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 from Hamburg! Pressing of 1000 CDs & 500 LPs. Wonderful German lyrics sung over sweet melodic punkrock with indierock-touch.

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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