| Young Legionnaire - Colossus/Iron Dream 7" HRR048V
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500 7"s pressed. 100 on black, 200 on yellow cream, 200 on semi-transparent brown. Comes with instant download after purchase from Holy Roar Records (follow onscreen instructions). STREET RELEASE DATE IS MONDAY AUGUST 16TH.
Young Legionnaire was started by Gordon Moakes (Bloc Party) and Paul Mullen (The Automatic/ ex Yourcodenameis:Milo) after meeting when YCNI:Milo were sourcing bands for their ‘Print Is Dead’ collaborations project. The idea being that bands would go up to the YCN view release
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| Lonewolves - A True Discourse HRR047CD
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4 brand new songs from Lonewolves - their first since the 'Carcaroth' ep - including 1 song ('Hollow') exclusive to this cd version.
Displaying a new-found confidence and (whisper it) maturity from the band, this record loses none of the bands energy or intensity, whilst exploring far more subtle tones, restraint and vivid colours.
CD comes in white card DVD packaging (photos soon!). 5 different colour vinyl-effect cds. Multiple orders will receive multiple colours, up to all 5 colours. L view release
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| Rolo Tomassi - Cosmology HRR046V
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Pressing information -
- 100 copies on translucent blue vinyl with solid white and grey speckles (only available from Holy Roar)
- 100 copies on translucent purple/translucent red vinyl (only available on preorder from Hassle Records)
- 300 copies on solid white/solid grey swirl vinyl (available from Hassle and all good record stores)
Rolo’s roots might lie in a network of small villages around Sheffield but ‘Cosmology’, their second album, was birthed in Los Angeles via SXSW. Rec view release
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| Gallops - Gallops HRR045CD
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PREORDERS OF THE CD AND CD+SHIRT BUNDLE WILL RECEIVE REMIXES BY THREE TRAPPED TIGERS AND ROLO TOMASSI, PRIOR TO RELEASE DATE.
Gallops are that rare beast that straddle rock music and dance music with the utmost taste without being a bag of shit for old people. They seamlessly blend organic and synthetic in an intelligent manner, without being obtuse or chinstrokingly dull. You can dance your fucking tits off (mate), but this is as much for headphone listening in a dark room as it is for festi view release
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| Jackals - S/T 7" HRR044V
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6 songs from this new 6-piece from Norwich. This is rock'n'roll infused power violence with hints of Kodan Armada and Neil Perry on their more expansive moments.
Features Jack of Dorian Gay/WWHRD? 'fame' as well as Alex Batten (ex-Maths). Recorded by Alfie, his brother, and Matt of Maths.
Green w/grey vinyl, limited to 300 copies between 4 labels.
This is a co-release with Wineblood Music/WWHRD?/Power Negi
BEGINS SHIPPING JUNE 10TH. SORRY FOR DELAY.
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| Last Witness - Give Up 7" HRR043V
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3 brand new tracks from Last Witness recorded in April 2010 with Sam Thredder and Jamie Frye.
This is the first new recordings in several years and shows a marked progression in style, songwriting and maturity from the highly successful, free album 'An Unfinished Life'.
500 copies equally split between Holy Roar, Purgatory and Thirty Days of Night. Yep this is a co-release. Holy Roar version comes on translucent vinyl, Thirty Days of Night on transparent red and Purgatory on split colour v view release
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| We'll Die Smiling - Avant-Garde HRR042CD/D
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4 tracks of delightfully aggressive and melodic artistic math-scream. If you like Holy Roar Records, you will like this, it's that simple. Don't sleep.
Hand screened, hand-glued 4 panel card wallet with insert and vinyl effect cd.
"Abrasive screamed passages giving way to slightly slower and quieter moments that gradually build up to raucous crescendos" - Leeds Music Scene view release
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| run,WALK! - IHTAWSICSSOEAOMITS HRR041CD/D
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How run,WALK! arrived at such a sound at such a young age is beyond comprehension – I blame the internet. Equally informed by noise-rock and fuck off bastard bass noise as they are by The Maccabees and Bloc Party in terms of songwriting chops and gruff melody, run,WALK! stand a unique position. view release
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| Antares - L'Esprit de l'escalier HRR039
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What do you get when you combine Theo, ex-guitarist of Chronicles of Adam West, and Calvin - the only guitarist to ever fill-in for Rolo Tomassi? Not only the most tech, ridiculous thing ever, but also perhaps what Dillinger Escape Plan should have done 5 years after Calculating Infinity.
4 songs in just under 16 minutes. Mini-DVD style cases, 3" cd. Monochrome. Strictly 100 physical copies only. Art and layout by Lisa Cope. Logo by Steve Watts. Produced by Jason Sanderson.
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| Throats - Throats HRR038CD/V
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Throats are not simply a hardcore band any more. Bile, rage and despondency have organically mutated an already bitter and angry band into something far more extreme, reckless and dangerous. Throats have now evolved into a monster that, whilst nodding to their own past, now encompass a sound that embraces elements of Napalm Death, Rotten Sound, crust and d-beat into their stoned, cosmic riffs and breakdowns. From ‘Wake’ lurching into view and audibly cranking up the gears, the grind onslaugh view release
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| Pulled Apart By Horses / Holy State Split HRR037V/D
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A meeting of minds, two great bands on the cusp of so much more, brand new material from both bands, and all housed in Holy Roars first full-colour, art-only 7” picture disc. Oh and there will only be 500 copies ever. It doesn’t get much better for British rock music surely?
NB: DOWNLOAD IS OF JUST HOLY STATE SONG view release
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| Betty Pariso/Manuscripts Split HRR036V/D
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YEAH THIS IS MY OWN BAND.
This is released on Power Negi Records and by other mystical means. One time pressing of 300 copies. Everything is black.
Betty Pariso play discordant hardcore for fans of the_Network, Throats, Gaza, Phoenix Bodies and the like....ex Cutting Pink With Knives, The Defeat, Heroics, Wild Stallions etc...
Manuscripts are horrifically young Midlanders who take the best bits of Cursed, Pelican, His Hero Is Gone, Throats, Converge etc...
www.myspace.com/bettypariso view release
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| Trash Talk - East of Eden / Son of a Bitch HRR035V
- Trash Talk - East of Eden
- Trash Talk - Son of a Bitch
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Recorded at Nieto Estudio with former Wet and Dry sound
engineer, Manny Nieto and enlisting the vocal talent of punk legend, Keith Morris (Circle Jerks, Black Flag, Midget Handjob), East of Eden picks up where the self-titled full length left off. Slated to be their 7th release, the already highly anticipated single chronicles an underground race's furious return to Earth's surface and their discovery that a New Eden has grown in its place. Too prideful to return to the depths, the army confron view release
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| New Roars On The Block HRR034V/D
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Holy Roar would like to do its part in stopping the rot by praising new bands that dont subscribe to popular scenes or trends and whom remember a time when screamo meant Page 99 rather than My Chmeical Buttfuck and when noise-rock was not a catch-all ephemeral term. So let us waste no time at all in introducing to you the New Roars On The Block - Easy Hips, Dreamboats, Le Swing and Run, Walk! view release
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| Holy Monsters! HRR033V/D
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Despite Holy Roar Records thinking Big Scary Monsters is made up of finger-tapping emo pop-punk poseurs and Big Scary Monsters thinking Holy Roar is a tough guy mosh label, two of the leading lights of the UK independent label scene have put aside their differences to deliver a split release comprising of four of their great white hopes on one 10” vinyl – Brontide, Shapes, Holy State and The Tupolev Ghost, with each band delivering an exclusive, brand-new song!
This is available on purple view release
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| Rolo Tomassi/Throats split HRR032V
A - Rolo Tomassi - Headclouds/Reign of Low
B - Throats - I Love Turbulence
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This isn't just any old 7" - this is Rolo Tomassi doing a medley of 'Headclouds/Reign of Low', originally written by Throats, and Throats reworking 'I Love Turbulence', originally by Rolo Tomassi. Yep - both bands covering each other! We think this is perhaps one of the coolest things we have ever done.
For real. Limited to 500 copies, 250 will be with Hassle records, in Hassle packaging and 250 with Holy Roar in Holy Roar packaging. view release
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| Livimørket - Dark Totality HRR031CDR/D
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Our first ever black metal release. A solitary composition that clocks in at just over 39 minutes, yet encompasses many movements, this piece is eoncroachingly evil, ambient, beautiful, haunting and ritualistic. This also happens to be a solo project of an unnamed musician from another Holy Roar band, yet he wishes to exist under a grimm cloak of mystery and darkness in Livimorket. Only 50 copies of this wonderously ambitious piece of music will be produced, all housed in chipboard natural DVD c view release
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| Happy Holy Roar Volume 3 HRR030T
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The third volume in our annual xmas tape compilation series! Once again limited to 100 copies, this years volume comes in 100% PCW recycled chipboard packaging with cover artwork and insert. On top of this the tape comes available in (provisionally) ten different colours, with 10 of each - red, mid blue, dark blue, green, orange, grey, lilac, purple, pink, and black.
Side A is comprised of cover songs and the tracklisting will only be revealed upon purchase. Believe us this is massively wort view release
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| Holy State - Live HRR029CDR/D
- Holy State - Anechoic Chamber Maid (Live)
- Holy State - Skull On Skull (Live)
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2 track live cd on 5 different coloured vinyl-effect cd. Exclusive recordings not featured on the debut ep.
Exclusive to the t-shirt + live cd package. view release
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| The Ghost of a Thousand - This Is Where The Fight Begins HRR027V/CD
A - The Ghost of a Thousand - Bored of math
- The Ghost of a Thousand - Left for dead
- The Ghost of a Thousand - Up to you
- The Ghost of a Thousand - New toy
- The Ghost of a Thousand - Black art number one
B - The Ghost of a Thousand - Married to the sidewalk
- The Ghost of a Thousand - One for the road
- The Ghost of a Thousand - As they breed they swarm
- The Ghost of a Thousand - No-one ever gives you a straight
answer to anything - The Ghost of a Thousand - The last bastion of heaven lies
abandoned and burning
Bonus CD - The Ghost of a Thousand - Bored of math (live demo)
- The Ghost of a Thousand - Left for dead (live demo)
- The Ghost of a Thousand - Up to you (live demo)
- The Ghost of a Thousand - New toy (home recording)
- The Ghost of a Thousand - Black art number one (home recording)
- The Ghost of a Thousand - Tiny ships in giant oceans
- The Ghost of a Thousand - No-one ever gives you a straight
answer to anything (instrumental demo) - The Ghost of a Thousand - The last bastion of heaven lies
abandoned and burning (home recording) - The Ghost of a Thousand - As they breed they swarm
(first official band recording)
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With TGOAT now banging out their second album on Epitaph, the debut record, 'This is where the fight begins', finally appears on vinyl! This is no token release however. Check this for specifics - all new artwork on gatefold sleeve, heavyweight (180gsm) white vinyl and a 9 track bonus cd of unreleased demos and exclusive tracks slotted neatly into the package! Hardcore punk rock'n'roll.
500 pressed. view release
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| Maths - Descent HRR026CD/D
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After a split with Throats, and countless DIY demos and home releases, Maths have finally arrived with their debut album 'Descent.' A huge evolutionary leap for the band, this is a truly realised vision of an album rather than simply 12 songs thrown together.
1000 pressed. view release
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| Rolo Tomassi - Untitled EP HRR025CD/D
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Let’s not reel off a paragraph of hyperbole. Here’s some of the cold hard facts of what Rolo Tomassi have achieved since this ep last went out of print – Rocksound cover, Plan B cover, BBC Electric Proms performance, two Huw Stephens Radio 1 sessions, plays across Steve Lamacq, Zane Lowe, Rock Show and more on Radio1, articles in Kerrang, NME and all other major music publications, mentions in the Observer and the Sunday Times, shows with Blood Red Shoes, Foals, Gallows, The Bronx, Fucked view release
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| Brontide - Brontide EP HRR024D
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Forming from the ashes of 'synth-cab-for-cuties' I Was A Cub Scout and Brighton drama-punks Pictures - Brontide are an altogether different musical beast. Drawing upon the influence of Battles, Russian Circles and Don Caballero, Brontide are a riff-heavy, intelligent instrumental rock band that possesses an almost limitless scope. view release
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| Cutting Pink With Knives - Discography HRR023D
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Tracklisting
Too big to write here, but includes -
- Unreleased new songs and new demos
- Unreleased Split 5" with Rolo Tomassi
- Split Tape with Rolo Tomassi
- Split 5" with Trencher
- Self-released CD-R
- Laser Hannon Video
- 3 Live Sessions
- Remixes
- Demos/B-Sides/Curios
This essentially clears the CPWK closet of everything except the 3 albums ('Alef! Alef! Alef!', 'Oh Wow!' and 'Populuxxe') and still in press splits with Concentration Champ and Antithesis. Over 100 t view release
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| Maths - Maths Live Acoustic Medley HRR022D
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Tracklisting
1. (Untitled)
2. Heavy Heart
3. (Untitled)
4. IV
5. Statue Of Her
Performed by Matt Maths, live, in one take on Diesel U Music Radio, Wednesday Sept 17th 2008, Dalston, London. Artwork by Sam Dunn . view release
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| Holy State - Holy State EP HRR021CDR/D
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Appearing from out of nowhere, Holy State have absolutely laid down the gauntlet. How the fuck is this a debut recording? What mystical force is at work here? Was it fate that Holy Roar Records and Holy State should work together? Believe in forces beyond logical comprehension.
If Holy Roar Records has an unwritten ethic of working with bands that have no peers within the UK, then Holy State can surely only add to such lineage. Remember growing up with the Jesus Lizard, Fugazi, Girls Against view release
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| Happy Holy Roar! Volume 2 HRR020T
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All your favourite bands from 2008 and all your new favourites from 2009. We bet at least a couple of these bands will make waves in 2009. Only 100 copies, no digital release, available on red, white and green tapes for Christmas! Artwork by James Burgess. view release
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| The Ergon Carousel - The Ergon Carousel HRR019CDR/D
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Rising from the ashes of Narcosis – aka the only British grindcore band worth caring about in the past ten years – The Ergon Carousel is the amalgamation of the talents of 3/5ths of Narcosis, an ex-member of Beecher and an ex-member of Carmen. Possibly faster than their previous grind incarnations and with a higher emphasis on defined, incredible riffs, this is a logical extension to previous work, without ever entering into repetition or parody.
100 made. view release
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| Devil Sold His Soul/Tortuga Split HRR018V
A - Devil Sold His Soul - Crane Lake
B - Tortuga - The Tomb of John Wortley (1857)
- Tortuga - Dance Like No-one's Watching
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Brand new exclusive track from possibly the leading light in British post-metal, Devil Sold His Soul. An absolute epic that works its way through melody, aggression and reflection with ease.
Tortuga unearth their long sold-out demo that landed them a deal with In At The Deep End. These two tracks possess a sound that appears to sit at a stark crossroad between the elemental power of Cult of Luna, the churning complexity of Breather Resist or Botch and the punk attitude of Fucked Up and Hot Sn view release
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| Youves - Cardio-Vascular HRR017CD/D
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Having released (under their previous alias) a split 7” with Rolo Tomassi, a limited edition tape and a solo debut single in the past year, Youves are no strangers to productivity. Allayed firmly with the UK underground, YOUVES are vocal proponents of the independent spirit; like Black Flag being produced by James Murphy, but without the steroids and militant dogma. They’re an efficient machine, well flexed, high on beer and protein, poised to steal hearts, minds and girlfriends.
1000 pre view release
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| Notes From The Turncoat Campaign HRR016CD/D
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To be released by Holy Roar Records in the UK and Black Market Activities/Metal Blade in the USA, Holy Roar considers it an absolute honour to work with possibly the only American label consistently flying the flag for intelligent heavy music. With 6 brand new exclusive songs this split cd shows an unwavering evolution for two of the most vital noisy, visceral punk bands around. 4 panel card wallet.
500 pressed. view release
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| Dananananaykroyd - Sissy Hits HRR015CD/D
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Following issues with Dananananaykroyd’s previous label, Holy Roar were only more than happy to step in and offer their services to release this six track mini-album from one of the most exciting new British bands around right now. There are few bands around who bring together the punk and hardcore spirit together with interesting indie rock in the way Dananananaykroyd do. Their rawness is matched only by the perfect amount of pop thrown in as well.
The band have had two sold-out singles on view release
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| Youves - Wolfgang Bang Single HRR014D
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From back when Youves were called Mirror! Mirror!
Bargain digital package featuring two Cutting Pink With Knives remixes, a remix done by members of Meet Me In St Louis, Blakfish and Tubelord (!) and defn as well as a demo of Silicon Eyes and the original 2 track single itself! view release
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| Rolo Tomassi - Digital History / Beatrotter HRR013V
A - Rolo Tomassi - Digital History
B - Rolo Tomassi - Beatrotter
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2 brand new songs on one-sided white vinyl in clear sleeve, all hand customised by the band. No two copies will be the same. Limited to 500 copies. No digital/cd/shop release. Only available from the band on tour and Holy Roar direct. These songs will NOT appear on the bands forthcoming album, they are exclusive to this vinyl-only release. view release
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| Maths / Throats - Split HRR012CD/D
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Maths write epic, furious Orchid-esque walls of melody and noise with a tunefulness many of their contemporaries lack. Backed up by an unpredictable and incendiary live show they have quickly garnered support slots and tours with bands such as This Town Needs Guns, Fuck Buttons, Cutting Pink With Knives, Mutiny on the Bounty, Rolo Tomassi, Youthmovies, This Aint Vegas, Tortuga, and pretty much any other hip rock band worth talking about right now. After two demos recorded by the band themselves view release
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| Cutting Pink With Knives - Laser Hannon Single HRR011D
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The second digital single from 'Populuxxe' again featuring an exclusive b-side - 'My France Is Dead' - another track left-over from the 'Oh Wow!' recording sessions - it shows CPWK at their most calm and reflective. Another departure, another side to CPWK, another essential track. Also seek out the video for Laser Hannon that is circulating now!
Also available via iTunes and other good digital outlets. view release
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| Happy Holy Roar! HRR010T
Side A - Throats - Reign Of Low (tape version) [1:33] PLAY
- Chronicles Of Adam West - Untitled
- Mouthbreather - Forgainst the Kids
- Rolo Tomassi - Film Noir (demo)
- Chariots - Born and Back
- Maruta - In Perpetual Narcolepsy
- Maths - Must we ourselves not become gods
simply to appear worthy of it - Cutting Pink With Knives - Sad Sad Leroy Brown
- Tubelord - Propeller
- Kayo Dot - Stage Ambiance Fall 2006
Side B - Tortuga - Dance like no-ones watching
- Barbaric White Elephant - My Arms are Tentacles
- Bloody Panda - Photosynthesis
- Phoenix Bodies - Filler (Minor Threat cover)
- Paul Marshall - The Horsewoman Came Home
- Serena Joy - Movement 1
- Doom Patrol - Campbell
- Omerta - Black Teeth Sink Deep
- The Pluto - Phal Pancake Universe Bee (edit)
- November Coming Fire - Pyxis Nautica
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We basically wanted to make something very limited and very special in time for Christmas! With only 100 copies being made and such a high volume of exclusive tracks, this is bound to become something of a collectors item. view release
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| Cutting Pink With Knives - St. Mark/Airz Digital Single HRR009D
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With an exclusive video mix-up of St Mark and Airz from 'Populuxxe' and an exclusive b-side in the form of 'Angus Is The Camera' (a 3min36sec track left over from the 'Oh Wow!' album sessions that goes from electronic doom-noise to Postal Service-esque keyboard bliss) this release serves as both a vital introduction for those unfamiliar with Cutting Pink With Knives and an essential addition to any existing fans catalogue. Artwork courtesy of Alys Jenkins. Also available from iTunes and all othe view release
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| Cutting Pink With Knives - Populuxxe HRR007CD/D
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Following a multitude of low-key releases, which culminated in an album (Oh Wow!) on leftfield electronica label ADAADAT, the evolution of these trans-national kids takes another significant step forward with 'Populuxxe'. Erasing another chunk of noise from their sound, Cutting Pink With Knives have injected a variety of influences from 80's rock, hip-hop, pop and dance music to arrive at a sound that is undeniably their own. Unquestionably pop, enviably concise, Cutting Pink With Knives lodge t view release
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| Gallows - Demo 2005 HRR006V
A - Gallows - Just because you sleep next to
me doesn't mean you're safe (demo) - Gallows - Will someone shoot that fucking
snake (demo)
B - Gallows - Abandon ship (demo)
- Gallows - Swarm over death (demo)
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Gallows need no introduction right now. This strictly limited edition release of their original demos, recorded in 2005, features three older, and different, versions of tracks which were eventually re-recorded for their Orchestra of Wolves album, and one track which is not available anywhere else. On white vinyl, with black and silver artwork and a pressing of only 500 copies, to say this release is special would be an understatement. view release
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| Chariots - The Inner Life HRR005CD/D
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With an album released on Big Scary Monsters in '04 and some chaotic live performances, Chariots proved that a British band could have a pretty impressive take on the emo-violence genre. Comparisons with Converge, Orchid and Pg.99 might come close but never really explained what was special about the Watford mob, who momentarily disbanded just as more hearts were won to the cause. The band played live shows with Daughters, Achilles, Rainydayfuckparade, Trencher, Aconite Thrill, The Pine, and fea view release
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| Chronicles Of Adam West - We Walk Unbalanced HRR004CD/D
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Despite only being together a relatively short amount of time, COAW managed to forge a name for themselves as purveyors of relentless tech-metal with noisecore and death-tinges, which crosses over to lands normally inhabited by something far more experimental or even prog. Comparisons with the likes of Converge, Meshuggah, Psyopus, Botch and co may seem fair but only hint at what this band are capable of, as anyone who's a fan of other genre-bending UK bands such as Rolo Tomassi and even The Mur view release
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| Kayo Dot / Bloody Panda - Split HRR002V/D
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In an exclusive release London's Holy Roar Records have brought together two of the US's most innovative and interesting bands in a three track, half-hour 12”. Kayo Dot already have two albums under their belt and have been stirring up the avant-garde, post-rock and doom circles for some time now. New York's Bloody Panda, first heard by HRR after picking up their self-released EP in the city's Other Records, bring something altogether more dark but in no way less boundary-pushing or genre-de view release
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| Phoenix Bodies - Raise the Bullshit Flag HRR001CD/D
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Phoenix Bodies produce a kinetic grind with catchy riffs and thrash punk influences. Their chaotic take on hardcore has been likened to Forcefedglass, Converge, The Locust and Usurp Synpase. Already well known and established within noisy hardcore circles, Phoenix Bodies have released splits with Shikari, Raein and Enkephalin prior to this release.
1000 pressed in 4 panel card wallet with 16 page booklet. view release
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