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DOWNLOAD: Ancestors - The Ambrose Law
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We're going to be real with you: this Ancestors song is over thirteen minutes long. You might've surmised from the photo that these dudes aren't into brevity, but really you guys this is an almost quarter-hour of swashbuckling, organ-smeared doom riffage. It's a freaking leviathan. In terms of getting the most bang for you download or whatever, this trumps everything else. Should you need more, the album from whence it came is available from Tee Pee.
DOWNLOAD: Final - Wrong Signal (alt. mix)
Maybe the deep ambience of Final, a.k.a. Justin Broadrick, feels so weighty because there’s so much history behind it: He first carved his name into the earth playing guitar with Napalm Death in the mid-’80s, then drummed for Head Of David (slogan: “Peace through superior rock power”) before co-founding Godflesh, kind of the Velvet Underground of industrial metal, as far as influence goes. This decade he came back recharged with Jesu, taking on production and remixing duties for a wide spray of bands (including School of Seven Bells). Final was also the name of his first project in the early ’80s, but with the new album Reading All the Right Signals Wrong, you could say his ideas have evolved a bit: “Wrong Signal” is like heavy air under Gothic clouds, and you just want to breathe deeply and become it.
DOWNLOAD: Nebula - The Dagger
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Take one look at Nebula's exhaustive tour schedule for the rest of the year–a current run with The Entrance Band, ending in early September, and a two-month run through Europe directly after that–and you get the feeling that this band can play. That is also evident on "The Dagger," a wormy riffgarden snatched from their newest album for Tee Pee, Heavy Psych (way get literal, guys).
DOWNLOAD: ISIS - 20 Minutes/40 Years
ISIS is an L.A. drone-metal band whose fifth studio album, Wavering Radiant, marks this year’s surrender to the inevitable crescendo of transcendent noise. “20 Minutes/40 Years” is nothing less than the prototype for stretched-out, dissonant guitar ballads. It’s a slow head-bang, a black riff on an atmospheric landscape. Made for peeling out of your driveway to dump that succubus who you were gonna take to Amsterdam but now she kissed that guy at Kendall’s party so you invoke ISIS to rain sonic darkness upon us all. God, she was the one.
Sounds like: Tool, Explosions in the Sky, Sleeping in Gethsemane
DOWNLOAD: Children - Power Spirit
We don't usually wax much on the photos that go along with our tracks, but can we just pause for a minute to marvel at the above? Could there be a more perfect and apt promo shot? Do I even have to tell you that Children are a ridiculously thrilling thrash metal band who use atomic mushroom clouds as their aesthetic constant? Probably not, but it's worth reiterating. Further proof can be found in the relentless deep shred of "Power Spirit," which, truth be told, sounds like something pulled from Megadeth's Rust In Peace if Dave Mustaine had been eating rocks while recording that record. Children's debut full-length, Hard Times Hanging At The End Of The World, hits May 12th through Kemado. Now go air guitar your ass off.
Sounds like: Megadeth, High On Fire, Ladyhawk (not really they're just bros)
DOWNLOAD: The Sword - How Heavy This Axe
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I'm not sure where to start with this one: the ridiculous guitar soup, the galloping metal cavalcade, the depths of Mordor grooves, or the amazing title. Austin's The Sword have been bringing the noise for a few years now and the question posed by this track is equally applicable to their sound, a furious hybrid of different styles of metal that cherrypicks all of the best elements of each.
Sounds Like: Black Mountain, Graveyard, Witch
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: The Giraffes - Happy Kwanzaa Mr President EP
Sometimes finding the perfect gift is tricky, frustrating or damn near impossible. But the Giraffes have had no such problem this holiday season. What to give to warm your cockles, make you feel evil and want to get in trouble? How about the five tunes comprising the RCRD LBL exclusive, Happy Kwanzaa Mr President. Combining the sexy velvet danger of Josh Homme, the frightening dynamics of Sabbath and darkly realistic lyrics that remind that the holidays are a nice escape but 09 is going to be a doozy, the Giraffes throw the final rock gauntlet of 2008. Grab this exclusive EP and join RCRD LBL and the Giraffes in wishing Mr President-Elect a Happy Kwanzaa and good luck in the new year.
Sounds like: Queens of the Stone Age, Big Sleep, Annihilation Time, Eagles of Death Metal
The Giraffes - Manchester United
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Triclops! - Cassava + Freedom Tickler + March Of The Half-Babies
Triclops! sound like the Melvins and Jesus Lizard locking horns. Triclops! sound like dumptrucks dropping flaming tugboats on a bed of cars at rush hour. Or maybe a herd of bison. Combining elements of both metal and prog, Triclops are a San Francisco acid punk outfit whose brawny, colossal and toothsome Out of Africa is one of the more overlooked records this year. Below you'll find three cuts that exemplify the noise just described, one of which, the very gnarly "Cassava," is a RCRD LBL exclusive.
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Annihilation Time - Just Guzzlin' + Bald Headed Woman
Cardigans and beards, horn-rimmed glasses and songs about falling in love - that's the route a lot of bands take to indie stardom. Dirty denim and leather, grizzle (well, one beard, but you'd imagine it's there to catch errant beer) and songs about, uh, guzzlin' and bitches - that's the Annihilation Time way. Hailing from Oakland and kicking off a tour last night in Asheville, North Carolina that will see them hit the hipster hot spots from Buffalo to Chattanooga, Annihilation Time are a crew you don't want to mess with - unless you're into messes involving sex, booze, illegal substances, firearms, destruction and volume levels that your mom would find highly inappropriate. These dudes are for real and when they offer the options of "worship or be crushed," grab a hymnal (or plastic cup full of beer/whiskey) and say amen (or an expletive of your choosing).
Sounds like: Priestess, Night Horse, Winger
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Night Horse - Don't Need Your Lovin' + Wicked Love
Think Danzig fronting the Allman Brothers Band. Or ZZ Top joining forces with John Lee Hooker. It may sound as improbable as Run DMC walking this way with Aerosmith, but Night Horse combine the blues sludge, the perfectly snarling howl, the dueling guitars and the thundering drums of those unrepentant rockers and add a sinister swagger all their own. If psychedelic blues rock metal was a genre, the band that would pop up on AllMusic would be Night Horse. These five dudes are creating such epic stompers on The Night Won't Hide You that it takes just 7 songs in 37 minutes to make you want to steal a hot rod, grab a pin-up by the waist and make some serious trouble.
Sounds Like: Burning Brides, Priestess, Ancestors, Buffalo Killers
Download: Night Horse - Don't Need Your Lovin'
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