Breather Resist - Full of Tongues

Sadly, Breather Resist's last output before turning into Young Widows.

They took their name from Hoover, and they sound like Hoover but fucking louder and meaner...which I guess you could say sounds like Deadguy. This wonderful recording involves some really intense sex sounds, which was awkward playing it the first time through and having my mom hear it.

There are two other "bonus tracks" tacked onto the end of this, which I think are Young Widows songs with Steve doing vocals. I don't recall.

Good record. Good band.

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Endeavor - Don't Die With Your Eyes Closed

In a very special edition of YRFKT, I post Endeavor's Don't Die With Your Eyes Closed, hosted on my own web server because mediafire doesn't allow anything over 100mb and for some reason this file is larger. So, it will be a little slower possibly and it's a big file but I doubt you have it - so download it.

Endeavor is probably the best thing to ever come out of New Jersey. Not kidding. This is their comp tracks, etc.

Again, I guess, I show my love for 90s "noisecore," which everyone will agree is insipid but is useful for differentiating from 90s hardcore, right? Members went on to form Burnt by the Sun and maybe some other stuff. Anyway, if you don't know who Endeavor is you should do yourself the favor and get educated and if you already do, listen to them and remember that Trustkill used to put out albums before Myspace and Photoshop ruined them.

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Achilles - The Dark Horse

It's funny how "Botch" and "Deadguy" kind of became a formula a long while after they broke up.

Anyway, here's one of the bands that did it best. It's a more punk/hardcore/upstate NY version of that particular brand of stuff, not dissimilar to Engineer or The Minor Times.

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Examination of The... - The Whitest of Elephants

South Dakota. Home of my boss and Examination of The...

I heard these guys around the same time I was really getting into Isis and this has been the "other slow record" I've repeatedly turned to. Kind of Neurosis meets Kiss It Goodbye meets Harkonen. Perfect.

I know that it's ex-members of some screamo bands and that they have some other shit I gave up trying to find.

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OLD - Lo Flux Tube

James Plotkin, seminal guitarist of lots of cool shit, doing two-man grind before anyone else had thought of it.

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The Blinding Light - Ascension Attempt

"Metalcore" became a dirty word for me eventually, representing something weak and insipid - however, in the midst of metalcore's decline (or maybe well into its decline) this record came out. Brian Lovro from the all-mighty Threadbare, fronting something that sounded like Threadbare mingled with Carcass.

I was/am in love.

This album is fucking long and heavy, with some weird ass lyrics but some of the most inventive compositions I can think of short of Converge or Suicide Note.

These guys have a new record coming out sooner than later, which is exciting although some of the other projects they've had in the interrim were entirely forgettable.

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JJ Paradise Player's Club - Regenesis

I've been trying to up this for a few days, but Media fire was not amused with it for some reason.

JJ Paradise Player's Club - members of Unsane and Kiss it Goodbye actually playing something that sounds like you would expect ex-members of the aforementioned bands band to sound like!

Groove-oriented, slightly noisy hardcore. I never got really involved in these guys, but every time I remember this record and "Wine Cooler Blowout" I really enjoy listening to it. I'd definitely say I prefer to almost all of Unsane's discography.

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Anodyne - The Outer Dark

1. I have seen this CD used so many times, it's kind of a running joke.

2. Mike Hill is awesome.

Anodyne are either from Seattle or New York...I think. Anyway, it's pretty technical "hardcore" in the vein of something like Cave In if they all loved My Bloody Valentine and Black Flag instead of Failure and Slayer.

This one's a little bit more rare than their LP on Level Plane, so without further ado:

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Converge - You Fail Me

This is just a request.

Converge's fourth (?) LP - You Fail Me. Personally, I think this record is really under rated and I definitely appreciate it more than [most] of Jane Doe.

I'm sure if you ever wanted this you already have it. But whatever.

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Gaza - East

Gaza is pretty abrasive. Well, more than "pretty," I guess. They're almost obnoxiously abrasive, but that's commendable. Coming from SLC, it's cool that they're so gratuitously harsh...in a non-camo shorts sort of way.

The best description I've been able to come up with for them, in general, is if Integrity had evolved in the late 90s and were heavily influenced by Hydra Head [last time I make reference to that whole era, promise]. Noisey, dark, heavy, kind of sadistic.

While their full length "I Don't Care Where I Go When I Die," is really good, I like the shitty production on this better. Plus, the first song is "Kasam Rocket," which if you say outloud sounds extra hilarious, even though I realize its social implications in terms of the middle east are anything but laughable.

It's a short EP; I think it's out print. They're recording something soon, too, so if you snag this now you can tell everyone, "I liked their first EP better."

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