last tracks of the year, feat. BIG|BRAVE, BRUTUS, CHAT PILE and NERVER

Yeah, let's wrap this motherfucker up with a bunch of Bandcamp stuff!

Of course I expected a new digital release from Dead Neanderthals here, as it is annual tradition. But since that one is a tape this time, I'll just postpone the review to the next part of my cassette craze chronicles. Laziness wins. Yay!

BIG|BRAVE - Audiotree Live

Haven't watched or listened to any Audio Tree Session for a while, even though they always deliver a great production quality. That is until a couple of days ago, when I discovered that they had done a session with one of my favorite recent live bands, droning Noise Rockers Big|Brave. Their three songs here - all from the latest album "Nature Morte" make a great EP very representative of their crushing live power and emotional impact.

They could have cropped that interview sample at the end of the second track for Bandcamp though. Probably just an oversight.

BRUTUS - Audiotree From Nothing

Similar story, different band. Also three tracks, naturally a little bit shorter than the Big|Brave EP. But that's fine. Brutus are great, so this is a neat little piece of amazing Alternative Post Hardcore Post Punk Post Whatever Rock. With Stefanie's magnificient raw vocal and drums performance at its heart these around seventeen minutes absolutely slay.

CHAT PILE & NERVER - Brothers In Christ

Filthy brutal disillusioned Noise Rock deconstructivists Chat Pile are getting drunk in the afternoon and don't want us to know ("King"). Well you boys do you - as long as you keep yanking out tracks like this or "Cut"  from your gloomy Oklahomian desolateness, ok?

Their Brothers in Christ Nerver, who they share this EP with go further into a sludgy Post Metal direction and absolutely share Chat Pile's sentiment of being seriously pissed about something, oneself, everything. Nope, this split EP doesn't want you to be happy.

In this spirit let's all have a crushingly miserable new year!