musical shivers in 2012

I stopped making music lists some time ago cause i mostly listen to bands i already know and my motivation for searching new music is lost somewhere in the between.Once in a while i like to download bands that catch my attention and when i go and buy records i mostly buy old releases so its hard fot me to make a proper list of my favorites for the damned year of 2012.Besides all this i decided to post some releases that made my year a litle more interesting.In no specific order heres what i got.

spine-subhuman 7"

devastating fastcore from chicago that will make you break down your bedroom walls with your own head.
imagine harms way covering infest.bonecrushing hardcore violence.

pelican-ataraxia/taraxis

you already know this band im sure you do.trippy and sludgy metal journey with some acoustic guitars and some monsterous riffs.lovin it.

digger barnes-every story true


this guy makes some of the most beautiful acoustic/country music i ve ever listened in my whole life.its creepy and cursed,singing bout some of the most soul crushing dissapointments a man can experience even though theres a sense of hope and courage in these songs.

το μαύρο λούκι-μία νύχτα στην εστία


this guy cant be described in words.he writes the most sincere lyrics i ve ever heard.the beats are ghosts in a form of sound and...anyway this is too much.if youre not greek just try it for the feeling and the awesome beats.

a place to bury strangers-worship


this band is pure violence for the human body.they will wrap you and kick you in the head with no remorse

no trigger-tycoon

melodic hardcore the way i like it the most.passionate and angry,fast and emotive,reminds me a lot of strike anywhere.a great effort.

waxahatchee-american weekend

raw acoustic bittersweetness.love it or leave it,i ve already done a review for this,no more words to waste.

 

Sink

Βαρέθηκα το Εγω.Βαρέθηκα την κατάσταση τύπου "μου μιλάς-σου μιλάω μόνο και μόνο επειδή πρέπει
να πούμε κάτι" που επικρατεί και το κυριότερο οι εναλλαγές τις διάθεσης,απ'την κόλαση στον παράδεισο και τουμπαλίν,ισορροπία καμία.I sleep but i cant rest.Wake up and embrace madness.These days when the void gets bigger are sometimes impossible to ignore.Theres a concept that says:be one with the void and get worse.I know i can get better,maybe i already am but i give in to my sadness,in the meantime i sink.

Disappointment-Happiness-Regret

Well,Its been a long time since i ve posted anything on this blog.Ive collected too much frustration and at the same time i ve experienced a lot of inspiring and meaningfull situations.One can overcome the other in the end and at this particular moment frustration about almost everything around me and inside me overcame all the brighter feelings.I am in a state of confusion about the upcoming situation in the country/wasteland i live in called Greece(not to mention about the weight of the whole fucking world).I remember when i was younger,the thought of being unable to do things beacause of the abscense of money didnt even crossed my mind.I aint rich or anything close to that and i never was but things are getting really fucked up.Sometimes everywhere you go you vision a dead fucking end,like theres no way to survive living inside this monetary system.Sometimes i fantasize myself homeless without any fucking place to go.I know that negative thoughts can easily become "reality" if you make them on repeat but most of the time i am unable to think in any other way.I dont want to end up begging and stealing or killing my fellow man only for something to eat.I want to try and visualize a better place to live,with people around taking care of them selfs and everyone around but how can this be?Maybe we ve lost touch long ago.I can easily blame my parents or all the previous generations of blind sheeps that followed these demons and helped in the creation of this sickening "leading straight to the process of self-denial" system but this can only pump up my ego-something that i dont want.How can i prevent myself from giving up on everything?I feel like im losing all my senses.I cant define love anymore and i hate the fact that i used excessive drinking as a way out of this mess.It was fun at the start of it all but it always ends up in ashes-truth hurts.This is disappointment and regret.And what bout happiness?Where the fuck is hiding?
The precious,The divine things in life are buried under the ashes and the piles of misery we built through the disapointment and regret such as the ones you just read about.I know its there
but its getting harder every fucking day.Thats something i should not let get over me.
The next song is dedicated to my people-with courage and patience will get by together
and everyone thats feeling the same.Keep moving forward.

I know the pain, I feel it too and it's tearing us apart
Can you take a breath, push it aside
And pick yourself back up?

You know that the choice to live your life
Lies in the palm of your hand

You've got the answers you need, just look inside yourself

So much at stake, can't waste our time chasing standards
We never set
We know that the choice to live our lives
Lies in the palms of our hands


And with the struggles faced just to make it through the day
Stepped out of line and found a better way
So much at stake and we can't let our lives pass us by
And the only ones we'll ever chase
Are the standards that we set

Now's the time to leave all our mistakes behind
Because we've found the only truth we'll ever need
Every struggle faced and choices made will see us through
The words we've said, the promises kept
Is the only truth we need

Hysteria

Ceremony.Great fucking band.A lot of fucking change in their musical style along the years.
This one here is from their upcoming album called "Zoo".I dont know what this reminds me in the end but it sounds pretty cool and soooo different from their previous releases.Check for yourself.

The remants

The holidays are kinda over.It was full of good times,good friends,laughs,drinks,all of these
with the company of some disastrous feelings of melancholy.It never goes away,for fuck's sake!
So now that all these moments are just a past like all the moments in life i'll leave you with
a "not that happy punk rock" playlist for you to enjoy..and for me,well thats another issue,i ll go down where the flames burn for a while.


1.AS FRIENDS RUST-PERFECT STRANGLERS



2.OFF WITH THEIR HEADS-THE EYES OF DEATH



3.THE SLOW DEATH-DIRTY JOKES



4.DEAR LANDLORD-LANDLOCKED



5.IGNITE-LET IT BURN



6.NO HOPE FOR THE KIDS-NO HOPE FOR THE KIDS



7.PEGBOY-HARDLIGHT



8.AVAIL-EAST ON MAIN



9.VODKA JUNIORS-DARK AND TWISTED



10.SMALL BROWN BIKE-DECONSTRUCT/REBUILD



11.CRIMINAL DAMAGE-EMPTY EYES



12.NIGHT BIRDS-PARANOID TIMES



13.APART-THE WILD AND OUTRAGED EARTH

yeah...2012

If you really want some answered questions
If you really want to know just what it's like
If you really want to dig inside my head
Pull up a chair, I hope you got all night

I'll tell you why I fucking hate my life
I'll tell you why I can't seem to get it right
I'll tell you why I entertain the thought of dying all the time

There's a little piece of me in everyone
Whether or not you admit it we're all the same

I'm every morning you wake up alone
I'm every time you're drunk and walking home
I'm all the tears you cry 'til you can't see
I'm everything you swore you'd never be

And the list goes on and on and on and on and on...

...and dont forget

Rethink about the food information they taught us
all these years.Rethink about the violent habit
of eating dead species.Its never too late to make
a clear choice and start respecting animals as if
they were your fellow mates!
Start with the word "respect" and think about
the whole world around you.Do you really want to live like this?
The suffering of man comes from within itself in most cases.
Its in you.Never forget that.

Live free

We are all animals
so we suffer in kind
all our customs leave
our consciousness behind
all this balance
interrupted
I won't consume you
If you breathe what I do
and bleed in red too

Did they
smile through their teeth
when they
told you
you deserved this?
professional men
speaking from the side
of their mouths
letting you battle
with this isolation
give me strength to witness
strength to witness
death is big business
not for you and I
our death is not collateral

You gotta feel your lines

You gotta keep those positive vabrations.
We all have our heads held down for a while but
you need to remind yourself that this is
not the way it is.Fighting depression is
a must my friend!Theres always someone
out there to make you smile.
Some helping hand you know?
But first we gotta help ourselfs
and then everything will flow normally!
Take this one here as an example of the ultimate
peace of your heart.It gives me the fucking creeps everytime.

Last night hardcore saved my life

When you feel like no ones there for you.
When you curse your self and you wanna give up.
When you feel damned and you got nowhere to go.
Remember what shaped you.Remember the good vibes.
Hold on to that.Never let it go.Keep going strong.

I've been hooked since the first hit I ever took
They warned me not to go inside but I had to take a look
I stepped down into a smokey room
I'm getting stared at hard so I kept on stepping

Right up to the line just to wait my turn
I started to sweat and my eyes were burning
When I felt him through the smoke just out of sight
He said, "Son are you ready for the rest of your life?"
I said, " Gimme gimme please gimme please Mr. Pusher Man
I don't think you know what it means to me
I gotta gotta have it. Do you understand?
I gotta know how it feels when your mind is free."

Now I know how it feels to fly
My eyes are wide open and my soul's on fire
All those years I was living a lie
But last night Hardcore saved my life
There's nothing I can do and there's nothing I can say
I'll be chasing the dragon till the fire goes away
It's the truth in the anger and the feeling in the sound
For the rest of my time on earth I'll chase that dragon down

Now I'm grown and I can't past it
The way I get chills when the music's blasting
I never found nothing that could move me like this
With a fist in the air I must resist
Young and old, boys and girls
In every color around the world
We gather together every couple days
To honor the ones that paved the way
Oh no I can't stop
I got marks on my skin and I'm ready to go
It's in my veins and it's in my soul
I love Hardcore Punk Rock'n'Roll

Now I know how it feels to fly
My eyes are wide open and my soul's on fire
All those years I was living a lie
But last night Hardcore saved my life
There's nothing I can do and there's nothing I can say
I'll be chasing the dragon till the fire goes away
It's the truth in the anger and the feeling in the sound
For the rest of my time on earth I'll chase that dragon down

It's like my soul's on fire
For the rest of my time on earth I'll chase that dragon down

Heartache

"i've tried to run but i stay here, and i don't know why i would wait there's still a reason and it burns down in ashes where i lay"
AVAIL-HIGH LONESOME

We will show the demons for what they are

For all those born to die
And those that lost the fight
(how many fallen friends died within our sights)
Let their hard roads be our way out
Let their passion lead the way

The dark horse will one day come
To free the light from all of us
One day the dark horse will come

No matter the man or the machine
Beasts will become what
They were meant to be
In the name of lovers in the name of wars
We'll show the demons for what they are

Dark horse ride
Towards the light
Dark horse ride onward

Towards to light
Onward


In the memory of the kid that his life was taken from the shameless bastards in control.
may you rest in peace and may the world learn something from all this nightmare

Autumn's gone

Did i forget to tell?
Autumn's gone and it was the first time after 4 years i saw leaves fall from trees.I had the intention that autumn was missing.Sudden weather change ruined my view of what once was.I love autumn ,nothing for you to care about,i just needed to say that
i love autumn.

A song that reminds me the autumn in my old neighborhood.Used to listen to this song while at the school bus watching all the great landscapes in the deep south
of Attica.

Teenage heartbeats

Good morning!What a wonderfull way to start my day in this
bleak fucking world!Memories of better days full of sunshines,
drunken walks,laughs,skateboarding and unfortunately friends
that became strangers..This ones for the days we didnt gave
a fuck at all.The world was ours..remember?

Full fledged fucking disaster..

Have a good weekend and take care!
Ill be posting on sunday some zine reviews
and the next part of the "urban fields" project.
cheers!

Rise up

First of all good morning.I was supposed to be in school but i woke up pretty
late and in our school theres a kind of a regulation saying that we can not enter the school after 09:15.The are private security guards protecting the school from evil
reminding me this kind of bullshit everytime im late and i still dont understand
why should this happen at all.Anyways..So i choose to stay in my house with music for
company and a dose of caffeine.After a night of rethinking about stuff and bringing back memories i woke up with a sense of clarity even if i was supposed to be nursing a hangover at this particulare moment.Amazing stuff.I was listening to As friends rust and at the same time i was reading an interview of Damien Moyal their lead singer.Besides his great answering and patience(there were about 25-30 questions)
this guy writes some of the most inspiring lyrics,most of them to keep you company
when you re on the other side.The one thats not so easy to keep moving on.I also found out that hes doing some solo stuff under the name Damien Done.You could
imagine that even from his contribution in as friends rust,this guy can write songs
that have nothing to do with punk rock.You can have a taste of what his doing
right here:http://www.purevolume.com/damiendone
and also here:

This piece of music draggs you down,where the flames burn and the witches
curse your ugly existance.
I also wanted to share another band with you called "Self defense family"

I dont know anything about them except from the fact that they release stuff through Deathwish inc. and they manage to play something that cannot go under
any musical genre.What i first thought was "sludge without the distortion on the guitars" but nevermind go judge for yourself.

Drunk sincerity

Goodnight folks.
Unfortunately the past comes crushing in sometimes
and the will is nowhere to be found for the moment.
I hope you re all doing fine.
And dont forget to take care of your loved ones.
Cheers.

I got a story, a story to tell.
About a long road
back from a sory of hell
I been flying almost every night.
I been ready to burn
and I been living to die.
SO take a look, take a look in my eyes:
Cause I got no remorse for all the hate
that burns inside.
Take a look at my suicide.
Self destruction
I know the streets can be so cold
I know these streets
can make you feel so cold.
I've got this gun to my head all alone.
Another bottle of pills almoste gone;
My cigarette burns
right trough my soul.
I'm almoste home.
And I'"ve seen:
broken hearts and broken dreams
like broken bodies.
under the pale street lights tonight.
I've seen the hate and yeah;
I've heard the lies.
So I turned my back
and now I'm on the outside
I know the streets can be so cold
I'm almoste home.
Self destruction.
I'm on my way home.

I dont wanna be like other adults cause they have already died

I should welcome you to the pages of this blog with something that
made me smile for real after a long period of time."What will it be like
when i get old?" goes the the line of the chorus and sometimes in life
we tend to ask ourselves these kind of questions.
Will we rot like all the old farts moaning about things we didnt do in the past
or will we chase life and do whatever comes from the inside?
Theres two sides.In everything.
Its up to us to decide!
cheeeers!
K.