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Dewar PR Releases Free 15 Track Compilation
Southern Ontario-based Dewar PR just released this year's winter digital compilation for streaming and free download.
The 2017 compilation features some of the best metal/hard rock bands of the past few years and is available to stream below or can be downloaded at Bandcamp here.
The full 15 song track listing is as follows:
1. Allfather - Inherit the Dust
2. Napalm Ted - The Deadline
3. Pseudo/Sentai - Werewolf Casey
4. Volunteer - Walk
5. Final Sign - Burn the Temple Down
6. Yeti on Horseback - Tree of Death
7. Arriver - Liquidators
8. Dead Register - Grave
9. Engraved Darkness - Ritualistic Sins
10. Flidais - High Stakes
11 The Glorious Rebellion - Bitches Hate Misogyny
12. Czar - Too Many Yetis
13. Siderian - Lizard Method State
14. Ascentia - Catharsis
15. Nihilo - Death Swamp More...
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Pit Stories: Two For The Price Of One
Gather 'round metal heads, it's Pit Story time!
This week we've got two for the price of one, as Francisco Ramirez of Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based group Volunteer shares two epic tales of live mayhem in Chicago.
The first deals with cops breaking up a show... while beating down some Nazi punks! The second shifts focus to a different venue where free flowing beer got the fans a little two rowdy. Ramirez spins these tales like this:
When I worked at the Fireside Bowl in Chicago there was some show that drew a crowd of SHARP (Skin Heads Against Racial Prejudice) and old fashion Nazi skinheads. I don't remember the band but I remember the Nazi's bum rushing the front door with lead pipes and attacking people in the show. My staff and I stopped most of the violence but there was still a lot of damage done. Lots of blood and people on the ground. The bartender called the police as soon as everything happened. 5 paddy wagons and 10 police cars showed up and dragged out all the Nazis. The police beat the fuck out of all the Nazi skinheads and arrested them for assault. The image of Chicago Police pressing and crushing the skinheads outside the venue is still vivid in my head. By the way, after the cops demolished the skins, one came up to me and showed me his Ramones and Crass tattoo, I offered a beer and he drank it. I know cops suck most of the times, but there are are moments.
I was playing the Blue Flamingo in Austin, TX in the late 90's. I was in a fast drunk punk band called Traitors from Chicago, we had songs no longer than a minute and half. Anyways, the Blue Flamingo was a drag bar earlier in the night and they had punk shows late night. We had to headline for some reason, but they kept giving us free beer all night so we said fuck it. So it turns out that we were not only the people getting free beer. One of the bartenders threw up in one of the beer coolers and they were just washing off the beer and giving it away. This meant that everyone was drinking for free and was getting rowdy. The place was tiny and the bands played in the front of the bar in front of a window, the crowd was having fun. By the time we started at 1AM, shit was bonkers. We played 15 songs in 20 minutes. The crowd wanted one more and we had learned Joan Jett's "Bad Reputation" so we decided to play it. With in the first 10 seconds people were jumping off the bar, which is right next to the stage, into the crowd. Bar stools were flying and people were having fun, then someone dove out of the front window. Yep they ran through the band and dove through the window. Everyone stopped for a second and once he got up, we finished the song.
Volunteer joined in on an anti-Scott Walker charity compilation earlier this year and also just launched a new split with Buildings, which can be heard below or picked up at this location. More...
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Volunteer / Buildings Premiere Full New Split
Minnesota's Buildings and Milwaukee's Volunteer have teamed up to craft a new split release featuring three tracks from each band.
While a trickle of those songs has flowed out in the preceding weeks, it's time to turn the tap to full blast and unleash a stream of both sides of this sludgy noise rock opus.
Check out all six songs before the split will be released via Triple Eye industries on August 26th, 2016.
You can also pre-order on vinyl or digital format at this location. The split will be available in blue splatter, opaque yellow, or traditional black colored vinyl and the full track listing is as follows:
1. Buildings - Something Better
2. Buildings - Burlap
3. Buildings - Snake
4. Volunteer - Dainty Hoof
5. Volunteer - Walk
6. Volunteer - Wrong
Triple Eye Industries co-owner/Volunteer front man Francisco Ramirez commented about the album: "The Buildings/Volunteer split was made to bring two different bands in the same sub-genre of music, noise rock. Buildings create songs that bring you in with hooks. Volunteer just tries to pummel you with anger and spite." More...
Volunteer Streaming "Walk"
Noise/sludge metal band Volunteer just released "Walk," a new track from the group's forthcoming split with Buildings. The split will be released via Triple Eye industries on August 26th, 2016.
The band commented: "The Buildings/Volunteer split was made to bring two different bands in the same sub-genre of music, noise rock. Buildings creates songs that bring you in with hooks. Volunteer just tries to pummel you with anger and spite." More...
Buildings Releasing Split With Volunteer
Minnesota's Buildings and Milwaukee's Volunteer have been hard at work in their respective cities, each crafting their distinct brand of dissonance over the course of the last few years.
Triple Eye Industries is pleased to announce that on August 26th, 2016 the label will release a split 12" EP featuring brand new material from both acts.
The split will be available in blue splatter, opaque yellow, or traditional black colored vinyl with the following track listing:
1. Buidings- Something Better
2. Buildings- Burlap
3. Buildings- Snake
4. Volunteer-Dainty Hoof
5. Volunteer-Walk
6. Volunteer-Wrong More...
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Volunteer Premieres "Wrong" Track
A cross-genre coalition of rock, indie, punk, hardcore, and metal musicians from Wisconsin has come together to release "Unintimidated," a compilation protesting the actions of governor (and former Republican presidential candidate) Scott Walker.
Officially due out April 8th, all proceeds from the sale of the compilation will go towards helping local soup kitchens and area Planned Parenthoods. Full details are available here.
Today we're bringing you an exclusive first listen to a track off the release. Whether you care about the political aspect or not, "Wrong" by noise outfit Volunteer is a track well worth hearing - check it out below! Volunteer commented on joining the project:
"We got involved with this compilation because Scott Walker doesn't care about folks in this state. He's had a direct negative effect on people we know. He's busted unions, gone after education and defunded Planned Parenthood. He's bought and paid for by the Koch brothers and the Republican party.
"He doesn't have public interest in mind. When he's written into history, he'll be up there next to McCarthy as one of this state's worst governors. I'm glad he didn't get too far with his presidential candidacy. What a joke. When DJ approached us to get involved, we didn't even have to think about it." More...
Wisconsin Bands Unite Against Scott Walker
A group of local punk, hardcore, metal and indie musicians have teamed up in protest against governor Scott Walker.
Led by DJ Hostettler (of IfIHadAHiFi) and Anthony Webber (of Heavy Hand), the bands have gathered together to release "Unintimindated: Wisconsin Musicians against Scott Walker," a compilation CD/DVD that will raise funds for issues that Governor Walker reportedly detests. The compilation will also include an old-school cut-and-paste zine, and all proceeds will go to soup kitchens and Planned Parenthood.
DJ said about the compilation: "We've worked on this project for about a year now, hatching our scheme in February 2015 and moving from gauging interest in the bands, to securing a studio, to convincing an absolute murderer's row of musicians, engineers, cameramen, editors, and gruntworkers to donate their time to a project that, in today's political environment in Wisconsin, runs the rest of being little more than a cathartic scream into the wilderness. But hopefully it'll be more than that.
"If this collection of songs can raise money for some solid causes that help those whom Scott Walker refuses to help, then this is a success. If this collection of songs provides a soundtrack for a political revolution in Wisconsin that leads to motivated progressives taking back our state from the tyranny of the rich and power-mad, then holy shit, that's amazing. But at the very least, we will have provided a document of artistic work that will hopefully stand for generations and show Wisconsin, the country, and the world, that no, not everyone in Wisconsin was satisfied to sit and let Scott Walker and his corporate overlords ruin our state. More...