BM Boner

File this under music-that-will-never-impressed-that-girl-that-you-think-off-when-you-are-spanking-your-monkey. Mentioning Bone Awl in any conversation will not get you laid. Period. If you want some action, do talk about all those “IT” indie bands that you can read in Junk or any one of those bands that are on constant rotation on MTV and you might get lucky with that underage girl or boy.

If you are one of those ultra underground BM dudes you probably noticed how Bone Awl have make a name for themselves in the last couple of years. Read that again. U-L-T-R-A U-N-D-E-R-G-R-O-U-N-D B-L-A-C-K M-E-T-A-L. We’re not talking about some pansy wimpy BM that you can find in some glossy magazine (you know the one with the extra cheesy keyboard on top of that sweet melodies and confused "singing"). If your favorite “BM” band is Cradle of Filth, chances are you have no idea about Bone Awl and are secretly listening to Fall Out Boy and love that movie Titanic.

Don’t ask me why they are like the “IT” band in the ultra underground BM circles. I have no idea and could care less about any of that. As far as I am concern, Bone Awl shits on most BM with it simplistic and primitive take on genre. This shit is so primitive that you will have to redefine everything you ever know about BM. Bone Awl makes bands like Emperor and Dimmu Burger sounds like Dream Theatre. Since most of the band’s outputs are OOP (most of them are limited and small in numbers, you know it is not “kvlt” if more than 10 copies are made available), I think it is cool to point you to some blogs that have links to some of the band’s music. Go here and download some of the early stuff that is only available on cassette and vinyl. The band had also recently released their debut full length that you can buy here or download here.

Pazahora

What do they call this music anyway? Is it dark crust? Or is it Nu-crust? Or Neo-crust? Well I don’t really care what they are calling the music that this disciple of HHIG/FAR/TRAGEDY/ WOLFBRIGADE is doing because it doesn’t concern me at all. The most important thing of all is this CD rocks and I am fucking grateful to feast my ear with such awesomeness. If you are familiar with the bands that I just name- dropped (for the scene points nonetheless) you can probably imagine how they sound like. This CD packs so much venom and bile you probably don’t need to listen to other bands that worship at the altar of HHIG and Tragedy. And I am not kidding about that.

The best thing about this CD is that it only last for approximately 23 minutes. Every hardcore band should take note of this and never made a mistake of releasing something more than half an hour long. You know the last Fucked Up records would be something if it just this long instead of going on and on for almost an hour. What so punk rock about aping the fucking prog-rock scene? Leave that prog-rock worship to bands like Neurosis. Punk bands should stick to what it knows best and make it short, sweet and simple… and oh listen to black metal too. Yeah you be surprised on how many sweet riffs you can lift from some obscure black metal bands and use it in your band. You can thank me later on that.

For those who are making tomorrow a better world, nothing beats having this as the soundtrack for you to destroy everything and starts all over again.

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