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Human Hands / The Blue Period - split LP - IFB096
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Tempest - s/t LP - IFB095
Holy shit. Vancouver's Tempest have seriously outdone themselves here. This is the most blackened, tornado swirling aural violence I've heard. Rooted in sounds like early Orchid and much of the swirling heaviness that React With Protest Records releases, Tempest just makes it overwhelmingly heavy with buried vocals that sound like hideous phantoms clawing out of caves. There are hints of dark beauty buried deep in the tightly controlled chaos here that keep the record from strangling you completely. Seriously just a total enveloping sound on the level of Old Soul that just keeps sending tingles down your spine. These are $12 and are co-released with Loeil du Tigre and React With Protest.
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Antifaces - s/t 7" - IFB098
Latino punk outta Miami in the vein of Eskorbuto, Suicidas, or Tozcos. It hits that sweet spot of a perfect mix of melody and grit, with a bass heavy mix that hits hard, especially when the stomp kicks in. Duelling female/male vocals are all in Spanish and range from proper singing to pure punk filth. Members hail from Merkit and Nunhex. These are $5.
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Old Soul - Blue Heron LP - IFB099
Michigan's Old Soul give us what is probably their last offering. For long time followers of the band, it is a fitting capstone. Old Soul pioneered and mastered this style of screamo/post-rock. Their sound is just an overwhelming wave which can be beautiful cascading atmosphere to pure blasting intensity, all with a level of song-writing that is at the top of the genre. After 6 records, what more can I say? This is the type of record to blast in a dark room alone and just let it take you in. These are $12 and are co-released w/ Zegema Beach, Maniyax, Dingleberry, and Mosh Potatoes.
Listen - Old Soul
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Closet Burner - s/t LP - IFB100
Bloomington's Closet Burner return with a full length of queer-positive, society bullshit negative hardcore. The sound is rooted in classic fast hardcore riffs, but not afraid to drop a dirge or a powerviolent blast in there. Lyrics are angry, to the point, and no holds barred, representing a refreshing return to actual anger and resistance in hardcore. Members share time in Rat Storm as well. These are $10.
Listen - Closet Burner
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Weak Wrists - s/t LP - IFB101
Asheville NC's Weak Wrists bring together elements of emo-violent swirl in the finest Orchid tradition, soaring post-metal passages that would make Old Soul proud, the textured and dynamic drums of Funeral Diner, and a bedrock of grinding filth with torn-throat female vocals for the Cloud Rat enthusiast among us. All these things weave and intermingle flawlessly and are executed with passion. These are $10
Listen - Weak Wrists
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Barque - Coffin Cutters LP - IFB102
Straight outta Lille, France, Barque delivers 5 tracks of searing dark hardcore. They hit all the right buttons with the beat-down heaviness of Lich, a touch of mathy chaos in the Coalesce realm, and that vibe of dread and frustration that Lentic Waters does so well. Sometimes pounding, sometimes swirling, sometimes blackened blasting - if you like your hardcore bringing the best of multiple genres and creating genuinely bleak moods, this should do it.
Listen - Barque
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Le Almeida - Todas as Brisas LP - IFB104
Brasil's master of lo-fi 90's indie/psych/grunge worship returns with yet another masterpiece of the genre. For easy references, think Guided By Voices or early Pixies, but on this record Le adds more of a psychedelic element to these tracks - a bit more stoned if you will, but maintaining his signature ability to take a simple riff and turn it into something truly special. There are riffs on this record that I could live the rest of my life with on a desert island. Perfect raw pop for an ugly world. Burn some candles and turn it up loud - it's the last thing we can count on. These are $10
Listen - Le Almeida
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Subjects Rulers - s/t Cassette - IFB094
Subjects Rulers were a short lived project out of Nashville with folks from Cease Upon the Capitol and Dolcim. They recorded this full length then spread out across the country, leaving us this lovely little tape as a document of their existence. This is expertly executed screamo with just the right amount of chaos, massive, uplifting passages, dynamic drumming and powerful vocals. These guys have been doing this a long time and it shows. These are $4.
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Plural Being - Demo Cassette - IFB109
Noisy outsider punk from Fort Myers FL - members of Merkit and Panzram return to deliver 5 new tracks of disgusted punk. Each song has it's own personality ranging from almost blown up pounding, to a catchy pop-punk riff that ends in a miserable dirge, to a one riff dance-hall banger. Fresh and ugly from some small-town lifers. These are $4
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Child Meadow - It Hurts LP - IFB097
Child Meadow is a two piece powerhouse of French emo - powerful, passionate and raw. This was supposed to be the last split of 3 way split series with Remek & Paper plane crash. Since Paper plane crash is not anymore a band, we decided to release those tracks as an LP. $10
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Dakhma - Suna Kulto LP - IFB108
Dakhma's second full length takes their hideous black metal inspired punk sound to new heights, with 2 epic tracks. Overwhelming and punishing with torn throat filth vocals and good doses of atmosphere. These are $10
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The Bug - Humbug 7" - IFB103
The Bug - Humbug 7"
Hailing from Chicago, The Bug returns with a 6 track burst of wild, flailing and foul punk energy, constantly existing right on the edge of falling apart completely. Take the wilder end of some of the Gravity Records sound, throw in some straight up 80's hardcore rip, and seal the deal with seething venom on vocals and you've got it. These are $5
Listen - The Bug
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Saligia - The New Innocence 10" - IFB106
Germany's Saligia features folks that have been pioneering the emoviolence sound from the beginning. Members of Republic of Dreams, Lentic Waters, Resurrectionists, Apoplexy Twist Orchestra, and many others bring you a new dose of swirling intense emo-violent chaos with powerful screamed vocals, meaningful and important lyrics, and enough Chaos is Me era Orchid influence to please us punks that want our emo foul and furious and intent on smashing all oppression. Fight back. These are $10
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v/a - Eight Feet Under Vol. 1 - 2xLP compilation - IFB107
Insane screamo comp. - 8-band/4-country split 2x12" with gatefold cover! A truly stunning snapshot of 8 fantastic EPs, including 2-4 new/exclusive songs from (Sweden) Vi Som Alskade Varandra Sa Mycket and Via Fondo, (Canada) Nous Etions and The World That Summer, (USA) Sleeper Wave and Youth Novel, (Italy) Lamantide and Pastel. 2x12" black vinyl /500 in a gatefold cover with art by Italian graffiti artist Nero. Comes with a download code. 2-4 songs by each band for a total of 22 tracks. These are $18
Listen - Eight Feet Under Vol. 1
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Rash - Midnight Crooner 7" - IFB110
Chicago's Rash follow up their Skinner Box LP with this 3 song ripper. Pure heavy blown up punk stomping with absolute writhing filth anger on vocals. Bleak beatings. These are $5
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Landbridge / Autarch - Split LP - IFB111
Gigantic galloping crust split from FL's Landbridge and NC's Autarch. Autarch takes their beastly epic crust bones and adds some black metal influence here, creating more texture and emotion. Landbridge drops 4 absolutely massive crust tracks in the finest tradition of From Ashes Rise/Tragedy - punishing and overwhelming. Both bands feature environmental/civilization collapse issues in their lyrics. These are $12
Listen - Landbridge/Autarch
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Mrtex / Kelut - Split LP - IFB112
мятеж is an project that consists of Chris Story (ex-Makara, Jenny Piccolo, Yaphet Kotto, The Anasazi and Anal Knievel) on...everything instrumental and myself (ex-The World That Summer) on vocals. This split 12" is a mixture of songs recorded by Chris over the last three years that are assembled into a much more ambient and atmospheric mix when compared to the groups other releases.
KELUT is, for lack of a more succinct synopsis, the next step for the majority of members from Yusuke. Gone are the pretty, noodly and more Saetia sounding sections, as the band goes apeshit here with five tracks of mind-numbing and ear-splitting screamy, dark hardcore.
These are $10
Listen - Mrtex/Kelut
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Tropiezo - 3 Acordes en 45 Segundos: La Historia de Tropiezo 1997-2017 LP - IFB113
Tropiezo has been a mainstay of hardcore/punk in Puerto Rico for 20 years now. This LP collects tracks from their releases over the years, showcasing the ripping energy of these punk lifers. I had the privilege of having them play my house years ago and have been happy to be a part of some releases ever since. All money from this release has already been donated to hurricane relief, and all digital sales will be as well. These are sold out from me.
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Dakhma / Pilori - split 7" - IFB114
Michigan's Dakhma are back again with one epic track of black metal inspired punk filth - part pummeling anger, part dark haunting beauty. Pilori hails from France and plays bleak, swirling heaviness in the vein of Hexis, but interspersed with pure classic hardcore beatings. International DIY co-release. These are $5
Listen - Dakhma/Pilori
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Permanent Makeup - Scrape LP - IFB115
Amazing Florida band we've admired for quite some time. This new LP has bassist Christopher Nadeau, guitarist James Bess and drummer Susan Dickson-Nadeau careening their way through bouncy, angry tracks like album opener "Currency" and the demonically woozy crunch of “Desperate Adults.” Fans of Unwound, Shellac, Red Monkey or Polvo would find this on heavy listening rotation. These are $10
Listen - Permanent Makeup
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Aureole of Ash - Morbid Reality 10" - IFB118
Aureole of Ash brings folks from Resurrectionists, Svffer, Saligia, etc. and distills all their previous anger into a hideous stew of grinding, death metalled out hardcore. This is downtuned into limp-string territory and bludgeons away as if Acrid and every great late 90's Bremen-core band got together to ruin everyone's lives. Sabine on vocal duties spits bile and anger all over these 12 tracks with important and topical lyrics as always. Blistered grinding death fury for troubled times. This is a co-release with the mighty React With Protest. These are $10
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Aureole of Ash / Jotnarr - Split 7" - IFB119
Aureole of Ash dishes out 4 tracks of nightmarish grinding fury. Pure whirlwind grind death with absolute grit and spite on vocal duties, complete with perfect use of samples! If you're sick of religion and nazis like the rest of us, this may ease your pain. Members of Resurrectionists, Saligia, Arsen AKA Konig Der Monster. Jotnarr plow through 2 tracks of filthy blackened squalor - massive black metal darkness with hints of raging crust and just that touch of melody here and there to add a dark emotional weight. These are $5
Listen - Aureole of Ash / Jotnarr
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Cassus - Separation Anxiety LP - IFB120
Cassus from the UK returns after their amazing debut 12" with their second full length. 10 beautiful yet chaotic screamo hardcore outbursts between punishing fast attacks and melodic playfulness - intense as always! Comes in a nice die-cut cover with a massive full color art/lyrics booklet. These are $13
Listen - Cassus
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Crowning / Swallows Nest - split 7" - IFB122
New Zealand's Swallows Nest bring one bulldozer of an emo track, lurching forward between bouts of chaos and pounding dirges, all with excellent dual vocals. From Chicago comes Crowning, delivering 3 tracks of heavy harsh screamo, bringing together classic style screamo chaos with touches of post-black metal and vicious breakdowns - foul blasts that don't waste any time. Co-release with IFB Records, Zegema Beach, Time as a Color, and Dingleberry. They are $5
Listen - Crowning/Swallows Nest
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