Loads of stuff this time round...
Bossk - I & II 2xLP (Garden Of Exile) - young uk band doing the whole post metal thing
Capsule - Blue LP (Robotic Empire) - insane time shifts and spastic riffing from florida, comes with free cd
Cursive - The Recluse 10" (Robotic Empire) - cool looking pic disc with album and rare songs
Dysrhythmia - Barriers And Passages LP (Eyes Of Sound) - sweet technical instru-metal from behold the arctopus peeps
Dystopia - s/t LP (Skuld) - totally essential variable speed attack from the crust punk metal legends
Framtid / Seein' Red - Split 7" (Hate) - japan vs netherlands thrash attack
Growing - Dry Drunk On Woman CDR (Nail In The Coffin) - reissue of oop drone 7"
Humanfly / Queen Of Swords - Split LP (Eyes Of Sound) - leeds pelican-esque monsters battle noisery from trencher members
Isis - Panopticon 2xLP (Robotic Empire) - their third album on blue vinyl
Kayo Dot - Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue 2xLP (Robotic Empire) - epic post rock metal stuff, got it on cd too
Nightmare - Scatterraw LP (Hate) - japanese hardcore legends' newish album
The Ocean Fracture - The Sunmachine And The Ocean CD (Eyes Of Sound) - young scottish post metal troupe
Railsplitter - Sunday Morning At The Church Of The Head Crushing Riff CD (Urchin) - title says it all, think eyehategeod
Riddle Of Steel - Got That Feelin' LP (Robotic Empire) - red vinyl for this post hardcore with classic rock elements trio
Skitkids - Besoket Vid Krubban LP (Hate) - totally rampaging swedish punk hardcore, deranged but catchy with it
Skitkids / Nightmare - Split 7" (Hate) - sweden vs japan thrash attack
Skitsystem / Cyness - Split 7" (Unsociable) - dark swedish crust hardcore metal battles german old school grind
Torche - In Return 10" (Robotic Empire) - beautiful stop gap release for the stoner doom popsters, with free cd
Torche - s/t LP (Robotic Empire) - the first album from the ex-floor stoner doom popsters
Tragedy - s/t LP (Skuld) - the ex-his hero is gone mob's first album
We Are Carnivores - Well Wisher CD (Eyes Of Sound) - youthful uk trio's jagged hectic post hardcore
We also have some copies of the excellent
Oaken Throne zine. These are square-shaped and cover a lot of doom and black metal.
Issue 5 features Asunder, Caina, Coffins, Harvey Milk, Moss, Portal, Wold and more, and also has a CD with a number of these bands on it.
Issue 4 features Black Boned Angel, Graves At Sea, Nachtmystium, Thralldom, Villains, Wolves In The Throne Room and more.
More info -
www.benwestdesign.net/oakenthrone