The Purity of Arms טוהר הנשק by Marmara Streisand

Here we have an anarchist punk rock band from Israel with ex-members of South African punk bands Outrage, Clandestine, Skelm Helm, Hasten the Storm... and more (Michal & Rob)

maramara Streisand is a five piece crust and roll band out of Israhell.

We came together in the winter of 2010 out of a strong need to express our aspirations in the form of lousy music. Our music is as much a product of the occupation as any other horrible thing that was born here, but we have chosen to use our frustration at society to tear down instead of build even more walls. Band members come from three continents and have played in lots of obscure and/ or crappy bands everywhere. We are united by our love of music, vegan food, unicorns and giraffes

But seriously now: being part of the local punk scene we see the lack of political content within our community. We do not wish to escape or ignore the place where we live. We don't want to pretend we live in Berlin or that we are skating in Oregon. We wish to confront the place where we live and the mentality of apartheid that surrounds us. This is not like playing a show in Alabama, thank you very much Mr. Biafra. Our music may reach a small minority that sometimes find it hard to accept our direct and radical approach to local politics but our lyrics reflect our need to confront society on a daily basis.

We don't want want shallow co-existence we want meaningful co-resistan

  The Purity of Arms טוהר הנשק by Marmara Streisand

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released 12 December 2012
Rob: Drums&Vocals   ( South Africa )
Johanna: Violin&Vocals
Maya: Guitar&Vocals
Michal: Bass&Vocals  ( South Africa )
Ben:Vocals  

Marmara Streisand "Nailed to the wall"

Marmara Streisand "Robinson Crusoe"@Pussy Riot benefit gig

A new Crust/Doom/Sludge Metal from Johannesburg "CORAX"

 

Corax are a Crust/Doom/Sludge Metal band from Johannesburg, South Africa

The members are:

Patrick - guitars, vocals
Brent - drums, vocals

Corax are an excellent Sludge/Doom Metal band featuring two dudes playing awesome Sludge Metal riffs. 

I will let their bio do the talking:

"Corax was formed by Brent and Patrick, whilst under the influence of Faxe extra strong beer, on the 2nd of May 2010.  After 2 years of fuckin about in the garage we finally had enough material to record an album. We spent 18 hours in April 2012 recording our debut self-titled album at SABC studio's in Johannesburg.  Corax will be playing shows full time from 2013."

They have just released their stunning S/T debut album.
5 Tracks that runs for a loud and angry as fuck 30 minutes.

First track - Death Spiral - will show you what to expect from this hugely talented band. OK the album is a bit under-produced but this shouldn't deter the excellent musicianship on show.

To tell you the truth the DIY vibe really adds to proceedings. It showcases how a band should sound on their first release. Loud, Angry, Raw and Passionate without any professional wizardry at all.

Corax are a band that is very raw indeed and it makes them a powerful force on the entire album. Death Growl Vocals coming at you like a machine gun with hard-hitting riffs in the background.

Tracks like Invoke Them, Timeless Gathering and Snow In The Shadows showcase this band is all about Primal Fury. Corax are angry from the very start. They will devour anything that gets in their way. This is one tough album to listen to. It's bleak from the word go. Only listen to this if you are in a dark place as this album will fuck up your entire day. But what a ride it is.

I loved every mean minute of it. So if your feeling brave then headover to BandCamp and download this on Pay Anything You Want.

Highly Recommended.

Check This Great Band Below:

by The Sludgelord


Corax full album is now up for download (for free) on bandcamp http://www.corax.bandcamp.com/

review in http://www.thesludgelord.blogspot.com/2012/12/corax.html

Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Corax/282007738583245

CORAX PLAYING DEATH SPIRAL LIVE: http://youtu.be/r0jCumBjGmo

Touched By Nausea - Total Bloody Chaos (Split)

Roodepoort (SA) Punks 'Touched By Nausea' put out a split with North East Lancashire (UK) Punks 'Total Bloody Chaos' early 2012

The record consists of 9 songs

1-Touched By Nausea-Black heart

2-Touched By Nausea-Work For Yourself and Not The Company

3-Touched By Nausea-Innocence at War

4-Touched By Nausea-The Ecological Footprint

5-Total Bloody Chaos-They Fuck You

6-Total Bloody Chaos-Brain Dead

7-Total Bloody Chaos-Her Wish

8-Total Bloody Chaos-New World Order

9-Total Bloody Chaos-Black

'the pouch is a hand silkscreened patch on pleather (while stocks last - after will be normal black material) hand numbered and sewn with sick red cotton. cd print is a rubber stamped sticker label and inside sleeve printed on sick dark red paper. super DIY good on the inside and outside! be sure to get this!'

-TBN

They still have stock, so download this and if you like it maybe pick up an original copy from the band

DOWNLOAD

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?y82s44d6h16d4lc

Punk/Crust/D-Beat/Metal

TBN is

Vocals - Brian
Guitars - Dean & Grant
Bass - Kamal
Drums - Christo

TBC is

Graham (Drums) 

Andy (Guitar) 

Skye (Bass) 

Doddy (Vocals) 

Jodie (Vocals)

OUTRAGE // DIMINISHED RETURN - Split Tape

I was looking through blogs and found this. Its a split tape by OUTRAGE and  DIMINISHED RETURN. Outrage being one of my friend Robert(Rob the Rich)Minnaar's old bands. He played in Clandestine, Outrage, Skelm Helm, and Hasten the Storm before moving to Israel. Outrage focused mostly on animal rights from what he played me when he was here last. ...Its late so I'm just gonna do a copy and past from the "Tape Blog". I will give a link to the blog so folks can take a look at it. there are some rad mp3's albums ripped from tapes up there. http://terminalescape.blogspot.com


 OUTRAGE // DIMINISHED RETURN

"This tape was in a pile of gems that Devon placed in my care for a while, and since I know Devon as I do, I was not surprised at all to find this South African split cassette amongst the heap of Bay Area thrash metal and South American pop punk. OUTRAGE are female fronted anarcho-crust, and their three songs would have fallen right in line with bands of the same ilk making similar sounds in the US or Europe around the same time (1995), but with a drummer who seems like he'd rather be in a metal band (a pairing that works well for the most part).

With OUTRAGE I only have a lyric sheet to go on, but unfortunately the only tool at my disposal to help with DIMINISHED RETURN is a little friend I like to call "google." Also from South Africa, they farmed members off to THREE CHORD THEORY after their demise (I know this only through the website of the Malaysian band CARBURETOR DUNG), and created classic punk. "Jungle Jive" is a pure burner, and will rev your inner pogo machine to maximum RPMs (and help you recover from the flute laced first track that left you all confused inside). Great shit, with a subtle ska flare that doesn't detract in the slightest. I wish I had more from both bands to offer, but three apiece will have to suffice." - http://terminalescape.blogspot.com

Download:

> http://www.mediafire.com/?v61b7wtqw3cd8gl

Sleeping At The Popes - Hardcore/Punk/Thrash/Crust (Cpt)

Sleeping At The Popes were a Hardcore/Punk/Thrash/Crust band from Cape Town with socially/politically charged lyrics that included among others: sexism, animal rights and anarchism.
Sleeping At The Popes started in late 2004 and went through quite a few member changes.

their first CD-R and LP.

 Lyrics.

 And back cover.

Second CD-R



Download:
Sleeping At The Popes - 2 Album Comp
- http://www.mediafire.com/?m22dv5xt2e9hdm7

Members: (final lineup for the second Album)

Alainite Pope - Vocals and Drums..
Jayman Pope Snr. - Growls..
Jayman Pope - Guitar..
Duranite Levinpope - Bass and Vocals..
Byronite Pope - Guitar..

Skelm Helm - South African Crust (Jozi)

South African Crust

Michal - Vocals (later bass & vocals); Rozanne - Vocals; Patrick - Guitar, Vocals; Rob - Drums, Vocals; Jonathan - Bass


Skelm Helm came together in early 2004 when the members decided they were tired of the bullshit poppy and commercial bands in the punk scene and wanted to provide a political crust alternative. They disbanded in 2005 when Michal went to live in another country. Patrick, Rob and Jonathan continued to form Hasten the Storm. Skelm Helm recorded 6 songs, which to date have never been released  ;)

But Here They Are!!! Download:
- http://www.mediafire.com/?9rophw7p43cyxqg

Skelm Helm - The End

The Skelm Helm logo was done by Rob. He has named his art style 'The Super Doodle"

Touched By Nausea (TBN) - D-Beat from JHB ? :P

Touched By Nausea is a 6 piece hardcore punk/crust band from Roodepoort, JHB. Started in February 2005.
Bands they have shared a stage with include Solitary Confinement, AWOL, Red Brigade, Light Brigade, Skelm Helm, Hasten The Storm, The Hazards, TDKM, Gross Misconduct, Oi!Rothol, Dean & The Deadbeats, Killer Monsters, Insek, Scum Chums, and lots of Metal/Screamo bands...


TBN started as a 5 piece from 2005 to 2007. From 2007 to present, Rozanne (dual vocalist of Skelm Helm) did vocals in Brian's year absence in Europe. With Brian's return in 2008, TBN is now a 6 piece band with dual vocals. They have also adopted a new sound with the new lineup.

'Our message is basically to aware people of things that go on around them that they might not be aware of already (we don't know everything like other bands and people do)' 'Our AntiCopyright message is that we dont mind our music being copied and spread. We dont want limitations by major record labels who copyright bands. We want to cut out the middleman and take commercialism out of punk. We do feel that bands have their own creativity and we dont agree in copying ideas, lyrics, riffs etc. Just from the music sense, it can be copied.'- TBN


Download some mp3s from the widget on there site!
http://www.touchedbynausea.s5.com/box_widget.html

Their Second Demo Album Download:
- http://www.mediafire.com/?fbzfu9356hfhso9

Members   
Vocals - Brian & Rozanne
Guitars - Dean & Grant
Bass - Kamal
Drums - Christo