From our harbinger of the day, "Hey, man. I stumbled onto your blog from a Brent's TV video you posted on YouTube and spent the last hour reading your reviews. I appreciate the amount of effort you put into your writing. My name is Andy. I ran a label called Mortville Records in the 1990s and 2000s, but it sort of petered out. I've been playing in a band called Captain Three Leg since 1995 that's flown under the radar for most people. No big deal, I play and record to entertain myself. A few years ago I decided to just stop releasing physical copies of our stuff because nobody was buying it. I like recording, but I don't like losing money pressing shit nobody wants. Bandcamp has been great for people like me who just want to get music out there for people to hear and don't care about money." You know, first off, it's nice that someone out of the blue, comes along and shows the blog some appreciation. Seven years of doing this here thing, and I know it's not mind melting shit, really just barely interesting at times, fuck, if it wasn't for the music there would be no point, what's the fucking point anyway. Well, creative souls like Andy, one of the rarely thanked, movers and shakers of scenes all over the world, make it all worthwhile. Imagine my delight when I put the proverbial needle into the groove and it turns out to be a vibe I haven't explored in a while, taking me back to my late teens. Captain Three Leg is some of the finest power violence, I call it post-hardcore, I've run across in years. This is the pinnacle of the evolution of hardcore, started by none other than Middle Class and ending with bands that took what little good there was in youth crew, beating it to a pulp with a ball-peen hammer. The vocals remind me of Infest or my buddy's band Lack of Interest, yelled x2, but understandable, not screamed beyond comprehension. The musicianship is razor blade sharp, stopping and starting on a dime, maneuvering around your head like a zero-turn mower. In the Winnie the Pooh hardcore punk world these guys are lightning fast bouncing around like Tiger at times and at others, deliberately plodding like Eeyore, in no rush at all. A little metallic here and there, with a very short burst of noodly solos and some chugga chugga chunking, and that's just fine with me. Something that makes the songs interesting is that there are these short little sound bites at the beginning of each one that serves as some sort of lead in or intro, I like that they took the time to put that kind of thought into these compositions. Overall, made my day, and the gravy is that it's a free fucking download ready to be loaded on your iPod!. Oh yeah, there's more, to top it off, this is a split release, so along with the sweet sounds of Captain Three Leg, the first three tunes are done by a late 80's (when it was still good) styled grindcore band (with a little PV thrown in) called Flvx Capacitor. The vocals here fall into the grunted, growled, screamed category and I can't understand a thing, reminding me of when I first heard Napalm Death, but like ND the songs come with lyrics and they're worth reading or following along if you dare. This shit has an old school sound too, nothing like the pop-grindcore of today. Only down side, only three songs. Go give this split a listen/download at their Bandcamp or check it out below...
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Well this is a first, got hit up to review an animated short (if you're a regular around here you know I love that shit) and I couldn't be more grateful, everything about this thing is just perfect. Here is the email I got from the mastermind behind this project,
"Hi, I am Márk Juhász, a recently graduated filmmaker/animator! I am trying to make an online premiere for my animated sci-fi short, titled
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Back in action for some long awaited reviews, thank God my inbox still has consistent gifts of waiting for me, although it's a never ending struggle to keep up with them. Shit, there's only so many hours in the day to listen and reflect on my favorite topic, but I usually feel rewarded when it's all said and done. This time around we have a couple of folks, hailing from the ancient land of Greece, laying it on heavy with fresh originality. I put them in the "Industrial" category, which fits in the most general sense, but these guys have a very refined, specific sound and I don't even know exactly how to categorize them or if that's even important, other then to give you, the potential listener a hint at what you might be getting yourself into. They are self described as "HAU are a noise-rock duo band. Their music is industrial, noise improvisation, analog sound and various other genres. The duo was created in 2012 where they started creating their own stuff."
First thing that came to mind for me was the most hectic of Am Rep vibes, the kind that makes you think that these guys must be a little hectic or even unstable themselves. I mean how the hell does a guy come up with this type of sound? Is it planned, something that was there in their minds, just waiting to be given form or does it come out of something else and then evolves in the practice room into it's final form? Here is what they had to say, "HAU activate, through "broken", deformed guitar/live electronics themes and tribal/break rhythms, the human restlessness and oppression as a necessary and capable condition to create a foreboding overturn." That makes sense.
Overall I find myself going back to thinking of them as this harsh industrial, not unlike early stuff from live instrument Industrial Metal acts like Nine Inch Nails or Ministry. On the other hand, it may not be fair to compare them to those guys, as these two are way underground, there's not a trace of anything mainstream about them. I like that, sort of a punk 1977 attitude. Looking over what I've written so far about the band, in describing them, I have limited them, there is no limit to this sound. Taken as a whole, this EP explores a lot of territory and is heavy on the variety of sounds and rhythms...well worth a listen. They've got a 
The first review of my own personal money pit, the Martyred Heretics comp, is in at