Power Trip

Hammer of Doubt. Hard as fuck.

fuck.

school.

2000 and Mine

2009 was a pretty great year for music with all these releases and such. So much stuff that I'm separating full lengths and EPs. Will add descriptions later, but for now, my top favorite 20 albums and 10 EPs
Full Lengths

20. Mammoth Grinder - "Extinction of Humanity"


19. Title Fight - "The Last Thing You Forget"


18. Shook Ones - "Unquotable A.M.H."


17. Sabertooth Zombie - "And Your Fathers are Dead in the Ground"


16. Rise and Fall - "Our Circle is Vicious"


15. Castevet - "Summer Fences"


14. The Blinding Light -"Junebug"


13. Mother of Mercy - "III"


12. Narrows - "New Distances"


11.Reign Supreme - "Testing the Limits of Infinite"


10. Cult Ritual - S/T


9. Jeniferever - "Spring Tides"


8. Telefon Tel Aviv - "Immolate Yourself"


7. Bokanovsky - "We Stumble"


6. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - "S/T"


5. Magrudergrind - "S/T"


4. Pulling Teeth - "Paradise Illusions/Paranoid Delusions"


3. Touche Amore - "...To the Beat of a Dead Horse"


2. Converge - "Axe to Fall"


1. Iron Age - "The Sleeping Eye"



EPs
10. Foundation - "Hang Your Head"


9. Defeater - "Lost Ground"


8. Downpresser - "Age of Ignorance"


7. Power Trip - "Armageddon Blues"


6. Amenra - "Afterlife"


5. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - "Higher than the Stars"


4. Rotting Out - "Vandalized"


3. Balance and Composure - "Only Boundaries"


2. Tigers Jaw - "Spirit Desire"


1. The Hope Conspiracy - "True Nihilist"



Pieces of crap
The Fall of Troy - "In the Unlikely Event"
Brand New - "Daisy"
The Mars Volta - "Octahedron"

No Past No Present No Future

RIP 12/05/08

Not For Want of Trying

Band needs to come to the states. This song worked so well in the PRIDE highlight I was watching earlier. Vid fucks up the layout, but I don't care. Oh, and fuck this cough.

It's October

You know what time it is.

2 Months Away

2 shows in a row. FUCK YES

Walkabout

First day of classes today, and it went pretty good, sans parking. English seems fun, but going to be very demanding. The professor seems really cool. She looks like a hipster haha. History is probably going to be my favorite class. The professor is probably the funniest one I've ever had. Made learning about the Civil War interesting and enjoyable for once. His slave jokes were hilarious. My music class is going to be a sinch, as all I have to do is listen to music, discuss it on the boards, and go to a show and write about my experience. Let's hope tomorrow will be like today, as the ever dreaded math class is tomorrow, but philosophy with Danny should be fun.

Fall is going to be very busy, moreso than Summer, and I think I like it that way. Besides school, there's a shit ton of shows coming up. My projected list:

1. FYF Fest @ LA National Park, September 5 (tix bought)

Notables:
Converge
DEP
Glass Candy
Mika Miko
Japanther
Telepathe
Crystal Antlers
Fucked Up
Torche

2. Chain Reaction, Sept 9
Final Fight
Rotting Out
Creatures
Xibalba

3. The Wire, Sept 12
Qualia

4. Chain Reaction, October 9
Bane
Trash Talk
Foundation

5. HOB, October 10
Sunny Day Real Estate

6. Glasshouse, October 12
Thursday
The Fall of Troy
The Dear Hunter
Touche Amore

7. Chain Reaction, October 17
Ceremony
Rise and Fall (finally!)
Lewd Acts
Black Breath

8. Glass House, November 12
GLASSJAW

9. Chain Reaction, December 19
D.R.I


I'll close this post off with my jam of the Summer

Throwing Copper

Touche Amore's "...To the Beat of a Dead Horse" came in today, along with my Banner tank top. Getting packages in the mail is one of the best feelings ever. Anyways, I've been listening to this record nonstop. The lyrics probably have to be my favorite parts of it. Plus they were printed on the back of this massive fold out poster. Can't wait to see them in the Fall with Thursday and TFOT. I pretty much know this record word for word now, and will continue listening for the rest of the night, then off to Inglorious Basterds.

Solar Doom

Saw Iron Age last night. Headbanged like a madman throughout the whole set. They didn't play for that long, probably because there were 5 other bands before. If I can remember, I think their set order was Burden of Empire, We're Dust, Dispossessed, Sleeping Eye of the Watcher, A Younger Earth and Arcana. Pretty much everything I wanted to see.

The other bands were solid too. Mammoth Grinder ruled, with Wacker getting pretty into them haha. Some hardcore kids were like wtf. Downpresser and Creatures were good. Power Trip was the other band I wanted to check out. Stoked they played "Vultures". Felt bad for Dead Hours because there was like 5 kids in attendance at the time, including me and Wacker. Not that many people showed up overall, I'd say about 60 kids max. Still pretty fun though.

Hickey Underworld

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1986

Grimlock was such a dumbfuck, I love it. Wish I still had the VHS with the badass cover.

Testing the Limits of Infinite

It's already the midway point of 2009, and great music just keeps cranking out. The new Reign Supreme is no exception. Start to finish, it's a 13 track ass kicking. I was pretty stoked to find out my two favorites from the demo, "Apostle" and "A Ghost in This City" were remastered. Instantly made this a favorite for album of the year. Blasting the last breakdown in "Apostle" full volume while driving pretty much gave me a disregard for human life at the time. The new songs are also super solid, with guest vocals from Travis of This is Hell and Andrew of CBK. "In Absentia" and "Persevere and Overcome" have to be my favorite new songs. Plenty of mosh parts, a couple singalongs and just overall chaos on this record. Iron Age's "The Sleeping Eye" has just slid into 2nd. Rgn Sup is now currently my favorite of 2009, but that may change when I hear the new Converge. For now though, this record will get heavy play from me.

In other events, saw Transformers 2 the other day. Somewhat underwhelmed, but also still enjoyable. My complaints had to be the twins, so fucking annoying. They were funny at times, but that kind of humor gets really old. I was hoping they would get annihilated by Devastator. SPEAKING OF, WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT SHIT. GIVING HIM BALLS, GETTING HIS ASS KICKED SOMEWHAT BY THE TWINS, AND BEING KILLED BY A FUCKING LASER OFF A BOAT. BULLLLLLLLLSHIT. Anyways, the main battle was someone disappointing, as I thought it would be more epic. The Fallen died so easily. Things I liked though was Soundwave, as I thought he was portrayed pretty good. I lost it at "Soundwave Acknowledges". Also, I thought it was badass how Prime "went out" halfway. Goddamn impaled and shot through the chest. Overall, it was entertaining, but still terrible.

Oh, and goodnight sweet prince to MJ.

Seven

October 10th Anaheim House of Blues
See you there.

15

Old Reliable

1 more baby.


After a somewhat terrible start to Summer, today things finally went my way. Worked at my sister's store for a bit and got paid. Picked up a Silver Surfer on a mini nerd run. Also, had all the fraud charges on my debit reversed, which was a big relief. Plus in music news, At the Drive-In may reunite since Cedric is willing to take his head out of his ass. Finally, the Lakers won tonight. Amazing game throughout the second half. I thought it was over when Howard got fouled, but so glad he bricked those free throws. Derek Fisher is my hero. Done so much for this ball club, especially tonight. He may be in a slump, but he hits em when they count.

Mama there goes that man

Three more til number four.

Lyrical Ammunition For Scene Warfare

Somewhat active weekend. Went on a mini nerd run, and came up empty. I went to go see Dave, Erik and Andy play later that night, and I have to say great job guys! You guys were the only good band up there. The nu-metal band, acoustic buttbuddies and the RHCP snoozefest were terrible. You guys' sound was so clean and polished. Can't wait for the EP. After that, we went to watch Up! with, Oli, Jack, Leyna, Dave and Erik. That movie was so depressing. The relationship montage in the beginning and the part about Russell's parents. My God. Russell= my little bro. I'm going to give him so much shit for that hahahaha.

Anyways, I didn't go to Cro-Mags tonight since I had to drive my mom to LAX. Going to the Philippines for about a week. Got back home and fixed up a homemade pot roast sandwich. Currently enjoying that and blasting Magrudergrind. New album=mind=blown. Another candidate for AOTY. The riff in "Bridge Burner" makes me want to destroy. So much good stuff out this year including the new Converge. Time to start bedroom moshing.

Deadpool

...is the best action figure I've ever bought. My cloneaholism is raging again too.

Oh, and 4 more.

Watch Me Sink

FUCK.

"Once the Fall rolls around, we can't really do this band the way we would prefer to anymore. Knowing this deadline of ours and having a whole world tour already booked, we'd like to take advantage of the chance to say goodbye to all the people we have met around the world over the years.

So, please come check us out in the remaining months on our little trip around the globe. So far Asia has been a wonderful experience and we're very happy to have had the chance to meet so many kind people and look forward to the rest of Asia.

We will be playing our last show on this year's National Edge Day on October 17th 2009 with a bunch of our friends bands and a sweet guest. It will be somewhere T accessible in the Boston area. It will also be a benefit for a women's shelter in New Bedford, MA, run by my kind mother.

It's been a nice 7 years and we'd like to thank all the unique hardcore kids and bands we have encountered. And in the words of DFJ, thanks to all the shit talkers for all the material to get off on. But, really....we have met so many wonderful people who we'll just never forget.

It's been so great. Take care and hope to see you over the next couple months."
-Patrick Flynn / HH
HAVE HEART: 2002 - 2009


The final show is going to be amazing. I love all the bands playing, and I'm probably going to lose my voice for the rest of the week after this show.

Aug 28 @Chain Reaction
Have Heart
Ceremony
Shipwreck
Cruel Hand
Bitter End