Genres: Punk / Metallic-Hardcore / Grind / Thrash / Screamo / Hardcore / Powerviolence Related artists: Backstabbers Inc, Neon Bitches and Straight To Hell. Country: Providence, Rhode Island USA Years Active: 2001-2005 Song: "Helter Skelter" Album: "Photos Don't Take Photos of Things They Want to Forget" comp Year: 2005 Label(s): Self Released / Dead But Dreaming / Black Day Propaganda Records / Broken Press This post's artist is from the November 2014 Mix. This is track #11.
You can download the October Mix#11 right hereor get the new November Mix#12 here.
For fans of: Love Lost But Not Forgotten, Crestfallen, Francis Brady, Owen Hart, Seyarse, Oktober Skyline, Tyranny Of Shaw, Hospital, Combatwoundedveteran, Clancy Six, A Light In The Attic, Anger Is Beautiful, Dispensing Of False Halos, Loftus, Craneo, Union Of Uranus, Tentacles, His Hero Is Gone, Takaru and Converge aka PROPER SCREAMO.
Thank you Cut & Paste blog. I thought ADVOCATE only had one released (and stellar) song called "Helter Skelter", but I sat down to write this review and boy was I wrong. ADVOCATE played shrieky and violent metallic hardcore bordering on thrash/grind. By shrieking I mean, y'know that banshee screaming that old Converge was able to pull off? Yeeee, that one. Awesome. I've spent a decade jamming one song, so I'm going to stop there because the 7" and cd were acquired...hmmm...yesterday. I can say, though, that they are both great, especially the full length (with "Kalva Talvi Lumi Myrski" being my favourite, and it may be superior to "Helter Skelter"). If you dig the bands listed above you should be all over this. Great, obscure stuff.
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DISCOGRAPHY Click )==>here<==( to download the band's complete discography (minus the split) in mp3 form.
2001 - Advocate 7"EP
2002 - Backstabbers Inc. split 7"EP (anyone have this?)
2003 - From Soil Laced with Lime cdLP
2005 - Photos Don't Take Photos of Things They Want to Forget split/comp 7" (contributed "Helter Skelter")
Zegema Beach mini-fest is November 15th. Congratulations demo cassette/release show is November 26th. I'm recording vocals for мятеж this month or perhaps early in December to round out our People's Temple Project split, at least 2 other tracks. The song for the Friendly Otter compilation is done and is called, "Congratulations, You Get to Drink from the Fire Hose." The comp looks amazing and the bands included are unreal, as are the songs I've heard. Chris and I might be going on tour in the spring of next year but that isn't confirmed. Lastly, the Nous Etions and Yusuke/Lori split 12"s are in stock but I'm just waiting on inserts/screening, which should be complete by mid-November.
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Some shows that Zegema Beach Records will be helping out with:
November 15th MINI-ZBR FEST @Club Absinthe (all ages!) in Hamilton, ON
Edhochuli
Old Soul
Black Love
Thick Piss
Worst Gift
Respire
Quiet Lakes
Teleportoise
Terry Green
Jimmy and the Jerks
Dinosaur Sex Change
November 26th CONGRATULATIONS cassette release show @The Doors Pub in Hamilton, ON
Congratulations
Nous Etions
Terry Green
+2 TBD
(send an email to zegemabeachrecords@gmail.com if your band is interested)
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NEW - VI SOM ALSKADE's "Leva som snö" from 'Den sorgligaste musiken i världen' 12"LP.
As always, on or around the 1st of every month, I will be posting a ZIP file with songs for the upcoming month with ALL specifics deleted from the tags, so unless you already know the band, there is NO information regarding each track.
During the following month, I will post reviews for those bands and link the tracks to the review so you can associate the two together. This way you can listen to a new song/band and have little-to-no bias. Below, I have re-posted the November mp3 mix that is used for this month's reviews.
The new OMSB mp3 Mix #12 is linked below and will be reviewed in December. :
*-* the new Welcome The Plague Year...both of them
*-* the best Level Plane-styled screamo I've heard in a while, and compares to neo-Wolves, although it was released back in 2008 and I just heard it a few months back
*-* another Blood Brothers spin-off band
*-* insane grind/screamo
*-* some beautiful, spacey rock
Any bands/labels that are interested in having their stuff reviewed, please email zegemabeachrecords@gmail.com: with "Open Mind Saturated Brain" as the subject.
Genres: Punk / Rock / Skate-Punk / Emo / Metal Related artists: Me First And The Gimme Gimmes, Buck Wild, Joey Cape and Bad Astronaut, among others... Country: Goleta, California USA Years Active: 1990-2000, 2002-present? Song: "Eat Your Words" Album: "Let's Talk About Leftovers" Year: 2000 Label(s): Fat Wreck Chords / My Records This post's artist is from the October 2014 Mix. This is track #10.
You can download the October Mix#10 right hereor get the new November Mix#11 here.
For fans of: Bad Astronaut, NOFX, No Use For A Name, Ten Foot Pole, Osker, Foo Fighters, Satanic Surfers, Millencolin, Pulley, Guttermouth and The Ataris.
We are going back a ways, here. LAGWAGON were a band I got into back in...grade 9, so...13? They were on the 'Survival of the Fattest' compilation that was truly my proper introduction into "punk", which I picked up for the NOFX song "Vincent", but that's another review.
LAGWAGON were (are?) a skate punk band from Goleta, California. Their name is derived from the nickname that they gave their first tour van, I believe. They started out as more of a metal band than a punk band, which is chronicled on the 'Let's Talk About Leftovers' LAGWAGON compilation. They quickly shifted to skate-punk with metallic influences. This continued until 'Hoss', what is (or, at least, was for a long time) in my opinion the band's crowning achievement. This perfection and then abandonment of their Fat-Wreck, skate/pop-punk style was most likely due to Shawn Dewey leaving the band to start Buck Wild, which I have to leave for yet another review. Following 'Hoss' was 'Double Pladinum' which I would label as the band's flailing attempt at stability during a key member change, but this was followed by another fantastic album titled 'Let's Talk About Feelings' which dropped pretty much all metal and focused on an emo-tinged skate punk with nods instrumentally to Foo Fighters. It took me awhile to realize how mature and well-structured the songs were - like, after a decade or so, and also picked up on the emo side the band was grazing along, most likely led by Joey Cape. The vocals from here on out have some really good hooks - like, some really really good hooks. His lyrics, although silly at times, were generally pretty darn good. The LP is now probably my favourite proper release by the band, as almost every song is amazing. The aforementioned 'Let's Talk About Leftovers' comp included 7 tracks that were originally destined for an EP or something, which was eventually shelved and the songs leeched their way onto this comp, which I think is unfortunate as it would have been among the band's strongest work. I chose "Eat Your Words" from this "EP" because it shows a side of the band, much like Osker's transformation, that matured from punk into more than decent songwriters and musicians. After this the band took a hiatus for two years, came back in 2002 and just never hit the same note with me with the exception of 'Blaze'. Those were the years I got into screamo so I never looked back at skate or pop punk after that. I can still dig these guys whenever they come on in my giant folder of awesomeness, so here are the jams I still spread between the two slices of bread that are my ears:
I have to holler at "Razor Burn" because it's the track that made me fall in love with the band. During the music video the vocalist Joey Cape goes apeshit with a yo-yo and I thought it was the greatest. I also grew a beard of shame and called it as such.
BLAZE
"E Dagger", "I Must Be Hateful", "Falling Apart", "Max Says", "Lullaby" and "Baggage"
I THINK MY OLDER BROTHER USED TO LISTEN TO LAGWAGON
"Live It Down"
LET'S TALK ABOUT LEFTOVERS
"Narrow Straights", "Burn that Bridge When We get to It", "Jimmy Johnson", "Eat Your Words", "Want", "Bring on the Dancing Horses", "Raise a Family" and "Restrain".
LET'S TALK ABOUT FEELINGS
"After You My Friend", "Train", "Everything Turns Grey", "Love Story", "Messengers", "The Kids are All Wrong", "May 16" and "Owen Meaney"
DOUBLE PLADINUM
"Alien 8", "Making Friends", "Twenty Seven", "Choke" and "To All My Friends", as well as the secret track
HOSS
"Violins", "Sleep", "Sick", "Razor Burn" and "Ride the Snake"
TRASHED
"Lazy", "Know It All", "Give It Back", "Dis'chords", "Coffee and Cigarettes" and "Brown Eyed Girl"
DUH
"Beer Goggles", "Inspector Gadget" and "Mr. Coffee"
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DISCOGRAPHY Click )==>here<==( to download Dave's favourite tracks in mp3 form.
