21 Tuesday May 2013
By: Bryan Batiste
2 piece powerviolence masters Iron Lung return with their first LP in 5 years, which seems like an eternity amongst others in the genre. Powerviolence bands are typically known for large outputs of new material, given the short song structures and production rate. Iron Lung has participated in many splits and even put out some EP’s in their hayday, but 5 years between full lengths is fairly hard to come by. Continue reading »
02 Tuesday Apr 2013
Posted in Album Reviews, Band Spotlight, Fastcore, Grindcore, Hardcore, Now Playing..., Powerviolence
By: Eli Zeger
Los Angeles’ Malpractice Insurance and Spain’s Nashgul (both on To Live A Lie Records) traveled from different sides of the world to join forces on a vicious split.
The tracks on this album are straight-ahead, brutal, hardcore powerviolence tunes. Continue reading »
27 Thursday Dec 2012
Posted in Best of 2012
2012 was an amazing year for music. While I was still unable to fit several albums that I loved into this list, I tried my best to fit a wide range of my tastes into this list.
Enjoy. Continue reading »
19 Wednesday Dec 2012
Posted in Band Spotlight, Best of 2012
We here at American Aftermath are readying our very own year end lists, to be unleashed this Friday. We have asked some friends and musicians to submit their very own Best of 2012 List, which we will be posting throughout the week and here we go. Read on to find out what members of Tombs, Hooded Menace, Call Of The Void, Jungle Juice and Encrust were jamming to this year. Continue reading »
18 Tuesday Dec 2012
Posted in Band Spotlight, Best of 2012
We here at American Aftermath are readying our very own year end lists, to be unleashed this Friday. We have asked some friends and musicians to submit their very own Best of 2012 List, which we will be posting throughout the week and here we go. Read on to find out what members of Pelican, Clinging To The Trees of A Forest Fire, Black Anvil, Bone Dance and A Fucking Elephant were jamming to this year.
17 Monday Dec 2012
Posted in Band Spotlight, Best of 2012
We here at American Aftermath are readying our very own year end lists, to be unleashed this Friday. We have asked some friends and musicians to submit their very own Best of 2012 List, which we will be posting throughout the week and here we go. Read on to find out what members of The Atlas Moth, Old Wounds, Outrun The Sunlight, Exhumed and Murder Construct were jamming to this year. Continue reading »
05 Wednesday Dec 2012
Posted in Band Spotlight, Fastcore, Hardcore, News, Now Playing..., Powerviolence, Streaming Albums..., Tour Dates, Upcoming Shit
Philadelphia’s powerviolence practitioners Congential Death are gearing up for the release of their new EP From My Hands and is this a ripper. From start to end these five tracks will grab your brain and squeeze. This is unrelenting, powerful hardcore from a band that you have to know. We here at American Aftermath are proud to bring you an exclusive stream of From My Hands which you can check out below. The album will be released on December 14th via Ranch Records. Sit back and enjoy the next six minutes of your life. Continue reading »
11 Sunday Nov 2012
Posted in Upcoming Shit
Hello, Aftermathletes.
2012 has been an amazing year for extreme music and in just over a month we will be posting our year-end lists as well as lists put together by musicians we have worked with in the past. What we want to know now is what is YOUR favorite album of 2012? Leave a comment below and let us know! Come on!
23 Saturday Jun 2012
Posted in Band Spotlight, Hardcore, Interview, Now Playing...
This interview was conducted by American Aftermath commenter and soon-to-be contributor Eric Ngyuen. Eric has been a fan of the site for a long time and has chosen to interview Full Of Hell guitarist Spencer Hazard as his try-out to become a full-time American Aftermath contributor. The interview went off flawlessly and I am proud to welcome Eric to the Aftermath Family. Read on to see what Eric talked to Spencer about. [Read More]
22 Friday Jun 2012
Posted in Band Spotlight, Grind/Crust, Hardcore, News, Now Playing..., Streaming Albums...
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Homewrecker are a phenomenal act that I have been a fan of for quite some time now. I stumbled onto them from their split with The Love Below. From that point on, I knew this band was going to make waves, nay tsunamis. Their pissed off approach to pulverizing, grinding hardcore madness is unmatched.
I have been listening to Homewrecker‘s new album Worms And Dirt for a few weeks now and seeing as it’s been about a week since it was released, I want to give you fucks a chance to try before you buy. I mean, I know you’re going to buy it, why the hell wouldn’t you? It’s only one of the meanest records released this year. It’s seriously that fucking good.
So if you want to get your face melted off, click on over because after the jump we here are American Aftermath are proud to bring you an exclusive, full album stream of Homewrecker‘s Worms And Dirt. Enjoy!! Be sure to grab the album on 12″ vinyl here. [Continue...]
08 Sunday Apr 2012
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20 Monday Feb 2012
Posted in Band Spotlight, Photography, Sludge Metal
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American Aftermath is proud to introduce a new photographer who has contacted us to post her photos of bands in a live setting. Her name is Alitzia Tyminski and she hails from Ontario, Canada. She was scheduled to submit a gallery last year but the Deafheaven show she was to photograph was cancelled. We would like to announce her American Aftermath debut with these amazing photos of Morne, the sludge band from Boston, Massachusetts. Hopefully Alitzia will be submitting many more galleries to the site in the near future. Check out the photos after the jump and see more of Alitzia’s work here.
20 Tuesday Dec 2011
Posted in Band Spotlight, Black Metal, Crust, Death Metal, Doom Metal, Grindcore, Hell's Blues, Metal, Now Playing..., Videos
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Bell Witch, Best Of 2011, Doomslaughter, House of Atreus, Kim Kelly, Lycus, Mutilation Rites, Niantiel, One Tail One Head, Pilgrim, RInocervs, Sabbatic Goat, Trenchgrinder
Hello, American Aftermath. My name is Kim Kelly (or Grim Kim, if you insist). I suppose I’m something of a guest writer (party-crasher, more like) as Ross asked me to contribute something to the site’s year-end roundup. After procrastinating mightily, I presented him with this haphazard list of my favorite 2011 demos (and almost demos). I had to turn off Demoncy to revisit a couple of these babies, so you’d better fucking appreciate it.
Get a load of Kim on Twitter and her personal blog
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16 Friday Dec 2011
Posted in Album Reviews, Band Spotlight, Hardcore, Non-Metal, Now Playing..., Other, Punk, Videos
By: Chicago Kenzo
My first day as a freshman in high school, I wore a Primus T-shirt that had the words “You suck” emblazoned on the back. I saw nothing objectionable about this. This was the era of Beavis and Butt-head and Bart Simpson was still a major celebrity. It was cute to be a bratty kid who uses quasi-incendiary language. TV characters were calling each other bastard, bitch, and saying crap like it was going out of style (apparently it did because they are saying much worse now). In the 80s you could get away with saying something or someone “sucked eggs.” By 1993, the “eggs” part dropped and “sucking” came into common nomenclature.
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06 Tuesday Dec 2011
Posted in Band Spotlight, Black Metal, Crust, Death Metal, Now Playing..., Post-Metal, Sludge Metal, Videos
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all pigs must die, Deafheaven, Hetfield & Hetfield, junius, ken mode, tombs, trap them, Vattnet Viskar, vygr, wolves in the throne room, ZOMBI
What can I say, 2011 was a very conflicted year for me musically. Sometimes I wanted to gaze off into an abyss and reflect on life with some lo-fi ambient black metal, and other times I wanted to pound ‘Gansetts on a beach listening to Havok with Swayze’s dead body dressed as Bodhi from Point Break (Weekend at Bernie’s style). Either way, it was a year of great music by some great people.
All I can say is, as you’ll see from this list, on any given day, I have no clue what I’m doing whatsoever. Judge away if you want to, but let’s be serious here, none of you actually ONLY listen to Aura Noir all day; well except for Bari. I’m a music fan first, and an elitist second, with that being said:
MY GODDAMNED TOP 10 ALBUMS OF 2011. -Chris Alfieri
