The End Of 2013

another yearly round up list courtesy of your favorite inconsitent blogging site; eazynoiz.

There was so much good music this year it's hard to choose so

Enjoy!

Owen

Quick Shout Out;
UYC/IBR/SL4/FAMILY/FRIENDS

Top Albums
1) Cost Of Living (Incendiary)
2) One Of Us Is The Killer (The Dillinger Escape Plan)
3) Mongo Life (The Mongoloids)

Top Songs
1) War Of Attrition (xRepentancex)
2) Torture Doctor (Alkaline Trio)
3) Born In Chains (Wrong Answer)

Top Shows
1) Wrong Answer Vs. The Mongoloids Featuring NSC and Ego Trip
2) Bulldoze, AOTC Last Show, Broken Teeth, Repentence
3) XXX Show; Abolition, Hardout, No Excuse, Repentence

Top Fest
1) UYC Fest 1
2) Damage Control 2013
3) Ninjafest 2013  

American Demos 2013
1) Benchpress 2013
2)Shovelhead EP
3) Spazz Out 2013
4) Riptide 2013
5) Corkscrew 2013

British Demos 2013
1) War Of Attrition (Repentence)
2) Age Of Vice (Guidance)
3) Crippler LBU
4) C£M£NT
5) Benediction (Proven)

Non-Hardcore Album Of The Year
1) My Shame Is True (Alkaline Trio)
2) No Blues! (Los Campesinos)
3) Small Sound (Tennis)
 
Slam Dat Siknizz Award
1) Passages Into Deformity (Defeated Sanity)
2) Concieved In Sewage (Devourment)
3) Serial Urbicide (Extermination Dismemberment)

Top Album Artwork
1) Face Reality (No Second Chance)
2) Grand Blood (Doom Riders)
3) Age Of Vice (Guidance)

Hall Of Shame
Title Fight still not breaking up
Malevolence for not being very good
Faux tough guys during Donfest
Sick Of It All for being a bit weird
Being fined £20 by TFL
WolfxDown for not being fun
Beyonces new album sucking
Kanye West continues to be a dick
Outbreak becoming a pop-punk festival
The Wonder Years for ditching all their synth
Decapitated for being terrible
the punk revival making me want to go into a coma of boredom
Ark Of The Covenant breaking up
Abolition breaking up
    
Craziest Riff
1) WOOOARRHAAHAHAHAH (In Violation Of Asa/Repentence)
2) BRAAWWHHHENNNNNNNN (Russian Circles)
3) DER NERNERNENENRNE DUM DUM DERRRR (Cold Touch/Frontline)

"Nawty" Breakdown Award
1) Primitave Rage (Incendiary)
2) Curse Of Life (World Of Pain)
3) Oil And Water (Look My Way)
4) Concrete Opinions (Agitator)
5) Slaves To The Rich (Nasty) 

Beaded Choker Service Medal
1) Ben Woolf
2) Realm Of Torment
3) Ben Woolf

"I Feel It" Stoner Riff Award
1) The whole damn EP (Full Zenith)
2) Death In Heat (Doomriders)
3) Iron Sword

Emotional Vibes sponsered by Kleenex
1) Thoughts That Weigh Me Down (Hindsights)
2) I Don't Even Care Anymore (Dowsing)
3) Homestead 2013 EP (Homestead)
 
The Reid Allen Service Medal To Building
1) Sweep Toulmin's Triple Popworld Build
2) Josh "Scattergun Approach" Gibbons 
3) Triple Cross Build at Edge Day LDN
 
Surrealest Start To A Set Award
1) The Mongoloids Dance Party @ Soton
2) "Hi we are Cast Iron Jaw from Torquay, home of bands like negative approach and slayer"
3) "Yooo Basingstoke,  dance to the evil beat"

10 Waviest Garms
1) Electric Green Nikes (Tony)
2) Sunset Orange Nikees (Joe J)
3) Canada Jersey (Reid)
4) Avocado Print (Tom)
5) Safari Print (Luke)
6) Body Count Vans SK8 Hi's (Kane)
7) Burberry Shirt (Joe J)
8) Hot Pink SR Shirt (Sam P)
9) XXXL Hole shirt (Milo)
10) Brewers Baseball Shirt (Luke)

3 Best Pit Injuries
1) Flying Headbutting A Ceiling Fan  (Joe "Good Vibes" Kendrick)
2) Double Spinkick to the head/double knockout (that poor dude at Bulldoze)
3) Suckerpunched out of existence by Sam Atkins (drunk belgian dude at Damage Control) 


 Special Mentions;
losin it
No Second Chance
in tongues
renounced
snake eyes
deadxsett
eisberg
alpha omega
lifeless
lady gaga
asap ferg
killswitch engage
postal service
dillinger escape plan
black sabbath
redfang
tough luck
hatebreed
misery index
integrity
last dayz
cruel hand
take offence
proven
spine
zuul
nasty
sand
wrong answer
colusieum
misery
drawn in
crowd control
pulled under
pariso
backbiter
damaged goods
horrors that you've seen
snakes eyes
no excuse
obsturct
wraiths
extract
corkscrew
crosscheck
riptide
surrender
triple crossed
meth mouth
no outlet
loose ends
youth choir
no empire
turnstile
Grim
bitter times
sidesplit
child brides
stabler
best coast
wavves
eminem
world eater
benchpress
nails
rival mob
ied
warhound
the black dahlia murder

Happy Valentines Day

We know that everyone loves valentines day, amongst it's "consumerist" values is still a very sweet and honest day about doing that little bit extra to show someone you love them, doesn't even need to be one person, you could use valentines day as an excuse to hang out with your friends, get drunk and eat pizza.

But for those other people who aren't so lucky (myself included, 21 year streak of no dates on valentines day) Valentines day can be pretty easily dismissed as a load of shit, but somewhere inside of you could be a secret yearning for someone to at least listen to your lame jokes and laugh, at least for one day.

With this in mind, all the single women and men of the world unite, find some cheap wine and a chicago town pizza and bump our bumper easynoiz playlist entitled

"YOU MAY HAVE SOMEONE WHO LOVES YOU BUT IT'S COOL, I'VE GOT OTHER THINGS TO DO"

the playlist is divided into little sections so you can find the music instantly that you want to listen to when your crying into your 4th tub of ben and jerrys with smeared make up on or find yourself in sweatpants and no top sweating incontrolably over pictures of the girl you like in your sociology classes facebook.

note: although it tends to be alot of male angst songs (it's in our nature to feel permantly hard done by if things don't go our way) it's more about the emotions and the context than the lyrics themselves, and excluding NWA most of these songs can be interpreted towards either gender of your choosing, and i've got Irreplacable too to balance the mysogonist vibes out.

I'm Angsty About Being Alone
My Bloody Valentine - Good Charlotte "I followed him home, stood outside his bedroom window"
I'm A Fake - The Used "Love is nothing, especially not a fucking knife"
Girlfriend - Avril Lavigne "she's like so whatever, and you could do such much better"
Mercury Rising - From Autumn To Ashes "everytime I exhale is just a sign of exhaustation now"
Dateless Losers - Reel Big Fish "it's friday, no phonecall, nobody asked us out"
Ghost Of St. Valentines - Bayside "there's no love, just appetite, and that's what keeps you up at nights"
Get To Fuck - Eternal Lord "you'll get what you deserve, a fairshare of all this fucking heartache"
Ride The Wings Of Pestilence - From First To Last "pretend to be you, your friends will like you more than they used to"

All Men/Women are Dickheads
Fuck It - Eamon "your just another act, look elsewhere cos your done with me"
Take The Knife From My Back And Push It Into Yours" - Tower Of Rome "Let's play a game called who changed first"
Hit Em Up Style - Blu Cantrell "there goes the love that I had but you cheated on me, so that's worth that now"
Independent Woman - Destinys' Child "depend on no one else to give you what you want"
Fuck You - The Queers "you didn't want to fuck me so, FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU"
Bitch Is A Bitch - NWA "That's why when you say 'hi' she won't say 'hi', are you the kind that think you're too damn fly"
I Hope He Kills You - Handguns"It's taking everything I have not to call you back, I hope he breaks you down"
Irreplacable - Beyonce "I could have another one of you in a minute, so don't you ever get to thinking your irreplacable"
Save Your Breath - Hit The Lights "I've wasted all this time on you, On you, It's all the same, we all make mistakes"
Landmine Spring - Quicksand "loading my questions like a shotgun, you can fuck every chance with one shot"
Caught Out There - Kelis "I hope your happy since you got caught out there"

I'd Rather Not Be In Love
He Hit Me (And It Felt Like A Kiss) - The Crystals "when I told him I had found someone new"
Songs About Your Girlfriend - Los Campesinos! "Are just psalms of spite since it came to an end"
Treat Her Like A Prostitute - Slick Rick "cos all they do is hurt and trample, listen up close here comes the first example"
Embrace Hate - Agitator "the life I live, I leave love behind for hate"
Death At The Chapel - The Horrors "Screaming NO ONE WILL EVER LOVE YOU"
I'm Not Going To Teach Him How To Dance With You - Black Kids "two i'm kissing on you, was he better than me?"
What's Love Got To Do With It - Warren G "You say you had love, I said you need to quit"

It Could Be Worse
Me Myself and I - Beyonce"I took a vow from now on, that imma be my own best friend"
Life After Lisa - Bowling For Soup "it's the times I missed out, on sleeping with your roomates everytime you passed out but that's okay"
Your New Twin Sized Bed - Death Cab For Cutie "It's like you're in some kind of hurry to say goodbye"
Best Deceptions - Dashboard Confessional "you don't warrant long goodbyes, your calling too late"
I Know It's Over - The Smiths "It takes guts to be gentle and kind, Over, over, Love is Natural and Real"
Lover I Don't Have To Love - Bright Eyes "I want a lover I don't have to love, I want a girl who's too sad to give a fuck"

5 Favorite Soundtracks

Taking out the obvious examples that everyone rates super highly (or should do) including: Star Wars, Harry Potter, Lord Of The Rings, Italian Job, Pirates Of Carribean, Jurrasic Park, Superman, James Bond, basically anything that has been blessed with the magic of John Williams/Danny Elfman/Hans Zimmer, it's important to rate the lesser known soundtrack artists (or their lesser known work). there's a few well known names here and a few odds and sods, but these are my 5 favorite film soundtracks from eerie theremin to intelligent rap via Nick Cave's creepy vocal steez.


1) Ennio Moriconie: The Thing Main Title

Asides Alien I personally believe that "The Thing" is one of the most important sci-fi thrillers of all time so it was definetly a tough job to reflect the eerieeness of the story through strong soundtracking but the mastermind behind some of the world's most recognisable western soundtracks Mr. Moricone, brings the lesser known 80's synth instrument the Theremin in and creates a suspenseful otherworldy soundtrack that sets the tone of the movie, using both sudden key changes and long doomy held notes to really show the space-sent terrors that the crew of the arctic research station are going to encounter later on in the movie.

2) RZA (Wu Tang) - Ghost Dog

It's probably only a matter of personal taste but I was slightly dubious when someone told me that Ghost Dog had an all-rap soundtrack even though it was supposed to be an american style samurai film, but after watching it I understood completely why the choice had been made and embraced it completely. The song features Wu-Tang figure-head RZA dropping some classic intelligent lyrical fire with a samurai-twist, which completely suits the style of the movie and through that has encouraged me to watch more classic japanese samurai films to understand where the references and inspirations coming from in this movie.

3) Jerry Fielding "Straw Dogs Soundtrack"

In what can be described as one of the most emotionally rollercoaster of a film I have ever seen, Straw Dogs needed a strong ending to match the entire menacing tone that underlined the film. This song comes just after the mild mannered Dustin Hoffman has activated "I've had enough of your shit mode" and killed the people who attacked his home. After closing on his final line of the film "I got 'em all" the soundtrack kicks in, a mixture of redhot fury representing the change of man that he has had to embrace to protect himself and his lover but also the melancholy he clears feels at resorting to the acts of violence he so deplored throughout the movie.

4) Nick Cave "The Proposition"

Nick Cave's penned western tale of "rampage, retribuition and revenge" is supported by some of those most atmospheric set of opening titles i've ever heard, which reminded me heavily of films such as punishment park and last man standing, with a slow sombre pace with a obvious western twist to give the film this almost heavy yet sparse feel which reflects perfectly in the movie as the bleakiness of the characters lives unfolded in the boiling heat of the australian outback.

5) Braindead Soundtrack

No appreciation soundtrack post would be complete without mentioning one of the most delightful inappropriate opening soundtracks to ever grace my (slightly broken) ears. Braindead is a film that is completely caked in gore and laughter which only a horror and comedy director savant could truely master, however in true form to our antipodean cousins, the Peter Jackson helmed film places it's tongue firmly in cheek and gives a completely wrong impression of the ensuing and hilarious OTT carnage to come. The only way to describe it is to paraphrase a friend of mine who compared braindeads masterful use of incredibly high quality orchestral work for such a zany film to "using limp bizkits "Break Stuff" to soundtrack the beach raid in Saving Private Ryan"

TrenchHead - Belligerence 21/1/2013

TrenchHead are a slam metal band that used to be around from around 2003 and then broke up in 2007 and played in bands such as Prowler and noted deathcore/metal botherers Annotations Of An Autopsy. After a 6 year hiatus they have dropped their new EP "Belligerence" which marks a slightly more mature approach from their earlier EP releases (the aptly named "Medical Murders"  having song titles that looking back on it make me cringe slightly, but that's asides the point)

The new EP is a ridiculous hodge-podge of slams, clean guitar work and some of the gnarliest drumtones i've heard in a long while. It's not everyone's cup of tea but I for one are happy to see them back and filling the void of UKDM that bands like Embryonic Depravity and early Ingested have left by either breaking up or going down a more metal inspired route. It sounds like what would happen if Trigger The Bloodshed put the Despised Icon on vocals.

1.  Patriach To Origin - opening on a JFAC sounding guitar tone and some classic blastbeating with a good deathcore gang shouting thing, it's a good start to the album and will probably set the tone for slightly more interesting approach to the normally tried and tested (not a bad thing) "bass bass slam bass" approaches that some of their peers have.
2. Abgenation - starting with an appropriate hardcore BLEURGH noise and going straight into a straight-forward hardecorey sounding vocals over more wiggly guitar, it reminds me a bit of like the better bits of the first Winds Of Plague album.
3. Landscape Of Thorns - that drum/guitar combo at around 1.47 will send people into a wave of nostalgia who miss bands having a big build up into a breakdown, and the resulting haunting guitar feedback and wailing made me think a bit of TEOAT before they got fucking shit.
4. Belligerence  - a good opening for the long hairs, and continues to keep that hair-whipping beat up for pretty much the whole song, and the guitar solo at 1.58 and resultant gangshout of "one of us, who doesn't give a fuck" is pretty sweet.
5. From Beyond - A good closing track that reminds me a lot of Great Depression era TTB or that weird middle track on Genesis by JFAC that has the spooky fade out. 

 
 Whilst it doesn't exactly blow me away and makes me sort of miss the old ridiculous slammy riffs, it's a more concise and interesting effort with the standout track definetly being Abgenation. It's a pretty solid release with a lot of time and thought put into the song structures, which kept me guessing and proves that you can't sort of predict where the songs are going to go which keeps it sort of fresh and exciting.

I'd give it a 8/10 for profiency and an extra +5 coolness for moving away from the original slamminess but keeping it up with some awesome guitarwork and making the vocals sound super crisp which is sometimes a rarity for metal bands.



 
listen here yo

owen
xoxo

Night Terrors - A Playlist

If you've become pretty much nocturnal because of university or work or life then easynoiz have your back, we present to you something spooky to listen to at night, either in your bed or going for a walk round your hometown or holding a candle over your lovers sleeping body and they awake to your heavy breathing.

get spooky with it.

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