Montag, 20. Januar 2020
concerts/sessions2020 (update: 2020-01-20)
youtube playlist (also includes previous videos):
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZNVqgSsmymoQHqBqWEFwlqW5S1U83Up5


NOT ON YOUTUBE (yet?):
Pascow - Crossroads Festival 2019
https://www1.wdr.de/mediathek/video/sendungen/rockpalast/video-pascow---crossroads-festival--100.html


News since last week (newest first):

Blind Tiger performing live on Little Room In Florida
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHkFOXAalms
Just stumbled upon, could not stop the video again before it ended - so at least noteworthy ;-)

CIGAR - "Full Session" BRIDGE CITY SESSIONS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEfbYRQUVE8
https://www.awayfromlife.com/cigar-veroeffentlichen-neuen-song-we-used-to/

Nekrogoblikon Live @ The Underworld, London, UK.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCVJ9MQhOkk
"Nekrogoblikon are insane. Nekrogoblikon are bizarre. Nekrogoblikon don't make any sense. Watch and listen to Nekroblikon. Right here!" - this description was already reason enough for me to give this a try ^^

SONS - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyJhV126x1Q
If there's one Alternative Rock Band which is making a difference from all the meaningless annoying crap around there - it's definitely SONS!!!



Freitag, 17. Januar 2020
newstuff2020-03
Full youtube playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZNVqgSsmympoc9wGcccvhA8bhg5wzF1n
(there's a "problem" with google/youtube that some videos cannot be added to playlists atm, but i'll need to handle this later, for now these are simply ignored, also in the following detailled list)

Kommando Marlies Spiel um die Welt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEzotxEoEkY

La Petite Mort / Little Death – Foreveroderkaputt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPfCYHuwSC0
https://www.prettyinnoise.de/la-petite-mort-little-death-konglomerat-sessions.html

Tilidin - Porco Dio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMOpu2unjXE
https://www.awayfromlife.com/tilidin-persona-non-grata-review-2020/

Chiefland - Bottled Memories (3/4) | Sunsetter Sessions #13
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dk6M9a2T8s

Der Butterwegge - Bunte Zecken (live im Bollwerk107)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T8HHors43M

Deadyard - The Escapist Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sTZipPZYgU
https://www.awayfromlife.com/deadyard-mit-neuem-video-zu-old-angry/

Spinners - I'll Be Waiting (Official Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-C8ZsNgghk

Norma Jean- Landslide Defeater (Lyric Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkLvnXUJOBM

Biggest & Best | Clawfinger live | Rockpalast 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2i6JyGtvF-Q

Wasted Shirt: Double the Dream
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-Ek1alZh8Y
https://www.visions.de/news/30513/Newsflash-Alexisonfire-Anti-Flag-Stone-Temple-Pilots-u-a

DECEMBER YOUTH - "Sway" (official video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wsm-SughRks

Zwo Eins Risiko - Plastik (Official Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxWcdLTHHVg
Alle Erlöse aus "Plastik" gehen an Plasticontrol e.V
https://www.visions.de/news/30516/Vormerken-Unsere-aktuellen-Neuentdeckungen

Yuri Gagarin - QSO - From new full length album: The Outskirts Of Reality - Available January 31.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7WvmFGtnmQ
http://theobelisk.net/obelisk/2020/01/15/yuri-gagarin-the-outskirts-of-reality-review-vid-premiere/

MY DYING BRIDE - Your Broken Shore (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1DI7447ia0
http://theobelisk.net/obelisk/2020/01/14/my-dying-bride-your-broken-shore-video/

MAID OF ACE - THE TERROR (OFFICIAL VIDEO)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORu-TaZMqMM
https://www.awayfromlife.com/mad-ace-veroeffentlichen-neuen-song-the-terror/

OCEANS - Hope (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeicW4LhglY

Loma Prieta "Fate"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7eBtap2ReM

Pink Floyd - Learning To Fly (PULSE Restored & Re-Edited)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIaoQYUqcBQ

Elder Druid | Sentinel (Official Music Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYBgQSYCn1k

MONDO GENERATOR - Turboner (Single 2020)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pngPea1kzcw

Jinjer - Dreadful Moments (Official Live Bootleg)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbHUvQCnYBE

Hammerhai: Mehr Elektro (live 2019)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WretITGGXR0

Tuning - Bitter Wind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BRMmwzSrPE
https://idioteq.com/oakland-power-hardcore-punks-tuning-raise-energy-levels-with-new-single-bitter-wind/

Terrorgruppe - Sie nationalsozialistische Bullensau (hochmoderne Singer/Songwriter Version)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAmXdaRhVu4

Endless Boogie - Back In '74 (Official Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hioZNA6vsyw

The Sensitives - Life and Death
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93q1bLqN8oY
audio only version, might be replaced by video soon (if one will be released)!

Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs – Reducer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsn9leb4ZSc
https://www.visions.de/news/30517/Newsflash-Henry-Rollins-Mike-Patton-Blink-182-u-a

THE PICTUREBOOKS - You Can’t Let Go feat. Chrissie Hynde (OFFICIAL VIDEO)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-17Zf-rcCjM

Samy Deluxe - Requiem (Offizielles Musikvideo)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPV9dguMuHs

Konny Kleinkunstpunk - Marktplatz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0cr7stOjok

Space Paranoids - Red Coast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qYhTgGyhUs

Die Arbeit – Könige im Nichts (Offizielles Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cq-jjNhsAGY
https://www.visions.de/news/30524/VISIONS-Premiere-Post-Punks-Die-Arbeit-praesentieren-Koenige-im-Nichts

BARRELS - Read After Burning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPbDsvzm5Y8

Petrol Girls - Monstrous (Official Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EssvCJxFYk
https://www.awayfromlife.com/petrol-girls-veroeffentlichen-neues-video-zu-monstrous/

Azusa - Memories of an Old Emotion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3vp_za0n0s
https://www.visions.de/news/30521/Newsflash-Beastie-Boys-Nine-Inch-Nails-Chester-Bennington-u-a

SONS - Ricochet (Live on KEXP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rG2BwqRvEk
if you like this don't miss the full session:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyJhV126x1Q
The full album could only be found as a youtube playlist yet:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kws1ofoWXnuZtizI08RQMTumYPGeqShjk

Frittenbude - Erlös dich von dem Schrott (Live @ FM4 Session)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nG4S8ESa8E

Cable Ties - Sandcastles (Official Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdPU_VnC6UI

PÖBEL MC - Patchworkwendekids/Bildungsbürgerprolls (beats by Tombs Beats & DJ Flexscheibe)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8V0awwc_KUw
https://www.awayfromlife.com/poebel-mc-veroeffentlicht-doppelsingle/

Alexisonfire - Season Of The Flood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ug0AiLTpPLM
https://idioteq.com/alexisonfire-streaming-new-song-season-of-the-flood/

Moby - Power Is Taken ft. D.H. Peligro (Official Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPGXnhvEp9k
https://www.visions.de/news/30521/Newsflash-Beastie-Boys-Nine-Inch-Nails-Chester-Bennington-u-a

Igorrr "Very Noise" (OFFICIAL VIDEO)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3e4nQTFhieo

Russian Circles - Quartered | Audiotree Far Out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wDw-W9S0j4

Khruangbin & Leon Bridges ‘C-Side’ (Official Audio)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JF2jxqQVloM

CIGAR - "We used to" - BRIDGE CITY SESSIONS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLvqXvazv-k
full session: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEfbYRQUVE8
https://www.awayfromlife.com/cigar-veroeffentlichen-neuen-song-we-used-to/

HUANASTONE - Bad Blood (single 2020)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64UrI7ShWr4

envy “ A faint new world” Official Music Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6uY5xG9nng
https://idioteq.com/a-faint-new-world-japanese-epic-post-rock-pioneers-envy-premiere-new-video/

Turbostaat - Brockengeist (Offizielles Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ES6TdXWzlcI

SVETLANAS - Jump
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CONmuHrCkGY
https://idioteq.com/jump-svetlanas-tease-their-new-lp-disco-sucks-with-new-video/

The Bombpops - Notre Dame (Official Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7YEFju2p8k

SITAR METAL - We Will Never Exist Again (Official Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUMn3hlMv60

Pack Sounds - "Choking Up"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09hFLbsVw2I

Elfmorgen - Tanz (Schlachthof Wiesbaden)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uArydC-yAdw

Giver - Every Age Has Its Dragons (Like An Empire)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NA_DhUaAjc
https://www.visions.de/news/30518/VISIONS-Premiere-Giver-zeigen-Video-zu-Every-Age-Has-Its-Dragons-Like-An-Empire

Green Day - Oh Yeah! (Official Music Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3cpdkhtGx0

100blumen - Brücken & Gräben
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5_MUIH-U_g

NADA QUE PERDER - LIBERTAD Y SUERTE - HARDCORE WORLDWIDE (OFFICIAL HD VERSION HCWW)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLXccRdJY1Q

Antilopen Gang - Bang Bang
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zy0No4DdpW0

Algiers "There Is No Year" | FishCenter | adult swim
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVYT2BO8gEk

Eminem - Darkness (Official Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHQC4fAhcbU

Rodrigo y Gabriela - Seasons In The Abyss (Official Audio)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDjZgJJFKNc

Coogans Bluff - Sincerely Yours (official video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_cSKQavpXA

SOOMA - Recca (OFFICIAL VIDEO)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rn5i8SBP04c


EDIT 2020-01-21:
replaced with video version:
envy - A Faint New World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqtEG0q1fO0



Donnerstag, 16. Januar 2020
reviews2020-03
Album(s) Of The Week:

2020 releases only:

Oceans - The Sun and the Cold
listen: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kP8dy3Yx7_b1kMZQLyDnybRMD6iBd9AjU
Not sure how/where to categorize, so let's look at what i found from different sources: "Modern Metal (Death Metal, Nu-Metal)" - "Prog Metal / Post Metal" - "Rock" - "Post-Death-Metal"...
none of it completely wrong, but none hits it completely, either ;-)
but apart from "labels", this is simply a fantastic record (if you can stand "metal" at all, i guess ^^)!

The Wild Haze - Strikes and Gutters
info/source: https://www.awayfromlife.com/the-wild-haze-strikes-and-gutters-review-2020/
listen: https://thewildhaze.bandcamp.com/album/strikes-and-gutters
sweeeet pop-punk, a little lofi. the (female) singer's voice is pretty tender and sweet, could almost say sounds like cotton candy. songwriting is very catchy, definitely worth a listen!

Mammock - Itch
info/source: http://www.deadpulpit.com/2020/01/mammock.html
https://idioteq.com/itch-greek-progressive-math-noise-rockers-mammock-explain-their-adventurous-record/
listen: https://mammock.bandcamp.com/album/itch
"“weird” mixture of post-hardcore with noise rock, eccentric riffage, experimental rhythms, time signatures and dynamics"
i cannot add more words trying to describe. not sure yet if this really already is the Album Of The Year (as described in first link), i guess this needs a few runs to finally decide (or even "understand" this record). definitely worth checking out, if you dare... ;-)

Haest - Anomie
info/source: https://www.awayfromlife.com/haest-mit-neuem-video-und-neuem-album/
listen: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_n4OithiYNZNf74QYv_w2rVnqRTjdxvNZg
i read "doom punk" somewhere, this gives a good idea in which direction this is going. mostly short tracks, pretty diverse for this kind of sound! i like it a lot!


Also worth mentioning:

2020 releases:

Wasted Breath - Wasted Breath
info/source: https://idioteq.com/street-punk-rockers-wasted-breath-deliver-raw-tuneful-lp-on-blackhouse-records/
listen: https://wastedbreathofficial.bandcamp.com/album/wasted-breath
diversified "street punk" ("we play on bills with punk bands, hardcore bands, alternative bands, psychobilly bands"), very interesting! pretty straight-forward, just the way i like it!

Big Spin - Big Spin
listen: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQEOi0zFu_jxx8O_9zyPo52fLE1bnVwja
mexican melodic punk, partly with streetpunk influences, very hymnic. sometimes also nearly hardcorepunk, sometimes skapunk, also a dubby part somewhere - so: very diverse, doesn't get boring!

Apocalyptica - Cell-0
listen: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkdhN1PcFQw9QsN82I2hlHc_6t29Prqbf
somehow i didn't listen to them for a long while, but the first preview singles to this album caught my attention again.
so i cannot compare to the releases before, but i'm not surprised about the sound and album at all. just what was to be expected. instrumental (partly compex) post(?)metal, just with cellos ^^. of course it's best if you take time for this to enjoy.


older releases:

Melted Bodies - People Watching
info/source: https://www.visions.de/news/30499/Vormerken-Unsere-aktuellen-Neuentdeckungen
listen: https://meltedbodies.bandcamp.com/album/people-watching
not sure how exactly these three tracks could be classified. "funny, epic math-grind-party-metal" (like Visions says) is at least an appropriate approximation, i guess ^^. ah, and i really like it ;-)

Ryr - Left Fallow
listen: https://ryrpostmetal.bandcamp.com/album/left-fallow
"Instumental atmospheric Post Metal" fits best, i guess. I was interrupted a few times while listening, sadly - better set and setting advised ;-)
Riffing could probably be a bit more diverse after all, but this is still a very good record! If you'd like to go on a journey for 50 minutes this one is highly recommended!


"Disappointments" of the week:

2020 releases:

Smile And Burn - Morgen anders
info/source: https://www.visions.de/platten/28471/smile-and-burn-morgen-anders
listen: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mtAE5BKCGIYp3Ae_BHLoQJaBlBWBx3q8U
first of all: i don't know any of the stuff they did before. poppy german punkrock with quite good lyrics (their first time with german lyrics, as i read). i liked the prereleased songs quite well, but in full length it gets a bit boring. probably because there are also a few (from my pov: too many) slower songs. also, with time the singer's voice is getting more and more annoying...

DeWolff - Tascam Tapes
info/source: https://www.visions.de/platten/29245/dewolff-tascam-tapes
listen: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLz8ufS3KEgcY7KeB6nm8ZPJnSh9sxpvTN
very cool and lofi retro rock music! in the beginning of the album i was very thrilled, but although this is only half an hour long it somehow gets more and more boring quickly...