
 Abandon Ship - Of Time's Turning Wheel 7" (Dire) - 4 [the uk hardcore heavyweights are back; four genuinely rage filled missives like burn and damnation ad - listen]
 After The Last Sky / S.A.T.A.N. - Split 7" (Circus Of The Macabre) - 2 [atls make blackened thrash doomcore; satan are a polish powerviolence duo - listen listen]
 Agents Of Abhorrence / Roskopp - Split 7" (Crucificados) - 3 [two aussie bands; aoa do diy art grind; roskopp are totally filth caked grindcore - listen listen]
 American Cheeseburger / Bukkake Boys - Split 7" (Vinyl Rites) - 4 [great fast and furious hardcore from both bands here, in a reagan youth, citizen's arrest stylee - listen listen]
 Atomck / Paucities - Split 7" (7Degrees) - 3.5 [wales vs usa on this slab of mincecore slash grinding chaos; think anb and agathocles - listen listen]
 Backslider / Nimbus Terrifix - Split 7" (Give Praise) - 3.5 [pretty damned angry pairing of two man grindcore and techy metal action here - listen listen]
 Big Crux - Big Crux Is A Big Funk 7" (Iron Lung) - 4 [nifty band mixing up minutemen and big boys to make a punk funk racket that is catchy and loud - listen]
 Black Sister / Injakmati - Split 7" (Problem) - 2 [celtic / hungarian 80's thrash battles indonesian earache worship - listen listen]
 Black Sun / They Are Cowards - Split 7" (At War With False Noise) - 3 [a mighty split from two uk bands; nasty doomcore from both - listen listen]
 Brutal Truth - Machine Parts + 4 7" (Bones Brigade) - 3 [the classic grindcore superheroes rerelease an older ep of their stoned out fastness - listen]
 Canadian Rifle - Facts 7" (Residue) - 3.5 [raw and urgent classic punk tunes here; killer mix of melody and speed - listen]
 Capsule / Furnace - Split 7" (Moment Of Collapse) - 3.5 [c = killer miami progressive tech hardcore, weirdo tunings and gang backups; f = fast and furious thrashy hardcore with burly riffing - listen listen]
 Cellgraft - Deception Schematic 7" (No Reprieve) - 3.5 [first wax for these florida cyber grinders; think assuck, discordance axis and terrorizer - listen]
 Clocked Out - s/t 7" (self-released) - 4 [totally great fast thrash punk from north of the border in a clevo / 9 shocks terror vein - listen]
 Closure - s/t 7" (Feast Of Tentacles) - 4 [totally vicious eight tracker from the best thrashy powerviolence band in the uk - listen]
 Cloud Rat / Autarkeia - Split 7" (IFB) - 4 [cr - more excellent diy grind from this trio, smart and blasting; a - jiyuna and merkit folk making mean and moody emo that gets heavy - listen]
 Cold Ones - Stay Thirsty 7" (Zandor) - 3 [mint liverpool band that like a drink and make a thrashy street punk hardcore kind of thing - listen]
 Conga Fury / Shitstorm - Split 7" (To Live A Lie) - 4 [cf - japanese powerhouse of unhinged thrashing madness; ss - floridian oldskool grinders with torche guys - listen listen]
 Diet Pills / Grinding Halt - s/t 7" (De Graanrepubliek) - 4 [dp - like flipper mixed with melvins and corrupted; gh - variable speed hardcore thrash mashup from holland - listen listen]
 Drainland / Cellgraft - Split 7" (SuperFi) - 4 [d = irish dystopia-esque variable speed hardcore attack; c - floridian diy grinding chaos like discordance axis - listen listen]
 End The Agony - From The Lungs 7" (SuperFi) - 2 [cathartic, draining hardcore noise from brighton from ex-cat on form dudes - listen]
 Facel Vega / The Sceptres - Split 7" (Dire) - 4 [fv - amazing welsh revolution summer-esque hardcore; ts - great jagged, jazzy post punk stuff - listen]
 Gaz-66 Intrusion - Power Without Violence 7" (Crucificados) - 4 [all the way from the Ukraine armed and ready to thrash, packing 12 tracks of pure, raging fastcore/powerviolence onto this 7" - listen]
 The Good Wife - Teeth And Tongue 7" (SuperFi) - 3 [jesus lizard meets oxbow meets stooges in the philosophy section of your local library - listen]
 The Helpless - s/t 7" (Crucificados) - 4 [violent noise punk with a hefty japanese influence from dead noise and kruel members - listen]
 Hey Colossus / Field Boss - Split 7" (At War With False Noise) - 3.5 [pummelling kraut stoner covers andre williams vs horrific bristol noise rock brainscrape - listen listen]
 Human Hands - s/t 7" (Hit Time) - 3.5 [great new uk trio, reviving the mid 90's complex emo sound a la inkwell - listen]
 The Hunger - Winter 7" (De Graanrepubliek) - 2 [crunchy, meaty and dutch hardcore in a hope conspiracy or unbroken vein - listen]
 Hunger Pains - s/t 7" (Feeble Minds) - 4 [metallic crust core reminiscent of evil jap hardcore and the 90's stuff with a nice slathering of noise to boot - listen]
 Hungry Lungs - s/t 7" (React With Protest) - 4 [great newish german band making a mashup of chaos, hardcore and powerviolence - listen]
 Internal Rot - s/t 7" (Crucificados) - 4 [nasty old skool grind worship from australia; members of agents of abhorrence and more - listen]
 Irritate / Bud Junkees - Split 7" (Vulgar) - 3 [two finnish bands destroying all; i = groovy grind with rumbling riffs; bj = full throttle sludge mayhem - listen listen]
 Kali / Ultimate Blowup - Split 7" (7Degrees) - 3.5 [k - canuck whirlwind grinding thrash that really goes fastp; ub - turkish grind in an infest, rot and denak stylee - listen listen]
 Kill The Client / Thousandswilldie - Split 7" (RSR) - 3.5 [ktc = insane tech grindcore from texas; twd = excellent grinding stuff in a similar vein - listen listen]
 Kruel / Unlearn - s/t 7" (Crucificados) - 4 [raw, uncompromising d-beat from both canuck bands; think anti-cimex, disclose and shitlickers - listen listen]
 Kursk / Lycanthropy - Split 7" (Rimbaud) - 3 [k = canadian offbeat grinding weirdness; l = vicious czech fastcore grinding - listen listen]
 Lickgoldensky - Demo 7" (Square Of Opposition) - 3 [as underrated as they were tricky to pigeonhole, vicious and chaotic tech metal stuff - listen]
 Lotus Fucker / Penis Geyser - Split 7" (Solar Funeral) - 4 [lf - bombastic raw d.c. punk that's good and messy; pg - unbelievably harsh noisecore blasting a ton of freeform songs - listen]
 Lotus Fucker / The Wankys - Split 7" (Katorga Works) - 4 [lf - bombastic raw d.c. punk that's good and messy; tw - elderly uk gents doing japanese noisepunk worship braindrill - listen]
 Love Potion - Intimacy 7" (Hate Ape) - 3.5 [mega unhinged sleazy thrashy punk hardcore from the frozen wastes of denmark - listen]
 The Love Triangle - Boomerang Girl 7" (Dire) - 4 [ace newish trio with some shitty limits fellows; catchy buzzcocks meets nuggets garage punk - listen]
 Malicious Disfigurement - Smashed Skull / Gut Excavation 7" (Tadpole) - 2 [top notch old skool metal action in a carcass style from this brighton quartet - listen]
 Mass Sterilization / Slave - Split 7" (Give Praise) - 4 [brutal stop-start powerviolence from oklahoma and texas; head-crushing yet catchy - listen listen]
 Mind As Prison / Disciples Of Christ - Split 7" (Malokul) - 3.5 [total grinding brilliance from these two outfits - listen listen]
 Nuclear Cult - Better Nightmares 7" (Warm Bath) - 4 [ex-y and solid decline, this is germanic hardcore in a tight and punky thrash manner - listen]
 Nuclear Sex Addict - Seminaal Fuckkwit 7" (Rescued From Life) - 4 [totally mental noise punk from down under featuring pisschrist and abc weapons chaps]
 Pig Heart Transplant - Weapon 7" (Iron Lung) - 4 [two new tracks of raging noise scrape dronery from iron lung guitarist and chums - listen]
 Pig Heart Transplant - They Eat What We Eat 7" (Rescued From Life) - 4 [raging noise scrape dronery from iron lung guitarist and chums - listen]
 Pig Heart Transplant / The Endless Blockade - Split 7" (SuperFi) - 4 [pht - raging noise scrape dronery from iron lung guitarist and chums; teb - final output from the toronto powerviolence noise legends - listen listen]
 Pig Heart Transplant / Vacuum - PHTV 7" (Rescued From Life) - 4 [pht is raging noise scrape dronery from iron lung guitarist and chums; this time he collaborates with great pv band vacuum - listen]
 Polina - s/t 7" (Antediluvia) - 3 [one sided, silkscreened record of noisy, jangling experimental screamo stuff - listen]
 Rat Storm - Fractured 7" (IFB) - 4 [six blazing tracks of indiana powerviolence thrash with crushing riffs and female vox - listen]
 Raven's Creed - Militia Of Blood Sacrifice 7" (Land O'Smiles) - 3.5 [great uk supergroup plying a hefty catchy mix of venom, iron money and celtic frost - listen]
 Regurgitate / Skullhog - Split 7" (RSR) - 3.5 [sweden vs holland; grotesque, splatter covered grinding sludge terror - listen listen]
 Rort - s/t 7" (Crucificados) - 4 [raging hardcore from oz by extortion folk; violent, self-loathing, powerviolence like crossed out, neanderthal et al - listen]
 Rot In Hell / Horders - The Omega Suite 7" (Feast Of Tentacles) - 4 [rih - one of the uk's best holy terror-inspired hardcore bands; h - similarly evil, metallic hardcore from the states - listen listen]
 Rot In Hell / The Process - Split 7" (Feast Of Tentacles) - 3 [two of the best hardcore bands in the uk; evil, metallic hardcore from both - listen listen]
 Rupture / Opposition Party - Split 7" (Hate Ape) - 3.5 [nihilistic destructo-core from oz meets one of the first punk bands from singapore and their '86 demo - listen]
 Satellites Of Love - s/t 7" (Milk) - 4 [great new uk band making bleak and caustic punk for the end times, like birthday party meets die kreuzen - listen]
 Sete Star Sept / Satan - Split 7" (Witch Bukkake) - 3.5 [japan vs france in this insane bout of art-grinding noisecore chaos; totally great artwork too - listen]
 Sissy Spacek - Vanishing Point 7" (To Live A Lie) - 4 [rare flexi from these noise blast legends featuring john wiese and chums - listen]
 Snowing - Fuck Your Emotional Bullshit 7" (Square Of Opposition) - 3.5 [jangly indie emo rock for cap'n jazz and braid fans - listen]
 Stripmines - Sympathy Rations 7" (Sorry State) - 3.5 [ace touch hardcore punk a bit like wasted time - listen]
 Su19b / xBrainiax - Split 7" (Crucificados) - 3 [japan vs. the states; one long sludgy number battles insane quick bursts of grind - listen listen]
 Swarrrm / Atka - Split 7" (Ecocentric) - 3.5 [insane japanese gods of emogrind battle it out with vicious german technicality - listen listen]
 Thrones - Late For Dinner 7" (Conspiracy) - 4 [joe preston's solo thing, bass and drum machine, like a medieval troubadour blasted in from the 25th century - listen]
 Traindodge - Remains 2x7" (Little Mafia) - 5 [classic trio that mix jawbox in with experimental song structures and big doses of heaviness - listen]
 Twisted - Stockholm 7" (Art For Blind) - 3 [ex state run blokes make a cracking revolution summer-esque triple tracker of emo goodness - listen]
 Veloz - s/t 7" (Karmic Swamp) - 4 [the name means fast, and you'll soon hear why; a blazing metallic d-beat frenzy - listen]
 Veloz - Sleipnir 7" (Parade Of Spectres) - 4 [the name means fast, and you'll soon hear why; a blazing metallic d-beat frenzy - listen]
 Veneer / L/P - Split 7" (Antediluvia) - 3 [noisy, jangling experimental screamo stuff from both of these cool new bands - listen]
 Wadge / Soil Of Ignorance - Split 7" (Give Praise) - 4 [w - legendary one man digital grind hero, not entirely sane; soi - gritty grinding powerviolence greatness - listen listen]
 White Wards - Waste My Time 7" (Iron Lung) - 4 [olympia quartet making an excellent punk racket somewhere between tar babies and devoid of faith - listen]
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 Amarok - s/t LP (Orca WOlf) - 9 [crushingly heavy california doom for khanate, weedeater, burning witch and grief fans - listen]
 Art Of Burning Water - Head Of The Tempest LP (SuperFi) - 8 [the uk legends' second album finally sees the light of day; panicked, heavy and technical like melvins meets zeni geva - listen]
 Atka / Shimetsu - Split LP (Crucificados) - 6 [two new german bands, absolutely killer tech grind from both - listen listen]
 The Austrasian Goat / Hollow Sunshine - Collaboration LP (Vendetta) - 8 [HS deliver sewer-dwelling industrial pummel; TAG goes eclectic; the flip has them collaborate on wild, blackened shoegaze meets industrial psych - listen]
 Autarkeia - s/t LP (IFB) - 9 [ex jiyuna and merkit kids make a mean and moody emo epic and that gets good and heavy at times - listen]
 Batillus - Furnace LP (Vendetta) - 10 [brooklyn crushers laying down an immense slab of doomy hardcore stuff - listen]
 Beau Navire - Hours LP (React With Protest) - 9 [pure heartfelt and passionate emo-violence that should delight fans of the late 90's stuff - listen]
 Citizens - Try Harder LP (Art For Blind) - 5 [great scottish post hardcore trio; relentless and noisy prog punk - listen]
 Cloud Rat - s/t LP (IFB) - 9 [blistering, honest and intense diy grind from this excellent trio; smart and blasting stuff - listen]
 Cloud Rat / The Oily Menace / Wolbachia - Split LP (IFB) - 9 [cr - great, blistering diy grind; tom - ugly, heavy grinding action; w - ex kursk, weirdo psychedelic grind - listen]
 Conan / Slomatics - Split LP (Head Of Crom) - 10 [extremely hefty slab of wicked stoner goodness; psychedelic, introspective but always crushing - listen listen]
 Crow's Foot - s/t 10" (IFB) - 7 [florida band taking cues from bands like bread and circuits and ramping up those anarcho / emo tendencies - listen]
 D9 / Mondo Gecko - Split LP (Zas) - 6 [awesome pair of bands from israel, d9 with their crushing powerviolence and mg with their upbeat hardcore thrash - listen listen]
 Dazd - s/t LP (Fuck Yoga) - 8 [amazing and inventive magic crust from serbia; strange, atmospheric and experimental but definitely punk at heart - listen]
 Dead Elephant - Thanatology LP (Riot Season) - 10 [excellent italian band making dissonant, psychedelic, experimental doom; heavy, slow, warped, amazing stuff - listen]
 Dead In The Woods / Diet Pills - Split LP (Black Box) - 7 [two uk bands; ditw - heavy as hell with a hardcore feel; dp - melvins meets flipper meets corrupted - listen listen]
 Defeatist - Tyranny Of Decay LP (Nerve Altar) - 10 [second album from the ex-anodyne / kalibas new york killing machine; relentless and evil yet catchy grind - listen
 Defeatist / Triac / ASRA - Split LP (Deep Six) - 9 [three modern grind bands with tons of technicality, musicianship and fury unleash hell on here - listen listen]
 Diet Pills - s/t LP (Force Fed) - 10 [ex hangover heartattack goodness, like flipper mixed with melvins and corrupted - listen]
 Drainland / Trenches - Split LP (SuperFi) - 10 [d = irish dystopia-esque variable speed hardcore attack; t - downtempo depressing irish dirgecore - listen listen]
 Drainland / Grinding Halt - Split 10" (De Graanrepubliek) - 6 [d = irish dystopia-esque variable speed hardcore attack; gh = dutch killing machine melding emo and thrash - listen listen]
 Easpa Measa / Division's Ruin - Split LP (Suburban Mayhem) - 5 [two irish bands playing crusty d-beat stuff do battle here - listen listen]
 Endless Grinning Skulls - s/t LP (Viral Age) - 10 [great rollicking melodic d-beat crust hardcore from ex-army of flying robots dudes with a great crass-style sleeve - listen]
 Elodea - Voyager LP (Storm Inside) - 7 [a quartet from italy and slovenia making neurosis inspired slabs of epic post-metal; lp limited to 100 only - listen]
 The Endless Blockade / Bastard Noise - The Red List LP (Deep Six) - 10 [the misanthropic powerviolence sludgers batle the legendary noise outfit - listen listen]
 Ensorcelor - Crucifuge LP (Psychic Assault) - 9 [two massive tracks of cathartic, engaging, experimental metal; beautifully presented too - listen]
 Esoteric - Epistemological Despondency 2xLP (Aesthetic Death) - 15 [enormous slab of drone doom death from the uk overlords; first time on vinyl - listen]
 Final - Reading All The Right Signals Wrong LP (No Quarter) - 9 [justin "jesu" broadrick's experimental noise outfit - listen]
 Final & Fear Falls Burning - s/t LP (Conspiracy) - 9 [two legends of avant garde drone exploration collaborate - listen listen]
 Gauchiste - s/t LP (Little Black Clouds) - 12 [a stunning noise / experimental / doom project featuring members of loincloth; limited to 100 copies only - listen]
 Geisha - Maudit A Minuit LP (SuperFi) - 8 [album number 3 from bristol's kings of noise welded to meganoise - listen]
 The Gentle Art Of Chokin' - s/t LP (De Graanrepubliek) - 7 [nineteen rippers from this german mob that is somewhere between powerviolence, thrash and fastcore - listen]
 Ghostlimb - s/t & Bearing And Distance LP (Vendetta) - 10 [ghostlimb make pissed off as fuck punk hardcore; this is their first two albums on one lp - listen]
 Ghostlimb / Fischer - Split 10" (Vitriol) - 6 [ghostlimb make pissed off as fuck punk hardcore; fischer look at the lighter side of human suffering - listen]
 Gods And Queens - s/t LP (Robotic Empire) - 5 [classy trio who cite equal influence from lungfish and unwound, which is a good thing to say - listen]
 Gruel - s/t 2xLP (Feast Of Tentacles) - 7 [swans meets hawkwind; a truly super-group with war all the time, like a kind of matador and the devils members - listen]
 The Guilt Of... - s/t LP (At War With False Noise) - 8 [debut lp from noise act featuring mike from eyehategod and a chap from wolvhammer; think throbbing gristle, skinny puppy, head of david etc - listen]
 Haggatha - II LP (Choking Hazard) - 8 [great vancouver sludge band that add in good doses of hc, like thou or moloch - listen]
 Heartless - Hell Is Other People LP (Southern Lord) - 11 [pittsburgh quartet makes a pulverising, grimy, motor oil-spewing array of hardcore soaked in angst and rage - listen]
 Highgate - s/t LP (Psychich Assault) - 9 [finally on vinyl, these kentucky doom wizards make a heartbreakingly crushing 54 minutes of pain - listen]
 The Horror - Spoils Of War LP (Zandor) - 8 [the ex-voorhees / imbalance legends unleash a second album of ripping thrashy hardcore tunes with great lyrics - listen]
 Knelt Rote - Insignificance LP (Parasitic) - 9 [formerly a seriously experimental noise slash grind band, they have expanded into vicious epics now - listen]
 Kowloon Walled City - Gambling On The Richter Scale LP (Feast Of Tentacles) - 8 [great band mixing melvins, unsane and that good heavy noiserock stuff with a more brutal hardcore approach - listen]
 Kowloon Walled City - Turk Street 10" (Feast Of Tentacles) - 6 [great band mixing melvins, unsane and that good heavy noiserock stuff with a more brutal hardcore approach - listen]
 Lentic Waters - s/t LP (React With Protest) - 9 [members of ding dong dead and resurrectionists make a nasty brutal slice of emo powerviolence - listen]
 Lich / Resurrectionists - Split LP (Vendetta) - 10 [a pair of totally heavy emo-violence rippers here; lich are ex-bow359; r = germanic titans of destruction - listen]
 Lieutenant - s/t LP (Warm Bath) - 8 [a total ripper of frenzied but catchy thrashy punk; running for cover and lemuria folk are involved - listen]
 Lycanthropy - s/t LP (Circus Of The Macabre) - 8 [evil, vicious grinding fastcore from czech rep; machine gun drumming, insane shrieks, totally relentless - listen]
 Marshall Teller - A Farewell To Kings 10" (Russian Folk Stories) - 3 [excellent uk trio, making old emo tinged punk rock with the much maligned adjective gruff - listen]
 Miasmal - s/t LP (Detest) - 10 [utterly killer swedish death metal with a healthy dose of punk and memorable tunes - listen]
 Mob Rules - The Donor LP (Zandor) - 10 [the best current uk band; powerviolence but so much more; ginn-esque guitar flights and die kreuzen noise]
 Morser - 1st Class Suicide LP (7Degrees) - 8 [fucking yes; new album from the relentless german killing machine; full on metal action - listen]
 Muscletusk - Ask The Universe LP (Braw) - 9 [40 mins of bizarre improv avant-rock madness; think magic band, dead c and sun ra - listen]
 No Balls - Less LP (Streaks) - 9 [offshoot band from the legendary brainbombs, this is album two of sexually driven protopunk ugliness - listen]
 Northless - Clandestine Abuse 2xLP (Halo Of Flies) - 13 [killer second album from milwaukee stoner hardcore mob; atmospheric, sludgy, slow and heavy - listen]
 Od Vratot Nadolu - Mercury LP (SuperFi) - 8 [totally blasting mutant hardcore from this macedonian duo; bass plus drums equals titanic riffing destruction - listen]
 Ordination Of Aaron - Discography 2xLP (Adagio 830) - 13 [one of the forerunners of that early 90's emo sound alongside current, indian summer and policy of three; compiles everything they did - listen]
 Ottawa - s/t LP (Residue) - 10 [discog collection from this lengendary 90's band; very dark and vicious hardcore from detroit, emo bordering on grind - listen]
 Phobia - Grind Your Fucking Head In LP (Rodel) - 8 [legendary grinders from california unleash their 2003 album on vinyl - listen]
 Phobia - Serenity Through Pain LP (Rodel) - 8 [legendary grinders from california unleash their 2001 album on vinyl - listen]
 Pollution - nasty.DNA LP (Feast Of Tentacles) - 8 [awesome new york outfit making an original take on metal punk, with weird elements of noise and drone - listen]
 Protestant - Judgements LP (Vendetta) - 10 [second album from the kill-waukee epic d-beaters; apocalyptic yet catchy - listen]
 Psudoku - Space Grind LP (Crucificados) - 10 [new outfit by the man-mental from parliamentarisk sodomi; discordance axis meets yes, or something - listen]
 Racebannon - Satan's Kickin' Yr Dick In LP (Alone) - 4 [mega deranged stuff that defies description but here goes; screamo hardcore meets dancey elements and beefheart-isms, and it's a concept album - listen]
 Rapider Than Horsepower / The Mae Shi - Split LP (Narshardaa) - 3 [rth = country-fied racebannon offshoot; tms = l.a. experimental punk who seem to be a bit popular nowadays - listen listen]
 Raven's Creed - Albion Thunder LP (Doomentia) - 8 [great uk supergroup plying a hefty catchy mix of venom, iron money and celtic frost - listen]
 Ruined Families - Four Wall Freedom LP (Scarecrow) - 6 [superb greek band blasting out 17 mins of cursed meets thrash meets emo styled stuff - listen]
 Running For Cover - Dark Well LP (Warm Bath) - 8 [an overlooked powerviolence gem from buffalo, ny; burly, brutal and experimental with it]
 S.A.T.A.N. / The Bold And The Beautiful - Split LP (Sadness Of Noise) - 3 [two polish bands; s = iron lung-esque two man grinding hardcore; tbatb = circle jerks at 666rpm - listen listen]
 Schizophasia - 3000 LP (Streaks) - 9 [absurd mix of psychedelic japanese noisepunk and industrial; side a = confuse / disorder-style noisecore; side b = dark, classic industrial noise like throbbing gristle - listen listen]
 Sete Star Sept - Gero Me 10" (Rage For All) - 7 [blistering art grind noisecore from sss, now a bass/drums duo; 50 songs packed onto a 10" - listen]
 Shoppers - Silver Year LP (Feeble Minds) - 10 [syracuse queer noise punk, matching pop sensibility to visceral manic noise - listen]
 Sink - Severance And Truth LP (Kult Of Nihilow) - 9 [finnish band unleash a new lp of their unique black metal, ambient, drone mix - listen]
 Sky:Lark - s/t LP (Sky:Lark) - 6 [great newish uk trio making a rockin' post-hardcore racket in the style of shotmaker, karp, fugazi and so on - listen]
 Snowblood - s/t 2xLP (SuperFi) - 14 [finally out! the third album from the godspeed meets neurosis scottish legends - listen]
 Spin Spin The Dogs - Leave Me In Leicester LP (Gringo) - 6 [totally wonky punk from these long-running indie fall-worshipping heroes - listen]
 Straight Edge Kegger - Hurt LP (Rotten To The Core) - 7 [2nd album, 11 tracks of female fronted all out thrash attack from fresno - listen]
 Suffering Mind - At War With Mankind 10" (Crucificados) - 8 [totally headcrushing polish grindcore; a head on collision of magrudergrind and insect warfare - listen]
 Suffering Mind - s/t LP (Crucificados) - 10 [totally headcrushing polish grindcore; a head on collision of magrudergrind and insect warfare - listen]
 The Take - Dolomite LP (Art For Blind) - 1 [great welsh band that do the whole pop punk thing to a tight tee - listen]
 Thou / Cower - Split LP (Vendetta) - 10 [the prolific louisiana doom outfit do short and sharp here; cower is a powerviolence outfit on yet another class split - listen listen]
 Throat - Licked Inch Fur LP (At War With False Noise) - 8 [ace four tracker from this finnish noiserock beast; think unsane, 16, fudge tunnel and all those great bands - listen]
 Torche - s/t LP (Robotic Empire) - 9 [the first album from the ex-floor stoner pop wizards; immensely heavy and catchy at the same time - listen]
 Total Control - Henge Beat LP (Iron Lung) - 11 [amazing aussie band making dark, hypnotic synth driven joy division-esque stuff mixed in with krautrock and garage punk - listen]
 Traindodge - I Am Forever LP (Little Mafia) - 9 [sixth album from this classic trio that mix jawbox in with experimental song structures and big doses of heaviness - listen]
 UFO Gestapo - Grandemmisair LP (Streaks) - 8 [third album of outlandish and bizarre brew of sludge and hardcore outbursts - listen]
 UFO Gestapo - s/t LP (Streaks) - 8 [first album of outlandish and bizarre brew of sludge and hardcore outbursts - listen]
 The United Sons Of Toil - When The Revolution Comes, Everything Will Be Beautiful LP (Sacred Plague) - 9 [marvellously muscular powerhouse noiserock with unwound and shellac influences - listen]
 Various - Clone 1 LP (Blind Date) - 8 [doom bands cover hardcore ones; salome, austrasian goat, atavist, coffins, monarch, la cuenta, fistula, hc minds]
 Various - Clone 2 LP (Blind Date) - 8 [doom bands cover hardcore ones; moloch, on pain of death, golden gorilla, aguirre, loss, thou, shadow of the torturer, hey colossus]
 Various - Clone 3 LP (Blind Date) - 8 [doom bands cover hardcore ones; fistula, whitehorse, su19b, crowskin, sollubi, habsyll, solar horn]
 The Wankys - The Very Best Of Hero LP (La Vida Es Un Mus) - 5 [bizarre trio from the uk, heavily influenced by japanese noise-punk, totally ear shredding distortion and shambolic structures; in a word: amazing - listen]
 Warsore / Autoritär - Split LP (TVG) - 10 [a repress of this classic grind noisecore split between legendary aussie and german bands - listen listen]
 Whitehorse - Document 250407 LP (Blind Date) - 9 [the aussie answer to corrupted unleash a killer live set for a radio session; crystal clear performance - listen]
 Wojczech - Pulsus Letalis LP (RSR) - 8 [long running german band finally unleash their second album of utterly crazed unflitered hardcore grind aggression - listen]
 Wormsblood - Mastery Of Creation Demos LP (Barbarian) - 9 [nasty outsider doom metal from burial hex folk; think bone awl in all their sparse bleakness - listen]
 Year Of No Light / Macchu Picchu Mother Future - Split LP (E-Vinyl) - 7 [yonl are french doom legends returned; mcmf are a collaboration of conifer, lesbian, nadja and more - listen listen]
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 Aderlating - Spear Of Gold And Seraphim Bone Pt.1 CD (Consouling) - 6 [an offshoot of gnaw their tongues; subtle ambient gives way to crushing noise-drenched black metal - listen]
 Aidan Baker - Lost In The Rat Maze CD (Consouling) - 6 [the prolific nadja mainman makes more great drone doom ambient soundscapery, this time stripped down and post-rocky - listen]
 Art Of Burning Water - The Voyage Of The Pessimistic Philosoph CD (SuperFi) - 3 [the first album; technical yet rocking, brutal yet clever, like melvins, zeni geva, craw, keelhaul etc - listen]
 Astral Womb - s/t CDR (Frequency 13) - 2 [totally progtacular mainly instrumental rocking action from this new uk band; massively ambitious - listen]
 Bastard Noise - Rogue Astronaut CD (Gravity) - 8 [don't call it a comeback cos they never been away; an almighty noise masterpiece - listen]
 Bastard Noise / Malachi - The Immortals CD (Hear More) - 6 [the reinvigorated noise legends pit their otherworldy sounds against crusty, bleak doom - listen listen]
 Blood Revolt - Indoctrine CD (Invictus) - 6 [an epic conceptual piece of brilliant death metal extremity and experimentalism - listen]
 Burning The Prospect - No Great Design CD (FETO) - 4 [ace uk band that make a devastatingly thunderous d-beat holocaust - listen]
 Career Suicide - Anthology Vol. 2 CD (Deranged) - 6 [amazing canadian band making totally powerhouse thrashy punk; tuneful yet crazy fast - listen]
 Cikuta - The Golden Root Era CD (self released) - 5 [first cd from this great russian band who play stuff like neurosis and cult of luna - listen]
 Corrupted - Paso Inferior CD (Nostalgia Blackrain) - 10 [rerelease of their excellent 1997 release from the absolute gods of japanese extreme doom - listen]
 Crowpath - Old Cuts And Blunt Knives CD (Robotic Empire) - 3 [comp of early releases from this amazing swedish twisted tech-metal monsters - listen]
 Crypsis - Choir For The Carrion CD (Tadpole) - 5 [awesome 5 tracker from this brighton metal trio; think carcass, sodom, kreator and so on - listen]
 Dazd - s/t CD (Fuck Yoga) - 4 [amazing and inventive magic crust from serbia; strange, atmospheric and experimental but definitely punk at heart - listen]
 The Death Of Her Money - Spirit Of The Stairwell CD (SuperFi) - 3 [epic slabs of monolithic, simplistic doom; equal parts isis and my bloody valentine - listen]
 The Death Of Her Money - You Are Loved CD (Slow Burn) - 7 [second album after the one we did; epic slabs of monolithic doom; equal parts isis and my bloody valentine - listen]
 The Death Of Her Money / Helga - Split CD (Delicious) - 5 [more amazing discordant and epic krautrocking doom from the welsh trio, up against a killer noisy russian band, drenched in feedback - listen listen]
 Domains - Towards Pleroma CD (Black Mass) - 2 [occult death metal influenced by acts such as miasma, possessed, sadistic intent or asphyx - listen]
 Evil Incarnate - Waiting For His Return CD (Heidenwut) - 2 [blasphemous, christ hating death metal a la possessed, dark angel, celtic frost and so on - listen]
 Exalted - We Are The Grim Throng CD (Battle Kommand) - 6 [raw, thrashy chicago black metal from charles bronson, mk ultra and nema members]
 Fear Falls Burning / Birchville Cat Motel - s/t CD (Conspiracy) - 4 [a collaboration between belgium and new zealand experimental noise drone artists - listen listen]
 Fistula - Goat CDEP (Crucial Blast) - 5 [the reignited ohio hardcore sludgers unleash an almighty blown-out, downtuned, evil drenched slab of rawk - listen]
 Fistula - We, The Beast CD (Choking Hazard) - 6 [the reignited ohio hardcore sludgers unleash an almighty blown-out, downtuned, evil drenched slab of rawk - listen]
 Fleshpress - Pillars CD (Kult Of Nihilow) - 7 [the third album from the mammoth finnish sludge doomsters, with plenty of psychedelic moments chucked in - listen]
 Fleshpress - No Return CD (Kult Of Nihilow) - 7 [one of the new eps from this finnish sludge doom monster with psyche elements - listen]
 Fleshpress - Rebuild Crumble CD (Kult Of Nihilow) - 7 [one of the new eps from this finnish sludge doom monster with psyche elements - listen]
 FPO - 2003 - 2007 Recordings CD (To Live A Lie) - 1 [fpo are a straight edge hardcore band from macedonia; forever positively obsessed - listen]
 Gasmask Terror - Complete Recordings 2004-2010 CD (Cactus) - 6 [ripping french d-beat band making 41 tracks of catchy and speedy crusty punk with shredded vocals - listen]
 Geisha - Mondo Dell'Orrore CD (SuperFi) - 3 [first album from the bristol rockers who weld real noise into their vhs fidelity attack - listen]
 Geisha - Die Verbrechen Der Liebe CD (Crucial Blast) - 5 [second album from the bristol rockers who weld real noise into their vhs fidelity attack - listen]
 Goatworshipper - s/t CD (Dan-doh) - 5 [killer release from this side project of kawakami disclose (r.i.p.); totally blackened noise stuff - listen]
 Hayaino Daisuki - Headbanger's Karaoke Club Dangerous Fire CD (Hydrahead) - 6 [discordance axis and mortalized members unleash turn on a dime grindcore with lots of metal licks in there - listen]
 Hebosagil - Colossal CD (Kaos Kontrol) - 5 [totally catchy and great blown-out stoner sludge from finland for fans of electric wizard, eyehategod and godflesh - listen]
 Hey Colossus - RRR CD (Riot Season) - 7 [album number seven or something for these near improv noise stoner steamroller; loads of riffs and psychedelic noise - listen]
 Highgate - Shrines To The Warhead CD (Total Rust) - 6 [4 tracks in 45 mins of unique crusty blackened doom; nasty and suicidal - listen]
 The Horde - From Empire To Ashes CD (Scenester Credentials) - 2 [six epic metal tracks from this illinois outfit; metal metal metal - listen]
 Jinn - s/t CD (SuperFi) - 3 [blistering and heavy thrashy hardcore from the newcastle mob; ex generic and thirty second until armageddon - listen]
 Joe Pesci - At Our Expense CD (Bones Brigade) - 4 [manic and speedy grind from the north of england complete with dustbin recording values - listen]
 Jucifer / Show Of Bedlam - Split CD (Choking Hazard) - 5 [the massive amped shoegaze doom duo with female vocals battle a canuck band like jarboe fronting st vitus - listen listen]
 The Kill - Blast Beat'n The Shit Outta PBS MCD (Blastasfuk) - 4 [the aussie kings of blitzingly fast grindcore, 16 tracks of new junk live on air - listen]
 Line - They Took Great Proud In Their Work CD (SuperFi) - 3 [sweet bristol collective making krautrocking indie stuff; features soeza members - listen]
 Line - Mark Making CD (Pull The Strings) - 2 [sweet bristol collective making krautrocking indie stuff; features soeza members - listen]
 Nadja - Skin Turns To Glass CD (The End) - 6 [the massively prolific doom drone duo reissue a 2003 release; slow build ups, lumbering bass, soothing drones - listen]
 Noism - +/- CD (Crucial Blast) - 4 [japanese loonies that make totally unlistenable glitching digital grindcore - listen]
 Nub - s/t CD (And Then) - 2 [a uk band from the 90's that made a great blend of noisy post hardcore and twinkling indie - listen]
 Od Vratot Nadolu - Mercury CD (SuperFi) - 4 [totally blasting mutant hardcore from this macedonian duo; bass plus drums equals titanic riffing destruction - listen]
 Oldest - s/t CD (Oldest) - 8 [mick barr of orthrelm and krallice gets a drummer onboard to make more song-based metallic shred with vokills; ltd to 100 cdrs - listen]
 Ommadon - II CDR (Ommadon) - 2 [second release of ultra punishing extreme sludge doom brutality from ex snowblood lads - listen]
 Pig Heart Transplant - Hope You Enjoy Heaven CD (Sweatlung) - 8 [an album proper from jon "iron lung" kortland's experimental noise dirge outfit; dense, swirling, chaotic - listen]
 Pisschrist - Nothing Has Changed CD (Ricecooker) - 4 [distort melbourne! the aussie kings of crustified d-beat mayhem - listen]
 The Psychic Paramount - Live 2002 The Franco-Italian Tour CD (Public Guilt) - 3 [good and loud psychedelic freeform riffing, locked down rhythms and manic guitar; think magma and mainliner - listen]
 Putrescence - Mangled, Hollowed Out And Vomit Filled CD (No Escape) - 1 [canadian goregrind killing machine that has a sense of humour and tons of musicality - listen]
 Racebannon - IV: Acid Or Blood CD (Southern) - 4 [mega deranged stuff that defies description but here goes; screamo hardcore meets dancey elements and beefheart-isms - listen]
 Reigns - Styne Vallis CD (Jonson Family) - 1 [unique dark storytelling indie with plenty of electronic elements from the depths of the english countryside - listen]
 Riververb - Full Sway CD (Sweatlung) - 8 [heavy psychedelic synth squall from san diego; pounding industrial synths and neanderthal bass sludge distortion - listen]
 Saros - Five Pointed Tongue CD (Hungry Eye) - 1 [debut release from the band now on profound lore; killer san fransisco death metal action - listen]
 See You In Hell - Market Yourself CD (Too Circle) - 1 [czech mob that have toured the world making seriously good d-beat thrashcore - listen]
 Sete Star Sept - Live In Baltimore 2011 CD (Revulsion) - 5 [blistering semi improv noisecore grind from these japanese crazies; 22 great sounding tracks - listen]
 Sissy Spacek - Gore Jet CD (Sweatlung) - 8 [collects a bunch of 7" and comp tracks from these noise legends; john wiese collaborates with a host of characters - listen]
 Snowblood - s/t CD (SuperFi) - 8 [the third album from the godspeed meets neurosis scottish legends - listen]
 Thrones - Sperm Whale CD (Kill Rock Stars) - 8 [joe preston's solo thing, bass and drum machine, like a medieval troubadour blasted in from the 25th century - listen]
 Tide Of Iron - Sow CD (Shy Bairns) - 3 [great new newcastle trio, ex-fuck that, bong, ultrashitinferno etc; chaotic riffing yet melodic - listen]
 Traindodge - On A Lake Of Dead Trees CD (Ascetic) - 2 [early album from the st louis trio; blastingly heavy most of the time too - listen]
 Trenches - s/t CD (Trenches) - 6 [hefty irish mob making an aggressively downtuned bit of hardcore noiserock with doom influences - listen]
 Truman's Water / Rosolina Mar - Split CD (Robotradio) - 2 [the legendary usa indie punk noiseniks battle an italian band doing similar stuff - listen listen]
 Villains - Drenched In The Poisons CD (Aurora Borealis) - 4 [acid punk stuff from the bowels of new york from members of unearthly trance]
 War Ethic / Irons - Split CDR (Frequency 13) - 2 [we - pure instrumental war metal loving action; i - raw sludgy doom stuff - listen]
 Whitehorse - Progression CD (Sweatlung) - 8 [new album from the aussie doom lords; taking a hardcore approach to heaviness, this is like older corrupted crush meets noise - listen]
 Whourkr - Naat CD (Suprachaotic) - 3 [noxious and nasty experimental digi-grind chaos with plenty of glitching going on - listen]
 xBrainiax - Deprogrammed CD (To Live A Lie) - 7 [killer, lightning fast grinding thrash from these cult dudes; bunch of enhanced extras too - listen]

 Anton Caligula Maiof - Long Blues Tape (Phantom Head) - 2 [the erstwhile geisha frontman does his noise thing, at times soothing, at times not - listen]
 Atomgevitter - Thrash Ritual Tape (Revulsion) - 2 [long-running scottish thrash nutters who combine humour and genuine catchy tunes in amonst the speed - listen]
 City Dweller - s/t Tape (n/a) - 3 [great new london band reminiscent of the d.c. revolution summer hardcore sound; tricky and catchy - listen]
 Contort - Endless Myopic Bastards Tape (Distro-y) - 2 [great irish crasher hardcore, heavy on the feedbacking scree and crazed rocking noise punk - listen]
 Family Man - SE Asia Tour Tape (Revulsion) - 2 [seriously rocking thrashy punk from these germany by way of atomgevitter chaps; has both albums - listen]
 Field Boss - Discography Tape (Tapes Of Wrath) - 2 [go west for gnarly noiserock; think unsane, melvins, swans, godflesh, farming machinery - listen]
 Fy Fan - Tack For Ingenting Tape (Revulsion) - 3 [taking the punk world by storm is this blistering collection from the swedish hardcore meets early ushc wizards - listen]
 Hebosagil - Ura Tape (Kaos Kontrol) - 2 [totally catchy and great blown-out stoner sludge from finland for fans of electric wizard, eyehategod and godflesh - listen]
 Hondartzako Hondakinak - Demo 2 Tape (n/a) - 2.5 [awesome blown out sloppy noise punk d-beat from the basque country - listen]
 Iron Lung - Sexless / No Sex Tape (Revulsion) - 3 [possibly the best thrashy, fast, powerviolent album ever made; two people that sound like a stop-start hardcore army - listen]
 Joshua Norton Cabal / Disgust - Split Tape (Small Doses) - 3 [jnc - endless blockade member doing unique harsh noise in a euro p.e. style; d - vitriolic, hate-filled p.e. stuff - listen listen]
 Parliamentarisk Sodomi - De Anarkistiske An(n)aler (Revulsion) - 3 [insane one man grind band makes a second album of blistering fast and weird grindcore - listen]
 Quest Of Quasar - Nok-Tur-Nal Tape (Bullwhip) - 2 [ace slab of malaysian screamo to wrap your head around - listen]
 Sista Sekunden - Aging With Style Tape (Cactus) - 2.5 [a swedish band with their third album of cracking thrashy stuff with melodic punk riffs - listen]
 Wode - Demo Tape (Wode) - 3 [excellent new manc band, invoking the spirit of punk and black metal; catchy yet harsh - listen]
 Xulsigiae - s/t Tape (Phantom Head) - 2 [an improv noise outfit from bristol; feat. hunting lodge, it's a lunken and dsic members - listen]

 Invocation Of Obscene Gods #1 Zine - 3 [awesome zine with nunslaughter, abigail, the kill, antiseen, rupture, csdd and more]
 Keep It Real #9 Zine - 1 [great greek zine (in english) featuring pulling teeth, vitamin x, lewd acts, krishna article and reviews]
 Limited Readership #2 Zine - 2.5 [great follow up from rob brain dead; pollution, milk music, condominium, spike in vain, hardcore, movies]
 More Noize #5 Zine - 1 [super zine focussing on the rawer, noise punk end of things; finnish punk and wretched features; 68 A5 pages]
 Ont Road / Go Fuck Yourself #13 / #1 Zine - 0.5 [nice split here; dart in holland, leatherface, pisschrist tour diary, thou interview, travels around america and more]
 Ont Road / Go Fuck Yourself #16 / #2 Zine - 0.5 [stories on greece, the afternoon gentlemen, geoffrey oicott, mouth, a john holmes / kabinboy tour diary and more]
 Personal Best #1 Zine - 7.5 [ace 90 page zine on noise by jazkamer bloke; c spencer yeh, sete star sept, oren ambarchi, sissy spacek, bruce russell and more]
 Shoganai #1 Zine - 1 [super personal diary zine by a gawky us punk fan who finds himself working in japan; worldy wise and funny - info]
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