Any new music discovered recently?

Ov Hell: Rather good black metal act formed from the post-split limbo of Gorgoroth

Crystal Castles - I can't believe I just heard about them :O they are so amazing! "Empathy" is my favourite song from them:

Conjure One. Cool stuff!

Gancher: Techstep drum n' bass dj who collaborates/remixes a lot of his work with another man called Ruin. I'm obsessed with hard dnb that sounds like a stuck vinyl record, and Gancher's work is gloriously straightforward and uncomplicated. If you liked what you heard above you should definately search for Paranoia (Ruin Remix) and Virus.


Park Seung Jun: Flagship member of South Koreas electroacoustic/improvisation scene. He is one of the most dynamic and interesting proponents of making the most noise by the most banal and ordinary of electronic equipment. Caution, the performance above is rather loud!


Dopethrone: Presumably named after that benchmark Electric Wizard album, Dopethrone peddle a slightly bluesier brand of doom. I love the rough-as-nails vocal styles on this track.


Black Pus: Solo project of Lightning Bolt's Brian Chippendale is every bit as zany and loveable as you'd hope it would be and more. The above song has some lovely, vaguely martial drumming and projects a very real feeling of art brut.

Today I came across a very odd noise/antimusic duo who i'm at least 100% sure you won't like at all, called Barry Ouimet and Frank Hatt who go by the name Damaged Testicles.


Imagine what an untrained sore throat pushed to its vocal limits sounds like, or aimless percussion seemingly made from whatever broken material happened to be on hand. Sometimes these elements are pushed to stupidly minimal levels that would push the patience and attention span of even the most devoted noise fan - occasionally giving over to almost orgiastic tribal pan-bashing. Seemingly no effort has been made to improve the recording quality or synchronize the tracks, its all so gloriously cut n' paste and direct to tape. 3 Shock Torture Therapy

Grace Potter and the Nocturnals

Though I suspect most of you have heard of them already, they are new to me. I really like them.

Walknut very good black metal, unfortunately they only released one album.

The Cat Empire nice ska band with good-mood music

Elvis Presley never listend to him because I thought he's boring, but it's just brilliant

Mark Lanegan good singer-songwriter with an amazing voice

Finn. just brilliant.

Kalmah, which isn't really a new discovery. Can't believe i overlooked this band.

They sound even better live :)

GALNERYUS
Why did I never listen to them? It seems like I have ignored them somehow. Big mistake. But since I gave their music a serious listen yesterday I'm totally in love with it.

†‡†: Witch house extroadinaire whose fashionably obtuse character map sourced name is pronounced "ritualz".


Aphrodite: Brings me back to a simpler time in drum n' bass, something I caught the cusp of in my teenage years - before all that Pendulum 'stadium dnb' tripe overran the airwaves (i'm sorry to sound like a no-good snob, but those people wouldn't know what bass drop was if it sodomized them to death)


Drudkh: Not so much a new discovery as a 'reacqauintance' with a long overlooked favorite of mine. Absolutely stellar track from an album I ought to buy called Blood In Our Wells. For fans atmospheric mid-paced black metal.


Dub Elements: Technoid drum n' bass for fans of low-end sci-fi synth-enhanced bassline worship.


Front Beast: Gnarly and old-school German no frills black metal.


Gancher: I know i've posted this guy before, but I can't help spaffing myself over some of this gentlemans material. Stupidly repetetive hardstyle tempo-shifting drum n' bass.


Genocide Organ: I've known of them for less than a year and yet they have steadily become one of my favorite bands in the world, i'm still kicking myself for having missed one of the worlds most well known and well-liked industrial/power electronics units. If you don't listen to anything else by them other than the ferocious Hail America (posted above) then you wouldn't be doing yourself a disservice.


IRM: I've been a fan of the Swedish death industrial duo IRM for some time, but this song is one that has inexcusably slipped from my attention until now. The robotic vocal distortions, combined with the cavernous klang of the piano and overheard snippets of the frightening lyrical content builds an atmospher that I can only compare to the performances of Viennese Actionists or the work of Marina Abramovic.


John Maus: Demonstrates the skewed charm and inherant weirdness of synth pop with his own brand of lo-fi underfunded anthemics. Nostalgic and retro enough to be utterly cool, but distorted and melancholic enough to avoid being cynical pastiche.


Wulfgravf: UGBM from the US that frankly sounds like a bloody mess. You'll either love this or hate it, depending on your tolerance for soviet-bloc style recording quality :p


Young Empires: I couldn't ell you much about this band other than what I think of this song. Im,agine Midnight Juggernauts with a penchant for deep house and fronted by boyband vocalists who just so happened to be fans of Die Warzau.