VALANDORA

Band: VALANDORA

Genres: Punk / Rock / Post-Hardcore / Emo / Screamo / Alternative
Related artists: ?.
Country: Spring Lake, New Jersey USA
Years Active: ?-?
Song: "Nominal Animal"
Album: "...It All Sounds"
Year: ?
Label(s): ?
This post's artist is from the October 2014 Mix. This is track #4.
You can download the October Mix#10 right here or get the new November Mix#11 here.
For fans of: Alexisonfire, The Fall Of Troy, Recover, Coheed And Cambria, Chiodos Bros, Boys Night Out, Saosin, Kissing Chaos and The Solo Project.

VALANDORA was a band my friend/girlfriend in University (Hi, Nara!) introduced me to. She was having a hard time finding bands I didn't know and shocked me with these fellas. I only found one release and am pretty sure they were a myspace/purevolume band that were scattered around random parts. Although the style has been done before and a hell of a lot since, but this particular sing/scream combo was really good. The singing vocalist has a very high Coheed/Chiodos thing going on, and although he breaks a bit I really dig it. The screamer is exceptional and helped pave the way for me liking screamo, with vocals like that. There are really only 2 songs that strike me as amazing and the rest are decent enough, with the demo being of poor quality both audibly and musically, at least compared to their final recordings.

"Cheeky Curve" is a fantastic opener and the band's best song. It busts out like Alexisonfire
with much higher and "punkier" clean singing. This climaxes after 1:15 when the screaming bursts forth and is reminiscent of old Recover and demo-era Boys Night Out, which I absolutely love. The lyrics with both the clean singing "never know / until it happens" and screaming "take my soul / it won't be missed".

"Nominal Animal" is quite repetitive and holy sheeeat does he hold those singing notes for a long fucking time, but its brooding groove should hook you and the dual vocal parts (sung and screamed) certainly don't hurt. After about a minute the song builds and almost lets go but subdues itself instead. After 2:30 "Nominal Animal" seems like its about to fade out, only to finally bring on some heavier, mathier instrumentals with both guys screaming. Nods to Fall Of Troy.

I checked on discogs.com and these guys weren't even listed, which is rare. I did a quick scan but other than their purevolume/lastfm sites I saw nothing posted about them. Twas a shame...past tense. Enjoy.

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DISCOGRAPHY
Click )==>here<==( to download the band's complete discography in mp3 form.

Both of these must be pre-2002 because that's when I seemed to have created these files:

? - Demo EP

? - ...It All Sounds EP

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VALANDORA - "Cheeky Curve" (from '...It All Sounds')

VALANDORA - "Nominal Animal" (from '...It All Sounds')

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VALANDORA out of print mp3 discography download / additional links

(download here)

Purevolume

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DOMINIC

Band: DOMINIC

Genres: Punk / Post-Rock / Post-Hardcore / Post-Metal / Emo / Screamo
Related artists: ?.
Country: Trondheim, NORWAY
Years Active: 2001-present
Song: "Ink for Bullets"
Album: "Nord"
Year: 2009
Label(s): Not Another Record Label / Great Northern Records / Denovali Records / Fysisk Records / Ape Must Not Kill Ape Records / Apocaplexy Records / Superfluous
This post's artist is from the October 2014 Mix. This is track #3.
You can download the October Mix#10 right here or get the new November Mix#11 here.
For fans of: Furtive Forest, Mihai Edrisch, Via Fondo, Vi Som Alskade Varandra Sa Mycket, Youth Novel, La Parade, Envy, Nous Etions, Touche Amore, Amanda Woodward, Daitro, Sed Non Satiata, Raein, Rainmaker, Bleeding Kansas, Young Mountain, JR Ewing, Viva Belgrado, Black Love, Yage and Adhesive aka PROPER SCREAMO.

Dominic. The kid from Kindergarten Cop. DOMINIC, also a band from Norway. So I listened to two DOMINIC releases four or five years ago and was blown away by 2 songs. Yes, only 2 songs on 'Nord'. They have screaming pretty much the entire time. These 2 songs are some of the best screamo I've heard in the last five years, so I find it very strange how polarized I am regarding the band. Putting that aside, just go jam these 2 songs, "End of Man" and "Ink for Bullets". They are bliss. Imagine (or rather, hear it) Vi Som Alskade Varandra Sa Mycket and Daitro with hoarser vocals like Furtive Forest or older Touche Amore, and even borders on Bleeding Kansas at times. The instrumentals are a dreamy, European screamo fan's heaven - I shit you not. Take "Ink for Bullets" and the slow, grooving, Daitro-esque part that begins at 1:05 and made this my wife's favourite song of that year. The majority of the band's 2006 LP 'Dominic' is another really good album as well, and as a whole stands up better as an album, but doesn't have the 2 songs. Dave, shut up about the 2 songs. Grab most of the discography on the DOMINIC bandcamp page here and go check those embeds for sure, my friends. I should mention I don't like the new and old stuff as much as their 2006-2009 era stuff, but it's still decent - I just don't like the singing all too much. Goodbye giant paragraph.

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DISCOGRAPHY

2003 - Dominic EP (stream/donate/download here)

2004 - Running with Scissors EP (stream/download here)
2004 - Single Series 7" (anyone have this?)

2006 - Dominic LP (stream/donate/download here)

2009 - Nord cd/12"LP (stream/donate/download here)

2009 - The Third Memory split 12"EP (download here)

2011 - Dominic 7"EP (anyone have this?)

2012 - Dominic 10"EP  (stream 2 songs here)

2013 - Persona cd/12"LP (stream 2 songs here)

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(2009) DOMINIC - "Ink for Bullets" (from 'Nord')

(2009) DOMINIC - "End of Man" (from 'Nord')

(2006) DOMINIC - "An Empty Barrel of Shame" (from 'Dominic' LP)

(2006) DOMINIC - "The March" (from 'Dominic' LP)

(2004) DOMINIC - "Simple Plan" (from 'Running with Scissors')

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TIGERSHARK

Band: TIGERSHARK

Genres: Punk / D-Beat / Crust / Hardcore / Thrash / Sludge / Grunge-Metal
Related artists: The Setup and The Assistant.
Country: Richmond, Virginia USA
Years Active: 2006-2007
Song: "12 Sided Lie"
Album: "Demo"
Year: 2006
Label(s): Self Released / The Perpetual Motion Machine / Molsook / Tick Tock
This post's artist is from the October 2014 Mix. This is track #9.
You can download the October Mix#10 right here or get the new November Mix#11 here.
For fans of: The Setup, Isis, Rayleigh, Backstabbers Inc., AmenRa, Tragedy, Akimbo, From Ashes Rise, Arbogast and Phoenix Bodies.

Oh TIGERSHARK. Ever wondered what Isis would sound like lo-fi and on speed? This. Members of The Setup and The Assistant playing sludgy, metallic influenced thrash/hardcore. I believe the band ceased to exist after one of the members passed away. Terrible story, amazing/unknown band.

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DISCOGRAPHY
Click )==>here<==( to download the band's complete discography in mp3 form.

2006 - Demo cdEP (purchase here)
2006 - Best Friends Day 6 compilation 12"LP (contributed a demo version of "He's Not a Bartender, He's an Artist")

2007 - Thank God split 12"LP
2007 - Apeshit split 12"LP (purchase here)
2007 - Demo + 2 cassetteEP

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(2006) TIGERSHARK - "12-Sided Lie" (from 'Demo')

(2007) TIGERSHARK - "Rando Commando" (from 'Apeshit' split)

(2007) TIGERSHARK - "He's Not a Bartender, He's an Artist" (from 'Thank God' split)

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TIGERSHARK out of print mp3 discography download

(download here)

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