Incredibly Strange Metal, Vol. 1

Here's a compilation that appeared on the internet a while back. I think it was put together by these folks...

It's exactly what the title says...loads of weird, fucked-up, misguided metal music. It turned me on to a lot of the stranger stuff that appears on Forte. But, we're in dire need of a volume two (at least I think so.) This compilation only scratches the surface of the totally demented metal that's out there. Sooo, my goal is to put together a vol. 2 (possibly a vol. 3) in the next couple of weeks, and maybe even send it to the fellas who made the original.

VA - Incredibly Strange Metal Vol. 1, 20??

Tracklist:

1. Oblachnyj Kraj - Sazhaj Korneplody, Vyrschlvaj Luk!

3. Damien Storm - Realms of Destiny (Edit)

4. The Crisis - Kolahal Ma

5. The Crisis - Maya Boki Aau

6. Kuster - All a Live

7. Kuster - Love a Bit

8. Exmortes - Forced to Be Silent

9. Exmortes - Creed of Eternal

10. Drakar - Tunelem Zpatky

11. Morsure - No Moral

12. Black Hole - Blind Men and Occult Forces

13. The Runaways - S-P-E-E-D-M-E-T-A-L

14. Legion - Hold On

15. Torn Flesh - Torn Flesh (Crux of the Mosh)

16. Torn Flesh - Gay Rights/Man's Best Friend (Intro)

17. Svaty Vincent - Krucifix

18. Secret Metal - The Cop

19. Lester Maddox - Egypt (The Chains are Off)

20. Parabellum - Madre Muerte

Apparently I'm missing track 2?? Oh well, it's just another Damien Storm song...

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New Coma Nova stuff...

Most of ya have probably seen posts here about my band, Coma Nova. After quite a few lineup changes and fucking around, we've finally put out our second full-length. It's called 'Insect Sounds,' and you can buy it from our bandcamp page, or come see us live and get it cheaper.

Also, this past week was WIDR Week, and we put together another 12 hours of live, on-air music from our favorite local bands. Check the WIDR website for more info on that...podcasts should be up soon. However, the Coma Nova set will be available on our bandcamp page very soon, as well as some other goodies...

Coma Nova - Insect Sounds, 2012

Tracklist:

1. Crashing Cars

2. Cat Stevens

3. Surprise, then Disappointment

4. Bandana

5. Psychic Rolling Papers

6. Dust Boogie

7. Henry and Ribsy

8. Sensinovas

9. Pigger

Yeah, only 9 tracks, but it's still longer than the first one. Also, track 5 is a crazy surf-metal jam, if you're into that sorta thing...

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Lullaby - 'My Master Lucifer'

Here's an odd one. This might make an appearance on the upcoming 'Incredibly Strange Metal, Vol. 2' compilation I'm trying to put together. More about this in the next post.

Basically, this is a Brazilian woman who (I think?) is some sort of metal music journalist. She also makes completely nuts 'black metal.' I say 'black metal' because, although this is listed as her primary influence, the music is more like demented doom than anything. The most obvious point of reference would be the Dwarr stuff I put up a while back, except with even stranger vocals. I don't really know what to say about them. Maybe if the singer from Exmortes was a girl...you'll have to hear this one to see what I mean. Oh yeah, she's got a website.

Lullaby - My Master Lucifer, 1993

Tracklist:

1. Shout of the Death

2. My Master Lucifer

3. You Liar

4. Welcome Lucifer

5. Lilith

6. Lucifer

7. In the Name of the Devil

8. Supreme Majesty

9. Symphony of the Death

So, obviously, she really likes Lucifer...and death.

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Jim Shepard - 'The Evil Twin'

So, I have no idea what to start with when it comes to sharing music. I'm trying to put up stuff other people haven't yet, so nobody gets pissed at me for cramping their style or something.

That being said, there's a great (now defunct) blog that posted a huge amount of Jim Shepard's material. I've got it linked in the sidebar, but if you're stupid or something, go here.

Now, I don't know if he just never came across it, or what, but here's a release that's not anywhere on the Forever Lowman blog. It's a '96 cassette release called 'The Evil Twin,' and I like it a lot more than other Shepard solo releases from this period. It's more song-oriented, which is what I'm into. I do like the whole concept of a lo-fi collage (like 'Picking Through the Wreckage with a Stick') but I also wish Jim had spent a little more time writing fully-formed songs. Oh well, everything he's done is worth hearing. I've also got V-3's 'Pimping in the 90's' release, which isn't on the Lowman blog, but it's kinda just noisier versions of older songs...I dunno, I'm lazy but if someone wants to hear it, hit me up.

Jim Shepard - The Evil Twin, 1996

Tracklist:

1. Kike

2. Pain/Loss

3. Your Move, China Man

4. Shady Business Deal

5. Sick and Tired

6. Benelux-9

7. Theme from 'Doll House'

8. Break Down These Walls

9. Asteroid Ahead

10. Circles/Squares

11. Torn Down

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...oh yeah, we still podcast Society's Fault weekly. Here's the link. If ya wanna hear new ones, go to the tab marked 'RSS Feeds.' I'm thinking about doing some more Obscuro mixtapes because the weirdness has just been building up in my music library. Maybe divided by genre. We'll see. Stay tuned.

Back.

Okay, so, since apparently a bunch of people read this site still (judging by the comments I've received in the past few months...including a band I posted about who tracked me down..) I decided it might be a good idea to resume posting here.

Basically, I just had really slow internet for a while and couldn't post as many albums, but whatever. Since then, I've uncovered plenty of weird stuff, so time to start sharing again.

I don't think I'll be posting playlists for the two radio shows I do, because I don't care enough to start getting THAT involved again, but I'm going to try to put one, maybe two new albums up a week, and maybe a few new mixtapes as well.

ALSO: The two requested links below have been fixed:

The Frogs - Live at CBGayB's

Armand Schaubroeck Steals - Live at the Holiday Inn

ALSO ALSO: For those of you who read this/know me, you will know that I play in a band called Coma Nova. Well, after a year of dicking around, we've finished up a second full-length, and I'll probably make it available (or at least a few tracks) on thisayere site. Good stuff, right?

Enough blabbing, here's an album for ya:

I dunno how well-known these Rudimentary Peni fellas are, b

ut I've been listening to hardcore punk my whole life and just recently learned of them. Apparently fronted by a VERY crazy dude named Nick Blinko (who is also a terrific artist,) these guys went from a vegan/anarchist/mean punk band in the early 80's to a psychotic, idiosyncratic band known for doing concept albums about H.P. Lovecraft and popes. Weird weird weird stuff. 'Pope Adrian 37th Psychristiatric,' their third full-length release, and also probably the strangest. This is the aforementioned 'pope' concept album, and revolves around a loop of Blinko saying 'Popus Adrianus' which runs through the duration of the album. The first song, 'Pogo Pope,' is literally just him saying 'Pogo Pope' in different melodies. I like it a lot. Everything by these guys is worth checking out..so do.

Rudimentary Peni - Pope Adrian 37th Psychristiatric, 1995

Tracklist:

1. Pogo Pope

2. The Pope with No Name

3. Hadrianich Relique

4. Il Papus Puss

5. Muse Sick Sic

6. Vatican't City Hearse

7. I'm a Dream

8. We're Gonna Destroy Life the World Gets Higher and Higher

9. Pills, Popes and Potions

10. Ireland Sun

11. Regicide Chaz III

12. Iron Lung

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Fortes, Society's Faults, Anal Cunt Interview, and Bizarro Jerry's Alternate Universe Radio Program #1

Well, my Podcast pages are updated so they have all the shows up to the ones mentioned in my last post, but there are a few new ones which aren't up yet.

Namely, I went back to the Obscuro! format for one three-hour Forte block. I played lots of classics from the Obscuro! days, and also lots of new stuff I've been saving up but didn't have anywhere to play it. That'll be up for download soon, and here's the playlist for now:

Bizarro Jerry's Alternate Universe Radio Program #1:

Charlie Tweddle - Four Empty Bottles
Dimthings - Anti-Computer Dealings
Stan Hubbs - Joe and Gina
Stan Hubbs - The Best Man for Some Jobs is a Woman
Stan Hubbs - Young Saint Augustine
Swilson - Electric Aborigine
Marlin Wallace - Abominable Snow Creature
Caroliner - 20' Tall Stacked Skeleton Growling Fat Broke
Mark Tucker - 1964 Cadillac
Father Pat Berkery - Celibacy
Wicked Witch - Erratic Behaviour
MC Trachiotomy - S.S. ssumpin' sseet
Full Dimensional - Tadpoles in the Bongwater
Alex Chilton - Jingo Bells (Riding through the Reich)
The Trees Community - The Parable of the Mustard Seed
The Everyday Film - The Everyday Film
Sensational - Chunky Buds
Divine Styler - Livery
Divine Styler - Mystic Sheep Drink Electric Tea
New Kingdom - Infested
New Kingdom - Suspended in Air
Orko the Sykotik Alien - Mouth of Madness
Sylvia Hallett - Woman with Dustpan and Broom
The Sun Also Rises - Death
Tennessee Madonna and the Full Life All Stars - Oh Yeah Oh Yeah Oh Yeah
Eddy Detroit - Beelzebub
Sandoz - Apple Core Machine
Nun-Plus - Walk About the Craters of the Moon
The Nykels - The Teenager
Circuit Rider - Forever Angels Proud
Little Howlin' Wolf - E.T. Blues
Megatrip - Megatrip Outro
Brain Sound - Track #02

Yup, tons of weirdness for ya. Jake did Society's Fault alone last week because I couldn't find a parking spot, so here's the playlist for that:

Proto-punk:
Stooges - We Will Fall
Syd Barrett - Gigolo Aunt
The Who - Cousin Kevin
Syd Barrett - Baby Lemonade
Syd Barrett - Effervescing Elephant
Skip Spence - Broken Hope
Skip Spence - All Come to Meet Her
T. Rex - Jeepster
Iggy Pop - Turn Blue
Iggy Pop - Neighborhood Threat
Blue Cheer - Out of Focus

Punk:
Wipers - Over the Edge
Wipers - Doom Town
Wipers - So Young
Wipers - Messenger
Wipers - Romeo

Post-punk:
Gang of Four - Return the Gift
The Smiths - Big Mouth Strikes Again
The Clash - Overpowered by Funk
The Sound - I Can't Escape Myself
Echo and the Bunnymen - It's Alright

...he left early to see the Pixies, so it's a shortened program. Oh well.

Here's Society's Fault's playlist for this past Friday:

Proto-punk:
The Tubes - Up from the Deep
The Kinks - Last of the Steam Powered Trains
Blue Cheer - Come and Get it
Velvet Underground - Ocean
Syd Barrett - Terrapin
Skip Spence - Weighted Down (The Prison Song)
Arthur Brown - Time
Iggy Pop - The Passenger
Road - Spaceship Earth

Punk:
Green Day - I Want to Be Alone
Germs - Not All Right
Social Distortion - All the Answers
GG Allin - Snakeman's Dance
Melvins - Boris
Dead Kennedys - Chicken Farm
Embrace - No More Pain

Post-punk:
Tilt - Libel
Wipers - Land of the Lost
Jawbreaker - Ashtray Monument
Swervedriver - Son of Mustang Ford
Heiner Goebbels/Heiner Muller - Wild Speculations
Pansy Division - Fem in a Black Leather Jacket
The Bevis Frond - Close
Jane's Addiction - Up the Beach
The Flying Lizards - Summertime Blues
Jim Shepard - Quotients and Numbers

...Jake left early AGAIN, so that last bit of post-punk is all me. Dunno what we're doing next week.

...and last, but certainly not least, here is Forte from this past Friday night, featuring a brief interview with Josh Martin and Seth Putnam from Anal Cunt. I filled out most of the show with AxCx tracks and tracks by bands they like. If you don't know who these guys are, that's your loss. They've provided me with countless hours of humor and headbanging since early high school, and I own all their records, so obviously it was really cool to sit down and chat with them. Really nice guys, too (surprisingly).

Once again, the podcasts are not up, but I will make note on this page as soon as the interview is up. It should be on the 'WIDR INTERVIEWS' podcast page in its unedited form sometime soon. I had to do a ton of 'bleeps' to be able to play it on the air. But, here's the playlist for now anyhow:

Iron Maiden - The Ides of March
Iron Maiden - Wrathchild
Anal Cunt - Interview
Anal Cunt - Loudest Stereo
Anal Cunt - I Wish My Dealer was Open
Anal Cunt - Crankin' My Band's Demo on a Box at the Beach
Anal Cunt - Side B of the 'Unplugged' EP
Black Sabbath - Behind the Wall of Sleep
Anal Cunt - Radio Hit
Anal Cunt - Unbelievable
Anal Cunt - Even More Songs
Anal Cunt - I Don't Wanna Dance
Anal Cunt - Guy Lombardo
Anal Cunt - Pottery's Gay
Anal Cunt - You Play on a Softball Team
Anal Cunt - We Just Disagree
Anal Cunt - Windchimes are Gay
Anal Cunt - Hootie and the Blowfish
Anal Cunt - 311 Sucks
Judas Priest - Jawbreaker
Eyehategod - Kill Your Boss
Anal Cunt - I'm Not that Kind of Boy
Anal Cunt - Theme from 'Three's Company'
Anal Cunt - Big Pants, Bigger Loser
Anal Cunt - Your Family is Dumb
Anal Cunt - I Got Athlete's Foot Showering at Mike's
Damien Storm - Realms of Destiny (Edit)
Damien Storm - Behind the Curtain
Pantera (ft. Seth Putnam) - War Nerve
Anal Cunt - Hitler was a Sensitive Man
Anal Cunt - Rancid Sucks (And the Clash Sucked Too)
Anal Cunt - I Intentionally Ran Over Your Dog
Anal Cunt - Being Ignorant is Awesome
Anal Cunt - Flower Shop Guy
Anal Cunt - American Woman
Anal Cunt - Some More Hits
Anal Cunt - 'Stealing Seth's Ideas,' the New Book by Jon Chang
Anal Cunt - Pepe, the Gay Waiter
Anal Cunt - Stayin' Alive (Oi! Version)
Anal Cunt - Art Fag
Napalm Death - Mentally Murdered
Eyehategod - Left to Starve
Hellhammer - Buried and Forgotten
Altar of Plagues - Feather and Bone
Anata - Disobedience Pays
Cathedral - Ride
Primus - Too Many Puppies
Type O Negative - Christian Woman/Body of Christ
Carbonized - Succubus
Napalm Death - Blind to the Truth
Creeping - Crawling Into Hell
Rottest Slag - Opium Smokers
Argus - Wolves of Dusk
The God Machine - Ego
Leukemia - Wandering
Eyehategod - Zero Nowhere
Pestilence - Commandments


...wow, lots and lots of typing. Alright, I'm done, check ya later.

Society's Fault Episode 30-something and Forte 22, plus Sykotik Sinfoney's album 'Eargasm'

Wow, so I kinda stopped posting here for about a month....I'm just posting this past week's radio programs because there were a lotta half-assed ones in-between. You can check out the Society's Fault and Forte podcast pages to hear them all, but I don't feel like typing out all those playlists. Actually, on closer inspection, it looks like the podcasts haven't been updated in a while. They'll be up eventually, though.

For now, here's the SF playlist. Add'l material provided by Coma Nova's new drummer, Jacob:
Proto-punk:
Pink Fairies - Street Urchin
Peter Hammill - Red Shift
Destroy All Monsters - These Boots are Made for Walking
Faust - Picnic on a Frozen River (Deuxieme Tableux)
Todd Rundgren - Piss Aaron
Dick Dale - Death of a Gremmie
The Kinks - Nobody Gives
Big Star - In the Street

Punk:
Fang - I've Got the Disease
The Dicks - Shit Fool
Circle Jerks - Put a Little Love in Your Heart
Wipers - Over the Edge
Husker Du - Beyond the Threshold
Husker Du - Pride
Husker Du - I'll Never Forget You
Husker Du - The Biggest Lie
Husker Du - What's Going On
Husker Du - Masochism World
Husker Du - Standing by the Sea
The Replacements - Somethin' to Du

Post-punk:
Alice Donut - Lisa's Father (Waka Baby)
The Dismemberment Plan - Girl O'Clock
Screaming Trees - Don't Look Down
The Frogs - Homos
Sonic Youth - Titanium Expose
The Cure - Icing Sugar
This Heat - S.P.Q.R.
Jandek - Corner of the Street
The Raincoats - The Void
Sunny Day Real Estate - Friday

Allllllright, on to Forte. I had lots of new stuff built up for this week, including a brand new release by legendary doom-metallers Pentagram. This album is special because it's the reunion of the guitarist and the vocalist or something. I dunno. Pentagram changes members like most people change underwear. I just know this is the most rockingest shit I've heard these fellas do in a long time. Some of this album rivals mid-80's stuff even. It doesn't come close to the 60's and 70's demos, but what does? Anyhow, the album is called 'Last Rites' and I would strongly advise you to pick it up.

Playlist:
Moonreich - En Marche Sur Nos Terres
Death Axe - Night of the Slayers
Pentagram - Walk in the Blue Light
Pentagram - Call the Man
Pentagram - Death in the 1st Person
Pentagram - Treat Me Right
Pentagram - Be Forewarned (request)
Electric Wizard - Dopethrone (request)
Ezophagothomia - Instinct of Inhuman Devourment
Sieges Even - Apocalyptic Disposition
Abigor - Satan's Galaxy
Leatherwolf - Bad Moon Rising
Shining - 21st Century Schizoid Man
Shining - Fisheye
Voodoo Mule - Lettuce Storm
God Macabre - Ashes of Mourning Life
Sigh - Dies Irae/The Master Malice
Brotherhood of Sleep - Into Our Sea of Melting Dreams
What's He Building in There? - Avian Taxi
Drohm - Beyond the Grace of God
Om - Flight of the Eagle
Kampfar - Blitzwitch
S.O.D. - Freddy Krueger
Beelzeb - Mislaid in the Weird Labyrinth of Mirrors
Iron Maiden - Phantom of the Opera (request)
Sepultura - Ratamahatta
Botch - Swimming the Channel Vs. Driving the Chunnel
Deep Purple - Highway Star (Live)

...and lastly, I've finally got another download for y'all.
It's not very often that I find an album that's a) really cool and b) so goddamn obscure that I can't even find it. So, to start off, I was watching a b-grade science fiction film called 'Bad Channels' (it's a Full Moon pictures...more on this in the weeks to come, because I'm hopefully going to write an article comparing Full Moon with Troma Studios). The plot largely involves music, and there were a couple of what I would call music videos throughout the movie. One of these was by the rather unfortunately-named group Sykotik Sinfoney. Okay, so anybody in their right mind would probably see this band name and not even give them the time of day. But, in this case, I saw/heard them before reading the credits and finding out who they were.

I figured it would be something easy to go download, but surprisingly, there is very little info on these guys online. They were 'ahead of their time,' according to their own crappy homepage, and they have recently released a compilation of all their recordings called 'Eargasm,' which I am bringing to you now. Apparently they didn't have any proper releases in their heyday (the early '90's) aside from the 'Bad Channels' soundtrack.

So then. On to the music. The first thing I thought, upon seeing these guys decked out in goofy costumes and playing a combo of thrash, funk, circus and hair metal, was that they were a poor man's Mr. Bungle. The lyrics are often laughably bad, and the tempo/time changes are executed kinda clumsily, but goddamn, these guys actually write some pretty good tunes. Plus, if I'm not mistaken, these recordings are mostly from the late 80's/1990, and Mr. Bungle's first proper LP wasn't released until '91 or '92. Sooooo, either these fellas were big on local Eureka, CA bands, or they just happened to be influenced by the same groups that influenced Bungle (Oingo Boingo is a definite point of reference, as is early Chili Peppers, Frank Zappa, Slayer, GWAR, Devo, Funkadelic and Pantera). Whatever the case, this compilation is definitely worth a spin, and there was an alt-metal group called D.M.T. on the 'Bad Channels' soundtrack that was pretty decent, too. No luck finding their album, however.

Sykotik Sinfoney - Eargasm

Tracklist:

1. Mr. Cool
2. Posers
3. Gardeners from Hell
4. Ignorance
5. Maggots with Guns
6. Sex Sells
7. Life
8. Cake Fuck
9. Brain Dead
10. Stupid
11. Daddy Long Legs
12. Manic Depresso (I'm So Happy)
13. Little Ol' Lady Polka
14. Gumby

NOTE: The tracklisting on my upload is all screwed up cuz it's the only download I could find. It's pretty easy to figure out which song is which by what they say in the chorus, but the titles/order/etc. are completely wrong. Oh well, it's the music that counts.

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