I saw Hellbombs playing Club Racun, Bandung in May and they ripped; one of the many oustanding bands from the city, and nice guys to boot! Hellexist comes from JB and features members of Parkinson. Both play ear-splitting crust.
myspace.com/hellbmbs | myspace.com/hellexist | myspace.com/noiserecs
Five pop-punk songs with much better recording; actually, everything here is better from their previous releases.
ricenote: Skatanixs is quite an old band, being around since 1999 in Penang. Saw this CD at a show there recently but got no money to spare after spending it on Crux’s merchandise! Anyway, one of the band members was once an editor with the Revolution skate magazine. Despite the name, the band is not a ska band. Their “ska” is more about “skate” and the sound is pretty smooth and crunchy pop-punk.
Yup! DEP’s back and this is a comp of old songs remastered and rereleased on pro-CD for the very first time. It’s been out for months now, so you’d better get it ASAP.
Features 12 songs with one unreleased track.
Kinda mid-90s Swedish-Indie-Pop made in Ipoh.
thehansband at gmail dot com | myspace.com/thehans
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Breaking borders between personal and political issues, geopraphic area and music stereotypes, these two represent anarcho hiphop to the fullest.
Indonesia veteran Homicide approach hiphop in noisy and aggressive way. Combining 90’s hiphop beats, twisted guitars, drones and brooding ambiance with anti-war, anti-fundamentalism rhymes in bahasa Indonesia.
MC Homeless is a socially conscious hip hop artist from Youngstown, Ohio. He grew up attending diy punk shows and singing in grindcore bands before starting a rap career at age 18.
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Pusat Komunikasi Masyarakat (KOMAS) is proud to announce it’s newest
Human Rights Education Video (DVD) -
“Mari Kita Beraktivism-Let’s Be an Activist” for sale now!
Launched on the 16th May 2008, the compilation of short engaging human rights films premiered to a packed gallery in Annexe, Central Market.
The documentary series follows three ordinary yet distinctive personalities whose lives were transformed by their own experiences of human rights violations in “Bestlah Punk”, “Binatang Pun Perlu Tanah” and “No Damn Right”. All films are subtitled in English.
“Very inspirational films. I felt especially emotional when I saw that the indigenous stood up for their ancestral land rights,” commented a viewer, on “Binatang Pun Perlu Tanah”.
“The background music…the stylish editing makes it very appealing to the youth. In “Bestlah Punk”, it’s encouraging to see these youths trying to make an impact in the society they live in.”
“I’m inspired by the courage that Saari Sungib (profiled in “No Damn Right”) and his wife displayed throughout the time when he was an ISA (Internal Security Act) detainee. Touching yet informative.”
Much encouraged by the positive feedback, KOMAS believes that this powerful medium (film) can truly educate and empower its viewers effectively unlike any other medium. Other than raising the public’s awareness on human rights issues in Malaysia, these films act as a springboard to generate meaningful discussions among its viewers. Do refer to the attached flyer for a synopsis of the films.
Finally, FALL TO THEIR DEATH - chains in transmission CD, out now !!
Malaysian atmospheric post - modern sludge band, 4 songs around 44 minutes plus one multimedia video. co release between basement records & cactus records
PRICE : RM10 ppd within Malaysia (normal post)
SOUTHEAST ASIA PRICE : USD 8 ppd (normal post)
OTHERS : USD 10 ppd (normal post)
TRADE/ WHOLESALE welcomed
for more distro list, check :
also available thru: Cactus Distro read the rest of this entry
Heavy Metal in Baghdad is a feature film documentary that follows the Iraqi heavy metal band Acrassicauda from the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003 to the present day. Playing heavy metal in a Muslim country has always been a difficult (if not impossible) proposition but after Saddam’s regime was toppled, there was a brief moment for the band in which real freedom seemed possible.
That hope was quickly dashed as their country fell into a bloody insurgency. From 2003-2006, Iraq disintegrated around them while Acrassicauda struggled to stay together and stay alive, always refusing to let their heavy metal dreams die. Their story echoes the unspoken hopes of an entire generation of young Iraqis.
7 tracks plus 13 minutes live video of heavy hardcore crust. Comes with silk-screened, pinned cloth cover and 20 pages booklet (lyrics, articles, tour pictures & flyers).
Now available at the Ricecooker shop for RM10 each.
Also now/will be available from these 13 label/distro: Kandar Mosh Distro, Quiet Still Death, Third Arm, Anock Mayrun, Papakerma, Cellulite, Cactus, Bullwhip, Pissed Off, Protocrust, Theatrical, Pure Minds & Denegerate Art.
Kah-Roe-Shi played their first show in 2006 with the name Union Of Slaves. Kah = excess, Roe = labor, Shi = death, translated literally from the Japanese as “death from overwork” or occupational sudden death.
The band is musically characterized by unrelenting heavy crust hardcore and “human-system-hating” lyrics; with influences from From Ashes Rise, His Hero Is Gone, Dystopia, Counterblast and peers. A collective of system-hating armchair revolutionaries, the guilty comrades are Kid (vocals), Tiong (guitar, vocals), Fahmi (bass) and Zul (drums).
Related bands: Mass Separation, Tools Of The Trade and Akta Angkasa. Previous release: Indonesian tour demo cd-r & split 7″ with Pazahora. Previous tour: Singapore & Indonesia (July-August 2007).
Trade & wholesale (please write/call first): unionofslaves@gmail.com / 013-2497199 / 012-9127037 / 016-9081485 / 017-2775010
For more info (to sample Kah-Roe-Shi songs, video and merchs):
kah-roe-shi.blogspot.com
“Two fastcore bands, Common Enemy (U.S.) & Weot Skam (Malaysia), join together from different sides of the planet to keep the punk in hardcore while kicking the conservative non-liberated hardcore punk kids straight to their face!! HELL YEAH!! Shredding rifts, fast beats, circle pits, and deep anger will be kicking your teeth in while spinning this record.
Overdose On Records, Jerk Off Records, Party Time Records, Crapoulet, and Solidaridad Distro worked together to spread this disease further then the cassette tapes Epidemic Records pressed originally. Limited to 500 copies. 500 on Black Vinyl.”
myspace.com/jerkoffrecords | commonenemy2000.com | myspace.com/weotskam
a comp from Bulacan, Philippines | myspace.com/northernterritoryrecords
do check out Israel’s Brutal Assault and Singapore’s Bloody Rejects
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