Drowing - Drowning EP

Heavy, downtuned metallic hardcore from France the way it should be, i.e. no jumpy beatdowns, no clean vocals or poser death growls, no tight jeans, in the vein of All Out War and Beneath The Remains, with HUGE Bolt Thrower double-bass epic moments. This is the way this shit was played in the late '90s. Absolutely recommended. 1999 cd on Released Power Productions.

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Allee Der Kosmonauten ‎– Sphärenharmonien [Demo tape]

And this is their first demo release, which is a mix of jammy sludgy noise rock and dark, heavy hardcore/crust. Good stuff. 2001 self-released tape.

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Koreisch - This Decaying Schizophrenic Christ Complex cd

A fitting album for Christmas Day. In the late '90s the British hardcore scene became witness to a surge of mindfucked bands who created music that took its cue from hardcore, and fused it with metal, ambient and noise that was extremely dark, anguished and terrifying by the standards of hardcore at that time, even with the presence of bands like Integrity or early Converge. The leading bands of that scene were Canvas, Slavearc and an offshoot of the latter band called Koreisch, who hailed from Sheffield. Their only release was this nightmarish cd which was released in 1999 by Screams of Salvation and combines horrifying noise, crushing doom metal and violent outbursts of cacophonous, weird-timed grindcore. Being a hardcore punk kid in my late teens, I've got to say that this is one of the albums that got me interested in noise, about which I only knew Merzbow at that time. This is the 2004 cd reissue on Calculated Risk Products.

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