At War With Radio: Recent Episodes

Dave Gonzalez

We highlight new (and sometimes old) metal, punk, and indie - all things loud, fast, slow, weird, fun - found on Bandcamp.

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  1. Total Loss - Hearsay
  2. Raskol - Speed
  3. Cerce - Fate
  4. Piss Ant - Neighborhood Watch
  5. Sick Urge - Nuclear Barbecue Mosh Fest
  6. Casket Robbery - Worm Food
  7. Unhinge - Terminal Loss
  8. Doldrey - Blood of the Serpent
  9. Mindforce - Survival is Vengeance
  10. Clot - Casual Masochist
  11. Hallucination Realized - Agency Denied
  12. Tsuris - Impious Flock
  13. From the Crypt - Wake the Dead
  14. Deserve to Die - Raw Combat

After months of neglect, we're back with a new playlist - this time without me babbling throughout the episode. I'll be honest, writing a basic script, recording, re-recording because I messed up, and then editing all of my umms, ahhs, and hmms, is time-consuming. Between kids, work, and everything else life entails, I just don't feel like always spending a bunch of time on it. Maybe you'll hear me talk in a later episode, but for now, this lets me focus on the playlist itself and actually get these published.

Let's go through some of these picks.

Total Loss track comes from a 4-song, 2-minute demo including member(s) of World Peace out on Forever Never Ends Records. Raskol is "anti-nihilist hardcore" from Philly with an EP called Heights of Despair. It only took me a whole year to realize Cerce was back in action and boy am I glad to hear it. I was a big fan of the Self-Titled EP when it was released, particularly because of Becca's vocal styling - it's unique and stands out in the sea of hardcore. Piss Ant - sorry not sorry but there's no way I'd say no to a breakdown with gang vocals singing "A C A B." The Sick Urge track comes from "Finland Means Murder" which just happens to be their pandemic lockdown album. This has 90's style powerviolence written all over it. Go read their Bandcamp page about this release. Casket Robbery has been around for 10 years?? How have I missed this? Their new LP Rituals of Death is on Blood Blast/Nuclear Blast and their brand of melodic death metal ala Black Dahlia Murder is on point. Unhinge blasts their way out of New Jersey with a crusty-kind-of-like-repulsion-style-grindcore which you can (and should) watch in this video.

Will Iron Lung Records ever stop releasing the good stuff? Doldrey is an indication that they will not and maybe cannot stop releasing that good good - this time with some punk-infused metal from Singapore. OK come on, you know Mindforce - harmonies, breakdowns, metal leads, but make it hardcore. Clot knows how to make an initial impression - they only have two songs out and that. is. not. enough. This Hallucination Realized track comes from the split with Redundant Protoplasm and somehow manages to fuse multiple sounds seamlessly not just in this track, but throughout the rest of the split. And most importantly - there are blast beats. Tsuris fulfills my love for that almost fully black metal but just enough hardcore mixed-in sound that not enough bands do (or can do well). From the Crypt - this is death metal. This is just death metal and sometimes that's exactly what I want. We end it all with Deserve to Die from Japan with 80's Terrorizer or Napalm Death style blasts.

At War with Radio - where the blast beats don't stop.

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  1. World of Pleasure - Penitence
  2. Golpe - La Colpa E Solo Tua
  3. Acephalix - Abyssal
  4. Cold Piece - Cowards Hide
  5. Purist/Realist - Worn Out and Demolished
  6. Skinhead - Soft Boiled
  7. Innumerable Forms - Built on Wrought
  8. Substance - Frightening World
  9. Triac- Endless Seizure
  10. World of Joy - Counterfeit Order
  11. Punitive Damage - Strike Back
  12. Stagnated - Vermin of Wrath
  13. Entry - Your Best Interest
  14. Virhe - Hapea
  15. Organ-ism - Pudre Por Me

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  1. Griefstoker - Soulseller
  2. Deck - You? Jungle?
  3. Extinguish - Fatal Excuse
  4. Turian - Snakehead
  5. Perilaxe Occlusion - Death Bias Alpha
  6. Shitbrains - Complicit in Complacency
  7. Primitive Blast - Malaise
  8. Brat - Grime Boss
  9. Just Ice - Vandal's Anxiety
  10. The Mirror - Chance in Hell
  11. Steel Bearing Hand - Til' Death and Beyond
  12. Suffering Mind - Mite
  13. Raw Brigade - RFH (Runaway From Hell)
  14. Fading Signal - Internalized
  15. Falcifer - Alone
  16. Disembodiment - Sickening Abominations Terrorizing at Night
  17. Bad Breeding - Prescription

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  1. Inner Peace - Flesh Wound
  2. Loose Ends WMBD - Safety in Numbers II
  3. Portrayal of Guilt -Touched by an Angel
  4. Conan - Levitation Hoax
  5. Speed - We See U
  6. Anklebiter - Red Tones
  7. Deliriant Nerve - Uncontrollable Ascension
  8. Neolithic - Terminal Lucidity
  9. Circle None - False Front
  10. Destiny Bond - Baby Bloom
  11. Iron Lung - Mental Distancing
  12. Xiao - Change
  13. Snuffed - Grievances
  14. Cloud Rat - Cusp

Other

  • Bleedin' Out Podcast with Drayco of Inner Peace
  • Snuffed on HateFiveSix
  • Music video for Speed - WE SEE U
  • Todays Spotify Playlist

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  1. Illiterates - Service Industry
  2. Knull - Shocking Grasp
  3. Slant - Violent Minds
  4. Raw Mind - Gruesome Grease
  5. Cult Leader - Ataraxis
  6. End - Eden Will Drown
  7. Livid - Narcissist
  8. Collapsed Skull - Collapsed Skull
  9. Civilian Thrower - Estado de Muerte
  10. Brain Tourniquet - Wartorn
  11. Chat Pile - Slaughterhouse
  12. Perihelion Gnosis - Nebular Hypothesis (The All-Mother's Cyclical Un-Birth, Genesis of the Swarm)
  13. Septage - Of Gangrene Limbs
  14. Summoner - Portals to Hell
  15. Decrepisy - Emetic Communion
  16. Undeath - Necrobionics

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  1. Super Reg - LOVEBURNS
  2. Warthog - Terrestrial Progress
  3. Khiis - Venom
  4. Heavy Discipline - Voyeuristic Lust - Reckoning
  5. Deterioration - Forced Conversion
  6. Internal - Throw in the Towel
  7. Sidetracked - On the Backs
  8. Vile Sect - Foul
  9. Trauma Bond - The Violence of Spring
  10. Skag - Ivory Drip
  11. Scorching Tomb - Rotting Away
  12. Writhing Shadows - Carcass of a Godbeast
  13. Sulfuric Hatred - Flayed Upon Horn
  14. Denunciation - German Suplexed to Death

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  1. Wednesday - Twin Plagues

  2. Bitter Branches - Along Came a Bastard

  3. Redemptus - How Much Pain can fit one's chest

  4. Faking - Less & Less

  5. Full of Hell - Industrial Messiah Complex

  6. Regional Justice Center - Life’s Work

  7. Surra - No Lixo

  8. Fawn Limbs - Twitching, Lapsing

  9. Tetsuo - Revuelta Con Cadenas Sexuales/Vacío Existencial

  10. Creeping Death - Edge of Existence

  11. Year of the Knife - Dead at 29

  12. Antichrist Siege Machine - Victorious Legions of Satan

  13. Sarcoughagus - Cannibalistic Search Party

  14. Armor - Figure

  15. Fatal - Ghost of the Self

  16. Visions of War - Subject

  17. Arrogant - Back to the Tomb

  18. Self Inflict - Bent Knees

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This episode's tracklist includes:

  1. Succumb - Okeanos

  2. Earth Exit - Kiss of the Reaper

  3. Stress Angel - Bursting Church

  4. Denial of Life - Scheming to Suffer

  5. Gel - Bitchmade

  6. Imperial Slaughter - ...Vile Slobs

  7. Shitbrains - Static

  8. Blemish - Dipped in Sewage

  9. Bloated - I

  10. Thorn - Maw of Eternity

  11. Sickburn - Harvester of Blasting

  12. Pest Control - Infestation

  13. Path of Resurgence - Consumption

  14. Desire - Demolish

  15. Low Dose - For Sure

  16. Las Nubes - Hellbag

  17. Home is Where - Assisted Harakiri

  18. Fresh - Girl Clout