tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45775922078802183212009-07-11T23:48:42.268-04:00crustcake is a rock and roll music blog with a focus on metal that borders on unhealthy obsession. we talk about rock, heavy metal, sludge, stoner rock, doom metal, grind, hardcore, death metal, thrash metal, indie rock, stuff that's crusty and stuff that's cakey.These Seanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00226241084932664856noreply@blogger.comBlogger697125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4577592207880218321.post-62360234904884809502009-07-09T16:10:00.008-04:002009-07-10T14:29:12.428-04:00

by Clive Candy (CHI)Those unkempt young sludge-walkers in Baroness are setting out on a national tour, perhaps in support of their new, as-yet-untitled record. Not quite Kylesa and not quite Mastodon, Baroness walk a fine line between club-wielding blind fury and the auditory masturbation of prog-metal. Red Album, their last record, was one of the most acclaimed of 2007. It's a piece of

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Haven't already purchased your tickets to go see Repulsion, Pig Destroyer, and Brutal Truth in Brooklyn yet? Well, you're fucking crazy, we locked that shit down immediately, no chances taken on this show. But....you're in luck, we've got two pairs of tickets to give away. All you've got to do is hit us up at crustcakecontests@gmail.com and tell us how many bass players Pig Destroyer has gone

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Tweak Bird, one of our favorite LA acts, has been chosen to support Tool on their upcoming tour. No small feat for a band that has only released a couple EPs.Apparently though, Tweak Bird's unique brand of low end psych caught the ears of not just us, but one of the biggest hard rock/metal act around. Read more for all the dates.Tweak Bird and Tool 2009 tour dates:Jul 19 Salt Lake City, UT -

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by theseseans (NYC) Two new records I have rocking hard lately are Suffocation's Blood Oath and Goatwhore's Carving Out The Eyes Of God. Suffocation continue their twenty year death metal onslaught with Blood Oath, riffs and tempos are slowed a bit with this record, but surely it isn't "The Black Album." Blood Oath is still a punishing, punishing listen, and Mike Smith remains one of my favorite

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by theseseans (NYC)This Saturday I will be heading to one of the shittiest bars to play in all of Williamsburg, Rock Star Bar, to catch Black Anvil. Black Anvil are NYC's own psyched out black metal force which features Paul from Kill Your Idols, and that dude always puts on a good show. Sunday night meets Clive Candy's excellently descripted Atheist, playing with one of my favorite young death

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[Stream]: The Black Dahlia Mruder - "A Selection Unnatural"The Black Dahlia Murder have got that whole Swedish death metal thing down. And we mean that in the best way possible: they have the ability to create some seriously offensive death metal, and make it catchy as fuck (in metal terms, of course). Decibel even went so far as to say (something along the lines of) "'Everything Went Black' is

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You've probably heard already, since the news is everywhere and we're fashionably late to the party (sorry, we've been too busy smoking weeeeed), but Norf Cakilak's Weedeater are totally touring with NOLA sludge kings Down this summer. Shit yes motherfucker, gimme back my bullets!Also along for the ride: The Melvins (US dates), Voivod (Canadian dates), as well as Evil Army and crustcake-faves

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by Clive Candy (CHI)"Feast or famine" seems to be the name of the game around these parts. And this week, we're hungry.But not starving. There's still some crustiness to be found for Chicagocakes...if you can wait until Saturday.And if you can, head over to Kuma's (on Belmont and North Francisco, west of Western) and help them celebrate their fourth (!) anniversary with (actually) alternative

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Every single Wednesday without fail, your hosts post a suitably stale video clip that we think needs to be revisited. Click here for more Crusty Clips. Got a clip you think we should post? Send it to crustcake@gmail.com.by The WZA'd (Philadelphia) So I guess I'm the official Crustcake VJ for now. This means that every week you'll be exposed to something else from my library of taste - so we're

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After their recent reunion (or the end of their three-year hiatus or whatever you want to call it), Cave In have announced a new recording, Planets of Old. Right now only scheduled to see physical release as a 12" EP via Hydrahead on July 28th, one of the four songs is already available via iTunes. You can check it out right hereRead more for album art and track listing, and live date.Cave In -

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by theseseans (NYC)Following their promising debut 7”, Narrows birth New Distances. Most easily filed under hardcore, Narrows continue carefully experimenting with sound and composition. New Distances is dense, melodic and heavy: an album of songs that don't adhere to any pre-set rules or direction but never lose themselves. Growth is here, but it goes hand-in-hand with Narrow's other goal:

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Listen: Battlefields - Thresholds of Imbalance [stream]Minnesota's Battlefields have a substantial amount of touring planned for the summer, including dates in the Midwest and east coast with Buried Inside, Baroness, and Overmars.The band's MySpace URL includes the word 'doom,' but the material on their recently released LP, Thresholds of Imbalance, is less traditional doom and more epic, ambient

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Philly weird-metal purveyors Brutal Panda Records are now taking pre-orders for the previously mentioned Black Tusk/Fight Amp split. This 7" bookends the triptych of splits Black Tusk is releasing this summer, following a 7" with Holy Mountain (No Idea) and Low Country, a 10" mini-LP with North Carolina's ASG on Hyperrealist. John Baizley, taking a break from recording with fellow southern sludge

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In "Freshly Baked," we feature promising young bands or bands that are otherwise lacking the attention we think they deserve.by theseseans (NYC)Simply put, Howl fuckin' rule. I caught them a few weeks ago at the ridiculous Doomriders show where they totally stole the show. Yeah, they experienced some technical difficulties. But I wouldn't say Howl were hampered by them. I'd say they stomped right

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By Van Damned (ATX)The mercury in the outdoor thermometer has been hovering above the 100 degree mark for days. This isn't anything unusual for a Texas summer – in fact, we Texans take a peculiar pride in our ability to function in the kind of blinding, oppressive heat that would most certainly suffocate our more delicate Northern brethren. We're a hardy bunch, to be sure. Hardy and dedicated.As

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by The WZA'd (Philadelphia)The most common complaints about Isis usually involve the word “sleep.” As in: “Nah man, I just never got into Isis, they put me to sleep.” Of course, I would be lying by omission if I didn’t tell you that I have used “Hym” on Oceanic to lull me to sleep on long car rides. I never think of it as boring though – I just like how mellow the song is.On Oceanic, Isis created

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Every single Wednesday without fail, your hosts post a suitably stale video clip that we think needs to be revisited. Click here for more Crusty Clips. Got a clip you think we should post? Send it to crustcake@gmail.com.by The WZA'd (Philadelphia) If the stories are true, the video below doesn't embody the best era of Kyuss. Their 1995 swansong ...And the Circus Leaves Town, from which this song

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In "Freshly Baked," we feature promising young bands or bands that are otherwise lacking the attention we think they deserve.by theseseans (NYC)Amesoeurs got my attention after reading Pitchfork's stellar Show No Mercy column and they have held it ever since. If you are a regular reader of The Cake, you know that we have been very interested in black metal's current expansion away from the

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by Clive Candy (CHI)Or: a newcake reveals his poor taste.I'm torn about this coming Friday eve. There's really nothing in the way of high- (or mid-, or lowermid-) shows that night. So I offer a choice!Enjoy fun, slightly overwrought melodic death metal? Maybe even metalcore? I really do dislike putting that word with that suffix. But nevertheless, if you fit this bill, I'd check out Act of

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As part of our unfailing committment to champion the best parts of a culture we hold dear, we here at Crustcake are expanding our coverage ov Thee Metal Musick to metal culture, writ large. Metal's aesthetic – be it dreadlocked, corpsepainted, bullet-belted, Viking-horned or otherwise – is as integral to the scene as the metal itself. Over the upcoming months, look for articles, features and

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It’s unclear exactly when the word “dope” jumped from its negative noun form (as a euphemism for idiot or dummy) to its positive adjective form (as in, “so-and-so’s new record is dope!”) We here at Crustcake suspect it was right around the time illegal drugs and rock n’ roll reached an equal foothold in youth culture. As an unsurprising result, the word in its current form stands out

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by theseseans (NYC)ISISWhen: Thursday, June 2nd, 2009Where: The Filmore at Irving Plaza, NYCWith: Pelican, TombsFor the first time in ages I was at a "big" show and went down to the front to catch Tombs. An obvious fan, I wanted to see how the bands precise, oft-buried melodies, subtle control over feedback and blistering riffs went over with the crowd. I was pleasantly surprised to see a lot of

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by Clive Candy (CHI)Yaheydere!Sorry for the late post, but I wanna make sure you guys know about the Isis/Pelican/Keelhaul show at the Bottom Lounge tonight. Post-metal has always seemed a bit post-fun to me, but Isis did put on a hell of a show the last time I saw them. Granted, I was blitzed out of my skull.Saturday night's pretty vacant, but I'll give a shout-out to Maggot Twat (at

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We received the following press release:UNSIGNED BANDS: BEWARE OF LABEL STAFF IMPOSTERS & IMPERSONATORSYou’re an unsigned band playing a local show and someone approaches you claiming to represent Nuclear Blast or Metal Blade Records. They say they want to sign you, book studio time for your band, buy you plane tickets, or even put you on Ozzfest, yet no contracts are ever involved. Sound too

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Mastodon have posted another video off of their most recent Crack The Skye for the song "Oblivion." While the album has divided fans with it's (mainly) rock sound, "Oblivion" is pretty undeniable in it's rock-awesomeness. Enjoy!Mastodon -"Oblivion"

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