STREAMING // (Album) Lil Ugly Mane – “Volcanic Bird Enemy And The Voiced Concern”

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Cover Painting By: Patrick Quinn

Track List: BIRD ENEMY CAR, WITH IRON & BLEACH & ACCIDENTS, BENADRYL SUBMARINE, HUMAN FLY, COLD IN HERE, STYROFOAM, HOSTAGE MASTER, BEACH HARNESS, DISCARD, HEADBOARD, IN TO A LIFE, CLAPPING SEAL, VPN, SWELL, STOCK CAR, CURSOR, BOLD FUTILE FLAVOR, BROKEN LADDER, PORCELAIN SLIGHTLY

STREAMING (Album) NVSV – “Who Are You Seeing?”

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Featuring: FRH Golden, Nigel Frank, Bad Brown

Production By: PVKVSV, JVGGY HENDRIX, SEXAFTERCHURCH, + Iron Feather

Track List: I SEE, FAUX FRIENDS, NO PRESSURE, MIRROR MAKER, DESIGNER, I SAW, AS GOOD AS IT GETS, AND1, SMILE, GRABBA, INVISIBLE MAN, HE IS ME, I SEEN

Misc. Day – Huey P.

When the “P” stands for power in the ensemble, dj blackpower A.K.A. New York City’s own MIKE is the continuation of spoken word over stoned, but often cinematic loops and performances.

Like a student film gone global, BLP2020: “King Of The Night” holds both the beauty and grace of the jungle’s black panther; but has the grasp on an audience to become humanistic and understood.

Opening with “Power,” dj blackpower is the dichotomy of man where he transforms to be his greatest ally but also his biggest and most fearsome foe. The balance as explained by narration from MIKE, “I balance good with every inch of grief, shook. I buried Ma, buried all the pieces in the look.”

While it can’t be just the focus on the doom and gloom of the cityscape, dj blackpower’s highest moments on BLP2020: “King Of The Night” are on the moments of self-acclimation toward recovery. As “Power” continues on, MIKE illustrates, “Couldn’t dare the doubt, couldn’t care to leave, not like I should. How you wear the crown? Never touched the street, not a foot. Food done came around, never touched my teeth, fuck the cook.”

As dj blackpower marches on with this duality present in the narration, BLP2020: “King Of The Night” graces between being either Icarus or the bull in this novel of chasing oneself. The intricacies follow the rhyme schemes and production of “Rootin4?” where MIKE becomes more grounded than ever

The looped production is a Sunday dream of meditation where the piano riff is gentle but comes to a full package when paired with these harder smacking bass and snare snaps. The MPC keyboard takes the audience into a clouded recovery while MIKE’s vocals pull them back down to the concrete.

He illustrates, “In bed like it’s glued to my spine, if it send it, then I’m shooting precise. Then neglect what it do to my mind, all this death and pursuit in my eyes.” Like a lonesome train rolling through the station to Coney, dj blackpower’s production is both isolative and somehow crowded. They work this ability to control the audience, without ever seeming to overpower them.

Segments like ”Mhm!” are godly for their shift in sonic departure where the sampled vocals are simple, consisting only of a hummed one-second loop but adds a warmth to the piece. The percussion is basic, but the resonance that dj blackpower adds creates more layering to the cake, contributing as a baseline for the audience to follow.

MIKE begins to describe, “We keep that energy, I step my game up. My soul is hurting shots of Hennessey had lit up the K.” The track “Mhm!” feels shorter, but the runtime clocks in at around a nearly two-minute average for the nine-track EP. Finding itself seconds away from glory, rainfall hits and drowns out the narration from MIKE.

Leaving dj blackpower as this firework of production, the beauty of the record comes more from the instrumentation and the way that MIKE can follow as a fitting narrator. The storybook has no fairy tale ending but instead looks at the sunrise as one more reason to survive the grueling night.

Listen To BLP2020: “King Of The Night” Here!!! – BandCamp/Spotify/iTunes

SUNDAY SAMPLER // (Playlist) “10/10/2021″

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“A playlist of tracks that were featured on MattsMusicMine.com from the week of October 4th – 10th. From Reviews to Streams, never miss a track with these playlists that are uploaded every single Sunday till I drop dead.”

Featuring: NANORAY, Herbert, Y’akoto, Dog Eater, SPY, Footshooter, Albertina, Uffe, Nine Inch Nails, Gravenchalice, Malcolm Jiyane Tree-O, LiveFromTheCity, Rohne, Full Of Hell, Mach-Hommy, Gràb, Meek Mill, The Rurals

Track List: DogWalk2000, DesktopBuddy, The Way, Undefined, Obtained Under Duress, Twilight, Kill A Sound, Into The Void, Underneath It All, Icarus, Umkhumbi KaMa, Summer Love, Ceres, Murmuring Foul Spring, Urchin Thrones, Diamond Exchange, Sched Oreidig, Expensive Pain, Sweeter Sound

STREAMING // (Album) The Rurals – “Sweeter Sounds”

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Track List: Lush, Window Pain, No Power, Make Amends, Grey Clouds, Sweeter Sounds, Breathe, Mission 1, Jazz Interlude, These Changes

New Music – Fruition Of Damage

There are not many bands that can crush and fracture bones quite like Full Of Hell in the chamber of isolative noise. Through their newest 2021 release, Garden Of Burning Apparitions is a quick but memorable beating through 20 minutes and 12 tracks.

Opening with “Guiding Blight,” a deep inhale from vocalist Dylan Walker creates air being taken from the lungs of the audience as quickly as the blast beats come to frame. The belligerent instrumentation is some of grindcore’s most coveted and profound groups to grace the ears.

Light disintegrates and becomes a scarce resource on Garden Of Burning Apparitions, instead, there is Spencer Hazard on guitars that can not only destroy with precision but conduct a twisted sense of beauty to Full Of Hell. Having Dave Bland on the percussion as well as Sam DiGristine on the bass; Garden Of Burning Apparitions is the four horsemen of the apocalypse through sound.

Pieces like “Murmuring Foul Spring” get into rhythms where the intensity desires for Acetaminophen to be ingested before listening with headphones. Full Of Hell not only paints images of despair through the production but lyrically are infinite rays of burnt-out sunshine.

Walker Describes, “Sickening the herd with billowing smoke, the might of pigs, the stench of dogs.” As horns and harsh noise elements begin to pour into the track, Full Of Hell becomes this asphyxiating factor to the record, once again illustrating, “Sickening the herd with billowing smoke, the might of pigs, the stench of dogs.”

What follows directly after is “Derelict Satellite” which is a furious mess of angry swarms of noise and feedback while Walker shouts through the void. Like direct sunlight to the eyes, “Derelict Satellite” burns the nerves and forces the audience to wince with pain. Digging the blade in deeper, Full Of Hell becomes an executioner with the near title track, “Burning Apparition.”

Commendable for being this unstoppable onslaught for the audience to endure, “Burning Apparition” highlights Bland’s outstanding percussive skills and the ability to sequence a curb-stomping. His rapid smacks on the cymbals and bass drum make one of the more disgusting uses of blast beats, then forming a circle-pit directly after with little to no reprieve.

One of the singles from Garden Of Burning Apparitions, “Industrial Messiah Complex” has some notions to earlier pieces like “Thundering Hammers” from their 2019 release Weeping Choir. The guitar from Hazard here is mechanical and etches into the ears as instrumental torture on the ears.

When combined with the other elements like ripping bass and percussion grooves together, the scowling vocals from Walker become a vicious cycle of growls and shouts. “Industrial Messiah Complex” combines auditorial pain with the awe-inspiring might of storm clouds that surround a small town. As lightning cracks and damages the structures around the audience, they can do nothing but watch as Full Of Hell marches through without seemingly stopping at any point.

There is no mercy, no forgiveness, and certainly an undeniable means of synchronicity that plots the way for Full Of Hell to lead. Whether by blood or threats, Garden Of Burning Apparitions sees Full Of Hell at their most ingenious and forcibly mighty.

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STREAMING // (Album) Mach-Hommy – “DUCK CZN: Chinese Algebra”

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Produced By: Tha God Fahim

Featuring: Denmark Vessey

Track List: King Georgie, Cardio, Diamond Exchange, Blackamoor Brooch, Quintuple Black, Hut One, Borlette, Closer, Winchester Skates