Waste of Talent

Every once in awhile, a band or record label will, by some miracle of idealism or stupidity, offer up music entirely free. We saw this with the Jaked Off Shorts and Loaded Heads album which you can still find a link to here

Well, we here at MINDGRINDER don't like ripping off the artists that we enjoy, we just can't afford them. That's why whenever we find good, legally free music we try to share it with you. And, when we have money and an artist that deserves our money, we buy the album (Alright, now I'm done moralizing).

So here's a wonderful band that belongs to Misantrof Anti records, a label that offers it's musicians full rights to the music they create. Ain't the internet great?! This here is "Waste of Talent", self-purported misanthropic, nihilists who got tired of waiting for the world to end. This stuff is AWESOME.

Here's the link to the band's website where you can download the stuff directly from them. If you like the music, you can donate some money via paypal to them for all their hard work. I just gave them 5 bucks, seriously. Even if it's just a buck or two, we should all support artists that do this kind of thing because they're few and far between.

DNA TEST FEST TODAY. GO THERE. BE MERRY.

Sean Gray of WMUC's own "DNA in the DNA" has been putting together a festival in the past few months titled DNA TEST FEST. It's free and open to the public and goes from 6pm and into the night today and Saturday. It'll be hosted at University of Maryland: College Park's radio station (3130 South Campus Dining Hall).

Day 1: 7/25/08
6pm - ?

Bands:

Tall Firs
FNU Ronnie
Satanized
Kurt Vile
No Fucker
True Womanhood
Ian Nogoski
Vegetative State
The Lampshades
Nicholas Szczepanik
Kid Romance
Eightyfive

Day 2: 7/26/08
6pm - ?

Bands:

Homostupids
Y-DI
Homeblitz
Locrian
Violet
Buckets of Bile
Nocnitsa
Turboslut


You have no excuse. This is free!

--fred

(P.S. -- Trey and I are hosting filling in for the slot before Sean so we can host an episode of MINDGRINDER. 4-6pm Today (Friday) Eastern Time Zone)

Flower Travellin' Band

Flower Travellin' Band was a Japanese Psychedelic band from the late 60s/early 70s. They started off as a 60s rock cover band, until eventually covering Black Sabbath and shooting off into a sound of their own. There's not many places online where you can get most of their albums in one place--enjoy it while you can:


Satori
Anywhere
Made in Japan

Eccentric Doomy Japanese Psychedelia. If you're not familiar with the band yet, I would start off with Satori.

--fred

PENTAGRAM

Awesome compilation of early tunes by a favorite band of mine, PENTAGRAM. They originate from the D.C./Virginia area and still reunite to play a set or two every now and then, but they're all crack smokin', bad drug abusing sons of bitches nowadays. Don't change the music none, though: PENTAGRAM - First Daze Here

Dopethrone

You can't go anywhere on the internet without stumbling over this album...and there's a reason for that. This is Electric Wizard's heaviest album--maybe one of the heaviest albums ever made, depending on who you talk to. The guitars are super fuzzed out and tuned down and the vocals are shrouded within all of it, just the way I like it. If you haven't heard it--do yourself a huge favor and give it a listen:
Part 1
Part 2

IMPALED

(dis)'Member that Carcass tribute I posted a little while ago? Well, I've got this pretty killer IMPALED album that features B-Sides, Unreleased songs, and demos by the band--so if you enjoyed the Impaled tracks on that tribute album, you'll probably enjoy this too.

Plus, they do an Impetigo cover: ILLEGALLY DOWNLOAD THIS.

EVIL DEAD - Annihilation of Civilization

These guys thrashed when thrash wasn't fashionable anymore; and boy, did they do it well. Evil Dead - Annihilation of Civilization

A Peace Offering (NAILBOMB)

We're both STILL in the process of moving and getting settled...not a whole lot of time to upload albums and whatnot. I, personally, am fucking exhausted, and being far miles away from my hard drive (left it in College Park), I had to kind of scrape around for something worthwhile to upload. I think this should satisfy yous for a bit.

Nailbomb is a Post-Thrash Industrial Metal band, formed as a side project between Max Cavalera (Sepultura, Soul Fly) and Alex Newport (Fudge Tunnel). They have a sound that levitates in between Sepultura and Fudge Tunnel's more straight ahead songs, with Max and Alex sharing or alternating vocals. The Industrial bit of it is kind of lame--would just prefer for someone to play some of the stuff that's looped, but whatever, it really doesn't hurt the music. The first track, "Wasting Away", should be more than enough to warm you up to the rest of the album. If you like Sepultura, head banging, the word "fuck", and crazy brazilian guys with dreads (and pasty englishmen), download this: NAILBOMB - Point Blank

If you need some more convincing, here's an excerpt from one of their only live shows:


Time to crash...

--fred

(P.S. Track Suits, Purple Hair Dye, and Keyboards are NOT cool.)

(P.S. P.S. The first broadcast for Pay-To-Play is up! d/l dat shit!)

We Reach - Music of The Melvins and Carcass - Requiems of Revulsion

Personally, I'm not that huge of a fan of tribute albums, but these two albums in particular are shining stars in my opinion. They both feature artists that we're big fans of covering two bands that we love, so what could go wrong? Download away! (and listen to our latest and FINAL show).

We Reach - Music of The Melvins
Requiems of Revulsion - A Tribute To Carcass

Acid Bath Disco!

Alright ladies, this time you get a Twofer. Well, they only had two albums anyway. Acid Bath is, as of right now, one of my favorite bands to listen to. We're talking good ol' Louisiana Sludgecore. You want to know about the NOLA metal scene, look no further. Fuck that Phil Anselmo shit, that guy's a poser compared to these guys (just kidding Phil, I loved Pantera!)

Acid Bath is good to listen to because they jump styles practically between songs, going from swampy rock riffs to highly melodic (but still kick-ass) ballads. Surreal lyrics and the great vocals of Dax Riggs top it all off. I swear, just try to listen to Scream of the Butterfly without getting chills. If you want more, you should definitely check out Deadboy and the Elephantmen which is fronted by Dax, or check out Dax Riggs' solo stuff. It's a shame, their bassist was killed by a drunk driver, otherwise we might have gotten a few more genius albums by this great band.

Acid Bath - When the Kite String Pops
Acid Bath - Paegan Terrorism Tactics

Rorschach - Autopsy

This is a band one of my friends recently turned me on to; They're a hardcore band that was based in New Jersey that, I would say, planted the seeds for some metalcore bands later on. However, unlike metalcore, these guys are pretty awesome; they mix metal and hardcore in a way that almost sounds like powerviolence, or at least, a really early take on the genre. Shit's good, I enjoy it:

Part 1
Part 2

P.S.: Sorry 'bout this being in two separate parts, I usually fucking hate it when people do it, but, all Rorschach is better than none, eh?

--fred

ANNNNNDDDDD--Thank you to Eldis Sula for helping me get my hands on this album, couldn't do it without you.

Goblin Cock.

Great straight up stoner rock with a little teeny bit of doom mixed in--very laid back and well paced. Ran into this album when I worked for Record and Tape Traders a couple years back. I remember they kept sending us reminder postcards weeks before this album came out that said things like "3 WEEKS TILL GOBLIN COCK!!" written in red chicken scratch writing. As soon as the album came out, I picked up my promo copy and listened to it excessively while I was at work. I eventually burned out on the album, but Trey has encouraged me to upload it so others may experience the joys of Goblin Cock.

Goblin Cock - Bagged and Boarded

Dystopia - Human = Garbage

Crust Punxorzz to the max. Awesome band; tight riffs and drumming, depressing samples and monologues, shrieked lyrics. We've played a few songs off of this album in the past--enjoy this one (it's in AAC, sorry): Dystopia - Human = Garbage

Have you ever searched for a band and found nothing but gay porn?

I have explored the deadly crevasses of the internets to bring you this awesome side project "PORN (The Men Of)" founded by Dale Crover and Tim Moss. If you saw the Melvins live in early 2007, 2004 or anywhere in between there, chances are, you saw PORN...and were probably really fucking confused; some random dude moseys on stage wearing an Elvis get-up, giant black pompadour included, and jumps behind the drums, while another hairier (and angrier) looking gentleman stands in front of a stack with a wooden univox guitar dishing out feedback before ripping head first into their set. Dale plays along behind his kit, struggling to keep his giant black wig on and keep pace at the same time, while the crowd goes apeshit. Probably one of the best shows I've ever been to. But ANYWAY--like I was saying, I managed to get my mitts on three of their albums....


Think Old Grandad mixed with EyeHateGod:
Experiments in Feedback
Porn--American Style
Wine, Women and Song

Watch yer step

--fred

Jaked off Shorts and Loaded Heads

Hey there all you MINDGRINDER fans and album freeloaders, I got a little summat for both of you. I know Fred takes care of the majority of the posts around here which is cool because I'm lazy as hell and don't know HTML. Anywho, for the MINDGRINDER's fanbase, we're winding down for the semester (one more show on the 19th) and we're getting in to the summer. Stay tuned for our individual summer shows (names and time-slots to be announced). Also, and I'll have to discuss with Fred, I'd like to do the show with him again in the Fall and if we do that we'll have a much expanded repertoire of music so when that happens definitely let us know what kind of stuff you want to keep or start hearing from us

Now, for you free-loading, mother-humping sons-of-bitches, I've got this great album that you can download for free, and it's not even illegal! They're called Jaked Off Shorts and Loaded Heads and if the name isn't enough for you, the music will more than satisfy. Fans of avant-garde black metal (Ulver, Arcturus, Sigh) will be pleased as will fans of other Weird Rock like Mike Pattons more schizophrenic projects or Tub Ring. The music itself is all over the place, but it's definitely got hooks and some great electronic effects for texture. Check this shit out already.

Track Picks:
02 Cricket Poison Even Kills Vultures
04 Worst Episode Ever
10 Level Neurotica

Jaked Off Shorts and Loaded Heads - Feeding the Future

Emerson Lake and Palmer -- Brain Salad Surgery

This is a personal vinyl rip of ELP's fourth album; Progressive Rock at it's best. Possibly an acquired taste; met people who love them -- others that despise them. Give it a chance: d/l

G.G. Allin and Antiseen

Shut up and download this.

IRON LUNG (again!)

This CD is a compilation of songs they released (on 7"s, splits, whatever) before releasing Life. Iron Lung. Death. Some of my favorite songs are on this CD...and it's readily available for purchase, along with their other records, on Interpunk.com (They have a new album out!) If you like fast angry music--Iron Lung is your stuff.

Iron Lung - Cold Storage

and now for your viewing pleasure (just when you thought you forgot about it):

FANG

I'm pretty sure LoRes has posted this already--but whatever, this is one of my favorite albums of all time. I only know bits and pieces about this band--pretty sure they came out of the San Francisco or LA area, the vocalist for the band was imprisoned for murdering his girlfriend while he was fucked up on acid...then he wrote a song about it.


Hardcore noisy tasteless angry sloppy gold: Landshark/Where The Wild Things Are

GORED - Human

German Carcass Worship (the band, not the corpse) with gutteral goregrind vocals, chunky dual bass assault (on the album at least), and relentless drumming. Plus they've got cardboard anatomy cutouts! What the hell more would you want!?: d/l

(I'm going to chop up and post Nocnitsa's performance from last Sunday sometime soon)