END OF LEVEL BOSS
Inside the Difference Engine
(Exile On Mainstream)

ISOLE
Bliss of Solitude
(Napalm)

ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE
& THE MELTING PARAISO U.F.O
Nam Myo Ho Ren Ge Kyo
(Ace Fu)

O'DEATH
Head Home
(Ernest Jenning)

TRAP THEM
Seance Prime
(Deathwish)

DYSRHYTHMIA/ROTHKO
Fractures 

(Acerbic Noise Development)

THE FIRE THE FLOOD
Truth Seekers

(No Sleep)

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I am a sucker for this kind of stuff. There is this melancholic side to life that hooks me by the balls and throws me against my pillow every single time. A perfect example of how to get me into such pathetic state is the opener "Down to Rest"; with its Tom Waits-esque spirit and drunken soul; the best aspects of Americana countrified blues punk rock surge like lava from a volcano in eruption. Super cool. Its playfulness shares some similarities with Gogol Bordello's world music vibes. But the insides of O'Death seem much more serious, a bit more depressed, on medication perhaps. Uppers needed, were they not present suicide would have been the only solution. Read; escape. Like any killer band dwelling on many genres, O'Death manages to sound like many without totally stripping itself of its costume; "O Lee O'” is purely Neil Young-esque in its vocal delivery and its countrified old age hardened and brave soul.

'There's a banjo, a fiddle, a drum set littered with gas cans, chains, and broken cymbals.' Reads the band's bio and I would laugh at such assertions. Especially because it comes from a band that calls New York home. But their sound is great and apparently their reverence for Americana is authentic, so why the doubts? Geographical location is more than an idea, it is a reality that not for that shall dissipate our beliefs that a specific genre shall come from a specific band from a specific area. More importantly; the band plays the fiddle, the ukulele, the guitar, the piano, the drums, the banjo, the trombone, the euphonium, with such swagger you'd think they are in the middle of a brawl. Goddamn good; the ukulele player has an Iron Maiden T-shirt on.

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