These are all the full-length albums, EPs, demos, etc that I listened to in the month of April 2012. At the end are my notes and a list of the live performances I saw as well.
4/1/12
Trek Life – “Wouldn’t
Change Nothing”
Cannibal Corpse –
“Eaten Back To Life”
The Maccabees – “Given
To The Wild”
Mac Lethal – “11:11”
Faith No More – “Angel
Dust”
Minutemen – “Double
Nickels on the Dime”
4/2/12
Smashing Pumpkins –
“Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness” 2CD
LA Symphony –
“Unleashed” mixtape
Crooked I – “Block
Obama II” EP
Waco Fuck – 10-song
demo CD
Wu Tang Clan – “Enter
The Wu-Tang: 36 Chambers”
Dying Fetus –
“Purification Through Violence
Rage Against The
Machine – “Evil Empire”
4/3/12
Doomtree – “FH:XV” EP
From First To Last –
“Aesthetic” EP
RA The Rugged Man – “American Low Life”
Deicide – “Once Upon
The Cross”
V/A – “Mello Music
Group presents Self Sacrifice”
Adolescents – “Welcome
to Reality” EP
4/4/12
Self Scientific –
“Trials of the Blackhearted”
Bayside – “Sirens and
Condolences”
Los Rakas – “P.B.T. 2:
La Tanda Del Bus”
The Smiths – “The Queen
Is Dead”
CunninLynguists –
“Southernunderground”
Boot Camp Clik – “Basic
Training: Greatest Hits”
4/5/12
Ras Kass – “Van Gogh”
4/6/12
Mac Miller – “K.I.D.S.”
mixtape
Macklemore & Ryan
Lewis – “The VS Redux”
The Diplomats –
“Diplomatic Immunity” Disc 1
Lecrae – “Rehab”
4/7/12
Living Legends – “The
Gathering” EP
Hieroglyphics – “Full
Circle”
4/8/12
Phobia – “Return to
Desolation” EP
Hordes – “Abarognosis”
EP
Azma – 3-song demo CD
Alcest – “Les Voyages
De L’Ame”
Jethro Tull –
“Stormwatch”
Slayer – “Reign In
Blood”
Mad Sin – “A Ticket To
the Underworld”
Ruptures – “Deadbloom”
EP
Faith No More – “We
Care A Lot”
ACxDC – “Second Coming”
EP
Faith No More – “Angel
Dust”
4/9/12
Faith No More – “The
Real Thing”
Unsane – “Total
Destruction”
Cold War Kids –
“Robbers and Cowards”
K’Naan – “More
Beautiful Than Silence” EP
The Melvins – “Gluey
Porch Treatments”
The Diplomats –
“Diplomatic Immunity” Disc 2
The Makeout Boys –
“Teenage Thrills”
Crippled Black Phoenix
– “(Mankind) The Crafty Ape” Disc 1
The Melvins – “The
Bulls & The Bees” EP
The Reverend Horton
Heat – “Smoke’em If You Got’em”
The Asteroids Galaxy Tour – “Out Of Frequency”
Children Of Nova – “The
Complexity Of Light” EP
Band Of Horses –
“Everything All The Time”
Leonard Cohen – “Old
Ideas”
4/10/12
Boats –
“Inetrcontinental Champion”
Faith No More – “King
For A Day…Fool For A Lifetime”
Trash Talk – 05 demo
Young Guns – “Bones”
Living With Lions – “Holy Shit!”
Honor Role – “It Bled Like A Stuck Pig” EP
Dirty Three – “Towards
the Low Sun”
Such Gold – “Pedestals”
EP
Overkill – “Fuck You!”
EP
The Wooden Sky – “Every
Child A Daughter, Every Moon A Son”
Close Your Eyes – “We
Will Overcome”
Kaskade – “In The
Moment”
Lewd Acts – “Black Eyed
Blues”
4/11/12
Faith No More – “Angel
Dust”
A Perfect Circle – “Mer
De Noms”
Veil Of Maya –
“Eclipse”
Fight Like Apes – “…And
The Mystery Of The Golden Medallion”
Comeback Kid – “Wake
The Dead”
4/12/12
Fudd Rukus – “Tell Your
Friends”
Faith No More – “Album
Of The Year”
Plants And Animals –
“The End Of That”
The End – “Elementary”
4/14/12
Memoryhouse – “The
Slideshow Effect”
4/17/12
Autechre – “Incunabala”
Crippled Black Phoenix
– “(Mankind) The Crafty Ape” Disc 2
Religious Girls – “Open
Your Heart To Fantasy”
4/18/12
Andrew Bird’s Bowl of
Fire – “The Swimming Hour”
Venom – “Black Metal”
Chiddy Bang –
“Breakfast”
Arkona – “Goi, Rode,
Goi!”
4/19/12
Edgar Allen Floe – “The
Streetwise”
Sick Of It All – “Built
To Last”
Corrosion Of Conformity
– S/T
Ex Deo – “Romulus”
AFX – “Chosen Lands”
Parts And Labor –
“Receivers”
4/20/12
Batfoot – “Brain Dead”
Kevin Greenspon – “Rose
Window” EP
Helium – “The Dirt Of
Luck”
Yngwie Malmsteen – “The
Collection”
4/21/12
Wretched –“Son Of
Perdition”
Katrina
Stoneheart/Vehicle Blues – split cassette
Heltah Skeltah –
“D.I.R.T.”
4/22/12
Butthole Surfers –
“Locust Abortion Technician”
4/23/12
Justin Townes Earle –
“Nothing’s Gonna Change The Way You Feel About Me Now”
4/24/12
Trial – “Are These Our
Lives?”
Junior Reid – “One
Blood”
Sublime – “Robbin’ the
Hood”
The Mars Volta –
“Noctourniquet”
All Teeth – “I Am
Losing”
Autoclave – S/T
Emmure – “Goodbye To
The Gallows”
Before Their Eyes –
“Redemption”
Jello Biafra & The
Guantanamo School Of Medicine – “The Audacity of Hype”
4/25/12
Ani DiFranco – “Which
Side Are You On?”
Zao – “Where Fire And
Blood Bring Rest”
From Autumn To Ashes –
“Too Bad You’re Beautiful”
The Used – “Vulnerable”
4/26/12
Prong – “Force Fed”
Oiltanker – “The Shadow
of Greed” EP
Screeching Weasel –
“How To Make Enemies And Irritate People”
Jay Brannan – “Rob Me
Blind”
4/24/12
Witchburn – “This Is
How We Slay Our Demons”
The Pursuit Of
Happiness – “The Wonderful World Of…”
Velveteen – “Home
Waters”
4/28/12
Panic! At The Disco –
“A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out”
Shinedown – “Amaryllis”
Throw The Goat – “Demo
Primero”
Blanks 77 – “Killer
Blanks”
Death – “Human”
Joel Plaskett Emergency
– “Scrappy Happiness”
Tragedy – “Vengeance”
Death Cab For Cutie –
“Narrow Stairs”
4/29/12
Emalkay – “Eclipse”
OutKast – “ATLiens”
The Cure – “Seventeen
Seconds”
Overkill – “The
Electric Age”
Marcy Playground – S/T
Skin Like Iron/Nails –
split EP
Million Dead – “Harmony
No Harmony”
Waterdown – “Never Kill
A Boy On The First Date”
Funeral For A Friend –
“Casually Dressed and Deep In Conversation”
Mastodon/Feist –
“Feistodon” split 7”
Judas Priest – “British
Steel”
The All-American
Rejects – “Kids in the Street”
Duke Ellington – “The
Eternal Ellington”
4/30/12
Death Crisis –S/T 7”
Modern Jazz Quartet –
“Pyramid”
Underdog – “Matchless”
discography CD
Gregory Lemarchal – “Je
Deviens Moi”
Thrice – “Vheissu”
Johnny Horton – “Mean
Mean Son of A Gun”
Axel Rudi Pell –
“Circle Of The Oath”
Nazareth – “The Very
Best Of”
Otro/The Maurupials –
split 7”
Willie Nelson – “Red
Headed Stranger”
I Blame Coco – “The
Constant”
Muddy Waters – “The
Real Folk Blues”
NOTES
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This is the first month of the 2012 so far where
a Cannibal Corpse album wasn’t the first album I listened to. This month it was
the second album.
-
- My obsession with the “Angel Dust” album carried
over into this month, and it led me to rediscover the rest of FNM’s catalog as
well.
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Hordes, Ruptures, ACxDC, Nails, Oiltanker…there
are a lot of thrashy powerviolence-influenced hardcore bands out there right
now
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The new K’Naan and Shinedown albums are in
competition with the new K.Flay and Lacuna Coil albums for the title of “Worst
Album of 2012”…let’s see how much more bullshit I can put myself through before
December ends
- -
In contrast, the new Mars Volta, Corrosion Of
Conformity, and Alcest albums are my favorite releases of the year so
far...great stuff from all three
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The Diplomats suck
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2 Melvins albums in one day? Madness.
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Leonard Cohen’s new album is my first exposure
to his work…I’m a noob
- -
Autoclave is like my new favorite band I can’t
believe it took me this long to discover them
- -
“the Audacity of Hype” sounds like the Dead
Kennedys never broke up its amazing
- -
“Where Fire And Blood Bring Rest” still heavy
after all these years
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I am among those who downloaded Velveteen songs
when “Narrow Stairs” came out and was fooled for years into thinking they were
Death Cab songs…literally just a few days ago I discovered the mix-up and
finally listened to the real DCFC album…But Velveteen is dope!
I also saw Swimteam, LA Symphony,
Wu-Tang Clan, RA The Rugged Man, CunninLynguists, People Under The Stairs,
Hieroglyphics, Living Legends, Dilated Peoples, Brother Ali, The Coltranes,
Green Screen Door, Merchandise, and NASA Space Universe perform live this
month.
