People person...

Well I havn't posted on here in a while...first post of 09 and all that.

Lately I've been doing alot of sitting in my house, which is boring. I've been making alot of music, playing alot of video games haha.

Christmas was pretty cool, I got a TV and Reason 4. I thought I might aswell make some tunes, and they can be found here LoneWolf

The Refined I Am ep me an Mike have been working on is nearly done now, vocals on most of the tracks. It'll be release early this year on Power Negi, check out the tunes:Refined I Am

New Years eve was kind of alright, speant it with some of my best friends and my wonderfull girlfriend Chess, shame there had to be some idiots involved, but thats how life works.

I finally got round to getting a PS3, I've got to say, I'm impressed. Straight away when I plugged it into my new HD tv, I knew it was a world above Xbox, graphics wise, play wise, and media wise (DVD is dead dude!). The online is a bit of  a step down from the Xbox, but only slightly. The only thing that I don't like is that my friends have to be online for me to look at their COD4 stats haha. I got 'home' that everyones raving on about, and I think its great, even though alot of people don't. It's a free program, and it come in very small files, but the graphics are just brilliant. I even went as far as buying some clothes for my little guy (i speant £5 on it...i suck). The mini games on it are great, its cool going bowling, or playing pool whilst interacting with others, especially if your friends have it too. I've yet to play checkers or chess, but the arcade machines are cool, I'm just waiting for the Red Bull Air Race game to get uploaded. I'm going to get Skate this weekend to prepare me for when Skate 2 comes out, I can't tell you how excited I am for it. Hopefull going to invest in Little Big Planet too, if its as good as everyone says i'm sure I won't be disapointed.

I've been listening to some wierd music lately, really really gone off modern hardcore, but I've been going that way for the best part of a year now. So many kids getting into rubbish and rediculous bands, it pisses me off. The only credible hardcore bands are those doing something different and a bit rough at the edges, not these sugar coated rehashes of the past. It's the lyrical content that winds me up as well, it makes me want to laugh and be sick at the same time; 

'I've had enough of your hatred, your mentality sucks, you're way to negative. I thought we were all here for fun, not to compete and beat each other up? Lets take the put downs and leave them behind, and set forth with open minds.'

These are the actual words to a 'Set It Straight' song....hardly 'Break Down the Walls' is it really, although they probably think its just as good.

 Been listening to a lot of noise rock and grunge for some reason. Also been listening to early Cave In and Converge, love late 90's metalcore. Converge are probably my favourite band, but I've never been able to get into their earlier work till now. Kind been listening to more punk/garage rock stuff, alway listened to the Stooges and early Bowie when growing up (my mums favourite), but I'm really liking some more modern stuff like The Shitty Limits and Jay Reatard (album link on the post bellow). Also been listening to Necrophagist loads, they are so sick its unreal, musically and sonically and they have one of the best metal guitar tones ever put to tape. Been getting back in to grind aswell, dug out some Assuck, Swallowing Shit, Nasum and Dahmer. Given a lot of plays to The Ergon Carousel aswell, who are new signing to Holy Roar Records, ex member of Beecher and Narcosis (who made possibly my favourite grindcore album ever, 'Romance'); they are super fast, made up of members of two super good bands and deserve you attention.

Jay Reatard - Blood Visions

Dusted Reviews:
'Jay has spent years doing exactly that, as both an amateur frontman and an expert behind the boards. This time he's found the vitality he's been chasing all those years. Where past bands struggled to hold songs together, he drops into the groove effortlessly, jittering through Blood Visions' 15 tracks without a clunker. Snarky, snarling and soaring, this kind of derangement rarely sounds so sweet.'


I'm going to make this really simple for you, imagine a massive melting pot; add punk, garage rock, the pomp of the better side of modern indie and just a hint of Brian Eno (one of Jay's biggest influences so he says, although its quite hard to hear).

http://rs45.rapidshare.com/files/14763391/Jay_Reatard-Blood_Visions-_CD_-2006-KzT.rar

Death follows me underground...

'My glass is forever half empty,
Entombed in immortal unhappiness because I don't believe.

Don't believe your hype, how are you superior to me or anyone else?

Don't believe my own hype, I'm not superior to anyone else. We all have are own talents, but first and foremost we are all equals.

Don't believe in a higher existence, so every day is spent knowing that I will rot underground when I die, not go to a happy magical wonderland.

The only thing that makes me better than you is that I'm a realist, and you obviously aren't.


Your a big personality in a small place, no one will remember you when your just a name on a headstone.

All your big individual ideas, superiority complex, and false beliefs go flying out of the window when you realise just a split second before you die that you are going to rot like every else.


The only thing that makes me better than you is that I spent every waking moment fully aware of how it was going to end.

At least I didn't waste my life on falsities.'

Sleeping with the Snakes....

Well, I haven't left my house since Wednesday and its now Monday, which is kind of alarming. It's been fuelled with pizza, frozen Chinese food, lager shandy, 4OD and recording a new EP for my old band RIA

This week seems as though it's going to be just as boring, the only highlight being that I am going to see Trap Them and Grief on Thursday, which I suspect will be amazing. If you've not heard those bands, check them out, then go to one of the dates of their tour together.

Also, I need a job and I need to get my car fixed :(

City of the Moon...

Tonight I'm going to see Set Your Goals, I don't hold to many high hopes for this show because the last time I saw them it was packed with small children. They played well, but since the first time I went to one of their shows in 2006, it has seemed that the average age of a SYG fan has dropped 2 year with every tour, oh well, this is always the case.

Something weird happened to me today as well, I enjoyed reading Kerrang magazine...

My mum came home with a magazine for me as she's going away for the weekend, and as soon as she produced Kerrang I felt myself suddenly feeling as though I wanted to be sick in my mouth. I haven't read the magazine since I was 15, was I too quick to judge? Could it have changed? Well yes it has changed, this weeks magazine has got a really in depth story about the new Guns n Roses album, and a Slayer Q and A session! 'Wow', you're all saying, 'big deal, that's the same as ever...'

Well, I thought that until I saw the little Mastodon piece, an introduction to the band Future of the Left (ex Mc Clusky), Opeth interview, Gold Kids Reveiw, The Computers reveiw, Thursday/Envy split reveiw, Total Fucking Destruction reveiw (Rich Hoak from Brutal Truth), Vorhess reveiw (UK 90's fastcore), Massive Mogwai piece with Stuart Braithwaite..... WTF?!?!

I was pretty impressed to say the least.

Anyway, I asked my friend Myk if he had any recommendations for me to put up on this here blog, and he said you should all check out this band:

My Heart To Joy At The Same Tone

http://www.tolrecords.com/myhearttojoy/music.html

For fans of modern scramz, they've got a really cool Hot Cross esque guitar sound going on, similar to I Not Dance and Lion of the North etc.

All their records are up at that site, but he especially recommends Heavenly Bodies.

I'm currently really in to Opeth again, after that rant about Roadrunner the other day it really spurred me on to get back in to some of the music I listened to in my youth, and since their currently touring the UK, I thought it would be the best time to show you my favourite release by them.

Opeth - Deliverance (2002)


Recorded along with sister album Damnation, Deliverance was intended to be a heavy, progressive release whilst Damnation fielded their more mellow and lighter side. This is the point in which Opeth really put their mark on heavy music as it is today. Damnation is utterly beyond comparison to anything that came before it. There is only one song that's shorter than 10 minutes, so be patient.

http://rapidshare.com/files/61271890/_2002__-_Deliverance.rar

Mild annoyance..

So today I found out that The Wombats and The Subways are now signed to Roadrunner records.

Roadrunner was my favourite label when I was a kid, even though its painfully embarrassing for me to say this now, I really dug bands like Coal Chamber, Cradle of Filth, Opeth, Fear Factory, Machine head, Slipknot etc..

I find it kind of weird that a label that is famous for metal is kind of breaking down its walls and reducing itself to releasing more corporate and dilute genres of music. Roadrunner might not be much of label any more, and to some of the younger people reading this it may seem like a bit of joke, but in their glory years they put out some real good records, some that haven't stood the test of time, but all with the same Roadrunner style.

Anyway, Andy hit me up the other day and told me I should put some music on this blog, and I'm going to do just that.

Pissed Jeans - Hope for men (2007)It's noise rock with 80's hardcore influences - think Flipper meets the Jesus Lizard, released on Sub Pop, get into it.

http://www.megaupload.com/pt/?d=wc1demgn

Eventful evening..

Well, last night was awful. We went to a party in Alton, right near Alton Towers. It was outside in the mud for one, so the moment we got there we weren't particularly enjoying it, and thought it was a bit sketchy.

Some chav tried to rob from my friend, so he punched him to get him to leave him alone, he was jumped on by 10 of them, and was pretty much brutally attacked by them. Head buts, low blows, nothing was too demeaning for that scum. What made it worse was that I had to pretty much stand and watch, keeping a level head was what got us out of there.

I've since found out that after we left two of my other friends got hurt at this party, what is going on? I don't mind fighting, and I am guilty of getting involved in fights in my time. But 10 people on 1 person is cowardly, its ridiculous. What annoys me the most is that 10 people couldn't even put my friend on the floor, this shows that if it had been a fair one on one fight their would have been no question of who would of won.

Anyway, before we went out I was watching some skate vids and I thought I would share some of my favourites with you.

Corey Duffel's part in Foundation Cataclysmic Abyss



Ronnie Creager's part in Blind What If



The Gonz's part in Krooked Kronichles



Chris Haslam and Daewon Song in Almost Cheese and Crackers