One of my favorite sources of music is being endangered by a take-down order sent by their local MAFIAA to their host. However, as they stated on their website as the news got out:
- The MAFIAA has no legal basis, it’s just scare tactics.
- Their host is not scared and will not comply (unless they have a court order, of course). Many hosts in the past were quickly intimated or bribed by the intellectual “property” police.
- They run very frequent backups, to various locations in the world.
- They have an idle server in an undisclosed location, twice as more powerful, just waiting in case of a police raid. Which would mean almost zero downtime, and a another waste of taxpayers’ money.
The administrators who run these kind of websites - and I’m not only talking about piracy -, they are true modern heroes with big fucking balls. Thank you, guys.
And each time one of them is taken down, new ones, better, tougher, will emerge.
Published on Thursday 24 April 2008 .
Hydra Head Records is an independent record label, founded in New Mexico by Aaron Turner (the frontman of Isis) in 1993. Some of the bands signed to the label include Cave In, Pelican, Xasthur, and Jesu.
Botch, Khanate, and Harkonen were all signed to Hydra Head prior to their respective disbandings.
And they’re doing it again.
I just listened to the Pyramids self-titled double CD. It’s unusual and brilliant. They were classified as Indie (whatever that means) where I got it, but it’s much more than that. It’s a sort of post-rock drone with celestial voices… well, I’ve never been able to describe music, and it will clearly not start with them. Listen to them, and if you don’t like it you’re a faggot.
Published on Wednesday 6 February 2008 .
Gallhammer is an all girl Black/Doom/Crust band from Tokyo, Japan.
Wow. Cute Japanese girls playing doom metal? I expected to LOLWTF, but I didn’t. Actually they sounded quite good. Moreover, they have a dead tree on their CD cover, and while it’s a big doom cliché, I fucking love dead trees. Well, by looking at the promo pictures it seems they invented some sort of “visual doom”, however they don’t look that ridiculous (not compared to some Norwegian true black metal band I will not name, but compared to the Japanese+women combo).
Let’s not forget the lineup:
Mika Penetrator - vocals, guitars
Vivian Slaughter - vocals, bass
Risa Reaper - drums, vocals
If you want to discover other extreme metal female vocalists, you should get this dusty but still good compilation.
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