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[breezerocks]

Noises From The Basement: S1E1 - Dead Face Mask

Breezer & Josh introduce themselves for the first time to listeners. They review their song picks throughout the episode, give takes on Metal news, and Thrash Talk. Songs featured are from TesseracT, Orbit Culture, and Traindodge. News Gwar on…

[rastronomicals]

6:49 AM EDT June 21, 2024:

Traindodge - "Among The Ruins" From the tribute album   Lean Into It: A Tribute To Die Kreuzen (2005)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

From Thurston Moore's liner notes:

Man there was a point where when die kreuzen were thee best band in the USA. It was the early 80s and almost every hardcore kid was settling into some standard thrash pattern. die kreuzen threw some white heat on the fire and changed the pit. Suddenly a new cerebral gate swung open so fucking fast that you felt yr brain rip out of yr skull.

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[big-low-t]

Traindodge - Unfinished Secrets

[doyourememberrocknrollradio]

Traindodge - Unfinished Secrets

[hermitologist]

My Favorite Records of 2022

Hi. I made another list.

First thing’s first. I apologize for the lack of music recommendations and runs on my Instagram this year. Thrice had a pretty busy touring schedule, and with the kids back in school the local virus carousel was BRUTAL. Seemed like we got to sample a new strain of the crud literally every other week. It’d rip its way through the house, we’d send the kids back to school, they’d bring a new batch of snot home a few days later, and it’d start up all over again. Rinse and repeat. It was hard to get out there and run with all that going on. Also: Blame where blame is due ... I got a little lazy when I wasn’t picking up goopy Kleenex or horking up some crud of my own. I”ll be back next year. (Hopefully.)

An-y-waaaaay ... 

I did manage to listen to a lot of new music despite "the circumstances”, and I have compiled all of my favorites for you here. There's a pretty clear cut Top 5 this year based on play counts, but the rest of the list didn’t really make sense to rank because this shit’s really all subjective anyway. I broke the list into categories that made sense to me, at the time, for organization’s sake. Each record has link to the band/label’s Bandcamp or website, so please please PLEASE support the artists you love beyond just streaming their music.

Playlists with a song from each record are below. I know it’s a lot of music. I know it’s all over the place. I know you don’t have time to listen to five-and-a-half hours of music. At the very least, I’d suggest at needle-dropping through the entire thing and earmarking some stuff to check out. That’s how I find a good chunk of this stuff. 

And please let me know what you dug this year and think I should check out!

Hope you all have a safe and happy holiday season. See you next year!

PLAYLISTS

My Favorites of 2022 Playlist (Spotify)

My Favorites of 2022 Playlist (Apple Music)

My Favorites of 2022 Playlist (Tidal)

THE TOP 5

Elder - Innate Passage

No contest here. This is a clear cut #1 for me. Fifty-four minutes of absolutely glorious, wholly transcendental, life-affirming, dreamy/heavy metal-adjacent prog. As a musician, I can tell you firsthand how hard it is to write a long song that doesn’t *feel* long. These fellas routinely crank out high-quality 10-minute-plus jams that you’ll hope never end. Queue this up and take it for a run, a long walk, or a long drive and you’ll see what I mean. It’s magical. And yes, it came out late in the year, but I haven’t been able to stop listening to it or thinking about it since, and I don’t see that changing for a long while.

Meshuggah - Immutable

It’s damn near impossible to find the right words for this band, let alone this record, but this is absolute wizardry, yet again, from the best metal band that has ever existed. Pure face-melting heaviness. They routinely reset the bar for what heavy music can and should be, and Immutable is no exception. It might even be my favorite Meshuggah record ever.

Museum of Light - Horizon

Ultra-heavy, sludgy, dynamic, meditative, push vs. pull, melody vs. dissonance post-rock in the vein of Kowloon Walled City, Shiner, Traindodge, and Torche. The songwriting is so clean and efficient, and the record as a whole is just a gorgeous, perfectly crafted arc. It’s perfect.

Holy Fawn - Dimensional Bleed

The heaviest, prettiest, most infectious batch of post-rock/metal I’ve heard in a long while. Dynamic shifts that are pure catharsis. A band that has the ability to give you euphoric chills one minute, and bring you to tears the next, headbanging all the while. Their first LP blew me away, and I wasn’t sure they could top it, but they totally have.

The Beths - Expert In A Dying Field

This record was an instant pick-me-up this year. A much-needed salve amidst all the stress and anxiety and depression the world can throw your way these days. Twelve preposterously hooky jams, that will put a smile on your face and a bounce in your step (even when the lyrical content dips into darker themes). It totally rules.

15 OTHER RECORDS THAT STAYED IN HEAVY ROTATION (in no order)

PLOSIVS - S/T

Drug Church - HYGIENE

Tvivler - Kilogram

Birds In Row - Gris Klein

gospel - The Loser

Cult of Luna - The Long Road North

Russian Circles - Gnosis

Conjurer - Pathos

Anxious - Green House

SPICE - Viv

PUP - The Unraveling of PUP The Band

The Smile - A Light For Attracting Attention

Pianos Become The Teeth - Drift 

Cloakroom - Dissolution Wave

Stray From The Path - Euthanasia

OTHER RECORDS I ENJOYED (also in no order)

Architects - the classic symptoms of a broken spirit Pedro the Lion - Havasu And So I Watch You From Afar - Jettison Mass Worship - Portal Tombs Rival Consoles - Now Is  Fleshwater - We’re Not Here To Be Loved Abraham - Debris de Mondes Perdus Norna - Star is way way is Eye Dan Mayo - Greenhouse Silvan Strauss - FACING Vein - This World is Going to Ruin You Author & Punisher - Krüller Black Thought/Dangermouse - Cheat Codes Cave In - Heavy Pendulum Square Peg Round Hole - Reservoir  Kendrick Lamar - Mr. Morale and The Big Steppers Pete Rock - Petestrumentals 4 Pet Fox - A Face In Your Life Swami John Reis - Ride the Wild Night Heriot - Profound Morality  Bastions - Majestic Desolation Wake - Thought Form Descent Inclination - Unaltered Perspective Momma - Household Name Hot Water Music - Feel The Void KEN Mode - NULL Animals As Leaders - Parrhesia Mark Giuliana - the sound of listening Meat Wave - Malign Hex Haunted Shores - Void Blessed - Circuitous Celeste - Assassine(s) Louis Cole - Quality Over Opinion Grivo - Omit Wonder Years - The Hum Goes on Forever A Hope For Home - Years Of Silicon Mountaineer - Giving Up The Ghost Norma Jean - Deathrattle Sing for Me Lamb Of God - Omens Psychonaut - Violate Consensus Reality Callous Daoboys - Celebrity Therapist Easy Prey - Unrest 84 Tigers - Time in the Lighthouse  Codespeaker - S/T Colonial Wound - Easy Laugh Thousandaire - Ideal Conditions

THE NEW BOTCH SONG I LISTENED TO LIKE 247 TIMES IN 3 DAYS

Botch - One Twenty Two

10 FAVORITE EPs

Downward - The Brass Tax  Cult Leader/End - Gather & Mourn  Irist - Gloria  Gleemer - Here at All  GoGo Penguin - Between Two Waves Lockstep - Lockstep 2  Portico Quartet - Next Stop  Be Well - Hello Sun  Chamber - Carved In Stone  Waldo’s Gift - Improvisations Vol. 2 

1 RECORD FROM 2019 THAT DIDN’T “CLICK” UNTIL 2022

Car Bomb - Mordial

2 RECORDS THAT DIDN’T COME OUT IN 2022 BUT GOT A LOTTA SPINS

Low - Double Negative Pile - Green and Gray

3 PODCASTS THAT I COULDN’T LIVE WITHOUT

Office Hours - humor, music, pure joy The Distraction - sports and social commentary/humor Effectively Wild - baseball analysis/humor

[big-low-t]

Thank you for the tag @bobbiflekman! (and hell yes for Chat Pile on your list!) Here are some of my favorites that were released in 2023. Mostly a bunch of stuff not many people have heard of... but that's normal for me. I swear it is all fantastic stuff...

††† (Crosses) - "Goodnight, God Bless, I Love U, Delete"

Home Front - "Games Of Power"

Traindodge - "The Alley Parade"

Motorama - "Sleep, And I Will Sing"

Slowdive - "everything is alive"

Lathe Of Heaven - "Bound By Naked Skies"

Cemented Minds - "The Future Is The End"

Poison Ruin - "Harvest"

Human Tetris - "Two Rooms"

Spotlights - "Alchemy For The Dead"

i was tagged by @ivenevercriedonce to share my fave albums of the year? idk about that, but these are just the albums i remember playing the most in the car.

i’ll tag @marlsborohaven @in-kind @tomb-mold @theashenone and whoever cares enough to bother 🤍

[terriblewordplay]

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[justsomeshitoffsomepaper]

12/27/2020

I want to consume & be consumed by you & then, be left alone Which, IS, all-then nothing, I know    like, how, I’m only ever Traindodging,       or, Trainspotting    never really getting anywhere, While you get off on Trainhopping, & you can’t take me with you, & that’s just... how it goes, & all my friends, wasted, Fresh outta luck, & fucks, to give, Say:  It Is What It Is, spewing Apathy so palpable I swear I can taste it, Meanwhile all I can help but ask is:           Why Isn’t It What It Isn’t? Why couldn’t things have been, or at least, What was, have happened different? All in a day’s work, All in a year’s end, While everyone else hid from each other, At least I made a friend.

[rastronomicals]

Traindodge

[big-low-t]

Traindodge - Unfinished Secrets

[doyourememberrocknrollradio]

Traindodge - "Living Proof"

[ampline]

LOVE getting new jams in the mail...Especially when it's your friend's rad new album! #Traindodge #NP #OKC #ROCK #TimeWillNeverKnowYourName #WhenTheFloodsFreeze #TheCliffs #KILLER

[lunchboxrecords]

New TRAINDODGE "Time Will Never Know Your Name" CD/LP in stock now!!! @traindodge_band #traindodge (at Lunchbox Records)

[meandmyearholes]

NEW: "Stories Of The Alone" by Traindodge

When they played the back floor of the Moonlight Bar in Mitchell, SD, in 2009, Traindodge quickly became the loudest band I'd ever heard in that zip code. They were also easily one of the best. Combine that memory (and ear damage) with this tune and I am officially psyched for the new record.

[big-low-t]

Traindodge - Shifting