Page 1 says "If you want to go to HELL listen to":

Okilly dokilly METALorinoes, here are some killer albums straight from the slaughterhouse to you. There has a been a raft of awesome punishing work put out in recent weeks, so strap in and prepare to be bludgeoned:

Crowpath - One With Filth

I saw one review for this which read "these guys obviously hate there instruments". And to some point I would agree. This is trully some of the darkest metal i've heard in a while. Starting with the foreboding front cover of what looks like a sepia image of serial killer John Wayne Gacy, things don't get much better on the inside of the disk. Complete with crazy down-tuned guitars switching from breakneck riffing to droning doom styled hatred, with octopus drumming anchoring and a crazed vocalist painting the whole gory picture. This is not easy listening, and it's not meant to be. It's not quite quite death metal, it's not quite grindcore and it's not quite doom, but it is... very very good.

Cattle Decapitation - The Harvest Floor

Well, after listening to Crowpath i didn't think things could get much darker, until along came the vegan grindcore stylings of Cattle Decapitation. When this band began several years ago, they were more famous for their ridiculous name than anything else. And in typical grindcore style all songs were clocking in at around 30 seconds. But on their fourth release we are exposed to a totally mature and progressive sounding death grindcore outfit. They are truly masters of their instruments, pumping out some of the craziest metal you will hear this year. Songs predominately cover the gory demise of the human race, like that of the animals we eat. This vegan quartet (they have a veggie burger named after themselves), have produced one of the most amazingly technical, yet progressively diverse albums in recent memory.

Napalm Death - Times Waits For No Slave

Well, well, well, what do we have here... another year, another Napalm Death album. What am i going to write hear that hasn't already been said. This crusty punked up death grind band has been pumping out their particular brand of straight up bludgeoning RAWK for damn near 25 years... and not a lot has changed. They have matured ever so slightly on this record, but don't get me wrong, this isn't "Dylan goes electric"... it's straight up Napalm Death... and that is something so fist pumpingly good it would make me smile... if i weren't screaming a the top of my lungs!

Things to look forward to:

Mastodon - The follow up to the absolutely massive Blood Mountain will be their shot at metals ultimate crown.
Hatebreed - For the Lions, it's out today, and to be honest I'm not expecting much more than the usual intensity we have come to expect from the originators of crushing metalcore.

Page 1 recommends these sounds

alright first post here we go, just some cool electronic tunes i've been frothing on for the last few weeks that you should check out. Don't worry there will be other genres to follow. Contact me if you can't find them, cause some of this stuff is hard to come by:

Seba - Return to Forever

This Swedish drum'n'bass maestro has been around for many years releasing beautiful spacey tech'd out d'n'b bliss, on labels like LTJ Bukems Good Looking Records. This, his debut, is filled to the brim with lucious intelligent minimal gems. It really is something else to walk through the city with this swirling around in your headphones. Amazing layers and sweeps, sway the listeners head from one side to the other. This would be magic on a big system. Check out "Blaze and Fade Out" and the world dub futuristic masterpiece "Tomorrow".

Shed - Shedding the Past

WOW, where the hell did this come from! This German producer has been putting out techno on his own label for few years, but this artists album has been released on Ostgut Ton. Filled with stripped back, deep, minimal, dub techno tracks, this long player shows amazing diversity for a techno release, even taking in some masterful booming breaks and two step styled numbers. Sit back and listen to the layers build and build on tracks like "Flat Axe", "Slow Motion Replay"and the explosive "Estrange".

Deadbeat - Roots and Wire

A true purveyor of all things dub techno, with beautiful throbbing echoing synths and basslines. This Canadian native toured here in little ole Sydney just last week. There are a couple of dub reggae tracks that bookend this release with the center being jam packed with gorgeous dubbed out techno. Once again killer layering and amazing restraint is shown to make this easily one of the best dub techno releases in recent memory.


Things to look forward too:

FabricLive 44 - Commix... fuck yeah, this will kill it!
The Prodigy - Invaders Must Die!... will be interesting no matter what it is
MSTRKRFT - Fist of God... lets hope they've got more than three good tracks on this album.
Moby... jsut kidding i'd rather neck myself!!! hahahahha