There’re two great American bands, The Hussy is a midwestern trashy garage rock duo, Digital Leather is synth-pop-punk band of Shawn Foree with different line-ups. Split 12″ with 6 love songs by Digital Leather, and Shawn also plays on 4 Hussy songs, among those is a DL cover.

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Two German brothers played jazz with their father, then have formed The Notwist as hardcore-metal band in 1989. Then they turned into grunge, later indie rock and electro pop.

Close To The Glass LP by City Slang (UK), Sub Pop (US) and Spunk Records (Aus)

Euro tour March-Apr

1942. Napalm was developed in a secret laboratory at Harvard University in Massachusetts.  The name is a combination of the names of two of the constituents of the gelling agent: naphthenic acid and palmitic acid. The napalm fires can create an atmosphere of greater than 20% carbon monoxide and firestorms with self-perpetuating winds of up to 110 km/h (70 m/h).

1944. The first recorded strategic use of napalm incendiary bombs occurred in an attack by the USAAF on Berlin on 6 March.

1980. United Nations declared to use napalm against civilians is a war crime, but the international law does not prohibit the use of napalm or other incendiaries against military targets.

1981. Napalm Death was founded at a little village in heart of England by Nicholas Bullen (vocals, bass) and Miles Ratlidge (drums). They were around 14 then and listen to too many punk music.

1981-87. Constant line-up changes. There were 15 members during this period. The first album was recorded in two parts in 1986 and 1987 by two different line-ups, only the drummer Mick Harris is same on both side of the „officially” first grindcore album ever. Both founders left the group, Ratlidge in ’85, Bullen in ’86 together with Justin Broadrick, because they were discontented with the direction of the band. After the B-side recordings Shane Embury who was drummer in death metal bands joined as bass player.

1989. Lee Dorian (vocal) and Bill Steer (guitar) left the band due to musical differences. Dorian rather to found one of the first doom metal bands Cathedral; Steer rather to want concentrate to his own band Carcass. They were changed by Mark Greenway (vocal) from the death metal Benediction, and a Mexican born American guitarist, Jesus Ernesto Pintado Andrade from Terrorizer. Jesus stayed until 2004.

1991. Another American guitarist in the band. Mitch Harris arrived from Righteous Pigs. About this time he had a common project with Mick Harris: Defecation. After the third album Mick Harris left Napalm Death, because it became too death metal for him. He was replaced by an American drummer Danny Herrera.

1994. Napalm Death remixed a song of a British hardcore-rap crew, Gunshot.

After and beside Napalm Death

Miles Ratledge (1981-85: drums) living in Aarhus, Denmark where he runs an Ashtanga Yoga school.

Nicholas Bullen (1981-86: vocal, bass) studied English Literature and Philosophy. In 1991 he joined Mick Harris brand new project, Scorn, left it in 1995, and gained another university degree in Computer Science. He is occupied with avant-garde electronic, ambient, experimental music, sound art and 8mm film making.

Mick Harris (1985-91: drums) while was in Napalm Death also played for Doom and Extreme Noise Terror. 1991 he has formed an electronic metal-industrial dub band Scorn with Bullen, and Broadrick also appeared in the early recordings, but today he is the sole member. In the same time of founding of Scorn he joined John Zorn and Bill Laswell’s jazzcore band Painkiller. He had also dark ambient and drum and bass projects.

Justin Broadrick (1985-86: guitar) grew up in a hippie commune. He was about 8 when he heard Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music at first. After Napalm Death he was influenced by 80s hip-hop sound and acid house. His bands: Final (power electronics, dark ambient, founded in 1982),  Godflesh (industrial metal, 1988), Techno Animal (industrial hip-hop with Kevin Martin from GOD, 1991), Jesu (post-metal, 2003), Pale Sketcher (“shoegazy dream-pop that’s almost techno”, 2010) and more

Some Shane Embury’s side-projects:
– Meethook Seed (industrial metal, 1992) with Mick Harris and Obituary members.
– Brujeria (as Hongo with ND guitarist Jesus Pintado as Cristo de Pisto) with Jello Biafra, Fear Factory and Faith No More members and more.
– Venomous Concept (grind-punk, 2004) with Danny Herrera, and Buzz Osborne (Melvins). Buzz was replaced by Dan Lilker (Anthrax, Nuclear Assault, S.O.D., Brutal Truth)

Napalm Death on euro tour with Hatebreed
Budapest  Feb 25  at Barba Negra

the umbrella of the Glasgowan electro scene. A free compilation from them

„high calorie synth jams”

„rap existentialist… but he’s not a rapper”

„half-man, half-maschine. vinyl cuts and chromakeys”

„melodies and man-hair. your beats is weak, his beats is bangz”

The most known figure is Jonnie Common. I’m waiting for his new albums constantly.

„Throb/Clang” is the motto of the electro-industrial punk duo Multiple Man. It is founded by Aussie twin bros. They as if lived in the 80s.

debut 7″ by Major Crimes Records. The first EP

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„I wanted to do a rock ‘n roll band, because the best thing in the world is being in a rock ‘n roll band.  I guess I’d been friends with Nic (Bed Wettin’ Boys, RIP Society Records) for a really long time and I was saying that to him on a phone, and he’s like “I’m the guy for the job.” – said the Australian musician Angel Bermuda (Circle Pit, Southern Comfort, Straight Arrows) about her brand new project, Ruined Fortune. „It’s a really different sound to Circle Pit though: it’s a bit darker and weirder.” Tight, noisy punk rock in the manner of late 70s-early 80s with cheap Casios, drum machine and metal percussion.

S/T LP by Hozac Records. It was recorded with two drummers, Daniel Spencer (Blank Realm) and Joe Alexander (Per Purpose).

Aussie big city folk in electro-acoustic junk pop style, spiced with ambient garbage. Maybe the instruments and the tunes are from a dump or the Moon, where is „A place wherein is wonderfully stored / Whatever on our earth below we lose. / Collected there are all things whatsoe’er, / Lost through time, chance, or our own folly, here.”* The sound is like as if it would come straight from a trashcan. Perfect.

Orlando Furious – ‘Popular’ cassette or digital EP by Cinnamon Records

*fragment from Orlando Furioso: Canto 34/LXXIII by Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533)

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Xiu Xiu is a famous experimental band. Many times on many site I red that it’s very good and very artistic, so I tried to make friends with their music, but it didn’t work. „Interesting” – thought about the previous Nina Simone cover album, but I will never listen to it again. Thanks, but there’re the originals. I have listened to their new album many times. Electronic noise, melancholic melodies, goth style lamentation, screams and cries. That’s all and not more. Too good and too artistic for me.

Angel Guts: Red Classroom LP by Polyvinyl (US) and Bella Union (UK)

Shit Music For Shit People is and Italian-Portuguese record label. It’s mainly focusing on such garage rock bands as: Widlmen, JC Satán, Cane!, Vermillion Sands or Vernon Sélavy. But now here is the Cosmic Favela

by a psychedelic electronic acid italo disco band, Sybiann. Taken from the album „Spore” on SMFSP. Buy digitally here

Popular Culture is Henry Mowgli Gillespie. His debut album was recorded after two years of on and off sessions with producer Kyle Ellison (Butthole Surfers, Meat Puppets, Pariah) and Paul Barker (Ministry) in Texas. He plays self proclaimed „Dark Pop”. Some names which came to my mind during the listening: Jesus & MC, New Order, Digital Leather, Jonnie Common.

Episode LP by Sparrowsongs. One of the best debut albums this year. You can listen to it totally under both links.

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„Cretin Girl is new band from Gainesville, Florida. If you like !!!Punk/ Killed By Death/ Raw/Wave!!! you need this!!!”

S/T Tape by Goodbye Boozy and W.I.T.S Records, limited edition 69 copies

Electro industrialism by Skinny Puppy – illisiT

from the latest album: Weapon (2013)

The Greater Wrong of the Right (2004) remastered re-issue
is coming in January by Metropolis Records

Two French musicians, Hypo & EDH play funny experimental electro pop

from Xin LP by Cheap Satanism Records

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Per Purpose. Lo-fi garage rock from Australia

from Circle The Stains LP by Bedroom Suck Records

The Melt-Banana is coming back with a new album as a duo!

Only guitar and electronic devices!!
Apropos, do you remember their previous album?
It was guitar exempt!!! (3 songs from it.)
Songs above 4 mins!!!!
Because „I wanted to write a slow song and get a little bit of a cosmic feeling.”

You can listen to the full album here.