Rodon Underground vol.49: Girl Power special - 06/03/2019 Rodon FM 95 (Serres, Greece), http://rodonfm.net Wednesdays 21:00-23:00 CET+2 playlist:
1. Tango With Lions – Rainy Fall 2. Allvaret – Tröstlös 3. Ötzi – Ballad of Oiwa 4. Ghostland – Leave Behind (Hollow Moon) 5. The Altered Hours – Over the Void 6. Vånna Inget – Krockade Bilar 7. Terrible Feelings – Demon Tonight 8. Heavy Tiger – Devil May Care 9. The Baboon Show – No Afterglow 10. Världen Brinner – Slöseri Av Tid 11. Lilidollrage – Go Away 12. Svetlanas – Vodka ‘n’ Roll 13. Maggot Heart – Blood Envy 14. Low Dose – Right On 15. Spineless – Partners in Crime 16. King Woman – Worn 17. Darkher – Moths 18. Show of Bedlam – Tælus 19. Obscure Sphinx – Sepulchre 20. Agrimonia – Foreshadowed 21. Oathbreaker – Glimpse of the Unseen
I wouldn't call it anything else but pure coincidence that my next discovery powerfully nominating itself to be in this year's list is again from Philadelphia, PA, like last week's Low Dose. Of course, here we have something that couldn't be more different, as Devil Master are anything but grunge or noise rock. What they are is a unique mix that starts as kind of chaotic, but makes perfect sense as a whole, in an orgasmic way. Satan Spits on Children of Light initially introduces itself as blackish '80s heavy metal, but on the way you get goth guitar leads, old-school deathmetal riffs, punk attitude. I've talked about this record with about 6 or 7 people, and I've got 6 or 7 different impressions when it comes to influences, depending on each one's taste and musical background. For me, it carries a Cradle of Filth atmosphere, a Paradise Lost melodiousness, a Wipers roughness, a Death Breath morbidity; and that's not even the half of it. Devil Master, apart from the theatrical satanic image, bombard the listener with fantastic riffs one after the other, while the omnipresent lead guitar and the abysmal vocals infuse the final result with a trademarked eerieness, finally making them literally incomparable to anything else I've ever heard. And this is no small achievement, given that we're in fucking 2019. I will sound repetitive now, but for me this sounds like it's going to be almost impossible to be topped this year. Then again, we still have three quarters of the year to go...
Among the flood of new bands and releases in the music underground, and after you dust off all the inevitable crap and mediocre stuff, there are always diamonds to be found. Low Dose from Philadelphia, PA are normally anything other than my cup of tea genre-wise, but when the songs are good, well that's kind of universal. Low Dose are the new child that has apparently risen from the ashes of two other bands from the Philadelphia punk/ grunge/ noise scene, Fight Amp and Legendary Divorce (both of which I discovered lately and you should check out), the former having offered some top class noise/punk, while the latter having moved mainly within the post-grunge area. Low Dose's self-titled debut, which is due to be released on March 29, sounds like an ideal amalgam of all the aforementioned musical terminology, at least judging from the three preview tracks we can stream for now. I was never a fan of grunge (my favourite Seattle bands are Zeke and Mudhoney), but Low Dose make me discard that easily, listening to Itarya Rosenberg's melodic and powerful voice meddling perfectly with the heavy noisy grungy punk beneath. I have yet to listen to the whole record when it's out, but something tells me we have an explosive debut here, and a must to be considered for this year's list.
1. Sigils – Faceless 2. Padkarosda – Kívülálló 3. Nanami Ozone – Something to You 4. Monplaisir – Tête d’Or (Le Parc) 5. Fake It – Church, State, etc. 6. Burnt Tapes – Don’t Make Me Play Bocelli 7. Jake & the Jellyfish – Reading List 8. South Berkeley – Glass ‘n’ Sparks 9. Problem Daughter – Self-Amusing Smile 10. Pkew Pkew Pkew – I Don’t Matter at All 11. Bitch Queens – R-Rated 12. Rites of Hadda – From the Blow 13. Sofy Major – Total Dump 14. Throat – House Broken 15. Great Falls – Theodicies 16. Jesus Piece – In the Silence 17. Laudare – Black Hole Reign 18. The World Is a Vampire – The Bloodstained, Daughters and Sons of Ill Fate 19. Torture Garden – We Don’t Call Cops 20. Lightning in a Jar – Dead Air 21. Eat Me Fresh – Purple Green 22. Trapdoor – Transmission Pole 23. Honda SS – Κάτω απ’τη Μπότα 24. No Vale Nada – Alter
1. Lüüp - 9°=2° (Κόγξ ὀμ Πὰξ) (feat. Sofia Sarri) 2. Illegal Operation - The Leaf 3. Sediment Bruise - The Shore 4. Be Forest - K 5. A Pale Horse Named Death - When the World Becomes Undone 6. Nautical Mile - Regicide 7. Potty Mouth - 22 8. The Wonder Years - Sister Cities 9. Cyclone Static - Company Man 10. Budos Band - Old Engine Oil 11. Toreador - Ashes 12. Bone Rave - Electric Funeral 13. The Sound Explosion - Bring Back Your Love 14. Poor Little Things - Rock 'n' Roller 15. Tarah Who? - Numb Killer 16. Child Bite - Stroke the Negative 17. Green River - Forever Means 18. Black Vulpine - Limbus 19. Blckwvs - 0165 En
1. Black to Comm – A Miracle No-Mother at Your Breast 2. Mazoha – Ρημάζω 3. Aprilmen – Dead of the Night 4. Mono – After You Comes the Flood 5. The Screaming Fly – Fall 6. Brant Bjork – Guerilla Funk 7. The Reverend Beasts – Give Up 8. The Hip Priests – Welcome to Shit Island 9. The Old Firm Casuals – Motherland 10. Graveyard Shifters – Dead End Road 11. Low Dose – For Sure 12. The Woodsman – United State of Paranoia 13. Against the Grain – Cheated Death 14. The Accused AD – Juego Terminado 15. Kicker – Wankers on the Bus 16. Insanity Alert – All Mosh/No Brain 17. Riposte – Pyhrric Victory 18. SeeYouSpaceCowboy – Self Help Specialist Ends Own Life 19. Vesperine – Celui Que L’Ombre Pénètre
