The Sleeping Village. Not the Venue.

A SERIOUS HOUSE ON SERIOUS EARTH BY IRON CHIC

One of my absolute favorite bands of all time.

Just goddamn great.

RORCAL - Ἀντιγόνη BY RORCAL

Some pissed of Swiss.

The song is nearly 13 minutes long, as are the other 3 tracks from the same album. Which is crazy for this type of music, but I’m looking at each song as a separate little ep. It makes it more digestible.

You can download the album this song is from (Creon) and all the band’s other releases for free from their website.

WAR WIDOWS BY AMINALS

A bandcamp supporter comments sum this up perfectly: “Been a fan since 06/07 which is scary to think about. Phenomenal band. A total mystery as to how they aren’t bigger.”

How does a band like this fly under the radar for 10 years (at least as far as I can tell)?

An incredibly hard to search band name already doesn’t help. Neither does a great though sort of generic sound. Aminals are good, they are totally nailing that early 00s metal/hardcore Converge thing, but so have lots of bands.

Despite what it might sound like, I do like the album and its free on their bandcamp page.

Photo by Trevor Roper (stolen from Facebook).

VISTAS BY BAPTISTS

YES

FEAST OF THE DAMNED BY BLACK BREATH

This is what head banging was invented for.

I didn’t appreciate how good these guys are when I saw then open for Converge & Coalesce a bunch of year ago and I regret it.

Photo stolen from SeptikPhoto.

ATTRITION BY TORCH RUNNER

Where has this band been and why didn’t someone tell me about this.

Sludgey crust thrash with some Coalesce/Botch touches.

F.E.F.E. BY TENDER DEFENDER

Members of Latterman, Iron Chic and RVIVR (which are all basically just members of Latterman)? Hell yeah.

This ep is great.

Photo by Sofia Hicks.

IF THE STRAW IS DRY, IT WILL LIGHT UP BY MATERIC

This band is Russian, so I apologize right off the bat if Google translate has mangled the original untranslated Russian title of this song: “если солома высохла, она загорится”.

Sort of droney post rock with some 90s emo touches, particularly in the vocals.

Its free on their Bandcamp page.

YOU CAN MAKE THE BEAT GO BOOM, BABY BY BEIGE EAGLE BOYS

The album is a bit uneven. Some songs leaning a bit too much into growled hardcore, and others a bit too slow. But the songs that stay a bit more in the noise rock/ Pissed Jeans realm are great.

All and all, You’re Gonna Get Yours is still a pretty listenable record with a lot of great moments.

Buy it here.