Hirudinea/Watchmaker split cd FREE DOWNLOAD[views:29914][posts:21]___________________________________ [Sep 8,2008 1:01pm - Inject-Now ""] Found this on a blog site. Considering Bestial Onslaught has done next to nothing for two years, I figured I would post this everywhere I can. Hirudinea / Watchmaker split cd [img] [img] "Hirudinea fucking slay, bro. I woke up this morning and knew exactly what I was gonna post. I scored this a while ago, and I've been so busy with the madness at work as well as a full-plate at home that it just sat on that corner of my desk that is always a three-foot-tall stack of unlistened-to CD's. I finally had the time to actually start going through some of the logjam in the last week - thus the lack of updates. My first test for a new CD to see if it is "worthy" is by playing it on my drive to work. That usually tells me within 15 minutes if a CD kills or not. This split CD definitely is a strong cup of coffee - made with turpentine, per se'. Very violent, and at full speed, both of these Boston bands make some seriously scary fucking music that is not without being heavy as well. Hirudinea is a new one for me, and I sure as fuck hope to hear more from these guys. Watchmaker is a personal favorite of mine, and as usual, they do not disappoint! I'd love to see both of these bands on a full-on Boston bill, the line-up (in no particular order) being: Hirudinea / Watchmaker / Raw Radar War / Converge / Out Cold - fuck, I'll stop right there... D/L Hirudinea / Watchmaker split CD" http://link-protector.com/409514/ |
| _____________________________ [Sep 8,2008 1:08pm - Mess ""] my steering wheel has bite marks on it |
| ______________________________________ [Sep 8,2008 2:48pm - watchmaker666 ""] Where did Alex go anyway? |
| ________________________________ [Sep 8,2008 2:51pm - W3 nli ""] he's in a nameless grave next to Joe NC |
| ___________________________________ [Sep 8,2008 3:22pm - inject-now ""] alex just woke up, smoked a bowl, took a nap, smoked a bowl, watched a movie, took a nap, watched a movie, smoked a bowl, etc... |
| ______________________________ [Sep 8,2008 3:28pm - aril ""] haha, I've seen a few people talking shit about alex on a few different boards |
| ___________________________________ [Sep 8,2008 3:36pm - inject-now ""] yeah, pretty much every board i have seen people shit talk him. i have defended him countless times and even done trades for him. dude has great bands on his label, people email him offering him money all the time for the releases and he just ignores it. every band is unhappy with him. i'm a total fuck up too but i can still function. there is no excuse for it. it blows my mind. |
| ___________________________________ [Sep 8,2008 3:40pm - inject-now ""] oh jesus fuck. the link is protected. go to the blog and search hirudinea/watchmaker. he's got loads of other good stuff as well. http://loresviscera.blogspot.com/ |
| ______________________________ [Sep 8,2008 3:41pm - aril ""] I actually think I remember reading people wanted to boycott / hatemail his ass. did he just give up? |
| ________________________________________ [Sep 8,2008 3:44pm - Conservationist ""] http://loresviscera.blogspot.com/2008/02/hirudinea-watchmaker.html |
| ___________________________________ [Sep 8,2008 3:48pm - inject-now ""] Conservationist said:http://loresviscera.blogspot.com/2008/02/hirudinea-watchmaker.html thanks man. aril, he would probably tell you bestial onslaught is still "active". |
| ____________________________________ [Sep 8,2008 9:21pm - dunwichnli ""] Downloading now...looking forward to listening to this. |
| _________________________________ [Sep 9,2008 10:25am - c.DeAd ""] Thanx mike, now we are all gonna be broke! |
| ____________________________________ [Sep 9,2008 11:35am - Inject-Now ""] We don't even have anymore copies, and Alex's copies are obviously going nowhere. I should post the Witch Tomb and Embryonic Cryptopathia records as well. |
| _________________________________ [Sep 9,2008 11:45am - c.DeAd ""] Inject-Now said:We don't even have anymore copies, and Alex's copies are obviously going nowhere. I should post the Witch Tomb and Embryonic Cryptopathia records as well. No shit. I guess his parents basement need them more than we do. |
| _______________________________ [Sep 9,2008 11:46am - aril ""] any thoughts on a possible rerelease? if you're interested, i'll talk to a few people |
| ___________________________________ [Sep 9,2008 1:20pm - Inject-Now ""] This Is Boston? April 10, 2007 May I take a moment to pitch the local scene? When I was getting into music during the early 90s, Boston was not a metal haven. Hardcore crews delight in maiming people at shows scared promoters into banning all heavy music from the citys venues. The areas big riff-ed exports were Sam Black Church, Stompbox, Tree, 6L6. They were an alternative-leaning bunch, all trying to be ambiguous, all owing one sum or another to Helmet. As a general rule the home team was not very blood-thirsty. Things are different today, about 13 years later, in the wake of Converge, Shadows Fall, Hydra Head Records, the metalfest in Worcester, et al. There are a zillion bands with double kick drums and a thriving market for dismemberment-soundtrack music, anything with grizzly/murderous/mythic imagery and industrial strength tones across the hardcore/metal/noise pie chart. I only just got to hear the Hirudinea/Watchmaker split CD, released last year on Watertowns own Bestial Onslaught Productions, as the label is rapidly becoming too kvlt for things like proper distribution. Its an impressive bit of fallout from Masss boiling-over dark side. These are very similar bands in some ways, avoiding easy classification as metal or hardcore but pushing the essence of both through a filter of grating atonal noise and a physically aggressive performance standard (the strings and other vibrating surfaces sound like theyre getting ripped at high speed). Fairly young dudes with elephants memory-sized record collections, synthesizing connective tissue between divergent shit like Godflesh, Order From Chaos, Cro-Mags, Voivod, and a ton more. Watchmaker has been the subject of a steady stream of hype in Terrorizer Magazine for a long time now. Not an insane amount of hype volume-wise, but a more continuous and maybe even more exaggerated hyperbole stream than is usual for that press avenue. The basic premise is that they never rehearse, and improvise all their music in a fit of thrashin studio rage. Trademarks of hardcore, thrash, black metal, and noise rock crop up then recede again into a static tide consisting of a million little impact noises. The standard for acceptable Watchmaker music arises from a balance of how hard the instruments can be attacked, versus how closely the band can keep time without thinking about it too much. They literally make little time-pieces, stress-fueled mechanical endurance tests that theyll gleefully declare arent for everybody. Its definitely cool, but despite the difficulty of critiquing improv-music, to me this isnt their most personable work (worst symptom: vocals hovering in layers, as opposed to the up-front alone and maniacal presentation on debut Kill.Crush.Destroy). And shit, if aggression versus physical exhaustion and the threat of total derailment is the whole point, rather than musicianship or compositional skill, why not just make a watch yourself? Id like to try smashing a hole through my kitchen floor with a fire extinguisher while screaming about what it takes to be zestfully clean. Itll be pretty brutal I think. Maybe Steve Austinll produce! Nevertheless, Malignant Memory Hole is a rush, as are all their tunes, if they catch you at the right moment. Hirudinea are relatively unknown outside the Boston area, maybe because they waste a lot of time writing songs. Their material is more calculated in a lot of ways. They want to explicitly tell you some things, the desire to communicate horrible realities extending right down to a more controlled, reverb-y production job and halfway decipherable black metal vox. Their tracks are heavily-wrought compositions, complex logical sequences of riffs and time changes with a fuckload of blurry dis-harmonies saturating everything. Theyve taken certain facets of old-school hardcore and purposefully distorted them: emphasizing the traditional repetition/variation of a short rhythmic motif within a death-grinding framework, hacking gang-shouts down into one drowning voice that moans things as if from a dream-state, things like "for Ill give my life to Him," and, "you fuckin suck!" Those intermittent vocals, plus the weird drum sound, samples and Godflesh-ian bass tone, have me thinking of early Scorn somehow turning back into a more evil, war-torn version of themselves as Napalm Death. Gotta give it up on the side of craftsmanship between these two bands, cuz thats where imagination has room to manifest. Tons of promise, tons of fury and a surprising amount of brains here with Hirudinea, as leadoff track "This I Command" demonstrates. But Watchmaker is a force to behold too. Both bands deserve credit for salvaging components from a musical past that maybe never was, and pushing forward without a trace of nostalgia. [buy stuff here] Matthew Altieri | 8:00 am |
| _______________________________ [Sep 9,2008 1:22pm - rbass ""] I have this CD and it kicks ass! |
| ________________________________ [Sep 9,2008 1:57pm - c.DeAd ""] rbass said:I have this CD and it kicks ass! Well at least someone has it. Thanx for the compliment. |
| _______________________________________ [Sep 10,2008 8:05am - boblovesmusic ""] I have it too! I also think it kicks arse! |
| _____________________________________ [Sep 11,2008 10:25am - Inject-Now ""] heilige |
| ____________________________________ [Sep 25,2008 5:16pm - inject-now ""] one more time, also check out my blog http://inblackness.blogspot.com/ much more to come |