by BBG

DOWNLOAD: Capsule - "Neuralize So Numb" (MP3)

After releasing the triumphant and impressive Blue on Robotic Empire (which was recently repressed), Capsule is back with No Ghost due on April 12th via Rorschach Records. Unmastered versions of the LP show promise; a band that has always impressed with over-the-top technicality piles hooks into their math-y post-hardcore to great effect. Dig on exhibit A from No Ghost, "Neuralize So Numb" which makes its first appearance here, downloadable above/streamable below.

Capsule is on the road in March, and will play Acheron on March 25th with two more bands TBA. Full dates are below. In addition, Eric Hernandez of Capsule and formerly of Kylesa, has another forthcoming show with his other project Shitstorm. You can catch Shitstorm in NYC when they team up with Cripple Bastards, The Kill, Noisear, and many others at Public Assembly on 5/25.

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words by BBG, photos by Kris Arnold

Arab on Radar

Indianapolis was ablaze this weekend (July 9th & 10th), as Arab on Radar and Municipal Waste headlined Dudefest in Indianapolis, Indiana as part of a two day event in that city. The event also featured many other luminaries from the hardcore/underground metal scenes which also featured Voetsek (coming to NYC), Capsule, Get Rad (profiled here), Coffinworm (coming to NYC), Failures & Vaccine (who played NYC last night, pics coming soon), Landmine Marathon (who play NYC TWICE this week, with Salome), Trap Them (their new EP is out now), Phoenix Bodies, Pollution (who have a new 12"), and many others. Our photographer sent in his notes...

Dudefest, Day 1: The evening started off fairly sparse with a few crowding to the front to watch the bands and the occasional minipit. The hall was packed densely with merch booths and the bathroom supplying the Emerson Theater classic carnival game, piss on the cockroach in the urinal until he drowns. The crowd seemed to pick up by the time Landmine Marathon took stage, but it was the full force rage of Municipal Waste that really brought things into a fury.

Day 2: Irony-a-plenty at the ES Jungle. For those that don't know its a church and you can only chuckle when bands like Black Arrows of Filth and Impurity are on the bill and you're staring down a line of people wearing t-shirts depicting bloodied carcasses atop a pentagram. This day was a bit more rough and by the end of the night it turned into a photography war zone, just replace bombs with people, feet, and elbows.

Twitter reports confirm the reign of terror brought forth by Arab on Radar at Dudefest, their second show in a week as the band also played AS220 in their native Rhode Island on July 3rd. The band is currently working on a new record with no release date set yet.

Videos from both Arab on Radar shows and more pictures from Dudefest (Capsule, Failures, Municipal Waste, Landmine Marathon, Phoenix Bodies, and more... WARNING: don't look on an empty stomach), below...

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by BBG

Remember that Brainworms tour we were just talking about? Well, according to Punknews, Brainworms have called it quits. Capsule (featuring Kylesa drummer Eric Hernandez) will sally forth without them, playing all three previously discussed shows at Cake Shop (3/17), ABC No Rio (3/20), and the newly announced Glass Door (3/20). Support for Cake Shop will come from Nomos, Death First, and the great Pollution, while ABC No Rio gets Pregnant and Nightbirds +1 TBA. My favorite of the three goes to The Glass Door show, which will feature the incredible Defeatist, Ramps and MVRs (most valuable rookies) Psychic Limb. Git er dun.

Ramps will play a couple weeks before that, as part of the rescheduled Sourvein date at The Charleston on 3/7 with with Akris. The original show was on February 6th, but...

Sorry broklyn nyc ,umm we are still in the studio and got to get done by the 1st so we cant come out the studio for the 6th how ever we will be doing a make up show in the early of march.please come out and bang ur head,stay tuned stay doom -[Sourvein]

Sweet, dudes. Can't wait for the new material. Just make sure and use spellcheck a bit more often (like I can talk).

Some videos and tons of tour dates (including Sourvein's tour with Eyehategod) are below...

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by BBG

DOWNLOAD: Brainworms - "Sunrise Dudes" (Live) (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: Brainworms - "Art Thou Bored" (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: Brainworms - "Born With A Beard" (MP3)

NOT Tim Harrington: Brainworms

The sound that Virginia's Brainworms have become notorious for is definitely different... Brainworms have always embraced the style of hardcore that was made popular by groups like Split Lip and Grade. All of the group's discography bleeds of a melodic hardcore influence, but the fact is they hardly ever sound that clean or restrained. Whether it is punk, hardcore, or even indie rock, Brainworms are able to spew a dissonant yet catchy mix of numerous genres. -[Sputnik]

Richmond punks Brainworms are notoriously unrestrained live, and you can catch the crew with Capsule as the pair hit the road for a gang of East Coast dates in middle March. The tour includes THREE NYC dates: Cake Shop on 3/17, ABC no Rio on 3/20, and a third TBD show also on 3/20. Full tour dates are below.

Brainworms last released II: Swear To Me last year. Capsule released the highly acrobatic Blue on Robotic Empire a little more than two years ago.

Tour dates and some videos are below...

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by Black Bubblegum

DOWNLOAD: Kylesa - "Said & Done" (MP3)

Kylesa @ Full Metal Texas, SXSW (more pics here)

Kylesa have scheduled ANOTHER pair of shows in the NYC area: May 27th at Maxwell's (tickets here) and Cake Shop on May 30th (yeah you read that right). That makes FIVE total NYC area shows that the Savannah crew has lined up in the month of May if you count their sold-out shows with Mastodon & Intronaut at MHOW and Irving Plaza and the one with Coheed & Cambria at Starland Ballroom. You officially have no excuse to miss 'em.

Kylesa is touring in support of their kick-ass new record Static Tensions, which includes "Said & Done" (above). Pitchfork dug it too.

Meanwhile, Kylesa drummer (one of them) Eric Hernandez's other project, Capsule, (who we profiled last year) have released a digital-only release entitled Tape + Demo + Tour. Check out the song "Just Three Lines" from that release (originally found on a short run, tour-only CD-R) at their myspace and pick it up at iTunes.

In addition, dig on the below videos that Capsule put together chronicling their show at The Fest 7 in Gainsville, FL.

All dates below...

Continue reading "Kylesa - 2009 Tour Dates (Mastodon, Cake Shop, Maxwell's)"

by Black Bubblegum

DOWNLOAD: Crowpath - "The Deed" (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: Crowpath - "One With Filth" (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: Crowpath - "Plague Bearer" (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: Graf Orlock - "Run Over By A Truck" (M4A)
DOWNLOAD: Cripple Bastards - "Sangue Chiama" (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: Ocean - "The Beacon" (Excerpt) (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: Ocean - "Of The Lesser" (Excerpt) (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: Kylesa - "Set Controls for The Heart Of The Sun" (MP3, Pink Floyd cover)
DOWNLOAD: Kylesa - "Between Silence & Sound" (Remix) (MP3)

Crowpath

Let us all give thanks to Crowpath. For it is on November 25th, that the Swedes will brutalize us at the highly chaotic crossroads of brutal grind, death, doom, and hardcore with their new album One with Filth. The eleven-track LP One With Filth is currently up for preorder with a shirt at Willowtip Records, but you can download THREE of those tracks above, including "The Deed" available only here!

How can it get any better? Maryland Deathfest have added Napalm Death, Venomous Concept, and Misery Index to the already STELLAR lineup which includes the mighty Bolt Thrower. Tickets for Maryland Deathfest are on sale.

As we discussed last week, the mighty Graf Orlock have a new record on the way, Destination Time Today. The third installment in their cinemagrind trilogy, da Graf have been (un)kind enough to hook us BV'ers up with the new jam "Run Over By A Truck", downloadable above!

Ocean (of Maine) drops their new record, the two-track Pantheon Of The Lesser on Important Records on 11/11... check out the pair of MP3 excerpts available for download above. Likey? Pick it up right cheah...

Trap Them's massive new album Seizures In Barren Praise and the domestic issue of Carpathian's Isolation is out NOW via Deathwish Records. Broke/cheap & want 'em both? Email BVCONTESTS@HOTMAIL.COM (subject: Trap Them) and win BOTH CDs or BOTH LPs! Include your first and last name, your preference in format (CD or LP)... winners will be selected at random and contacted. Meanwhile, get your listen on at Hardcore Night's Trap Them Listening Party "and Beer Chugging Contest" (awesome) at The Charleston on 11/13.. flyer is below. Trap Them also was interviewed by Crustcake and sat in at WNYU! Download it here (forward to the 27 min mark).

Italian me(n)tal pantients Cripple Bastards dropped their new grinder Variante Alla Morte on FETO Records (owned by Shane Embury and Mick Kenney). Check out "Sangue Chiama", one of the few tracks over 30 seconds long (hell, over 10 seconds long), available for download above!

Neurosis have announced a few new new bands for the Beyond The Pale event at Roadburn 2009 including Om, Six Organs Of Admitttance, Skullflower, and A Storm Of Light! Hmmm, Wino is at Roadburn with Saint Vitus, Scott Kelly of Neurosis is obviously there, and now Al Cisneros from Om is on board.... thats 3/4 of Shrinebuilder... we'll keep you posted for new additions as come up! As originally discussed in February, Scott "Wino" Weinrich has a new solo album in the works... but now it has a name and a date! Look for the new album, Punctuated Equilibrium on Jan 20th 2009, and check out the album art!

That album art plus details on the Amenra US tour, news on Mastodon, Jesu, Metallica, Giant Squid, Agoraphobic Nosebleed and so much more below...

Continue reading "This Week In METAL (11/12/08) "

by Black Bubblegum

DOWNLOAD: Kylesa - Bottom Line (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: Kylesa - Where The Horizen Unfolds (MP3)

Laura Kylesa

Savannah, Georgia's Kylesa has announced a tour of the East Coast that will see the band teaming up with Pinback on a few, including both previously announced NYC dates. Tickets are still available for both (Bowery on 9/28 here, MHOW on 9/27 here). As reported, the band is currently working on their follow-up to Time Will Fuse It's Worth which will (again) be produced by guitarist Philip Cope. Tour dates are down below.

Last time Kylesa was here, they killed the Knitting Factory with The Ocean, Lair Of The Minotaur & Withered. Lair Of The Minotaur are headed back to NYC with M.O.D. - tickets are still available. Withered are headed back to NYC with Watain.

Kylesa shares a drummer with Capsule. Capsule's buddies Torche recently played Webster Hall with Boris.

In related awesome heavy music with female frontwomen news, Made Out Of Babies are hitting Europe, but not before playing a few US dates including a show in Brooklyn at Southpaw with Pigs & Pistola and another in Ohio with the mighty Keelhaul. Brooklyn tickets are on sale.

Dates and flyers below...

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by Black Bubblegum

DOWNLOAD: Capsule - "Cobalt Connection" (ZSHARE MP3 LINK)
DOWNLOAD: Capsule - "Determinal" (ZSHARE MP3 LINK)

These guys are on some other shit. Featuring members of some seriously mighty bands (ex-Torche & Tyranny of Shaw, currently Kylesa) Capsule play a frenzied blend of metal-meets-post-hardcore that is somehow both calculated and chaotic. Pull all of the prog tendencies out of Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and put him back in front of a post-hardcore rhythm section with ADD, distill the results, and you'd have something that sounds like them. Think Dysrhythmia or Behold... The Arctopus with gang vocals and a furious punk slant..... lots of technicality, odd time signatures, and jaw-dropping left turns.

Their FIRST LP Blue is out now. For more praise, see what Decibel has to say. Pick it up at Robotic Empire.

If you missed 'em last night (April 15) at the Brooklyn Cat House, catch 'em tonight (April 16 at the Charleston (on Bedford) with BirthdayBoyz. They're on tour with Furnace. All dates below...

But first check out the ridiculous interview that Colin from Capsile did with Rick Smith of Torche on his blog.

Continue reading "Capsule - MP3s & 2008 Tour Dates (tonight in Brooklyn)"