Part IX
10. Part X

Artist: Daitro
Title: Y
Format: CD / Vinyl (12")
Label: Purepainsugar (Europe), Oto Records (Japan)
Year: 2009
Genre: Screamo, Post-Rock
Country: France
Length: 34:54 min
Bitrate: 212 kbps VBR

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Ashes of Pompeii & Thoughts paint the sky - Split

Both bands are friends and went on tour together, so they had to release a tour-split for sure, including exclusive songs. Limited to 150 copies. Here you can read a little review about this.

AoP - Myspace & Homepage | Tpts - Myspace & Homepage

Ashes of Pompeii:
01. Da kann ich ein Lied von singen (Thoughts paint the sky - cover)
02. Haunted by city lights (RMX)
Thoughts paint the sky:
03. Standby (Ashes of Pompeii - cover)
04. Bis zum Geht-nicht-mehr (Chill-out version)

Artists: Ashes of Pompeii / Thoughts paint the sky
Title: -
Format: CD
Label: -
Year: 2009
Genre: Post-Hardcore, Screamo
Country: Germany
Length: 14:26 min
Bitrate: 320 kbps

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