HELMS ALEE
2008. Three part male-female vocal harmonies over alternating atonal driven discord and fuzzed-out melodic pummelings. Is there shorthand for that? Features ex-members of the legendary Harkonen.
EVERLOVELY LIGHTNINGHEART
2009. This experimental release offers four stretched tracks: 'Minge And Marrow', '3068 Victoria Theiodora', 'Yarrow Lophophora' and 'Alexandrian'.
BIG BUSINESS
2009. Guitarist & newest band member Toshi Kasai adds new voice & dimension, & looks good doing it. You can actually hear the handsome. While recording Jared Warren's (KARP) vocals, Phil Ek (The Shins) ..
PYRAMIDS WITH NADJA
2009. Pyramids with Nadja. A conjugation that sounds as natural as the mossy stones on the cover art.
BUZZOVEN
2015. Sabbath-ian riffing, throat torn eulogies to the narcotically oppressed, & monumental gutter dwelling dirges.
STEPHEN BRODSKY'S OCTAVE MUSEU..
2006. Impressive solo album on CDR by the Cave In-member. American edition.
GENIUS PET
2007. Featuring members of Cave In, this outfit offers music that's heavy, fuzzy, playful, and melodic all at once, with a poppy garage rock undertow one might not expect given the artists' previous work. Their deb..
HARKONEN
2004. A superb joint venture. Recorded at The Sound House, December 2003. Produced and Engineered by Jack Endino. Mixed by Jack Endino, Harkonen, and These Arms Are Snakes.
AUSTERITY PROGRAM
2004. Another very heavy effort, recorded at Fordham Evangelical Lutheran Church, Bronx, New York. The Austerity Program are Justin Foley (vocals, guitar), Thad Calabrese (bass) and their loyal drum machine.
CLOUDS
2007. At their best Clouds kick up a controlled chaos of streamlined punky "party grunge"-- as they themselves call it-- best exemplified by the surprisingly titled 'Party Grunge', where a rolling Cobain-p..
KHANATE
2009. Final nail in the Khanate coffin, and a more fitting ending could not have been devised. Having left hordes of imitators in their wake there is and will only ever be one Khanate.
CLOUDS
2008. This is an adventure in hard rock. From 70s blues-rock riffs to hardcore punk to macho stoner metal, Clouds is equally good at all of it.
DISCORDANCE AXIS
2005. Compilation. Features tracks from Discordance Axis, Gate (5), Merzbow, Melt Banana, Mortalized, Gridlink, Noisear and Cide Project.
ISIS
2016. Back in print on coloured vinyl! these remixes (dating back to 2004) by a variety of artists fracture the originals, emphasizing and magnifying particular facets and idiosyncracies to the isis sound..
CAVE IN
2002. A complex, allusive outfit with a brave-new-world attitude. This CD features 6 impressive tracks.
OXBOW
2006. . . . Hypnographic and disturbing work regarding oxbow. ' in the late '80s, oxbow mangled the underground's fragile psyche with the release of nerve-frayi..
AUSTERITY PROGRAM
2007. Appropriately named NYC duo the Austerity Program play the kind of raw, menacing noise-punk made famous by Midwestern acts like Big Black and Jesus Lizard. While they currently reside on the tasteful metal lab..